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
Crowd chants for Netanyahu to resign as 1,000 protest outside PM’s residence-Amid terror wave, some demonstrators burn pictures of PA head Abbas; settler leader tells crowd he doesn’t want PM to step down, but to ‘crush the terrorist authority’-By TOI staff-DEC 16,18
Around 1,000 right-wing Israelis demonstrated outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem on Thursday evening, with protesters calling for his resignation over the government’s response to a string of recent terror attacks.Two Israeli soldiers were killed, a third was critically injured, and an Israeli woman civilian was seriously injured, in a terrorist shooting near the Givat Assaf outpost early Thursday. On Sunday, close to the nearby Ofra settlement, seven Israelis were shot and injured in a terror attack, including a pregnant woman, whose baby, delivered by C-section, died Wednesday.“Bibi resign, you are not wanted anymore!” the crowd chanted, using the nickname of the prime minister who also serves as defense minister.Some demonstrators burned pictures of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The placards, which featured Abbas in the crosshairs of a rifle, have begun to appear in settlements throughout the West Bank in recent days.Police closed roads in the Rehavia neighborhood due to the protest and advised drivers to take alternate routes.However Samaria Regional Council chairman Yossi Dagan told the gender-segregated crowd that he was not calling for the prime minister to step down, but instead to take action.“We are here to tell the prime minister and the cabinet ministers that we are done keeping quiet,” Dagan said, according to Hadashot TV news.West Bank councils have announced their intention to strike on Sunday, and there will be a demonstration outside the Prime Minister’s Office during the cabinet meeting.“I call on Netanyahu to wake up! The people elected you to head a national government, but this government is behaving like the Barak government at the beginning of the Second Intifada,” Dagan said, referring to former prime minister Ehud Barak, on whose watch the uprising erupted in 2000. “We hope to see you crush the terrorist authority.”Chaim Silberstein, whose grandson died after being born prematurely to the mother wounded during the Sunday terror shooting, also addressed the rally and excoriated the government for its response to such attacks.“Will my sweet grandson Amiad Yisrael be just a statistic?” Silberstein said.Silberstein’s daughter Shira Ish-Ran was one of seven Israelis wounded in the drive-by shooting outside the settlement of Ofra. Ish-Ran — who was 30 months pregnant and seriously injured in the attack — gave birth in an emergency Caesarian-section, but the baby, who was treated in intensive care, died Wednesday.“Will those injured not be remembered and the security of our brothers and sisters deprived because maybe they’ll try and advance another process, sign another meaningless paper or be scared of another anonymous politician in a friendly country?” Silberstein said.“Mr. Prime Minister, I ask and demand that in the name of my grandson, whose blood cries out from his fresh grave on the Mount of Olives in our eternal united capital, decisive and successful action be taken to prevent the next attack,” he added.Silberstein also called for a new settlement to be built and named after his grandson, according to Channel 10 news.Meanwhile dozens of settler youths rioted at the scene of Thursday’s deadly terror shooting in the central West Bank, human rights activists and Palestinian reports said.Video footage showed the far-activists throwing stones at passing Palestinian vehicles on Route 60, outside the Givat Assaf outpost, and clashing with Israeli soldiers.Elsewhere in the West Bank, settlers hurled rocks at Palestinian cars in the Etzion Bloc, a Palestinian security source told the official Palestinian Authority news site Wafa.A number of the vehicles were damaged, the source said.Settlers also hurled rocks at Palestinian vehicles near the entrance to Jit, a village in the northern West Bank, said Zakaria Sede, a Rabbis for Human Rights field coordinator.A number of the vehicles were damaged, he said in a phone call, adding the settlers also threw rocks at homes in Jit, shattering the windows of two homes.Sede also said rocks were thrown at Palestinian cars in Hawara, outside Nablus.B’Tselem, a rights group that opposes Israeli military control of the West Bank, released a video it said shows a masked settler throwing rocks at the windshield of a Palestinian truck near the northern West Bank settlement of Yitzhar.The Yesh Din rights group reported that settlers fired live bullets at homes in the Palestinian villages of Ein Yabroud and Beitin in the central West Bank.Two Israeli soldiers were killed in Thursday’s shooting outside Givat Assaf, while a third soldier was critically wounded and a civilian woman seriously injured.The army later named the dead soldiers as Staff Sgt. Yovel Mor Yosef, 20, and Sgt. Yosef Cohen, 19.Also Thursday, Border Police shot and killed a Palestinian in Jerusalem’s Old City who stabbed two officers, lightly wounding them.The army said another Palestinian tried to ram his car into soldiers outside Ramallah, though defense officials told Channel 10 news it appeared not to have been an attack. The Palestinian driver was shot dead by Israeli troops.The West Bank has seen an increase in the number of attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers in recent weeks, after months of relative calm in the area, raising concerns of a potential renewed outbreak of regular, serious violence in the region.The military blamed the increase in attacks both on terror groups’ ongoing efforts, the “copycat” phenomenon, and a number of significant dates coming up this week, notably the anniversary of the Hamas terror group’s founding.On Wednesday night, the Israeli military arrested a number of suspects who were believed to have carried out Sunday night’s shooting attack and shot dead a third, who security officials said tried to attack Israeli troops during an escape attempt.A Palestinian who shot dead two Israelis in a West Bank terror attack in October at the Barkan industrial zone was also killed early Thursday during a shootout with IDF troops.Jacob Magid and Adam Rasgon contributed to this report.
Grandfather of baby who died after attack demands tough government response-At right-wing rally outside prime minister’s residence, Chaim Silberstein calls for action to prevent future terrorism and for a settlement to be founded in his grandson’s memory-By TOI staff-DEC 16,18
The grandfather of a baby who died after being born prematurely to a mother wounded during a terror shooting in the West Bank, excoriated the government on Thursday for its response to such attacks.“Will my sweet grandson Amiad Yisrael be just a statistic?” Chaim Silberstein said at a rally outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official residence in Jerusalem.Silberstein’s daughter Shira Ish-Ran was one of seven Israelis wounded Sunday in a drive-by shooting outside the settlement of Ofra. Ish-Ran — who was 30 months pregnant — gave birth in an emergency Caesarian-section, but the baby, who was treated in intensive care, died Wednesday.The family named the newborn Amiad Yisrael shortly before he was buried.“Will those injured not be remembered and the security of our brothers and sisters deprived because maybe they’ll try and advance another process, sign another meaningless paper or be scared of another anonymous politician in a friendly country?” Silberstein said.“Mr. Prime Minister, I ask and demand that in the name of my grandson, whose blood cries out from his fresh grave on the Mount of Olives in our eternal united capital, decisive and successful action be taken to prevent the next attack,” he added.Silberstein also called for a new settlement to be built and named after his grandson, according to Channel 10 news.In addition to Sunday’s attack, the protest outside the Prime Minister’s Residence came after two Israeli soldiers were killed earlier Thursday in a shooting near the Givat Assaf settlement outpost.A third Israeli soldier was also critically wounded in the attack and a female civilian seriously injured.Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan said Israel was “losing its deterrence” and called for the government to give a “true answer” to the attacks.“We demand the declaration of a new settlement named after each of the murdered,” he said at the protest.Dagan, a vocal settler leader, said settlement municipalities would go on strike Sunday to protest the government’s handling of the attacks.“We aren’t going to work. We are going to sit outside the Prime Minister’s Office until we see true change,” he said.The demand by settlers for further settlement construction came despite Netanyahu’s earlier promise to legalize thousands of illegally built homes in the West Bank and approve new building projects.
US federal judge strikes down Obamacare as unconstitutional-But with appeals certain, White House says legislation to remain in place for now; Trump calls for a new ‘STRONG law that provides GREAT healthcare’-By Ricardo ALONSO-ZALDIVAR-TOI-DEC 16,18
WASHINGTON (AP) — A conservative federal judge in Texas on Friday ruled the Affordable Care Act “invalid” on the eve of the sign-up deadline for next year. But with appeals certain, even the Trump White House said the law will remain in place for now.In a 55-page opinion, US District Judge Reed O’Connor ruled that last year’s tax cut bill knocked the constitutional foundation from under “Obamacare” by eliminating a penalty for not having coverage. The rest of the law cannot be separated from that provision and is therefore invalid, he wrote.Supporters of the law immediately said they would appeal. “Today’s misguided ruling will not deter us: our coalition will continue to fight in court for the health and well-being of all Americans,” said California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who is leading a coalition of states defending the ACA.The White House applauded O’Connor’s ruling, but said the law remains in place while appeals proceed. President Donald Trump tweeted that Congress should pass a new law.“As I predicted all along, Obamacare has been struck down as an UNCONSTITUTIONAL disaster!” Trump tweeted. “Now Congress must pass a STRONG law that provides GREAT healthcare and protects pre-existing conditions.”However, Congress is unlikely to act while the case remains in the courts. Numerous high-ranking Republican lawmakers have said they did not intend to also strike down popular provisions such as protection for people with pre-existing medical conditions when they repealed the ACA’s fines for people who can afford coverage but remain uninsured.Still, Democratic Representative Nancy Pelosi, who is expected to become House speaker in January, vowed to fight what she called an “absurd ruling.” She said the House “will move swiftly to formally intervene in the appeals process to uphold the life-saving protections for people with pre-existing conditions and reject Republicans’ effort to destroy the Affordable Care Act.”White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said: “We expect this ruling will be appealed to the Supreme Court. Pending the appeal process, the law remains in place.”Legal expert Timothy Jost, a supporter of the health law, said O’Connor’s ruling would have repercussions for nearly all Americans if it stands. If the entire health law is invalidated, popular provisions that benefit Medicare beneficiaries and people with employer coverage would also be scrapped. That could include the section that allows parents to keep young adult children on their coverage until age 26.About 20 million people have gained health insurance coverage since the ACA passed in 2010 without a single Republican vote. Currently, about 10 million have subsidized private insurance through the health law’s insurance markets, while an estimated 12 million low-income people are covered through its Medicaid expansion.Saturday is the sign-up deadline for 2019 private plans through HealthCare.gov. Meanwhile, a number of states are expected to move forward with Medicaid expansion after Democratic victories in the midterm elections.If the case were to reach the Supreme Court it would mark the third time the justices consider a challenge to fundamental provisions of the law. “Obamacare” opponents lost both of the first two cases.The five justices who upheld the health law in 2012 in the first major case — Chief Justice John Roberts and the court’s four liberals — are all still serving.Since then public opinion on the ACA has shifted from mostly negative to generally favorable.Preserving the law’s protections for people with pre-existing medical conditions proved to be a strong argument for Democrats in the midterm elections. Republicans who tried to undermine those safeguards during their failed effort to repeal the health law last year were forced on the defensive and went on record saying they, too, want to make sure people with health problems can get coverage.Democrats set to take control of the House in January are talking about passing legislation that enshrines protections for pre-existing conditions. It’s unclear what form that would take, or if the Republican-majority Senate would go along and Trump would sign it.The GOP-led states who brought the lawsuit asked O’Connor to toss out the entire law after Congress repealed the “individual mandate” penalty for going without coverage. The conservative judge had previously ruled against other Obama-era policies.The Trump administration weighed in, saying the government would no longer defend some core components of the ACA, but that others could remain, including Medicaid expansion, subsidies for private insurance and health insurance markets.Along with the requirement to have health insurance, the administration said the parts of the law that should go included:— The requirement that insurers must take all applicants for comprehensive coverage regardless of prior health history, including pre-existing conditions. That includes a prohibition on insurers writing policies that exclude a particular condition — for example, a recurrence of breast cancer.— The prohibition on insurers charging higher premiums to people with health problems.The health insurance industry says doing away with consumer protections will destabilize a market that seems to be finding its footing, with modest premium increases and more plan choices next year.The American Medical Association called O’Connor’s ruling an “unfortunate step backward for our health system that is contrary to overwhelming public sentiment to preserve pre-existing condition protections.”
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
OH BY THE WAY WHEN THE MEDIA SAYS ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS GOD IS GREAT LIE. IN ISLAM ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS OUR GOD IS GREATER OR GREATEST. THIS IS HOW THE MEDIA SUCK HOLES UP TO ISLAMIC-QURANIC-MUSLIMS. BY WATERING DOWN THE REAL MEANING OF THE SEX FOR MURDER DEATH CULT ISLAM. TO MAKE IT SOUND LIKE A PEACEFUL RELIGION (CULT OF DEATH AND WORLD DOMINATION).
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
Bennett demands coalition back law to move terrorists’ families from their homes-Jewish Home party leader says he expects government support for legislation to forcibly relocate relatives to other areas of West Bank-By TOI staff-16 December 2018
Education Minister Naftali Bennett announced Thursday that he will demand coalition support for a bill calling to forcibly relocate the families of Palestinian terrorists from their homes to other areas of the West Bank.Bennett, who leads the nationalist Jewish Home party, tweeted his plans in the wake of a spate of terror attacks this week which killed two IDF soldiers and a baby born prematurely after his mother was shot, and injured nine other Israelis.The powerful Ministerial Committee for Legislation will convene on Sunday and Bennett said he will put the bill to a vote with the expectation of full support from the government.“Thus far, under the pressure from legal officials, the Prime Minister has asked us to postpone the vote,” he wrote. “I have now decided to bring the matter to a vote. I expect the full backing of the prime minister and the other ministers for this law.”According to the proposed legislation by Bennett and his fellow party member MK Moti Yogev, within a week of an attack or attempted attack, the IDF’s Central Command will be permitted to expel the relatives of the Palestinian assailants from their hometowns to other areas of the West Bank.The explanatory text accompanying the bill touts Israel’s deterrence as “the cornerstone of Israeli security and a way to save lives and uphold law and order.”On Thursday afternoon, a Palestinian terrorist opened fire at the bus stop near the Givat Assaf outpost, killing two soldiers, critically injuring a third, and seriously wounding a civilian woman, before fleeing the scene. The IDF later identified the slain soldiers as Staff Sgt. Yovel Mor Yosef, 20, and Sgt. Yosef Cohen, 19.The shooting attack took place on Route 60, some two kilometers (1.25 miles) from Ofra, where on Sunday a number of terrorists driving in a white car opened fire at a group of people standing at the settlement’s bus stop, hitting seven of them, including a heavily pregnant woman who was seriously injured and whose baby — delivered in emergency surgery — later died as a result of the attack.Also Thursday, Border Police shot and killed a Palestinian in Jerusalem’s Old City who stabbed two officers, lightly wounding them.The army said another Palestinian tried to ram his car into soldiers outside Ramallah, though defense officials told Channel 10 news it appeared not to have been an attack. The Palestinian driver was shot dead by Israeli troops.Bennett had tried to bring the same expulsion legislation for a committee vote at the beginning of November but it was put off.“The Palestinian terrorist must understand that violence doesn’t pay and the State of Israel will settle the score,” Bennett said at the time. “Deporting the families to another area will improve deterrence and send the message to the Palestinian public: There is zero tolerance for terrorism.”The proposed legislation comes after years in which the government sought to advance a bill to expel terrorists’ families to the Gaza Strip. Supported by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the proposal in 2016 received wide support within the coalition, including from Kulanu party leader Moshe Kahlon, as well as from the opposition’s Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid.However Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit said the move would contravene Israeli and international law, and efforts to advance the legislation were subsequently dropped.A number of other measures used by Israel as deterrent measures, such as home demolitions, closing off hometowns of attackers, and revoking work permits, have been criticized as a form of collective punishment. Israel says the measures are necessary as disincentives to terrorism.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, responding to the attacks Thursday, ordered a series of security measures including that the process of demolishing the homes of terrorists be expedited to take just 48 hours from the moment a decision is taken to carry out the punishment, reducing the time allotted to residents of the building to appeal against the measure. In the past, residents have usually had at least a week to appeal the controversial punitive measure in Israel’s courts.
Hamas displays apparent truck-mounted rockets at parade to mark its founding-Terror group showcases elite unit members and honors those who exposed the activity of a special IDF unit last month-By TOI staff-DEC 16,18
Palestinian terrorist group Hamas on Saturday marked the 31st anniversary of its establishment with a military-style parade near the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis.The group showcased various weapons, such as what appeared to be rockets mounted on trucks, as well as elite unit members and snipers.It was not clear whether the weapons on display were real and operational.The parade was dedicated to members of the group’s military wing who exposed the activity of a special IDF unit that operated in the area one month ago.On the night of November 11, an Israeli special forces unit operating inside Khan Younis was exposed following a search at a Hamas checkpoint, resulting in a firefight in which an Israeli lieutenant colonel was killed, along with seven Palestinian gunmen.Saturday’s parade took place in front of the home of Nur Barakeh, the commander of Hamas’s East Khan Younis military wing, who was killed in the incident, the Ynet news site reported.On Thursday, a Palestinian opened fire at a bus stop outside the Givat Assaf settlement outpost in the West Bank and killed Sgt. Yovel Mor Yosef, 20, and Cpl. Yosef Cohen, 19, while another soldier and civilian were wounded.A senior Israel Defense Forces commander indicated that a Hamas terror cell was responsible for Thursday’s attack in addition to a shooting that wounded seven Israelis outside the Ofra settlement on Sunday night. That attack led to the death of a baby boy who was delivered prematurely after his mother was critically hurt in the attack.IDF Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Nadav Padan vowed the military would hunt down the terrorists, some of whom remain on the run.Following the latest attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — who also serves as defense minister — beefed up troop levels across the West Bank, ordered detentions of Hamas activists and called for demolishing the homes of attackers within 48 hours.Netanyahu has said he would “settle accounts” with the attackers, while Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas held Israel responsible for what he said was a violent environment.Some 10,000 Palestinians flocked to the Gaza Strip border for violent protests on Friday afternoon as the IDF intensified a crackdown in the West Bank in response to the terror attacks.The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said 16 protesters were injured in clashes with Israeli security forces along the border.The protests were held at various locations along the border under the banner of Hamas’s ongoing “March of Return” demonstrations. According to reports, the protesters hurled rocks, Molotov cocktails, and hand grenades toward Israeli troops. According to the Ynet news site, most of the explosives did not clear the border fence, and fell inside the Strip.The IDF said two protesters breached the border during the clashes, but quickly retreated back to the other side when IDF troops neared.The weekly protests came after several weeks of relative calm in Gaza.
Iranian FM: We have ‘perfected the art of evading sanctions’-Zarif vows US sanctions won’t change policies; denies providing arms to Yemen rebels, says ‘Saudis bombing the hell out of the Yemenis’-By AFP-TOI-DEC 16,18
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Saturday said US sanctions will have no impact on the policies of the Islamic republic at home or abroad.“It is obvious that we are facing pressure by the US sanctions. But will that lead to a change in policy? I can assure you it won’t,” Zarif told the Doha Forum policy conference in Qatar.“If there is an art we have perfected in Iran and can teach to others for a price, it is the art of evading sanctions,” he added.The US imposed two sets of sanctions on Iran this year, after earlier unilaterally pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal with global powers.Discussing the Yemen conflict, Zarif denied Tehran had ever armed the Houthi rebels battling pro-government forces in the country.“We have never provided weapons to Houthis,” he said when challenged on what arms it had supplied.“They have enough weapons, they don’t need weapons from Iran,” Zarif said.He said there were only “allegations” that Iran had sent weapons to Yemen, whereas there were “facts” that other countries had shipped arms.“I don’t need to show any evidence about the jets that were flying in Yemen bombing the Yemenis.“Those are American-made jets and those are Saudi fighters, I assume, which are piloting those jets,” Zarif said.“If there are allegations about Iranian weapons, there are facts about US weapons, facts about Saudis bombing the hell out of the Yemenis,” he added.Iran’s regional rival Saudi Arabia intervened in the Yemen conflict in 2015 as part of a coalition backing the government.Zarif said the United States and its ally Saudi Arabia were responsible for the “humanitarian nightmare” in war-torn Yemen.He also accused Riyadh of seeking “tension” with Iran.Zarif also alluded to the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Kashoggi, saying Saudi Arabia believes “it can get away with murder.”Khashoggi, a palace insider turned critic of the regime, was killed shortly after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2.
Heavy police presence in Paris ahead of ‘yellow vest’ protests-Shops along the iconic Champs-Elysees board up windows after last week’s demonstrations included extensive looting and vandalism; 8,000 police officers deployed in French capital-By Raphael Satter-TOI-DEC 16,18
PARIS (AP) — A strong police presence deployed in Paris on Saturday for planned demonstrations by the “yellow vest” protesters, with authorities repeating calls for calm after protests in previous weekends turned violent.Security forces in riot gear were positioned around central train stations and along the famed Champs-Elysees boulevard, where shops were closed and their windows boarded up in anticipation of the protests. Authorities have said about 8,000 police and 14 armored vehicles were being deployed in the French capital.Last weekend, groups of demonstrators smashed and looted stores, clashing with police and setting up burning barricades in the streets.The “yellow vest” movement, which takes its name from the fluorescent safety vests French motorists must all have in their vehicles, emerged in mid-November as a protest against fuel tax increases. It soon morphed into an expression of rage about the high cost of living in France and a sense that President Emanuel Macron’s government is detached from the everyday struggles of workers.There was a strong police presence Saturday outside the central Saint Lazare train station, where police in riot gear checked bags. More than 20 police vans and a water cannon truck idled nearby.Hundreds of people began converging on the Champs-Elysees in the morning.“We’re here to represent all our friends and members of our family who can’t come to protest, or because they’re scared,” said Pierre Lamy, a 27-year-old industrial worker wearing a yellow vest and with a French flag draped over his shoulders as he walked to the protest with three friends.He said the protests had long stopped being about the fuel tax and had turned into a movement for economic justice.“Everything’s coming up now,” Lamy said. “We’re being bled dry.”Macron on Friday called for calm during the demonstrations, and the French government reiterated the call online for demonstrators to remain peaceful.“Protesting is a right. So let’s know how to exercise it,” the government tweeted from its official account, with a 34-second video which begins with images of historic French protests and recent footage of “yellow vests” rallying peacefully before turning to violence.“Protesting is not smashing. Protesting is not smashing our heritage. Protesting is not smashing our businesses. … Protesting is not smashing our republic,” the video says.
Lebanese wary as Israel destroys Hezbollah border tunnels-One resident says fortification work on frontier means Israel must be ‘scared’; another believes the Jewish state is attempting to change the border and ‘occupy’ Lebanese villages-By Agencies and TOI staff-DEC 16,18
MAYS AL-JABAL, Lebanon — As Israeli excavators dug into the rocky hills along the frontier with a Lebanese village, a crowd of young Lebanese men gathered to watch.The mood was light as the crowd observed what Israel says is a military operation — dubbed “Northern Shield” — aimed at destroying attack tunnels built by Hezbollah. The young men posed for selfies, with the Israeli crew in the background, as they burned fires and brewed tea to keep warm.But Lebanese soldiers were visibly on high alert, deploying to new camouflaged posts behind sandbags and inside abandoned homes. About two dozen UN peacekeepers stood in a long line, just ahead of the blue line demarcating the frontier between the two countries technically still at war.The scene highlights the palpable anxiety that any misstep could lead to a conflagration between Israel and Lebanon that no one seems to want.Underscoring such jitters, shadowy figures appearing across the misty hills of the border village of Mays al-Jabal last weekend sparked concern, and Israeli soldiers fired in the air to warn the men to stay away. Israel later said it fired at Hezbollah members who came to the site to dismantle sensors installed to detect tunnels. Lebanon said it was a Lebanese military intelligence patrol.Israel’s tunnel search comes at a time when the civil war in neighboring Syria seems to be winding down. Hezbollah had sent hundreds of troops to Syria in 2013 to fight alongside the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad. With Assad’s forces emerging victorious, attention now seems to be returning to the tense Israel-Lebanon border.Israel said its troops have discovered at least three tunnels dug below the frontier and called on the international community to impose new sanctions on Hezbollah. UN forces have confirmed two of the tunnels.The Israeli military said it believes the tunnels were meant to be used by Hezbollah as a surprise component of an opening salvo in a future war, alongside the mass infiltration of operatives above ground and the launching of rockets, missiles and mortar shells at northern Israel.The terror group, which fought a bruising but inconclusive war with Israel in 2006, has not commented on the Israeli operation or statements.Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Thursday that neither Israel nor Lebanon wanted to go to war, but noted that Israel violates Lebanese airspace and international waters on a regular basis.He said the Lebanese army “will deal with this issue” after receiving a full report from the UN peacekeeping force, but did not elaborate.The peacekeeping force, known as UNIFIL, has confirmed the presence of tunnels and said it is working with both sides to address the situation in line with UN Security Council resolutions.In southern Lebanon on Thursday, Lebanese army soldiers observed the frontier in Mays al-Jabal, taking photos of their Israeli counterparts operating only a few meters (yards) away. At times, the Lebanese soldiers asked the young men to move back, away from the frontier.Lebanese homes and farms are nestled at the bottom of the hill where the operations run from daybreak until sundown. No civilian Israeli homes are visible from that tense border.Ali Jaber, a 21-year-old resident of Mays al-Jabal, said he believes that Hezbollah is more popular after the Syria war, and that this is the reason Israel is now turning to it. “But whoever puts up a shield and is hiding and making fortifications must be scared,” he said.Hussein Melhem, a 19-year old electrician from the village, came to watch. His cheeks ruddy on a cold but clear day, he covered his head with a tight hood. He alleged that Israel was trying to change the border.“If they could occupy all of this, they would,” he said, in an apparent reference to Israel’s 18-year military occupation of southern Lebanon which ended in 2000. “But the resistance will prevent them.”The 2006 war was sparked when Hezbollah attacked an IDF patrol in July, killing five soldiers and abducting the bodies of two.As a seven-year-old in 2006, Melhem and his family left Mays al-Jabal when Israel invaded. His village was badly damaged but has since largely recovered and he said he found their home intact.It is hard to forget about war in the villages and towns along the frontier. Pictures of Hezbollah fighters who died in the 2006 war, as well as the one raging in neighboring Syria, known locally as the “Sacred Defense,” are everywhere. Posts on town squares boast of defeating Israel or urge the locals to “know their enemy.”During the Syrian civil war, Israel has frequently carried out airstrikes in Syria against Iranian-allied forces, particularly Hezbollah. Israel says it aims to prevent sophisticated weaponry from reaching Hezbollah, which it considers its most pressing security concern.In Lebanon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s warnings have raised suspicions that he is also using the tunnel operation as a diplomatic pressure card.Netanyahu has called for more sanctions against Hezbollah. In a visit to the frontier earlier this week, he warned that if Hezbollah tries to disrupt the search for tunnels, “it will be hit in a way it cannot even imagine.”In Israel, some newspaper commentators have been critical of the UN peacekeeping force, whose mandate Israel and the United States have unsuccessfully attempted to expand to include “intervention and deterrence.”
Weekly Standard, anti-Trump conservative journal, shuts down-Owners say closure a result of changing media market, not its criticism of the US president-By Agencies-TOI-DEC 16,18
The company that owns The Weekly Standard, for 23 years a flagship of an interventionist and robustly pro-Israel foreign policy, is shutting it down.Clarity Media Group said the closure was a result of a roiling media market and rejected claims that the fact that the Standard is a leading conservative outlet criticizing US President Donald Trump was a factor.Clarity rejected efforts by the weekly’s editorial staff to find another buyer. Clarity owns another publication, the Washington Examiner, which has not been as robust as the Standard in its criticism of Trump.The Standard was founded in 1995 by Bill Kristol, Fred Barnes, and John Podhoretz. Kristol and Podhoretz, who are Jewish, are scions of the neoconservative movement.Clarity chief executive Ryan McKibben said the news magazine “has been hampered by many of the same challenges that countless other magazines and newspapers across the country have been wrestling with,” and had seen double-digit declines in circulation in recent years.“For more than 20 years The Weekly Standard has provided a valued and important perspective on political, literary and cultural issues of the day,” said McKibben.“The magazine has been home to some of the industry’s most dedicated and talented staff and I thank them for their hard work and contributions, not just to the publication, but the field of journalism.”Kristol tweeted on Friday: “All good things come to an end. And so, after 23 years, does The Weekly Standard… We worked hard to put out a quality magazine, and we had a good time doing so. And we have much more to do.”The magazine strongly supported the policies of president George W. Bush during his two terms in office, but has opposed Trump, notably on issues of tariffs and trade.A recent editorial harshly criticized Trump as well as the Republicans who have gone along with the president in the face of an investigation linking him to potential criminal acts.“It is a commonplace, in the Trump era, to say that the old criteria of decency and honor no longer appear to apply,” the magazine said in its December 10 editorial.“The president’s mendacity is so aggressive, his malfeasance so common, that his everyday behavior no longer surprises and these days rarely elicits condemnation from other Republicans.”
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
Crowd chants for Netanyahu to resign as 1,000 protest outside PM’s residence-Amid terror wave, some demonstrators burn pictures of PA head Abbas; settler leader tells crowd he doesn’t want PM to step down, but to ‘crush the terrorist authority’-By TOI staff-DEC 16,18
Around 1,000 right-wing Israelis demonstrated outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem on Thursday evening, with protesters calling for his resignation over the government’s response to a string of recent terror attacks.Two Israeli soldiers were killed, a third was critically injured, and an Israeli woman civilian was seriously injured, in a terrorist shooting near the Givat Assaf outpost early Thursday. On Sunday, close to the nearby Ofra settlement, seven Israelis were shot and injured in a terror attack, including a pregnant woman, whose baby, delivered by C-section, died Wednesday.“Bibi resign, you are not wanted anymore!” the crowd chanted, using the nickname of the prime minister who also serves as defense minister.Some demonstrators burned pictures of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The placards, which featured Abbas in the crosshairs of a rifle, have begun to appear in settlements throughout the West Bank in recent days.Police closed roads in the Rehavia neighborhood due to the protest and advised drivers to take alternate routes.However Samaria Regional Council chairman Yossi Dagan told the gender-segregated crowd that he was not calling for the prime minister to step down, but instead to take action.“We are here to tell the prime minister and the cabinet ministers that we are done keeping quiet,” Dagan said, according to Hadashot TV news.West Bank councils have announced their intention to strike on Sunday, and there will be a demonstration outside the Prime Minister’s Office during the cabinet meeting.“I call on Netanyahu to wake up! The people elected you to head a national government, but this government is behaving like the Barak government at the beginning of the Second Intifada,” Dagan said, referring to former prime minister Ehud Barak, on whose watch the uprising erupted in 2000. “We hope to see you crush the terrorist authority.”Chaim Silberstein, whose grandson died after being born prematurely to the mother wounded during the Sunday terror shooting, also addressed the rally and excoriated the government for its response to such attacks.“Will my sweet grandson Amiad Yisrael be just a statistic?” Silberstein said.Silberstein’s daughter Shira Ish-Ran was one of seven Israelis wounded in the drive-by shooting outside the settlement of Ofra. Ish-Ran — who was 30 months pregnant and seriously injured in the attack — gave birth in an emergency Caesarian-section, but the baby, who was treated in intensive care, died Wednesday.“Will those injured not be remembered and the security of our brothers and sisters deprived because maybe they’ll try and advance another process, sign another meaningless paper or be scared of another anonymous politician in a friendly country?” Silberstein said.“Mr. Prime Minister, I ask and demand that in the name of my grandson, whose blood cries out from his fresh grave on the Mount of Olives in our eternal united capital, decisive and successful action be taken to prevent the next attack,” he added.Silberstein also called for a new settlement to be built and named after his grandson, according to Channel 10 news.Meanwhile dozens of settler youths rioted at the scene of Thursday’s deadly terror shooting in the central West Bank, human rights activists and Palestinian reports said.Video footage showed the far-activists throwing stones at passing Palestinian vehicles on Route 60, outside the Givat Assaf outpost, and clashing with Israeli soldiers.Elsewhere in the West Bank, settlers hurled rocks at Palestinian cars in the Etzion Bloc, a Palestinian security source told the official Palestinian Authority news site Wafa.A number of the vehicles were damaged, the source said.Settlers also hurled rocks at Palestinian vehicles near the entrance to Jit, a village in the northern West Bank, said Zakaria Sede, a Rabbis for Human Rights field coordinator.A number of the vehicles were damaged, he said in a phone call, adding the settlers also threw rocks at homes in Jit, shattering the windows of two homes.Sede also said rocks were thrown at Palestinian cars in Hawara, outside Nablus.B’Tselem, a rights group that opposes Israeli military control of the West Bank, released a video it said shows a masked settler throwing rocks at the windshield of a Palestinian truck near the northern West Bank settlement of Yitzhar.The Yesh Din rights group reported that settlers fired live bullets at homes in the Palestinian villages of Ein Yabroud and Beitin in the central West Bank.Two Israeli soldiers were killed in Thursday’s shooting outside Givat Assaf, while a third soldier was critically wounded and a civilian woman seriously injured.The army later named the dead soldiers as Staff Sgt. Yovel Mor Yosef, 20, and Sgt. Yosef Cohen, 19.Also Thursday, Border Police shot and killed a Palestinian in Jerusalem’s Old City who stabbed two officers, lightly wounding them.The army said another Palestinian tried to ram his car into soldiers outside Ramallah, though defense officials told Channel 10 news it appeared not to have been an attack. The Palestinian driver was shot dead by Israeli troops.The West Bank has seen an increase in the number of attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers in recent weeks, after months of relative calm in the area, raising concerns of a potential renewed outbreak of regular, serious violence in the region.The military blamed the increase in attacks both on terror groups’ ongoing efforts, the “copycat” phenomenon, and a number of significant dates coming up this week, notably the anniversary of the Hamas terror group’s founding.On Wednesday night, the Israeli military arrested a number of suspects who were believed to have carried out Sunday night’s shooting attack and shot dead a third, who security officials said tried to attack Israeli troops during an escape attempt.A Palestinian who shot dead two Israelis in a West Bank terror attack in October at the Barkan industrial zone was also killed early Thursday during a shootout with IDF troops.Jacob Magid and Adam Rasgon contributed to this report.
Grandfather of baby who died after attack demands tough government response-At right-wing rally outside prime minister’s residence, Chaim Silberstein calls for action to prevent future terrorism and for a settlement to be founded in his grandson’s memory-By TOI staff-DEC 16,18
The grandfather of a baby who died after being born prematurely to a mother wounded during a terror shooting in the West Bank, excoriated the government on Thursday for its response to such attacks.“Will my sweet grandson Amiad Yisrael be just a statistic?” Chaim Silberstein said at a rally outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official residence in Jerusalem.Silberstein’s daughter Shira Ish-Ran was one of seven Israelis wounded Sunday in a drive-by shooting outside the settlement of Ofra. Ish-Ran — who was 30 months pregnant — gave birth in an emergency Caesarian-section, but the baby, who was treated in intensive care, died Wednesday.The family named the newborn Amiad Yisrael shortly before he was buried.“Will those injured not be remembered and the security of our brothers and sisters deprived because maybe they’ll try and advance another process, sign another meaningless paper or be scared of another anonymous politician in a friendly country?” Silberstein said.“Mr. Prime Minister, I ask and demand that in the name of my grandson, whose blood cries out from his fresh grave on the Mount of Olives in our eternal united capital, decisive and successful action be taken to prevent the next attack,” he added.Silberstein also called for a new settlement to be built and named after his grandson, according to Channel 10 news.In addition to Sunday’s attack, the protest outside the Prime Minister’s Residence came after two Israeli soldiers were killed earlier Thursday in a shooting near the Givat Assaf settlement outpost.A third Israeli soldier was also critically wounded in the attack and a female civilian seriously injured.Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan said Israel was “losing its deterrence” and called for the government to give a “true answer” to the attacks.“We demand the declaration of a new settlement named after each of the murdered,” he said at the protest.Dagan, a vocal settler leader, said settlement municipalities would go on strike Sunday to protest the government’s handling of the attacks.“We aren’t going to work. We are going to sit outside the Prime Minister’s Office until we see true change,” he said.The demand by settlers for further settlement construction came despite Netanyahu’s earlier promise to legalize thousands of illegally built homes in the West Bank and approve new building projects.
US federal judge strikes down Obamacare as unconstitutional-But with appeals certain, White House says legislation to remain in place for now; Trump calls for a new ‘STRONG law that provides GREAT healthcare’-By Ricardo ALONSO-ZALDIVAR-TOI-DEC 16,18
WASHINGTON (AP) — A conservative federal judge in Texas on Friday ruled the Affordable Care Act “invalid” on the eve of the sign-up deadline for next year. But with appeals certain, even the Trump White House said the law will remain in place for now.In a 55-page opinion, US District Judge Reed O’Connor ruled that last year’s tax cut bill knocked the constitutional foundation from under “Obamacare” by eliminating a penalty for not having coverage. The rest of the law cannot be separated from that provision and is therefore invalid, he wrote.Supporters of the law immediately said they would appeal. “Today’s misguided ruling will not deter us: our coalition will continue to fight in court for the health and well-being of all Americans,” said California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who is leading a coalition of states defending the ACA.The White House applauded O’Connor’s ruling, but said the law remains in place while appeals proceed. President Donald Trump tweeted that Congress should pass a new law.“As I predicted all along, Obamacare has been struck down as an UNCONSTITUTIONAL disaster!” Trump tweeted. “Now Congress must pass a STRONG law that provides GREAT healthcare and protects pre-existing conditions.”However, Congress is unlikely to act while the case remains in the courts. Numerous high-ranking Republican lawmakers have said they did not intend to also strike down popular provisions such as protection for people with pre-existing medical conditions when they repealed the ACA’s fines for people who can afford coverage but remain uninsured.Still, Democratic Representative Nancy Pelosi, who is expected to become House speaker in January, vowed to fight what she called an “absurd ruling.” She said the House “will move swiftly to formally intervene in the appeals process to uphold the life-saving protections for people with pre-existing conditions and reject Republicans’ effort to destroy the Affordable Care Act.”White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said: “We expect this ruling will be appealed to the Supreme Court. Pending the appeal process, the law remains in place.”Legal expert Timothy Jost, a supporter of the health law, said O’Connor’s ruling would have repercussions for nearly all Americans if it stands. If the entire health law is invalidated, popular provisions that benefit Medicare beneficiaries and people with employer coverage would also be scrapped. That could include the section that allows parents to keep young adult children on their coverage until age 26.About 20 million people have gained health insurance coverage since the ACA passed in 2010 without a single Republican vote. Currently, about 10 million have subsidized private insurance through the health law’s insurance markets, while an estimated 12 million low-income people are covered through its Medicaid expansion.Saturday is the sign-up deadline for 2019 private plans through HealthCare.gov. Meanwhile, a number of states are expected to move forward with Medicaid expansion after Democratic victories in the midterm elections.If the case were to reach the Supreme Court it would mark the third time the justices consider a challenge to fundamental provisions of the law. “Obamacare” opponents lost both of the first two cases.The five justices who upheld the health law in 2012 in the first major case — Chief Justice John Roberts and the court’s four liberals — are all still serving.Since then public opinion on the ACA has shifted from mostly negative to generally favorable.Preserving the law’s protections for people with pre-existing medical conditions proved to be a strong argument for Democrats in the midterm elections. Republicans who tried to undermine those safeguards during their failed effort to repeal the health law last year were forced on the defensive and went on record saying they, too, want to make sure people with health problems can get coverage.Democrats set to take control of the House in January are talking about passing legislation that enshrines protections for pre-existing conditions. It’s unclear what form that would take, or if the Republican-majority Senate would go along and Trump would sign it.The GOP-led states who brought the lawsuit asked O’Connor to toss out the entire law after Congress repealed the “individual mandate” penalty for going without coverage. The conservative judge had previously ruled against other Obama-era policies.The Trump administration weighed in, saying the government would no longer defend some core components of the ACA, but that others could remain, including Medicaid expansion, subsidies for private insurance and health insurance markets.Along with the requirement to have health insurance, the administration said the parts of the law that should go included:— The requirement that insurers must take all applicants for comprehensive coverage regardless of prior health history, including pre-existing conditions. That includes a prohibition on insurers writing policies that exclude a particular condition — for example, a recurrence of breast cancer.— The prohibition on insurers charging higher premiums to people with health problems.The health insurance industry says doing away with consumer protections will destabilize a market that seems to be finding its footing, with modest premium increases and more plan choices next year.The American Medical Association called O’Connor’s ruling an “unfortunate step backward for our health system that is contrary to overwhelming public sentiment to preserve pre-existing condition protections.”
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
OH BY THE WAY WHEN THE MEDIA SAYS ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS GOD IS GREAT LIE. IN ISLAM ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS OUR GOD IS GREATER OR GREATEST. THIS IS HOW THE MEDIA SUCK HOLES UP TO ISLAMIC-QURANIC-MUSLIMS. BY WATERING DOWN THE REAL MEANING OF THE SEX FOR MURDER DEATH CULT ISLAM. TO MAKE IT SOUND LIKE A PEACEFUL RELIGION (CULT OF DEATH AND WORLD DOMINATION).
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
Bennett demands coalition back law to move terrorists’ families from their homes-Jewish Home party leader says he expects government support for legislation to forcibly relocate relatives to other areas of West Bank-By TOI staff-16 December 2018
Education Minister Naftali Bennett announced Thursday that he will demand coalition support for a bill calling to forcibly relocate the families of Palestinian terrorists from their homes to other areas of the West Bank.Bennett, who leads the nationalist Jewish Home party, tweeted his plans in the wake of a spate of terror attacks this week which killed two IDF soldiers and a baby born prematurely after his mother was shot, and injured nine other Israelis.The powerful Ministerial Committee for Legislation will convene on Sunday and Bennett said he will put the bill to a vote with the expectation of full support from the government.“Thus far, under the pressure from legal officials, the Prime Minister has asked us to postpone the vote,” he wrote. “I have now decided to bring the matter to a vote. I expect the full backing of the prime minister and the other ministers for this law.”According to the proposed legislation by Bennett and his fellow party member MK Moti Yogev, within a week of an attack or attempted attack, the IDF’s Central Command will be permitted to expel the relatives of the Palestinian assailants from their hometowns to other areas of the West Bank.The explanatory text accompanying the bill touts Israel’s deterrence as “the cornerstone of Israeli security and a way to save lives and uphold law and order.”On Thursday afternoon, a Palestinian terrorist opened fire at the bus stop near the Givat Assaf outpost, killing two soldiers, critically injuring a third, and seriously wounding a civilian woman, before fleeing the scene. The IDF later identified the slain soldiers as Staff Sgt. Yovel Mor Yosef, 20, and Sgt. Yosef Cohen, 19.The shooting attack took place on Route 60, some two kilometers (1.25 miles) from Ofra, where on Sunday a number of terrorists driving in a white car opened fire at a group of people standing at the settlement’s bus stop, hitting seven of them, including a heavily pregnant woman who was seriously injured and whose baby — delivered in emergency surgery — later died as a result of the attack.Also Thursday, Border Police shot and killed a Palestinian in Jerusalem’s Old City who stabbed two officers, lightly wounding them.The army said another Palestinian tried to ram his car into soldiers outside Ramallah, though defense officials told Channel 10 news it appeared not to have been an attack. The Palestinian driver was shot dead by Israeli troops.Bennett had tried to bring the same expulsion legislation for a committee vote at the beginning of November but it was put off.“The Palestinian terrorist must understand that violence doesn’t pay and the State of Israel will settle the score,” Bennett said at the time. “Deporting the families to another area will improve deterrence and send the message to the Palestinian public: There is zero tolerance for terrorism.”The proposed legislation comes after years in which the government sought to advance a bill to expel terrorists’ families to the Gaza Strip. Supported by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the proposal in 2016 received wide support within the coalition, including from Kulanu party leader Moshe Kahlon, as well as from the opposition’s Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid.However Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit said the move would contravene Israeli and international law, and efforts to advance the legislation were subsequently dropped.A number of other measures used by Israel as deterrent measures, such as home demolitions, closing off hometowns of attackers, and revoking work permits, have been criticized as a form of collective punishment. Israel says the measures are necessary as disincentives to terrorism.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, responding to the attacks Thursday, ordered a series of security measures including that the process of demolishing the homes of terrorists be expedited to take just 48 hours from the moment a decision is taken to carry out the punishment, reducing the time allotted to residents of the building to appeal against the measure. In the past, residents have usually had at least a week to appeal the controversial punitive measure in Israel’s courts.
Hamas displays apparent truck-mounted rockets at parade to mark its founding-Terror group showcases elite unit members and honors those who exposed the activity of a special IDF unit last month-By TOI staff-DEC 16,18
Palestinian terrorist group Hamas on Saturday marked the 31st anniversary of its establishment with a military-style parade near the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis.The group showcased various weapons, such as what appeared to be rockets mounted on trucks, as well as elite unit members and snipers.It was not clear whether the weapons on display were real and operational.The parade was dedicated to members of the group’s military wing who exposed the activity of a special IDF unit that operated in the area one month ago.On the night of November 11, an Israeli special forces unit operating inside Khan Younis was exposed following a search at a Hamas checkpoint, resulting in a firefight in which an Israeli lieutenant colonel was killed, along with seven Palestinian gunmen.Saturday’s parade took place in front of the home of Nur Barakeh, the commander of Hamas’s East Khan Younis military wing, who was killed in the incident, the Ynet news site reported.On Thursday, a Palestinian opened fire at a bus stop outside the Givat Assaf settlement outpost in the West Bank and killed Sgt. Yovel Mor Yosef, 20, and Cpl. Yosef Cohen, 19, while another soldier and civilian were wounded.A senior Israel Defense Forces commander indicated that a Hamas terror cell was responsible for Thursday’s attack in addition to a shooting that wounded seven Israelis outside the Ofra settlement on Sunday night. That attack led to the death of a baby boy who was delivered prematurely after his mother was critically hurt in the attack.IDF Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Nadav Padan vowed the military would hunt down the terrorists, some of whom remain on the run.Following the latest attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — who also serves as defense minister — beefed up troop levels across the West Bank, ordered detentions of Hamas activists and called for demolishing the homes of attackers within 48 hours.Netanyahu has said he would “settle accounts” with the attackers, while Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas held Israel responsible for what he said was a violent environment.Some 10,000 Palestinians flocked to the Gaza Strip border for violent protests on Friday afternoon as the IDF intensified a crackdown in the West Bank in response to the terror attacks.The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said 16 protesters were injured in clashes with Israeli security forces along the border.The protests were held at various locations along the border under the banner of Hamas’s ongoing “March of Return” demonstrations. According to reports, the protesters hurled rocks, Molotov cocktails, and hand grenades toward Israeli troops. According to the Ynet news site, most of the explosives did not clear the border fence, and fell inside the Strip.The IDF said two protesters breached the border during the clashes, but quickly retreated back to the other side when IDF troops neared.The weekly protests came after several weeks of relative calm in Gaza.
Iranian FM: We have ‘perfected the art of evading sanctions’-Zarif vows US sanctions won’t change policies; denies providing arms to Yemen rebels, says ‘Saudis bombing the hell out of the Yemenis’-By AFP-TOI-DEC 16,18
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Saturday said US sanctions will have no impact on the policies of the Islamic republic at home or abroad.“It is obvious that we are facing pressure by the US sanctions. But will that lead to a change in policy? I can assure you it won’t,” Zarif told the Doha Forum policy conference in Qatar.“If there is an art we have perfected in Iran and can teach to others for a price, it is the art of evading sanctions,” he added.The US imposed two sets of sanctions on Iran this year, after earlier unilaterally pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal with global powers.Discussing the Yemen conflict, Zarif denied Tehran had ever armed the Houthi rebels battling pro-government forces in the country.“We have never provided weapons to Houthis,” he said when challenged on what arms it had supplied.“They have enough weapons, they don’t need weapons from Iran,” Zarif said.He said there were only “allegations” that Iran had sent weapons to Yemen, whereas there were “facts” that other countries had shipped arms.“I don’t need to show any evidence about the jets that were flying in Yemen bombing the Yemenis.“Those are American-made jets and those are Saudi fighters, I assume, which are piloting those jets,” Zarif said.“If there are allegations about Iranian weapons, there are facts about US weapons, facts about Saudis bombing the hell out of the Yemenis,” he added.Iran’s regional rival Saudi Arabia intervened in the Yemen conflict in 2015 as part of a coalition backing the government.Zarif said the United States and its ally Saudi Arabia were responsible for the “humanitarian nightmare” in war-torn Yemen.He also accused Riyadh of seeking “tension” with Iran.Zarif also alluded to the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Kashoggi, saying Saudi Arabia believes “it can get away with murder.”Khashoggi, a palace insider turned critic of the regime, was killed shortly after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2.
Heavy police presence in Paris ahead of ‘yellow vest’ protests-Shops along the iconic Champs-Elysees board up windows after last week’s demonstrations included extensive looting and vandalism; 8,000 police officers deployed in French capital-By Raphael Satter-TOI-DEC 16,18
PARIS (AP) — A strong police presence deployed in Paris on Saturday for planned demonstrations by the “yellow vest” protesters, with authorities repeating calls for calm after protests in previous weekends turned violent.Security forces in riot gear were positioned around central train stations and along the famed Champs-Elysees boulevard, where shops were closed and their windows boarded up in anticipation of the protests. Authorities have said about 8,000 police and 14 armored vehicles were being deployed in the French capital.Last weekend, groups of demonstrators smashed and looted stores, clashing with police and setting up burning barricades in the streets.The “yellow vest” movement, which takes its name from the fluorescent safety vests French motorists must all have in their vehicles, emerged in mid-November as a protest against fuel tax increases. It soon morphed into an expression of rage about the high cost of living in France and a sense that President Emanuel Macron’s government is detached from the everyday struggles of workers.There was a strong police presence Saturday outside the central Saint Lazare train station, where police in riot gear checked bags. More than 20 police vans and a water cannon truck idled nearby.Hundreds of people began converging on the Champs-Elysees in the morning.“We’re here to represent all our friends and members of our family who can’t come to protest, or because they’re scared,” said Pierre Lamy, a 27-year-old industrial worker wearing a yellow vest and with a French flag draped over his shoulders as he walked to the protest with three friends.He said the protests had long stopped being about the fuel tax and had turned into a movement for economic justice.“Everything’s coming up now,” Lamy said. “We’re being bled dry.”Macron on Friday called for calm during the demonstrations, and the French government reiterated the call online for demonstrators to remain peaceful.“Protesting is a right. So let’s know how to exercise it,” the government tweeted from its official account, with a 34-second video which begins with images of historic French protests and recent footage of “yellow vests” rallying peacefully before turning to violence.“Protesting is not smashing. Protesting is not smashing our heritage. Protesting is not smashing our businesses. … Protesting is not smashing our republic,” the video says.
Lebanese wary as Israel destroys Hezbollah border tunnels-One resident says fortification work on frontier means Israel must be ‘scared’; another believes the Jewish state is attempting to change the border and ‘occupy’ Lebanese villages-By Agencies and TOI staff-DEC 16,18
MAYS AL-JABAL, Lebanon — As Israeli excavators dug into the rocky hills along the frontier with a Lebanese village, a crowd of young Lebanese men gathered to watch.The mood was light as the crowd observed what Israel says is a military operation — dubbed “Northern Shield” — aimed at destroying attack tunnels built by Hezbollah. The young men posed for selfies, with the Israeli crew in the background, as they burned fires and brewed tea to keep warm.But Lebanese soldiers were visibly on high alert, deploying to new camouflaged posts behind sandbags and inside abandoned homes. About two dozen UN peacekeepers stood in a long line, just ahead of the blue line demarcating the frontier between the two countries technically still at war.The scene highlights the palpable anxiety that any misstep could lead to a conflagration between Israel and Lebanon that no one seems to want.Underscoring such jitters, shadowy figures appearing across the misty hills of the border village of Mays al-Jabal last weekend sparked concern, and Israeli soldiers fired in the air to warn the men to stay away. Israel later said it fired at Hezbollah members who came to the site to dismantle sensors installed to detect tunnels. Lebanon said it was a Lebanese military intelligence patrol.Israel’s tunnel search comes at a time when the civil war in neighboring Syria seems to be winding down. Hezbollah had sent hundreds of troops to Syria in 2013 to fight alongside the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad. With Assad’s forces emerging victorious, attention now seems to be returning to the tense Israel-Lebanon border.Israel said its troops have discovered at least three tunnels dug below the frontier and called on the international community to impose new sanctions on Hezbollah. UN forces have confirmed two of the tunnels.The Israeli military said it believes the tunnels were meant to be used by Hezbollah as a surprise component of an opening salvo in a future war, alongside the mass infiltration of operatives above ground and the launching of rockets, missiles and mortar shells at northern Israel.The terror group, which fought a bruising but inconclusive war with Israel in 2006, has not commented on the Israeli operation or statements.Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Thursday that neither Israel nor Lebanon wanted to go to war, but noted that Israel violates Lebanese airspace and international waters on a regular basis.He said the Lebanese army “will deal with this issue” after receiving a full report from the UN peacekeeping force, but did not elaborate.The peacekeeping force, known as UNIFIL, has confirmed the presence of tunnels and said it is working with both sides to address the situation in line with UN Security Council resolutions.In southern Lebanon on Thursday, Lebanese army soldiers observed the frontier in Mays al-Jabal, taking photos of their Israeli counterparts operating only a few meters (yards) away. At times, the Lebanese soldiers asked the young men to move back, away from the frontier.Lebanese homes and farms are nestled at the bottom of the hill where the operations run from daybreak until sundown. No civilian Israeli homes are visible from that tense border.Ali Jaber, a 21-year-old resident of Mays al-Jabal, said he believes that Hezbollah is more popular after the Syria war, and that this is the reason Israel is now turning to it. “But whoever puts up a shield and is hiding and making fortifications must be scared,” he said.Hussein Melhem, a 19-year old electrician from the village, came to watch. His cheeks ruddy on a cold but clear day, he covered his head with a tight hood. He alleged that Israel was trying to change the border.“If they could occupy all of this, they would,” he said, in an apparent reference to Israel’s 18-year military occupation of southern Lebanon which ended in 2000. “But the resistance will prevent them.”The 2006 war was sparked when Hezbollah attacked an IDF patrol in July, killing five soldiers and abducting the bodies of two.As a seven-year-old in 2006, Melhem and his family left Mays al-Jabal when Israel invaded. His village was badly damaged but has since largely recovered and he said he found their home intact.It is hard to forget about war in the villages and towns along the frontier. Pictures of Hezbollah fighters who died in the 2006 war, as well as the one raging in neighboring Syria, known locally as the “Sacred Defense,” are everywhere. Posts on town squares boast of defeating Israel or urge the locals to “know their enemy.”During the Syrian civil war, Israel has frequently carried out airstrikes in Syria against Iranian-allied forces, particularly Hezbollah. Israel says it aims to prevent sophisticated weaponry from reaching Hezbollah, which it considers its most pressing security concern.In Lebanon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s warnings have raised suspicions that he is also using the tunnel operation as a diplomatic pressure card.Netanyahu has called for more sanctions against Hezbollah. In a visit to the frontier earlier this week, he warned that if Hezbollah tries to disrupt the search for tunnels, “it will be hit in a way it cannot even imagine.”In Israel, some newspaper commentators have been critical of the UN peacekeeping force, whose mandate Israel and the United States have unsuccessfully attempted to expand to include “intervention and deterrence.”
Weekly Standard, anti-Trump conservative journal, shuts down-Owners say closure a result of changing media market, not its criticism of the US president-By Agencies-TOI-DEC 16,18
The company that owns The Weekly Standard, for 23 years a flagship of an interventionist and robustly pro-Israel foreign policy, is shutting it down.Clarity Media Group said the closure was a result of a roiling media market and rejected claims that the fact that the Standard is a leading conservative outlet criticizing US President Donald Trump was a factor.Clarity rejected efforts by the weekly’s editorial staff to find another buyer. Clarity owns another publication, the Washington Examiner, which has not been as robust as the Standard in its criticism of Trump.The Standard was founded in 1995 by Bill Kristol, Fred Barnes, and John Podhoretz. Kristol and Podhoretz, who are Jewish, are scions of the neoconservative movement.Clarity chief executive Ryan McKibben said the news magazine “has been hampered by many of the same challenges that countless other magazines and newspapers across the country have been wrestling with,” and had seen double-digit declines in circulation in recent years.“For more than 20 years The Weekly Standard has provided a valued and important perspective on political, literary and cultural issues of the day,” said McKibben.“The magazine has been home to some of the industry’s most dedicated and talented staff and I thank them for their hard work and contributions, not just to the publication, but the field of journalism.”Kristol tweeted on Friday: “All good things come to an end. And so, after 23 years, does The Weekly Standard… We worked hard to put out a quality magazine, and we had a good time doing so. And we have much more to do.”The magazine strongly supported the policies of president George W. Bush during his two terms in office, but has opposed Trump, notably on issues of tariffs and trade.A recent editorial harshly criticized Trump as well as the Republicans who have gone along with the president in the face of an investigation linking him to potential criminal acts.“It is a commonplace, in the Trump era, to say that the old criteria of decency and honor no longer appear to apply,” the magazine said in its December 10 editorial.“The president’s mendacity is so aggressive, his malfeasance so common, that his everyday behavior no longer surprises and these days rarely elicits condemnation from other Republicans.”
