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)
NEW YORK NAILS TRUMP ON 34 SCAM CHAREGES-JUDGEMENT SHOULD COME ON NEW YORK NOW-LOOKOUT NEW YORK.
LONG EXPLANATION OF AMERICAS DESTRUCTION (NEW YORK POLITICAL BABYLON OF REVELATION CHAPTER 18)(REVELATION CHAPTER 17 IS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE RELIOUS BABYLON THE VATICAN IN ROME)
JEREMIAH 51:29-32
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 (NEW YORK) 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.
31 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)
LEVITICUS 26:30-34 (NY IS BUILT ON A GARBAGE DUMP)
30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my (GODS) soul shall abhor you.
31 And I will make your cities waste,(GARBAGE-DESTROYED) and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
32 And I will bring the land into desolation:(RUIN) and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
33 And I will scatter you among the heathen,(ENEMY NATIONS) and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
2 KINGS 19:25
25 Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
ISAIAH 34:10
10 It (NEW YORK-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.
EZEKIEL 39:21
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.
ISAIAH 18:1-2
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!(AMERICA)
JEREMIAH 50:11,37,12
11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage,(ISRAEL) because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;(BACKSLIDERS)
37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.(A NATION OF MINGLED PEOPLE)
12 Your mother (england) shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed:(MOTHER ENGLAND) behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
JEREMIAH 51:13,7,53
13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
53 Though Babylon (NEW YORK) should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.
REVELATION 18:3,5,7
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
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,(NEW YORK) and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK ATTACK ON NEW YORK)
REVELATION 18:9-11,15-21
9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,(NUKE ATTACK I BELIEVE FROM RUSSIA)
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
16 And saying, Alas, alas that great city, (NEW YORK) that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! (NEW YORK)
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.(1 HOUR NEW YORK IS GONE)
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon (NEW YORK) be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
I BELIEVE SINCE JUDGEMENT ON NEW YORK COMES FROM THE SEA. I BELIEVE RUSSIA WILL SHOOT 2 HYDROGEN BOMBS ON NEW YORK FROM A SUBMARINE. AND NEW YORK WILL BE CAUGHT OFF GUARD. AND TOTALLY DESTROYED LIKE REV 18 SAYS.PAY NEW YORK DOUBLE..SO I BELIEVE RUSSIA WILL SHOOT 2 HYDROGEN BOMBS ON NEW YORK ON A FIRST STRIKE AFTER DOING A CYBER ATTACK AND EMP ON NEW YORK.THEN IN 1 HOUR NEW YORK CAN BE GONE FOR GOOD.
TO THE ISRAELIS THAT LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY. I WOULD ADVISE USE TO MOVE TO ISRAEL QUICK. I CAN SEE BIGTIME JUDGEMENT COMING ON NEW YORK AS A RESULT OF THESE FAKE GUILTY CHARGES AGAINST TRUMP.
Donald Trump was convicted on felony charges. Will he go to prison?-Trump was convicted of falsifying business records, a class E felony which is punishable by a fine, probation or up to four years in prison.Trump found guilty on all counts in New York hush money case.May 30, 2024, 2:38 PM PDT-By Dareh Gregorian and Adam Reiss
A New York jury's historic conviction of Donald Trump on felony charges means his fate is now in the hands of the judge he's repeatedly ripped as "corrupt" and "incompetent."Two experts told NBC News that it's unlikely Trump will be imprisoned based on his age, lack of a criminal record and other factors — and an analysis of thousands of cases found that very few people charged with the same crime receive jail time. But a third expert told NBC News he believes it is "substantially" likely Trump could end up behind bars.Trump was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records, a class E felony that is punishable by a fine, probation or up to four years in prison per count. During the trial, Judge Juan Merchan threatened to put Trump behind bars for violating his gag order, but it’s unclear if the former president will face similar consequences now. It's expected that any sentence on the charges would be imposed concurrently, instead of consecutively.Former federal prosecutor Chuck Rosenberg, an NBC News analyst, said it's unlikely that Merchan would sentence Trump, 77, to any jail time, given his age and his status as a first-time, nonviolent offender. "I’d be very surprised if there's any sentence of incarceration at all," Rosenberg said. “Of course, he did spend a good bit of time insulting the judge who has the authority to incarcerate him.”The next step for Trump at this point is his sentencing, which is set for July 11.Arthur Aidala, a former prosecutor in the Brooklyn district attorney's office who's now a defense lawyer, said the judge will likely use some of the time before sentencing to research similar cases to determine what the median sentence is."He wants to know before he sentences someone what the typical sentence is," Aidala said, and would consider other factors like Trump's age and lack of criminal record, while also taking into account the lack of injury caused by the crime. Aidala said he believes whatever punishment the judge comes up with would be "a non-jail disposition."An analysis conducted by Norm Eisen, who worked for House Democrats during Trump’s first impeachment, found that roughly one in 10 people who have been convicted of falsifying business records are imprisoned, and those cases typically involved other crimes.Ron Kuby, a veteran New York criminal defense lawyer, took a different view.“Judge Merchan is known for being a harsh sentencer when it comes to white-collar crimes committed by people who have wealth and privilege and power,” Kuby said.Kuby added that he believes "it is substantially likely Judge Merchan will sentence Trump to jail or prison time," despite the logistical and practical complications that locking up a person with Secret Service protection would entail.The lawyer said that's because the criminal scheme went on for over a year, and included a number of bad acts on Trump's part.“It’s an entire course of conduct he was involved with — not just one bad decision,” Kuby said.Trump, however, likely doesn't have to worry about missing the Republican National Convention, where he's expected to accept the party's nomination, even though it's taking place just days after his sentencing. Kuby said he'd likely be able to remain free while he appeals the conviction.Trump's behavior during the trial, including his flouting Merchan's gag order by making comments about witnesses and the jury, will likely not be a factor in the sentencing decision, Kuby said. It's also highly unlikely that comments that appeared to be aimed at sidestepping the gag order by Republican officials who attended the trial as Trump's guests will figure into the judge's reasoning, Kuby added."If the judge is smart he'd stay away from that," Kuby said. "The best way for judges not to get reversed in a sentencing is to stick to the facts and circumstances of the crimes and conviction."Rosenberg said that despite Trump’s frequent criticisms of the judge, which he likened to “a batter who’s been yelling at the umpire from before the first pitch,” Merchan appeared to run “a clean and fair trial.”Both Rosenberg and Kuby agreed that Trump would appeal the verdict. Kuby said that could potentially delay Trump from serving whatever punishment the judge doles out for years, even if the appeal is ultimately unsuccessful.His first appeal will be to the state Appellate Division, a midlevel appeals court, and they will almost certainly not decide the appeal until after the November election, Kuby said. If he loses there, he could then appeal to the state's highest court, the Court of Appeals. A loss there would be followed by a request to the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case.If all that fails, Kuby said, he could then try turning to federal court in another attempt to eventually get the case before the Supreme Court.The appeals process typically takes a long time — Kuby said he had one client who staved off prison time for six years — but there's another potential complicating factor in this case."If he becomes president of the United States he cannot be incarcerated in a state prison" while he's in office, Kuby said, because it could prevent him from fulfilling his constitutional duties. If he lost his appeals, "by the time he leaves office — if he leaves office — he'd be ready to be incarcerated," he said.
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.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
JESUS SHED HIS BLOOD FOR US THAT WE CAN BE SAVED FOREVER.AND DURING WW3 PEOPLES BLOOD WILL BE SHED AS A JUDGEMENT FOR HATING HIM AND ISRAEL.GOD IS NOT MOCKED.
ZEPHANIAH 1:2-3
2 I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.
3 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.
PSALMS 97:3
3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
EZEKIEL 5:15-17
15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the (ARAB/MUSLIM) nations that are round about thee,(ISRAEL) when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
17 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts,(WHEN RUSSIA/MUSLIMS GET DEFEATED THIER BODIES GET EATEN BY BIRDS,ANIMALS IN ISRAEL MIGRATION SEASON) and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee;(NUKES) and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.
REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)
ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire,(NUKES) and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity:(GOD/ISRAEL HATE AND BRAKING OF HIS COMMANDMENTS) the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die - 3 BILLION).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
JOEL 2:3,30
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.
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.
REVELATION 9:18
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.(ATOMIC BOMBS)(RUSSIA CHINA DESTROYED BY ISRAELS ATOMIC BOMBS)
REVELATION 16:12-16
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates;(WERE WW3 STARTS IN IRAQ OR SYRIA OR TURKEY) and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon,(SATAN) and out of the mouth of the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) and out of the mouth of the false prophet.(FALSE POPE)
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.(WERE 2 BILLION DIE FROM NUKE WAR)
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
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)(50% OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE)
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.
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 32:18-29 (NOTICE ALL THE COUNTRIES LAND PROMISED ISRAEL BY GOD ARE IN THE JORDAN VALLEY BURIED)
18 “Son of man, wail for the multitudes of Egypt, and consign her and the daughters of the mighty nations to the depths of the earth with those who descend to the Pit:
19 Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be placed with the uncircumcised! (IN HELL FIRES)
20 They will fall among those slain by the sword. The sword is appointed! Let them drag her away along with all her multitudes.
21 Mighty chiefs will speak from the midst of Sheol about Egypt and her allies: ‘They have come down and lie with the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword.’
22 Assyria (SYRIA) is there with her whole company; her graves are all around her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword.
23 Her graves are set in the depths of the Pit, and her company is all around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword—those who once spread terror in the land of the living.
24 Elam (IRAN) is there with all her multitudes around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword—those who went down uncircumcised to the earth below, who once spread their terror in the land of the living. They bear their disgrace with those who descend to the Pit.
25 Among the slain they prepare a resting place for Elam with all her hordes, with her graves all around her. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword, although their terror was once spread in the land of the living. They bear their disgrace with those who descend to the Pit. They are placed among the slain.
26 Meshech and Tubal (RUSSIA) are there with all their multitudes, with their graves all around them. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword, because they spread their terror in the land of the living.
27 They do not lie down with the fallen warriors of old, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were placed under their heads, whose shields rested on their bones, although the terror of the mighty was once in the land of the living.
28 But you too will be shattered and lie down among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword.
29 Edom (JORDAN) is there, and all her kings and princes, who despite their might are laid among those slain by the sword. They lie down with the uncircumcised, with those who descend to the Pit.THIS IS RIGHT FROM 93:
PSALMS 83:1-8 (GODS LAND PROMISED TO ISRAEL)
1 O God, do not remain silent;do not turn a deaf ear,do not stand aloof, O God.
2 See how your enemies growl, how your foes rear their heads.
3 With cunning they (ARAB,MUSLIMS) conspire against your people;they plot against those you cherish.(ISRAELIS)
4 “Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.”
5 With one mind they plot together;(TREATIES) they form an alliance against you—
6 the tents of Edom (JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites, (EGYPTIAN ARABS SO CALLED PALESTIANS) of Moab (JORDAN) and the Hagrites,(EGYPT)
7 Byblos,(HEZBOLLOH) Ammon (JORDAN) and Amalek,(SYRIAN ARABS IN THE SINAI) Philistia,(ARABS) with the people of Tyre (LEBANON).
8 Even Assyria (SYRIA) has joined them to reinforce Lot’s descendants.
DR SAMUEL DOCTORIANS VISION - SECOND ANGEL: MIDDLE EAST
Then I saw that the second angel had a sickle in his hand, such as is used in harvesting.The second angel said: "Harvest time has come in Israel and the countries all the way to Iran."I saw those countries in a few split seconds."All of Turkey and those [inaudible] countries that have refused me and refused my message of love shall hate each other and kill one another."I saw the angel raise the sickle and come down on all the Middle East countries. I saw Iran, Persia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, all of Georgia - Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, all of Asia Minor - full of blood. I saw blood all over these countries. And I saw fire; Nuclear weapons used in many of those countries. Smoke rising from everywhere. Sudden destruction – men destroying one another. I heard these words:"Israel, Oh Israel, the great judgment has come." The angel said, "The chosen, the church, the remnant, shall be purified. The Spirit of God shall prepare the children of God."I saw fires rising to heaven.The angel said: "This is the final judgment. My church shall be purified, protected and ready for the final day. Men will die from thirst. Water shall be scarce all over the Middle East. Rivers shall dry up, and men will fight for water in those countries."The angel showed me that the United Nations shall be broken in pieces because of the crisis in the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.
Mossad: Iran-backed criminal networks behind attacks on Israeli embassies in Europe-Israeli and European intelligence agencies find that Tehran is using local organizations — including the Foxtrot and Rumba crime rings — to attack Israeli and Jewish targets
By Lazar Berman-Today, 2:00 pm-MAY 30,24
Iran is behind a string of terror attacks by criminal networks on Israeli embassies in Europe since October 7, the Mossad intelligence agency said on Thursday.The agency opened up an investigation alongside European counterparts after an explosive device, said to be a hand grenade, was found inside the grounds of the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm in January and destroyed by the Swedish national bomb squad.After interrogating the suspects and examining forensic evidence, the investigators concluded that the Foxtrot organized crime ring in Sweden was behind the attack, at Iran’s behest, according to the Mossad.Foxtrot leader Rawa Majid — known as “the Kurdish Fox” — has been working with Iran for months, Israel alleged. He was recruited by Iranian agents after he fled to Iran from Turkey in September of last year, pursued by international law enforcement and Iraqi security forces.He was arrested by Iran and recruited to plan a string of attacks in Europe against Jewish and Israeli targets, according to the Mossad.There have been dozens of Iran-backed terror plots against Jewish and Israeli targets uncovered in recent months, said the Israeli agency, many of which use local criminal networks.On May 17, Swedish police heard gunshots late at night near the Israeli embassy. They detained a 14-year-old boy in connection to the shooting and made known that the Israeli embassy was the target.That shooting was carried out by the Rumba crime group, said the Mossad, headed by Majid’s rival Ismail Abdo and also directed by Iran.Ismail Abdo, a Kurdish-Swedish criminal at the head of the Rumba crime ring that Israel accuses of being behind Iran-backed attempts to attacks Israeli and Jewish targets in Europe, May 2024.“Iran operates many criminal organizations in Sweden and Europe in general, while taking advantage of the relative advantage of each and sometimes the rivalry between them,” said the Israeli statement.Foxtrot and Rumba receive funding and direction directly from Iran, the Mossad alleged, and are closely monitored by European intelligence.The spy agency also accused Iran of trying to take advantage of rising antisemitism in Europe while avoiding direct responsibility for attacks.“There is no change in the travel warning levels in the various countries,” a Mossad official said.“Countermeasures continue all the time wherever necessary,” the official continued.The Mossad said that Iranian-backed criminals were also behind last week’s attack on Israel’s embassy in Belgium in which two airsoft grenades were thrown.The statement did not mention the armed man who set fire to a synagogue in the northern French city of Rouen earlier this month and was later killed by police. With the Paris Olympics two months away — and the war in Gaza likely to continue beyond the summer — French security services are on high alert for possible terror attacks.AFP contributed to this report.
Cruise missile, apparently fired from Iraq, shot down over northern Israel – IDF-Military says projectile intercepted in southern Golan Heights; no injuries or damage reported; no claim of responsibility-By ToI Staff Today, 3:19 pm-MAY 30,24
Israeli air defenses shot down a projectile fired at the southern Golan Heights “from the east,” the Israel Defense Forces said Thursday.The army has described past attacks from Iraq as “from the east.”The projectile had originally been thought to be a drone and triggered sirens.No injuries or damage were caused in the attack.There was no claim of responsibility from Iran-backed militias in Iraq. The groups have claimed a number of drone attacks on the southern city of Eilat in the last several months.The Islamic Resistance in Iraq — a loose formation of armed groups affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Forces, itself a coalition of former paramilitary forces integrated into Iraq’s regular armed forces — has claimed dozens of drone attacks on Israel amid the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.???? ISRAEL EN GUERRE: AUTORISÉ À LA PUBLICATION: Le Dôme de Fer intercepte un missile balistique en provenance d'Irak dans le ciel de la partie Sud du Plateau du Golan. Pas de dégâts ni blessés à gnaler. pic.twitter.com/ fwEWB6HR — Jonathan Serero (@sererojonathan) May 30, 2024-Many of the militia’s claims have been exaggerated, but in one case it managed to hit an Israeli Navy base in Eilat, causing damage. The Iran-backed group said it had struck a “vital target” in Israel “with appropriate weapons,” without elaborating further.Along with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, Iran-backed groups in Yemen and Syria have claimed to have launched dozens of drones and missiles at Israel during the ongoing war sparked by Hamas’s devastating October 7 terror onslaught.Additionally, Lebanon’s Hezbollah has attacked communities and IDF positions in northern Israel on a near-daily basis in attacks it says are in support of Gazans amid Israel’s war against Hamas.Iran also carried out an unprecedented attack on Israel last month with hundreds of drones and missiles.
China’s Xi Jinping pledges UNRWA funding in Gaza aid package at Arab leader summit-Chinese president calls for international peace conference; Egypt’s Sissi praises Beijing’s stance-By Agencies and ToI Staff Today, 3:07 pm-MAY 30,24
Chinese President Xi Jinping reiterated calls for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state and promised more humanitarian aid for people in Gaza as he opened a summit with leaders of Arab states Thursday in Beijing.The summit, attended by heads of state from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Tunisia among others, was set to focus on China’s expanding trade ties and on security concerns related to the war in Gaza between Israel and the terror group Hamas.War erupted on October 7, when thousands of terrorists led by Hamas burst into southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 252 hostages.“Since last October, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has escalated drastically, throwing people into tremendous suffering,” Xi said in a speech opening the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum. “War should not continue indefinitely.”The Chinese leader called for an international peace conference for resolving the Israel-Hamas war and pledged 500 million yuan ($69 million) in humanitarian aid for Gaza.He also promised to donate $3 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, the body responsible for much of the social services in Gaza.The United States and Germany, UNRWA’s two biggest donors by far, froze their contributions to the agency in January along with a host of other western nations following allegations from Israel that some UNRWA staff members were affiliated with Hamas and other terror groups.Germany announced it would resume its contributions to UNRWA last week. A number of other nations that froze their funding, including Italy, Spain, Australia, and Japan, have also restored it.An independent review group of UNRWA, led by French former foreign minister Catherine Colonna, found some “neutrality-related issues” but said Israel had yet to provide evidence for its allegation of widespread links to Hamas and other terror groups.Beijing has long backed Palestinians and denounced Israel over its settlements in the West Bank.It has not criticized the Hamas attack of October 7, and has vetoed calls for a ceasefire at the UN that make a pause in fighting contingent on Hamas’s releasing hostages. Last month, the country hosted representatives from Hamas and rival Palestinian faction Fatah for reconciliation efforts.However, China has growing economic ties with Israel.Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who spoke at the opening ceremony, praised China for supporting an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.Sissi called on the international community to “stop any attempt at forcing Palestinians to forcibly flee their land.” Egypt, which shares a border with Gaza and signed a historic peace deal with Israel in 1978, has kept its border mostly closed to Gazans fleeing the conflict.Sissi also called on the world to “immediately provide for long term humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip and to end the Israeli siege.”The comments came four days after aid from Egypt began entering Gaza again through Israel’s Kerem Shalom border crossing, under pressure from the United States.The Arab nation had been blocking the passage of aid trucks through its own border with Gaza after Israeli forces moved into the southern Gazan city of Rafah, adjoining it.Israel said Wednesday it had gained “operational control” over the strategic Philadelphi corridor along that border, which had served as a buffer zone between Gaza and Egypt.The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 35,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though only some 24,000 fatalities have been identified at hospitals. The toll, which cannot be verified, includes some 15,000 terror operatives Israel says it has killed in battle. Israel also says it killed some 1,000 terrorists inside Israel on October 7.It is believed that 121 hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza — not all of them alive.
Booby-trapped tunnel that killed 3 was in medical clinic-IDF soldier killed in Gaza; Israel: 300 terrorists killed in Rafah since start of op-Death of Yedidya Azugi brings army’s ground op toll to 292; US says Israeli takeover of Gaza-Egypt border is in line with limited offensive it is willing to support-By Emanuel Fabian,ToI Staff and Agencies Today, 5:27 pm-may 30,24
The Israeli military said Thursday that a soldier was killed in Gaza fighting, as it continued to pound the Strip and said 300 terror operatives had been killed since an incursion was launched into its southern city of Rafah.Staff Sgt. Yedidya Azugi, 21, of the Paratrooper Brigade’s 101st Battalion, from Revava, was killed while fighting Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces announced, raising the army’s death toll in Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza to 292.The IDF said it had carried out over 50 airstrikes throughout Gaza over the past day, including an attack that killed two terror operatives seen leaving a building in northern Gaza where shells had been launched toward Israeli troops.In northern Gaza, the army said troops were continuing to operate in the heart of Jabaliya, where they were finding weapons and engaging Gazan fighters attacking them.An AFP correspondent reported artillery and gunfire in Gaza City’s southern neighborhood of Zeitoun, where witnesses said thick plumes of smoke rose over Jabaliya and Beit Lahiya.Troops were also operating in central Gaza, where they found an arms cache, the IDF said.In the southern city of Rafah, soldiers uncovered tunnel shafts, an ammunition depot, anti-tank missile launchers, explosives, and other unspecified arms, the IDF said Thursday.Also in Rafah, an airstrike was called in on three terror operatives who opened fire on troops, and residents reported intense artillery shelling and gunfire.Troops have killed around 300 terror operatives since the operation in Rafah was launched on May 6, government spokesperson David Mencer said.The IDF also announced Thursday that a booby-trapped tunnel shaft that killed three soldiers in Rafah on Tuesday was located inside a medical clinic.The military said that forces had come under anti-tank missile fire from an UNRWA school in Rafah, and in response launched a raid against the building and an adjacent mosque and clinic.During searches in the area, a booby-trapped tunnel was discovered inside the clinic, which then exploded, killing three soldiers of the Nahal Brigade’s 50th Battalion.The IDF said troops also found a cache of weapons, as well as additional tunnel shafts, inside the UNRWA school complex, including within the classrooms.Meanwhile, terror groups in Gaza were showing they are still capable of attacking Israeli territory, as rocket sirens were triggered in Nirim near the Gaza border on Thursday morning.Army Radio reported that a single projectile was launched from Khan Younis and landed in an uninhabited area.The alarm was the first to sound in southern Israel since a Tuesday night alert in Mefalsim.The IDF’s incursion into Rafah — believed to be Hamas’s last major stronghold — has sparked international controversy since over a million civilians had been sheltering there before it was launched. However, after the military announced that the Philadelphi Route along Gaza’s border with Egypt had been captured, the US said it did not object to this.“When [Israel] briefed us on their plans for Rafah, it did include moving along that corridor and out of the city proper to put pressure on Hamas in the city,” White House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters in a briefing.Kirby declined to confirm if Israel had indeed seized all of the Philadelphi Route, saying: “It’s not our op.”However, he said the move was consistent with the “limited” ground operation that Israeli officials had briefed the US on ahead of time.US President Joe Biden warned earlier this month that he would halt certain offensive weapons shipments to Israel if the IDF launched a major military offensive in populated parts of Gaza’s southernmost city.War broke out on October 7 between Israel and Hamas when Hamas terrorists infiltrated Israel, killing some 1,200 people and kidnapping 252 while committing widespread atrocities and sexual assaults.The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 36,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though only some 24,000 fatalities have been identified at hospitals. The toll, which cannot be verified, includes some 15,000 terror operatives Israel says it has killed in battle. Israel also says it killed some 1,000 terrorists inside Israel on October 7.Jacob Magid contributed to this report.
Gallant, Austin discuss IDF's takeover of Gaza-Egypt border-Israel, Egypt said to agree to reopen Rafah Crossing following US pressure-Palestinians unaffiliated with Hamas to reportedly temporarily run crossing before international body takes over; second report says US planning trilateral meeting on border issues-By ToI Staff Today, 11:04 pm-may 30,24
Israel and Egypt have agreed to reopen the Rafah Border Crossing in southern Gaza to humanitarian aid for the first time since the Israel Defense Forces took control of the Gazan side of the crossing in early May, a Hebrew media report said Thursday.The agreement was reached as a result of US pressure on both sides, the unsourced report by the Kan public broadcaster added.The crossing has been closed since the IDF gained control of its Gazan side on May 7, as Egypt said it would refuse to reopen it until it was back under Palestinian control, in order to avoid being seen as complicit with Israel’s military operation in the southernmost Gaza city. On Sunday, Egypt resumed aid deliveries via the Kerem Shalom Crossing on the tri-border area between Israel, Gaza and Egypt.According to Kan, Israel agreed to remove its troops from the crossing to allow for it to be reopened, and has attempted to find an international body to take responsibility for it instead.However, as a body has not yet been found, Israel has reportedly agreed to temporarily allow the border crossing to be controlled by Palestinians in Gaza who have been proven to have no ties to Hamas or other terror groups.An Axios report earlier in the day said Israel had presented Cairo with its plan to redeploy its forces outside the crossing to defend it, while representatives from the United Nations and Palestinians unaffiliated with Hamas in Gaza would operate it.The US aims to hold a trilateral meeting with Egyptian and Israeli security officials in Cairo next week on issues surrounding the Gaza-Egypt border and the Rafah Crossing, according to the report, which cited three unnamed US and Israeli officials.The US delegation will reportedly be led by the senior director for the Middle East at the White House National Security Council, Terry Wolff.In addition to solving issues regarding the Rafah Crossing, the meeting will also focus on ensuring that Hamas can no longer smuggle weapons into the Gaza Strip from Egypt, the report said. US officials said an underground wall to block tunnels, similar to one built on the Israel-Gaza border, would be discussed in the meeting.“An initial interagency delegation will travel to Egypt to follow up on the call between [US] President [Joe] Biden and [Egyptian] President [Abdel Fattah el-] Sissi for further discussions on the Rafah Border Crossing and border security,” a senior US official said, referencing a call held on Friday between the two leaders, and adding that a senior-level delegation would continue the talks later on.Maintaining the tenuous peace between Israel and Egypt is a top priority for Biden, the Axios report said, as his administration sees Egypt as a key player in any plans for post-war Gaza.Egypt itself has worked for years to thwart the cross-border tunnel network, blowing them up, flooding them with water, pumping toxic gas inside, and even razing homes along the border to establish a buffer zone. However, many are still believed to remain.The IDF announced Wednesday that it had taken control over the Philadelphi Route, the key Gaza-Egypt border corridor, saying it had uncovered at least 20 cross-border smuggling tunnels, In response, the Egyptian state-affiliated Al-Qahera News TV quoted a “high-level” source saying that there was “no truth” to the reports of tunnels between Egypt and Gaza.Meanwhile, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant briefed US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin during a call Wednesday night on the IDF’s successful operation to take over the Philadelphi Route, their offices said.The Pentagon said Austin stressed the “need to sustain increased deliveries of humanitarian assistance” and reopen the Rafah Crossing.“Our humanitarian partners working in Gaza tell us that conditions are worse now than ever before. Israeli military operations and closed crossings are making it extremely difficult to distribute aid,” US Agency for International Development chief Samantha Power wrote on X on Wednesday night.In an Israeli readout of the Gallant-Austin call, Gallant’s office said the defense minister had stressed to Austin Israel’s opposition to the crossing being run by Hamas or any officials linked to terror groups.
At least 12 arrested as riot police dismantle anti-Israel camp at Detroit university-Wayne State University head says protest created ‘environment of exclusion’ in which some students ‘felt unwelcome’; staff told to work remotely; in-person summer classes suspended-By AP and ToI Staff Today, 9:28 pm-may 30,24
American police broke up an anti-Israel encampment at Wayne State University (WSU) in Detroit on Thursday, arresting at least 12 people after protest organizers turned down offers to meet with school officials and refused to leave.WSU University President Kimberly Andrews Espy cited health and safety concerns and disruptions to campus operations. Staff were encouraged to work remotely this week, and in-person summer classes were suspended.“No individual or group is permitted to claim campus property for their own use and deny others access to that property,” Espy said.The camp, she added, “created an environment of exclusion — one in which some members of our campus community felt unwelcome and unable to fully participate in campus life.”Critics of the student protest encampments that sprung up on university campuses since the outbreak of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza have cited viral episodes of outright antisemitism as evidence of a widespread problem. The encampments’ proponents — including some Jewish students — have insisted that antisemitic attitudes and rhetoric are rare.Television video showed Wayne State and Detroit police in riot gear tearing down fencing and breaking down tents erected May 23 on green space near the undergraduate library. Clips posted to social media showed violent arrests, with protesters hurling verbal abuse at officers in riot gear.The protesters chanted: “There’s no riot here, why are you in riot gear?”At least 12 people were arrested for trespassing or other offenses, including one for assaulting a police officer, Wayne State spokesperson Matt Lockwood said.Anti-Israel students at universities in the US and in Europe have demanded their universities stop doing business with Israel or companies that they say support its war against Hamas in Gaza.Wayne State has 16,000 undergraduate students but fewer during the summer term. The protesters have demanded that the school divest from weapons manufacturers supplying Israel, provide a full disclosure of investments and cease delegation trips to Israel.Wayne State this week posted a video of its efforts to invite protesters to private meetings with Espy and other officials if they would dismantle the camp. Lockwood said all were rejected.US Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat who is of Palestinian origin, visited the encampment site Thursday after it was broken up to offer support to the protesters.Ali Hassan, who represents WSU Students for Justice in Palestine, told WXYZ-TV this week that he believed the university’s shift to remote learning means the administration is taking notice of the student protests.“The reason that they went remote is because we have put pressure on them,” he said.The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on May 21 broke up a similar encampment after 30 days, after student demonstrators showed up at the home of a school official and placed fake body bags on her lawn.The war in Gaza erupted after Hamas’s October 7 massacre, which saw some 3,000 terrorists burst across the border into Israel by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 252 hostages, mostly civilians, many amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 35,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though only some 24,000 fatalities have been identified at hospitals. The toll, which cannot be verified, includes some 15,000 terror operatives Israel says it has killed in battle. Israel also says it killed some 1,000 terrorists inside Israel on October 7.A total of 292 soldiers have been killed during the ground offensive against Hamas and amid operations along the Gaza border. A civilian Defense Ministry contractor has also been killed in the Strip.
US envoy Hochstein envisions Israel-Lebanon border deal in bid to cool conflict-Senior Biden adviser says he doesn’t expect peace with Hezbollah, but argues that boosting Lebanon’s economy and armed forces would decrease Iranian influence in country
By Reuters and ToI Staff Today, 10:11 pm-may 30.24
WASHINGTON — A land border agreement between Israel and Lebanon implemented in phases could dampen the simmering and deadly conflict between the Jewish state and the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group, a senior adviser to US President Joe Biden said on Thursday.Clashes between Israel and Hezbollah across the Israel-Lebanon border have led to worries of a deeper war across the Middle East. Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there against the Palestinian terror group Hamas.“I’m not expecting peace, everlasting peace, between Hezbollah and Israel,” Amos Hochstein, a senior adviser to Biden for energy and investment, said in an interview with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.“But if we can reach a set of understandings and… take away some of the impetus for conflict and establish for the first time ever a recognized border between the two, I think that will go a long way.”Hochstein brokered an Israel-Lebanon maritime boundary agreement in late 2022, after two years of talks, which opened the way for both countries to develop natural gas and other resources in the region. Hochstein has been working on a demarcation of the land border between the two countries that could have a number of phases.The first would be to allow for tens of thousands of displaced residents of northern communities in Israel to return to their homes, along with those living in southern communities in Lebanon, Hochstein said.Part of that would require a strengthening of the Lebanese armed forces, including recruiting, training and equipping forces, Hochstein said, without detailing how that would happen. As it stands, Hezbollah’s military might far outweighs the army’s.The second phase would involve an economic package for Lebanon, “making sure that the international community demonstrates to the Lebanese people that we’re invested in them.”Lebanon’s power grid, for example, only operates a few hours per day, at an enormous detriment to its economy. “We have a solution for that, we’ve put together a package that could create a solution that would take them to 12 hours of electricity in a… short amount of time,” Hochstein said.The last phase would be a land boundary agreement between Lebanon and Israel, he said.If politics and the economy are stabilized in Lebanon, it could help reduce Iran’s influence there, he argued.“The ability of outside forces of any consequence to influence Lebanon will diminish dramatically,” Hochstein said.So far, the skirmishes on the border have resulted in 10 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 14 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.Hezbollah has named 322 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 62 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have been killed.Israel has expressed openness to a diplomatic solution to the conflict but has said it would launch an all-out war against Hezbollah to restore security to the north if an agreement isn’t reached.
PM has publicly opposed far-right push to govern Strip-Poll: Half of Jewish Israelis say Israel should run Gaza after the war; 0% say Hamas-Survey conducted in March finds only 19% of Israeli Jews believe peaceful coexistence possible with Palestinian state — lowest since Pew Institute began polling Israelis in 2013-By Jacob Magid-and JTA Today, 9:25 pm-may 30,24
Fifty percent of Israeli Jews support Israel maintaining control of the Gaza Strip after the war against the Hamas terror group ends, according to a Pew Research Center survey published Thursday.Asked who should govern the Palestinian enclave after the war, half of Jewish respondents said Israel; 15% said they didn’t know; 10% said the Palestinian Authority, but without its president, Mahmoud Abbas; 8% said people who live in Gaza should decide; 7% answered “other”; 5% said the PA with Abbas; 4% said the United Nations; and zero percent said Hamas.Among Arab Israeli respondents, 37% said people who live there should decide; 18% said the PA without Abbas should rule; 16% said they didn’t know; 11% said the PA with Abbas; 9% said Hamas; 5% said the United Nations; 3% said Israel; and 2% said “other.”Among all Israeli respondents, 40% said Israel; 16% said they didn’t know; 14% said Gazans should decide; 12% said the PA without Abbas; 6% said the PA with Abbas; 6% said “other”; 4% said the UN; and 2% said Hamas.The major caveat of the survey was that it was conducted between March 3 and April 4, finishing nearly two months ago, likely making many of the results outdated.But even if the results are several months old, they are notable given that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come out against the idea of Israel governing Palestinians in Gaza after the war — a prospect vehemently rejected by the international community.Only far-right ministers like Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir have come out in support of Israel permanently controlling the Gaza Strip and reestablishing settlements there, but the Pew survey indicates support for their stance may be more widespread among Israeli Jews than originally thought.The survey also finds that the share of Israeli Jews who believe an Israeli and a Palestinian state can peacefully coexist has plummeted since October 7, when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israeli communities and army positions, killing around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 252 hostages.The figure of 19% was the lowest since Pew started surveying Israelis in 2013. It is down from 32% in a survey released just weeks before the war broke out.In 2013, according to Pew, nearly half of Israeli Jews — and a majority of Israelis overall — supported a two-state solution. In 2005, another polling firm found that most Israeli Jews supported the establishment of a Palestinian state.This year, just a quarter of Israeli adults overall — including nearly half of Israeli Arabs — believe a Palestinian state and Israel can peacefully exist side-by-side.Among Arab Israelis, 74% say “Israel’s military response against Hamas in Gaza has gone too far.” Only 4% of Jewish Israelis agree.The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 36,200 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though only some 24,000 fatalities have been identified at hospitals. The toll, which cannot be verified, includes some 15,000 terror operatives Israel says it has killed in battle.Two hundred and ninety-two soldiers have been killed during the ground offensive against Hamas and amid operations along the Gaza border. A civilian Defense Ministry contractor has also been killed in the Strip.And while 76% of Jewish Israelis believe Israel will achieve its goals in the war — namely, toppling Hamas’s rule in Gaza and returning the remaining hostages — only half as many Arab Israelis, 38%, say the same.But Israeli Arabs and Jews share some of the same concerns about the war: 61% of both groups are worried about the war spreading to other fronts — a concern that has been top-of-mind for many in the region and beyond after constant exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, the first direct attacks between Iran and Israel, and violence on other fronts.And at a time when National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi has said he anticipates the war will last until at least the end of this year, the poll found that significant majorities of both groups (77% of Arabs, 66% of Jews) are worried about the war “lasting a long time.”One thousand and one Israeli adults participated in the in-person survey, which included a representative population of Jews and Arabs.It had a margin of error of four percentage points.In addition to being taken before the launch of the Rafah operation, the poll was conducted before other landmark developments of recent weeks — including a prosecutor for the International Criminal Court announcing he was seeking Netanyahu’s arrest and US President Joe Biden saying that he would suspend delivery of some large bombs to Israel in a bid to influence the scope of Israel’s Rafah invasion.But even before those events, the poll showed disapproval of Biden’s handling of the war rising in Israel. Biden was broadly popular among Israelis for his embrace of the country following October 7, but by the time the poll was taken, 60% of Israeli Jews — and 86% of Israeli Arabs — said they did not approve of how he was handling the war.Also unpopular was Netanyahu who, the poll found, had a lower favorability rating than at any point in the 11 years Pew has asked the question, at 41%. The two other leaders in his war cabinet, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and former Defense Minister Benny Gantz, fared better, with Gantz at 51% and Gallant at 61%.A more recent poll shows that Netanyahu’s popularity, which nosedived after October 7, is somewhat recovering among the Israeli public.
Slovenian government okays decision to recognize Palestinian state alongside Israel-Slovenian PM calls for ceasefire, release of hostages; parliament must approve measure; FM Israel Katz casts move as reward for Hamas terror-by Reuters and ToI Staff Today, 7:23 pm-may 30,24
LJUBLJANA — The Slovenian government on Thursday approved a decision to recognize an independent Palestinian state, Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob said, following in the steps of Spain, Ireland and Norway.“Today the government has decided to recognize Palestine as an independent and sovereign state,” he said at a news conference in Ljubljana.The parliament of the European Union member country must also approve the government’s decision in the coming days.The move is part of a wider effort by countries to coordinate pressure on Israel to end its war against Hamas in Gaza, which began following the October 7 massacre carried out by the terror group in southern Israel, when Hamas terrorists infiltrated Israel, killing some 1,200 people and kidnapping 252 while committing widespread atrocities and sexual assaults.The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 36,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though only some 24,000 fatalities have been identified at hospitals. The toll, which cannot be verified, includes some 15,000 terror operatives Israel says it has killed in battle. Israel also says it killed some 1,000 terrorists inside Israel on October 7.Two hundred and ninety-two soldiers have been killed during the ground offensive against Hamas and amid operations along the Gaza border. A civilian Defense Ministry contractor has also been killed in the Strip.Golob also called for the immediate cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hamas in Gaza and the release of all hostages.“This is the message of peace,” he said.The Slovenian government raised a Palestinian flag alongside the flags of Slovenia and the EU in front of its building in downtown Ljubljana.Foreign Minister Israel Katz expressed outrage over the move, stating that it “rewards Hamas for murder, rape, mutilation of bodies, beheading of babies, and strengthens the Iranian axis of evil while damaging the close friendship between the Slovenian and Israeli people.”“I hope the Slovenian Parliament rejects this recommendation,” he wrote on X.On May 28, Spain, Ireland and Norway officially recognized a Palestinian state, also prompting an angry reaction from Israel.Of the 27 members of the European Union, Sweden, Cyprus, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria have already recognized a Palestinian state. Malta has said it could follow soon.Britain and Australia have said they are also considering recognition, but France has said now is not the time.Germany joined Israel’s staunchest ally, the United States, in rejecting a unilateral approach, insisting that a two-state solution can only be achieved through dialogue.Denmark’s parliament on Tuesday voted down a bill to recognize a Palestinian state.Norway, which chairs the international donor group to the Palestinians, had until recently followed the US position but has lost confidence that this strategy will work.
Op-ed: Day 237 of the war-503 Israelis give Netanyahu reason to believe he can retain power, despite October 7-For the first time in more than a year, Netanyahu is again voters’ preferred PM, according to a snap survey. You can be certain that he takes it seriously. Here’s why we all should-By David Horovitz-Today, 5:41 pm-may 30,24
will go down as the day when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was first vindicated in his belief that he could extricate himself from the catastrophe of October 7, 2023, and retain power.For the first time in a year, a snap survey by Channel 12 found that Netanyahu had overtaken Benny Gantz and was, once again, respondents’ preferred choice for prime minister.In a survey in December by the same polling firm for the same TV channel, Gantz had been preferred to Netanyahu by a massive 45% to 27% of respondents. As recently as last month, though the gap had gradually been narrowing, Gantz was still ahead, by 35% to 29%. But on Wednesday night, Netanyahu overtook him, 36% to 30%.-The findings-Israelis don’t vote for a prime minister, but rather for a party, which they hope will become a dominant faction in the next governing coalition. Here too, however, Wednesday night’s survey was good news for Netanyahu. His Likud party, it showed, is gaining on Gantz’s National Unity, with 21 predicted seats to Gantz’s 25 were elections held today.Again, the trend has been inexorable: In its December survey, Channel 12 noted, Gantz’s National Unity was trouncing Netanyahu’s Likud, by 37 seats to 18. That, in turn, meant that Gantz was blessed with a variety of options for fashioning a majority coalition. Netanyahu’s bloc, comprising the parties with which he formed his coalition after the November 2022 elections — Likud, the two Haredi parties Shas and United Torah Judaism, and the two far-right parties Otzma Yehudit and Religious Zionism — is polling at a combined 52 seats, far short of a Knesset majority. But the anti-Netanyahu parties who together hold the other 68 seats do not constitute a unified bloc.For a start, Hadash-Ta’al, a majority-Arab party polling at 5 seats, would be unlikely to join any conceivable coalition. And while Ra’am, a second majority-Arab party, also polling at 5, did sit in the short-lived Naftali Bennett-Yair Lapid 2021-2022 coalition, its presence would be unacceptable to at least one of the other anti-Netanyahu parties, Avigdor Liberman’s hardline Yisrael Beytenu, which is polling at 10 seats. One way or another, therefore, the ostensible 68-strong anti-Netanyahu parties could in practice likely muster a bloc of only 58.So Netanyahu, as things stand, could not build a majority coalition, but neither could anybody else. There are innumerable other shifts and surprises that could come into play, including the establishment of a new right-wing alliance with the likes of Bennett and the fairly unpopular ex-Likud journeyman Gideon Sa’ar. But, the momentum is with the incumbent.The reasons-Channel 12’s reasonable assessment of its own snap poll was that Gantz’s decline is tied to the ultimatum he publicly delivered on May 18: Either Netanyahu starts putting the national interest ahead of his personal and political considerations, and starts defining strategic goals for the war, its aftermath and much more besides by June 8, or, Gantz vowed, his National Unity party would leave the emergency coalition it had joined days after October 7.Since Gantz’s rise in the polls was widely regarded as reflecting public support for his ostensible statesmanship in joining the government at a time of acute national crisis, his threat to abandon the partnership is now unsurprisingly costing him that support. If you’re no longer being selflessly statesmanlike, or if, as you yourself are saying, you are no longer able to influence the coalition, some erstwhile Gantz backers are presumably asking, then why should we be supporting you? Apart from that, however, the specific horror of October 7 is now almost eight months in the past. Right now, today, minute by minute, Israel is deep in ongoing conflict with Hamas, trying to extricate 121 hostages held since October 7, facing acute dangers in the north, and battling innumerable other challenges.Much of the public is highly critical of Netanyahu’s handling of many of these issues. But his biggest vulnerability was the fact of his presiding over the unprecedented catastrophe of October 7 and the Hamas-funding policies and other actions that failed to prevent it. With that catastrophe’s current, continued dire repercussions at the very top of the national mindset, the simple passage of time has been gradually working to Netanyahu’s advantage.Moreover, the events of October 7 and since are highly unlikely to have sent large numbers of Israeli voters careening from right to left on the national political spectrum:Belief in the viability of a partnership with the Palestinian Authority is probably at an all-time low. The dangers of relinquishing territory in the ostensible cause of peace have been underlined as never before by the Hamas invasion — from a Gaza Strip that Israel had left in 2005 and where it had no military or civilian presence and, it wanted to believe, no territorial dispute. Likewise, Hezbollah took control of the security zone that Israel evacuated in southern Lebanon to international approval in 2000, and now 60,000 people are internally displaced from their homes on and near that border.What’s more, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have been fighting in Gaza for almost eight months — members of the standing army and of the reserves. For combat troops, potential death lurks at every corner; every footstep could be their last. It’s a case of kill the Hamas enemy or the Hamas enemy is going to kill you. How does that warrior’s necessary kill-or-be-killed mindset impact these soldiers’ political thinking and orientation? What proportion of them and their loved ones are becoming more dovish? Almost certainly a smaller proportion than are emerging more hawkish.There are many Israelis risking their lives fighting in Gaza who know that Hamas must be dismantled, the hostages freed, Hezbollah deterred and national security restored, but who are deeply alienated from the government that is sending them. They and their loved ones recognize that the coalition features far-right betrayers of Zionism who seek to destroy Israel’s Jewish and democratic nature, to permanently reoccupy Gaza and the entire biblical Judea and Samaria, too. But, again, one suspects that this large and anguished sector of the populace is not attracting significant new adherents from the right — as Wednesday’s poll would seem to confirm.The Netanyahu-led coalition not only failed to read the writing on the wall ahead of October 7, but has proved staggeringly dysfunctional in the eight months since. As Gantz and Likud Defense Minister Yoav Gallant have publicly charged, Netanyahu has resisted making vital strategic decisions, including on postwar governance of Gaza, because he dares not defy the would-be Gaza-occupying Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir on whom his governing majority depends.Israel’s citizens on the southern and northern borders, and its vast contingent of reservists, have been failed by many of the ministerial offices whose job it is to look after them. Miri Regev’s strategic, cynical and documented abuse of the Transportation Ministry as a tool for her personal career advancement is only the most extreme alleged example of ministerial abandonment of the basic responsibility to serve the needs of the public.Against all this, Netanyahu is bolstered by a powerhouse media and social media operation that besmirches and incites against any and all potential opponents and rivals, and that has been sinking to still lower lows in just the past few days — with the prime minister’s son Yair disseminating a mutiny call against the defense establishment, and his pet TV station Channel 14 on Wednesday producing repugnant “research” to assert that being left-wing made you ten times more likely to be slaughtered or abducted on October 7. (“We, within our midst, risk destroying Israel,” responded a despairing Haim Jelin, a former local council head and ex-Yesh Atid MK from Kibbutz Be’eri, where Hamas killed 103 people. “I thought that [Hamas] came to murder Jews, Israelis, in the State of Israel, in our homes… but apparently there are those who think we should divide the people into small pieces.”)-Channel 12’s poll was carried out in the course of Wednesday by phone and by internet, among just 503 representative voters, with a 4.4% margin of error. As such, it is no more credible than any of the other polls carried out by the same firm, Midgam, for the same channel in recent months, which used the same methods and voter samples, with the same margins of error, or any of the other such snap polls carried out for numerous Israeli media outlets over the years. It could prove an outlier, its findings never replicated.But polls do reflect momentum, they do impact the electorate, and they affect the climate in which politicians make their decisions.Netanyahu’s opponents, first and foremost Benny Gantz, will recognize that their hopes, even expectations, of ousting him just took a significant hit.And the prime minister, who has never acknowledged his paramount personal responsibility for October 7, will see Wednesday’s survey as indicating he is now well on the way to winning back enough of the public to keep his job.
Findings ‘based on systematic effort’ to ignore boosted aid-Key Gaza famine report cited by UN, ICJ has systematic flaws, Israeli review finds-Health Ministry review finds series of grave methodological flaws in Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report from March, which was cited as proof Israel starving Gazans-By Jeremy Sharon-31 May 2024, 12:33 am-may 30,24
A crucial study by a key international organization that found in March that a famine had begun in northern Gaza relied on small sample sizes and undisclosed data sources, rendering its conclusions and projections unreliable, an Israeli review has found.The Health Ministry review of the study — which has been cited by the UN, human rights organizations and even by the International Court of Justice in its genocide case against Israel — also found that there appeared to have been “a consistent effort to ignore… a significant decline in the war’s intensity and a significant increase in the humanitarian effort and the flow of aid” when making its famine projections.On March 18, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) organization issued a “Special Brief” on the food insecurity situation in the Gaza Strip, finding that hundreds of thousands of people were already experiencing famine and that that figure would rise to over a million by July if there was no immediate cessation of hostilities.The IPC — which is connected to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN — is seen as a neutral and highly credible organization for evaluating where famines might be occurring around the globe.Its assessment in March that famine had already taken hold in parts of Gaza and was likely to spread was explicitly cited and accepted by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in its March 28 ruling and was used as the basis for its specific order for Israel to increase the supply of humanitarian aid to Gaza. That order was recalled in the ICJ’s ruling last week when it issued new orders against Israel.And International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan has filed crimes against humanity charges against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant based on the allegation that Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war against the Gazan population, a claim which is also likely connected to the IPC finding.However, the Health Ministry review, authored by public health officials in the ministry and published by the Foreign Ministry on Wednesday, found significant flaws in the methodology of the IPC Special Brief and notably found that it had deviated from IPC’s standards and principles as laid out by the organization itself.According to the review, the IPC report, which covered the period from December 21, 2023, until March 10, 2024, failed to acknowledge the increase in the supply of humanitarian aid during that time; repeatedly cited unreliable and unrepresentative surveys of Gazans regarding their level of food security; and did not provide any statistics on the mortality rate from malnutrition, as would be expected to occur in a famine and as is IPC’s practice in evaluating famine.It also allegedly used data on physical manifestations of malnutrition from undisclosed sources and gathered in an undisclosed manner, and ignored positive trends on the ground such as the withdrawal of Israeli forces and the intensity of combat operations when making its projection of worsening famine.The Health Ministry review said that the next IPC report on Gaza, which is expected to be published in June, “should avoid repeating these failures and include an acknowledgment and a correction of mistakes made in the previous report.”The IPC did not respond to a request for comment.The IPC report published on March 18 stated that there were already 677,000 Gazans at the Phase 5 Catastrophe level of food insecurity, projecting that number to grow to 1,107,000 between March 16 and July 15.But its report, and the projections off which it was based, did not acknowledge that the Kerem Shalom goods crossing was opened in December or the subsequent increase in the number of humanitarian aid trucks entering the territory per day. It also made no mention of the air drops of food to northern Gaza; the opening of goods crossings into northern Gaza, where food insecurity was allegedly most acute; or the opening of 20 bakeries throughout the Gaza Strip, providing over 2 million pita breads per day.The projection for northern Gaza and Gaza City was also based on what turned out to have been a false assumption that from March to July, the “conflict and related casualties will likely continue at similar levels to January-February 2024.”The projection was also founded on an assumption that northern Gaza would likely be “mostly inaccessible and intermittently hard-to-reach” for humanitarian aid, despite the fact that Israel was already at the time of the report working on increasing humanitarian access to that region. Since that time, three goods crossings have been opened between Israel and northern Gaza, further increasing supply capacity.It appears likely that the failure to take into account these developments helped contribute to the dire projections in the IPC’s March report.Another key methodological concern with the IPC report pointed out by the Health Ministry review was the lack of transparency about the reliability of the surveys cited in the report.The IPC’s analysis of the situation in northern Gaza relied heavily on a phone survey carried out by the World Food Program (WFP) conducted between December 2023 and February 2024, which included a very small sample of just 104 observations in that time frame for northern Gaza.“According to the survey, most households across the Gaza Strip have inadequate food consumption with almost 88 percent of households in the North reporting Poor Food consumption (indicative of IPC Phase 4 and 5, Emergency and Catastrophe),” the IPC Special Brief said, despite the survey having such a small sample size .Similarly, a finding that there was just half a liter of drinking water per person per day in the Deir al-Balah governorate was based on a telephone survey of a mere 34 households. The IPC report also said that “widespread weight loss, diseases, and malnutrition prevail due to insufficient food supplies,” but based that assertion on interviews conducted by the WFP “with eight key informants” in January, although it did not say who those informants were.Another key aspect of the Special Brief was an analysis of data on a key physical indicator of malnutrition, called Middle Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) screenings.The IPC findings on the MUAC screenings were based on a “reanalysis conducted by the Global Smart Team” from data collected from “various” sources.The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds a hearing on South Africa’s request that the court order Israel to halt its military operation in Gaza, May 24, 2024. The ICJ has explicitly cited a report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) organization from March that a famine had taken hold in northern Gaza and was spreading as the basis for one of its orders against Israel instructing it to increase humanitarian aid to Gaza. (Nick Gammon/AFP)-“There is no reference to the ‘reanalysis’ which can be reviewed, nor is it clear whether the raw data also came from Hamas’s Ministry of Health or other sources,” the Health Ministry review noted.The IPC Special Brief also indicated uncertainty as to whether data from sampling in February was taken from children who were sick, which would be of critical importance since the findings of famine in northern Gaza were based on a deterioration in MUAC results over a January sample.Another problem found by the Health Ministry review was that the IPC report stated that its “analysis could not benefit from representative evidence of non-trauma mortality as intended by IPC Protocols.” But in its summary of the report it stated that there was “an upward trend in non-trauma mortality,” which it said was expected to accelerate, “resulting in all famine thresholds likely to be passed imminently.”
Given the lack of non-trauma mortality data, the Health Ministry review said it “remains unknown” what the finding of increasing numbers of such deaths was based on.The Health Ministry review said in summary that a connecting thread between many of the shortcomings of the IPC’s March report appeared to be “a systematic and consistent effort to ignore” the significant decline in the war’s intensity and a significant increase in the supply of humanitarian effort between the IPC’s December and March reports.“Any analysis or projection that ignores those trends is deeply misleading,” the Health Ministry review said, adding that the absence of references to publicly available sources for key figures and studies cited in the Special Brief — which therefore cannot be independently assessed — was “inconsistent with the requirement for transparency and accessibility of data defined in the IPC manual.”The Health Ministry review added that “the next IPC report on Gaza, which is expected to be published in early-mid June, should avoid repeating these failures and include an acknowledgment and a correction of mistakes made in the previous report.”
