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
Labor head says he won’t evacuate settlements under peace deal-Avi Gabbay: Idea that West Bank homes would need to be uprooted in accord with Palestinians is 'not correct'-By Alexander Fulbright-TOI-OCT 16,17
Labor party head Avi Gabbay said he would not evacuate West Bank settlements as part of a peace deal with the Palestinians, in remarks that represent a dramatic break from the historical stance of the dovish party.“I won’t evacuate settlements in the framework of a peace deal,” said Gabbay, in a preview broadcast Monday of an interview with Channel 2 set to air in full Tuesday. “If you are making peace, why do you need to evacuate?”Elaborating on his comments, Gabbay said the notion any peace deal would by necessity require the evacuation of settlements is mistaken.“I think the dynamic and terminology that have become commonplace here, that ‘if you make peace — evacuate,’ is not in fact correct,” he said.“If you make a peace deal, it is possible to find solutions that don’t require evacuating.”Asked how this position differed from that of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has vowed he will not uproot any settlements, Gabbay said, “There is a huge gap between those who at least want to get there [to a peace deal] and those who don’t want to get there.”Gabbay’s comments represented a shift in his position on settlements since he was elected Labor’s head in July, when he said “Dimona, not Amona,” referring respectively to a development town in southern Israel and a now evacuated illegal outpost in the West Bank that right-wing lawmakers waged an arduous campaign against demolishing.The center-left Labor party has long been the Israeli political standard bearer for reaching a peace agreement with the Palestinians — involving the relinquishing of most of the West Bank and many of the settlements — with former Labor prime ministers Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Ehud Barak all investing considerable efforts to negotiate an accord. Their efforts, brokered by the United States, did not yield a permanent agreement.Ironically, it was a then-Likud prime minister, Ariel Sharon, who ordered the 2005 “Disengagement” in which Israel withdrew from the entire Gaza Strip, with all of Gaza’s settlements demolished along with four in the West Bank and their 7-8,000 residents required to leave.The comments confirmed a dramatic right-wing shift in Labor since Gabbay’s election.At an event over the weekend, Gabbay said he would not sit in a government with the Joint (Arab) List — the 13-member Arab Knesset party.“We will not sit with them, unequivocally,” Gabbay said. “I do not see anything that connects us to them or allows us to be in the same government with them.”Since he was chosen as Labor chairman, the party has seen a leap in the polls, with a number of the seats it is expected to pick up coming at the expense of Yair Lapid’s centrist Yesh Atid party. Like Gabbay, Lapid has tacked rightward on a number of issues, in a bid to pick up support from more moderate members of the ruling Likud party.
For first time in 15 years, Israel okays new homes for Hebron settlers-Move seen as a response to UNESCO listing divided West Bank city as a Palestine heritage site; Palestinian municipality to petition against the 31 housing units-By Jacob Magid-TOI-OCT 16,17
The Jewish settlement in Hebron received building permits for 31 housing units Monday, marking the first time in 15 years that Israeli construction has been approved in the flashpoint West Bank city.The move was seen as an Israeli response to the recent decision by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to list Hebron’s Old City as an endangered Palestinian world heritage site.The Civil Administration’s Licensing Subcommittee — a Defense Ministry body responsible for approving construction over the Green Line — granted the building permits under a number of conditions, most notably that the authorization is subject to appeal.Hebron’s Palestinian municipality is expected to petition against the decision in the coming weeks, claiming that it is the owner of the land in question.Samer Shiahih, who is representing the municipality, argued that the building permits were not issued properly. “The Jewish settlers were never allocated the land so they had no legal right to even be requesting the permits in the first place,” he said.The land in question is located at the heart of Beit Romano, one of the Jewish settlement’s four neighborhoods in Hebron’s H2 area.Under the Hebron Protocol signed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in January 1997 with Palestinian Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat, the West Bank’s most populous city was divided into two sections. H1 includes 80 percent of the city and lies under full Palestinian control. In H2, which is under Israeli military control, 500 Israeli settlers live surrounded by 40,000 Palestinians.Due partly to the sensitive nature of the ancient city, the Jewish settlers have been unable to receive building approvals from the Civil Administration since 2002, when 10 housing units were approved for the Tel Romeida neighborhood.The settlers refer to the area where they plan to build an apartment complex and various educational complexes as the Hizkiya Quarter. It was under Jewish ownership prior to Israel’s establishment in 1948, but the Civil Administration later leased the property to Hebron’s Palestinian municipality for the establishment of a central bus station, which was built and later moved.While the land was seized from the municipality in the 1980s for the establishment of an IDF base, the Palestinians’ protective tenancy status remained intact.Shiahih explained that if the military base is moved for the development of the settlers’ project, the Palestinians’ protective tenancy status allows them to regain control of the property.“These are indisputable points that the Civil Administration will be unable to ignore,” Shiahih said. However, the attorney added, he is preparing a High Court of Justice appeal in case the Licensing Subcommittee rejects his petition.Beyond surviving the expected appeal, the Hebron settlers will also have to provide documents proving ownership and allocation of the land before they can proceed with building, a process that could take months.Regardless, the Jewish settlers in Hebron praised Sunday’s Civil Administration decision.“Upon receiving the building permits for the Hizkiya Quarter, we thank the prime minister, government ministers, Knesset members and all public figures who worked with determination and dedication together with us to promote this construction,” the settlement said in a Monday statement. “We ask everyone to ensure that the construction is indeed carried out without delay.”The settlement’s international spokesman, Yishai Fleisher, said there was a “general linkage” between the approvals and the July UNESCO vote.“The response to the narrative that suggests that we are foreigners here is not just to pull out of UNESCO, but also to strengthen Jewish presence in Hebron,” Fleisher said.The Peace Now settlement watchdog harshly criticized the green-lighting of the building permits. “If there is anything that harms Israel’s reputation in the world, it is the settlement in Hebron.”“The plan approved today in Hebron is expected to increase the number of settlers in the city by 20 percent, and it required considerable legal acrobatics that are unlikely to withstand the test of the High Court of Justice.” the NGO said.“Netanyahu is doing everything he can to please a small minority of settlers at the expense of Israel’s name in the world, while bending the law and trampling the basic principles of democracy,” the statement concluded.
Netanyahu warns Syria Israel prepared to strike ‘as needed’-Following IAF strike on Syrian anti-aircraft battery and threats of retaliation from Damascus, PM says 'anyone who tries to hurt us, we will hurt them'-By Judah Ari Gross and Dov Lieber-TOI-OCT 16,17
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday warned Syria that Israel would continue to carry out airstrikes “as needed” after the Israeli Air Force destroyed a Syrian anti-aircraft battery in response to the firing of an interceptor missile at Israeli reconnaissance planes.“Our policy is clear: Anyone who tries to hurt us, we will hurt them,” he said in a statement. “Today, they tried to hit our planes — this is not acceptable.”“The air force acted with precision, swiftness and destroyed what needed to be destroyed,” Netanyahu added. “We will continue to act in the arena as much as needed to defend Israel’s security.”On Monday morning, the Syrian air defense battery fired an interceptor missile at Israeli reconnaissance planes. In response, a second IAF sortie, reportedly made up of F-16 fighter jets, attacked the SA-5 missile defense system that launched the interceptor, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) east of the Syrian capital of Damascus.Following the airstrike, the Syrian military warned Israel of “dangerous consequences for its repeated attempts of aggression,” in a statement published in official state media.The Syrian military claimed the IAF aircraft entered its airspace, prompting the anti-aircraft attack. But IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus said, both initially and in response to the Syrian assertion, that the reconnaissance planes “were in the skies over Lebanon, and not in Syria.”According to the Syrians, the planes were flying near the Lebanese city of Baalbek, which is located near the Syrian border, approximately 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Damascus.The IDF would not confirm where the reconnaissance aircraft were flying when they were targeted.Conricus said the reconnaissance planes were not struck by the interceptor missile, but the Syrian military claimed one Israeli plane was “directly hit” and “forced to flee.”In response to the anti-aircraft missile, the IAF sent out a second sortie, which targeted the anti-aircraft system and “incapacitated” the offending SA-5 battery, the IDF said.The SA-5, also known as the S-200, is a Russian-designed anti-aircraft system that has been in use since the late 1960s.According to the Syrian statement, the anti-aircraft battery targeted the Israeli planes at 8:51 a.m., and the IAF retaliated approximately three hours later — which basically matched the timeline described by the Israeli military.The Syrian military said the Israeli strike caused “material damage” to the battery, but did not report any casualties.The exchange of fire was out of the ordinary for a number of reasons, notably that the Syrian military launched its interceptor missile not in response to an Israeli airstrike, but to a more mundane reconnaissance mission, and that the IDF did not retaliate immediately, but waited several hours before bombing the Syrian battery.Analysts ascribed the former to Syrian dictator Bashar Assad’s battlefield successes, which may have prompted him to take a more aggressive approach toward Israel.The delay in Israeli response, meanwhile, was seen as coming from the impending visit of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who is due to arrive in Israel on Monday afternoon.The Russian military is allied with Assad and operates extensively in the war-torn country, and so an airstrike against Syrian forces hours before Shoigu lands in Tel Aviv would likely require a more serious consideration and approval process.According to Conricus, the Russians were notified of the Israeli airstrike on the SA-5 battery “in real-time.”The spokesperson said that when Shoigu arrives in Tel Aviv, “he will get a full briefing on the matter.”Conricus acknowledged the sensitivity of the timing of the incident and the potential for it to cause tension during Shoigu’s visit, but said the military was “confident it won’t influence anything else.”“This was obviously not a pre-planned event,” he added.In order to avoid unwanted clashes with the Russian troops in Syria, Jerusalem and Moscow have maintained a communication system over the past two years.Israeli officials do not typically discuss the full extent of the coordination between the two militaries, but stress that the IDF does not seek Russian permission before carrying out airstrikes in Syria.In general, Israel’s operation in Syria consist of bombing sites that are used to develop, store and transport advanced weaponry to the Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist group. There have also been cases of the IAF responding when mortar shells and rockets “spillover” into Israel from the fighting in Syria.Conricus said that while the army will continue to defend itself, it was not looking to “destablize” the situation with Syria.“Preserving the relative stability is a common interest,” the lieutenant colonel said.According to Conricus, this was the first time that Israeli aircraft were targeted by Syrian anti-aircraft missiles over Lebanese airspace since the start of the Syrian civil war. However, it was not the first time that IAF jets had been attacked by an SA-5 system.In March, Assad’s military fired multiple interceptor missiles from an SA-5 system at Israeli jets flying over Jordan on their way back from a bombing run in Syria. The IAF jets were unharmed, but one Syrian missile seemed to be on a trajectory that took it toward an Israeli community, and so it was shot down by the Arrow 2 air defense system, in the first reported use of the system.However, in that case, Israel did not respond to the anti-aircraft attack on the IAF jets with a retaliatory airstrike on the SA-5 battery that launched it.
Israeli scientists predicted effects seen in historic neutron star study-The scientific community was skeptical following a 1989 paper positing that stars' collision leads to the creation of heavy elements, like gold-By TOI staff and AFP-OCT 16,17-9:34 pm
Scientists have for the first time witnessed the crash of two ultra-dense neutron stars, researchers revealed Monday, confirming a long-ridiculed theory proposed by Israeli scientists 28 years ago on how heavy elements, such as gold, were created.The Israeli scientists had predicted that when two neutron stars collide, in addition to making ripples in the fabric of space-time known as gravitational waves, they also create bright flashes of high-energy radiation called gamma ray bursts and form neutron-rich heavy elements such as gold, plutonium and uranium.These predictions were confirmed with observations made in August and published by several teams on Monday, making international headlines.In 1989, David Eichler of Ben Gurion University, Mario Livio of Haifa’s Technion, and David N. Schramms of University of Chicago, led by Hebrew University’s Tsvi Piran, published an article in Nature entitled, “Nucleosynthesis, neutrino bursts and gamma rays from coalescing neutron stars.”In the article, they predicted that “such events should also synthesize neutron-rich heavy elements… Furthermore, these collisions should produce neutrino bursts and resultant bursts of gamma rays.”“I am exhilarated by this confirmation of a prediction we made nearly 30 years ago,” said Piran following the announcement. “I also remember how difficult it was to convince the scientific community of our idea — at the time it was against the standard model that was published even in freshman textbooks on astronomy.”“When we made this prediction in 1989, we did not expect it to be confirmed within our lifetimes. But with continued curiosity and the development of new technologies, we are able learn ever deeper truths about the nature of our Universe.”These predictions were initially met with skepticism and ignored. However, the recent groundbreaking observations fully confirmed the predictions.The data finally revealed where much of the gold, platinum, mercury and other heavy elements in the universe came from.Telescopes saw evidence of newly-forged material in the fallout, the teams said — a source long suspected, now confirmed.“It makes it quite clear that a significant fraction, maybe half, maybe more, of the heavy elements in the universe are actually produced by this kind of collision,” said physicist Patrick Sutton, a member of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) which contributed to the find.The latest wave observation was accompanied by flashes of gamma rays, which scientists said came from closer in the universe and were less bright than expected.“What this event is telling us is that there may be many more of these short gamma ray bursts going off nearby in the universe than we expected,” Sutton said.“This might be the tip of the iceberg of short gamma ray bursts produced by collisions and mergers of neutron stars” — an exciting prospect for scientists hoping to uncover further secrets of the universe.The observation was the fruit of years of labor by thousands of scientists at more than 70 ground- and space-based observatories scattered around the globe.Along with LIGO, they included teams from Europe’s Virgo gravitational wave detector in Italy, and a number of ground- and space-based telescopes, including NASA’s Hubble. Researchers included a team from Tel Aviv University.“This is a milestone in the growing effort by scientists worldwide to unlock the mysteries of the universe and of earth,” said Ehud Nakar of Tel Aviv University, who along with his graduate student Ore Gottlieb led the theoretical analysis for studies published Monday in “Science” and “Nature.”“This discovery has allowed astronomers to combine gravitational waves with light and produce a detailed model of the emission for the first time. This introduces a new era in astronomy,” says Gottlieb.The detection is another feather in the cap for German physicist Albert Einstein, who first predicted gravitational waves more than 100 years ago.Three LIGO pioneers, Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss, were awarded the Nobel Physics Prize this month for the observation of gravitational waves, without which the latest discovery would not have been possible.The ripples have been observed four times before now — the first time by LIGO in September 2015.The fifth and latest gravitational wave observation is the first from a neutron star fusion. The other four were from black hole mergers which are even more violent but unlike neutron stars, emit no light.
Russian defense minister lands in Israel for talks on Syria, Iran-In first official visit, Sergei Shoigu arrives in Tel Aviv to meet Liberman amid tensions following IAF airstrike near Damascus-By Judah Ari Gross-TOI-OCT 16,17
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Monday told his Russian counterpart, Sergei Shoigu, that Israel will take action against Iran and its proxies if they continue to entrench themselves along the Syrian border.Shoigu arrived in Tel Aviv on Monday for his first official visit to Israel. His trip had a rocky start, coming hours after the IDF bombed an anti-aircraft battery belonging to Russia’s ally, Syria, after it had earlier fired an interceptor missile at an Israeli plane.“We will not get involved in internal matters in Syria,” Liberman told the Russian defense minister, “but, on the other hand, we will not allow Iran and Hezbollah to turn Syrian territory into a forward operating base against Israel.”Liberman told the Russian defense minister that Israel is “operating responsibly and with determination” in Syria.“We will not allow the transfer of advanced weaponry by Iran, through Syria to Lebanon,” he added.Israel attributed great importance to Shoigu’s visit, his first since taking his position in 2012, and the first visit by a Russian defense minister to the Jewish state in many years.“I am very glad to see the Russian defense minister in the State of Israel. This is the first visit, and the first visit of a defense minister has exceptional importance,” Liberman said.“We greatly appreciate our relations with Russia,” he said. “We don’t always agree, but we always speak directly and openly. We believe that the moment there’s open dialogue, you can overcome all problems.”The Russian defense minister was greeted with an honor guard at the IDF’s Tel Aviv headquarters, known as the Kirya, where he also met briefly with World War II Red Army veterans who live in Israel.“We greatly appreciate our memory of World War II. Many of our grandparents and grandmothers fought in the ranks of the Red Army and we value the way Russia treats and remembers them today, and how [Russia] treats the memory of those who fought and died in the Second World War,” Liberman said.After the honor guard, Shoigu and Liberman met privately in the latter’s office. They were then joined by IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, head of IDF Military Intelligence Maj. Gen. Herzl Halevi and the head of the powerful political-security affairs bureau of the Defense Ministry, Zohar Palti, as well as by members of the Russian defense minister’s entourage.The discussion was focused primarily on Syria and the increasing influence of Iran and Shiite militias there.As the Syrian civil war appears to be coming to a close, or at least stagnating, Israel’s attention has increasingly turned to the threats posed by Syria’s other ally, Iran, which is believed to be establishing bases and military infrastructure near the Israeli border on the Golan Heights.Israel has reportedly asked Russia and the United States to include in ceasefire agreements for the Syrian conflict that Iran-backed Shiite militias not be allowed within 60 kilometers (37 miles) of the border. However, according to reports, these requests have been denied.While this is Shoigu’s first visit to Israel in his five years as defense minister, he has made multiple trips to Syria, including one earlier this month, as well as a surprise stop in Iran last year.The soft-spoken defense minister is seen by many analysts as a driving force behind Russia’s aggressive support for Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.The visit is a departure from recent years, which have seen Israeli leaders travel to Russia multiple times for diplomatic meetings, but almost no such sit-downs had taken place in Israel.The rare meeting came on the heels of the brief exchange of fire between Israel and Syria on Monday morning.Shortly before 9:00 a.m., the Syrian military launched an SA-5 anti-aircraft missile at Israeli reconnaissance planes, which it said had entered Syrian airspace from Lebanon. The IDF denied that its aircraft crossed the border, maintaining that they had been flying only over Lebanon, collecting intelligence.According to the IDF, no Israeli planes were damaged by the interceptor, but the Syrian military said in a statement that it “directly hit” one of them.Approximately three hours later, Israeli fighter jets retaliated to the attack on the reconnaissance planes, bombing the SA-5 missile defense battery that was believed to have launched the interceptor.The IDF said the battery was “incapacitated,” if not destroyed.As Russia maintains a heavy presence in Syria in order to assist its ally, Assad, an IDF spokesperson said the military informed Moscow of the impending attack on Assad’s army “in real time.”The nearly three-hour delay between the initial attack on the Israeli aircraft and the retaliation was attributed by analysts to the potential problems that a reprisal could cause, coming so close to Shoigu’s visit.Israel has repeatedly stated that it will act militarily in Syria if one of its “red lines” is violated, notably the transfer of advanced weaponry to Hezbollah or, in this case, a direct attack on Israeli aircraft.In order to avoid friction and accidental conflict, for the past two years Israel and Russia have coordinated their military efforts in Syria.Israeli officials do not generally discuss the full extent of that coordination, but they stress that the Israeli military does not seek Russian permission before carrying out operations.
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
Labor head says he won’t evacuate settlements under peace deal-Avi Gabbay: Idea that West Bank homes would need to be uprooted in accord with Palestinians is 'not correct'-By Alexander Fulbright-TOI-OCT 16,17
Labor party head Avi Gabbay said he would not evacuate West Bank settlements as part of a peace deal with the Palestinians, in remarks that represent a dramatic break from the historical stance of the dovish party.“I won’t evacuate settlements in the framework of a peace deal,” said Gabbay, in a preview broadcast Monday of an interview with Channel 2 set to air in full Tuesday. “If you are making peace, why do you need to evacuate?”Elaborating on his comments, Gabbay said the notion any peace deal would by necessity require the evacuation of settlements is mistaken.“I think the dynamic and terminology that have become commonplace here, that ‘if you make peace — evacuate,’ is not in fact correct,” he said.“If you make a peace deal, it is possible to find solutions that don’t require evacuating.”Asked how this position differed from that of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has vowed he will not uproot any settlements, Gabbay said, “There is a huge gap between those who at least want to get there [to a peace deal] and those who don’t want to get there.”Gabbay’s comments represented a shift in his position on settlements since he was elected Labor’s head in July, when he said “Dimona, not Amona,” referring respectively to a development town in southern Israel and a now evacuated illegal outpost in the West Bank that right-wing lawmakers waged an arduous campaign against demolishing.The center-left Labor party has long been the Israeli political standard bearer for reaching a peace agreement with the Palestinians — involving the relinquishing of most of the West Bank and many of the settlements — with former Labor prime ministers Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Ehud Barak all investing considerable efforts to negotiate an accord. Their efforts, brokered by the United States, did not yield a permanent agreement.Ironically, it was a then-Likud prime minister, Ariel Sharon, who ordered the 2005 “Disengagement” in which Israel withdrew from the entire Gaza Strip, with all of Gaza’s settlements demolished along with four in the West Bank and their 7-8,000 residents required to leave.The comments confirmed a dramatic right-wing shift in Labor since Gabbay’s election.At an event over the weekend, Gabbay said he would not sit in a government with the Joint (Arab) List — the 13-member Arab Knesset party.“We will not sit with them, unequivocally,” Gabbay said. “I do not see anything that connects us to them or allows us to be in the same government with them.”Since he was chosen as Labor chairman, the party has seen a leap in the polls, with a number of the seats it is expected to pick up coming at the expense of Yair Lapid’s centrist Yesh Atid party. Like Gabbay, Lapid has tacked rightward on a number of issues, in a bid to pick up support from more moderate members of the ruling Likud party.
For first time in 15 years, Israel okays new homes for Hebron settlers-Move seen as a response to UNESCO listing divided West Bank city as a Palestine heritage site; Palestinian municipality to petition against the 31 housing units-By Jacob Magid-TOI-OCT 16,17
The Jewish settlement in Hebron received building permits for 31 housing units Monday, marking the first time in 15 years that Israeli construction has been approved in the flashpoint West Bank city.The move was seen as an Israeli response to the recent decision by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to list Hebron’s Old City as an endangered Palestinian world heritage site.The Civil Administration’s Licensing Subcommittee — a Defense Ministry body responsible for approving construction over the Green Line — granted the building permits under a number of conditions, most notably that the authorization is subject to appeal.Hebron’s Palestinian municipality is expected to petition against the decision in the coming weeks, claiming that it is the owner of the land in question.Samer Shiahih, who is representing the municipality, argued that the building permits were not issued properly. “The Jewish settlers were never allocated the land so they had no legal right to even be requesting the permits in the first place,” he said.The land in question is located at the heart of Beit Romano, one of the Jewish settlement’s four neighborhoods in Hebron’s H2 area.Under the Hebron Protocol signed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in January 1997 with Palestinian Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat, the West Bank’s most populous city was divided into two sections. H1 includes 80 percent of the city and lies under full Palestinian control. In H2, which is under Israeli military control, 500 Israeli settlers live surrounded by 40,000 Palestinians.Due partly to the sensitive nature of the ancient city, the Jewish settlers have been unable to receive building approvals from the Civil Administration since 2002, when 10 housing units were approved for the Tel Romeida neighborhood.The settlers refer to the area where they plan to build an apartment complex and various educational complexes as the Hizkiya Quarter. It was under Jewish ownership prior to Israel’s establishment in 1948, but the Civil Administration later leased the property to Hebron’s Palestinian municipality for the establishment of a central bus station, which was built and later moved.While the land was seized from the municipality in the 1980s for the establishment of an IDF base, the Palestinians’ protective tenancy status remained intact.Shiahih explained that if the military base is moved for the development of the settlers’ project, the Palestinians’ protective tenancy status allows them to regain control of the property.“These are indisputable points that the Civil Administration will be unable to ignore,” Shiahih said. However, the attorney added, he is preparing a High Court of Justice appeal in case the Licensing Subcommittee rejects his petition.Beyond surviving the expected appeal, the Hebron settlers will also have to provide documents proving ownership and allocation of the land before they can proceed with building, a process that could take months.Regardless, the Jewish settlers in Hebron praised Sunday’s Civil Administration decision.“Upon receiving the building permits for the Hizkiya Quarter, we thank the prime minister, government ministers, Knesset members and all public figures who worked with determination and dedication together with us to promote this construction,” the settlement said in a Monday statement. “We ask everyone to ensure that the construction is indeed carried out without delay.”The settlement’s international spokesman, Yishai Fleisher, said there was a “general linkage” between the approvals and the July UNESCO vote.“The response to the narrative that suggests that we are foreigners here is not just to pull out of UNESCO, but also to strengthen Jewish presence in Hebron,” Fleisher said.The Peace Now settlement watchdog harshly criticized the green-lighting of the building permits. “If there is anything that harms Israel’s reputation in the world, it is the settlement in Hebron.”“The plan approved today in Hebron is expected to increase the number of settlers in the city by 20 percent, and it required considerable legal acrobatics that are unlikely to withstand the test of the High Court of Justice.” the NGO said.“Netanyahu is doing everything he can to please a small minority of settlers at the expense of Israel’s name in the world, while bending the law and trampling the basic principles of democracy,” the statement concluded.
Netanyahu warns Syria Israel prepared to strike ‘as needed’-Following IAF strike on Syrian anti-aircraft battery and threats of retaliation from Damascus, PM says 'anyone who tries to hurt us, we will hurt them'-By Judah Ari Gross and Dov Lieber-TOI-OCT 16,17
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday warned Syria that Israel would continue to carry out airstrikes “as needed” after the Israeli Air Force destroyed a Syrian anti-aircraft battery in response to the firing of an interceptor missile at Israeli reconnaissance planes.“Our policy is clear: Anyone who tries to hurt us, we will hurt them,” he said in a statement. “Today, they tried to hit our planes — this is not acceptable.”“The air force acted with precision, swiftness and destroyed what needed to be destroyed,” Netanyahu added. “We will continue to act in the arena as much as needed to defend Israel’s security.”On Monday morning, the Syrian air defense battery fired an interceptor missile at Israeli reconnaissance planes. In response, a second IAF sortie, reportedly made up of F-16 fighter jets, attacked the SA-5 missile defense system that launched the interceptor, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) east of the Syrian capital of Damascus.Following the airstrike, the Syrian military warned Israel of “dangerous consequences for its repeated attempts of aggression,” in a statement published in official state media.The Syrian military claimed the IAF aircraft entered its airspace, prompting the anti-aircraft attack. But IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus said, both initially and in response to the Syrian assertion, that the reconnaissance planes “were in the skies over Lebanon, and not in Syria.”According to the Syrians, the planes were flying near the Lebanese city of Baalbek, which is located near the Syrian border, approximately 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Damascus.The IDF would not confirm where the reconnaissance aircraft were flying when they were targeted.Conricus said the reconnaissance planes were not struck by the interceptor missile, but the Syrian military claimed one Israeli plane was “directly hit” and “forced to flee.”In response to the anti-aircraft missile, the IAF sent out a second sortie, which targeted the anti-aircraft system and “incapacitated” the offending SA-5 battery, the IDF said.The SA-5, also known as the S-200, is a Russian-designed anti-aircraft system that has been in use since the late 1960s.According to the Syrian statement, the anti-aircraft battery targeted the Israeli planes at 8:51 a.m., and the IAF retaliated approximately three hours later — which basically matched the timeline described by the Israeli military.The Syrian military said the Israeli strike caused “material damage” to the battery, but did not report any casualties.The exchange of fire was out of the ordinary for a number of reasons, notably that the Syrian military launched its interceptor missile not in response to an Israeli airstrike, but to a more mundane reconnaissance mission, and that the IDF did not retaliate immediately, but waited several hours before bombing the Syrian battery.Analysts ascribed the former to Syrian dictator Bashar Assad’s battlefield successes, which may have prompted him to take a more aggressive approach toward Israel.The delay in Israeli response, meanwhile, was seen as coming from the impending visit of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who is due to arrive in Israel on Monday afternoon.The Russian military is allied with Assad and operates extensively in the war-torn country, and so an airstrike against Syrian forces hours before Shoigu lands in Tel Aviv would likely require a more serious consideration and approval process.According to Conricus, the Russians were notified of the Israeli airstrike on the SA-5 battery “in real-time.”The spokesperson said that when Shoigu arrives in Tel Aviv, “he will get a full briefing on the matter.”Conricus acknowledged the sensitivity of the timing of the incident and the potential for it to cause tension during Shoigu’s visit, but said the military was “confident it won’t influence anything else.”“This was obviously not a pre-planned event,” he added.In order to avoid unwanted clashes with the Russian troops in Syria, Jerusalem and Moscow have maintained a communication system over the past two years.Israeli officials do not typically discuss the full extent of the coordination between the two militaries, but stress that the IDF does not seek Russian permission before carrying out airstrikes in Syria.In general, Israel’s operation in Syria consist of bombing sites that are used to develop, store and transport advanced weaponry to the Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist group. There have also been cases of the IAF responding when mortar shells and rockets “spillover” into Israel from the fighting in Syria.Conricus said that while the army will continue to defend itself, it was not looking to “destablize” the situation with Syria.“Preserving the relative stability is a common interest,” the lieutenant colonel said.According to Conricus, this was the first time that Israeli aircraft were targeted by Syrian anti-aircraft missiles over Lebanese airspace since the start of the Syrian civil war. However, it was not the first time that IAF jets had been attacked by an SA-5 system.In March, Assad’s military fired multiple interceptor missiles from an SA-5 system at Israeli jets flying over Jordan on their way back from a bombing run in Syria. The IAF jets were unharmed, but one Syrian missile seemed to be on a trajectory that took it toward an Israeli community, and so it was shot down by the Arrow 2 air defense system, in the first reported use of the system.However, in that case, Israel did not respond to the anti-aircraft attack on the IAF jets with a retaliatory airstrike on the SA-5 battery that launched it.
Israeli scientists predicted effects seen in historic neutron star study-The scientific community was skeptical following a 1989 paper positing that stars' collision leads to the creation of heavy elements, like gold-By TOI staff and AFP-OCT 16,17-9:34 pm
Scientists have for the first time witnessed the crash of two ultra-dense neutron stars, researchers revealed Monday, confirming a long-ridiculed theory proposed by Israeli scientists 28 years ago on how heavy elements, such as gold, were created.The Israeli scientists had predicted that when two neutron stars collide, in addition to making ripples in the fabric of space-time known as gravitational waves, they also create bright flashes of high-energy radiation called gamma ray bursts and form neutron-rich heavy elements such as gold, plutonium and uranium.These predictions were confirmed with observations made in August and published by several teams on Monday, making international headlines.In 1989, David Eichler of Ben Gurion University, Mario Livio of Haifa’s Technion, and David N. Schramms of University of Chicago, led by Hebrew University’s Tsvi Piran, published an article in Nature entitled, “Nucleosynthesis, neutrino bursts and gamma rays from coalescing neutron stars.”In the article, they predicted that “such events should also synthesize neutron-rich heavy elements… Furthermore, these collisions should produce neutrino bursts and resultant bursts of gamma rays.”“I am exhilarated by this confirmation of a prediction we made nearly 30 years ago,” said Piran following the announcement. “I also remember how difficult it was to convince the scientific community of our idea — at the time it was against the standard model that was published even in freshman textbooks on astronomy.”“When we made this prediction in 1989, we did not expect it to be confirmed within our lifetimes. But with continued curiosity and the development of new technologies, we are able learn ever deeper truths about the nature of our Universe.”These predictions were initially met with skepticism and ignored. However, the recent groundbreaking observations fully confirmed the predictions.The data finally revealed where much of the gold, platinum, mercury and other heavy elements in the universe came from.Telescopes saw evidence of newly-forged material in the fallout, the teams said — a source long suspected, now confirmed.“It makes it quite clear that a significant fraction, maybe half, maybe more, of the heavy elements in the universe are actually produced by this kind of collision,” said physicist Patrick Sutton, a member of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) which contributed to the find.The latest wave observation was accompanied by flashes of gamma rays, which scientists said came from closer in the universe and were less bright than expected.“What this event is telling us is that there may be many more of these short gamma ray bursts going off nearby in the universe than we expected,” Sutton said.“This might be the tip of the iceberg of short gamma ray bursts produced by collisions and mergers of neutron stars” — an exciting prospect for scientists hoping to uncover further secrets of the universe.The observation was the fruit of years of labor by thousands of scientists at more than 70 ground- and space-based observatories scattered around the globe.Along with LIGO, they included teams from Europe’s Virgo gravitational wave detector in Italy, and a number of ground- and space-based telescopes, including NASA’s Hubble. Researchers included a team from Tel Aviv University.“This is a milestone in the growing effort by scientists worldwide to unlock the mysteries of the universe and of earth,” said Ehud Nakar of Tel Aviv University, who along with his graduate student Ore Gottlieb led the theoretical analysis for studies published Monday in “Science” and “Nature.”“This discovery has allowed astronomers to combine gravitational waves with light and produce a detailed model of the emission for the first time. This introduces a new era in astronomy,” says Gottlieb.The detection is another feather in the cap for German physicist Albert Einstein, who first predicted gravitational waves more than 100 years ago.Three LIGO pioneers, Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss, were awarded the Nobel Physics Prize this month for the observation of gravitational waves, without which the latest discovery would not have been possible.The ripples have been observed four times before now — the first time by LIGO in September 2015.The fifth and latest gravitational wave observation is the first from a neutron star fusion. The other four were from black hole mergers which are even more violent but unlike neutron stars, emit no light.
Russian defense minister lands in Israel for talks on Syria, Iran-In first official visit, Sergei Shoigu arrives in Tel Aviv to meet Liberman amid tensions following IAF airstrike near Damascus-By Judah Ari Gross-TOI-OCT 16,17
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Monday told his Russian counterpart, Sergei Shoigu, that Israel will take action against Iran and its proxies if they continue to entrench themselves along the Syrian border.Shoigu arrived in Tel Aviv on Monday for his first official visit to Israel. His trip had a rocky start, coming hours after the IDF bombed an anti-aircraft battery belonging to Russia’s ally, Syria, after it had earlier fired an interceptor missile at an Israeli plane.“We will not get involved in internal matters in Syria,” Liberman told the Russian defense minister, “but, on the other hand, we will not allow Iran and Hezbollah to turn Syrian territory into a forward operating base against Israel.”Liberman told the Russian defense minister that Israel is “operating responsibly and with determination” in Syria.“We will not allow the transfer of advanced weaponry by Iran, through Syria to Lebanon,” he added.Israel attributed great importance to Shoigu’s visit, his first since taking his position in 2012, and the first visit by a Russian defense minister to the Jewish state in many years.“I am very glad to see the Russian defense minister in the State of Israel. This is the first visit, and the first visit of a defense minister has exceptional importance,” Liberman said.“We greatly appreciate our relations with Russia,” he said. “We don’t always agree, but we always speak directly and openly. We believe that the moment there’s open dialogue, you can overcome all problems.”The Russian defense minister was greeted with an honor guard at the IDF’s Tel Aviv headquarters, known as the Kirya, where he also met briefly with World War II Red Army veterans who live in Israel.“We greatly appreciate our memory of World War II. Many of our grandparents and grandmothers fought in the ranks of the Red Army and we value the way Russia treats and remembers them today, and how [Russia] treats the memory of those who fought and died in the Second World War,” Liberman said.After the honor guard, Shoigu and Liberman met privately in the latter’s office. They were then joined by IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, head of IDF Military Intelligence Maj. Gen. Herzl Halevi and the head of the powerful political-security affairs bureau of the Defense Ministry, Zohar Palti, as well as by members of the Russian defense minister’s entourage.The discussion was focused primarily on Syria and the increasing influence of Iran and Shiite militias there.As the Syrian civil war appears to be coming to a close, or at least stagnating, Israel’s attention has increasingly turned to the threats posed by Syria’s other ally, Iran, which is believed to be establishing bases and military infrastructure near the Israeli border on the Golan Heights.Israel has reportedly asked Russia and the United States to include in ceasefire agreements for the Syrian conflict that Iran-backed Shiite militias not be allowed within 60 kilometers (37 miles) of the border. However, according to reports, these requests have been denied.While this is Shoigu’s first visit to Israel in his five years as defense minister, he has made multiple trips to Syria, including one earlier this month, as well as a surprise stop in Iran last year.The soft-spoken defense minister is seen by many analysts as a driving force behind Russia’s aggressive support for Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.The visit is a departure from recent years, which have seen Israeli leaders travel to Russia multiple times for diplomatic meetings, but almost no such sit-downs had taken place in Israel.The rare meeting came on the heels of the brief exchange of fire between Israel and Syria on Monday morning.Shortly before 9:00 a.m., the Syrian military launched an SA-5 anti-aircraft missile at Israeli reconnaissance planes, which it said had entered Syrian airspace from Lebanon. The IDF denied that its aircraft crossed the border, maintaining that they had been flying only over Lebanon, collecting intelligence.According to the IDF, no Israeli planes were damaged by the interceptor, but the Syrian military said in a statement that it “directly hit” one of them.Approximately three hours later, Israeli fighter jets retaliated to the attack on the reconnaissance planes, bombing the SA-5 missile defense battery that was believed to have launched the interceptor.The IDF said the battery was “incapacitated,” if not destroyed.As Russia maintains a heavy presence in Syria in order to assist its ally, Assad, an IDF spokesperson said the military informed Moscow of the impending attack on Assad’s army “in real time.”The nearly three-hour delay between the initial attack on the Israeli aircraft and the retaliation was attributed by analysts to the potential problems that a reprisal could cause, coming so close to Shoigu’s visit.Israel has repeatedly stated that it will act militarily in Syria if one of its “red lines” is violated, notably the transfer of advanced weaponry to Hezbollah or, in this case, a direct attack on Israeli aircraft.In order to avoid friction and accidental conflict, for the past two years Israel and Russia have coordinated their military efforts in Syria.Israeli officials do not generally discuss the full extent of that coordination, but they stress that the Israeli military does not seek Russian permission before carrying out operations.
