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
UK’s May faces no-confidence vote Wednesday
after Brexit plan crushed-British press says May ‘humiliated and
crushed’ by defeat; however, PM likely to survive the vote unless
lawmakers from her Conservative party rebel-By Agencies-TOI-JAN 17,19
LONDON
— British lawmakers overwhelmingly rejected Prime Minister Theresa
May’s divorce deal with the European Union on Tuesday, plunging the
Brexit process into chaos and triggering a no-confidence vote that could
topple her government.The defeat was widely expected, but the scale of
the House of Commons’ vote — 432 votes against the government and 202 in
support — was devastating for May’s fragile leadership.It followed more
than two years of political upheaval in which May has staked her
political reputation on getting a Brexit deal and was the biggest defeat
for a government in the House of Commons in modern history,
unprecedented in more than a century.Moments after the result was
announced — with Speaker John Bercow bellowing “the noes have it” to a
packed Commons chamber — May said it was only right to test whether the
government still had lawmakers’ support to carry on.Opposition leader
Jeremy Corbyn quickly obliged, saying May’s government had lost the
confidence of Parliament.Lawmakers will vote Wednesday on his motion of
no-confidence. If the government loses, it will have 14 days to overturn
the result or face a national election.-Humiliated and crushed-British
media were scathing.The words “humiliated” and “crushed” featured
prominently in British newspaper headlines following parliament’s
massive rejection of a divorce deal with the EU on Tuesday.Dailies said
May’s grip on power was waning after the huge vote against the agreement
struck between May’s government and Brussels, as she prepared to fight a
no-confidence motion on Wednesday.“May humiliated by 230 votes,” The
Daily Mirror tabloid said.The Daily Telegraph wrote: “Humiliation for
prime minister as MPs overwhelmingly reject deal and Labour tables no
confidence vote.”The broadsheet’s parliamentary sketchwriter Michael
Deacon said May had somehow defied the odds by making a historic event
an anticlimax.“Her speech had all the brio of a mouldy gym sock,” he
wrote.“She sounded as winningly persuasive as a mother snapping at her
children to eat up their cabbage or go to bed hungry.”The vote itself
“was as if Agatha Christie has allowed Miss Marple to solve the murder
half way through and spend the rest of the novel pottering about in the
garden.”-Likely to survive-Although May lacks an overall majority in
Parliament, she looks likely to survive the vote unless lawmakers from
her Conservative party rebel. Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist
Party, which props up May’s government, said it would support her.“The
House has spoken and the government will listen,” May said after the
vote, which leaves her Brexit plan on life support just 10 weeks before
the country is due to leave the EU on March 29.May promised to consult
lawmakers on future moves, but gave little indication of what she plans
to do next. Parliament has given the government until Monday to come up
with a new proposal.She faces a stark choice: Steer the country toward
an abrupt “no-deal” break with the EU or try to nudge it toward a softer
departure. Meanwhile, lawmakers from both government and opposition
parties are trying to wrest control of the Brexit process from a
paralyzed government, so that lawmakers by majority vote can specify a
new plan for Britain’s EU exit.But with no clear majority in Parliament
for any single alternate course, there is a growing chance that Britain
may seek to postpone its departure date while politicians work on a new
plan — or even hand the decision back to voters in a new referendum on
EU membership.-A second referendum? “If you can’t resolve the impasse
here in Westminster, than you have to refer it back to the people,” said
Labour Party lawmaker Chuka Umunna, who supports a second
referendum.May, who had postponed a vote on the deal in December to
avoid certain defeat, had implored lawmakers to back her deal and
deliver on voters’ decision in 2016 to leave the EU.But the deal was
doomed by deep opposition from both sides of the divide over UK’s place
in the bloc. Pro-Brexit lawmakers say the deal will leave Britain bound
indefinitely to EU rules, while pro-EU politicians favor an even closer
economic relationship with Europe.The most contentious section of the
deal was an insurance policy known as the “backstop” designed to prevent
the reintroduction of border controls between the UK’s Northern Ireland
and EU member Ireland Assurances from EU leaders that the backstop is
intended as a temporary measure of last resort completely failed to win
over many British skeptics,Two and a half years after the referendum,
Britain remains divided over how, and whether, to leave the EU.As
lawmakers debated in the chamber, there was a cacophony of chants, drums
and music from rival bands of pro-EU and pro-Brexit protesters outside.
One group waved blue-and-yellow EU flags, the other brandished “Leave
Means Leave” placards.Inside, the government and opposition parties
ordered lawmakers to cancel all other plans to be on hand for the
crucial vote. Labour legislator Tulip Siddiq delayed the scheduled
cesarean birth of her son so she could attend, arriving in a
wheelchair-Some Conservatives want May to seek further talks with EU
leaders on changes before bringing a tweaked version of the bill back to
Parliament, even though EU officials insist the 585-page withdrawal
agreement cannot be renegotiated.Tim Bale, professor of politics at
Queen Mary University of London, said May was unlikely to get changes to
her deal from that could “placate her Brexiteers.”“Or, she reaches out
to Labour and goes for a softer Brexit than most Brexiteers would
contemplate” — but which the EU might accept, Bale said.-Frustrated
EU-Frustrated EU leaders called on May to make her intentions clear on
the future of Brexit.“Now, it is time for the UK.to tell us the next
steps,” said Michel Barnier, the bloc’s chief negotiator.European
Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker — who returned to Brussels late
Tuesday to deal with fallout from the vote — said the rejection of
May’s deal had increased “the risk of a disorderly withdrawal of the
United Kingdom.”“Time is almost up,” he said.Economists warn that an
abrupt break from the EU could batter the British economy and bring
chaotic scenes at borders, ports and airports. Business groups expressed
alarm at the prospect of a “no-deal” exit.“Every business will feel
no-deal is hurtling closer,” said Carolyn Fairbairn, director-general of
the Confederation of British Industry. “A new plan is needed
immediately.”European Council President Donald Tusk highlighted the
quagmire the U.K. had sunk into, and hinted that the best solution might
be for Britain not to leave.“If a deal is impossible, and no one wants
no deal, then who will finally have the courage to say what the only
positive solution is?” he tweeted.
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)
Palestinians
to launch bid for full UN membership despite block by US-‘We know that
we are going to face a US veto but that won’t prevent us from presenting
our application,’ says Palestinian Authority FM-By Carole LANDRY-TOI-17
January 2019
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — The Palestinians
will launch a bid to become a full member of the United Nations even
though such a move will be blocked by the United States, the Palestinian
Authority foreign minister said Tuesday.The Palestinians have the
status of non-member observer state at the world body and full
membership would amount to international recognition of Palestinian
statehood.Any request to become a UN member-state must first be approved
by the Security Council, where the US has veto power, before it is
endorsed by the General Assembly.“We know that we are going to face a US
veto but that won’t prevent us from presenting our application” for
full UN membership, PA Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki told
journalists.The Palestinians will begin lobbying Security Council
members with a view to presenting the application for UN membership in
“a few weeks,” said Maliki.The Palestinians presented a request for UN
membership in 2011, but the application never came before the Security
Council for a vote.
Israel ‘hampering development’-Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday addressed a ceremony at the
United Nations marking the start of the Palestinian chair of the Group
of 77 and China, raising their profile by leading the biggest UN bloc of
developing countries.Abbas charged that Israel was hampering
development in the Middle East and renewed his commitment to a two-state
solution.“Israel’s continued colonization and occupation of the state
of Palestine undermines our development and capacity for cooperation,
coordination and obstructs the cohesive future development of all
peoples of the region,” Abbas told the gathering.The Palestinian leader
said he was committed to a “peaceful solution that brings an end to the
occupation and the realization of the independence of the state of
Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital, living side-by-side in
peace and security with the state of Israel.”The Palestinians reacted
furiously to US President Donald Trump’s decision in December 2017 to
recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, breaking with the international
consensus that the status of the city would be decided in
negotiations.Abbas has broken off ties with the Trump administration and
has vowed to oppose any US peace proposal that he has warned would be
biased in favor of Israel.The US has also cut hundreds of millions of
dollars in aid for the Palestinians including funds to the UN
Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA), which was forced to scale back its
education and health programs.The General Assembly last year adopted a
resolution granting the observer-state of Palestine additional rights to
act as chair of the G77, a bloc of 134 countries at the United
Nations.The US voted against that measure, arguing that the Palestinians
should not be allowed to take the chair because it is not a full
member-state.
Netanyahu said to have asked Trump for
support ahead of Mossad operation in Iran-TV report says PM sought
assistance from US president in case intelligence agents had to be
rescued during mission to obtain nuclear files-By TOI staff-17 January
2019
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with US
President Donald Trump before a major Israeli intelligence operation in
Iran, in order to secure American support if the mission were to go
awry, Israeli television reported Tuesday.In April, Netanyahu revealed a
trove of documents he said proved that Iran had lied about its nuclear
program. He said that the Mossad intelligence agency had spirited the
documents out of a warehouse in the the Iranian capital, Tehran, and
called the haul was one of the “greatest achievements” of Israeli
intelligence.Netanyahu discussed the mission with Trump when the two met
in Davos last January, according to Hadashot TV news, with the prime
minister seeking US assistance in case the Israeli operatives had to be
rescued during the mission.It was not clear from the report how Trump
responded to the request or whether it was the first time he heard about
the operation. The New York Times previously reported that Trump was
informed of the operation by Mossad chief Yossi Cohen during a visit to
Washington in January.The report did not say how Trump responded to the
request.The network also reported that the extraction of the Mossad
agents was far more complicated than previously reported, but did not
provide any details.Though Netanyahu gave few details of the operation
during his April speech, a senior Israeli official told The New York
Times that the Mossad had discovered the warehouse in February 2016, and
had the building under surveillance since then.The operatives broke
into the building one night last January, removed the original documents
and smuggled them back to Israel the same night, the official said,
according to the paper.The official said the delay in making the
material public was due to the time it took to analyze the documents,
the vast majority of which were in Persian.Netanyahu described the
archive as looking like a “dilapidated warehouse” in the Shorabad
District in southern Tehran.“This is where they kept the atomic
archives. Right here. Few Iranians knew where it was, very few, and also
a few Israelis,” Netanyahu said.“Now, from the outside, this was an
innocent looking compound. It looks like a dilapidated warehouse. But
from the inside, it contained Iran’s secret atomic archives locked in
massive files,” he said.Netanyahu showed a picture of long rows of safes
and said that the agents managed to bring back “half a ton of the
material” consisting of 55,000 pages and another 55,000 files on 183
CDs.The cache, he said, contained “incriminating documents,
incriminating charts, incriminating presentations, incriminating
blueprints, incriminating photos, incriminating videos and more.“We’ve
shared this material with the United States, and the United States can
vouch for its authenticity,” he said of the information.
Top
Dem accuses Republicans of using Israel as a wedge issue-Robert
Menendez drops support for Israel-related bill, says GOP’s advancement
of legislation is ‘about scoring political points’-By Ron Kampeas-TOI-17
January 2019
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Senator Robert Menendez,
one of the most reliable pro-Israel voices among Democrats, dropped his
support for an Israel-related bill because he said the Republican
leadership is trying to use it as a wedge issue.“I don’t like the
Majority Leader using the US-Israel relationship as a political pawn,”
Menendez, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, told
Al-Monitor on Monday, after the third bid in a week by Republicans to
advance the bill. The New Jersey senator had voted to advance the bill
the two previous times.Republican Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky,
the majority leader, has tried to advance a Middle East mini-omnibus
bill that includes codification of the $38 billion former president
Barack Obama pledged to Israel over the next 10 years and legislation
that would protect from lawsuits against states that pass legislation
banning state business with Israel boycotters.McConnell needs 60 votes
to advance the bill, but Democrats have stood in the way, saying that
McConnell should first move on their proposals to reopen the government.
US President Donald Trump has said he will not consider spending
legislation that would reopen the government unless it includes $5.7
billion to build a wall with Mexico. The government shutdown is in its
fourth week.Most Democrats also oppose the anti-boycott component of the
bill because they say it infringes on speech freedoms, but four
pro-Israel Democrats who back the anti-boycott legislation had backed
advancing the measure until Tuesday, when Menendez changed his vote.“At
the end of the day this isn’t about getting this done; this is about
scoring political points,” Menendez said.The other three Democrats are
Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Doug Jones
of Alabama.
Eisenkot: Netanyahu’s national security
decisions were never political-Echoing outgoing IDF chief, PM says
government ‘made pertinent decisions whose purpose was to safeguard the
state’s existence’-By TOI staff-JAN 17,19
Following a
changing-of-the-guard ceremony at IDF headquarters Tuesday, in which
outgoing chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot handed over the reins to his
successor, Aviv Kochavi, Eisenkot said that neither he nor Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ever made a national security decision for
political reasons.At a meeting of the General Staff of the army at the
Kirya base in Tel Aviv, Eisenkot offered his parting thoughts to the
army’s top brass.Known as a man of few words, Eisenkot said, “My
recommendations [to the government] were shaped by Israel’s security
needs. There were never any political concerns behind my decisions; nor
were there in the prime minister’s considerations” when it came to
national security, he affirmed.Netanyahu was accused last month by
opposition figures of playing up an IDF operation to locate and destroy
cross-border attack tunnels dug from Lebanon for political gain, with
the announcement coming in the midst of a coalition crisis that
threatened to topple his government.The prime minister would go on to
declare early elections just weeks later, despite the security situation
seemingly staying unchanged.In a series of interviews last week ahead
of his retirement, Eisenkot said the tunnels were a central aspect of
Hezbollah’s plans for a surprise attack and that their destruction
represented a significant setback for the terror group, potentially
putting off a confrontation with Israel by several years.Echoing
Eisenkot, Netanyahu said Tuesday that the security decisions he and the
outgoing chief of staff made were motivated by defense concerns.“We made
pertinent decisions whose purpose was to safeguard the state’s
existence,” he said during a toast at the ceremony.Turning to Kochavi,
Netanyahu said, “We trust you.”Kochavi, until now the deputy chief of
staff, takes over as Israel faces an array of challenges on its
borders.As expected, he hit the ground running, meeting his general
staff on Tuesday afternoon, after which he was scheduled to issue a
daily order sent out to all IDF commanders and soldiers.The new IDF
commander takes over at a time when Israel is openly engaged in military
operations to prevent Iranian entrenchment in Syria, while also facing
weekly violent confrontations in the south on the border with the Gaza
Strip and the constant threat of tensions with Lebanon’s Hezbollah
terror group.Internally, Israel is in the midst of an election season,
with security matters always high on the agenda, and the army has been
subjected to criticism from lawmakers and an outside ombudsman that it
may not be prepared for war.
Palestinian designer seeks to
empower women-Yasmeen Mjalli, 22, grew up in America and sees her
BabyFist fashion label clothes helping to create a community for
Palestinian women facing unwelcome male attention in public-By Clothilde
Mraffko-TOI-JAN 17,19
RAMALLAH (AFP) — It’s only three
words on a T-shirt or embroidered on a denim jacket in Palestinian
designer Yasmeen Mjalli’s collection, but they carry a powerful message:
“Not your habibti,” or darling.Mjalli sees the clothes as helping
empower Palestinian women facing unwelcome male attention in
public.“When a woman is exposed to so much harassment on the street, she
begins to dress to protect herself, to hide herself as opposed to
expressing herself,” the 22-year-old art history graduate says, leaning
against the counter of her shop in Ramallah in the West Bank.On fabrics
of muted colors and on canvas bags from her BabyFist label, she places
messages in English and Arabic inside drawings of flowers and other
designs.“Every rose has its revolution,” one says.Mjalli grew up in the
United States, where she lived with her Palestinian parents.She started
painting slogans on her own clothes when the family relocated to the
West Bank and she found herself facing a different reality.“I have
experienced things like comments, really uncomfortable stares, the kind
that make you feel very violated,” she said.“I have been assaulted in
the streets, people touching me,” she adds, catching one tattooed arm in
her other hand to mimic being grabbed.In August 2017, she launched her
first collection and a few months later opened the Ramallah shop to
complement her existing online sales.Made in Palestine-“It’s not like
the T-shirt is going to stop harassment,” she says.But it’s “a reminder
that you are part of something bigger that is working to empower women
and to give back in some way and that is trying to have this
conversation that challenges all of these structures which we are
victims of too,” she adds.The goal, Mjalli says, is to create a
community.Using Instagram, free workshops in her shop and public places
where she sometimes installs herself with a typewriter, she offers
Palestinian women the freedom to express their feelings and tell stories
they cannot share elsewhere.She donates around 10 percent of her
fashion earnings to a local women’s group.One project she funds sent a
doctor and volunteers into schools to teach Palestinian girls about
menstruation, a subject still largely taboo.While defining herself as a
feminist, Mjalli says that her fight against harassment of women is
unconnected to the #MeToo movement.“I don’t think it’s related even
though it happened at the same time,” she said, though acknowledging
that the movement gave her own efforts a boost.“It’s a very American and
it’s a very white feminism, and it’s not what we are doing here.”All
BabyFist garments are made in the West Bank or Gaza.Jackets are sewn in
Hassan Shehada’s Gaza workshop.Among the sewing machines humming under
florescent lights, Shehada shows a denim jacket embroidered with “Not
your habibti.”“I am proud that women wear the fruits of my labors and I
am also very proud that they are labeled ‘Made in Palestine,‘” he
says.In the past three months, he has made 1,500 items for BabyFist.It
was a breath of fresh air for Shehada’s business in the Gaza Strip,
under an Israeli and Egyptian blockade for more than a decade aimed at
preventing terror groups from smuggling in weapons and with endemic high
unemployment.“Working with BabyFist has given me back hope,” he says,
adding that it has fulfilled a dream of exporting to Europe.But
manufacturing in Gaza comes at a cost.Israeli restrictions mean jackets
have been held up for weeks when the land crossing through Israel was
closed due to mass Palestinian protests and clashes along the fence,
Mjalli said.“The border was closed indefinitely and we couldn’t get
anything in or out,” she said. “It’s a constant battle.”She says that
around 40 percent of her sales are made in the Ramallah store and 60
percent online, mostly to the Palestinian and broader Arab
diaspora.-Opposition-Not everyone, however, is a fan.Mjalli has come
under fire from conservatives, who say she draws attention to women’s
bodies by designing clothes that carry provocative messages.Her
criticism of some aspects of Palestinian society has also raised the
hackles of those who believe that the struggle against Israel is the
only legitimate public campaign.For her, the fight for Palestinian
independence and campaigning for women’s rights are intertwined.“The
occupation robs men in our society of any sense of control, any sense of
masculinity which in turn affects women’s rights,” she says.For Mjalli,
there have been “already two or three generations of women that have
had to suffer while we say: ‘OK, you can wait.'”
West Bank
Palestinians strike against Abbas’s social security law-Citing growing
rift with Hamas and increased Israeli incursions, protesters say PA
government cannot be trusted to manage fund-By AFP and TOI staff-17
January 2019
Thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank
joined a strike on Tuesday against their government’s proposed new
social security law, fearing the fund will be mismanaged.The strike,
which saw much of Ramallah, Hebron and other West Bank cities closed,
came hours before Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is due
to address the United Nations.A few thousand people protested outside
the Social Security Institution in Ramallah, where Abbas’s government is
based.Under the proposed system, both private employers and their
employees would pay monthly into a government-managed fund, with
employees receiving a pension when they retire.The PA says it will
provide new security for employees, arguing similar systems exist in
countries across the globe.Polls show that an overwhelming majority of
Palestinians view PA institutions as corrupt, and protesters say they do
not trust the Ramallah-based government to manage the fund.They also
say Israel’s continued occupation of the the West Bank means that the
long-term existence of the Palestinian Authority government is far from
secure.Israeli soldiers entered Ramallah several times in recent weeks,
including near Abbas’s headquarters following two deadly terror attacks
in the West Bank.Amer Farah, who works at Bank of Palestine in Ramallah,
said that in functioning states the social security laws were important
to protect citizens’ futures.“But we are still under occupation, and
there is no contact between parts of the country,” he told AFP, alluding
to the decade-long split between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip,
where Abbas’s rivals Hamas are in control.The Hamas terror group, which
seized control of the coastal enclave from Abbas in 2007, has stated
that it strongly opposes the Social Security Institution, claiming it
violates quasi-constitutional Palestinian laws.“The country is not
stable, neither economically nor politically,” Farah added. “How will
they implement the law?”The decade-long Palestinian split looks set to
deepen in the coming months, with Abbas poised to take multiple measures
against Hamas.A breakthrough came in late 2017 when the two sides
reached an agreement to eventually share power; however the
reconciliation agreement has since collapsed acrimoniously.Abbas was due
to speak later Tuesday at the United Nations General Assembly, where he
was expected to again call on world powers to recognize Palestine as a
state despite the divided governments.
Abbas likely to
visit Syria soon, senior Palestinian official says-Azzam al-Ahmad says
trip by PA president, who was last in the country before civil war, is
‘possible at any time’-By Adam Rasgon-TOI-17 January 2019
A
senior Palestinian predicted that Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas will visit Syria in the near future.The PA president has
not visited Syria or met Syrian President Bashar Assad since civil war
broke out in the country in 2011.“The visit of the President Mahmoud
Abbas is possible at any time… I believe [it] will happen soon, if God
wills it,” Azzam al-Ahmad told al-Watan, a pro-Syrian government
newspaper, at the opening of a new office for Palestine TV, the official
PA channel, in Damascus on Monday.Several Palestinian officials
attended the opening of the Palestine TV office including Ahmad, a
member of both the Fatah Central Committee and Palestine Liberation
Organization’s Executive Committee; the PA’s Jenin Governor Akram
Rajoub; and PLO Executive Committee member Wasel Abu Yousef.Abu Yousef
told The Times of Israel in a phone call earlier this week that he and
Ahmad traveled to Damascus by car via Jordan.Syria was expelled from the
22-member Arab League soon after the civil war erupted. Arab countries
have sanctioned Damascus and condemned Assad for using overwhelming
military force and failing to negotiate with the opposition.More than
360,000 people have been killed in the war and Assad has been accused of
perpetrating war crimes.But as the war winds down in favor of Assad,
with his troops recapturing key population centers, Syria’s relations
with the Arab world appear to be warming.In mid-December, Sudanese
President Omar al-Bashir became the first Arab head of state to visit
Syria since the civil war broke out.Later that month, the United Arab
Emirates reopened its embassy in Damascus, some seven years after
shuttering it.In October, Assad told a little-known Kuwaiti newspaper
that Syria had reached a “major understanding” with Arab states. He did
not name those countries in the interview, which was his first with a
Gulf paper since the war erupted, but he said Arab and Western
delegations had begun visiting Syria to prepare for the reopening of
diplomatic and other missions.Unlike many of his Arab counterparts,
Abbas has not staked out a stnace on the civil war since it began, Ziad
Iyad, a professor of political science at Al-Quds University in East
Jerusalem, said in a phone call.“Abbas never took a clear position on
the crisis because he did not want Palestinian refugees in Syria to pay a
price for his comments,” Iyad said. “He did not want Syria to carry out
reprisals against Palestinian refugees for something he says.”There are
hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Syria who live in 12
refugee camps, according to the United Nations Relief and Works
Agency.In the past year, he has met with at least three Syrian officials
during trips abroad.On a trip to Latin America in May 2018, Abbas met
the Syrian ambassadors to Venezuela and Cuba, Khalil Bitar and Idris
Mayya, respectively.On a trip to Russia in July 2018, he also met Syrian
Ambassador to Moscow Riyad Haddad.Agencies contributed to this article.
Germany
arrests military adviser suspected of spying for Iran-Media report says
Afghan-German man worked for Tehran intelligence services for years,
had access to highly sensitive information, including Afghanistan troop
deployment-By AFP-TOI-JAN 17,19
BERLIN, Germany — Germany
on Tuesday detained a German-Afghan man on suspicion he was spying for
Iran while working for the German army as a linguistic and cultural
adviser.The 50-year-old identified as Abdul Hamid S. was arrested in
western Germany, federal prosecutors said in a statement.“The accused
was a language evaluator and cultural issues adviser of the German armed
forces. In this capacity, he is believed to have passed on information
to an Iranian intelligence service,” they added.According to Spiegel
Online, he is suspected of working for Iranian secret services for
several years.While working for the German army, he had access to highly
sensitive information including on troop deployment in Afghanistan, the
report added.Previous cases of infiltration by a foreign agency have
sparked outrage and shock in Germany.In 2016, Markus Reichel, himself a
former intelligence agent for Germany, was convicted for spying for both
the CIA and the Russian secret service.He admitted handing over “scores
of documents and internal information” to the CIA, including papers
detailing Germany’s counter-espionage strategies.Reichel also delivered
three classified documents to the Russians.In 2011, Germany jailed a
married couple for spying for the Russian secret services for more than
20 years.The pair, identified only by the code names Andreas and Heidrun
Anschlag, were planted in the former West Germany from 1988 by the
Soviet Union’s KGB and later worked for its successor the SVR.The couple
had obtained NATO and EU political and military secrets, focused
especially on the relationship of NATO and the EU with eastern European
and central Asian countries.
Turkey’s Erdogan okays Syria
‘security zone’ proposed by Trump-Announcement of ‘agreement of historic
importance’ comes after US president threatened to devastate Turkish
economy if Ankara launched offensive against US-allied Kurdish
fighters-By AFP-TOI-17 January 2019
ANKARA — Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that Ankara would set up a
“security zone” in northern Syria suggested by US President Donald
Trump.Erdogan said he held a “quite positive” telephone conversation
with Trump late on Monday where he reaffirmed that “a 20-mile (30
kilometer) security zone along the Syrian border… will be set up by
us.”Turkey has welcomed the planned withdrawal of some 2,000 US troops
from Syria but the future of US-backed Kurdish militia forces regarded
as terrorists by Ankara has poisoned Ankara-Washington ties.Trump on
Sunday tweeted that the United States would “devastate Turkey
economically if they hit Kurds,” a threat that drew angry retorts from
the government in Ankara.Erdogan on Tuesday said Trump’s tweet “saddened
me and my friends,” but added that the two leaders reached an agreement
during Monday’s phone conversation.“We have reached an agreement of
understanding that is of historic importance,” he said.Erdogan said
Turkey would solve issues with a “spirit of alliance” with Trump as long
as his country’s sensitivities were taken into account.US support for
the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) during the Syria conflict
has been a major source of friction between the NATO allies. The US
regards the YPG as an effective ground force in the fight against
Islamic State (IS) jihadists.Ankara has however threatened to launch a
cross-border operation to eradicate Syrian Kurdish fighters it sees as
an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).The PKK is
blacklisted by Turkey as well as by the United States.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH IN NOAHS DAY(BECAUSE OF SIN,VIOLENCE AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
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.
HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear
the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a
controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth,
nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3
Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein
shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of
heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
DEUTORONOMY 28:22-24
22
The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and
with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword,
and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until
thou perish.
23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25
And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in
the moon,(MAN ON MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS ETC)
and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION)
the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing
them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those
things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of
heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the
seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the
great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
REVELATION 8:7
7
The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with
blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees
was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Winter
weather kills 15 displaced children in Syria, UN says-Aid organization
says freezing temperatures and lack of medical care claimed victims,
most aged under a year and one just an hour old; thousands continue to
flee fighting-By AFP-TOI-JAN 17,19
BEIRUT, Lebanon —
Freezing temperatures and the lack of medical care have killed at least
15 displaced Syrian children in recent weeks, the United Nations
reported on Tuesday.The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said eight of them
had died as a result of the cold in the Rukban camp in southeastern
Syria and seven others during the displacement from the jihadist bastion
of Hajin, further north.“Freezing temperatures and harsh living
conditions in Rukban… are increasingly putting children’s lives at
risk,” UNICEF regional director Geert Cappelaere said.“In just one
month, at least eight children — most of them under four months and the
youngest only one hour old — have died,” he said.Cappelaere explained
that the cold in the isolated desert camp on the Jordanian border, where
80 percent of the 45,000 residents are women and children, was
increasing infant mortality.The cold snap that has hit the region is
also having dire consequences on the people fleeing the fighting in the
so-called Hajin pocket in eastern Syria.The area near the Iraqi border
has seen intense fighting between Islamic State group jihadists
defending the last remnants of their “caliphate” and Kurdish-led forces
backed by US airstrikes.According to the UN, more than 10,000 people
have fled the area since December.“Families seeking safety face
difficulties leaving the conflict zone and wait in the cold for days
without shelter or basic supplies,” Cappelaere said.“The dangerous and
difficult journey has reportedly killed seven children — most of them
under one year old” in Hajin, he said.According to the Kurdish-dominated
Syrian Democratic Forces battling the jihadists and to the Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights, significant numbers of IS members have
attempted to blend in with fleeing civilians.
