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)
GENOCIDAL COCKROACH PROTESTS AGAINST ISRAEL CONTINUE. NETANYAHU RAFAH GOES ON NO MATTER WHAT.
COUNTRIES WITH ISRAEL AND THE ENEMIES OF ISRAEL AND THE WEST
EZEKIEL 38:10-19
10
Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same
time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil
thought:
11 And thou shalt say,(RUSSIA,ARAB,MUSLIMS) I will go up to
the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that
dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither
bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine
hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the
people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle
and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
13 Sheba, and
Dedan,(SAUDIA ARABIA)(JORDAN) and the merchants of Tarshish,(ENGLAND)
with all the young lions thereof,(USA,CANADA,AUSTRALIA,NEW
ZEALAND,EU,ENGLAND,ENGLISH SPEAKING shall say unto thee, Art thou come
to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry
away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great
spoil?
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth
safely, shalt thou not know it?
PSALMS 83:3-7 (COUNTRIES AGAINST ISRAEL)(EXCEPT JORDAN)
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7
Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and
Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the
inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
ISRAEL-WEST ENEMIES EZEK 38:4-6,15-19
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)
15 And thou shalt come from
thy place out of the north parts,(RUSSIA-ARAB/MUSLIMS) thou, and many
people with thee,(AFRICAN ISLAMIC COUNTRIES) all of them riding upon
horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up
against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be
in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the
heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before
their eyes.
17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have
spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which
prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against
them?
18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall
come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall
come up in my face.
19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath
have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the
land of Israel;
DANIEL 11:44 (CHINA WITH RUSSIA-MUSLIMS)
44 But
tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS
WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL)
therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to
make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
EZEKIEL 39:1-6 ISRAELS ENEMIES DESTROYED
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.
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.
JOEL 3:2 (WW3 OCCURS WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED)
2
I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the
valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people
(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the
nations, and parted my land.(JERUSALEM)(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS
DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND BRINGS 3 DEAD
BILLION IN WW3)
JUDE 14-16
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15
To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly
among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed,
and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken
against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their
own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's
persons in admiration because of advantage.
WATCH THIS VIDEO-1/4 OF ISLAM MIGHT BE GONE BY MAY 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ7wh6BMTlw
THIS
VIDEO COULD BE A SIGN BEING IT IS RADAM IN COCKROCH LANDS. WHILE IN
THIS VIDEO A CROW TAKES AN ISRAEL FLAG OFF THE FLAG POLE. REPRESENTING
THE MUSLIM COCKROACHES WANT ISRAEL OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH. THEN ON
THE VIDEO WE SEE THE CROWS TEARING UP THE ISRAELI FLAG. TO ME THIS SAYS
BY MAY 2024. THESE MUSLIM COCHROACH HORDES WILL BE COMING AGAINST
ISRAEL. AND ISRAEL WILL NUKE 1/4 OF ISLAM. THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING
BIRDS WILL EAT THE MUSLIM COCKROACHES FLESH. AND THE 300 MILLION DEAD
MUSLIMS WILL BE BURIED IN MASS GRAVES IN THE JORDAN VALLEY.
DANIEL CHAPTER 9:24-27 EXPLAINED.
24
Seventy weeks (70X7=490 YEARS) are determined upon thy people (ISRAEL)
and upon thy holy city,(JERUSALEM) to finish the transgression, and to
make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to
bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and
prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.(JESUS ANNOINTED WITH HOLY OIL AS
KING OF JERUSALEM FOREVER).
25 Know therefore and understand, that
from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build
Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, (7X7=49
YEARS) and threescore and two weeks:(62X7=434 YEARS) the street shall be
built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.(490-49-434=7 YR
PERIOD WERE GOD DEALS WITH ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM (NOT THE CHURCH-THE TRUE
CHURCH IS IS IN HEAVEN WITH JESUS FOR THAT LAST 7 YEAR PERIOD.)(DANIEL
9:26-27 IS IN THE FUTURE WHEN GOD DEALS ON EARTH WITH ISRAEL AND
JERUSALEM FOR THAT FINAL 7 TEAR PERIOD. WHEN ALL OF ISRAEL WILL BE SAVED
BY MESSIAH JESUS.)(AT THE END OF IT)
26 And after threescore and two
weeks (69X7=483 YEARS)(ONE 7 YEAR PERIOD UNTIL PROPHECY IS FULFILLED)
shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the
prince (ROMANS) that shall come shall destroy the city and the
sanctuary;(2ND TEMPLE AND JERUSALEM) and the end thereof shall be with a
flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(NOW THE
FINAL ISRAEL-JERUSALEM COUNTDOWN FOR MESSIAH JESUS RETURN THE LAST 7
YEARS)
27 And he (HE WHO? HE HERE IS THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE LEADER
THAT MAKES THE FINAL 7 YR CONTRACT WITH ISRAEL AND MANY MUSLIM COUNTRIES
FOR A 7 YR PERIOD, AND THE EU WILL GUARENTEE ISRAELS SECURITY FOR THIS
LAST PERIOD) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: (7
YEARS) and in the midst of the week (3 1/2 YEARS IN) he shall cause the
sacrifice and the oblation to cease, (THIS FALSE MESSIAH OR ROMAN LEADER
STOPS THE ANIMAL SACRIFICES IN THE 3RD TEMPLE AT THE MIDPOINT OF THE 7
YR DEAL. A JEW MURDERS HIM WITH A SWORD WOUND AND HE HAS A FALSE
RESSURECTION-SATAN INCARNATES IN HIS BODY. AND BRINGS HIM BACK TO
LIFE.AND HE THEN SITS IN THE 3RD TEMPLE CALLING HIMSELF GOD AS THE WORLD
SAYS HES JESUS REINCARNATED. AND BY THIS FALSE RESURRECTION GOD SENDS
THIS STRONG DELUTION ON THE EARTH THAT ALL THE LOST WILL WORSHIP THIS
ROMAN LEADER AS GOD AND ACCEPT HIS NAME, NUMBER OR NUMBER OF HIS NAME IN
THEIR MICROCHIP IMPLANT. THAT THEY MIGHT BE DOOMED, DAMNED TO THE LAKE
OF FIRE FOREVER. WHO WORSHIPS THIS ROMAN LEADER AS GOD.) and for the
overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the
consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the
desolate.(WARS NON STOP DURING THE LAST 3 1/2 YEARS OF THE 7 YEAR
PERIOD.
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-28 (FROM DAN 9:27)
27
Fulfil her week,(7 YEARS) and we will give thee this also for the
service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week:(7 YEARS) and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction
cometh upon them, (NUKE WARS BREAK OUT) as travail upon a woman with
child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways
lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR
TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD
LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)(1 LAST AND WORST HOLOCAUST IN
HISTORY AGAINST ISRAEL BY THIS ROMAN LEADER.AFTER THIS LEADER STOPS THE
ANIMAL SACRIFICES.A JEW KILLS HIM.HES RESURRECTED TO LIFE AND INCARNATED
BY SATAN HIMSELF. AND SINCE SATAN HATES ISRAEL-NOW THAT HES POSSESSING
THE ROMAN LEADERS BODY. HE FIRST POLLUTES THE 3RD TEMPLE BY SITTING IN
THE 3RD TEMPLE CALLING HIMSELF GOD.HE THEN GOES AFTER ISRAELIS TO KILL
EVERY ONE ON EARTH OF THEM.THE FALSE MESSIAHS MASK IS OFF. AND THE
ISRAELIS ARE FLOWN TO PETRA IN JORDAN WERE THEY WILL BE PROTECTED BY GOD
FOR THE LAST 3 1/2 YEARS OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD.BUT THERE WILL STILL
BE LOTS OF ISRAELIS IN ISRAEL YET. GOD MUST JUST PROTECT THE SAVED
ISRAELIS IN PETRA JORDAN.
7 WORLD EMPIRES IN WORLD HISTORY.
1-Egyptian (3000 BC – 858 BC)-Defeated by Assyrian invasion and succeeded by them.
2-Assyrian (858 BC – 612 BC)-Nineveh destroyed by Medes and Babylonians in 612 BC then defeated by Babylonians.
3-Babylonian (605 BC – 539 BC)-Begun by Nebuchadnezzar, ended by Medes and Persians.
4-Media-Persian
(539 BC – 532 BC)-Together with Medes destroyed Babylon.Established by
Cyrus the Great.Ended by defeat at hands of Alexander.
5-Grecian (331 – 31 BC)-Alexander defeated the Persians and established Greek world rule. Ended by Roman.
6-Roman (31 BC through New Testament period with “ Holy Roman Empire.”Fell to Germanic invasion.(DIED FROM INTERNAL CORRUPTION).
7-Revived
Roman Empire (1957, the Treaty of Rome-(REVIVED ROME TREATY-JESUS
RETURNS) is a matter of end-time prophecy.JESUS DESTROYS AND RULES FROM
JERUSALEM FOR 1,000 YEARS.THEN FOREVER.
2 Peter 3:6-7 Amplified Bible (AMP)
through
which the world at that time was destroyed by being flooded with water.
But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for
fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly
people.
Elam (IRAN IN THE BIBLE) passed into the hands of the Persians" (A.H. Sayce).
Jeremiah 49:35-39
35-Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.
36-And
upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,
and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no
nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.
37-For I will
cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that
seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, [even] my fierce
anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have
consumed them:
38-And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.
39-But it shall come to pass in the latter days, [that] I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.
Ezekiel 32:24
24-There
[is] Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them
slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the
nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the
living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the
pit.
SUPPORT ISRAEL PLAY THESE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8hEtI9AI0U&list=RDs8hEtI9AI0U&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA0bTp677gk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tX6XPzzifQ (AT 4.50 MARK)
LAST
NIGHT AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN NEW YORK THE GENOCIDAL HAMAS MURDERER
PROTESTERS DECIDED THEY WANTED TO SMASH WINDOWS AND HANG A JIHAD
INTIFADA FLAG SIGN ON THE ACADEMIC HALL. THEN THE GENOCIDAL ISLAMIC
COCKROACH PROTESTERS ENTERED THE HAMILTON HALL BUILDING AND OCCUPIED THE
BUILDING. AND AS I WRITE AT 9.07AM THE GENOCIDAL OCCUPIER PROTESTERS
STILL OCCUPY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LAND.YESTERDAY THE SO CALLED BOSS OF
COLUMBIA Minouche Shafik Shafik was born in Alexandria, Egypt.THE ARAB
GENOCIDAL LEADER OF COLUMBIA) SAID ANYBODY WITH GENOCIDAL TENTS ON
UNIVERSITY OCCUPIED LAND WILL BE BANNED FROM SCHOOL AT 2PM. 2PM CAME AND
WENT. AND THIS ARAB COCKROACH LEADER OF COLUMBIA DONE NOTHING TO THE
GENOCIDAL PROTESTER ISRAEL HATERS.
Pro-Israel
demonstration at UCLA screens October 7 images-‘Intifada’: Anti-Israel
protesters break into Columbia campus building and seize it-University
suspends students who refused to remove tents by deadline; protesters
smash windows, occupy Hamilton Hall, which is encircled by hundreds;
school urges avoiding campus-By ToI Staff and Agencies Today, 3:07
pm-APR 30,24
Protesters at Columbia University, the epicenter of
anti-Israel protests that have upended college campuses across the
United States, broke into a building on the New York school’s campus on
Tuesday, barricaded themselves inside and unfurled an “intifada” banner
from a window.Videos and photos from Hamilton Hall showed at least one
individual smashing a window with a hammer.Doors to the building were
shut and blocked from inside with tables, chairs, metal barricades and
other objects or sealed with locks, zip ties or ropes by dozens of
protesters, the student paper reported.According to the Columbia
Spectator, demonstrators also allegedly held workers there against their
will for a short period of time.The newspaper reported that a
maintenance worker exited the building at 12:40 a.m. after yelling to be
released, telling the crowd as he left that he had been “held hostage”
inside. Three other workers reportedly left some 30 minutes later after
the barricades blocking one door were removed.Dozens of protesters
rallied outside the building, forming a human chain to block the doors,
and chanted slogans seen by many as anti-Israel, including “From the
river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”A group calling themselves the
Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) declared on X that the
activists had “reclaimed” Hamilton Hall and renamed it “Hind Hall in
honor of Hind Rajab, a martyr murdered at the hands of the genocidal
Israeli state at the age of six years old.”An Israel Defense Forces
investigation in February, immediately after the Gazan girl’s body was
found, said there were no troops in the area at the time of her
death.Photos shared on social media also showed a Palestinian flag
unfurled from a window of the building, as well as banners reading
“Intifada” and “Gaza Calls Columbia Falls.”For Israelis, the Arabic word
“intifada,” literally “uprising,” conjures traumatic memories of mass
waves of deadly terror attacks in 1987-1993 and again in the early
2000s.An INTIFADA flag is hung from Hamilton Hall, Columbia
University-Intifada is an armed terrorist uprising fyi. America take
back control of your universities and arrest their asses. And stop the
radicalisation of your youth! pic.twitter.com/pYGqdWcZoT— Brian BJ
(@iamBrianBJ) April 30, 2024-Protestors said they planned to remain at
the hall until the university agreed to meet the CUAD’s three demands:
divestment, financial transparency and amnesty.As the hours went on,
hundreds gathered outside to rally in support of the occupation of the
building.The Columbia Spectator reported that New York City police
officers in unmarked cars were present outside the building, though it
was unclear if police had been invited onto the campus by university
authorities.In a statement on Tuesday, the university asked staff and
students to stay away from its main campus amid the demonstration.“In
light of the protest activity on campus, members of the University
community who can avoid coming to the Morningside campus today should do
so,” the statement said, adding that essential staff should report to
work although access to the campus and some buildings may be
restricted.Students at Columbia University have occupied Hamilton hall.
Today the university president explicitly said to students the school
would not be divesting and threatened to suspend students protesting.
The last time this building was taken over by student protesters was in
1968 pic.twitter.com/IhoWVYlocB— Lama Al-Arian (@lalarian) April 30,
2024-The latest demonstration came hours after Columbia began suspending
student protesters on Monday when they defied an ultimatum to
disperse.The suspensions followed almost two weeks of protests against
Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza that have swept through higher
education institutions from coast to coast, at times veering into
antisemitism and intimidation of Jewish students. Around 100 protesters
were first arrested at the prestigious New York university on April
18.Hamilton Hall was previously occupied by students protesting the
Vietnam War in 1968 and again by anti-apartheid activists in
1985.Widening campus unrest-Meanwhile at the University of California,
Los Angeles (UCLA), where opposing protesters clashed over the weekend,
pro-Israeli activists set up a large screen and loudspeakers to play a
taped loop of images from the Hamas’s October 7 massacre in southern
Israel, which saw thousands of terrorists burst across the border,
killing some 1,200 people and seizing 253 hostages amid acts of
brutality and sexual assault.The video appeared aimed at countering
pro-Hamas chants that have seeped into campus protests in support of
Palestinians in Gaza.UCLA also stepped up security around the
pro-Palestinian encampment there, consisting of more than 50 tents
surrounded by metal fencing near the main administration building on
campus.At Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, police and
protesters clashed as officers moved in after nightfall Monday to break
up an encampment.Local TV aired video of police in riot gear dousing
demonstrators, many of whom the university said were not students, with
what appeared to be pepper spray, and making arrests.Students have
stormed and taken the Cabell Library Building at Virginia Commonwealth
University in Richmond.Charge them.pic.twitter.com/nrCTNfeb4A-Also
Monday, dozens of officers in riot gear at the University of Utah sought
to break up an encampment outside the university president’s office
that went up in the afternoon.Police dragged students off by their hands
and feet, snapping the poles holding up tents and zip-tying those who
refused to disperse. Seventeen people were arrested.The university said
it was against code to camp overnight on school property, and that the
students had been given several warnings to disperse before police were
called in.At the University of Southern California, organizers of a
large encampment sat down with university president Carol Folt for about
90 minutes on Monday. Folt declined to discuss details but said she
heard the concerns of protesters and talks would continue Tuesday.USC
sparked a controversy April 15 when officials refused to allow the
valedictorian, who has publicly supported Palestinians and has a
controversial social media history, to make a commencement speech,
citing nonspecific security concerns for their rare decision.
Administrators then scrapped the keynote speech by filmmaker Jon M. Chu,
who is an alumnus, and declined to award any honorary degrees.The
backlash, as well as the demonstrations at Columbia, inspired the
encampment and protests on the USC campus last week, where 90 people
were arrested by police in riot gear. USC has now canceled its main
graduation event.Administrators elsewhere tried to salvage their
commencements and several have ordered the clearing of encampments in
recent days. When those efforts have failed, officials threatened
discipline, including suspension, and possible arrest.In a rare case,
Northwestern University said it had reached an agreement with students
and faculty who represent the majority of protesters on its campus near
Chicago.It will allow peaceful demonstrations through the June 1 end of
spring classes and in exchange, required removal of all tents except one
for aid and restricted the demonstration area to allow only students,
faculty and staff, and university-approved exceptions.While
pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel protests have been held regularly on US
campuses since the Israel-Hamas war broke out on October 7, the
demonstrations drew renewed attention after Columbia protesters set up
their encampment earlier this month.After the NYPD removed the
encampment and arrested more than 100 protesters, demonstrators at other
universities around the country and in Europe erected their own
encampments and the Columbia one was reassembled.Protest organizers deny
accusations of antisemitism, arguing that their actions are aimed at
the Israeli government and its prosecution of the conflict in Gaza. They
also claim the more threatening incidents have been engineered by
non-student agitators.
China: Hamas, Fatah showed ‘political
will’ for reconciliation in recent Beijing talks-Chinese Foreign
Ministry says rival Palestinian groups made ‘positive progress,’ agreed
on further talks to ‘achieve the realization of Palestinian solidarity
and unity’By Agencies and ToI Staff Today, 12:00 pm-APR 30,24
China
said Tuesday that representatives from Hamas and Fatah met in Beijing
recently for “in-depth and candid talks on promoting intra-Palestinian
reconciliation.”“Representatives of the Palestine National Liberation
Movement and the Islamic Resistance Movement recently came to Beijing,”
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian said, referring to the rival
Palestinian factions by their formal names.“The two sides fully
expressed their political will to achieve reconciliation through
dialogue and consultation, discussed many specific issues and made
positive progress,” he added, without specifying when the
representatives had met.“They agreed to continue the course of talks to
achieve the realization of Palestinian solidarity and unity at an early
date,” he said, noting that both sides had thanked Beijing for its
efforts to “promote Palestinian internal unity and reached an agreement
on further dialogue.”Terror group Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip
from Fatah, which administers the West Bank, in a 2007 coup.
International efforts since then have so far failed to reconcile the two
factions.In March, Russia hosted the two groups, along with other
Palestinian factions, to discuss the war between Israel and Hamas in
Gaza, and governance plans for an eventual postwar period.Also in March,
Russia and China both exercised their veto power in the United Nations
Security Council to block a US-backed resolution calling for an
immediate ceasefire in Gaza as part of a hostage deal.Beijing said that
the draft “dodged the most central issue, that of a ceasefire” through
its “ambiguous” language, while Moscow claimed that the “exceedingly
politicized” resolution contained an effective green light for Israel to
mount a military operation in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah, where
more than half of the Strip’s 2.3 million residents have been sheltering
amid the ongoing war.China has historically been sympathetic to the
Palestinian cause and supportive of a two-state solution.Chinese
President Xi Jinping has called for an “international peace conference”
to resolve the fighting, and Beijing has been calling for an immediate
ceasefire since war erupted in Gaza after Hamas’s October 7 massacre,
which saw terrorists burst across the border into Israel, killing some
1,200 people and seizing 253 hostages.Vowing to destroy Hamas and return
the hostages, Israel launched a wide-scale offensive in Gaza which
Hamas-run health authorities say has killed at least 34,450 people in
the Gaza Strip.These figures cannot be independently verified, and are
believed to include both civilians and Hamas members killed in Gaza,
including as a consequence of terror groups’ own rocket misfires.
Cop
moderately hurt in Jerusalem stabbing; assailant, a Turkish visitor,
shot dead-34-year-old foreign national knifes Border Police officer in
Old City-By Emanuel Fabian-Today, 2:22 pm-APR 30,24
A police
officer was moderately wounded in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem’s Old
City, authorities said Tuesday. The assailant, a Turkish national, was
shot dead.According to police, the 34-year-old Turkish man, apparently a
tourist, rushed at a Border Police cop near the Herod’s Gate entrance
and stabbed him in the upper body.The wounded man was taken by the Magen
David Adom ambulance service to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in the
capital, which said he was conscious and in moderate condition.The
officer who was stabbed and another cop in the area returned fire at the
assailant, killing him, police added.It is extremely rare for a foreign
national to carry out an attack in Israel, with no such incidents
taking place in recent memory.A large number of forces, including
police’s Jerusalem District chief Doron Turgeman, were at the scene
holding an assessment and collecting evidence, law enforcement officials
said.The attack comes a week after three people were lightly wounded in
a car-ramming terror attack at two separate locations in Jerusalem. The
two alleged perpetrators, Palestinian teenagers, were captured after a
brief manhunt.Tensions in Israel and the West Bank have soared since
October 7, when terrorists burst through the Gaza border into Israel in a
Hamas-led attack, killing at least 1,200 people and seizing 253
hostages.
Explainer-What is the International Criminal Court and
why does it worry Israeli leaders? Amid reports that top UN court will
issue arrest warrants for senior officials, Netanyahu has vowed Israel
won’t accept ‘any attempt to undermine its inherent right of
self-defense’
By Agencies and ToI Staff Today, 12:14 pm-APR 30,24
Israeli
officials sound increasingly concerned that the International Criminal
Court could issue arrest warrants for some of the country’s leaders
nearly seven months into the war in Gaza, sparked by Hamas’s October 7
onslaught.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has written in general terms
of his opposition to ICC action against officials and Israel Defense
Forces troops, and the Foreign Ministry has said it is also tracking
reports of pending action.The ICC was established in 2002 as the
permanent court of last resort to prosecute individuals responsible for
the world’s most heinous atrocities – war crimes, crimes against
humanity, genocide and the crime of aggression.The Rome Statute creating
the ICC was adopted in 1998 and entered into force when it got 60
ratifications on July 1, 2002. The UN General Assembly endorsed the ICC,
but the court is independent.Without a police force, the ICC relies on
member states to arrest suspects, which has proven to be a major
obstacle to prosecutions.Netanyahu said Friday on the social platform X
that Israel “will never accept any attempt by the ICC to undermine its
inherent right of self-defense.”“While the ICC will not affect Israel’s
actions, it would set a dangerous precedent,” he wrote.The Foreign
Ministry said late Sunday that it had informed missions abroad of
“rumors” that the court could order the arrest of senior political and
military officials. The ministry did not give a source for the
rumors.Israeli and foreign officials reportedly believe the ICC is
weighing arrest warrants for Hamas leaders as well.In a statement
emailed to The Associated Press, the court’s prosecution office declined
to comment in detail.What is the ICC? The ICC’s 124 member states have
signed on to the Rome Statute.Dozens of countries did not sign and do
not accept the court’s jurisdiction over war crimes, genocide and other
crimes.They include Israel, the United States, Russia and China.The ICC
becomes involved when nations are unable or unwilling to prosecute
crimes on their territory. Israel argues that it has a functioning court
system, and disputes over a nation’s ability or willingness to
prosecute have fueled past disputes between the court and individual
countries.In 2020, then-US president Donald Trump slapped economic and
travel sanctions on the ICC prosecutor and another senior prosecution
office staffer. The ICC staff were looking into US and allies’ troops
and intelligence officials for possible war crimes in Afghanistan.US
President Joe Biden, whose administration has provided Israel with
crucial military and political support in its war against the Hamas
terror group in Gaza, lifted the sanctions in 2021.The ICC has 17
ongoing investigations, has issued a total of 42 arrest warrants and
taken 21 suspects into custody. Its judges have convicted 10 suspects
and acquitted four.In its early years, the court was criticized for
focusing on crimes in Africa — 10 of its investigations are in African
nations — but now it has investigations in Asia, Europe, the Middle East
and Latin America.What is the ICC’s relationship to Israel, the West
Bank and Gaza? The UN General Assembly raised the Palestinian
Authority’s status in 2012 from a UN observer to a non-member observer
state. That opened the door for the PA to join international
organizations, including the ICC.The ICC accepted “The State of
Palestine” as a member in 2015, a year after the Palestinians accepted
the court’s jurisdiction.The court’s chief prosecutor at the time,
Fatouh Bensouda, announced in 2021 that she was opening an investigation
into possible crimes in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. That
investigation starts from June 13, 2014 — one day after Palestinian
terrorists kidnapped and murdered three Israeli teenagers in the West
Bank, meaning the ICC will not look into the crimes that sparked
Israel’s Operation Protective Edge that summer.Israel often levels
accusations of bias at UN and international bodies, and Netanyahu
slammed the decision to probe “fake war crimes” as hypocritical and
antisemitic.Current ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan visited Ramallah and
Israel in December, meeting Palestinian Authority officials and families
of Israelis killed or taken hostage by Hamas terrorists in the October 7
massacre, which saw some 3,000 terrorists burst across the border into
Israel, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 253 hostages amid amid
acts of brutality and sexual assault.At the time, Khan called Hamas’s
actions “some of the most serious international crimes that shock the
conscience of humanity, crimes which the ICC was established to
address,” and called for the immediate and unconditional release of all
hostages.Khan said “international humanitarian law must still apply” in
the Gaza war and “the Israeli military knows the law that must be
applied.”After the visit, Khan said an ICC investigation into possible
crimes by Hamas terrorists and IDF forces “is a priority for my office.”
Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan visits a Gaza
border town attacked by Hamas, on December 3, 2023. (Hostages and
Missing Persons Families Forum)-Who else has the ICC charged? A year ago
the court issued a warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin on
charges of responsibility for the abductions of children from Ukraine.
Russia responded by issuing its own arrest warrants for Khan and ICC
judges.Other high-profile leaders charged by the court include ousted
Sudanese strongman Omar al-Bashir on allegations including genocide in
his country’s Darfur region.Former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was
captured and killed by rebels shortly after the ICC issued a warrant for
his arrest on charges linked to the brutal suppression of
anti-government protests in 2011.
