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
Violent clashes as hundreds of ultra-Orthodox rally against IDF draft-8 protesters arrested after clashing with police, blocking roads; video footage shows police throwing demonstrators to the ground, punching and kicking them-By Raoul Wootliff and AFP-September 17, 2017, 6:39 pm-TOI
Several hundred ultra-Orthodox Jews clashed with police as they demonstrated in Jerusalem on Sunday to protest against a court ruling last week that rejected Knesset legislation deferring the mandatory conscription of Haredim into the Israel Defense Forces.Police reacted violently as they tried to disperse them, with several videos showing officers, beating, punching, kicking and dragging the demonstrators along the ground.At least two protesters were injured, with one 16-year-old suffering from a head injury and internal bleeding, Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem said. A second youth was lightly wounded the hospital said. Police said seven officers were hurt, but gave no details on their condition.The demonstration in Mea She’arim, an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of the city, was organized by the hardline group Eda Haredit after the arrest of a relative of a prominent rabbi who did not appear for a draft summons.“We’re Jews and therefore will not enlist in the Zionist army,” read banners held by several protesters.Demonstrators brought traffic in the capital to a standstill by blocking the Sarei Israel thoroughfare. Officers were met with violence when they tried to clear the protesters, including a barrage of rock throwing, police said in a statement.Eight demonstrators were arrested, police said.Police used water cannons and horse-mounted officers to try and disperse the crowd.One video clip filmed by demonstrators showed a police officer slamming an ultra-Orthodox protester to the ground, apparently unprovoked.Other footage showed officers forcefully throwing protesters to the ground and punching and kicking them while they were being held down.Police in response that they would be investigating all incidents of violence both towards and by police officers.Last week’s High Court decision struck down a law exempting ultra-Orthodox men engaged in religious study from military service, saying it undermined equality. The decision raises the possibility that they could be forced into service, a highly contentious proposition with political implications.However, the court suspended its decision for one year to allow for preparations for the new arrangement — which also provides the government with the opportunity to pass a new law.Ultra-Orthodox political parties, holding key positions in the ruling coalition, are likely to draft new legislation that could seek to override the court ruling and keep the exemption in place.The issue is part of a decades-old debate over whether young ultra-Orthodox men studying at yeshivas should undergo compulsory military service like the rest of Israel’s Jewish population.After reaching the age of 18, men must serve for 32 months, and women must serve for 24.Ultra-Orthodox seminary students have been largely exempt from Israel’s military draft since then-defense minister David Ben-Gurion exempted 400 students from service in 1949 on the grounds that “their studies are their craft.” Exceptional young artists and athletes are often granted exemptions by the Defense Ministry on the grounds that two or three years of military service could hold them back dramatically.The ultra-Orthodox oppose serving for a variety of reasons, with the most extreme believing a Jewish state is not allowed before the coming of the Messiah. Others argue that study of religious texts is just as important to Israel as military service or that ultra-Orthodox soldiers would be confronted with irreligious behavior.The court decision drew instant condemnation from ultra-Orthodox leaders and sparked a number of protests opposing the move.On Friday, an ultra-Orthodox IDF soldier was attacked by residents of the Beit Yisrael neighborhood in Jerusalem, and was only extracted from there after police were called to the scene.According to the police, the soldier entered a store in the neighborhood, which is located north of the ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood. A large crowd gathered by the store, yelling slogans against the soldier and against service in the IDF.
Netanyahu to directly address Iran’s supreme leader in UN speech-SEP 17-17-TOI
NEW YORK — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will for the first time directly address Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei in his upcoming speech to the United Nations General Assembly, senior Israeli sources say.Netanyahu’s speech, scheduled for Tuesday 8:00 p.m. Israel time, will focus on Iran and be shorter than in previous years, the sources say.Israel’s opposition to Iran’s entrenchment in the Golan Heights in the framework of an agreement on the Syrian civil war is going to take center stage at Netanyahu’s UN speech, he said Friday.— Raphael Ahren.
America’s envoy says UN ‘Israel bashing’ becoming more balanced-Ambassador Nikki Haley warns Security Council close to exhausting diplomatic options on North Korea-By AP and TOI staff September 17, 2017, 7:43 pm
SOMERSET, NJ — America’s ambassador to the United Nations said Sunday that US President Donald Trump has brought about change at the global body that is seeing Israel get a fairer treatment than in the past.Reviewing what to expect from Trump’s upcoming speech at the UN General Assembly this coming week, Nikki Haley told CNN’s “State of the Union” that it is “a new day at the UN.”In the past, she said, “I think we saw a United Nations where the United States was giving over 25 percent of the funding and being utterly disrespected, the United Nations was bashing Israel every chance they get.”“A United Nations that talked a lot, didn’t have a lot of action. Now we can say it is a new day at the UN, what are you now seeing is the Israel bashing has become more balanced.”She also raised the prospect of US military action against North Korea if the North continues its missile and nuclear tests.North Korea will be “destroyed” if it continues with what she describes as “reckless” behavior, Haley said that the UN Security Council has basically exhausted its diplomatic options for dealing with North Korea.If diplomacy fails, she said US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis “will take care of it.”North Korea will be high on the agenda during the UN General Assembly session in New York.Haley said Trump’s “fire and fury” threat against North Korea wasn’t an empty threat. She said war is undesirable, but adds that “something has got to be done” if North Korea continues to threaten the US and its allies.
Iraq vice president warns against ‘second Israel’ in Kurdistan-As referendum nears, Nouri al-Maliki says country set up on a religious or ethnic base, like the Jewish state, would be 'unacceptable'-By AP and TOI staff September 17, 2017, 8:45 pm
An Iraqi vice president warned Sunday that Baghdad would not tolerate the creation of “a second Israel” after the Jewish state became the only country to support a planned Kurdish independence referendum in northern Iraq.The leaders of autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan must “call off the [September 25] referendum that is contrary to the constitution and does not serve the general interests of the Iraqi people, not even the particular interests of the Kurds,” said Vice President Nouri al-Maliki.“We will not allow the creation of a second Israel in the north of Iraq,” Maliki, a Shiite former prime minister, said at a meeting with US Ambassador Douglas Silliman, in a statement released by the vice president’s office.A country set up on a religious or ethnic base, like the Jewish state established in 1948, would not be acceptable, Maliki said.He warned that an independence vote would have “dangerous consequences for the security, sovereignty and unity of Iraq,” and called for dialogue between Baghdad and the Kurdish Regional Government in the northern city of Arbil.As opposed to Muslim countries in the region as well as the United States and Western allies, Israel has come out in apparent support of the referendum.On Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu backed the Kurds’ aspirations for a state of their own, without specifically referring to the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq.“While Israel rejects terror in any form, it supports the legitimate efforts of the Kurdish people to attain a state of its own,” a statement from his office said.An Israeli flag was flown alongside Kurdish flags at a rally in Arbil on Friday in support of the referendum. But the Israeli Embassy in Ankara was evacuated as supporters of an ultra-nationalist party demonstrated outside.Utku Reyhan, secretary-general of the Homeland Party, said in a press statement that a unilateral independence referendum was a “declaration of war by US imperialism and Israeli Zionism against countries in the region.”Attempts to establish a Kurdish state, “which our party has been calling ‘Second Israel’ for 30 years,” threatened the territorial integrity of Turkey and Iraq, he charged.Bearing banners with the slogan “We won’t allow a Second Israel,” the Homeland Party took its protest to the Incirlik Air Base in Adana, southern Turkey, on Saturday and was planning a protest outside the Israeli consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday.In recent days, Turkish media has been abuzz with reports that Kurdish leader Masoud Barazani has reached a secret deal with Jerusalem to have the descendants of Kurdish Jews in Israel repatriated to Kurdistan after the referendum.The Jewish presence in Mesopotamia dates back to the Assyrian conquest of the Kingdom of Israel in 722 BCE and the Babylonian conquest of Israel’s southern tribes in 586 BCE.While a few Kurdish Jews settled in the northern Galilee town of Safed in the 16th century, and more immigrated in the early 19th century, it was not until Israel’s Independence in 1948 that anti-Jewish violence forced almost the entire community to move to the nascent Jewish state.Much of the Kurdish Jewish community emigrated to Israel in the years following its establishment. Today, nearly 200,000 Jews of Kurdish descent are believed to live in the country, half of them in Jerusalem. Only hundreds remain in Kurdistan.
Hamas says it accepts Abbas’s reconciliation demands-Gaza-based terror group says it will agree to Palestinian Authority conditions on forming joint government and holding elections-By AP and TOI staff-September 17, 2017, 6:27 am
The Hamas terrorist group said early Sunday that it had accepted key conditions demanded by its rival, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, including nationwide elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, to clear the way for a reconciliation deal after a 10-year rift that has left the Palestinians divided.In a statement issued overnight, Hamas said it was “responding to the generous Egyptian efforts, which reflect the Egyptian desire to end the split and achieve reconciliation, and based on our desire to achieve national unity.”Hamas said it had dissolved the contentious Administrative Committee that runs Gaza, invited Abbas’s government to return to the Strip, and was ready to hold new elections.The Palestinians have been split between two rival governments since 2007, when Hamas drove Abbas’s Fatah party forces out of the Gaza Strip, leaving the president in control only of autonomous areas of the West Bank. Repeated attempts at reconciliation have failed.Hamas, however, has been greatly weakened by an Israeli and Egyptian blockade, three wars with Israel and international isolation. The Islamist terror group openly seeks the elimination of Israel, which maintains a security blockade to prevent Hamas from importing weaponry. Gaza’s economy is in tatters and residents of the territory have electricity for only a few hours a day.The latest announcement came days after Hamas and Egyptian officials met in Cairo for reconciliation discussions. Abbas sent a delegation of representatives to Egypt as well.Hamas officials have been in and out of Cairo frequently over recent months in an attempt to improve their ties with Egypt, a country with which the terror group has had a rocky relationship.Despite Sunday’s announcement, however, any reconciliation deal faces many obstacles. The announcement did not say whether Hamas was prepared to place its security forces under Abbas’s control — a key sticking point that has scuttled past reconciliation attempts.There also was no immediate comment from Abbas’s government in Ramallah, and it wasn’t clear how Egypt’s latest effort aligns with its previous tacit support for a different Gaza power-sharing deal between Hamas and Mohammed Dahlan, an exiled former aide to Abbas.Egypt has long accused Hamas of aiding the brutal Islamic insurgency in its restive North Sinai region, but in recent months, Hamas has beefed up security along Gaza’s southern border with Egypt, seeking to assure Cairo that it is fighting Islamic State sympathizers.In exchange, Egypt is supposed to alleviate its blockade of Gaza by opening the Rafah crossing — the only way in and out of Gaza except via Israel — as well as increase commercial ties with the Strip.The Rafah crossing is infrequently opened, leaving the strict Israeli border as the only other option for Palestinians who want to enter or exit the Strip.PA officials have said Egypt assured Ramallah it would not reopen the Rafah crossing until Abbas’s “legitimate authority” is restored at the border.
Netanyahu gears up for meetings with Trump, world leaders-PM to meet leaders of Panama, Japan and Rwanda on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, turns down Swedish request for a sit-down-By Raphael Ahren-September 17, 2017, 8:58 am-TOI
NEW YORK — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet a series of world leaders here this week, in addition to his much-anticipated powwow with US President Donald Trump on Monday.On Sunday, Netanyahu will spend most of the day preparing for his annual address to the United Nations General Assembly, his aides said. In the late afternoon, he is scheduled to meet with World Economic Forum Chairman Klaus Schwab and with a group of American Jewish leaders. Both meetings are closed to the press.On Monday at 1 p.m. local time, the prime minister will meet with Trump in the New York Palace Hotel. Both leaders will make brief statements to the press to open the meeting, before continuing their discussion behind closed doors.Later in the afternoon, Netanyahu is set to meet the president of Panama, Juan Carlos Varela; the prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe; and Rwandan President Paul Kagame at the UN.Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven had sought a meeting as well, but Netanyahu refused, likely because Israel is still angry over Stockholm’s 2014 recognition of a Palestinian state, though Israeli officials on Saturday cited scheduling difficulties.Hosting members of the Israeli delegation on Friday at an evening welcoming the Sabbath, Netanyahu said that more leaders asked for meetings than he could accommodate.On Tuesday morning, the prime minister is expected to attend Trump’s first address to the UN. A few hours later, at around 1:30 p.m., Netanyahu will deliver his own speech.Speaking to reporters at his hotel in New York on Friday, after wrapping up a trip to Latin America, Netanyahu said that the main message of his UN speech will be that “Israel will not tolerate an Iranian military presence on our northern borders. An [Iranian] military presence endangers not just us, but also our Arab neighbors.”According to recent reports denied by Israeli sources, Russia rebuffed an Israeli demand to ensure that Iranian forces and Iran-backed Shiite militants be kept at least 60-80 kilometers away from the Syrian frontier with Israel in the Golan Heights.The demand was initially raised by Israel in July, when negotiations were underway for a ceasefire deal in southern Syria between President Bashar Assad and Syrian rebels, under the auspices of Washington and Moscow.Netanyahu has repeatedly warned against Iran’s military ambitions in the area, Tehran’s bid to establish a territorial “corridor” all the way to the Mediterranean, and an increased Iranian presence on Israel’s northern border.The issue will also be a centerpiece of Netanyahu’s Monday sit-down with Trump, along with the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and the future of the Iranian nuclear deal.A short while after his UN speech, the prime minister’s entourage will make its way to JFK Airport, to arrive in Israel in time for the Jewish New Year, which starts Wednesday evening.Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who will also address the UN General Assembly, will meet with Trump on Wednesday.On Friday, the Israeli consulate in New York City was briefly shut, and employees were barred from leaving the premises, after an envelope with white powder was sent to the building along with a direct threat against Netanyahu’s life.Local security forces examined the envelope’s contents and once it was clear that the substance was not harmful, workers were allowed out of the building, which houses Israel’s New York consulate and its UN mission, Channel 10 reported.
WH official: Peace conversations to be kept ‘mostly separate’ from UN meetings-While an Israeli-Palestinian accord remains a top priority for Trump, his UN talks will 'primarily focus on other issues,' administration source says-By Eric Cortellessa-September 16, 2017, 9:44 pm-TOI
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump’s meetings next week with Israeli and Palestinian leaders at the UN General Assembly will be largely detached from the latest round of conversations a US delegation had with both sides during a trip to the region in August, according to an administration source.“Achieving peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians remains one of the president’s highest priorities, but the United Nations meetings will primarily focus on other issues and serve as check-in opportunities,” a senior White House official told The Times of Israel on Saturday.“Jared Kushner, Jason Greenblatt and Dina Powell just came off of a very productive trip to the region and those peace conversations are continuing at a steady pace and will be mostly separate from the United Nations meetings,” said the source.Trump will meet with both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas next week, as all three will be in New York for the United Nations’ annual confab.He will meet with the former on Monday and the latter on Wednesday. His speech to the world body is on Tuesday — as is Netanyahu’s.National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster told reporters on Friday the major focus of the meeting will be Iran, while the administration’s efforts to forge a final-status Israeli-Palestinian accord will also be on the agenda.“While their conversations will be wide-ranging, we expect that Iran’s destabilizing behavior, including its violation of the sovereignty of nations across the Middle East, to be a major focus,” he said.He later added, “Of course, the president will talk about the prospects for a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians, among a broad range of regional issues, with all of the leaders he’s meeting during the week.”Trump’s forthcoming summit with Netanyahu comes at a sensitive time for both the Iranian front and the peace front.In the last several months, he has made less-than-subtle indications he plans to decertify Iran as is noncompliance of the 2015 nuclear deal when he is next slated to report to Congress in October, despite International Atomic Energy Agency investigators and America’s own intelligence community saying it is abiding by the pact.On Thursday, Trump waived wide-ranging economic sanctions against Iran’s oil, trade and financial sectors.Yet, the US Treasury Department also imposed fresh sanctions on 11 Iranian entities for their alleged support of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Tehran’s ballistic missile program and other programs to conduct cyberattacks and support terrorism.Last month, the former real estate mogul dispatched a US delegation to the Middle East to try and renew negotiations between the sides. That group included Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, special peace envoy Jason Greenblatt and Deputy National Security Adviser Dina Powell.No tangible developments occurred, but Palestinians continue to criticize the US team for its refusal to back a two-state solution, a goal that has been central to American foreign policy for decades.In August, State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert responded to these criticisms by saying the Trump administration did not want to “bias” itself by supporting any particular outcome to the conflict.Trump’s meeting with Abbas will also come shortly after the State Department voiced the administration’s full support for the Taylor Force Act, legislation that would cut US aid to the Palestinian Authority until it ends what critics describe as its long-standing practice of rewarding Palestinians who commit acts of terror against Israelis.
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
Violent clashes as hundreds of ultra-Orthodox rally against IDF draft-8 protesters arrested after clashing with police, blocking roads; video footage shows police throwing demonstrators to the ground, punching and kicking them-By Raoul Wootliff and AFP-September 17, 2017, 6:39 pm-TOI
Several hundred ultra-Orthodox Jews clashed with police as they demonstrated in Jerusalem on Sunday to protest against a court ruling last week that rejected Knesset legislation deferring the mandatory conscription of Haredim into the Israel Defense Forces.Police reacted violently as they tried to disperse them, with several videos showing officers, beating, punching, kicking and dragging the demonstrators along the ground.At least two protesters were injured, with one 16-year-old suffering from a head injury and internal bleeding, Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem said. A second youth was lightly wounded the hospital said. Police said seven officers were hurt, but gave no details on their condition.The demonstration in Mea She’arim, an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of the city, was organized by the hardline group Eda Haredit after the arrest of a relative of a prominent rabbi who did not appear for a draft summons.“We’re Jews and therefore will not enlist in the Zionist army,” read banners held by several protesters.Demonstrators brought traffic in the capital to a standstill by blocking the Sarei Israel thoroughfare. Officers were met with violence when they tried to clear the protesters, including a barrage of rock throwing, police said in a statement.Eight demonstrators were arrested, police said.Police used water cannons and horse-mounted officers to try and disperse the crowd.One video clip filmed by demonstrators showed a police officer slamming an ultra-Orthodox protester to the ground, apparently unprovoked.Other footage showed officers forcefully throwing protesters to the ground and punching and kicking them while they were being held down.Police in response that they would be investigating all incidents of violence both towards and by police officers.Last week’s High Court decision struck down a law exempting ultra-Orthodox men engaged in religious study from military service, saying it undermined equality. The decision raises the possibility that they could be forced into service, a highly contentious proposition with political implications.However, the court suspended its decision for one year to allow for preparations for the new arrangement — which also provides the government with the opportunity to pass a new law.Ultra-Orthodox political parties, holding key positions in the ruling coalition, are likely to draft new legislation that could seek to override the court ruling and keep the exemption in place.The issue is part of a decades-old debate over whether young ultra-Orthodox men studying at yeshivas should undergo compulsory military service like the rest of Israel’s Jewish population.After reaching the age of 18, men must serve for 32 months, and women must serve for 24.Ultra-Orthodox seminary students have been largely exempt from Israel’s military draft since then-defense minister David Ben-Gurion exempted 400 students from service in 1949 on the grounds that “their studies are their craft.” Exceptional young artists and athletes are often granted exemptions by the Defense Ministry on the grounds that two or three years of military service could hold them back dramatically.The ultra-Orthodox oppose serving for a variety of reasons, with the most extreme believing a Jewish state is not allowed before the coming of the Messiah. Others argue that study of religious texts is just as important to Israel as military service or that ultra-Orthodox soldiers would be confronted with irreligious behavior.The court decision drew instant condemnation from ultra-Orthodox leaders and sparked a number of protests opposing the move.On Friday, an ultra-Orthodox IDF soldier was attacked by residents of the Beit Yisrael neighborhood in Jerusalem, and was only extracted from there after police were called to the scene.According to the police, the soldier entered a store in the neighborhood, which is located north of the ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood. A large crowd gathered by the store, yelling slogans against the soldier and against service in the IDF.
Netanyahu to directly address Iran’s supreme leader in UN speech-SEP 17-17-TOI
NEW YORK — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will for the first time directly address Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei in his upcoming speech to the United Nations General Assembly, senior Israeli sources say.Netanyahu’s speech, scheduled for Tuesday 8:00 p.m. Israel time, will focus on Iran and be shorter than in previous years, the sources say.Israel’s opposition to Iran’s entrenchment in the Golan Heights in the framework of an agreement on the Syrian civil war is going to take center stage at Netanyahu’s UN speech, he said Friday.— Raphael Ahren.
America’s envoy says UN ‘Israel bashing’ becoming more balanced-Ambassador Nikki Haley warns Security Council close to exhausting diplomatic options on North Korea-By AP and TOI staff September 17, 2017, 7:43 pm
SOMERSET, NJ — America’s ambassador to the United Nations said Sunday that US President Donald Trump has brought about change at the global body that is seeing Israel get a fairer treatment than in the past.Reviewing what to expect from Trump’s upcoming speech at the UN General Assembly this coming week, Nikki Haley told CNN’s “State of the Union” that it is “a new day at the UN.”In the past, she said, “I think we saw a United Nations where the United States was giving over 25 percent of the funding and being utterly disrespected, the United Nations was bashing Israel every chance they get.”“A United Nations that talked a lot, didn’t have a lot of action. Now we can say it is a new day at the UN, what are you now seeing is the Israel bashing has become more balanced.”She also raised the prospect of US military action against North Korea if the North continues its missile and nuclear tests.North Korea will be “destroyed” if it continues with what she describes as “reckless” behavior, Haley said that the UN Security Council has basically exhausted its diplomatic options for dealing with North Korea.If diplomacy fails, she said US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis “will take care of it.”North Korea will be high on the agenda during the UN General Assembly session in New York.Haley said Trump’s “fire and fury” threat against North Korea wasn’t an empty threat. She said war is undesirable, but adds that “something has got to be done” if North Korea continues to threaten the US and its allies.
Iraq vice president warns against ‘second Israel’ in Kurdistan-As referendum nears, Nouri al-Maliki says country set up on a religious or ethnic base, like the Jewish state, would be 'unacceptable'-By AP and TOI staff September 17, 2017, 8:45 pm
An Iraqi vice president warned Sunday that Baghdad would not tolerate the creation of “a second Israel” after the Jewish state became the only country to support a planned Kurdish independence referendum in northern Iraq.The leaders of autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan must “call off the [September 25] referendum that is contrary to the constitution and does not serve the general interests of the Iraqi people, not even the particular interests of the Kurds,” said Vice President Nouri al-Maliki.“We will not allow the creation of a second Israel in the north of Iraq,” Maliki, a Shiite former prime minister, said at a meeting with US Ambassador Douglas Silliman, in a statement released by the vice president’s office.A country set up on a religious or ethnic base, like the Jewish state established in 1948, would not be acceptable, Maliki said.He warned that an independence vote would have “dangerous consequences for the security, sovereignty and unity of Iraq,” and called for dialogue between Baghdad and the Kurdish Regional Government in the northern city of Arbil.As opposed to Muslim countries in the region as well as the United States and Western allies, Israel has come out in apparent support of the referendum.On Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu backed the Kurds’ aspirations for a state of their own, without specifically referring to the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq.“While Israel rejects terror in any form, it supports the legitimate efforts of the Kurdish people to attain a state of its own,” a statement from his office said.An Israeli flag was flown alongside Kurdish flags at a rally in Arbil on Friday in support of the referendum. But the Israeli Embassy in Ankara was evacuated as supporters of an ultra-nationalist party demonstrated outside.Utku Reyhan, secretary-general of the Homeland Party, said in a press statement that a unilateral independence referendum was a “declaration of war by US imperialism and Israeli Zionism against countries in the region.”Attempts to establish a Kurdish state, “which our party has been calling ‘Second Israel’ for 30 years,” threatened the territorial integrity of Turkey and Iraq, he charged.Bearing banners with the slogan “We won’t allow a Second Israel,” the Homeland Party took its protest to the Incirlik Air Base in Adana, southern Turkey, on Saturday and was planning a protest outside the Israeli consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday.In recent days, Turkish media has been abuzz with reports that Kurdish leader Masoud Barazani has reached a secret deal with Jerusalem to have the descendants of Kurdish Jews in Israel repatriated to Kurdistan after the referendum.The Jewish presence in Mesopotamia dates back to the Assyrian conquest of the Kingdom of Israel in 722 BCE and the Babylonian conquest of Israel’s southern tribes in 586 BCE.While a few Kurdish Jews settled in the northern Galilee town of Safed in the 16th century, and more immigrated in the early 19th century, it was not until Israel’s Independence in 1948 that anti-Jewish violence forced almost the entire community to move to the nascent Jewish state.Much of the Kurdish Jewish community emigrated to Israel in the years following its establishment. Today, nearly 200,000 Jews of Kurdish descent are believed to live in the country, half of them in Jerusalem. Only hundreds remain in Kurdistan.
Hamas says it accepts Abbas’s reconciliation demands-Gaza-based terror group says it will agree to Palestinian Authority conditions on forming joint government and holding elections-By AP and TOI staff-September 17, 2017, 6:27 am
The Hamas terrorist group said early Sunday that it had accepted key conditions demanded by its rival, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, including nationwide elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, to clear the way for a reconciliation deal after a 10-year rift that has left the Palestinians divided.In a statement issued overnight, Hamas said it was “responding to the generous Egyptian efforts, which reflect the Egyptian desire to end the split and achieve reconciliation, and based on our desire to achieve national unity.”Hamas said it had dissolved the contentious Administrative Committee that runs Gaza, invited Abbas’s government to return to the Strip, and was ready to hold new elections.The Palestinians have been split between two rival governments since 2007, when Hamas drove Abbas’s Fatah party forces out of the Gaza Strip, leaving the president in control only of autonomous areas of the West Bank. Repeated attempts at reconciliation have failed.Hamas, however, has been greatly weakened by an Israeli and Egyptian blockade, three wars with Israel and international isolation. The Islamist terror group openly seeks the elimination of Israel, which maintains a security blockade to prevent Hamas from importing weaponry. Gaza’s economy is in tatters and residents of the territory have electricity for only a few hours a day.The latest announcement came days after Hamas and Egyptian officials met in Cairo for reconciliation discussions. Abbas sent a delegation of representatives to Egypt as well.Hamas officials have been in and out of Cairo frequently over recent months in an attempt to improve their ties with Egypt, a country with which the terror group has had a rocky relationship.Despite Sunday’s announcement, however, any reconciliation deal faces many obstacles. The announcement did not say whether Hamas was prepared to place its security forces under Abbas’s control — a key sticking point that has scuttled past reconciliation attempts.There also was no immediate comment from Abbas’s government in Ramallah, and it wasn’t clear how Egypt’s latest effort aligns with its previous tacit support for a different Gaza power-sharing deal between Hamas and Mohammed Dahlan, an exiled former aide to Abbas.Egypt has long accused Hamas of aiding the brutal Islamic insurgency in its restive North Sinai region, but in recent months, Hamas has beefed up security along Gaza’s southern border with Egypt, seeking to assure Cairo that it is fighting Islamic State sympathizers.In exchange, Egypt is supposed to alleviate its blockade of Gaza by opening the Rafah crossing — the only way in and out of Gaza except via Israel — as well as increase commercial ties with the Strip.The Rafah crossing is infrequently opened, leaving the strict Israeli border as the only other option for Palestinians who want to enter or exit the Strip.PA officials have said Egypt assured Ramallah it would not reopen the Rafah crossing until Abbas’s “legitimate authority” is restored at the border.
Netanyahu gears up for meetings with Trump, world leaders-PM to meet leaders of Panama, Japan and Rwanda on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, turns down Swedish request for a sit-down-By Raphael Ahren-September 17, 2017, 8:58 am-TOI
NEW YORK — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet a series of world leaders here this week, in addition to his much-anticipated powwow with US President Donald Trump on Monday.On Sunday, Netanyahu will spend most of the day preparing for his annual address to the United Nations General Assembly, his aides said. In the late afternoon, he is scheduled to meet with World Economic Forum Chairman Klaus Schwab and with a group of American Jewish leaders. Both meetings are closed to the press.On Monday at 1 p.m. local time, the prime minister will meet with Trump in the New York Palace Hotel. Both leaders will make brief statements to the press to open the meeting, before continuing their discussion behind closed doors.Later in the afternoon, Netanyahu is set to meet the president of Panama, Juan Carlos Varela; the prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe; and Rwandan President Paul Kagame at the UN.Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven had sought a meeting as well, but Netanyahu refused, likely because Israel is still angry over Stockholm’s 2014 recognition of a Palestinian state, though Israeli officials on Saturday cited scheduling difficulties.Hosting members of the Israeli delegation on Friday at an evening welcoming the Sabbath, Netanyahu said that more leaders asked for meetings than he could accommodate.On Tuesday morning, the prime minister is expected to attend Trump’s first address to the UN. A few hours later, at around 1:30 p.m., Netanyahu will deliver his own speech.Speaking to reporters at his hotel in New York on Friday, after wrapping up a trip to Latin America, Netanyahu said that the main message of his UN speech will be that “Israel will not tolerate an Iranian military presence on our northern borders. An [Iranian] military presence endangers not just us, but also our Arab neighbors.”According to recent reports denied by Israeli sources, Russia rebuffed an Israeli demand to ensure that Iranian forces and Iran-backed Shiite militants be kept at least 60-80 kilometers away from the Syrian frontier with Israel in the Golan Heights.The demand was initially raised by Israel in July, when negotiations were underway for a ceasefire deal in southern Syria between President Bashar Assad and Syrian rebels, under the auspices of Washington and Moscow.Netanyahu has repeatedly warned against Iran’s military ambitions in the area, Tehran’s bid to establish a territorial “corridor” all the way to the Mediterranean, and an increased Iranian presence on Israel’s northern border.The issue will also be a centerpiece of Netanyahu’s Monday sit-down with Trump, along with the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and the future of the Iranian nuclear deal.A short while after his UN speech, the prime minister’s entourage will make its way to JFK Airport, to arrive in Israel in time for the Jewish New Year, which starts Wednesday evening.Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who will also address the UN General Assembly, will meet with Trump on Wednesday.On Friday, the Israeli consulate in New York City was briefly shut, and employees were barred from leaving the premises, after an envelope with white powder was sent to the building along with a direct threat against Netanyahu’s life.Local security forces examined the envelope’s contents and once it was clear that the substance was not harmful, workers were allowed out of the building, which houses Israel’s New York consulate and its UN mission, Channel 10 reported.
WH official: Peace conversations to be kept ‘mostly separate’ from UN meetings-While an Israeli-Palestinian accord remains a top priority for Trump, his UN talks will 'primarily focus on other issues,' administration source says-By Eric Cortellessa-September 16, 2017, 9:44 pm-TOI
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump’s meetings next week with Israeli and Palestinian leaders at the UN General Assembly will be largely detached from the latest round of conversations a US delegation had with both sides during a trip to the region in August, according to an administration source.“Achieving peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians remains one of the president’s highest priorities, but the United Nations meetings will primarily focus on other issues and serve as check-in opportunities,” a senior White House official told The Times of Israel on Saturday.“Jared Kushner, Jason Greenblatt and Dina Powell just came off of a very productive trip to the region and those peace conversations are continuing at a steady pace and will be mostly separate from the United Nations meetings,” said the source.Trump will meet with both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas next week, as all three will be in New York for the United Nations’ annual confab.He will meet with the former on Monday and the latter on Wednesday. His speech to the world body is on Tuesday — as is Netanyahu’s.National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster told reporters on Friday the major focus of the meeting will be Iran, while the administration’s efforts to forge a final-status Israeli-Palestinian accord will also be on the agenda.“While their conversations will be wide-ranging, we expect that Iran’s destabilizing behavior, including its violation of the sovereignty of nations across the Middle East, to be a major focus,” he said.He later added, “Of course, the president will talk about the prospects for a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians, among a broad range of regional issues, with all of the leaders he’s meeting during the week.”Trump’s forthcoming summit with Netanyahu comes at a sensitive time for both the Iranian front and the peace front.In the last several months, he has made less-than-subtle indications he plans to decertify Iran as is noncompliance of the 2015 nuclear deal when he is next slated to report to Congress in October, despite International Atomic Energy Agency investigators and America’s own intelligence community saying it is abiding by the pact.On Thursday, Trump waived wide-ranging economic sanctions against Iran’s oil, trade and financial sectors.Yet, the US Treasury Department also imposed fresh sanctions on 11 Iranian entities for their alleged support of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Tehran’s ballistic missile program and other programs to conduct cyberattacks and support terrorism.Last month, the former real estate mogul dispatched a US delegation to the Middle East to try and renew negotiations between the sides. That group included Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, special peace envoy Jason Greenblatt and Deputy National Security Adviser Dina Powell.No tangible developments occurred, but Palestinians continue to criticize the US team for its refusal to back a two-state solution, a goal that has been central to American foreign policy for decades.In August, State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert responded to these criticisms by saying the Trump administration did not want to “bias” itself by supporting any particular outcome to the conflict.Trump’s meeting with Abbas will also come shortly after the State Department voiced the administration’s full support for the Taylor Force Act, legislation that would cut US aid to the Palestinian Authority until it ends what critics describe as its long-standing practice of rewarding Palestinians who commit acts of terror against Israelis.
