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.
Liberman: Doesn't take genius to see High Court will torpedo law-Final votes on outpost bill delayed as opposition seeks changes-Committee set to approve text of controversial legislation Tuesday; final plenum votes could turn into week-long marathon-By Marissa Newman and Raoul Wootliff January 30, 2017, 6:24 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
The final committee and plenary votes on controversial legislation that would legalize some 4,000 housing units in the West Bank built on privately owned Palestinian land were postponed on Monday, with the opposition seeking seven full days of debates before the votes are held.The legislation was originally scheduled to pass into law on Monday evening. But faced with hundreds of proposed revisions by the opposition, the special committee created to finalize the legislation was forced to delay its votes on the revisions until Tuesday morning at 10 a.m. Once approved by the committee, the legislation will be brought to the plenary for readings.The spokesperson for coalition chairman David Bitan confirmed that the plenum votes were also subsequently pushed off until Tuesday, at the very least. The spokesperson told The Times of Israel the second and third readings in the plenum may not take place on Tuesday and could see further delays.A spokesperson for Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein said the opposition was seeking seven full days of debates before the final votes. The Knesset legal adviser was considering the request.Jewish Home MK Betzalel Smotrich wrote on Twitter that the marathon debates will likely begin Tuesday, continue overnight, resume on Wednesday afternoon and extend through the night to Thursday. The final votes on the Regulation Bill, he projected, would take place next Monday.At the very least, the debate before the final vote was expected to take at least 10 hours with over 500 objections having been presented by the opposition.Condemned by the Barack Obama administration, the European Union, the United Nations and Israel’s attorney general, the so-called Regulation Law is being hailed by the settler movement as a turning point in the 50-year settlement project. Once passed, supporters say, the era of evacuating Jewish settlements will be over, though the measure will not cover the doomed Amona outpost, slated for evacuation by early next month.The legislation had been taken off the Knesset slate late last year, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly waited for Obama to leave office. On Sunday, he announced it would come back for a vote this week.The final draft of the bill outlines the procedures for legalizing unauthorized construction on private land and compensating the Palestinian landowners. It also immediately freezes administrative proceedings in 16 West Bank settlements for a period of 12 months. As the text stands, it does not apply to buildings that have received final demolition orders from Israeli courts, effectively excluding the outpost of Amona, which is set to be razed by next Wednesday.The proposed Regulation Bill stipulates that settlement construction in the West Bank that had been carried out in good faith, without knowledge that the land was privately owned, would be recognized by the government, provided the settlers show some kind of state support in establishing themselves at the site — which in some cases could be as minimal as having access to public infrastructure.Under the bill, the government will be able to appropriate land for its own use if the owners are not known. If the owners are known, they will be eligible for either yearly damages amounting to 125 percent of the value of leasing the land, a larger financial package valued at 20 years’ worth of leasing the plots, or alternate plots.-A ‘very serious danger’ to Israel-Speaking at the weekly Zionist Union faction meeting Monday, opposition leader Isaac Herzog said the bill poses a “very serious danger” to the State of Israel. “This law creates de facto annexation, contrary to all of Israel’s international obligations. It is due to this law that the UN Security Council adopted its resolution against the settlements,” he said.Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, who has spoken out publicly against the outpost legalization bill, told his Yisrael Beytenu party that he would support it in its final votes.But he said you “don’t have to be a genius” to see that the High Court of Justice will torpedo the law. “The chance of it being rejected by the High Court is 100%.”Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has warned that the Regulation Bill breaches both local and international law, and indicated that the High Court was likely to strike it down. Some officials, including Netanyahu himself, have also warned that the law could see Israeli officials brought before the International Criminal Court in The Hague.First put forward by the Jewish Home party, the original proposal was intended to overturn a High Court of Justice verdict forbidding the expropriation of the privately owned Palestinian land on which Amona sits. The clause that would have circumvented that court ruling, however, was removed from the bill following coalition infighting.While coalition sources on Sunday said Netanyahu had instructed his chief of staff Yoav Horowitz to explore the possibility of including Amona in the final bill, the special committee created to oversee the legislation was set to finalize the text Tuesday without mention of the outpost.In a deal struck last month with the government, the outpost residents agreed to move peacefully to an adjacent plot. But the deal was complicated after a Palestinian claimed ownership of the nearby plot, prompting the High Court to stop all work on the site.The lack of a clear solution has once again raised the possibility of a forced eviction of the Amona settlers and fears that violence could result. The residents of Amona last week renewed their protest against the government and vowed to resist the evacuation after the compromise appeared to fall through.
As outpost bill resurfaces, settlers bemoan failure to halt ‘final’ eviction-Hundreds gather outside Knesset to protest Amona demolition; West Bank leaders hail ‘opportunity to establish our place in the Land of Israel for hundreds of thousands of years to come’-By Raoul Wootliff January 30, 2017, 6:00 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
As lawmakers in the Knesset attempted to finalize a controversial bill to legalize West Bank outposts, hundreds of protesters gathered outside the parliament building Monday morning to decry the upcoming evacuation of Amona, the most contentious of the unrecognized settlements.The legislation — which would legalize some 4,000 housing units in the West Bank built on privately owned Palestinian land — was set to face a final plenary vote Monday evening but was then postponed until at least Tuesday.Condemned by the Barack Obama administration, the European Union, the United Nations and Israel’s attorney general, the so-called Regulation Law is being hailed by the settler movement as a turning point in the 50-year settlement project. Once passed, supporters say, the era of evacuating Jewish settlements will be over, though the measure will not cover the doomed Amona outpost, slated for evacuation by early next month.The legislation had been taken off the Knesset slate late last year, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly waited for Obama to leave office. On Sunday, he announced it would come back for a vote.“This is a historic moment,” Avi Roeh, head of the Binyamin Regional Council told the crowd. “This is our opportunity to establish our place in the Land of Israel for hundreds of thousands of years to come.”But for the 1,000-plus crowd of youths and families that made their way mostly from West Bank settlements to Jerusalem, the bill barely makes up for the “travesty” of the Amona evacuation.“It is thanks to the fight for Amona that the Regulation Law will be passed,” bellowed Yesha Council chairman Yossi Dagan from the temporary podium less than a hundred meters from the Knesset gates. “But despite the law, the government has failed to prevent the unfathomable tragedy of uprooting a Jewish settlement.”First put forward by the Jewish Home party, the original proposal was intended to overturn a High Court of Justice verdict forbidding the expropriation of the privately owned Palestinian land on which Amona sits. The clause that would have circumvented that court ruling, however, was removed from the bill following coalition infighting.While coalition sources on Sunday said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had instructed his chief of staff Yoav Horowitz to explore the possibility of including Amona in the final bill, a special committee created to oversee the legislation debated the final the text Monday without mention of the outpost.In a deal struck last month with the government, the outpost residents agreed to move peacefully to an adjacent plot. But the deal was complicated after a Palestinian claimed ownership of the nearby plot, prompting the High Court to stop all work on the site.The lack of a clear solution has once again raised the possibility of a forced evacuation of the Amona settlers and fears that violence could result. The residents of Amona last week renewed their protest against the government and vowed to resist the evacuation after the compromise appeared to fall through.The final evacuation’-The final draft of the bill outlines the procedures for legalizing unauthorized construction on private land and compensating the Palestinian landowners. It also immediately freezes administrative proceedings in 16 West Bank settlements for a period of 12 months. As the text stands, it does not apply to buildings that have received final demolition orders from Israeli courts, effectively excluding the outpost of Amona, which is set to be razed by next Wednesday.The proposed Regulation Bill stipulates that settlement construction in the West Bank that had been carried out in good faith, without knowledge that the land was privately owned, would be recognized by the government, provided the settlers show some kind of state support in establishing themselves at the site — which in some cases could be as minimal as having access to public infrastructure.Under the bill, the government will be able to appropriate land for its own use if the owners are not known. If the owners are known, they will be eligible for either yearly damages amounting to 125 percent of the value of leasing the land, a larger financial package valued at 20 years’ worth of leasing the plots, or alternate plots.With or without a clause to save Amona, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has warned that the Regulation Bill breaches both local and international law, and indicated that the High Court was likely to strike it down. Some officials, including Netanyahu himself, have also warned that the law could see Israeli officials brought before the International Criminal Court in The Hague.But for the hundreds of teenagers who turned up to the Jerusalem protest, the details of the bill and its possible legality were not important.“We are just here to support the people of Amona,” 15-year-old Techelet Greenberg from the West Bank settlement of Eli said. “We hope the bill will pass, and we hope that we can stop the evacuation but for now, we just want to show support so that hopefully this will be the final evacuation.”
No Syria safe zones without our okay, Damascus demands-Moallem says plan favored by Trump administration will violate sovereignty unless coordinated with Assad regime-By Bassem Mroue January 30, 2017, 7:03 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria warned Monday that the creation of safe zones for civilians for which US President Donald Trump has expressed interest would violate the country’s sovereignty unless organized in coordination with the Syrian government.The warning was issued in Damascus by Foreign Minister Walid Moallem during a meeting with the head of the UN refugee agency UNHCR, Filippo Grandi, who began an official visit to Syria on Monday.The announcement came about a week after the Trump administration expressed interest in setting up safe zones for civilians in Syria, an idea that was greeted with caution by Russia and Turkey, who have taken the lead in the latest efforts to end the Mideast country’s devastating six-year war.The idea of safe zones, proposed by both Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton during the US presidential election campaign, was ruled out by the Obama administration for fear it would put US aircraft in harm’s way with Russia waging an air campaign to aid Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces since September 2015.The recent rapprochement between Russia and Turkey, the latter a key backer of Syrian rebels, which now has thousands of troops in northern Syria, in theory makes the creation of safe zones more achievable. So does Trump’s pledge to mend ties with Moscow.However, Syrian state news agency SANA said the foreign ministry and UNHCR officials agreed that any attempt to impose safe zones without coordination with the Syrian government would be an “unsafe act and will pose a violation of the Syrian sovereignty.”Meanwhile, Moallem called on all Syrian refugees who fled the war in their homeland to return home, pledging that the government will meet all their needs. It was not clear if the call was related to Trump’s signing of executive orders placing a 90-day ban on travel to the US by citizens of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia or Yemen, and a 120-day suspension of the US refugee program. Syrians are indefinitely blocked from entry.Syria’s conflict, which began in March 2011, has displaced half the country’s population and seen more than four million Syrians fleeing the country as refugees, mostly to neighboring countries.SANA said Moallem briefed Grandi on the “huge efforts” the Syrian government is exerting to improve the living conditions of its people and the displaced as well.For his part, Grandi stressed that the offering of humanitarian aid will continue.Earlier on Monday, the Syrian military said the evacuation of rebels and their families from the Barada Valley as part of an agreement to surrender the capital region’s primary water source has been completed.The military said via the Telegram messaging system that 1,142 fighters and 760 members of their families have been evacuated from the region northwest of the capital Damascus. They were taken in buses to the rebel-held northwestern province of Idlib.The evacuation marks the end of a nearly six-week-long standoff between rebels and pro-government forces that led to severe water cuts to some five million people around Damascus.It said more people are to be evacuated from the nearby village of Harira but that the process is being delayed because the roads are closed with snow.Meanwhile, the Russian military said its heavy bombers struck the Islamic State group in eastern Syria on Monday, the latest in a series of such raids in recent days.The Russian Defense Ministry said six Tu-22M3 bombers flew from their base in Russia to strike IS targets in the province of Deir el-Zour. It followed four previous such raids between January 21 and 25. Monday’s raid targeted two militant command facilities along with weapons and ammunition depots and militants.Syrian troops have been struggling to repel an IS offensive in Deir el-Zour since earlier this month. The extremists control the entire province except for a small pocket of the provincial capital and a nearby air base.
Polish FM says Trump has the right to ban immigrants-Witold Waszczykowski, whose party opposes entry of Muslim refugees, says ‘no state has the duty to accept immigrants’-By AP January 30, 2017, 12:54 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s foreign minister has defended US President Donald Trump’s immigration order banning entry to people from seven mostly Muslim countries, arguing that every sovereign country has the right to decide its own immigration policy.Witold Waszczykowski said “no state has the duty to accept immigrants” and that Trump “was elected president, he has the right” to impose the ban.Waszczykowski made his comments Sunday evening on Polsat News, a private television station.Waszczykowski belongs to a conservative government that is strongly opposed to accepting Muslim refugees. Last year it played a key role in blocking a European Union effort to resettle refugees across the bloc.Trump’s immigration order has sparked protests at airports and the condemnation of many across the world as a human rights violation.
'It's not a Muslim ban,' president says-Trump: ‘Very strict’ US travel ban ‘working very nicely’-After blocking entry of Syrian refugees, halting immigration from seven Muslim countries, US president vows ‘we’re going to have extreme vetting which we should have had for years’-By AFP January 29, 2017, 12:59 am-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
US President Donald Trump boasted Saturday that his “very strict” crackdown on Muslim immigration was working “very nicely,” amid mounting resistance to the order which has been branded by many as blatantly discriminatory.In an executive order signed Friday, Trump halted the arrival of refugees for at least 120 days and imposed tough new controls on travelers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen for the next three months.“It’s not a Muslim ban,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “It’s working out very nicely. You see it at the airports, you see it all over,” Trump told reporters, after travelers from those countries were stopped from boarding US-bound planes, triggering angry protests.“We’re going to have a very, very strict ban and we’re going to have extreme vetting which we should have had in this country for many years.”His comments came as the order faced its first lawsuit, signaling a tough battle ahead in US courts.The legal challenge was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and other advocacy groups after two Iraqi men were detained Friday night at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York.Several US airports were rocked by protests and arrests after the ban.It was not immediately clear how many travelers got caught up in Trump’s crackdown, which he says is necessary to prevent “radical Islamic terrorists” from entering the United States.The ban has also triggered a political backlash.“To my colleagues: don’t ever again lecture me on American moral leadership if you chose to be silent today,” Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat, tweeted late Friday.His tweet was accompanied by the now iconic photograph of Aylan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian boy whose body was washed up on a beach in Turkey in 2015 after a failed attempt to flee Syria’s brutal war to join relatives in Canada.Trump spoke by phone on Saturday with various world leaders, amid growing international alarm over his moves.In a flurry of calls that started early in the morning and rounded out an already frantically paced week, Trump spoke with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Russian President Vladimir Putin. He also had a call planned for later in the day with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.Hollande urged Trump to “respect” the principle of accepting refugees. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose country has been open about welcoming refugees, wrote a Twitter message of support to “those fleeing persecution, terror and war.”To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) January 28, 2017-Trump’s pronouncement on Muslim immigration makes good on one of his most controversial campaign promises to subject travelers from Islamic countries to “extreme vetting,” which he declared would make America safe from “radical Islamic terrorists.”“This is big stuff,” the new US president declared at the Pentagon on Friday, after signing an executive order entitled “Protection of the nation from foreign terrorist entry into the United States.”The decree suspends the entire US refugee resettlement program for at least 120 days while tough vetting rules are established.The new protocols “ensure that those approved for refugee admission do not pose a threat to the security and welfare of the United States.”In addition, they specifically bar Syrian refugees from the United States indefinitely, or until the president himself decides that they no longer pose a threat.Meanwhile, no visas will be issued for 90 days to migrants or visitors from seven mainly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.US authorities wasted no time implementing Trump’s order, detaining travelers arriving at American airports within hours of the measures being signed, media reports said Saturday.
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.
Liberman: Doesn't take genius to see High Court will torpedo law-Final votes on outpost bill delayed as opposition seeks changes-Committee set to approve text of controversial legislation Tuesday; final plenum votes could turn into week-long marathon-By Marissa Newman and Raoul Wootliff January 30, 2017, 6:24 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
The final committee and plenary votes on controversial legislation that would legalize some 4,000 housing units in the West Bank built on privately owned Palestinian land were postponed on Monday, with the opposition seeking seven full days of debates before the votes are held.The legislation was originally scheduled to pass into law on Monday evening. But faced with hundreds of proposed revisions by the opposition, the special committee created to finalize the legislation was forced to delay its votes on the revisions until Tuesday morning at 10 a.m. Once approved by the committee, the legislation will be brought to the plenary for readings.The spokesperson for coalition chairman David Bitan confirmed that the plenum votes were also subsequently pushed off until Tuesday, at the very least. The spokesperson told The Times of Israel the second and third readings in the plenum may not take place on Tuesday and could see further delays.A spokesperson for Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein said the opposition was seeking seven full days of debates before the final votes. The Knesset legal adviser was considering the request.Jewish Home MK Betzalel Smotrich wrote on Twitter that the marathon debates will likely begin Tuesday, continue overnight, resume on Wednesday afternoon and extend through the night to Thursday. The final votes on the Regulation Bill, he projected, would take place next Monday.At the very least, the debate before the final vote was expected to take at least 10 hours with over 500 objections having been presented by the opposition.Condemned by the Barack Obama administration, the European Union, the United Nations and Israel’s attorney general, the so-called Regulation Law is being hailed by the settler movement as a turning point in the 50-year settlement project. Once passed, supporters say, the era of evacuating Jewish settlements will be over, though the measure will not cover the doomed Amona outpost, slated for evacuation by early next month.The legislation had been taken off the Knesset slate late last year, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly waited for Obama to leave office. On Sunday, he announced it would come back for a vote this week.The final draft of the bill outlines the procedures for legalizing unauthorized construction on private land and compensating the Palestinian landowners. It also immediately freezes administrative proceedings in 16 West Bank settlements for a period of 12 months. As the text stands, it does not apply to buildings that have received final demolition orders from Israeli courts, effectively excluding the outpost of Amona, which is set to be razed by next Wednesday.The proposed Regulation Bill stipulates that settlement construction in the West Bank that had been carried out in good faith, without knowledge that the land was privately owned, would be recognized by the government, provided the settlers show some kind of state support in establishing themselves at the site — which in some cases could be as minimal as having access to public infrastructure.Under the bill, the government will be able to appropriate land for its own use if the owners are not known. If the owners are known, they will be eligible for either yearly damages amounting to 125 percent of the value of leasing the land, a larger financial package valued at 20 years’ worth of leasing the plots, or alternate plots.-A ‘very serious danger’ to Israel-Speaking at the weekly Zionist Union faction meeting Monday, opposition leader Isaac Herzog said the bill poses a “very serious danger” to the State of Israel. “This law creates de facto annexation, contrary to all of Israel’s international obligations. It is due to this law that the UN Security Council adopted its resolution against the settlements,” he said.Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, who has spoken out publicly against the outpost legalization bill, told his Yisrael Beytenu party that he would support it in its final votes.But he said you “don’t have to be a genius” to see that the High Court of Justice will torpedo the law. “The chance of it being rejected by the High Court is 100%.”Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has warned that the Regulation Bill breaches both local and international law, and indicated that the High Court was likely to strike it down. Some officials, including Netanyahu himself, have also warned that the law could see Israeli officials brought before the International Criminal Court in The Hague.First put forward by the Jewish Home party, the original proposal was intended to overturn a High Court of Justice verdict forbidding the expropriation of the privately owned Palestinian land on which Amona sits. The clause that would have circumvented that court ruling, however, was removed from the bill following coalition infighting.While coalition sources on Sunday said Netanyahu had instructed his chief of staff Yoav Horowitz to explore the possibility of including Amona in the final bill, the special committee created to oversee the legislation was set to finalize the text Tuesday without mention of the outpost.In a deal struck last month with the government, the outpost residents agreed to move peacefully to an adjacent plot. But the deal was complicated after a Palestinian claimed ownership of the nearby plot, prompting the High Court to stop all work on the site.The lack of a clear solution has once again raised the possibility of a forced eviction of the Amona settlers and fears that violence could result. The residents of Amona last week renewed their protest against the government and vowed to resist the evacuation after the compromise appeared to fall through.
As outpost bill resurfaces, settlers bemoan failure to halt ‘final’ eviction-Hundreds gather outside Knesset to protest Amona demolition; West Bank leaders hail ‘opportunity to establish our place in the Land of Israel for hundreds of thousands of years to come’-By Raoul Wootliff January 30, 2017, 6:00 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
As lawmakers in the Knesset attempted to finalize a controversial bill to legalize West Bank outposts, hundreds of protesters gathered outside the parliament building Monday morning to decry the upcoming evacuation of Amona, the most contentious of the unrecognized settlements.The legislation — which would legalize some 4,000 housing units in the West Bank built on privately owned Palestinian land — was set to face a final plenary vote Monday evening but was then postponed until at least Tuesday.Condemned by the Barack Obama administration, the European Union, the United Nations and Israel’s attorney general, the so-called Regulation Law is being hailed by the settler movement as a turning point in the 50-year settlement project. Once passed, supporters say, the era of evacuating Jewish settlements will be over, though the measure will not cover the doomed Amona outpost, slated for evacuation by early next month.The legislation had been taken off the Knesset slate late last year, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly waited for Obama to leave office. On Sunday, he announced it would come back for a vote.“This is a historic moment,” Avi Roeh, head of the Binyamin Regional Council told the crowd. “This is our opportunity to establish our place in the Land of Israel for hundreds of thousands of years to come.”But for the 1,000-plus crowd of youths and families that made their way mostly from West Bank settlements to Jerusalem, the bill barely makes up for the “travesty” of the Amona evacuation.“It is thanks to the fight for Amona that the Regulation Law will be passed,” bellowed Yesha Council chairman Yossi Dagan from the temporary podium less than a hundred meters from the Knesset gates. “But despite the law, the government has failed to prevent the unfathomable tragedy of uprooting a Jewish settlement.”First put forward by the Jewish Home party, the original proposal was intended to overturn a High Court of Justice verdict forbidding the expropriation of the privately owned Palestinian land on which Amona sits. The clause that would have circumvented that court ruling, however, was removed from the bill following coalition infighting.While coalition sources on Sunday said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had instructed his chief of staff Yoav Horowitz to explore the possibility of including Amona in the final bill, a special committee created to oversee the legislation debated the final the text Monday without mention of the outpost.In a deal struck last month with the government, the outpost residents agreed to move peacefully to an adjacent plot. But the deal was complicated after a Palestinian claimed ownership of the nearby plot, prompting the High Court to stop all work on the site.The lack of a clear solution has once again raised the possibility of a forced evacuation of the Amona settlers and fears that violence could result. The residents of Amona last week renewed their protest against the government and vowed to resist the evacuation after the compromise appeared to fall through.The final evacuation’-The final draft of the bill outlines the procedures for legalizing unauthorized construction on private land and compensating the Palestinian landowners. It also immediately freezes administrative proceedings in 16 West Bank settlements for a period of 12 months. As the text stands, it does not apply to buildings that have received final demolition orders from Israeli courts, effectively excluding the outpost of Amona, which is set to be razed by next Wednesday.The proposed Regulation Bill stipulates that settlement construction in the West Bank that had been carried out in good faith, without knowledge that the land was privately owned, would be recognized by the government, provided the settlers show some kind of state support in establishing themselves at the site — which in some cases could be as minimal as having access to public infrastructure.Under the bill, the government will be able to appropriate land for its own use if the owners are not known. If the owners are known, they will be eligible for either yearly damages amounting to 125 percent of the value of leasing the land, a larger financial package valued at 20 years’ worth of leasing the plots, or alternate plots.With or without a clause to save Amona, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has warned that the Regulation Bill breaches both local and international law, and indicated that the High Court was likely to strike it down. Some officials, including Netanyahu himself, have also warned that the law could see Israeli officials brought before the International Criminal Court in The Hague.But for the hundreds of teenagers who turned up to the Jerusalem protest, the details of the bill and its possible legality were not important.“We are just here to support the people of Amona,” 15-year-old Techelet Greenberg from the West Bank settlement of Eli said. “We hope the bill will pass, and we hope that we can stop the evacuation but for now, we just want to show support so that hopefully this will be the final evacuation.”
No Syria safe zones without our okay, Damascus demands-Moallem says plan favored by Trump administration will violate sovereignty unless coordinated with Assad regime-By Bassem Mroue January 30, 2017, 7:03 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria warned Monday that the creation of safe zones for civilians for which US President Donald Trump has expressed interest would violate the country’s sovereignty unless organized in coordination with the Syrian government.The warning was issued in Damascus by Foreign Minister Walid Moallem during a meeting with the head of the UN refugee agency UNHCR, Filippo Grandi, who began an official visit to Syria on Monday.The announcement came about a week after the Trump administration expressed interest in setting up safe zones for civilians in Syria, an idea that was greeted with caution by Russia and Turkey, who have taken the lead in the latest efforts to end the Mideast country’s devastating six-year war.The idea of safe zones, proposed by both Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton during the US presidential election campaign, was ruled out by the Obama administration for fear it would put US aircraft in harm’s way with Russia waging an air campaign to aid Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces since September 2015.The recent rapprochement between Russia and Turkey, the latter a key backer of Syrian rebels, which now has thousands of troops in northern Syria, in theory makes the creation of safe zones more achievable. So does Trump’s pledge to mend ties with Moscow.However, Syrian state news agency SANA said the foreign ministry and UNHCR officials agreed that any attempt to impose safe zones without coordination with the Syrian government would be an “unsafe act and will pose a violation of the Syrian sovereignty.”Meanwhile, Moallem called on all Syrian refugees who fled the war in their homeland to return home, pledging that the government will meet all their needs. It was not clear if the call was related to Trump’s signing of executive orders placing a 90-day ban on travel to the US by citizens of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia or Yemen, and a 120-day suspension of the US refugee program. Syrians are indefinitely blocked from entry.Syria’s conflict, which began in March 2011, has displaced half the country’s population and seen more than four million Syrians fleeing the country as refugees, mostly to neighboring countries.SANA said Moallem briefed Grandi on the “huge efforts” the Syrian government is exerting to improve the living conditions of its people and the displaced as well.For his part, Grandi stressed that the offering of humanitarian aid will continue.Earlier on Monday, the Syrian military said the evacuation of rebels and their families from the Barada Valley as part of an agreement to surrender the capital region’s primary water source has been completed.The military said via the Telegram messaging system that 1,142 fighters and 760 members of their families have been evacuated from the region northwest of the capital Damascus. They were taken in buses to the rebel-held northwestern province of Idlib.The evacuation marks the end of a nearly six-week-long standoff between rebels and pro-government forces that led to severe water cuts to some five million people around Damascus.It said more people are to be evacuated from the nearby village of Harira but that the process is being delayed because the roads are closed with snow.Meanwhile, the Russian military said its heavy bombers struck the Islamic State group in eastern Syria on Monday, the latest in a series of such raids in recent days.The Russian Defense Ministry said six Tu-22M3 bombers flew from their base in Russia to strike IS targets in the province of Deir el-Zour. It followed four previous such raids between January 21 and 25. Monday’s raid targeted two militant command facilities along with weapons and ammunition depots and militants.Syrian troops have been struggling to repel an IS offensive in Deir el-Zour since earlier this month. The extremists control the entire province except for a small pocket of the provincial capital and a nearby air base.
Polish FM says Trump has the right to ban immigrants-Witold Waszczykowski, whose party opposes entry of Muslim refugees, says ‘no state has the duty to accept immigrants’-By AP January 30, 2017, 12:54 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s foreign minister has defended US President Donald Trump’s immigration order banning entry to people from seven mostly Muslim countries, arguing that every sovereign country has the right to decide its own immigration policy.Witold Waszczykowski said “no state has the duty to accept immigrants” and that Trump “was elected president, he has the right” to impose the ban.Waszczykowski made his comments Sunday evening on Polsat News, a private television station.Waszczykowski belongs to a conservative government that is strongly opposed to accepting Muslim refugees. Last year it played a key role in blocking a European Union effort to resettle refugees across the bloc.Trump’s immigration order has sparked protests at airports and the condemnation of many across the world as a human rights violation.
'It's not a Muslim ban,' president says-Trump: ‘Very strict’ US travel ban ‘working very nicely’-After blocking entry of Syrian refugees, halting immigration from seven Muslim countries, US president vows ‘we’re going to have extreme vetting which we should have had for years’-By AFP January 29, 2017, 12:59 am-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
US President Donald Trump boasted Saturday that his “very strict” crackdown on Muslim immigration was working “very nicely,” amid mounting resistance to the order which has been branded by many as blatantly discriminatory.In an executive order signed Friday, Trump halted the arrival of refugees for at least 120 days and imposed tough new controls on travelers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen for the next three months.“It’s not a Muslim ban,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “It’s working out very nicely. You see it at the airports, you see it all over,” Trump told reporters, after travelers from those countries were stopped from boarding US-bound planes, triggering angry protests.“We’re going to have a very, very strict ban and we’re going to have extreme vetting which we should have had in this country for many years.”His comments came as the order faced its first lawsuit, signaling a tough battle ahead in US courts.The legal challenge was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and other advocacy groups after two Iraqi men were detained Friday night at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York.Several US airports were rocked by protests and arrests after the ban.It was not immediately clear how many travelers got caught up in Trump’s crackdown, which he says is necessary to prevent “radical Islamic terrorists” from entering the United States.The ban has also triggered a political backlash.“To my colleagues: don’t ever again lecture me on American moral leadership if you chose to be silent today,” Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat, tweeted late Friday.His tweet was accompanied by the now iconic photograph of Aylan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian boy whose body was washed up on a beach in Turkey in 2015 after a failed attempt to flee Syria’s brutal war to join relatives in Canada.Trump spoke by phone on Saturday with various world leaders, amid growing international alarm over his moves.In a flurry of calls that started early in the morning and rounded out an already frantically paced week, Trump spoke with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Russian President Vladimir Putin. He also had a call planned for later in the day with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.Hollande urged Trump to “respect” the principle of accepting refugees. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose country has been open about welcoming refugees, wrote a Twitter message of support to “those fleeing persecution, terror and war.”To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) January 28, 2017-Trump’s pronouncement on Muslim immigration makes good on one of his most controversial campaign promises to subject travelers from Islamic countries to “extreme vetting,” which he declared would make America safe from “radical Islamic terrorists.”“This is big stuff,” the new US president declared at the Pentagon on Friday, after signing an executive order entitled “Protection of the nation from foreign terrorist entry into the United States.”The decree suspends the entire US refugee resettlement program for at least 120 days while tough vetting rules are established.The new protocols “ensure that those approved for refugee admission do not pose a threat to the security and welfare of the United States.”In addition, they specifically bar Syrian refugees from the United States indefinitely, or until the president himself decides that they no longer pose a threat.Meanwhile, no visas will be issued for 90 days to migrants or visitors from seven mainly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.US authorities wasted no time implementing Trump’s order, detaining travelers arriving at American airports within hours of the measures being signed, media reports said Saturday.
