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
President offers condolences after Florida
shooting-'The people of Israel stand with the people of Florida, and all
America,' Reuven Rivlin writes-By TOI staff-FEB 15,18
President
Reuven Rivlin on Thursday expressed condolences over a shooting rampage
at a Florida high school, in which an ex-pupil opened fire with an
AR-15 rifle, killing at least 17 people.“The people of #Israel stand
with the people of #Florida, and all America, in grief this morning. Our
hearts go out to the victims and their families,” Rivlin wrote on his
Twitter account.Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel identified the
gunman as Nikolas Cruz, 19, a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas
High School in Parkland who had been expelled for “disciplinary
reasons.”He was arrested without incident in the nearby town of Coral
Springs after the Valentine’s Day killing spree and taken to a hospital
with minor injuries, the sheriff said.The shooting happened even though
police officers were present at the school, NBC News reported.Pupils at
the school have spoken about Cruz as a loner who enjoyed hunting and
liked doing “reckless stuff.”Brandon Minoff, a senior at the school said
he had two classes with Cruz two years ago. He told NBC News that while
it was “surreal” to hear Cruz named as the suspect, “I wasn’t
surprised.”“I got paired with him for a project, and he started talking
to me about his life — how he was held back twice, expelled from two
private schools. He likes to do reckless stuff,” Minoff said.“He had
aspirations to join the military,” Minoff added. “He enjoyed
hunting.”Sebastian Toala, another senior, told NBC Miami, “I never
really got close to him, because I always had a feeling there was
something wrong.”Parkland, in north Broward County, is some 30 miles
northwest of Fort Lauderdale.Local 10 News, an ABC affiliate, named one
of the dead students as Jaime Guttenberg, who was Jewish. The Israeli
Foreign Ministry said it did not know of any Israeli victims in the
shooting.
Accused Florida high school gunman faces 17
murder counts-[Reuters]-By Bernie Woodall and Zachary
Fagenson-YAHOONEWS-February 15, 2018
PARKLAND, Fla.
(Reuters) - A 19-year-old man who had been expelled from his Florida
high school was due in court on Thursday, charged with 17 counts of
murder, after authorities say he unleashed one of the deadliest school
shootings in U.S. history.The ex-student, identified as Nikolas Cruz,
19, walked into the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on
Wednesday and opened fire on students and teachers, Broward County
Sheriff Scott Israel said. Police believe he acted alone.Cruz was
expected to appear in court Thursday afternoon for a bond hearing, faced
with 17 counts of premeditated murder, said Constance Simmons, a
spokeswoman for the state attorney's office.Cruz was armed with an
AR-15-style rifle and had multiple ammunition magazines when he
surrendered to officers in a nearby residential area, police said. He
loved guns and was expelled for unspecified disciplinary reasons, police
and former classmates said.The shooting in a community about 45 miles
(72 km) north of Miami was the 18th in a U.S. school this year,
according to gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety, continuing a
troubling pattern that has played out over the past few years.It was the
second deadliest shooting in a U.S. public school after the 2012
massacre of 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary
in Newtown, Connecticut.The deadliest school shooting in U.S. history
was at Virginia Tech in 2007, when 32 people were killed.The Florida
shooting stirred the long-simmering U.S. debate on the right to bear
arms, which are protected by the Second Amendment of the U.S.
Constitution.Schools across the country have installed electronically
secured doors and added security staff, but few legislative solutions
have emerged."So many signs that the Florida shooter was mentally
disturbed, even expelled from school for bad and erratic behavior," U.S.
President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Thursday. "Neighbors and
classmates knew he was a big problem. Must always report such instances
to authorities, again and again!"Trump plans to address the nation from
the White House at 11 a.m. EST (1600 GMT), a spokeswoman said."There's
more questions than answers," Speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives, Republican Paul Ryan, said in an interview with Indiana
radio station WIBC. "I don't think that means you then roll that
conversation into taking away citizens' rights."A law enforcement
officer is assigned to every school in the Broward County district,
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High board member Donna Korn told a local
newspaper. The sheriff's office also provides active shooter training
and schools have a single point of entry, she said."We have prepared the
campuses, but sometimes people still find a way to let these horrific
things happen," Korn said.The first victim of the attack was publicly
identified on Thursday as Aaron Feis, an assistant coach on the school's
football team and a school security guard who was shot while shielding
students, the team said on Twitter.'THE WORST IN HUMANITY'-Hundreds of
panicked students fled the building, running past heavily armed,
helmeted police officers while others huddled in closets."This has been a
day we’ve seen the worst in humanity," Broward County Public Schools
Superintendent Robert Runcie said Wednesday.The assailant wore a gas
mask as he stalked into the school carrying a rifle, ammunition
cartridges and smoke grenades, then pulled a fire alarm, prompting
students and staff to pour from classrooms into hallways, according to
Florida's two U.S. senators, who were brief by federal authorities.Cruz
had recently moved in with another family after his mother's death in
November, according to Jim Lewis, a lawyer representing the family and
local media, bringing his AR-15 along with his other belongings.The
family believed Cruz was depressed, but attributed that to his mother's
death, not mental illness."They didn't see any danger. They didn't see
any kind of predilection this was going to happen," Lewis told CNN.Cruz
may have left warning signs on social media. Buzzfeed reported that a
person named Nikolas Cruz left a comment under a YouTube video that read
"I'm going to be a professional school shooter." The man who posted the
video was alarmed and contacted the FBI, Buzzfeed reported.Reuters was
unable to immediately confirm those details.Colton Haab, a 17-year-old
member of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps at the high school,
said he realized the alarms were not a drill after hearing several shots
fired."That for me changed it to an active shooter scenario," he said.
Haab rushed to his ROTC room and helped usher several dozen students
inside, barricading them behind curtains made of Kevlar, a material used
to make bullet-proof vests."We grabbed two pieces of two-by-four, a
fire extinguisher and a chair," Haab said. "We were going to try to stop
him with whatever we had."(Additional reporting by Zachary Fagenson in
Parkland, Florida, Jonathan Allen in New York, Susan Heavey in
Washington and Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee; Writing by Scott Malone;
Editing by John Stonestreet and Jeffrey Benkoe)
Florida
teen charged with 17 murder counts in school attack-Nikolas Cruz, an
orphaned 19-year-old with a troubled past, opened fire inside his former
school with a semi-automatic weapon-By AP and TOI staff-FEB 15,18
An
orphaned 19-year-old with a troubled past and an AR-15 rifle was
charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder Thursday morning after
being questioned for hours by state and federal authorities following
the deadliest school shooting in the US in five years.Fifteen wounded
survivors were hospitalized as bodies were recovered from inside and
around Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.Just before the shooting
broke out, some students thought they were having another fire
drill.Such an exercise had forced them to leave their classrooms hours
earlier. So when the alarm went off Wednesday afternoon shortly before
they were to be dismissed, they once again filed out into the
hallways.That’s when police say Nikolas Cruz, equipped with a gas mask,
smoke grenades and multiple magazines of ammunition, opened fire with a
semi-automatic weapon, killing 17 people and sending hundreds of
students fleeing into the streets. It was the nation’s deadliest school
shooting since a gunman attacked an elementary school in Newtown,
Connecticut, more than five years ago.“Our district is in a tremendous
state of grief and sorrow,” said Robert Runcie, superintendent of the
school district in Parkland, about an hour’s drive north of Miami. “It
is a horrible day for us.”Authorities offered no immediate details about
Cruz or his possible motive, except to say that he had been kicked out
of the high school, which has about 3,000 students. Students who knew
him described a volatile teenager whose strange behavior had caused
others to end friendships with him.Cruz’s mother Lynda Cruz died of
pneumonia on November 1 neighbors, friends and family members said,
according to the Sun Sentinel. Cruz and her husband, who died of a heart
attack several years ago, adopted Nikolas and his biological brother,
Zachary, after the couple moved from Long Island in New York to Broward
County.The boys were left in the care of a family friend after their
mother died, family member Barbara Kumbatovich, of Long Island,
said.Student describes scene at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
pic.twitter.com/KPgYpJGeWA— WSVN 7 News (@wsvn) February 14,
2018-Unhappy there, Nikolas Cruz asked to move in with a friend’s family
in northwest Broward. The family agreed and Cruz moved in around
Thanksgiving. According to the family’s lawyer, who did not identify
them, they knew that Cruz owned the AR-15 but made him keep it locked up
in a cabinet. He did have the key, however.Jim Lewis said the family is
devastated and didn’t see this coming. They are cooperating with
authorities, he said.Victoria Olvera, a 17-year-old junior at the
school, said Cruz was expelled last school year because he got into a
fight with his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend. She said he had been
abusive to his girlfriend.“I think everyone had in their minds if
anybody was going to do it, it was going to be him,” she said.Cruz was
taken into custody without a fight about an hour after the shooting, in a
residential neighborhood about a mile away. He had multiple magazines
of ammunition, authorities said.“It’s catastrophic. There really are no
words,” said Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel.Frantic parents rushed
to the school to find SWAT team members and ambulances surrounding the
huge campus and emergency workers who appeared to be treating the
wounded on sidewalks. Students who hadn’t run began leaving in a
single-file line with their hands over their heads as officers urged
them to evacuate quickly.Hearing loud bangs as the shooter fired, many
of the students inside hid under desks or in closets, and barricaded
doors.“We were in the corner, away from the windows,” said freshman Max
Charles, who said he heard five gunshots. “The teacher locked the door
and turned off the light. I thought maybe I could die or something.”As
he was leaving the building, he saw four dead students and one dead
teacher. He said he was relieved when he finally found his mother.“I was
happy that I was alive,” Max said. “She was crying when she saw
me.”Noah Parness, a 17-year-old junior, said he and the other students
calmly went outside to their fire-drill areas when he suddenly heard
popping sounds.“We saw a bunch of teachers running down the stairway,
and then everybody shifted and broke into a sprint,” Parness said. “I
hopped a fence.”Most of the fatalities were inside the building, though
some victims were found fatally shot outside, the sheriff said.The first
fatality identified by local news outlets was Jewish teenager Jaime
Guttenberg.Guttenberg’s friends were on Thursday leaving tributes on
Facebook to say how heartbroken they were at her death.Posted by Jaime
Guttenberg on Tuesday, 17 January 2017-According to local media reports,
parents Fred and Jennifer initially shared photos of their daughter
through Facebook in the hope that someone would find her alive.On
learning that she had died, they changed Jaime’s Facebook page, which
now reads, “Remembering Jaime Guttenberg. We hope that people who love
Jaime will find comfort in visiting her profile to remember and
celebrate her life.”Jaime’s brother Jesse, also a pupil at the school,
was unharmed in the attack.Rabbi Bradd Boxman of Kol Tikvah, a Reform
congregation in the town inland from Boca Raton, said he knew of at
least four Jewish high school students among the wounded, including
three from his congregation. They were in area hospitals and had
undergone surgery.Yeshiva World News identified another Jewish victim,
Ben Wikander, and said that he was undergoing surgery after being shot
three times during the attack.Senator Bill Nelson told CNN that Cruz had
pulled the fire alarm “so the kids would come pouring out of the
classrooms into the hall.”“And there the carnage began,” said Nelson,
who said he was briefed by the FBI.The scene was reminiscent of the
Newtown attack, which shocked even a country numbed by the regularity of
school shootings. The December 14, 2012, assault at Sandy Hook
Elementary School killed 26 people: 20 first-graders and six staff
members. The 20-year-old gunman, who also fatally shot his mother in her
bed, then killed himself.Not long after Wednesday’s attack in Florida,
Michael Nembhard was sitting in his garage on a cul-de-sac when he saw a
young man in a burgundy shirt walking down the street. In an instant, a
police cruiser pulled up, and officers jumped out with guns drawn.“All I
heard was ‘Get on the ground! Get on the ground!'” Nembhard said. He
said Cruz did as he was told.The school was to be closed for the rest of
the week.
4 life sentences for terrorist who killed
Salomon family of Halamish-Military court judges discuss death penalty
for Omar al-Abed, but ultimately rule against it, call for 19-year-old
'not to be released in any future deal'-By Jacob Magid-TOI-FEB 15,18
The
Judea Military Court handed down four life sentences Thursday to the
terrorist who slaughtered Yosef, Chaya and Elad Salomon in the Halamish
settlement last July.Nineteen-year-old Omar al-Abed was given one life
sentence for each of the murders and an additional life sentence for the
attempted murders of Yosef’s wife Tova, who was seriously wounded, and
daughter-in-law Michal, who hid with her five children.In addition, Abed
was ordered to pay NIS 2,550,000 ($724,634) in damages to the family
within three years.The Salomons had been calling for the death penalty
against al-Abed, and the judges in their ruling said that they had
considered capital punishment.“We also discussed the maximum sentence —
the death penalty. Words cannot describe the extent of the atrocity
committed by the defendant,” the judges wrote. They went on to call for
al-Abed “not to be released in any future deal.”In the minority opinion,
Judge Dov Gilboa argued in favor of executing Abed, stating that “he
enjoyed the whole trial with a smile.” The two other judges, Menachem
Lieberman and Zvi Heilbronn, voted against capital punishment.Responding
to Thursday’s sentence, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, who had
called for the death penalty for al-Abed, tweeted that “no number of
life sentences is enough to punish this human being who still has a
smile smeared on his face. My heart aches with the Salomon family.”After
sneaking into Halamish late Friday night on July 21, Abed “noticed that
the house to his right was dark and quiet, while the house to his left
was lit up, with laughter emerging from within,” and decided to
approach, the August indictment against him said.The Salomons were
celebrating the birth of a new grandson and assumed the knock on the
door came from their first guest. Upon walking inside, Abed rhetorically
asked Chaya, “What about Al-Aqsa,” before thrusting his knife into her
stomach.In a Facebook post published before he set out from the
neighboring village of Kobar, Abed wrote that Palestinians needed to
defend the Temple Mount.The previous day, heavy clashes broke out
between Palestinian protesters and Israeli police in and around
Jerusalem over new security measures at the Temple Mount, following a
deadly terror attack at the site, which is holy to both Jews and
Muslims.After killing Chaya, 46, Abed proceeded to stab Tova, 68, who
managed to escape and run upstairs shouting, “Terrorist,” the indictment
said.He went on to stab Yosef, 70, in the stomach, causing the latter
to collapse to the floor.After sustaining three stab wounds, Elad
managed to wrestle the knife from Abed’s hands. The two continued to
fight until Abed grabbed a wooden cutting board and bashed it over
Elad’s head, causing him to collapse. Abed then proceeded to stab the
father of five 12 times as his children hid upstairs with his wife,
Michal.Then, noticing that Yosef was still conscious, Abed stabbed the
grandfather 15 more times until he too stopped moving. At that point, a
neighbor, an off-duty soldier who heard the screams, managed to shoot
and wound the terrorist through the kitchen window. He and his father
secured the house and waited for security forces to arrive. In August,
Israeli forces sealed with cement the floor of the Kobar home where Abed
and his family had lived, but the Salomon family is petitioning the
High Court for the entire home to be demolished.Israel says the
demolishing of terrorists’ homes is an effective means of deterring
future attacks, though the practice has been criticized as a form of
collective punishment.After the partial demolition, Elad’s wife Michal
said the measure was insufficient and called for harsher punishments for
terrorists, including the death penalty.“Their house can be rebuilt; my
home has been destroyed forever,” she said in a statement. “We need the
death penalty so that these terrorists will not be able to build a new
home, and if not the death penalty, then we need to seriously toughen
their imprisonment conditions and withhold from them everything but the
minimum, things like television or the possibility of education.”In
December, when the Military Advocate General said he would not seek the
death penalty against Abed, the Salomon family accused Liberman and
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of “toying with them” by making false
pledges that they would advance legislation sanctioning the death
penalty for terrorists.Despite the MAG’s recommendation of four life
sentences, the Judea Military Court still could have handed down an
execution verdict, but chose to side with the MAG in a 2-1 vote. The
MAG, in his recommendation, acknowledged that capital punishment is
permissible under law, but wrote that the measure was against the
military’s policy.Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party made a death penalty a
major campaign promise in the 2015 election.The legislation the party
is currently advancing in the Knesset would apply to those convicted of
fatal acts of terrorism, based on the Israeli legal definition. In light
of the existing law, a Yisrael Beytenu spokesperson confirmed to The
Times of Israel, the death penalty would extend to Palestinians
convicted of killing IDF soldiers as well as civilians.Only one person
has ever been sentenced to death by a standing Israeli court: Nazi
officer Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Holocaust.Though it
has only ever been used in Eichmann’s case in 1962, the death penalty
formally exists in Israeli law. It is technically allowed in cases of
high treason, as well as in certain circumstances under the military law
that applies within the IDF and in the West Bank.
Russian
official: If Iran attacks Israel, we’ll stand with you-Moscow's deputy
ambassador in Tel Aviv says while Israel was right to shoot down
intruding drone, he doesn't buy IDF's assertion that Tehran was behind
Saturday's launch-By Raphael Ahren-TOI-FEB 15,18
Were
Iran to attack Israel, Moscow would stand by the Jewish state’s side, a
Russian official said this week, days after an Iranian-made drone
infiltrated Israel from Syria and was shot down by the IDF.“In the case
of aggression against Israel, not only will the United States stand by
Israel’s side — Russia, too, will be on Israel’s side,” Russian Deputy
Ambassador to Israel Leonid Frolov said. “Many of our countrymen live
here in Israel, and Israel in general is a friendly nation, and
therefore we won’t allow any aggression against Israel.”Still, in a
wide-ranging interview conducted at the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv on
Monday, Frolov cast doubt on Israel’s assertion that Iran was behind the
drone incursion and suggested Israeli intelligence agencies establish
contacts with its Syrian counterparts.He also predicted that Israelis
would not be happy about the forthcoming American peace plan, and
dismissed the outrage against Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud
Abbas’s condemnation of Israel as a European colonial project with no
connection to Judaism.“We certainly support Israel’s right to defend
itself, and the actions of Israeli pilots were entirely correct,” he
said of Saturday’s flareup in the north, during which an Israeli fighter
jet was shot down by a Syrian anti-aircraft battery and two pilots were
injured.“We certainly regret that in this incident two Israeli pilots
were injured,” Frolov said. “On behalf of the Russian embassy I am
wishing a speedy recovery to the wounded pilots.”On Saturday morning, an
Israeli Apache helicopter shot down the unmanned aerial vehicle a
minute and a half after it had entered Israeli airspace. In retaliation
for the infiltration, the Israeli Air Force attacked several targets in
Syria, severely damaging the regime’s air defense systems.Russia is a
staunch ally of both Iran and Syria, assisting both countries in their
efforts to help the Syrian regime fend off rebels trying to bring down
President Bashar Assad in a bloody seven-year civil war.“Syria is a
sovereign country and the Syrian people, too, have the right to
self-defense,” Frolov said.Israel has repeatedly vowed to do whatever it
takes to prevent Iran’s efforts to entrench itself militarily in Syria.
Jerusalem, which has reportedly attacked Iranian targets in Syria, and
Moscow have established a so-called deconfliction mechanism to avoid
clashes in the skies of the war-torn country.Israel’s demand that Iran
not be allowed to establish a strong military presence in Syria is
“absolutely legitimate,” Frolov said.Moscow agrees that Iranian forces
must leave the country as soon as the bloody civil war ends and a new
democratic government is established, he said. In the meantime, however,
anti-regime rebels — or “terrorists,” as Frolov called them — are
trying to destabilize Syria, prompting Assad to invite Iranian forces to
help defeat them, he said. Russia is convinced that all foreign
military personnel will leave the country once calm has been
reestablished.In seeking to prevent Iran’s entrenchment in Syria, Israel
should “have established closer ties with Syrian secret services,” he
added. “Israel is surrounded by many enemy states. But that doesn’t
prevent the Israeli leadership from announcing that their secret
services have contacts with counterparts from Saudi Arabia or Qatar, for
instance.”Part of the remains of the UAV the #Iranians tried to sneak
into Israel. Not much left of it, similar to some parts of the #Syrian
air defense array. pic.twitter.com/TqVr3vNPcu— Jonathan Conricus
(@LTCJonathan) February 11, 2018-Though he agreed that Israel was well
within its rights to shoot done the drone, Frolov cast doubt on its
assertion that Iran was behind the incursion. Rather, he suggested that
anti-regime forces launched the drone in order to trigger an Israeli
attack on the forces loyal to Assad.“I am sure that every UAV that
intrudes into Israeli airspace needs to be shot down. It would be even
better to bring down the UAV [without destroying it] and to see who
created it, to whom it belongs,” he said, speaking in Russian through an
interpreter.What would the Iranians gain from sending a UAV to Israel?
After all, the Iranians know it would be shot down-“One can accuse the
Iranians of many things, but they’re not stupid,” he went on. “They know
what would happen if they sent a drone over to Israel. No one doubts
that Israel has the capability to defeat Iranian military forces in
Syria. But we don’t want to assume, without proof, that the Iranians in
Syria are insane.”The IDF stated unequivocally that the drone — a
replica of the American RQ-170 — was built and piloted by Iranian troops
stationed in Syria. US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley on Wednesday
told the Security Council that “Iranian-backed militias” were behind the
drone attack, which she described as an “egregious and unprompted
escalation” and a “wake-up call for all of us.”But Frolov, a soft
spoken, gray-haired veteran diplomat who previously served in Ramallah
and the Libyan capital of Tripoli, adamantly disagreed with the Israeli
assertion, saying that the photos of the destroyed drone published in
Israel in no way proved that Iran has behind Saturday’s launch.“I don’t
know who did it,” he said, adding that rebel groups are present in the
location where the UAV was launched. “It would fit these gangs to make
provocations in order for Israel to attack positions in Syria. We always
need to ask ourselves who gains from this. What would the Iranians gain
from sending a UAV into Israel? After all, the Iranians know it would
be shut down and afterwards the Israelis would attack several targets in
Syria.”Jerusalem usually updates Moscow before launching strikes in
Syria, and therefore it was unlikely that any Russians were hit by
Israel’s attacks on Saturday, Frolov said.Asked if Russia gives Israel
the green light for those attacks, he replied, “I don’t think that
Israel is the type of country that takes instructions or waits for green
light from anyone.”While it was natural for President Vladimir Putin to
demand that Israel not harm Russian servicemen, Frolov denied reports
that the Kremlin relayed any threats to Jerusalem over that matter.
“This is not our modus operandi,” he said.In the interview, granted to
The Times of Israel on the occasion of Russian Diplomats Day last
Saturday, Frolov also addressed at great length Kremlin’s position on
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.The US administration’s recognition of
Jerusalem as Israel’s capital “greatly disrupted the peace process,” he
said, adding that he failed to understand why Israelis so jubilantly
celebrated President Donald Trump’s December 6 declaration. Besides
acknowledging the obvious — that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital — Trump
also made plain that the final borders will be determined by
negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.“You see in Trump’s
declaration what you like. But the fact that the declaration disturbs
the peace process doesn’t bother you. No one doubts that Israel’s
capital will be in Jerusalem. We are simply saying that the Arab
population that lives in the Palestinian territories also deserves a
capital in this holy city,” he said.No one in Israel applauded when
Moscow recognized western Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in April of
2017, Frolov noted, adding that the Russian Embassy in Israel was
considering hosting its June 12 Russia Day ceremony in the city.Russia
would like to play a more significant role in the peace process, Frolov
said, acknowledging, however, that “without the US it’s impossible to
reach agreements” between Israelis and Palestinians.“We remember the
French effort to launch a peace conference and we also remember how it
ended,” he said referring to a January 2017 meeting in Paris, which
concluded with little more than a joint statement calling for a
two-state solution. Abbas is simply looking for someone who will prevent
President Trump from ruining the situation even more-Moscow would
actually like the US to take a more active approach to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Frolov said, noting that after a year of
the administration talking about a peace proposal nobody has seen a
draft.“I don’t think that you will be as happy to see the proposal as
you were happy to see the first sentence of Trump’s Jerusalem
declaration,” he predicted, hinting that it may ask Israel for painful
concessions.Despite the Palestinians’ rejection of the US as a mediator
with Israel, Abbas, who visited Moscow this week, does not seek to
exclude the administration from the peace process, the Russian diplomat
said. “He is simply looking for someone who will prevent President Trump
from ruining the situation even more. [Abbas] is an intelligent man who
knows the history [of the peace process] very well.”Frolov also played
down the Palestinian leader’s controversial January 14 speech to the
Palestine Liberation Organization’s Central Council in Ramallah, in
which he claimed that the State of Israel is “a colonial project that
has nothing to do with Judaism” to safeguard European interests.“We’re
not little children who get upset over statements made in anger and
excitement,” Frolov said, adding that there are also Israelis who make
outrageous and historically questionable statements.As opposed to some
Arab states that used to finance wars against Israel but now
clandestinely cooperate with the Jewish state, the Palestinians have for
some time now been ready to “live in good neighborly relations with
Israel,” he said.
Gaza’s only power plant shuts down over
fuel shortage-Fears grow that closure of plant, which normally provides
around a fifth of Gaza's electricity, will further worsen already
critical humanitarian situation in enclave-By AFP-TOI-FEB 15,18
GAZA
CITY — The sole electricity plant in the Gaza Strip stopped working
Thursday because of a lack of fuel, officials said, as concerns grew
over worsening humanitarian conditions in the Palestinian enclave.The
closure of the plant, which normally provides around a fifth of Gaza’s
electricity, will exacerbate an already critical power shortage.Gaza’s
two million residents receive only around four hours of electricity a
day.Mohammed Thabet, spokesman for Gaza’s energy distribution company,
said it had been informed by the energy authority that the power station
stopped functioning at midnight because of the lack of fuel.Usually the
plant provides around 20 megawatts per day using fuel imported from
Egypt, but now the only energy is the roughly 120 megawatts of
electricity imported from Israel.“The Gaza Strip needs around 500
megawatts (per day). We have an energy deficit of 380 megawatts,” Thabet
said.The distribution company called in a statement for rapid moves to
provide fuel to the plant again.Last week, the United Arab Emirates
provided financing for fuel for generators at hospitals and other key
facilities. Three hospitals and 16 medical centers had stopped offering
key services in recent weeks because of the crippling fuel shortages.The
power station has temporarily shut down a number of times in recent
years over energy shortages.It was hit by Israel in previous wars with
Hamas, the terror group that runs the Palestinian territory.Israel has
maintained a blockade on the Strip for a decade, saying it is essential
to prevent terrorists from obtaining materials to fortify military
positions, dig tunnels and build rockets to fire at the Jewish state,
and Egypt has also largely closed its border in recent years.The
Palestinian Authority, based in the West Bank, has also sought to
squeeze rival Hamas.
Agents’ in Syria said to transfer
fallen anti-aircraft rocket to Israel-Report says a Russian-made S-200
that landed on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights has made its way
into Israeli hands-By Dov Lieber-TOI-FEB 15,18
Israeli
“agents” in Syrian border villages reportedly handed over an
anti-aircraft rocket fired by the Syrian military at IDF military jets
on Saturday to Israeli security forces.A total of three Russian-made
S-200 anti-aircraft missiles were found in non-Israeli territory after
the Syrian military fired a barrage of rockets at Israeli jets that were
striking both Iranian and Syrian targets in Syria, the al-Khaleej
Online news site reported.The wave of Israeli airstrikes came after the
IDF intercepted an Iranian drone that had infiltrated its airspace.
During the first wave of strikes, an Israeli F-16 was downed upon its
return from Syria.One of the rockets landed in northern Jordan,
fragments of a rocket landed on the Lebanese-Syrian border, and
fragments of a third rocket landed near Israel in the Syrian border
villages Ain al-Tina and Qusaiba, the report said.The fragments that
landed near the Israeli border were transferred into Israeli hands by
what the report called Israeli “agents” in the area.The report sourced
the information to unnamed local sources inside the Syrian border
villages.Israel is known to have close cooperation with Syrians on its
border, with whom it coordinates the transfer of humanitarian aid into
the war-racked country.Additionally, it has been reported that Israel
also provides direct financial support to Syrian opposition fighters.The
policy, according to the reports, is aimed at strengthening Syrian
rebel groups at the expense of forces hostile to Israel, namely Iranian
proxy and Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, as well as various Iranian
units fighting on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s behalf in
Syria.While Israel acknowledges its humanitarian operations in southern
Syria, it does not comment on whether there is military coordination
with opposition groups.
Muslim Malaysia rejects criticism
over Israeli visit-Decision to allow a high-level delegation from
Jerusalem to attend a UN conference in Kuala Lumpur sparked widespread
anger-By AFP-TOI-FEB 15,18
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia —
Malaysia on Thursday defended the decision to allow a high-level Israeli
delegation to attend a UN conference in Kuala Lumpur after the move
sparked widespread anger in the Muslim-majority country.Foreign Minister
Anifah Aman said Malaysia, as host of last week’s international forum
on urban development, had no choice but to allow all UN member states to
take part.Malaysia has no formal diplomatic ties with Israel and many
in the country support the Palestinian cause, with thousands taking to
the streets in December to protest when US President Donald Trump
recognized Jerusalem as the Jewish state’s capital.The Israeli
delegation at the conference was led by David Roet, who used to be
Israel’s deputy ambassador to the UN, and included other senior foreign
ministry officials and a former minister, the Times of Israel
reported.Roet posted pictures of himself on Twitter at various locations
around Kuala Lumpur and next to a Malaysian flag.“I have great hopes
for good relations between our two countries in the future,” he said in a
tweet.3. Found many similarities between Israelis???????? &
Malaysian????????. A Multifaceted society of people from different
backgrounds working together for a better future.
pic.twitter.com/TtD63nGMRB— David Roet???????? (@DavidRoet) February 12,
2018-Opposition groups and Islamic NGOs attacked the government for
allowing him to take part in the event, with Rais Hussin from political
party Bersatu labeling it a “great disservice to the Palestinian
cause.”“Israel will be very happy that this has happened,” he told
AFP.But Foreign Minister Anifah insisted Malaysia had been compelled to
allow Israel to participate, noting the letter of invitation to the
Jewish state was not signed by any Malaysian official.“The issue of
Malaysia tacitly establishing links with Israel through the hosting of
this forum does not arise,” he said in a statement.1. Proud to have led
#Israel’s???????? official delegation to #UN’s international #WUF9
meeting in #KualaLampour #Malaysia. @EmmanuelNahshon @IsraelMFA
pic.twitter.com/FY9kr4R3wH— David Roet???????? (@DavidRoet) February 12,
2018-“Our position on Israel remains unchanged. To imply otherwise is
an indication of malicious and malignant intent.”Malaysia has previously
stopped Israelis from entering the country for international events.In
2015 two Israeli windsurfers were denied visas for a competition on the
holiday island of Langkawi, forcing them to withdraw from the event.
Australia
bans sex between government ministers and staff-PM Turnbull amends code
of conduct after his deputy makes 'a shocking error of judgement' by
having an affair that left an aide pregnant-By Martin Parry-TOI-FEB
15,18
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australia’s prime
minister imposed a formal ban on sex between ministers and their staff
on Thursday after his deputy made “a shocking error of judgement” by
having an affair that left an aide pregnant and the government
reeling.Malcolm Turnbull announced the amendment to the ministerial code
of conduct at an extraordinary press conference during which he slammed
deputy Barnaby Joyce for causing “terrible hurt and humiliation” to his
wife and four children.“Barnaby made a shocking error of judgement in
having an affair with a young woman working in his office,” he said.“In
doing so, he has set off a world of woe for those women and appalled all
of us.“Our hearts go out to them. It has been a dreadful thing for them
to go through in the glare of publicity.”Joyce, 50, has been under
immense pressure since his affair with former media advisory Vikki
Campion, 33, who is now pregnant with their child, became public last
week.It has led to allegations that he breached ministerial rules, with
the crisis dominating the front pages and parliament question time, with
calls mounting for him to resign.Joyce, whose National Party is in a
coalition with the prime minister’s Liberals, will take leave next week,
allowing him to sidestep the role of acting leader while Turnbull is on
a visit to the United States.Turnbull departs for Washington next
Wednesday for meetings with US President Donald Trump and is scheduled
to be overseas for four days.Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, as deputy
Liberal leader, would normally step in if Joyce was unavailable. But she
will also be traveling, which means Senate leader Mathias Cormann will
take the position.The Prime Minister of Australia has had to introduce a
#BonkBan into his Ministerial Code of Conduct. That tells you
everything you need to know about the state of politics right now.
#auspol— Farrah Tomazin (@FarrahTomazin) February 15, 2018-Turnbull said
the break would allow Joyce to “consider his own position.”The prime
minister could sack him, but that risks fracturing the ruling coalition
and could cause a rift between the Liberal and National parties.-‘No
good comes of it’-Joyce admitted to the affair after a picture of his
pregnant lover was splashed across the front page of the Sydney Daily
Telegraph, and has publicly apologized to his shattered wife of 24 years
Natalie and their daughters.Turnbull said times had changed and people
expected politicians to set an example.“I am not here to moralise. But
we must recognise that whatever may have been acceptable or to which a
blind eye was turned in the past, today, in 2018, it is not acceptable
for a minister to have a sexual relationship with somebody who works for
them,” he said.“It is a very bad workplace practice. And everybody
knows that no good comes of it.”As such, he amended the code of conduct
to make unequivocally clear that “ministers, regardless of whether they
are married or single, must not engage in sexual relations with
staff.”Public Service Announcement: You have until the end of the day to
break up with your politician boss. Just a day after Valentine's too.
#bonkban— Jen Dudley-Nicholson (@jendudley) February 15, 2018-Joyce —
best known internationally for threatening to euthanise Hollywood star
Johnny Depp’s dogs over a quarantine violation — denies he breached any
rules, which could be grounds for him to be removed from office.He has
defended the two jobs, one for a minister, that Campion was given after
she stopped working for him last year.The code stipulates that
“partners” of ministers cannot be given jobs in ministerial offices
without the express approval of the prime minister.Joyce is also under
fire over revelations that he accepted a rent-free apartment from a
millionaire friend after his marriage collapsed.Labor accused him of
breaching ministerial standards by asking for a place to live, and in
effect receiving a gift of not paying rent for six months. Joyce insists
it was offered and he did not ask for it.Remember. It's only a #bonkban
if you are having sex with your staff. Sex with other ministers staff
is perfectly okay #auspol— AshGhebranious (@AshGhebranious) February 15,
2018-Joyce was re-elected in his rural constituency in New South Wales
late last year after being forced to stand down over a once-obscure rule
barring dual citizens from federal office.He campaigned on a platform
of being a pillar of the community who upheld conservative values,
including marriage.
MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL EATS HUMANS FLESH FOR COMING AGAINST ISRAEL-JERUSALEM
EZEKIEL 39:11-12,18
11
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog
(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of
the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of
the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall
they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and
they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300
MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
EZEKIEL 39:17-21
17
And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every
feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves,
and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do
sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel,
that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF RUSSIAN/ISLAMIC HORDES
AGAINST ISRAEL)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink
the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats,
of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21
And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall
see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon
them.
22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
REVELATION 19:17-18
17
And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice,
saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and
gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;(AGAINST ALL
NATIONS ARMIES THAT COME AGAINST JERUSALEM AND ISRAEL)
18 That ye
may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of
mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and
the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
EZEKIEL 38:1-7
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2
Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA)
the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy
against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against
thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and
Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I (GOD) will turn thee back, and put hooks into
thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee
forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with
all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields,
all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6
Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of
the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with
thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and
prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto
thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1
Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and
say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the
chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will
turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the
sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I
BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA)
and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4
Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,(
ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the
ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be
devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6
And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) and among them
that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the
LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people
Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the
heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
Head
of Iran’s secret operations overseas threatens to ‘erase Zionist
entity’-Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani calls for revenge on tenth
anniversary of assassination of Hezbollah terror chief Imad
Mughniyeh-By TOI staff-FEB 15,18
The senior Iranian
responsible for coordinating military activity on behalf of the Islamic
Republic in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq threatened Thursday to “wipe out”
the State of Israel.Speaking at a Tehran ceremony to mark the tenth
anniversary of the assassination — attributed to Israel’s Mossad and the
CIA — of Imad Mughniyeh, the global operations chief of the
Iranian-backed Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, al-Quds Force commander
General Qassem Soleimani said that the punishment for shedding
Mughniyeh’s blood would be to “wipe out the Zionist entity.”His call for
revenge came in the wake of renewed tensions on the Israeli-Syrian
border after an Iranian drone entered northern Israel from Syria on
Saturday morning and was shot down by an attack helicopter.The Israeli
air force retaliated against Iranian targets in Syria, but one Israeli
fighter jet was downed by Syrian forces on its return to Israel,
triggering a second round of Israeli strikes, specifically aimed at
Syrian air defenses.Mughniyeh was killed in a car bomb explosion in
Damascus on February 12, 2008. In 2015, his son Jihad, a Hezbollah
commander, was assassinated in an airstrike that was also attributed to
Israel.Soleimani, Iranian media reported, said Israel lived in palpable
fear thanks to the work of Imad Mughniyeh and other “martyrs” in
Lebanon, Iraq and Palestine.He also claimed that Mughniyeh was the one
who “forced” Israel’s army to withdraw from southern Lebanon in 2000 and
praised him for “fortifying the Gaza Strip,” where the terror group
Hamas holds sway.Mughniyeh’s death shocked the world, he said, but
“resulted in Islamic uprising” against Israel.Both Hezbollah and Hamas
receive Iranian funding and support.The al-Quds Force is the branch of
the Iranian Revolutionary Guards responsible for military and
clandestine operations outside of the Islamic Republic.Israel has issued
several stern warnings of late about the increased Iranian involvement
along its border in Syria and Lebanon.On Wednesday, US Ambassador to the
UN Nikki Haley called Iran’s piloting of a drone into Israel a “wake-up
call” to the world regarding Iranian efforts to cement its presence in
Syria.“Iran and Hezbollah are making plans to stay in Syria,” she said.
Oman
foreign minister makes rare visit by Arab official to Temple
Mount-Israeli officials unaware of Jerusalem trip in which Yusuf bin
Alawi, on 3-day visit to the Palestinian Authority, prayed in Dome of
the Rock mosque-By AFP and TOI staff-FEB 15,18
Oman’s
foreign minister made a rare visit by an Arab official to Jerusalem’s
Temple Mount on Thursday after holding talks with Palestinian leaders in
the West Bank.Yusuf bin Alawi toured the Temple Mount compound in the
Old City of Jerusalem and prayed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the site.Alawi
arrived in the West Bank on Tuesday for a three-day visit to the
Palestinian Authority — an unusually long sojourn there by an Arab
foreign minister. It was also the first visit by an Omani foreign
minister to the West Bank, the Gulf news site AlKhaleej Online
reported.Such a visit would usually require coordination with Israeli
officials but an Israeli foreign ministry spokesman said he was unaware
of the visit and could not immediately comment.On Wednesday, Alawi
visited the central West Bank city of Jericho, where he said the need
for establishing a Palestine state was similar to the urgency felt to
establish the State of Israel after the two world wars of the 20th
century.“There was a global desire to establish Israel after the first
and second world wars… Now the establishment of a Palestinian state has
become a strategic necessity for all the world,” he said.He was slated
to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on
Thursday.Abbas and Alawi are expected to discuss ways to “confront”
Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, according to
the report.In a December address from the White House, Trump said his
decision to recognize Jerusalem as the seat of Israel’s government was
merely based on reality, stressed that he was not specifying the
boundaries of Israeli sovereignty in the city, and called for no change
in the status quo at the city’s holy sites.The move was hailed by Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and by leaders across much of the Israeli
political spectrum. It was vehemently opposed by the Palestinians and
the wider Arab world. The Palestinians, who want East Jerusalem to be
the capital of a future Palestinian state, have said Trump’s Jerusalem
decision disqualifies Washington from its historic role as the sole
mediator in the peace process.In January 1996, Israel and Oman signed an
agreement on the reciprocal opening of trade representative offices.
The agreement was suspended during the outbreak of the Second Intifada
in 2000.Raphael Ahren contributed to this report.
