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
PM to settler leaders: US told Israel not to be a pig on settlement building’-In meeting with Yesha Council, Netanyahu says DC will tolerate limited construction, won't distinguish between blocs and isolated settlements; Trump to present peace plan soon-By Jacob Magid and Alexander Fulbright-September 27, 2017, 4:47 pm-TOI
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told settler leaders on Wednesday that US officials told his chief of staff to not be a “pig” on new settlement construction and that the Trump administration is prepared to tolerate limited settlement building, a senior settler present at the meeting said.“It’s okay to be a pig but not to be a hazer,” Netanyahu said, relaying a message he said his chief of staff was given and using the Yiddish word for pig, the official from the Yesha Council settlement umbrella group told The Times of Israel.During the closed-door meeting, Netanyahu said he successfully convinced the Trump administration to drop its distinction between settlement blocs and so-called isolated settlements.Settlement blocs are defined as large built-up areas, mostly located near the pre-1967 Green Line, while isolated settlements are located in more far-flung areas of the West Bank surrounded by large Palestinian populations.Netanyahu also said that the US has refrained from criticizing Israel over settlement construction due to Israel’s adherence to self-imposed limitations on new building.The Yesha official said Netanyahu reiterated his promise to build 300 new homes in Beit El, which he had promised following the demolition of a number of homes in the settlement in 2012.While Netanyahu did not directly address a series of demands for new settlement building and infrastructure, he said 3,330 new units would be approved for construction during the next meeting of the Civil Administration Higher Planning Committee on October 16, according to the Yesha official.Netanyahu also told settler leaders that he believes US President Donald Trump will soon present a plan for the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.During the meeting, settler leaders called for lifting an Obama-era “freeze” on new construction in the West Bank and to complete “the building gaps that were delayed during the eight-year freeze of the Obama administration.”Specifically, the group called for advancing the construction of 10,000 housing units in the settlements of Negohot and Migron, as well in the mostly Arab West Bank city of Hebron, according to a statement from the Yesha Council.Despite the claim of a building “freeze” during the presidency of Barack Obama, data from the Central Bureau of Statistics shows there was an average of 1,725.5 housing starts a year during his tenure, 100 less than the average of 1,828.75 housing starts a year when Republican George W. Bush was president.The settler leaders also called on Netanyahu to end the “discrimination” and “neglect” of infrastructure in the West Bank.“In Judea and Samaria there is a years-long neglect of everything connected to the development of public transportation, water, electricity gas,” the Yesha Council said.The group also called for the construction of additional bypass roads in the West Bank and said the infrastructure development would benefit the area’s Jewish and Palestinian residents.The Prime Minister’s Office said during the meeting, which it described as a toast for the Jewish new year, settler leaders “thanked Prime Minister Netanyahu and praised him for his action on behalf of settlement in Judea and Samaria.”The sit-down came ahead of an event later Wednesday in the Etzion settlement bloc celebrating 50 years of settlement in the West Bank and Golan Heights.Netanyahu is set to speak at the ceremony in what will be the fourth event in the West Bank that the prime minister has addressed in the last three months.
Repeal of women driving ban tests Saudi reform drive-Crown Prince Mohammed's 'Vision 2030' plan seeks to introduce economic and social change despite conservative opposition-By Anuj Chopra-September 27, 2017, 4:57 pm-TOI
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — Saudi Arabia’s historic lifting of a ban on women driving will be a litmus test for its king-in-waiting, who has sought to sideline the kingdom’s arch-conservatives as he accelerates reforms, analysts say.The kingdom will issue driving licenses to women from next June, in the most striking reform yet credited to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, despite the risk of a backlash from hardliners.But after his recent crackdown on dissenters, including prominent clerics with huge followings, experts say the prince may face only a muted opposition.“The lifting of a ban… will likely serve as a litmus test for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s ability to introduce economic and social reforms despite conservative opposition,” said James Dorsey, a fellow at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies.“If last week’s national day celebrations in which women were allowed to enter stadiums in anything to go by, the opposition is likely to be limited to protests on social media.”On Saturday, women were allowed for the first time into a sports stadium to mark national day, a move that chimes with the Prince Mohammed’s “Vision 2030” reform plan.Men and women also danced in the streets to drums and thumping electronic music, in scenes that were a stunning anomaly in a country known for its tight gender segregation and austere vision of Islam.This gambit to loosen social restrictions in the ultra-conservative society was made possible partly by the latest crackdown, which was seen as a show of force by Prince Mohammed, experts say.Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist and former government advisor who went into exile in the United States, described a new Saudi era of “fear, intimidation, arrests and public shaming” in an article published in The Washington Post.-‘Assertion of power’-Those arrests were not directly related to the driving ban, but apparently to an ongoing crisis with Gulf rival Qatar, said Jane Kinninmont from London-based Chatham House.“But the arrests represented an assertion of power over the independent, politically influential clerics and sent a message that Prince Mohammed does not see himself as beholden to them as partners in government,” Kinninmont told AFP.“The fact that they have been arrested without significant unrest being triggered is likely to have made the Saudi leadership more confident that it can make (social) change without much in the way of opposition.”Prince Mohammed is set to be the first millennial to occupy the throne, in a country where half the population is under 25, when he takes over from his 81-year-old father King Salman.“I think Prince Mohammed is ideologically committed to taking the Saudi state in a new direction: less austere, more nationalist,” said Kristin Diwan, from the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.Unlike previous rulers, he has shown a willingness to tackle entrenched Saudi taboos, and is seen as catering to the aspirations of youth with an array of entertainment options and promoting more women in the workforce.“Women should obviously have had the right to drive a long time ago -– the fact that this decision was so long in coming shows just how much has changed in Saudi Arabia with Prince Mohammed now wielding executive authority,” said Perry Cammack, a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.-‘Discriminatory practices’-But hardliners could still emerge as a potent threat.Many Saudis on social media, irked by the mixing of genders on national day, derisively compared the country to “Las Vegas.”“Patriotism does not mean sin” became a widely used hashtag, while some called for the religious police, whose powers have been curtailed in recent years, to restore moral order.The government has sought to downplay their influence, saying that most senior clerics in the kingdom “agree that Islam does not ban women from driving.”But aside from religious hardliners, women also face opposition from a conservative society that is unaccustomed — or fundamentally opposed — to women drivers.Under the country’s guardianship system, a male family member — normally the father, husband or brother — must grant permission for a woman’s study, travel and other activities.It was unclear whether women would require their guardian’s permission to apply for a driving license.“If by June next year women in Saudi Arabia are driving the streets without fear of arrest, then this will be a cause for celebration,” said Philip Luther, from Amnesty International.“But it is just one step. We also need to see a whole range of discriminatory laws and practices swept away.”
In blow to Israel, Interpol admits Palestine as full member-75 of 133 voting member states back Ramallah's membership bid in secret ballot, despite vociferous Israeli and US objections-By Raphael Ahren-September 27, 2017, 11:52 am-TOI
In a stinging diplomatic defeat for Israel, the world’s largest international police organization on Wednesday accepted the “State of Palestine” as a full member.At Interpol’s annual General Assembly in Beijing, the Palestinians’ membership bid was accepted with 75 counties voting yes, 24 voting no, and 34 abstaining.Israel fiercely objected to the Palestinians joining Interpol, arguing that Ramallah’s alleged support for terrorism could hinder rather than aid Interpol’s efforts. The US administration, too, objected to Ramallah’s membership bid and helped Israel lobby against it.Israel had expressed concerns that the PA’s membership in Interpol would result in sensitive information being leaked to Palestinian terror groups. It also reportedly fears Palestinian efforts via Interpol to mount legal challenges, including travel bans and extradition requests, against Israeli army officers and others for alleged war crimes.Shortly after the vote at Interpol’s Executive Committee, Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki welcomed the decision, hailing it as a “victory” for his people.“The State of Palestine considers this membership and the responsibilities that it entails as an integral part of its responsibility towards the Palestinian people and a moral commitment to the citizens of the world,” he said, according to the PA’s official news site Wafa.“Palestine is ready and able to shoulder these obligations and responsibilities as an active partner in the international community, and to contribute effectively and significantly to advancing our common core values as nations,” he added.Maliki stressed that “the State of Palestine will continue to struggle to raise the status and role of Palestine at the international level and defend the rights of our people in security and freedom by all diplomatic and legal means available and including joining the relevant international institutions.”On Monday, PA President Mahmoud Abbas announced he would again put forward a resolution for Palestine to become a full member of the United Nations, after a failed bid in 2011.The Palestine Liberation Organization also celebrated the vote, writing on its Twitter account: “Over 75% of #INTERPOL members just voted in support of #Palestine’s full membership. Congratulations! Alf Mabrouk #Palestine! #Thankyou.”The Foreign Ministry and the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem did not immediately comment on the matter. The Israel Police declined to comment on how the move may affect Israeli cooperation with the international body.In the first official Israeli response, Environmental Affairs Minister Zeev Elkin urged the government to immediately suspend all commitments and goodwill gestures to the PA the cabinet had agreed to implement over the last two years. “One cannot wage war against us and incite against us here and in the world and at the same time enjoy gestures from the State of Israel,” he said in a statement.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has in recent weeks repeatedly declared that Israel’s standing in the international community has never been better and that the Arabs’ automatic majority is quickly eroding.“We have many friends,” he declared Sunday.But Wednesday’s Interpol vote can be seen as a bitter defeat for Israel’s diplomatic efforts. Since Palestine was admitted to Interpol in a secret ballot, Israeli officials cannot argue in this case that the world’s nations secretly support the Jewish state even if they are still unwilling to openly side with it.New member countries State of Palestine and Solomon Islands bring INTERPOL's membership to 192. #INTERPOLGA pic.twitter.com/9LaggaQ6op-— INTERPOL (@INTERPOL_HQ) September 27, 2017-Last year, Israel successfully prevented the Palestinians from joining Interpol, with 62 members of the Executive Committee voting to postpone the request. The PA’s first request in 2015 was rejected by Interpol on the grounds that it was submitted too late for discussion by that year’s assembly.But this year, Palestinians upped their diplomatic efforts to secure membership in the world body. PA police chief head Hazem Atallah met Interpol’s Secretary General Jurgen Stock in Lyon, France, last month to campaign for membership.The Solomon Islands on Wednesday also became full members of Interpol, bringing the number of member states up to 192.Interpol, the world’s biggest international organization after the United Nations, enables member states to exchange intelligence and to work together to find ways to cope with international crime, from terrorism to human trafficking.Dov Lieber, Raoul Wootliff and Tamar Pileggi contributed to this report.
Iranians rail against Israel at funeral for soldier beheaded by IS-Blaming creation of jihadist group on Jewish state, cleric urges, 'Prepare your missiles for annihilation of Israel,' as crowd chants, 'Death to Israel'-By AP and TOI staff-September 27, 2017, 12:19 pm
Thousands of Iranians called for Israel’s destruction at a funeral Wednesday for a young member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps beheaded by the Islamic State jihadist group in Syria, a killing that has struck a nerve within the Islamic Republic as its forces continue to suffer casualties in Iraq and Syria.The slaying of 25-year-old Mohsen Hojaji captured the imagination of many in Iran, a Shiite-ruled nation whose national religion holds sacred acts of mourning and the acknowledgement of sacrifices. Since his death, artists and others have memorialized Hojaji in videos and paintings, while discussion of his slaying has muted domestic criticism of Iran’s foreign military operations, especially in Syria.A cleric at the funeral alleged that Israel and the US were behind IS, drawing cries of “Death to Israel” and “Down with the US” from the audience.“We swear on blood of Hojaji we will not rest until destroying Israel,” cleric Ali Reza Pahanhian said from the podium. “Israel, we swear on the head of Hojaji that we will behead your leaders. Guards! Prepare your missiles for annihilation of Israel.”Hojaji’s funeral in Tehran brought Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who prayed near his Iranian-flag-wrapped casket. Many current and former government officials, including parliament speaker Ali Larijani and former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, were also in attendance.Mourners lay flowers atop his coffin, while on the street soldiers with the paramilitary IRGC mixed with men wearing black and women in long black chadors. Many carried drawn portraits of Hojaji, while others unfurled the black flags common during Muharram, a Shiite mourning period.Members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps hold on to the casket of Mohsen Hojaji, a young member of the IRGC who was beheaded in Syria by the Islamic State, at a funerary procession for him at Imam Hossein Square in the capital Tehran on September 27, 2017. Hojaji is one of many IRGC members and volunteers to be killed in Iraq while advising Shiite militias battling IS or in Syria, where Iranian forces backed embattled President Bashar Assad.But while IS group tried to use Hojaji’s capture and subsequent beheading as propaganda, many in Iran saw it differently. An image of Hojaji from an IS video, showing him stoically standing after his capture with smoke rising behind him in the Syrian desert, inspired a sense of patriotism in an Iran in which some have grown tired of its military operations abroad.“Look at the photo, there is no sign of weakness despite him being shot and captured,” his 23-year-old widow Zahra Abbasi earlier told Iranian media. “There is no fear in the eyes. It is all bravery, courage. He is like a mountain.”Graphic artist Hassan Rouholamini took the frame and reimagined it with Hojaji being welcomed by the third Shiite saint, Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad. Hussein himself was beheaded at the Battle of Karbala in present-day Iraq in the 7th century, an event Iranians will mark with this week’s coming Ashoura commemoration.Khamenei himself even referred to Hojaji as a “dear martyr” in a speech.“God emboldened Hojaji as an evidence of numerous young people” willing to fight and be killed defending Islam, the supreme leader said.A few hours before Martyr #Hojaji's funeral, Ayatollah Khamenei attended the Martyr's body to recite Fatiha & ask God to elevate his status. pic.twitter.com/l3llPV4MUo— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) September 27, 2017-Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, a so-called moderate cleric who himself criticized the IRGC in his re-election campaign, also praised Hojaji for showing how Iranian people are ready to sacrifice themselves for the greater good.Hojaji’s death has caused a rare unity across hardliners, moderates and reformists within Iran. Many activists, artists, athletes, celebrities and politicians, including Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, have offered condolences and expressed sympathy.His death also has silence some criticism of Iran’s foreign military operations, especially in Syria. In May, Tehran’s former reformist mayor, Gholamhossein Karbashchi, said in a public speech that diplomacy rather than military presence can solve the problems in Syria.Hojaji’s body was first taken to Iran’s holy city of Mashhad for a blessing in the shrine of Imam Reza, the eight Shiite Imam. He will be interred Thursday his hometown of Najafabad, some 400 kilometers (250 miles) south of Tehran.
Security forces map Har Adar terrorist’s home for demolition-Troops dismantle mourning tent in Palestinian assailant's village as part of operations in wake of attack in which 3 Israelis killed-By Alexander Fulbright-September 27, 2017, 10:36 am-TOI
Israeli security forces early Wednesday mapped the home of a terrorist who on Tuesday shot dead three Israeli guards at Har Adar ahead of its demolition.In addition to mapping Nimer Mahmoud Ahmad Jamal’s home in the Palestinian village of Bayt Surik, security forces dismantled a mourning tent for him, and also arrested a number of his family members, the Israel Defense Forces said.It was not immediately clear which family members were arrested. On Tuesday the IDF and Border Police arrested two of Jamal’s brothers after sealing off Bayt Surik. Reports in Palestinian media said Jamal’s father was also arrested.The IDF said that during the overnight operation in Bayt Surik and Biddu, both of which are near Har Adar, security forces confiscated “terror money” and carried out searches for illegal weapons.The army also said that in the wake of the attack, “forces will continue to operate in the area in order to prevent terror, and maintain safety and order alongside security and quality of life.”During the attack, 37-year-old Jamal took a pistol out of his shirt and shot at a group of security officers who were opening the back gates of Har Adar to Palestinian laborers.One border police officer, Solomon Gavriyah, 20, and two private security guards — Youssef Ottman, 25, of the nearby Arab Israeli community of Abu Ghosh, and Or Arish, 25, of Har Adar — were killed in the attack.All three were buried later in the day.In response to the attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel would demolish Jamal’s home and rescind the work permits held by his relatives, while Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party said it would revive a bill that would apply the death penalty to convicted terrorists.In the overnight raid’s, security forces also confiscated thousands of shekels of “terror money” near Qalqilya and the Jenin refugee camp, the IDF said.The army said 15 suspects were arrested throughout the West Bank, including three for “popular terrorism,” a catchall term used by security forces to denote violent rioting such as rock throwing and tire burning.The IDF also said the entirety of Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs was opened to Jewish visitors and that some 10,000 Jews, among them Israel’s chief rabbis, visited the holy site for pre-Yom Kippur overnight services.The Tomb of the Patriarchs, which is considered holy in both Judaism and Islam, has been divided between Jewish and Muslim worshipers since 1994, when an American-born Jewish extremist shot and killed 29 Palestinian worshipers.In addition, the army said it escorted Jewish worshipers to the Shalom Al Yisrael synagogue in the Palestinian city of Jericho, during which Palestinians threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at security forces.The IDF said one Palestinian was lightly injured when security forces responded with fire.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
PM to settler leaders: US told Israel not to be a pig on settlement building’-In meeting with Yesha Council, Netanyahu says DC will tolerate limited construction, won't distinguish between blocs and isolated settlements; Trump to present peace plan soon-By Jacob Magid and Alexander Fulbright-September 27, 2017, 4:47 pm-TOI
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told settler leaders on Wednesday that US officials told his chief of staff to not be a “pig” on new settlement construction and that the Trump administration is prepared to tolerate limited settlement building, a senior settler present at the meeting said.“It’s okay to be a pig but not to be a hazer,” Netanyahu said, relaying a message he said his chief of staff was given and using the Yiddish word for pig, the official from the Yesha Council settlement umbrella group told The Times of Israel.During the closed-door meeting, Netanyahu said he successfully convinced the Trump administration to drop its distinction between settlement blocs and so-called isolated settlements.Settlement blocs are defined as large built-up areas, mostly located near the pre-1967 Green Line, while isolated settlements are located in more far-flung areas of the West Bank surrounded by large Palestinian populations.Netanyahu also said that the US has refrained from criticizing Israel over settlement construction due to Israel’s adherence to self-imposed limitations on new building.The Yesha official said Netanyahu reiterated his promise to build 300 new homes in Beit El, which he had promised following the demolition of a number of homes in the settlement in 2012.While Netanyahu did not directly address a series of demands for new settlement building and infrastructure, he said 3,330 new units would be approved for construction during the next meeting of the Civil Administration Higher Planning Committee on October 16, according to the Yesha official.Netanyahu also told settler leaders that he believes US President Donald Trump will soon present a plan for the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.During the meeting, settler leaders called for lifting an Obama-era “freeze” on new construction in the West Bank and to complete “the building gaps that were delayed during the eight-year freeze of the Obama administration.”Specifically, the group called for advancing the construction of 10,000 housing units in the settlements of Negohot and Migron, as well in the mostly Arab West Bank city of Hebron, according to a statement from the Yesha Council.Despite the claim of a building “freeze” during the presidency of Barack Obama, data from the Central Bureau of Statistics shows there was an average of 1,725.5 housing starts a year during his tenure, 100 less than the average of 1,828.75 housing starts a year when Republican George W. Bush was president.The settler leaders also called on Netanyahu to end the “discrimination” and “neglect” of infrastructure in the West Bank.“In Judea and Samaria there is a years-long neglect of everything connected to the development of public transportation, water, electricity gas,” the Yesha Council said.The group also called for the construction of additional bypass roads in the West Bank and said the infrastructure development would benefit the area’s Jewish and Palestinian residents.The Prime Minister’s Office said during the meeting, which it described as a toast for the Jewish new year, settler leaders “thanked Prime Minister Netanyahu and praised him for his action on behalf of settlement in Judea and Samaria.”The sit-down came ahead of an event later Wednesday in the Etzion settlement bloc celebrating 50 years of settlement in the West Bank and Golan Heights.Netanyahu is set to speak at the ceremony in what will be the fourth event in the West Bank that the prime minister has addressed in the last three months.
Repeal of women driving ban tests Saudi reform drive-Crown Prince Mohammed's 'Vision 2030' plan seeks to introduce economic and social change despite conservative opposition-By Anuj Chopra-September 27, 2017, 4:57 pm-TOI
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — Saudi Arabia’s historic lifting of a ban on women driving will be a litmus test for its king-in-waiting, who has sought to sideline the kingdom’s arch-conservatives as he accelerates reforms, analysts say.The kingdom will issue driving licenses to women from next June, in the most striking reform yet credited to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, despite the risk of a backlash from hardliners.But after his recent crackdown on dissenters, including prominent clerics with huge followings, experts say the prince may face only a muted opposition.“The lifting of a ban… will likely serve as a litmus test for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s ability to introduce economic and social reforms despite conservative opposition,” said James Dorsey, a fellow at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies.“If last week’s national day celebrations in which women were allowed to enter stadiums in anything to go by, the opposition is likely to be limited to protests on social media.”On Saturday, women were allowed for the first time into a sports stadium to mark national day, a move that chimes with the Prince Mohammed’s “Vision 2030” reform plan.Men and women also danced in the streets to drums and thumping electronic music, in scenes that were a stunning anomaly in a country known for its tight gender segregation and austere vision of Islam.This gambit to loosen social restrictions in the ultra-conservative society was made possible partly by the latest crackdown, which was seen as a show of force by Prince Mohammed, experts say.Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist and former government advisor who went into exile in the United States, described a new Saudi era of “fear, intimidation, arrests and public shaming” in an article published in The Washington Post.-‘Assertion of power’-Those arrests were not directly related to the driving ban, but apparently to an ongoing crisis with Gulf rival Qatar, said Jane Kinninmont from London-based Chatham House.“But the arrests represented an assertion of power over the independent, politically influential clerics and sent a message that Prince Mohammed does not see himself as beholden to them as partners in government,” Kinninmont told AFP.“The fact that they have been arrested without significant unrest being triggered is likely to have made the Saudi leadership more confident that it can make (social) change without much in the way of opposition.”Prince Mohammed is set to be the first millennial to occupy the throne, in a country where half the population is under 25, when he takes over from his 81-year-old father King Salman.“I think Prince Mohammed is ideologically committed to taking the Saudi state in a new direction: less austere, more nationalist,” said Kristin Diwan, from the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.Unlike previous rulers, he has shown a willingness to tackle entrenched Saudi taboos, and is seen as catering to the aspirations of youth with an array of entertainment options and promoting more women in the workforce.“Women should obviously have had the right to drive a long time ago -– the fact that this decision was so long in coming shows just how much has changed in Saudi Arabia with Prince Mohammed now wielding executive authority,” said Perry Cammack, a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.-‘Discriminatory practices’-But hardliners could still emerge as a potent threat.Many Saudis on social media, irked by the mixing of genders on national day, derisively compared the country to “Las Vegas.”“Patriotism does not mean sin” became a widely used hashtag, while some called for the religious police, whose powers have been curtailed in recent years, to restore moral order.The government has sought to downplay their influence, saying that most senior clerics in the kingdom “agree that Islam does not ban women from driving.”But aside from religious hardliners, women also face opposition from a conservative society that is unaccustomed — or fundamentally opposed — to women drivers.Under the country’s guardianship system, a male family member — normally the father, husband or brother — must grant permission for a woman’s study, travel and other activities.It was unclear whether women would require their guardian’s permission to apply for a driving license.“If by June next year women in Saudi Arabia are driving the streets without fear of arrest, then this will be a cause for celebration,” said Philip Luther, from Amnesty International.“But it is just one step. We also need to see a whole range of discriminatory laws and practices swept away.”
In blow to Israel, Interpol admits Palestine as full member-75 of 133 voting member states back Ramallah's membership bid in secret ballot, despite vociferous Israeli and US objections-By Raphael Ahren-September 27, 2017, 11:52 am-TOI
In a stinging diplomatic defeat for Israel, the world’s largest international police organization on Wednesday accepted the “State of Palestine” as a full member.At Interpol’s annual General Assembly in Beijing, the Palestinians’ membership bid was accepted with 75 counties voting yes, 24 voting no, and 34 abstaining.Israel fiercely objected to the Palestinians joining Interpol, arguing that Ramallah’s alleged support for terrorism could hinder rather than aid Interpol’s efforts. The US administration, too, objected to Ramallah’s membership bid and helped Israel lobby against it.Israel had expressed concerns that the PA’s membership in Interpol would result in sensitive information being leaked to Palestinian terror groups. It also reportedly fears Palestinian efforts via Interpol to mount legal challenges, including travel bans and extradition requests, against Israeli army officers and others for alleged war crimes.Shortly after the vote at Interpol’s Executive Committee, Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki welcomed the decision, hailing it as a “victory” for his people.“The State of Palestine considers this membership and the responsibilities that it entails as an integral part of its responsibility towards the Palestinian people and a moral commitment to the citizens of the world,” he said, according to the PA’s official news site Wafa.“Palestine is ready and able to shoulder these obligations and responsibilities as an active partner in the international community, and to contribute effectively and significantly to advancing our common core values as nations,” he added.Maliki stressed that “the State of Palestine will continue to struggle to raise the status and role of Palestine at the international level and defend the rights of our people in security and freedom by all diplomatic and legal means available and including joining the relevant international institutions.”On Monday, PA President Mahmoud Abbas announced he would again put forward a resolution for Palestine to become a full member of the United Nations, after a failed bid in 2011.The Palestine Liberation Organization also celebrated the vote, writing on its Twitter account: “Over 75% of #INTERPOL members just voted in support of #Palestine’s full membership. Congratulations! Alf Mabrouk #Palestine! #Thankyou.”The Foreign Ministry and the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem did not immediately comment on the matter. The Israel Police declined to comment on how the move may affect Israeli cooperation with the international body.In the first official Israeli response, Environmental Affairs Minister Zeev Elkin urged the government to immediately suspend all commitments and goodwill gestures to the PA the cabinet had agreed to implement over the last two years. “One cannot wage war against us and incite against us here and in the world and at the same time enjoy gestures from the State of Israel,” he said in a statement.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has in recent weeks repeatedly declared that Israel’s standing in the international community has never been better and that the Arabs’ automatic majority is quickly eroding.“We have many friends,” he declared Sunday.But Wednesday’s Interpol vote can be seen as a bitter defeat for Israel’s diplomatic efforts. Since Palestine was admitted to Interpol in a secret ballot, Israeli officials cannot argue in this case that the world’s nations secretly support the Jewish state even if they are still unwilling to openly side with it.New member countries State of Palestine and Solomon Islands bring INTERPOL's membership to 192. #INTERPOLGA pic.twitter.com/9LaggaQ6op-— INTERPOL (@INTERPOL_HQ) September 27, 2017-Last year, Israel successfully prevented the Palestinians from joining Interpol, with 62 members of the Executive Committee voting to postpone the request. The PA’s first request in 2015 was rejected by Interpol on the grounds that it was submitted too late for discussion by that year’s assembly.But this year, Palestinians upped their diplomatic efforts to secure membership in the world body. PA police chief head Hazem Atallah met Interpol’s Secretary General Jurgen Stock in Lyon, France, last month to campaign for membership.The Solomon Islands on Wednesday also became full members of Interpol, bringing the number of member states up to 192.Interpol, the world’s biggest international organization after the United Nations, enables member states to exchange intelligence and to work together to find ways to cope with international crime, from terrorism to human trafficking.Dov Lieber, Raoul Wootliff and Tamar Pileggi contributed to this report.
Iranians rail against Israel at funeral for soldier beheaded by IS-Blaming creation of jihadist group on Jewish state, cleric urges, 'Prepare your missiles for annihilation of Israel,' as crowd chants, 'Death to Israel'-By AP and TOI staff-September 27, 2017, 12:19 pm
Thousands of Iranians called for Israel’s destruction at a funeral Wednesday for a young member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps beheaded by the Islamic State jihadist group in Syria, a killing that has struck a nerve within the Islamic Republic as its forces continue to suffer casualties in Iraq and Syria.The slaying of 25-year-old Mohsen Hojaji captured the imagination of many in Iran, a Shiite-ruled nation whose national religion holds sacred acts of mourning and the acknowledgement of sacrifices. Since his death, artists and others have memorialized Hojaji in videos and paintings, while discussion of his slaying has muted domestic criticism of Iran’s foreign military operations, especially in Syria.A cleric at the funeral alleged that Israel and the US were behind IS, drawing cries of “Death to Israel” and “Down with the US” from the audience.“We swear on blood of Hojaji we will not rest until destroying Israel,” cleric Ali Reza Pahanhian said from the podium. “Israel, we swear on the head of Hojaji that we will behead your leaders. Guards! Prepare your missiles for annihilation of Israel.”Hojaji’s funeral in Tehran brought Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who prayed near his Iranian-flag-wrapped casket. Many current and former government officials, including parliament speaker Ali Larijani and former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, were also in attendance.Mourners lay flowers atop his coffin, while on the street soldiers with the paramilitary IRGC mixed with men wearing black and women in long black chadors. Many carried drawn portraits of Hojaji, while others unfurled the black flags common during Muharram, a Shiite mourning period.Members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps hold on to the casket of Mohsen Hojaji, a young member of the IRGC who was beheaded in Syria by the Islamic State, at a funerary procession for him at Imam Hossein Square in the capital Tehran on September 27, 2017. Hojaji is one of many IRGC members and volunteers to be killed in Iraq while advising Shiite militias battling IS or in Syria, where Iranian forces backed embattled President Bashar Assad.But while IS group tried to use Hojaji’s capture and subsequent beheading as propaganda, many in Iran saw it differently. An image of Hojaji from an IS video, showing him stoically standing after his capture with smoke rising behind him in the Syrian desert, inspired a sense of patriotism in an Iran in which some have grown tired of its military operations abroad.“Look at the photo, there is no sign of weakness despite him being shot and captured,” his 23-year-old widow Zahra Abbasi earlier told Iranian media. “There is no fear in the eyes. It is all bravery, courage. He is like a mountain.”Graphic artist Hassan Rouholamini took the frame and reimagined it with Hojaji being welcomed by the third Shiite saint, Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad. Hussein himself was beheaded at the Battle of Karbala in present-day Iraq in the 7th century, an event Iranians will mark with this week’s coming Ashoura commemoration.Khamenei himself even referred to Hojaji as a “dear martyr” in a speech.“God emboldened Hojaji as an evidence of numerous young people” willing to fight and be killed defending Islam, the supreme leader said.A few hours before Martyr #Hojaji's funeral, Ayatollah Khamenei attended the Martyr's body to recite Fatiha & ask God to elevate his status. pic.twitter.com/l3llPV4MUo— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) September 27, 2017-Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, a so-called moderate cleric who himself criticized the IRGC in his re-election campaign, also praised Hojaji for showing how Iranian people are ready to sacrifice themselves for the greater good.Hojaji’s death has caused a rare unity across hardliners, moderates and reformists within Iran. Many activists, artists, athletes, celebrities and politicians, including Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, have offered condolences and expressed sympathy.His death also has silence some criticism of Iran’s foreign military operations, especially in Syria. In May, Tehran’s former reformist mayor, Gholamhossein Karbashchi, said in a public speech that diplomacy rather than military presence can solve the problems in Syria.Hojaji’s body was first taken to Iran’s holy city of Mashhad for a blessing in the shrine of Imam Reza, the eight Shiite Imam. He will be interred Thursday his hometown of Najafabad, some 400 kilometers (250 miles) south of Tehran.
Security forces map Har Adar terrorist’s home for demolition-Troops dismantle mourning tent in Palestinian assailant's village as part of operations in wake of attack in which 3 Israelis killed-By Alexander Fulbright-September 27, 2017, 10:36 am-TOI
Israeli security forces early Wednesday mapped the home of a terrorist who on Tuesday shot dead three Israeli guards at Har Adar ahead of its demolition.In addition to mapping Nimer Mahmoud Ahmad Jamal’s home in the Palestinian village of Bayt Surik, security forces dismantled a mourning tent for him, and also arrested a number of his family members, the Israel Defense Forces said.It was not immediately clear which family members were arrested. On Tuesday the IDF and Border Police arrested two of Jamal’s brothers after sealing off Bayt Surik. Reports in Palestinian media said Jamal’s father was also arrested.The IDF said that during the overnight operation in Bayt Surik and Biddu, both of which are near Har Adar, security forces confiscated “terror money” and carried out searches for illegal weapons.The army also said that in the wake of the attack, “forces will continue to operate in the area in order to prevent terror, and maintain safety and order alongside security and quality of life.”During the attack, 37-year-old Jamal took a pistol out of his shirt and shot at a group of security officers who were opening the back gates of Har Adar to Palestinian laborers.One border police officer, Solomon Gavriyah, 20, and two private security guards — Youssef Ottman, 25, of the nearby Arab Israeli community of Abu Ghosh, and Or Arish, 25, of Har Adar — were killed in the attack.All three were buried later in the day.In response to the attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel would demolish Jamal’s home and rescind the work permits held by his relatives, while Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party said it would revive a bill that would apply the death penalty to convicted terrorists.In the overnight raid’s, security forces also confiscated thousands of shekels of “terror money” near Qalqilya and the Jenin refugee camp, the IDF said.The army said 15 suspects were arrested throughout the West Bank, including three for “popular terrorism,” a catchall term used by security forces to denote violent rioting such as rock throwing and tire burning.The IDF also said the entirety of Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs was opened to Jewish visitors and that some 10,000 Jews, among them Israel’s chief rabbis, visited the holy site for pre-Yom Kippur overnight services.The Tomb of the Patriarchs, which is considered holy in both Judaism and Islam, has been divided between Jewish and Muslim worshipers since 1994, when an American-born Jewish extremist shot and killed 29 Palestinian worshipers.In addition, the army said it escorted Jewish worshipers to the Shalom Al Yisrael synagogue in the Palestinian city of Jericho, during which Palestinians threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at security forces.The IDF said one Palestinian was lightly injured when security forces responded with fire.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
