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)
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
UPDATE-MARCH 24,2016-12:03AM
HERES THE MOST REDICULAS LUNACY BY POLITICALLY CORRECT COLLEGE KIDS I HAVE EVER HEARD OF. THESE LIBERAL-DEMOCRAT BABY KILLER ABORTION LOVERS. DO NOT WANT TO SEE DONALD TRUMPS NAME WRITTEN ON ANY THING. IT GIVES THEM ANXIETY ATTACKS AND DISCUST FOR HIM WANTING TO BAN ISLAMIC MURDERERS FROM AMERICA BY BUILDING A GIGANTIC WALL AT THE BORDER WITH MEXICO. THE LIBERAL-DEMOCRAT KIDS WANT TRUMPS NAME BANED FROM THE COLLEGE. DID YOU EVER HEAR OF ANYTHING SO NUTS. THIS IS HOW POLLITICALLY CORRECT NUTS THESE SCHOOLS HAVE BECOME. ITS TIME TO HOME SCHOOL YOUR CHILDREN AND GET OUT OF THE INDOCTRINATION CAMPS-THE SO CALLED LEARNING CENTERS-COLLEGES AND ALL SCHOOLS. THESE LIBERAL-DEMOCRATS CAN BAN TRUMPS NAME FROM SCHOOLS WHEN THEY STOP MURDERING BABIES BY ABORTING THEM.BY THE MILLIONS EVERY YEAR.CAN WE SEE WHY GODLESS LIBERAL-DEMOCRATS LOVE ISLAM SO MUCH.THEIR BOTH A BUNCH OF MURDERERS.NO WONDER THEY STICK UP FOR EACH OTHER.LIBERALS LOVE MURDERING BABIES-ISLAM LOVES MURDERING ANYBODY WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE IN THEIR SEX FOR MURDER-DEATH CULT.THESE LIBERAL-DEMOCRAT KIDS ARE DELUTED BY OBAMA-CLINTON-KERRY AND ALL THE OTHER FAR LEFT-SO FAR THEY PRACTICALLY ARE BURNING IN HELL ALREADY IN TORMENTS-THESE RACIST-RACE BAITERS-BIGOT-CHRISTIAN HATERS.THESE KIDS HAVE LEARNED WELL FROM THE LIBERAL-DEMOCRAT GODLESS SCHOOL SYSTEM OF INDOCTRINATION CAMPS.
UPDATE-MARCH 24,2016-12:03AM
THE EUROPEAN UNION PRESIDENT JUNKER WANTS A DATA BASE OF ALL TRAVELERS THREW EUROPE. THIS IS THE BEGGINING WHEN THE EU WILL SOON SETUP A MICROCHIP IMPLANT SYSTEM TO TRAVEL IN EUROPE.NO MICROCHIP TO TRACK YOU AT ALL TIMES. OR NO TRAVELING IN THE EUROPEAN UNION.
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(THE EU (EUROPEAN UNION) TAKES OVER IRAQ WHICH HAS SPLIT INTO 3-SUNNI-KURD-SHIA PARTS-AND THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE IS BROUGHT BACK TOGETHER-THE TWO LEGS OF DANIEL WESTERN LEG AND THE ISLAMIC LEG COMBINED AS 1)
Valls, Juncker call for Europe-wide cooperation on security-23/03,16 17:28 CET-EURONEWS
"I also reiterated the urgent need to better fight arms trafficking, the urgent need to adopt a European PNR system, to enable the tracking of terrorists' movements."French Prime Minister Manuel Valls joined his Belgian counterpart Charles Michel and the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker as they paused to pay respects at the Maelbeek metro station in Brussels.Shortly afterwards, both spoke up about the need to work together for the security of Europe.Valls renewed France’s calls for a Passenger Name Record system to be set up for European air travel.What is needed, Valls said, is:“Systematic border controls in the Schengen area, deployment of European border guards; I also reiterated the urgent need to better fight arms trafficking, the urgent need to adopt a European PNR system, to enable the tracking of terrorists’ movements.”Juncker, too, called for Europe-wide cooperation.“We also think we need to work together towards unified security. The Commission has proposed all the constituent elements for such a union of security. I would ask the Council of Ministers not to yield to the mounting pressure of lobbyists and instead to keep in mind the essential – what must be done.”An extraordinary meeting of the European Union’s interior ministers has been scheduled for Thursday, March 24, to compose the bloc’s response to the Brussels attacks. Following #Brussels #attacks, @EU2016NL convenes meeting tomorrow of EU Justice & Security Ministers & representatives EU Institutions (1/2)-— EU2016NL (@EU2016NL) March 23, 2016-This meeting will take place 24/03 at 16h00 in @EUCouncil building in Brussels (2/2)-— EU2016NL (@EU2016NL) March 23, 2016
EU pushes for flight data bill after Brussels attacks By Nikolaj Nielsen-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, 23. Mar, 18:28-Last December, the EU's counter-terrorism coordinator Gilles de Kerchove rejected any notion that state intelligence services were not sharing information in their fight against terrorism."It is not true that they do not exchange information or that they retain data," he told EUobserver.De Kerchove, a Belgian senior EU official had also, in the immediate aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris last year, told euro-deputies to "never let a good crisis go to waste".After the Belgian blasts that killed at least 32 and injured some 270 on Tuesday (22 March), he appealed to the same lawmakers to pass a far-reaching digital dragnet on airline passenger details.The EU's controversial passenger name record (PNR) "is not the solution to everything, but it is an essential instrument," he said on French radio.The European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and France's prime minister Manuel Valls also called on the European Parliament to adopt the PNR directive next month."The PNR is a symbol. The European Parliament must fully show its commitment in the fight against terrorism," Valls said Wednesday at a joint press conference with Juncker in Brussels.Largely panned by civil liberty defenders, the EU PNR bill aims to collect and hand over to security services vast amounts of data from ordinary passengers in the hope of tracking down criminals and potential terrorists.The bill is being presented as one of the tools that could have prevented the attacks in Paris and in Brussels.However, people can simply opt for other modes of transport, aside from commercial flights, in their efforts to reach Syria to fight alongside Daesh or other militant groups.Individuals behind the carnage in the capitals were also residents in both cities and broadly known by the police.-The Counter-Terrorism Stockpile-If passed, PNR will add to a stockpile of some 239 specific EU laws and policy documents that have been adopted in the name of counter-terrorism between 2001 and 2013.Of those 239, 88 are legally binding.When asked how those are being implemented and how effective they are, the EU commission draws a blank.Instead, last December it referred this website to a 15-page document drafted in 2010 titled "The EU Counter-Terrorism Policy: main achievements and future challenges".It lists, as an example of an achievement, the EU Data Retention Directive.The directive was agreed in 2006, in the wake of terrorist attacks in Madrid and London in 2004 and 2005. But in 2014, the European Court of Justice ruled the directive illegal because it breached fundamental rights.Despite the judgement, some member states still use data retention.Meanwhile on Wednesday, the EU commission sent out an update on its European Agenda for Security, adopted last April, and is asking the EU states to make full use of existing tools like the EU police agency, Europol.The update noted, among other things, the need to boost the EU's external borders, combat the sale of illicit firearms, and tackle radicalisation.Earlier this year, it launched European Counter Terrorism Centre to help member state fight extremism. It also set up a so-called EU internet referral unit, tasked to notify internet providers to take down online content.Both are located within Europol, the EU's police agency.-EU states need to 'foster trust'-Interior ministers are now set to convene in Brussels on Thursday (24 March) to discuss how to coordinate on security issues where the EU has no competence and the commission is asking member states to follow its proposals."If all governmens had followed the proposals of the commission, the situation would not be the one we see now," Juncker said Wednesday.The commission president added that there was "a kind of insoucsiance that varies with time"."When serious events occur, we do as if we should become aware of the problem, whereas we should have become award of the problem before tragic events occurs," he said.For the EU commission, that means getting national security and intelligence agencies to start sharing information and prevent further attacks."The fact that the perpetrators of the Paris and of the Brussels attacks were already known to the police proves this once again," said EU commissioner for home affairs Dimitris Avramopoulos.A former Greek defence minister, Avramopoulos said the days of the "deep state" are over and that states will have to start helping one another."The logic of the so-called deep state has finished in our days, everything is globalised, everything is internationalised," he said.Asked if security measures should be strengthened for mass public transport systems, Avramopoulos noted any new laws need to be created "in a proportionate way"."We must not react in panic," he said.
Brussels airport to stay closed, border checks in force-By EUOBSERVER
23. Mar, 15:23-The main airport in Brussels, the site of Tuesday's bomb attack, will stay closed on Thursday, Belgian authorities have said. Public transport, which was shut down after the attacks, is running again. Authorities said 50 armed customs officers would carry out spot-checks of vehicles at 13 sites on Belgian borders.
WHEN WILL THE WEST WAKE UP ABOUT THE ISLAMIC DEATH CULT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P6uqG2pBu8
Body found in Brussels airport, bringing death toll to 32-State Department says it’s unaware of any US citizens killed in IS-claimed attacks, but some Americans remain unaccounted for-By Times of Israel staff and Agencies March 23, 2016, 6:17 pm
Belgian authorities have recovered another body at the Brussels airport, raising the death toll in the Tuesday terror attacks to 32, according to local media reports Wednesday.The reports said that during the investigation at the scene, a wall collapsed, perhaps revealing the previously obscured body.Some death tolls counted as many as 34 killed in the twin suicide bombings at the airport and metro on Tuesday. The discrepancy could not be immediately accounted for.The Obama administration said Wednesday it’s unaware of any Americans killed in the Brussels attacks.State Department spokesman Mark Toner said about a dozen US citizens are known to be injured. A number of other Americans remain unaccounted for.Toner said it’s unclear if any Americans might be among the dead as Belgium has not released the nationalities of those killed. Toner said the United States is still doing its own, post-attack accounting and making every effort to support the welfare of embassy staff and US citizens in the city.Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders told Belgian television RTBF that there were around 40 nationalities were among the dead and wounded.They included citizens of Britain, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Portugal and the United States, as well as three to four staff from the EU’s executive arm, the European Commission.The broad range of nationalities reflects the cosmopolitan nature of Brussels — home to many migrants to Belgium as well as the institutional capital of the 28-nation European Union.Among the first fatalities to be named was a Peruvian woman, Adelma Marina Tapia Ruiz, who had been living in Belgium for six years and was travelling with her journalist husband and young twin daughters.One of their daughters was wounded by flying debris in one of two blasts at Brussels’ Zaventem airport.“They took away everything she wanted to do with her life,” her brother Fernando Tapia told Peruvian media, after she was identified by the foreign ministry in Lima.A Moroccan woman was also killed in a third blast at a metro train at a station close to the European Union’s institutional hub, according to the Moroccan news agency MAP.According to an ongoing toll provided by the Belgian health ministry, 31 people were killed and 270 were injured.It was the bloodiest terror assault in Belgium’s history.French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Wednesday said 10 French nationals had been injured, four of them seriously.In London, Downing Street said one British national was missing and four were injured, three of whom were being treated in hospital.Officers from the Belgian federal police’s disaster victim identification team were working at the sites of both attacks, poring over the remains in a grisly process to identify the casualties.
Brothers-in-jihad — when fraternal bonds lead to terror-As in the Brussels, Paris and Boston attacks, experts say radicalization among siblings ‘a natural phenomenon’-By Michel Moutot March 24, 2016, 12:32 am-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
PARIS, France (AFP) — The Brussels attackers included a pair of brothers, the latest in a long string of sibling duos involved in violent religious extremism — something experts say can occur when close childhood bonds “spin out of control.”“It’s a completely natural phenomenon,” said Marc Sageman, a psychiatrist and former CIA agent who was among the first to identify it in his 2003 book “Understanding Terror Networks.”“You develop your social identity first by talking to those close to you. And at first those close to you are of course your brothers and childhood friends,” Sageman told AFP.“It’s what I call the activation of the social identity. It’s a question of proximity. That’s why there are so many brothers, sometimes sisters, neighborhood friends.“They grow up together. They invent for themselves an identity as defenders of an Islam under attack, of women and children killed in air strikes. They radicalize and reinforce each other,” he said.Brothers Khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui were identified as two of the suicide bombers in Tuesday’s attacks in Brussels, while other brother duos were identified in the January and November attacks in Paris last year and attacks in Toulouse in 2012.The 2013 Boston marathon bombers were also brothers — and no fewer than three pairs of brothers were among the 19 hijackers involved in the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.“We have plenty of examples across the terrorism spectrum, of multiple kinds of terrorism in Indonesia, Northern Ireland, Middle East,” said University of Massachusetts Lowell criminology professor John Horgan.Family names by twos, threes and even fours are common on terror watch lists, especially in France and Belgium, as security officials track their travel to and from Islamic State group territory in Iraq and Syria.To beat the tight surveillance put in place since September 11, these family dyads or triads retreat into their own small worlds.“It’s a matter of trust,” Sageman said. “You confide in someone close to you, naturally. And when it’s a matter of getting someone to join you, the most logical target is your little brother or your older brother. It’s the same thing with street gangs. Less brainwashing and indoctrination is needed.”Patrick Amoyel, a psychoanalyst in the southeastern French city of Nice who works for a center specializing in de-radicalizing youths attracted to jihad, said he often comes across sibling pairs.“The influence goes both ways,” he told AFP. “They quickly lock themselves into a sort of psychic confusion. There’s something a little mad, a little irrational in this process. It’s risk-taking that is a bit adolescent, even if they are not always adolescents.”His colleague at the association, Amelie Boukhobza, adds: “It’s often the younger one with more to prove, a place to find for himself, who influences the older one. The older one is not necessarily the dominant one.”The rest of the family is typically aware only that the brothers are close, spend a lot of time together and may lower their voices when others come within earshot.Once the radicalized bubble forms it acquires its own internal logic and resistance to any external challenge.“It can be enlarged to include close friends,” Amoyel added. “Then you have a… consolidation that is very solid, hard to break up. We have seen it very often. And it doesn’t come from mental illness.”The complicity can eventually “spin out of control” as the brothers egg each other on, he said, stoking a “desire to exceed limits, to go towards absolute rebellion. And that can end up in terrorist action.”
Over 40 nationalities among Brussels dead and wounded-Victims include citizens of Britain, Colombia, Peru, France, US; American missionary hurt in attack had survived Boston Marathon bombing-By AFP March 23, 2016, 5:31 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
BRUSSELS, Belgium — They came from Peru or Morocco, from North America or Europe, and their lives — as parent, eurocrat, sportsman or missionary — were just as diverse.That is the emerging picture of the hundreds of people who were killed or wounded in the triple bomb attack in Brussels on Tuesday.Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders told Belgian television RTBF that there were around 40 nationalities were among the dead and wounded.They included citizens of Britain, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Portugal and the United States, as well as three to four staff from the EU’s executive arm, the European Commission.The broad range of nationalities reflects the cosmopolitan nature of Brussels — home to many migrants to Belgium as well as the institutional capital of the 28-nation European Union.Among the first fatalities to be named was a Peruvian woman, Adelma Marina Tapia Ruiz, who had been living in Belgium for six years and was traveling with her journalist husband and young twin daughters.One of their daughters was wounded by flying debris in one of two blasts at Brussels’ Zaventem airport.“They took away everything she wanted to do with her life,” her brother Fernando Tapia told Peruvian media, after she was identified by the foreign ministry in Lima.A Moroccan woman was also killed in a third blast at a metro train at a station close to the European Union’s institutional hub, according to the Moroccan news agency MAP.According to an ongoing toll provided by the Belgian health ministry, 32 people were killed and 270 were injured.It was the bloodiest terror assault in Belgium’s history.French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Wednesday said 10 French nationals had been injured, four of them seriously.In London, Downing Street said one British national was missing and four were injured, three of whom were being treated in hospital.Officers from the Belgian federal police’s disaster victim identification team were working at the sites of both attacks, poring over the remains in a grisly process to identify the casualties.Mason Wells, 19, was one of three US missionaries from Utah who were seriously wounded in the blasts at the airport, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said in a statement.US media reports said that in a dark twist of fate, Wells had a similarly close call three years ago while in Boston accompanying his mother who was running the marathon.The event was the target of a terror attack that killed three and wounded scores more.NBC News, quoting Wells’ family, said he was also in Paris in November when the French capital was rocked by a series of attacks.Wells “has burns to his hands and legs and some to his face,” a family friend, Lloyd Coleman, told Utah’s Deseret News daily.The US Air Force also said one of its service members and several of his relatives were also injured.Basketball player Sebastien Bellin, who was pictured lying on the airport floor covered in blood, has had surgery, his father, Jean Bellin, told CNN.“He is obviously stunned. The first words out of his mouth were ‘You wouldn’t believe the carnage I saw around,'” the father said.
Belgium had specific, advance intel on attack sites — report-Brussels said to have received concrete information that airport, metro would be targeted, but didn’t do enough to counter threat-By Times of Israel staff and Agencies March 23, 2016, 8:47 pm
Belgian and other Western intelligence services reportedly had advance, highly specific warnings ahead of the deadly terror attacks in Brussels, but failed to respond accordingly.Belgian authorities knew that terrorists were planning to attack the airport and the metro, and yet they didn’t do enough to counter the threat, Haaretz reported.Belgium said on Wednesday that two brothers with links to the Paris attacks were among the suicide bombers who struck Brussels, killing 32 people and injuring over 200.Prosecutors identified Ibrahim El Bakraoui as one of two men who blew themselves up in the Zaventem airport departure hall while his brother Khalid struck shortly afterwards at the Maalbeek metro station, in the attacks on the symbolic heart of Europe.Police stepped up a manhunt for a third airport assailant whose bomb failed to go off in the attacks claimed by the Islamic State group which have left European leaders once more grappling for ways to tackle the jihadist threat.Belgian authorities had already been hunting the Bakraoui brothers, both Belgian nationals with long criminal records, over their links to Salah Abdeslam, the key suspect in the Paris massacre who was arrested in Brussels on Friday after four months on the run.A third man in a hat and white jacket, seen on CCTV footage with Bakraoui and another unidentified suicide attacker pushing their bomb-filled bags through the departure hall shortly before the attacks, “is on the run,” Van Leeuw said.Authorities are under immense pressure over their apparent inability to smash jihadist networks in Belgium, Europe’s top exporter of jihadist fighters to Syria per capita.Broadcaster RTBF said Khalid El Bakraoui had rented an apartment in Brussels last week under a false name where Abdeslam’s fingerprints were found.He is also linked to another apartment in southern Belgium that Abdeslam and other jihadists used before the Paris attacks.Leaders across Europe have reacted with outrage to the Brussels bombings, with the EU calling an emergency meeting of interior ministers and vowing to defend democracy and combat terrorism “with all means necessary.”Analysts said the attacks pointed to a sophisticated jihadist network in Europe, and French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said there was an “urgent need” to tighten the EU’s external borders following the attacks.
After attacks, Antwerp Jews told not to wear Purim masks-With Belgium on high terror alert, Jewish community cancels events, urges locals not to carry toy guns, use firecrackers-By JTA March 23, 2016, 6:16 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
The crisis management center of the Jewish community of Antwerp urged locals not to wear masks on Purim following Tuesday’s terrorist attacks in Brussels.In addition to this instruction, the Jewish Crisis Management Team in Antwerp requested in an announcement published Tuesday that revelers, including children, refrain from carrying toy weapons or using firecrackers or any other device which produces loud bangs.“With the police and army on very high alert, all these cause confusion and are potentially dangerous,” the announcement read.Antwerp’s Jewish quarter is among a handful of areas in Western Europe where the holiday of Purim, often referred to in Belgium as “the Jewish carnival,” is celebrated publicly on the street. Thousands of members of the city’s large ultra-Orthodox community take to the streets in colorful costumes on Purim.The unusual announcement follows the terrorist attacks at Brussels’ main airport, where some 14 people were killed, and at a Brussels metro station, where at least another 17 died.A concert planned for Antwerp featuring the Gat Brothers, popular Hasidic singers from Israel, was cancelled after the singers, who were en route to Belgium when the attacks happened, were redirected to the airport of Liege south of Brussels, the website Kikar Hashabbat reported.Two large Purim events planned for Brussels also were cancelled.
Netanyahu links Palestinians and IS, says all terrorism has same goal-If there is one people that can sympathize with Belgium, it’s terror-struck Israel, PM says at Jerusalem press conference-By Raphael Ahren March 23, 2016, 10:17 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a direct link Wednesday between the devastating attacks a day earlier in Brussels, for which Islamic State claimed responsibility, and Palestinian terrorism, positing that both phenomena pursue the same goal.“I already said many times that terrorism is caused not by occupation and despair, but by hope — the hope of the Islamic State terrorists to establish an Islamic caliphate in all of Europe [and] the hope of Palestinian terrorists that they will succeed in establishing a Palestinian state in the entire territory of the State of Israel,” the prime minister said.Attacks Tuesday at the airport in Brussels and at a metro station in the city a short time later left at least 32 people dead and hundreds more wounded. Islamic State later said that it had carried out the bombings. Belgium on Wednesday identified two of the suicide bombers as Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui.Speaking at a press conference at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, Netanyahu began by expressing condolences to the people of Belgium, and offering any possible assistance.“If there is one people who know what they are going through it is the people of Israel, who have been bravely and courageously fighting against terrorist attacks for many years,” he said.“We’re in a global war against terror. It’s a war of the civilized word versus the sons of darkness. Terrorism strikes everywhere,” he added.“I think the point of departure in the fight against terrorism is this: Nothing justifies terrorism, absolutely nothing. In Paris, Brussels, San Bernadino, Tel Aviv or Jerusalem. Terror must be condemned equally and it must be fought equally.”The prime minister continued: “In all of these places, terrorism does not stem from deprivation. It does not come from frustration. It stems from a murderous ideology — the desire to destroy the enemy and to uproot him.Netanyahu said he had spoken with Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel and European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and offered them Israel’s full assistance – including in the areas of security and intelligence.“Israel stands ready to cooperate with all the nations in this great struggle. These terrorists seek our destruction, but they will fail; but if we work together they will fail a lot sooner,” Netanyahu said.Responding to a question posed by The Times of Israel, on whether he was concerned that the United States could support, or at least refrain from opposing, a Palestine-related resolution at the United Nations, he replied that it has been the “traditional policies of US governments to oppose” unilateral efforts to advance the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. All US presidents, including Barack Obama, support this view, Netanyahu said.He then quoted from a speech Obama delivered five years ago at the UN General Assembly: “Peace will not come through statements and resolutions at the United Nations… Ultimately, it is the Israelis and the Palestinians — not us –- who must reach agreement on the issues that divide them.”“That is to say that peace won’t come from dictates at the UN or the Security Council,” Netanyahu said. “I agree entirely to this position.”On Tuesday, addressing the powerful pro-Israel AIPAC lobby via video conference, Netanyahu had denigrated the idea of a Security Council resolution that would seek to establish the framework of a peace deal.“A Security Council resolution to pressure Israel would further harden Palestinian positions, and thereby it could actually kill the chances of peace for many, many years,” he said. “And that is why I hope the United States will maintain its longstanding position to reject such a UN resolution.”The US government has repeatedly rejected unilateral steps toward Palestinian statehood, arguing that a solution can only come as the result of bilateral negotiations. On the other hand, the administration has never confirmed that it would veto a Palestine-related resolution if it came up, and some Israeli officials fear that in his last months in office, Obama could support such a demarche in a bid to create a lasting legacy on the peace process.Asked about an unfriendly meeting he had a few years ago with Obama, which was recently described by US journalist Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic, Netanyahu jokingly said he would keep this for his memoirs, quickly adding that he had no intention of writing them in the near future.More seriously, he said that Israeli and American governments occasionally have differences of opinions.“I never thought for a second that, as Israel’s prime minister, I don’t have to express what I think is important for Israel’s security. And that’s what I did. And I think it did it in a straight and respectful and practical manner.”
Obama: No Israeli-Palestinian peace deal in my presidency-In meeting with Argentine counterpart, US president dismisses idea of bi-national state, reiterates support for two-state solution-By AP and Times of Israel staff March 24, 2016, 1:07 am
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday said an Israeli-Palestinian deal would not be reached during his remaining nine months in office.“This is not something I was able to get done,” he said. “I am not that hopeful that it’s going to happen in the next nine months. It’s been 60 years; it’s not going to happen in the next nine months.”He said he expected, however, to continue his efforts to achieve Middle East peace after leaving office in January, Reuters reported.During a two-day, state visit to Argentina, Obama also said a “bi-national” state with joint Israeli and Palestinian leadership was highly unlikely in light of the deep distrust between the two peoples.“There’s been talk about a one-state solution or sort of a divided government. It’s hard for me to envision that being stable, there’s such deep distrust between the two peoples right now,” Reuters quoted the president telling students and teachers at a town hall meeting in Buenos Aires.“And the neighborhood is in such a mess that I continue to believe that a two-state solution is the best way. Now, over time that could evolve.”Israelis and Palestinians both have legitimate fears, but when it comes to making peace, “we can’t do it for them,” Obama added.Earlier this month the Wall Street Journal reported that the White House was exploring the possibility of backing a UN resolution to lay the groundwork for an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement. But US officials quickly denied the claim.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that he was sure Obama, like all US presidents, would maintain the “traditional policies of US governments to oppose” unilateral efforts to advance the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.Meanwhile, Obama held up Argentina on Wednesday as an emerging world leader worthy of US support, as he and President Mauricio Macri broke with years of recent tensions between their countries.Obama’s state visit to Buenos Aires quickly turned into a love-fest between him and Macri, who in December replaced hot-blooded former president Cristina Fernandez, long a thorn in Obama’s side. Obama lavished praise on Macri and said his visit was “so personally important,” even riffing on his boyhood interest in Argentinian literature and culture.“President Macri is a man in a hurry,” Obama said in Casa Rosada, the pink-hued presidential palace made famous in the US by the movie “Evita.” ”I’m impressed because he has moved rapidly on so many of the reforms that he promised.”Macri, who has committed Argentina to a pro-business approach, was equally effusive about Obama, who leaves office in less than a year.“You emerged proposing major changes and you showed they were possible — that by being bold and with conviction, you could challenge the status quo,” Macri said. He added, “That was also a path of inspiration for what our dear country is now going through.”Obama has made no secret of his preference for Macri over the left-leaning Fernandez, whose meandering invectives against the U.S. were a source of frequent eye-rolling in the White House. Fernandez was close with Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s famously anti-American late president, and openly admired Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro. She was quick to blame the US for Argentina’s problems and was accused of helping Iran hide its role in bombing a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, a claim she denied.So Obama was all too glad to see Fernandez replaced by Macri, who has started pushing Argentina back toward the political center after years of flirting with the extreme left. To that end, Obama’s visit was a reward of sorts to keep that promising trajectory on track.It’s a theme of Obama’s Latin America policy that was on vivid display a day earlier in Cuba, where Obama paid a history-making visit aimed at spurring further reforms in the communist country. Obama’s administration has also been heartened by the Venezuelan opposition’s recent success in legislative elections and Bolivian President Evo Morales’ defeat in a referendum on term limits.Those developments have fueled optimism in Washington “that Latin America is moving toward more rational economic and political policies,” said Gabriel Salvia of the Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America, an Argentina-based think tank.Yet Obama conceded that America’s history backing repressive regimes in the region had clouded its ability to take the moral high-ground. His visit, the first for a U.S. president in nearly 20 years, coincides with the 40th anniversary this week of Argentina’s 1976 coup, stirring up lingering questions about America’s role supporting the military dictatorship that followed.At Macri’s request, Obama has agreed to declassify U.S. intelligence and military records about the period known as the “Dirty War,” a gesture Macri said would help Argentinians “know what the truth is.” Before closing his visit on Thursday, Obama planned to pay homage to the dictatorship’s victims at Remembrance Park in Buenos Aires.“I don’t want to go through the list of every activity of the United States in Latin America,” Obama said. But he said one of the “great things about America” is that “we engage in a lot of self-criticism.”Still, there were detractors. Some prominent rights groups threatened to boycott Obama’s visit to Remembrance Park. And a few hundred people gathered at a McDonald’s in protest.“We reject Obama’s presence because the United States is most responsible for the dictatorship,” said Victoria Remesa, a 25-year-old teacher-in-training.It was the opposite sentiment at a factory-turned-concert hall where Obama fielded questions from young Argentinians at a town hall meeting. He called on one fawning woman who said she was “going to have a heart attack,” adding that “you are my hero.” It turned out she didn’t actually have a question.Macri was to honor Obama and his wife Wednesday evening at a state dinner at a cultural center named for the late Nestor Kirchner, Fernandez’s husband and himself a former president. Before returning to Washington, Obama and his family planned for a leisurely daytrip to Bariloche, a picturesque city in southern Argentina.
