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
Hezbollah chief Nasrallah meets with Assad in Damascus-Netanyahu vows to 'give back' south Tel Aviv to Israeli residents; IDF soldier who went missing from base found dead, army investigating By Marissa Newman-August 31, 2017, 1:42 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
7:17 pm-Amsterdam to beef up security after Barcelona attacks-Amsterdam is beefing up its security measures following the deadly Barcelona terror attacks two weeks ago, including looking at shortening lines at major attractions, the city’s mayor says Thursday.Mayor Eberhard van der Laan says he and law enforcement officials have spoken “with several large tourist attractions about the current terror threat.”“The meeting was organized because of the recent attacks in Spain” that left 16 people dead, Van der Laan says in a letter, published on the Amsterdam’s city council’s website.The Netherlands has so far been spared the terror strikes that have rocked its European neighbors recently.But top Dutch security and intelligence officials have been keeping a wary eye on events.— AFP-7:06 pm-Hezbollah chief says he met Assad in Damascus-The head of Lebanese Shiite terror movement Hezbollah, who has lived in hiding for a decade, said Thursday he had traveled to Damascus to seek the Syrian president’s approval for a jihadist evacuation deal.“I personally went to Damascus” to see President Bashar al-Assad, Hassan Nasrallah told thousands of his supporters in a televised speech.Hundreds of Islamic State group fighters and civilians were evacuated Monday from the border region between Lebanon and Syria under a ceasefire deal and headed toward eastern Syria.— With AFP-6:19 pm-Regev says south Tel Aviv residents ‘refugees in their own country’-Likud Minister Miri Regev says the residents of south Tel Aviv are “refugees in their own country.”Denouncing the influx of African migrants to the neighborhood, Regev says the newcomers “are not refugees.”“They are infiltrators,” the culture minister says of the largely Sudanese and Eritrean migrants.“The residents of south Tel Aviv are the ones who became refugees in their own country,” she says, while touring south Tel Aviv with Netanyahu and Erdan.Regev calls on the government to circumvent this week’s Supreme Court ruling preventing the open-ended detention of migrants through Knesset legislation.“We need [criminal] enforcement against the employers who pay the salaries of the infiltrators they employ,” she adds. “We need advocacy efforts to landlords who rent their apartments to infiltrators not to allow them to do as they please with the properties, without oversight, including dividing the apartments.”-6:11 pm-Suspected IS suicide bomber hits Libya checkpoint, kills 2-A suspected Islamic State militant drove his explosives-laden car into a checkpoint east of the coastal Libyan city of Sirte on Thursday, killing two policemen, military officials say.The officials said the blast at Nofaliya, 130 kilometers (81 miles) east of Sirte, also wounded two soldiers from the Libyan National Army, LNA.The attack and the resulting death toll were reported by Col. Muftah Amgharief, from the security force guarding oil facilities in eastern Libya, and Faisal Ahbale, spokesman for the army’s 101st Brigade. The incident and the death toll were also reported by the LNA spokesman on his Facebook page.— AP-5:34 pm-Netanyahu vows to ‘give back’ south Tel Aviv to residents-Touring south Tel Aviv, an area that has seen a large influx of African migrants in recent years, Netanyahu vows the government will “give back” the neighborhood to its Israeli residents.“We are here on a mission to give back south Tel Aviv to the Israeli residents,” says the prime minister. “I’ve heard the residents, and what I hear is pain and crisis.”Many local residents had protested the asylum-seekers and accused the government of “abandoning” them.Netanyahu was accompanied by Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan and Culture Minister Miri Regev.-5:25 pm--Body of missing IDF soldier found; army investigating-The soldier who went missing yesterday in the Golan Heights has been found dead, the army says.An investigation into the circumstances of his death is opened.The soldier’s family has been notified.-5:13 pm--Plume from flooded Texas chemical plant ‘incredibly dangerous’-The plume of fumes from a flooded Texas chemical plant is “incredibly dangerous,” the head of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) says Thursday.Two explosions were reported overnight at the chemical plant in the town of Crosby and officials have ordered residents within 1.5 miles (three kilometers) of the facility to evacuate.“The bottom line is that we do what’s called plume modeling,” FEMA Administrator Brock Long says at a press briefing. “And that’s what we base a lot of the evacuations on. And so by all means, yes, the plume is incredibly dangerous.”The plant operated by Arkema Inc produces organic peroxides, which have a number of commercial uses, including plastics, pharmaceuticals and construction materials.The Harris County Fire Marshal’s Office said there had been “a series of chemical reactions at the @Arkema_Inc Crosby facility” overnight.“There has been intermittent smoke, please stay clear of the area,” it said.The Harris County Sheriff’s Office said one deputy had been taken to the hospital after inhaling fumes from the plant, while nine others drove themselves there as a “precaution.”— AFP-5:07 pm-IAEA says Iran has not exceeded cap of low-enriched uranium-The IAEA report says Iran has not exceeded the limit of low-enriched uranium.Its stock of low-enriched uranium — used for peaceful purposes, but when further processed for a weapon — did not exceed the agreed limit of 300 kilograms (661 pounds), the report says.It adds that Iran “has not pursued the construction of the Arak… reactor” — which could give it weapons-grade plutonium — and has not enriched uranium above low purity levels.Iran’s stock of heavy water, a reactor coolant, remained below the ceiling of 130 tons throughout the previous quarter, with Iran exporting 19.1 tons.Iran has previously inched above an agreed ceiling of 130 tons. The plant producing the heavy water was shut for maintenance earlier this year and has now restarted, the IAEA says.— with AFP-4:47 pm-Netanyahu visits south Tel Aviv after court’s ruling on migrants-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits south Tel Aviv, meeting with Israeli residents to discuss the influx of African migrants to the area in recent years.The prime minister’s visit comes on the heels of a Supreme Court decision allowing Israel to continue with its controversial practice of deporting illegal migrants to an unnamed third country. The court also said the government cannot jail those who refuse to go for more than 60 days.Netanyahu and other Israeli officials have indicated they will submit new Knesset legislation to expand the government’s deportation powers.-4:39 pm-Iran complying with nuclear deal, UN watchdog says-Iran remains in compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal, a UN atomic watchdog report showed Thursday, even as growing tensions between Tehran and Washington threaten to torpedo the landmark agreement.The quarterly assessment by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), seen by AFP, showed that Tehran’s nuclear program, including its enrichment activities, is still in adherence with the accord.— AFP-4:21 pm-French comic, convicted of anti-Semitism, set to travel to N. Korea-French comedian Dieudonne, who has been convicted of racist and anti-Semitic comments in the past, announces that he plans to travel to North Korea next month.Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala will travel there on September 9 along with far-right writer Alain Soral, who has already visited Pyongyang to “work for peace,” the comedian says in a video posted on YouTube last week.“At a time when the United States is organizing military exercises on the Korean peninsula, I believe we have to take action,” Dieudonne says, adding that he would take part in a “peace festival” in Pyongyang.The comedian has often made headlines, most notably with his trademark “quenelle” hand gesture that looks like an inverted Nazi salute, but which he insists is merely anti-establishment.— AFP-4:00 pm--Russia says it foiled IS suicide bombing in Moscow-Russia’s top domestic security agency says it has detained two suspects from ex-Soviet Central Asia accused of plotting attacks on civilians in Moscow on behalf of the Islamic State group.The Federal Security Service, or FSB, says that one of the suspects was planning to carry out a suicide bombing. It said a powerful homemade explosive device was found at his apartment. The agency said another man was preparing to attack civilians with a knife and put out a video statement pledging adherence to the IS.The FSB said the suspects were planning to launch the attacks on Friday, the beginning of the school year in Russia.Earlier this month, the FSB arrested four suspects accused of planning suicide bombings on Moscow’s transit system and shopping malls.— AP-3:33 pm-Palestinians suing Greek Orthodox church for selling property to Israelis-A lawyer says more than 300 Palestinian Christians and associations filed a complaint against the Greek Orthodox patriarch for allegedly selling property to Israelis.The church is a major property owner in the Holy Land. The Greek clergy has rejected demands by the Palestinian flock to open the books on property deals.Nabil Mushahwar says Thursday that a complaint over “selling land to the enemy” — potentially a capital offense in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — was filed with the Palestinian attorney general.-The church declined comment Thursday.Last month, an Israeli court upheld the sale of prime church property to companies representing Jewish groups that seek an expanded presence in Jerusalem’s Old City.The church had challenged the deal as an illegal transaction by the previous patriarch.— AP-3:21 pm-Buckingham Palace sword man charged with terror offense-A man arrested wielding a sword outside Queen Elizabeth II’s Buckingham Palace residence has been charged with a terror offense and is due in court later today, London police say.Mohiussunnath Choudhury, 26, is accused of “engaging in conduct in preparation for giving effect to his intention to commit an act or acts of terrorism,” police said.— AFP-3:07 pm-Iraq retakes Tal Afar and rest of Nineveh province from IS-Iraq’s government declare on Thursday that its forces had retaken the northern city of Tal Afar and the rest of Nineveh province, once almost entirely controlled by Islamic State group jihadists.“Our happiness is complete, victory has arrived and the province of Nineveh is now entirely in the hands of our forces,” says a statement from the office of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.— AFP-3:02 pm-Lithuanian troops train at former concentration camp-Lithuanian soldiers pitch tents on the grounds of a former concentration camp for Jews in Kaunas, where they are training to fight Russian troops.A battalion of special forces troops camped Monday at Kaunas’ Seventh Fort, the first of dozens of concentration camps set up by Nazi Germany after its 1941 eastward invasion, the Kauno Diena news website reports Thursday. The deployment is part of a military drill titled “Crusader Wolf III.”The troops pitched tents on the grounds of the former concentration camp. The report did not say whether the deployment included a kitchen and latrines. Questions by JTA about the exact nature of the deployment were not immediately answered by the Lithuanian foreign ministry.Privatized by the government in 2009, the Seventh Fort, a disused 18-acre red-brick bunker complex, is run by a nongovernmental organization headed by Vladimir Orlov, a 38-year-old amateur historian and military enthusiast.His organization charges entrance fees to the grounds, where it operates summer camps for children and hosts private events. Revenues are used for the site’s preservation as an educational institution where the genocide is taught, alongside Lithuanian military heritage, Orlov told JTA last year. He declined to say how much revenue the site generates and how much is spent on commemoration.The remains of 5,000 murdered Jews are buried at the fort in mass graves that are marked by a few poles and rocks. Relatives sometimes visit the site to light candles in memory of the dead.The Jewish Community of Lithuania last year said the privatization was a “huge mistake” that happened despite its stated opposition.— JTA-2:48 pm-Abbas expresses hope for ‘security and stability’ in talk with Rivlin-Speaking to Rivlin ahead of the Eid al-Adha holiday, Abbas expresses hope for “security and stability.”“President Abbas expressed his hopes the Palestinian and Israeli peoples will enjoy security and stability,” Wafa reports.— Dov Lieber-2:37 pm-European Jewish Congress slams Poland’s ‘lack of concern’ over anti-Semitism-In an unusually harsh condemnation, the European Jewish Congress says the Polish government has a “staggering lack of concern” about anti-Semitism and a “transparent divide-and-rule tactic” vis-a-vis Jews.The statement Thursday follows an open feud between leaders of Polish Jewry on whether Poland has seen an increase in anti-Semitic incidents or sentiment since the rise to power of the nationalist Law and Justice Party in 2015.The EJC statement offers support for the organization’s Poland affiliates, the Union of Jewish Communities in Poland and the Jewish Community of Warsaw, in their fight with other Jewish organizations in Poland.The fight erupted earlier this month when leaders of the affiliated groups blamed the government for allowing if not encouraging an alleged increase in anti-Semitism. Other Jewish leaders disputed this claim, saying it constitutes a partisan tactic against the ruling party by the EJC affiliates.“The EJC notes the staggering lack of concern from the government of Poland to the growth and normalization of anti-Semitic and xenophobic rhetoric in the country in recent times,” the statement reads. “The transparent divide-and-rule tactic of senior leaders of the Law and Justice Party in seeking to choose its selected Jewish interlocutors over the heads of official and representative community organizations in Poland leaves us staggered and reminds us of much darker times in Europe when governments chose their Jews.”— JTA-2:29 pm-Rivlin calls Abbas to wish him a happy Eid al-Adha-President Reuven Rivlin calls PA President Mahmoud Abbas to wish the Palestinians a happy Eid al-Adha, which begins this evening, the official Palestinian Wafa news agency reports.-2:29 pm-Russia warns US against using force over North Korea-Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urges Washington not to use force against North Korea, as tensions surge after the latest missile test by Pyongyang.In a phone call late Wednesday with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Lavrov “underscored…the need to refrain from any military steps that could have unpredictable consequences,” the foreign ministry in Moscow says.Russia’s lead diplomat says any attempts to toughen sanctions against North Korea would be “counterproductive and dangerous” while condemning Pyongyang’s shooting of a missile over Japan as a “gross violation” of United Nations resolutions.Early on Tuesday, the reclusive state fired an intermediate-range Hwasong-12 over Japan, prompting US President Donald Trump to insist that “all options” were on the table in an implied threat of preemptive military action.The UN Security Council denounced North Korea’s latest missile test, unanimously demanding that Pyongyang halt the program.— AFP-1:59 pm-German case against Auschwitz medic, 96, to be thrown out-German prosecutors call Thursday for the case of a 96-year-old former Nazi medical orderly at the Auschwitz death camp to be thrown out because he was deemed unfit for trial.Hubert Zafke had faced charges of 3,681 counts of being an accessory to murder in the concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.But concerns over his mental and physical health had led to repeated postponements of the trial, which began in February 2016 in the northeastern lakeside town of Neubrandenburg.Stefan Urbanek, a spokesman for the regional prosecutor’s office, says in a statement that medical evaluations in March and July this year had found the wheelchair-bound Zafke “unfit to stand trial.”“The experts reached this conclusion after having diagnosed dementia in October 2015, leading to a determination that Zafke could only stand trial on a limited basis,” Urbanek says.“Now the dementia has reached a severity that the defendant is no longer able inside and outside the courtroom to reasonably assess his interests or coherently follow or give testimony.”Urbanek says prosecutors were required by law after receiving this independent medical evaluation to submit a motion to dismiss the case.Proceedings against Zafke, a farmer’s son who joined the Nazi party’s elite police force the Waffen-SS at age 19, had already been halted last October following complaints that the judges were biased.The charges against Zafke focused on a one-month period in 1944 when 14 trains carrying prisoners — including the Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank — arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Frank, who arrived in Auschwitz with her parents and sister, was later transferred to another camp, Bergen-Belsen, where she died in March 1945, just two months before the Nazis were defeated.— AFP-1:51 pm-Israel frees Palestinian clown after 20-month detention-A Palestinian clown accused by Israel of membership in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror group and held without charge for 20 months is released.Mohammad Abu Sakha, 26, tells AFP on Thursday he was released the day before from administrative detention, the controversial measure under which Israel detains suspects without trial for periods of several months, renewable indefinitely.Abu Sakha had been part of the Palestinian Circus School in Bir Zeit in the occupied West Bank since 2008, first as a student and later as a clown and teacher.He says Israeli forces never told him the exact reason for his arrest in December 2015 or how long he would be detained.Israel’s Shin Bet security agency accused him of being a member of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which the Jewish state considers a terrorist group.— with AFP-1:49 pm-IDF soldier goes missing from Golan Heights base-The IDF is searching for a soldier who went missing from his base in the Golan Heights yesterday afternoon.Searches were ongoing for the combat soldier across northern Israel.
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
Hezbollah chief Nasrallah meets with Assad in Damascus-Netanyahu vows to 'give back' south Tel Aviv to Israeli residents; IDF soldier who went missing from base found dead, army investigating By Marissa Newman-August 31, 2017, 1:42 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
7:17 pm-Amsterdam to beef up security after Barcelona attacks-Amsterdam is beefing up its security measures following the deadly Barcelona terror attacks two weeks ago, including looking at shortening lines at major attractions, the city’s mayor says Thursday.Mayor Eberhard van der Laan says he and law enforcement officials have spoken “with several large tourist attractions about the current terror threat.”“The meeting was organized because of the recent attacks in Spain” that left 16 people dead, Van der Laan says in a letter, published on the Amsterdam’s city council’s website.The Netherlands has so far been spared the terror strikes that have rocked its European neighbors recently.But top Dutch security and intelligence officials have been keeping a wary eye on events.— AFP-7:06 pm-Hezbollah chief says he met Assad in Damascus-The head of Lebanese Shiite terror movement Hezbollah, who has lived in hiding for a decade, said Thursday he had traveled to Damascus to seek the Syrian president’s approval for a jihadist evacuation deal.“I personally went to Damascus” to see President Bashar al-Assad, Hassan Nasrallah told thousands of his supporters in a televised speech.Hundreds of Islamic State group fighters and civilians were evacuated Monday from the border region between Lebanon and Syria under a ceasefire deal and headed toward eastern Syria.— With AFP-6:19 pm-Regev says south Tel Aviv residents ‘refugees in their own country’-Likud Minister Miri Regev says the residents of south Tel Aviv are “refugees in their own country.”Denouncing the influx of African migrants to the neighborhood, Regev says the newcomers “are not refugees.”“They are infiltrators,” the culture minister says of the largely Sudanese and Eritrean migrants.“The residents of south Tel Aviv are the ones who became refugees in their own country,” she says, while touring south Tel Aviv with Netanyahu and Erdan.Regev calls on the government to circumvent this week’s Supreme Court ruling preventing the open-ended detention of migrants through Knesset legislation.“We need [criminal] enforcement against the employers who pay the salaries of the infiltrators they employ,” she adds. “We need advocacy efforts to landlords who rent their apartments to infiltrators not to allow them to do as they please with the properties, without oversight, including dividing the apartments.”-6:11 pm-Suspected IS suicide bomber hits Libya checkpoint, kills 2-A suspected Islamic State militant drove his explosives-laden car into a checkpoint east of the coastal Libyan city of Sirte on Thursday, killing two policemen, military officials say.The officials said the blast at Nofaliya, 130 kilometers (81 miles) east of Sirte, also wounded two soldiers from the Libyan National Army, LNA.The attack and the resulting death toll were reported by Col. Muftah Amgharief, from the security force guarding oil facilities in eastern Libya, and Faisal Ahbale, spokesman for the army’s 101st Brigade. The incident and the death toll were also reported by the LNA spokesman on his Facebook page.— AP-5:34 pm-Netanyahu vows to ‘give back’ south Tel Aviv to residents-Touring south Tel Aviv, an area that has seen a large influx of African migrants in recent years, Netanyahu vows the government will “give back” the neighborhood to its Israeli residents.“We are here on a mission to give back south Tel Aviv to the Israeli residents,” says the prime minister. “I’ve heard the residents, and what I hear is pain and crisis.”Many local residents had protested the asylum-seekers and accused the government of “abandoning” them.Netanyahu was accompanied by Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan and Culture Minister Miri Regev.-5:25 pm--Body of missing IDF soldier found; army investigating-The soldier who went missing yesterday in the Golan Heights has been found dead, the army says.An investigation into the circumstances of his death is opened.The soldier’s family has been notified.-5:13 pm--Plume from flooded Texas chemical plant ‘incredibly dangerous’-The plume of fumes from a flooded Texas chemical plant is “incredibly dangerous,” the head of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) says Thursday.Two explosions were reported overnight at the chemical plant in the town of Crosby and officials have ordered residents within 1.5 miles (three kilometers) of the facility to evacuate.“The bottom line is that we do what’s called plume modeling,” FEMA Administrator Brock Long says at a press briefing. “And that’s what we base a lot of the evacuations on. And so by all means, yes, the plume is incredibly dangerous.”The plant operated by Arkema Inc produces organic peroxides, which have a number of commercial uses, including plastics, pharmaceuticals and construction materials.The Harris County Fire Marshal’s Office said there had been “a series of chemical reactions at the @Arkema_Inc Crosby facility” overnight.“There has been intermittent smoke, please stay clear of the area,” it said.The Harris County Sheriff’s Office said one deputy had been taken to the hospital after inhaling fumes from the plant, while nine others drove themselves there as a “precaution.”— AFP-5:07 pm-IAEA says Iran has not exceeded cap of low-enriched uranium-The IAEA report says Iran has not exceeded the limit of low-enriched uranium.Its stock of low-enriched uranium — used for peaceful purposes, but when further processed for a weapon — did not exceed the agreed limit of 300 kilograms (661 pounds), the report says.It adds that Iran “has not pursued the construction of the Arak… reactor” — which could give it weapons-grade plutonium — and has not enriched uranium above low purity levels.Iran’s stock of heavy water, a reactor coolant, remained below the ceiling of 130 tons throughout the previous quarter, with Iran exporting 19.1 tons.Iran has previously inched above an agreed ceiling of 130 tons. The plant producing the heavy water was shut for maintenance earlier this year and has now restarted, the IAEA says.— with AFP-4:47 pm-Netanyahu visits south Tel Aviv after court’s ruling on migrants-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits south Tel Aviv, meeting with Israeli residents to discuss the influx of African migrants to the area in recent years.The prime minister’s visit comes on the heels of a Supreme Court decision allowing Israel to continue with its controversial practice of deporting illegal migrants to an unnamed third country. The court also said the government cannot jail those who refuse to go for more than 60 days.Netanyahu and other Israeli officials have indicated they will submit new Knesset legislation to expand the government’s deportation powers.-4:39 pm-Iran complying with nuclear deal, UN watchdog says-Iran remains in compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal, a UN atomic watchdog report showed Thursday, even as growing tensions between Tehran and Washington threaten to torpedo the landmark agreement.The quarterly assessment by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), seen by AFP, showed that Tehran’s nuclear program, including its enrichment activities, is still in adherence with the accord.— AFP-4:21 pm-French comic, convicted of anti-Semitism, set to travel to N. Korea-French comedian Dieudonne, who has been convicted of racist and anti-Semitic comments in the past, announces that he plans to travel to North Korea next month.Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala will travel there on September 9 along with far-right writer Alain Soral, who has already visited Pyongyang to “work for peace,” the comedian says in a video posted on YouTube last week.“At a time when the United States is organizing military exercises on the Korean peninsula, I believe we have to take action,” Dieudonne says, adding that he would take part in a “peace festival” in Pyongyang.The comedian has often made headlines, most notably with his trademark “quenelle” hand gesture that looks like an inverted Nazi salute, but which he insists is merely anti-establishment.— AFP-4:00 pm--Russia says it foiled IS suicide bombing in Moscow-Russia’s top domestic security agency says it has detained two suspects from ex-Soviet Central Asia accused of plotting attacks on civilians in Moscow on behalf of the Islamic State group.The Federal Security Service, or FSB, says that one of the suspects was planning to carry out a suicide bombing. It said a powerful homemade explosive device was found at his apartment. The agency said another man was preparing to attack civilians with a knife and put out a video statement pledging adherence to the IS.The FSB said the suspects were planning to launch the attacks on Friday, the beginning of the school year in Russia.Earlier this month, the FSB arrested four suspects accused of planning suicide bombings on Moscow’s transit system and shopping malls.— AP-3:33 pm-Palestinians suing Greek Orthodox church for selling property to Israelis-A lawyer says more than 300 Palestinian Christians and associations filed a complaint against the Greek Orthodox patriarch for allegedly selling property to Israelis.The church is a major property owner in the Holy Land. The Greek clergy has rejected demands by the Palestinian flock to open the books on property deals.Nabil Mushahwar says Thursday that a complaint over “selling land to the enemy” — potentially a capital offense in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — was filed with the Palestinian attorney general.-The church declined comment Thursday.Last month, an Israeli court upheld the sale of prime church property to companies representing Jewish groups that seek an expanded presence in Jerusalem’s Old City.The church had challenged the deal as an illegal transaction by the previous patriarch.— AP-3:21 pm-Buckingham Palace sword man charged with terror offense-A man arrested wielding a sword outside Queen Elizabeth II’s Buckingham Palace residence has been charged with a terror offense and is due in court later today, London police say.Mohiussunnath Choudhury, 26, is accused of “engaging in conduct in preparation for giving effect to his intention to commit an act or acts of terrorism,” police said.— AFP-3:07 pm-Iraq retakes Tal Afar and rest of Nineveh province from IS-Iraq’s government declare on Thursday that its forces had retaken the northern city of Tal Afar and the rest of Nineveh province, once almost entirely controlled by Islamic State group jihadists.“Our happiness is complete, victory has arrived and the province of Nineveh is now entirely in the hands of our forces,” says a statement from the office of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.— AFP-3:02 pm-Lithuanian troops train at former concentration camp-Lithuanian soldiers pitch tents on the grounds of a former concentration camp for Jews in Kaunas, where they are training to fight Russian troops.A battalion of special forces troops camped Monday at Kaunas’ Seventh Fort, the first of dozens of concentration camps set up by Nazi Germany after its 1941 eastward invasion, the Kauno Diena news website reports Thursday. The deployment is part of a military drill titled “Crusader Wolf III.”The troops pitched tents on the grounds of the former concentration camp. The report did not say whether the deployment included a kitchen and latrines. Questions by JTA about the exact nature of the deployment were not immediately answered by the Lithuanian foreign ministry.Privatized by the government in 2009, the Seventh Fort, a disused 18-acre red-brick bunker complex, is run by a nongovernmental organization headed by Vladimir Orlov, a 38-year-old amateur historian and military enthusiast.His organization charges entrance fees to the grounds, where it operates summer camps for children and hosts private events. Revenues are used for the site’s preservation as an educational institution where the genocide is taught, alongside Lithuanian military heritage, Orlov told JTA last year. He declined to say how much revenue the site generates and how much is spent on commemoration.The remains of 5,000 murdered Jews are buried at the fort in mass graves that are marked by a few poles and rocks. Relatives sometimes visit the site to light candles in memory of the dead.The Jewish Community of Lithuania last year said the privatization was a “huge mistake” that happened despite its stated opposition.— JTA-2:48 pm-Abbas expresses hope for ‘security and stability’ in talk with Rivlin-Speaking to Rivlin ahead of the Eid al-Adha holiday, Abbas expresses hope for “security and stability.”“President Abbas expressed his hopes the Palestinian and Israeli peoples will enjoy security and stability,” Wafa reports.— Dov Lieber-2:37 pm-European Jewish Congress slams Poland’s ‘lack of concern’ over anti-Semitism-In an unusually harsh condemnation, the European Jewish Congress says the Polish government has a “staggering lack of concern” about anti-Semitism and a “transparent divide-and-rule tactic” vis-a-vis Jews.The statement Thursday follows an open feud between leaders of Polish Jewry on whether Poland has seen an increase in anti-Semitic incidents or sentiment since the rise to power of the nationalist Law and Justice Party in 2015.The EJC statement offers support for the organization’s Poland affiliates, the Union of Jewish Communities in Poland and the Jewish Community of Warsaw, in their fight with other Jewish organizations in Poland.The fight erupted earlier this month when leaders of the affiliated groups blamed the government for allowing if not encouraging an alleged increase in anti-Semitism. Other Jewish leaders disputed this claim, saying it constitutes a partisan tactic against the ruling party by the EJC affiliates.“The EJC notes the staggering lack of concern from the government of Poland to the growth and normalization of anti-Semitic and xenophobic rhetoric in the country in recent times,” the statement reads. “The transparent divide-and-rule tactic of senior leaders of the Law and Justice Party in seeking to choose its selected Jewish interlocutors over the heads of official and representative community organizations in Poland leaves us staggered and reminds us of much darker times in Europe when governments chose their Jews.”— JTA-2:29 pm-Rivlin calls Abbas to wish him a happy Eid al-Adha-President Reuven Rivlin calls PA President Mahmoud Abbas to wish the Palestinians a happy Eid al-Adha, which begins this evening, the official Palestinian Wafa news agency reports.-2:29 pm-Russia warns US against using force over North Korea-Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urges Washington not to use force against North Korea, as tensions surge after the latest missile test by Pyongyang.In a phone call late Wednesday with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Lavrov “underscored…the need to refrain from any military steps that could have unpredictable consequences,” the foreign ministry in Moscow says.Russia’s lead diplomat says any attempts to toughen sanctions against North Korea would be “counterproductive and dangerous” while condemning Pyongyang’s shooting of a missile over Japan as a “gross violation” of United Nations resolutions.Early on Tuesday, the reclusive state fired an intermediate-range Hwasong-12 over Japan, prompting US President Donald Trump to insist that “all options” were on the table in an implied threat of preemptive military action.The UN Security Council denounced North Korea’s latest missile test, unanimously demanding that Pyongyang halt the program.— AFP-1:59 pm-German case against Auschwitz medic, 96, to be thrown out-German prosecutors call Thursday for the case of a 96-year-old former Nazi medical orderly at the Auschwitz death camp to be thrown out because he was deemed unfit for trial.Hubert Zafke had faced charges of 3,681 counts of being an accessory to murder in the concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.But concerns over his mental and physical health had led to repeated postponements of the trial, which began in February 2016 in the northeastern lakeside town of Neubrandenburg.Stefan Urbanek, a spokesman for the regional prosecutor’s office, says in a statement that medical evaluations in March and July this year had found the wheelchair-bound Zafke “unfit to stand trial.”“The experts reached this conclusion after having diagnosed dementia in October 2015, leading to a determination that Zafke could only stand trial on a limited basis,” Urbanek says.“Now the dementia has reached a severity that the defendant is no longer able inside and outside the courtroom to reasonably assess his interests or coherently follow or give testimony.”Urbanek says prosecutors were required by law after receiving this independent medical evaluation to submit a motion to dismiss the case.Proceedings against Zafke, a farmer’s son who joined the Nazi party’s elite police force the Waffen-SS at age 19, had already been halted last October following complaints that the judges were biased.The charges against Zafke focused on a one-month period in 1944 when 14 trains carrying prisoners — including the Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank — arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Frank, who arrived in Auschwitz with her parents and sister, was later transferred to another camp, Bergen-Belsen, where she died in March 1945, just two months before the Nazis were defeated.— AFP-1:51 pm-Israel frees Palestinian clown after 20-month detention-A Palestinian clown accused by Israel of membership in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror group and held without charge for 20 months is released.Mohammad Abu Sakha, 26, tells AFP on Thursday he was released the day before from administrative detention, the controversial measure under which Israel detains suspects without trial for periods of several months, renewable indefinitely.Abu Sakha had been part of the Palestinian Circus School in Bir Zeit in the occupied West Bank since 2008, first as a student and later as a clown and teacher.He says Israeli forces never told him the exact reason for his arrest in December 2015 or how long he would be detained.Israel’s Shin Bet security agency accused him of being a member of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which the Jewish state considers a terrorist group.— with AFP-1:49 pm-IDF soldier goes missing from Golan Heights base-The IDF is searching for a soldier who went missing from his base in the Golan Heights yesterday afternoon.Searches were ongoing for the combat soldier across northern Israel.
