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)
DISEASES-ANIMAL TO HUMAN
REVELATION 6:7-8 (500 MILLION DEAD EACH FROM THE 4 JUDGEMENTS)(2 BILLION TOT DEAD HERE)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 billion) of (8 billion) to kill with sword,(WEAPONS)(500 million) and with hunger,(FAMINE)(500 million) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES)(500 million) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE)(500 million).
THE COVID-19 TOTALS.
WORLD OVER ALL CASES 176,485,422 DEAD 3,812,260 - AS OF SUN JUN 13,2021
Homes evacuated, highway partially closed due to fire near Jerusalem suburb-Closing of Route 1 to eastbound traffic comes ahead of Knesset vote on new government; not clear if any MKs affected-By TOI staff-jun 13,21-Today, 3:57 pm
Police evacuated residents from several homes in the Jerusalem suburb of Mevaseret Zion on Sunday after a fire broke out in the area.The homes that were evacuated were those closest to the fire.Numerous firefighting crews were working to gain control of the blaze, with six tanker planes assisting in the effort. The blaze started as a wildfire, then spread, according to the Walla news site.Due to the fire, police closed the eastbound lane on part of the main highway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.The shuttering of Route 1 came shortly before lawmakers were set to vote at the Knesset in Jerusalem on a new government. It was not immediately clear if the closure affected any Knesset members’ ability to reach Jerusalem for the vote.Last week, several large wildfires erupted on the outskirts of Jerusalem and the West Bank, leading to the temporary evacuation of some residents and numerous road closures. Reports at the time said authorities suspected the fires may have been deliberate acts of arson.
Won't answer questions on whether he will vote for coalition-Ra’am MK says ‘there’ll be a government today’ after reportedly wavering on vote-Reports say Said al-Harumi unhappy over planned Negev demolitions, as he is said to face pressure from Netanyahu to oppose prospective coalition and deny it a 61-seat majority-By TOI staff-JUN 13,21-Today, 2:26 pm
A lawmaker in the Islamist Ra’am party on Sunday reportedly threatened to pull his support for the new government hours before its confirmation vote in protest of certain coalition agreements.However, as he entered a Ra’am faction meeting on Sunday afternoon ahead of the Knesset vote, MK Saeed al-Harumi said that “there will be a government formed today,” although the lawmaker refused to answer questions on how he planned to vote.Both Ra’am leader Mansour Abbas and Yesh Atid chief Yair Lapid also told reporters that “there will be a government” as they entered a meeting of coalition party leaders.With the emerging coalition seeking to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holding a razor-thin majority of 61 seats in the 120-seat Knesset, every vote is crucial to approving the proposed government.Hebrew media reports said al-Harumi’s discontent was centered on the understandings reached by the coalition concerning enforcement of rules against illegal construction among Arab Israelis, particularly Bedouins in the Negev desert.“I can’t explain to Negev residents that I’m part of the coalition when bulldozers are descending on homes in the Negev,” Al-Harumi, a resident of the Bedouin town of Segev Shalom, was quoted as saying by Kan.Representatives of the Yesh Atid and Yamina parties reportedly met Saturday evening with senior officials in the shura, or consultation, council of the Southern Islamic Movement, of which Ra’am is the political wing. No agreements were said to have been reached.If al-Harumi were to abstain during the swearing-in vote, there would still be enough Knesset members — 60 in favor to 59 opposed — to approve the government. But a vote by al-Harumi against the government could deny it the majority needed to be sworn in unless some lawmakers from the majority Arab Joint List decide to abstain rather than oppose the coalition.Kan reported that the predominantly Arab Joint List still hasn’t decided whether some of its MKs will abstain rather than vote against, but quoted Ra’am leader Mansour Abbas as saying “it will be alright.”Reports also said al-Harumi was facing intense pressure from Netanyahu to oppose the government and not just abstain, noting the Ra’am MK’s threat came as police were deployed to the Bedouin town of Bir Hadaj ahead of possible building demolitions there.Nearly all Bir Hadaj residents — over 96 percent — voted for Ra’am in the March elections and the Ynet news site said the town is a key base of support for al-Harumi.“This operation wasn’t planned two weeks ago. It is meant to cause Said al-Harumi to maybe vote against the government,” Salim al-Dantiri, the head of Bir Hadaj’s local council, told Army Radio.The news site also said the pressure campaign on al-Harumi appeared to be a coordinated move by Netanyahu to ensure the government can only be sworn in with the support, via abstention, of Joint List MKs, noting a statement put out in the morning by premier’s Likud party.“For the first time in the country’s history and in order to be a prime minister with six seats, [Yamina leader Naftali] Bennett is forming his fraud government with the abstention of the Joint List, which supports terrorists and opposes Israel being as a Jewish and democratic state. There is no limit to the shame,” Likud charged.Bennett has the support of six of his party’s seven members of Knesset.Citing unnamed associates of al-Harumi, Ynet said the Ra’am MK had received a blank page from Netanyahu and ultra-Orthodox Shas leader Aryeh Deri, the minister of the Negev and Galilee, to fill out with his demands, and that the two made him numerous promises regarding enforcement of illegal building and other matters important to him.Meanwhile, Labor MK Emilie Moatti was hospitalized Sunday due to side effects from a recent medical procedure, but was still expected to attend the Knesset vote. The center-left Labor is one of eight parties in the coalition, along with Yesh Atid, Yamina, Ra’am, Meretz, New Hope, Yisrael Beytenu and Blue and White.Additionally, Religious Zionism’s far-right MK Itamar Ben Gvir refused hospital treatment after he was lightly injured in a car crash on Sunday morning as he did not wish to run the risk of not being present in the Knesset to vote against the formation of the new government.If sworn in, the new coalition will unseat Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving premier, after 12 consecutive years in power. The fragile alliance is composed of strange bedfellows of right-wing, left-wing, centrist and Islamist parties that came together to oust Netanyahu and end two years of political deadlock.Barring any last-minute surprises, Yamina’s Naftali Bennett will become prime minister, to be replaced two years later by Lapid, while Netanyahu — who has led the country overall for 15 years — will become the leader of the opposition. The new government would also be the first in Israel’s history in which an Arab Israeli party — Ra’am — has played such a key role. The coalition deals between the parties were finalized on Friday.
New police minister: I trust the force, lessons were learnt-Ahead of flag march, Hamas warns of war over Israeli actions in Jerusalem-Days before contentious parade, terror group says ready to hit cities if Israel carries out ‘usual activities’; Israeli officials said to believe rocket fire unlikely-By TOI staff-jun 13,21-Today, 11:51 am
Senior Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk said that “striking all of Israel’s cities” is still an option for the terror group in response to Israeli actions in Jerusalem or other locations, the Kan public broadcaster reported Sunday.The warning from Marzouk, a member of Hamas’s politburo, came just ahead of a contentious march by Jewish right-wing nationalists scheduled to be held through parts of Jerusalem’s Old City.Marzouk cautioned that if “the enemy” carries out “its usual activities” in Jerusalem and other places, “our decision is already made that it is possible the war will return,” according to the report.The original parade, known as the flag march, was stopped short on May 10 by rocket fire from Hamas at Jerusalem, which sparked an 11-day bout of intense fighting between Israel and Gaza-based terror groups.Since the fighting ended, Hamas has repeatedly warned it could reopen hostilities over developments in Jerusalem.On Saturday Kan reported that security officials assessed Hamas would not respond to the repeated march with rocket fire but may try launching incendiary balloons from Gaza or initiate terror attacks in the West Bank.Police expect only a few thousand people to participate in Tuesday march, Kan said.Final approval for the police operation to secure the march will be decided by newly installed Public Security Minister Omer Barlev on his first day on the job, Monday, pending confirmation of a new government the day before.Speaking to Kan on Sunday, Barlev said that he trusts that Israel Police Chief Kobi Shabtai and the force’s leadership have taken note of events in recent weeks.“According to regulations, it is the responsibility of the police to determine if and how to do the march. I trust the chief of police. I have no doubt that in light of the experience of the recent period, they learned the lessons,” Barlev said.Barlev also commented on visits by Jews to the Temple Mount, another tinderbox subject in Jerusalem, saying he supports the right to do so, in keeping with established agreements.“The position of principle is that Israelis can visit and move around any place in the country, certainly in Jerusalem and certainly in the area of the Temple Mount, according to the rules and agreements with the Jordanian Waqf,” he said referring to the religious body that administers the Temple Mount area under agreements with Jordan.If Barlev doesn’t approve the march, the matter will be brought before the security cabinet, which had already previously let the police decide the fate of the march.Organizers of the flag march said Friday that they reached an agreement with the police on the nationalist parade’s route. It will begin on Hanevi’im Street and head toward Damascus Gate, where participants will dance with Israeli flags. The participants won’t enter through that Old City entrance, but instead will head toward Jaffa Gate, the organizers said in a statement. Participants will then march from Jaffa Gate toward the Western Wall through the Old City, organizers said.There was no immediate statement from police confirming the detail.Police had initially refused to authorize the event, which was set to follow a path through the Old City’s Damascus Gate entrance and Muslim Quarter, due to concern regarding its potential to inflame tensions in the city and spark a fresh wave of unrest there, and potentially in other locations.The Hamas terror group had warned of “consequences” if the march passed through Damascus Gate.Clashes broke out on Thursday between East Jerusalem protesters and Israel Police, as far-right lawmaker Itamar Ben Gvir marched to the flashpoint Damascus Gate entrance to the Old City. Ben Gvir waved an Israeli flag at the site, in what he said was a personal protest after police banned him from parading through the Muslim Quarter to reach the Temple Mount. Ben Gvir had tried to organize his parade as a protest to the postponement of the flag march to this week.After Ben Gvir’s visit, and amid the rioting that followed, the Hamas military wing issued a statement saying that it was watching the developments closely.The original May 10 flag march was held on Jerusalem Day, which came amid heightened tensions over planned evictions of Palestinians in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah and a police clampdown of rioting on the Temple Mount. It too been rerouted to avoid Damascus Gate and the Muslim Quarter, following pressure from the US, which expressed concern that the parade could cause tensions to boil over.The annual Jerusalem Day event sees thousands of nationalist Jews march through Muslim-majority parts of Jerusalem toward the Western Wall, in a show of sovereignty to mark the Hebrew anniversary of the city’s east side being captured by Israel during the Six Day War of 1967.The route has long been deemed provocative by Israeli and Palestinian critics since local Arab proprietors are forced to shutter their stores so law enforcement can secure the Palestinian-majority area for the mainly nationalist Jewish revelers.
Perhaps Likud should have replaced Netanyahu, says senior Haredi MK-United Torah Judaism leader Moshe Gafni insists his party would have stuck with Likud no matter who was leading the party-By TOI staff-jun 13,21-Today, 4:16 pm
The leader of a key party allied with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mused Sunday that perhaps the premier’s Likud party should have replaced him as leader in order to avert what has now transpired — the government’s impending ouster by a coalition of eight parties.United Torah Judaism leader Moshe Gafni told the Kan public broadcaster that Netanyahu stepping aside to let a different Likud lawmaker form a government “may have been the right thing to do.”Gafni’s remarks came hours before the new government was scheduled to be sworn in, ending a political deadlock that forced four inconclusive elections in the space of two years. Following the most recent election, held in March, Netanyahu was unable to form a majority government. An unlikely coalition of right-wing, centrist, left-wing and Islamist parties, unified largely by their desire to oust Netanyahu, is slated to take power later today.Gafni stressed that UTJ would have stuck by Likud no matter who led the party, but added that he could not rightfully demand that “a party with 30 seats” replace its chosen leader.He also said that UTJ would have remained loyal to Likud and not joined the incoming “change coalition” even if it had been a possibility.“Likud decided what it decided, I support them,” Gafni said, but admitted that UTJ would pay a “heavy price” for following the Likud into the opposition.The UTJ leader speculated that prime minister-designate and Yamina leader Naftali Bennett never really intended to join a Likud-led coalition, and had planned to join with Yesh Atid’s Yair Lapid all along.But in February, Gafni suggested that he would not rule out joining forces with Lapid. “After the election results we’ll see what the options are,” he said at the time. But he also said that the one party he would fully rule out working with is Yisrael Beytenu, which is also a part of the nascent government.Following the March election, Gafni’s Degel HaTorah faction — one of the two parties that make up UTJ — said it was “making every effort so we do not go to a fifth election.” The faction said it was working hard to assemble a coalition with “the right-wing and traditional bloc,” but did not explicitly call for Netanyahu to be tasked with forming a new government.On Sunday, Gafni predicted that the incoming government would be unstable and “there will be a crisis every day” due to the wide disparity of views held by its eight constituent parties.“There is no connection between different members of the coalition,” he said.Gafni himself will lose his spot as chairman of the powerful Knesset Finance Committee, which he has held on and off since 2009.
PROOF HALF ON EARTH DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD (8 BILLION ON EARTH)
REVELATION 6:7-8 (8 BILLION- 2 BILLION = 6 BILLION)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 BILLION) to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
REVELATION 9:15,18 (6 BILLION - 2 BILLION = 4 BILLION)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,
18 By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS)
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37 (8 TOTAL BILLION - 4 BILLION DEAD IN TRIB = 4 BILLION TO JESUS KINGDOM) (HALF DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS)(GOD DOES NOT LIE)(AND NOTICE MOST DIE IN WAR AND DISEASES-NOT COMETS-ASTEROIDS-QUAKES OR TSUNAMIS)
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.(half earths population 4 billion die in the 7 yr trib)
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES.BECAUSE NOT HALF OF PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.AND THE CONTEXT IN LUKE 17 IS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION OR 7 YR TREATY PERIOD.WHICH IS JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH.NOT 50% RAPTURED TO HEAVEN.
MATTHEW 24:37-42 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)(NUKED BY SNEAK ATTACK FROM RUSSIA)
IN REVELATION 17 & 18 IS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL BABYLONS.IF YOU CAN NOT DECERN BETWEEN THE 2 BABYLONS IN REV 17 & 18.YOU WILL JUST THINK THEIR BOTH THE SAME.BUT NO-THERES A RELIGIOUS BABYLON (THE VATICAN IN REV 17)(AND THE POLITICAL BABYLON IN REV 18 (AMERICA OR NEW YORK TO BE EXACT)
ISAIAH 34:10
10 It (AMERICA-POLITICAL BABYLON) shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
JEREMIAH 51:29-32 (CYBER ATTACK 1ST)
29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon,(AMERICA-NEW YORK) to make the land of Babylon (AMERICA) a desolation without an inhabitant.
30 The mighty men of Babylon (AMERICA) have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
031 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon (NEW YORK) that his city is taken at one end,
32 And that the passages are stopped,(THE WAR COMPUTERS HACKED OR EMP'D) and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.(DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO)
COMPLETE SILENCE AFTER AN EMP GOES OFF
REVELATION 8:1
1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north (RUSSIA) there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon,(AMERICA) and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK CYBER,EMP ATTACK,THEN NUKE ATTACK ON AM
EZEKIEL 39:11-22
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)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) 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 THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
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.
Will talk of 'sacred duty' to return Gaza hostages-Bennett speech to send message of cooperation to US, oppose return to Iran deal-In remarks before the proposed government’s swearing-in, the PM-designate’s office says he’ll praise Biden for backing Israel against Hamas; will also stress commitment to Haredim-By Tal Schneider and TOI staff-JUN 13,21-Today, 3:37 pm
In a speech to the Knesset plenum before lawmakers vote Sunday on confirming the “change government,” Prime Minister-designate Naftali Bennett’s message to the United States will be “positive and one of cooperation,” his office said.Bennett, who heads the right-wing Yamina party, is expected to thank US President Joe Biden for supporting Israel during last month’s military conflict with the Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group.
However, his office said he will also express staunch opposition to an American return to the 2015 nuclear deal limiting Iran’s nuclear program, maintaining Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hawkish stance toward Tehran, though parties that have spoken about keeping disagreements with the US behind closed doors will represent an overwhelming majority at the cabinet table.Bennett’s speech is scheduled to take place when the Knesset session to vote on the proposed government kicks off at 4 p.m.He will also reach out the families of two Israeli citizens being held in Gaza by Hamas, Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, and those of two soldiers killed in the 2014 Gaza war, Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin, whose bodies the terrorist organization is believed to be holding, stressing his commitment to returning them to Israel.“I raised my hand in the cabinet during the vote in which we sent Hadar and Oron to fight for us in Operation Protective Edge. I see their return as a sacred duty, which must be done with responsibility,” Bennett is set to say.He is likewise expected to extend a hand to ultra-Orthodox Israeli Jews, assuring them that the new government is committed to them even though the Haredi parties in Netanyahu’s right-wing religious bloc have ruled out joining the coalition and staunchly opposed its formation.He will also likely mention the deadly crush earlier this year during Lag B’Omer celebrations at Mount Meron in which 45 worshipers were killed, the worst peacetime disaster in Israel’s history. The prospective government has vowed to set up an official state commission of inquiry into the tragedy, whose victims were mainly Haredi Jews.On Friday, Channel 12 news reported that Bennett plans to use the speech to praise Netanyahu and thank him for his service to the country, despite the bad blood between them.While Netanyahu has spent the past several weeks disparaging Bennett for forming a “dangerous” government, the Yamina chief will not criticize the Likud leader and will adopt a conciliatory approach, the network said.Bennett will also seek to reassure the public that the new, eight-party government will work for all segments of society, including those that have not supported his decision to build a coalition with Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid and more left-leaning parties as well as the Islamist party Ra’am, according to the television report.If confirmed, the unlikely alliance of right-wing, left-wing, centrist and Islamist parties will remove Netanyahu from power after 12 consecutive years, to be replaced by Bennett, and, two years later, Lapid. Its swearing-in hangs on a single vote, with 61 of the Knesset’s 120 lawmakers expected to back the fragile political alliance.
Hamas: It’s ‘unacceptable’ that Ilhan Omar equated us with Israel-Gaza-ruling terror group accuses the Minnesota Democrat of having ‘equated between the victim and the executioner,’ but praises her for support of Palestinian rights-By TOI staff-jun 13,21-Today, 9:42 am
Hamas on Saturday rejected US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s grouping of the Gaza-ruling terror group with Israel, America and the Taliban in her comments on alleged war crime investigations.Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, has faced criticism from Jewish colleagues over the remarks, but claims she was not equating Israel and the United States with Hamas and the Taliban.Calling her comments “peculiar,” Hamas did not accept her denial.“She equated between the victim and the executioner when she treated the resistance of the Palestinian people, the Israeli crimes in Palestine, and the US aggression in Afghanistan as an equal footing,” Bassem Naim, the Islamist terror organization’s international spokesperson, said in a statement.Naim lauded Omar for her “support of justice and the rights of the oppressed around the world,” in particular for the “just rights” of the Palestinians.“However, it is unacceptable to make such an unfair comparison, which contradicts with basic norms of justice and international law,” he said.He also called on Omar “and all defenders of Palestinian rights… to provide a proper and accurate description of the situation.”There was no response from Omar to the repudiation, which came days after she lashed out at her Jewish colleagues in the Democratic party for saying her comments gave “cover to terrorist groups.”“It’s shameful for colleagues who call me when they need my support to now put out a statement asking for ‘clarification’ and not just call,” Omar tweeted. “The Islamophobic tropes in this statement are offensive. The constant harassment & silencing from the signers of this letter is unbearable.”In a subsequent statement on Thursday, Omar said: “On Monday, I asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken about ongoing International Criminal Court investigations. To be clear: the conversation was about accountability for specific incidents regarding those ICC cases, not a moral comparison between Hamas and the Taliban and the US and Israel.“I was in no way equating terrorist organizations with democratic countries with well-established judicial systems,” she added. She did not tweet the statement.Omar had posted footage on Monday of her questioning Blinken at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing over the Biden administration’s opposition to International Criminal Court investigations in Afghanistan, Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza.“We must have the same level of accountability and justice for all victims of crimes against humanity,” she wrote. “We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the US, Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban,” she wrote in the post that included the HFAC hearing footage.We must have the same level of accountability and justice for all victims of crimes against humanity.We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban.I asked @SecBlinken where people are supposed to go for justice. pic.twitter. com/ tUtxW5cIow — Rep. Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan) June 7, 2021-The matter also became the focus of a Wednesday meeting of the unofficial caucus of 25 Jewish Democrats in the House, which had been convened to discuss the recent uptick in antisemitism, but was steered by Representative Brad Schneider of Illinois to focus on Omar.Almost half of the caucus agreed to back a statement calling Omar’s comparison as “offensive as it is misguided… ignoring the differences between democracies governed by the rule of law and contemptible organizations that engage in terrorism at best discredits one’s intended argument and at worst reflects deep-seated prejudice.”While Omar came under fire from all directions, several progressive Democrats have spoken out in her defense.Jacob Magid and JTA contributed to this report.
