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)
BIDEN, IRAN, HAMAS CLAIME IRAN WON;T ATTACK ISRAEL IF THEY DO A CEASEFIRE.THAT BULL-NUKEM ISRAEL
WARN THE PEOPLE-WW3
EZEKIEL 33:1-6
1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:
3 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
4 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.
6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.
DANIEL 11:40-45 (WW3 BREAKDOWN)
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) 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)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
ISAIAH 24:1
1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste,(NUKES USED) and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(ARAB/MUSLIM) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man;(RIOTS-BURNING-MURDEROUUS RAGE) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM WANTS WORLD DOMINATION) and every man's hand against him;(DEFENDING THEMSELVES) and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(ARAB/MUSLIMS LIVE WITH ISRAELIS)
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF THEIR MOON GOD ALLAH)
ISAIAH 14:12-23
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, (SATAN) son of the morning! (HEBREW MEANS CRESCENT MOON ANGEL-ISLAM OVIOUSLY)(SATAN IS THE GOD OF ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL EATS HUMANS FLESH FOR COMING AGAINST ISRAEL-JERUSALEM
Ecclesiastes 9:10
10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.
EZEKIEL 31:10-17
10 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.
12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:
14To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.(HELL).
15Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
17They also went down into hell with him unto [them that be] slain with the sword; and [they that were] his arm, [that] dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
18To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with [them that be] slain by the sword. This [is] Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
EZEKIEL 32:17-32
17 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, [even] her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.
20 They shall fall in the midst of [them that are] slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.
21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
22 Asshur [is] there and all her company: his graves [are] about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:
23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.
24 There [is] Elam (IRAN) 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.
25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves [are] round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of [them that be] slain.
26 There [is] Meshech, Tubal,(RUSSIA) (GERMANY, TURKEY) and all her multitude: her graves [are] round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.
27And they shall not lie with the mighty [that are] fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though [they were] the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
28 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with [them that are] slain with the sword.
29 There [is] Edom,(JORDAN) her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by [them that were] slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.
30 There [be] the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with [them that be] slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.
31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, [even] Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with [them that are] slain with the sword, [even] Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
EZEKIEL 38:1-23
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I (GOD) will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
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;(ISRAEL) 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,(OIL IS IN 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,(SAUDI-ARABIA) and the merchants of Tarshish,(SPAIN) with all the young lions thereof,(ENGLAND,AND ALL ITS ASSOCIATES-CANADA,AUSTRALIA-NEW ZEALAND, USA, AND WESTERN ENGLISH SPEAKING NATIONS) 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?(OIL IS IN SPOIL-I BELIEVE THATS WHY RUSSIA,ARAB/MUSLIMS MARCH TO ISRAEL)
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?
15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, 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.
EZEKIEL 39:11-22
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
REVELATION 19:17-18
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;(AGAINST ALL NATIONS ARMIES THAT COME AGAINST JERUSALEM AND ISRAEL)
18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
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:
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.
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.
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.
1 OF 3 GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO
1-PROMISCUOUS SEX AMOUNG EACH OTHER.
ROMANS 1:24
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: (THE 60S FREE SEX)
2 OF 3 GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO
2-SODOMITES - MEN LUSTING MEN, AND WOMEN LUSTING AFTER WOMEN.
ROMANS 1:26-27
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
3 OF 3 GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO
3-A DEPRAVED MIND-ANY SIN GOES.
ROMANS 1:28-31
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO THESE 3 DEPRAVED ABOMINATION SINS?
OH OH NOAHS DAY. WHAT HAPPENED IN NOAHS DAY. THE WHOLE WORLD WAS JUDGED BY WATER.
GENESIS 6:7,17
7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
GENESIS 7:4
4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
GENESIS 8:16
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
WELL THE SODOMITES PICKED THE RIGHT SIGN OF A RAINBOW FOR JUDGEMENT. THE SODOMITES TRYED TO STEAL GODS SIGN THAT THE WHOLE EARTH WILL NEVER DIE FROM FLOOD WATERS AGAIN. BUT THE JUDGEMENT THIS TIME IS GOING TO BE BY FIRE.NOT WATER.
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
EZIKIEL 38:12-13
13 Sheba, and Dedan,(SAUDIA ARABIA) 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? (AGAINST ISRAEL)
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, (RUSSIA AND HER MUSLIMS HORDES)Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
The Family Tree of Ishmael
12 This is the family tree of Ishmael son of Abraham, the son that Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maid, bore to Abraham.
13-16 These are the names of Ishmael’s sons in the order of their births: Nebaioth, Ishmael’s firstborn, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah—all the sons of Ishmael. Their settlements and encampments were named after them. Twelve princes with their twelve tribes.
(ISLAM CLAIMS MOHAMMID IS A OFF SPRING OF ISHMAEL THE FIRST BASTARD CHILD OF THE ARABS WITH A SLAVE MOTHER TO THE ISRAELIS.DOES ANY ONE SEE THE NAME OF MOHAMMID IN ISHMAELS FAMILY TREE. BECAUSE I SURE DON'T. I DOUBT MOHAMMID EVEN EXISTS. AND SATAN IS THE LEADER OF ISLAM HHIMSELF. SO ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION AT ALL. ISLAM IS NOTHING BUT A DEATH CULT THAT WORSHIPS DEATH. AND WILL BURN IN HELL FIRE, THEN THE FINAL JUDGEMENT IN FRONT OF JESUS.ONLY TO BE THROWN IN THE LAKE OF FIRE FOREVER WITH THEIR NEVER DYING BODIES.ISLAM EXPOSED AS A FRAUD SATAN LIE AND MURDER DEAT CULT.
Arab, Palestinian leaders outraged by 'dangerous provocation' Ben Gvir scorns PM’s objections as Jews seen praying on Temple Mount: ‘It’s my policy’As worshipers prostrate themselves during minister’s visit, Netanyahu pans breach of status quo, but Ben Gvir shrugs him off; outraged Haredim warn they may reconsider partnership-By ToI Staff 13 August 2024, 3:59 pm
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on Tuesday dismissed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s insistence that Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount remains prohibited, repeating that it was his policy to allow the practice and eliciting outrage from Arab leaders as well as members of his own coalition.The uproar began as Ben Gvir visited the Temple Mount on Tuesday morning to mark the solemn Jewish fast day of Tisha B’Av, which mourns the destruction of the Temples that once stood in Judaism’s holiest site. Some of the Jewish visitors were filmed praying and prostrating themselves, in violation of police instructions.The vague status quo governing the compound, the holiest site in Judaism and third-holiest in Islam, allows Muslims to pray and enter with few restrictions, while non-Muslims, including Jews, can visit only during limited time slots via a single gate. Visibly religious Jews are only allowed to walk on a predetermined route, closely accompanied by police.Palestinians often claim Israel wishes to assert greater control over the Mount, and the issue is seen as a particularly sensitive one, with explosive potential for the region. Violations of the status quo are viewed by Israeli security officials as having the potential to set off mass unrest. The Temple Mount has been the scene of frequent clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces, and tensions at the disputed compound have fueled past rounds of violence.While Jews are not officially allowed to pray, police have increasingly tolerated limited, quiet prayer in recent years.But Tuesday’s prayers were far more explicit, with numerous men flattening themselves on the ground, and loud calls of “Shema Yisrael” heard in videos from the scene.Ben Gvir, who was joined at the site by fellow Otzma Yehudit minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf, filmed a video at the scene, saying over background calls of “Shema”: “There is great progress here on [matters of Israeli] sovereignty and rule, images of Jews praying here as I’ve said. Our policy is to allow prayer.”It was the third time the police minister has made such a claim while visiting the Mount, with the Prime Minister’s Office being repeatedly forced to issue denials that this was Israel’s policy.But police did not appear to take any action to stop the prayers in the videos on Tuesday.Ben Gvir also said, with the Dome of the Rock in the background, that “we must win this war [against Hamas]” and “bring them to their knees.”Religious journalist Arnon Segal was ebullient, writing on X, “The Temple Mount is ours. A historic and dramatic day: Prostrations, loud singing and prayer in the presence of ministers… A dream come true.”The Prime Minister’s Office once again rebuffed the top minister’s claim, saying, “Policy at the Temple Mount is directly subject to the government and the prime minister. There is no private policy by a specific minister at the Temple Mount — neither by the national security minister nor by any other minister.”The PMO went further this time, in light of the clear footage of prayers taking place, saying, “The incident this morning at the Temple Mount is a deviation from the status quo. Israel’s policy at the Temple Mount hasn’t changed.”But Ben Gvir brushed off the reprimand, doubling down on his assertion.“The national security minister’s policy is to enable freedom of worship for Jews in all places, including the Temple Mount, and Jews will continue to do so in the future as well,” he said in a defiant statement.“The Temple Mount is a sovereign area in the State of Israel’s capital,” Ben Gvir added. “There is no law that permits engaging in racist discrimination against Jews at the Temple Mount or anywhere else in Israel.”In reaction to the incident, police did at one point delay the continued entry of observant Jews, who were initially allowed to enter in groups of 100. After the visits were renewed, security forces cut the groups down to 50 each.— איתמר בן גביר (@itamarbengvir) August 13, 2024The official Palestinian news agency Wafa, quoting the Jordanian Waqf, said some 2,000 Jews had entered the site on Tuesday, with the number expected to rise throughout the day.Muslim and Jewish anger-Criticism of Ben Gvir’s visit to the Temple Mount poured in from all directions, including from Arab and Western leaders, members of the opposition and even ultra-Orthodox lawmakers who are Ben Gvir’s partners in the coalition (Haredim are opposed to Jewish visits to the site, believing its holiness precludes setting foot there nowadays).MK Moshe Gafni, head of the Degel HaTorah faction of the United Torah Judaism party, charged that Ben Gvir doesn’t care about the “harm to the Temple Mount’s sanctity and the status quo,” alleging he was causing immense damage to the Jewish nation and causing unnecessary hate on Tisha B’Av.He said that his faction would have to “check with our rabbis whether we can be partners with him, and will clarify this to the prime minister as well.”Gafni has repeatedly threatened to bolt the coalition over several issues, but has not followed through.Religious Affairs Minister Michael Malkieli (Shas) reiterated the Chief Rabbinate’s stance against Jewish visits to the site due to its holiness, adding that it also constituted “unnecessary provocation to nations around the world.”He quoted the fathers of religious Zionism, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and his son Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook, as saying that Jewish sovereignty in Israel must not be achieved via means that go against the Torah.“Ben Gvir’s electioneering at the Temple Mount, which completely goes against the stance of security officials, during a war, is endangering the lives of Israeli citizens and the lives of our soldiers and police officers,” Opposition Leader Yair Lapid argued in a post on X.“This bunch of irresponsible extremists in the government is trying to drag Israel to an all-out regional war,” he added. “These people can’t run a country.”Ra’am MK Waleed Alhawashla wrote on X, “Red lines were crossed today at Al-Aqsa with mass provocations by extremists. Ben Gvir and his supporters yearn for more war and more fatalities, yearning for conflagration.”Hadash-Ta’al MK Ahmad Tibi called Ben Gvir a “pyromaniac” who has decided to go ahead with “any provocation to bring about a regional war,” and placed the blame on Netanyahu for letting him “go wild for the sake of his political survival.”Beyond the issue of prayers, Palestinian and Arab leaders view the uptick in Jewish visits as a violation of the status quo in and of itself.Jordan issued a strident statement condemning the far-right ministers’ visit to the Temple Mount, which it said “reflects the insistence of the Israeli government and its extremist members to disregard international law and Israel’s obligations as the occupying power.”Amman urged the international community to “firmly” condemn the visit, alleging that the site is an exclusive place of worship for Muslims and is under the jurisdiction of the Jordanian Waqf, and asserting that Israel has no sovereignty over the “occupied city of Jerusalem and its Islamic and Christian holy sites.”The Palestinian Authority also condemned Israel for allowing the worshipers to visit the site, calling it a “dangerous provocation.”Nabil Abu Rudeineh, a spokesman for PA President Mahmoud Abbas, said Ramallah holds Israel “responsible for these practices” and called on the United States to “intervene immediately to stop these provocations against our holy religious sites.”Egypt said it “condemns the storming of the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque by two Israeli ministers, members of the Israel Knesset, hundreds of Israeli settlers and extremists, and the raising of the Israeli flag, under the protection of the Israeli police.It also called on the international community to “play an active role in confronting these violations that stir up emotions and thwart efforts to reach a ceasefire in Gaza.”
Visiting Moscow, Abbas tells Putin he’s ‘one of the dearest friends’ of Palestinians-Hosting PA leader, Russian president says Moscow is watching war in Gaza ‘with great pain,’ reiterates his backing for the ‘creation of a fully fledged Palestinian state’ By Agencies and ToI Staff Today, 7:06 pm-AUG 13,24
Russian President Vladimir Putin told visiting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday that Moscow was pained by the plight of his people and backed their aspiration to create a fully fledged state.Putin said Moscow was paying attention to events in the Middle East despite the demands of its own war in Ukraine. He did not refer directly to Ukraine’s week-old incursion into western Russia, an operation that has caught Russia’s military off guard and forced more than 130,000 people to flee their homes.“Everyone is well aware that Russia today, unfortunately, must defend its interests and defend its people with arms in hand. But what is happening in the Middle East, what is happening in Palestine, of course, does not go unnoticed on our part,” Putin said, according to a Kremlin transcript.“And of course, we are watching with great pain and anxiety the humanitarian catastrophe that has unfolded in Palestine,” he added.Abbas told Putin during their meeting that Russia was “one of the dearest friends” of the Palestinian people. “We believe in you, we trust you and we feel your support,” he said.The Palestinian leader said the United Nations Security Council — where Russia is one of five veto-holding powers — must act to “stop the actions that Israel is taking,” after judges at the top UN court said in an advisory ruling last month that Israel’s presence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is illegal.Putin told Abbas that Moscow is “concerned above all about civilian losses” in the ongoing Israeli war against Hamas in Gaza, according to images shown on Russian state television. “We are doing everything… to support Palestine and the Palestinian people.”The only way to create “long-lasting, reliable, stable peace in the region” is the implementation of all UN resolutions and the “creation of a fully-fledged Palestinian state,” the Russian president added.Russia has long maintained ties to both Israel and the Palestinians, although relations between Jerusalem and Moscow soured after Israel largely sided with Ukraine following the Russian invasion in 2022, and Putin has since moved closer to Jerusalem’s foes, Hamas and Iran, and has been vocally critical of Israel.While Putin has sought to cast himself as a peacemaker in the Middle East and blame the region’s problems on longstanding failures of US policy, he did not present any new initiative in his meeting with Abbas beyond reaffirming his support for Palestinian statehood and Russia’s commitment to provide humanitarian relief.
US leads international condemnations of Ben Gvir’s ‘provocations’ at Temple Mount-State Department says minister’s declaration that prayer is allowed at site contributes to ‘greater insecurity and instability in the region’; UN calls move ‘unduly provocative’-By Agencies and Jacob Magid-14 August 2024, 12:02 am
Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir faced a wave of criticism from around the world on Tuesday after he declared that Jewish prayer is allowed atop the Temple Mount amid his own visit to the flashpoint site — violating the status quo and directly contradicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s own directives.Condemnation of his visit and comments poured in from the United States, European Union, United Nations, France, Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and others on Tuesday.The Biden administration slammed Ben Gvir, saying his actions and remarks harmed Israeli security.“We certainly are paying close attention to actions and activities that we find to be a detraction from Israel’s security, a contributor to greater insecurity and instability in the region. That would certainly be the actions that we saw today that Mr. Ben Gvir participated in,” US State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel said during a press briefing.Patel noted that “even the Prime Minister’s Office made clear that the events of this morning are a deviation from what is Israeli policy and a deviation from the status quo.” The spokesman said that the US “stands firmly for preservation of the historic status quo with respect to the holy sites of Jerusalem. Any unilateral action like this that jeopardizes the status quo is unacceptable.”Noting the sensitive timing, as Israel is bracing for retaliatory strikes from both Iran and Hezbollah days before ceasefire talks are slated to restart, Patel said Ben Gvir’s visit “detracts from what we think is a vital time, as we are working to get this ceasefire deal across the finish line. It detracts from what our stated goal is for the region, which is a two-state solution.”Ben Gvir, who heads the ultranationalist Otzma Yehudit party, has long advocated for greater Israeli control over the Temple Mount and the lifting of restrictions on Jews praying there. On Tuesday, amid the Jewish fast of Tisha B’Av, which commemorates the destruction of the Jewish temples, the minister visited the site alongside a large group of men who openly prayed and prostrated at the site, with Ben Gvir sharing a video declaring that “our policy is to allow prayer.”The move sparked yet another repudiation from Netanyahu’s office, saying that policy at the site “is directly subject to the government and the prime minister. There is no private policy by a specific minister at the Temple Mount — neither by the national security minister nor by any other minister,” underscoring that “Israel’s policy at the Temple Mount hasn’t changed.”The EU on Tuesday also condemned what it called Ben Gvir’s “provocations” at the site.“The EU strongly condemns the provocations by Israeli Min. Ben Gvir who, during his visit to the Holy Sites, advocated for the violation of the status quo,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell wrote on X.The UN joined the denunciations, calling the minister’s visit and his comments “unduly provocative.”“We are against any efforts to change the status quo within the holy sites,” said deputy spokesman Farhan Haq. “Al-Aqsa mosque, like the other holy sites in Jerusalem, should be left to themselves and should be controlled by the existing religious authorities for the sites. This sort of behavior is unhelpful and it is unduly provocative.”France’s foreign ministry, meanwhile, urged Israel to respect the status quo at the site, adding that “this new provocation is unacceptable.”Qatar condemned “in the strongest terms” the visit to the Temple Mount, calling it “a provocation and a flagrant violation of international law” that may negatively impact ongoing efforts to reach a ceasefire in Gaza.Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry slammed the “blatant and repeated incursions” by Israeli officials and citizens to the site, while Jordan urged the international community to “firmly” condemn the visit and Egypt demanded world powers “play an active role in confronting these violations that stir up emotions and thwart efforts to reach a ceasefire in Gaza.”Meanwhile, unnamed security sources told Channel 12 news that they have seen an uptick in terror threats since Ben Gvir’s visit to the Temple Mount, accusing the minister of playing with fire and risking drawing Arab Israelis into the ongoing conflict.The vague status quo governing the compound, the holiest site in Judaism and third-holiest in Islam, allows Muslims to pray and enter with few restrictions, while non-Muslims, including Jews, can visit only during limited time slots via a single gate. Visibly religious Jews are only allowed to walk on a predetermined route, closely accompanied by police.Palestinians often claim Israel wishes to assert greater control over the Mount, and the issue is seen as a particularly sensitive one, with explosive potential for the region. Violations of the status quo are viewed by Israeli security officials as having the potential to set off mass unrest. The Temple Mount has been the scene of frequent clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces, and tensions at the disputed compound have fueled past rounds of violence.
IDF kills 2 Hezbollah members in Lebanon, hours after downing drones along border-Drone shot down over Kiryat Shmona, another intercepted over Lebanon; 15 rockets fired at Malkia area; Gallant says Israel is ‘following what is happening, in Beirut, in Tehran’ By Emanuel Fabian-Today, 11:05 pm-AUG 13,24
Two Hezbollah members were killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, hours after the IDF shot down two drones in the north as the region continues to brace for an expected Hezbollah retaliation against Israel.The IDF confirmed carrying out a drone strike in southern Lebanon’s Baraachit, killing two members of Hezbollah’s so-called Southern Front unit, the terror group’s regional command in southern Lebanon.Hezbollah also confirmed their deaths, bringing the declared death toll for members of the terror group since October to at least 408.Earlier Tuesday, the IDF said that its air defenses shot down two drones launched from Lebanon. One was shot down over the Kiryat Shmona area, while the second was intercepted over Lebanon before crossing into Israel.Sirens had sounded in Kiryat Shmona and nearby communities amid the incident. There were no reports of injuries.Footage later circulated on social media showing the Iron Dome intercepting one of the drones over the Galilee Panhandle.Footage shows a Hezbollah drone being shot down by the Iron Dome air defense system over the Galilee Panhandle this morning.According to the IDF, a second drone heading toward Israel was shot down over Lebanese airspace. https://t.co/EEuOvRIRWy pic.twitter.com/gdc0O5DtPd — Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) August 13, 2024-The video offered some of the clearest footage showing a drone being intercepted by Israeli air defenses. The IDF earlier released grainy black-and-white footage of the same interception.Late Tuesday night, a barrage of some 15 rockets was fired from Lebanon at the Malkia area in northern Israel. According to the IDF, the rockets struck open areas, causing no injuries.Meanwhile, the IDF said it carried out drone strikes on two primed Hezbollah rocket launchers, in at-Tiri and Zibqin.Separately, tanks under the 810th “Mountains” Regional Brigade shelled Hezbollah operatives at an observation post in the Mount Dov area earlier Tuesday, the IDF said.Additionally, buildings used by Hezbollah in Chihine and Aalma ash-Shab, and an anti-tank guided missile launch post in Ayta ash-Shab, were struck, the military added.Despite the ongoing cross-border fire, Israel is still girding itself for a serious escalation in response to the killing of top Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut late last month, in response to a rocket attack on Majdal Shams which killed 12 children.Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Tuesday that Israel is closely tracking its enemies, both in regards to Hezbollah and an expected attack from Iran after the assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.“I am aware of the tensions and the great burden placed on the citizens of Israel. We are following what is happening, in Beirut, in Tehran, and in other places,” Gallant said during a visit to an IDF intelligence base in northern Israel. “We are engaged both in removing the threats and preparing all possibilities, in order to be able to attack wherever we decide.”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.So far, the skirmishes have resulted in 26 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 18 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.Hezbollah has named 408 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 71 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have been killed.
ISRAEL IS SMART. WHY LOSE SOLDIERS TO BOOBY TRAPPED TUNNELS. WHEN HAMAS USES CIVILIANS AS HUMAN SHIELDS. YOU PLAY-WE PLAY COCKROACH ARABS. I'D POUR PIGS BLOOD ALL OVER GAZA THE WEST LEBANNON AND SYRIA. WATCH THE COCKROACHES SCATTER THEN. AND ISRAEL GETS THE LAND PROMISED THEM AFTER THE COCKROACHES MIGRATE TO AMERICA UNDER PUSS HEAD HARRIS, LIAR WALZ AND BRAIN DEAD BIDEN THE 3RD WORLD COUNTRY QUICK. SINCE NO MUSLIM COUNTRIES WILL EXCEPT THEIR OWN COCKROACH SO CALLED BROTHERS OF THE DEATH CULT ISLAM.
Report: IDF using Gazans to check areas that may be booby-trapped before troops enter-Soldiers tell Israeli newspaper that commanders send Palestinian civilians into tunnels and buildings they fear are rigged, claim chief of staff and top brass aware of practice-By ToI Staff Today, 10:21 pm-AUG 13,24
Israel Defense Force troops operating in Gaza have been using Palestinian civilians as human shields, forcing them to enter tunnels and homes ahead of soldiers due to fears that the structures may be rigged with traps, the Haaretz daily reported on Tuesday.According to the report, which cited testimonies obtained from returning IDF soldiers who have regularly witnessed use of the tactic, troops have on multiple occasions scouted out Gazan civilians who they believe will be an asset to them while operating against Hamas in dense urban areas.In most, the “recruited” Palestinians are adult men, the report stated, although soldiers also recounted instances in which elderly men or teenagers were selected. The men are not terror suspects, but are detained specifically to be sent into buildings and tunnels that troops believe may be booby-trapped.“It is better that they explode and not the soldiers,” a soldier quoted in the report recalled being told by his commander, who he said had justified the practice.The Palestinian men are told that they’ll be released after completing one “mission,” another soldier recounted. He said that the Palestinians were kept with the troops for varying lengths of time, ranging from one or two days to a week.The newspaper alleged this practice has been widely employed across the Gaza Strip in recent months, and that senior IDF staff — including Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi — were aware.The IDF knows “that it’s not a one-time incident of a young and stupid commander who decides to take someone of his own accord,” one of the soldiers said.Meanwhile, troops serving under commanders who decided to test out this method told Haaretz that they were not always aware of the true identities of these men.One of the soldiers recalled an incident in which a man he didn’t know joined their team, wearing an IDF uniform but with sneakers instead of combat boots, and without a protective vest.The soldiers were instructed to guard him at all times, the soldier said, and the reason for his presence wasn’t made clear to them until a day later, when they were required to enter a tunnel inside a combat zone. The Palestinian man was sent in ahead of them while the commander tracked his movements via the bodycam feed, according to the soldier.“We could hear deep breathing, it sounded like he was a bit scared,” a soldier who watched the footage said. “They simply sent him in and he mapped it out for the commanders, with the brigade commander watching on the outside.”One soldier said he was charged with guarding a 16-year-old Palestinian teenager ahead of the mission he’d been selected for.“You keep quiet and try to convince yourself, ‘ok, let’s go, let’s use them,'” the soldier said. “They tried to explain it in a rational way, but at the end of the day, you have a 16-year-old boy sitting inside the house handcuffed, with his eyes covered.”The soldier added that it wasn’t until the teen was released a few days later that he realized he hadn’t been a terror suspect at all.An unnamed source from within the IDF Southern Command attested to Haaretz that Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman was aware of the practice.“In every meeting at which the issue was raised, there were commanders who warned about the ethical and legal implications,” the source said, adding that some officers had asked to leave the meetings when the matter was raised rather than be party to the conversation.In its response to the allegations, the IDF did not appear to deny employing the practice amid fighting in Gaza, where Israeli forces have been engaged in a 10-month-long war with Hamas following the October 7 terror onslaught in southern Israel.“IDF instructions and orders prohibit the use of Gazan civilians caught in the field for military missions that pose a deliberate risk to their lives,” the military said in its response, adding the allegations laid out in the report “were forwarded to the relevant authorities for review.”The use of human shields is considered a war crime under international law. It is characterized by the International Criminal Court as “utilizing the presence of a civilian or other protected person to render certain points, areas or military forces immune from military operations.”The IDF has repeatedly accused Hamas operatives in Gaza of hiding among the Palestinian civilian population and using them as human shields.War erupted between Israel and Hamas in Gaza following the terror group’s invasion of southern Israel on October 7, during which it killed around 1,200 people and took 251 hostages, 111 of whom are believed to still be held in the Gaza Strip.The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 39,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 15,000 combatants in battle and some 1,000 terrorists inside Israel during the October 7 attack.Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 332.
BRAIN-DEAD BIDEN - OH YA IRAN WON'T GO AFTER ISRAEL IF THERES A USELESS RESTOCK TERRORISTS WEAPONS CEASEFIRE. I SAY THIS IS LIBERAL BULLDUNG. ISRAEL THESE DEATH CULTISTS ISLAMIST ARABS GIVE THEM WHAT THEY WANT. THEY WANNA YELL ALLAH-AKBAR WHILE THEY SLAUGHTER INNOCENT PEOPLE. WELL ISRAEL GIVE THEM THEIR DEATH WISH RIGHT TO HELL FIRE FIRST, THEN AFTER JESUS JUDGES THEM AND THROWS THEM AND THEIR NEVER DYING BODIES INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND DEMONS FOREVER, NEVER ENDING. ITS CALLED THE ATOMIC AND HYDROGEN BOMBS. ISRAEL GETS THEIR PROMISED LAND. ISLAM GETS THEIR DEATH CULT WISHES. TO DIE FOR A ISRAELI SLAVE MOTHER HAGAR AND HER BASTARD CHILD ISHMAEL THE FIRST ARABS ON EARTH. THE MUSLIMS USE JACK ASSES TO DRIVE THEM AROUND. GOD CALLS THE FIRST ARAB ISHMAEL A JACKASS OF A WILD MAN.HE WILL BE AGAINST EVERYBODY. AND EVERBODY AGAINST HIM. AND THE ARABS WILL LIVE WITH THE ISRAELIS. TALK ABOUT GOD REVEALING THE COCKROACH ISLAMIC CULT FOR WHAT THEY ARE AND WOULD BE. OUR JESUS AND THE FATHER AND THE HOLY SPIRIT IS ONE AWESOME GOD. AND THE ONLY GOD. NO OTHER OF EVERYTHING CREATED FOREVER.
Biden: Iran expected to push off attacking Israel if Gaza ceasefire deal clinched-US says Qatar trying to bring Hamas terror group to table for Thursday summit, though Israeli negotiator reportedly complains talks doomed unless Netanyahu expands team’s mandate-By Jacob Magid-and ToI Staff 14 August 2024, 1:27 am
A widely anticipated Iranian attack on Israel to avenge the assassinations of senior terror figures may be staved off if Israel and Hamas manage to reach a long-sought ceasefire deal in Gaza when talks resume later this week, US President Joe Biden said Tuesday.The comments came hours after Iranian officials told Reuters a promised retaliatory strike could be delayed to allow talks to progress, even as Hamas indicated it would not attend the negotiations and with a member of the Israeli delegation expressing doubt in the viability of the talks unless Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expands the team’s mandate.Negotiations for a ceasefire and hostage release deal are scheduled to resume either in Egypt or Qatar on Thursday, with US mediators touting the summit as what may be the final opportunity to release the hostages captured by Hamas on October 7, end the 10-month-long war in Gaza and avoid the possibility of an all-out regional war with the involvement of Iran.Visiting New Orleans for an appearance Tuesday, Biden was asked by reporters if he expected Iran to hold off on a retaliatory strike if a deal is reached.“That’s my expectation,” the president replied.But Biden also warned that achieving a ceasefire deal was “getting harder,” while expressing his resolve at securing an end to the hostilities.“We’ll see what Iran does and we’ll see what happens if there is any attack. But I’m not giving up,” Biden said.The US State Department said on Tuesday that it was working to ensure that Hamas representatives attend the upcoming talks.US State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel said that Doha had assured Washington that it would “work to Hamas represented” at the upcoming talks.The terror group issued a statement on Monday indicating that it would not attend the meeting unless mediators coaxed Israel into agreeing to the updated proposal that the terror group submitted in early July in response to the US-backed outline.The offer saw Hamas cave on its long-held central demand that Israel commit up-front to a permanent ceasefire. The response from Israel came in the form of Netanyahu’s list of amended demands, which Hamas then rejected.A location for Thursday’s summit has yet to be announced, but an Arab official told the Times of Israel that the current expectation is for the meeting to take place in Doha.Despite speculation that Hamas may not attend Patel said the US “fully expects these talks to move forward.”Amid the efforts to finalize the long-anticipated deal, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters aboard Air Force One that White House Middle East czar Brett McGurk would be traveling to Cairo and Doha in the coming days, while special envoy Amos Hochstein would be visiting Lebanon in an attempt to avoid further regional escalation.After Iranian officials suggested earlier on Tuesday that a successful hostage deal could hold it back from direct retaliation against Israel, Jean-Pierre said the US believes that “getting a ceasefire deal is the best way to de-escalate the tensions we’re seeing.”The US has been engaged in intensive diplomatic efforts to dissuade Iran from launching an attack against Israel for the July 31 assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, which it has blamed on Israel. Jerusalem has neither confirmed nor denied any involvement in his death.Hezbollah, the powerful Iranian proxy terror group in Lebanon, has also vowed revenge for the assassination of top Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukr near Beirut that same day, in a strike claimed by the IDF.With an increased risk of a broader Middle East war, Iran has been involved in intense dialogue with Western countries and the United States in recent days on ways to calibrate retaliation, three Iranian sources told Reuters who all spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.Several reports in recent days indicated Israel believes Iran intends to attack before Thursday’s renewed talks for a deal. The new comments appeared to signal that the attack would only take place after those talks, and only if they failed to yield what Iran deems to be sufficient results.But one of the sources, a senior Iranian security official, said Iran and allies such as Hezbollah would launch a direct attack if the talks between Israel and Hamas fail or it perceives Israel is dragging out negotiations. The sources did not say how long Iran would allow for talks to progress before taking action.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office was swift to announced last week that Israel would send its negotiators to August 15 talks “to finalize the details of the implementation of the agreement framework,” after the US, Qatar and Egypt issued a joint statement demanding a deal be sealed and implemented without further delay,A member of the negotiation team told Israel’s Channel 12 on Tuesday evening that there was no point in traveling to the talks if Netanyahu didn’t expand the team’s mandate.The parameters within which the Israeli team will be expected to conduct negotiations have yet to be decided on, and will be set in a meeting with the prime minister later this week, according to the report.Earlier this month, the Israeli delegation warned Netanyahu that it wouldn’t be possible to reach a deal with the new demands he issued in late July.The widely-reported demands — which Netanyahu has insisted are not new additions — were said to include a stipulation that IDF forces remain in control of the Philadelphi Corridor between Israel and Egypt; and added restrictions on those displaced people allowed to return to northern Gaza when fighting is halted.Netanyahu’s office has repeatedly denied the reports, insisting that the prime minister had not changed any part of the US-endorsed May 27 proposal that has been stuck in back-and-forth negotiations for several months now. Instead, his office said, he was merely providing “essential clarifications” to implement the original framework.Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Tuesday evening that Israel was closely tracking its enemies as it awaits a potential attack.“I am aware of the tensions and the great burden placed on the citizens of Israel. We are following what is happening, in Beirut, in Tehran, and in other places,” Gallant said during a visit to an IDF intelligence base in northern Israel.“We are engaged both in removing the threats and preparing all possibilities, in order to be able to attack wherever we decide,” he added, according to remarks provided by his office.The Mehr news agency reported later that Iran was holding a military drill in the north of the country, but did not specify if it was related to the country’s plans to strike Israel.Some had anticipated that an attack could come on Monday night or Tuesday, when Jewish communities in Israel and around the world marked the Ninth of Av, considered a day of mourning and calamity in the Jewish calendar.While the day did not see any major attacks, Hamas terrorists attempted to fire two rockets at Tel Aviv for the first time in months, and Tuesday night saw around 40 rockets fired from Lebanon at northern Israel. No injuries were reported.Agencies contributed to this report.
Iran officials suggest planned retaliation may be scrapped if Gaza ceasefire reached-Senior security official says Tehran and its proxies will launch direct attack on Israel if no deal reached in this week’s hostage talks, amid US push to prevent regional flareup-By Reuters and ToI Staff Today, 5:14 pm-AUG 13,24
An Iranian attack on Israel could be delayed amid hoped-for negotiations later this week for a hostage release and ceasefire deal in Gaza, three Iranian officials said on Tuesday, indicating that a successful deal could hold Iran back from direct retaliation against Israel for alleged assassinating Hamas terror chief Ismail Haniyeh on its soil.Iran has vowed to retaliate harshly for Haniyeh’s killing, which took place as he visited Tehran late last month and which it blamed on Israel. Israel has neither confirmed or denied its involvement.The US Navy has deployed warships and a submarine to the Middle East to bolster Israeli defenses and intensive diplomatic efforts to dissuade Tehran from attacking have been taking place around the clock.One of the sources, a senior Iranian security official, said Iran, along with allies such as the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon, would launch a direct attack if the talks for a ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas fail or it perceives Israel is dragging out negotiations. The sources did not say how long Iran would allow for talks to progress before taking action.With an increased risk of a broader Middle East war after the killings of both Haniyeh and top Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut, Iran has been involved in intense dialogue with Western countries and the United States in recent days on ways to calibrate retaliation, said the sources, who all spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.Several reports in recent days indicated Israel believes Iran intends to attack before Thursday’s renewed talks for a deal. The new comments appeared to signal that the attack would only take place after those talks, and only if they failed to yield what Iran deems to be sufficient results.In comments published on Tuesday, the US ambassador to Turkey confirmed Washington was asking allies to help convince Iran to de-escalate tensions. Three regional government sources described conversations with Tehran to avoid escalation ahead of the indirect ceasefire-hostage deal negotiations, due to begin on Thursday in either Egypt or Qatar.“We hope our response will be timed and executed in a way that does not harm a potential ceasefire,” Iran’s mission to the UN said on Friday in a statement. Iran’s foreign ministry on Tuesday said calls to exercise restraint “contradict principles of international law.”Iran’s foreign ministry and its Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps did not immediately respond to questions regarding the report.The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office and the US State Department did not respond to questions.“Something could happen as soon as this week by Iran and its proxies… That is a US assessment as well as an Israel assessment,” White House spokesperson John Kirby told reporters on Monday.“If something does happen this week, the timing of it could certainly well have an impact on these talks we want to do on Thursday,” he added. Over the weekend, Hamas cast doubt on whether talks would go ahead. Israel and Hamas have held several fruitless rounds of talks in recent months.In Israel, many observers believe a response is imminent after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran would “harshly punish” Israel for Haniyeh’s killing.Iran’s regional policy is set by the IRGC, which answers only to Khamenei, the country’s top authority. Iran’s relatively moderate new president Masoud Pezeshkian has repeatedly reaffirmed Iran’s anti-Israel stance and its support for resistance movements across the region since taking office last month.Meir Litvak, a senior researcher at Tel Aviv University’s Alliance Center for Iranian Studies, said he thought Iran would put its needs before helping its ally Hamas but that Iran also wanted to avoid a full-scale war.“The Iranians never subordinated their strategy and policies to the needs of their proxies or protégées,” Litvak said. “An attack is likely and almost inevitable but I don’t know the scale and the timing.”Iran-based analyst Saeed Laylaz said the Islamic Republic’s leaders were now keen to work towards a ceasefire in Gaza, “to obtain incentives, avoid an all-out war and strengthen its position in the region.”Laylaz said Iran had not previously been involved in the Gaza peace process but was now ready to play “a key role.”Iran, two of the sources said, was considering sending a representative to the ceasefire talks, in what would be a first since the war started in Gaza.The representative would not directly attend the meetings but would engage in behind-the-scenes discussions “to maintain a line of diplomatic communication” with the United States while negotiations proceed. Officials in Washington, Qatar and Egypt did not immediately respond to questions about whether Iran would play an indirect role in talks.Two senior sources close to Lebanon’s Hezbollah said Tehran would give the negotiations a chance but would not give up its intentions to retaliate.A ceasefire in Gaza would give Iran cover for a smaller “symbolic” response, one of the sources said.The war in Gaza broke out on October 7 with Hamas’s unprecedented surprise attack in which its terrorists murdered some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 251 hostages.The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says close to 40,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 15,000 combatants in battle as of May and some 1,000 terrorists inside Israel during the October 7 attack.Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 332.April missiles-Iran has not publicly indicated what would be the target of an eventual response to the Haniyeh assassination.On April 13, two weeks after a strike on an Iranian consulate building in Damascus killed seven IRGC guards, Iran unleashed a barrage of more than 300 drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles toward Israel. Almost all of the weapons were shot down before they reached their targets.“Iran wants its response to be much more effective than the April 13 attack,” said Farzin Nadimi, senior fellow with the Washington Institute for Near East policy.Nadimi said such a response would require “a lot of preparation and coordination” especially if it involved Iran’s so-called Axis of Resistance, made up of its allies and proxies, which include Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, the Houthi rebels in Yemen and Iraqi militias.Two of the Iranian sources said Iran would support Hezbollah and other allies if they launched their own responses to the killing of Haniyeh and Shukr, who was killed in a strike in Beirut hours before Haniyeh was killed in Tehran.The sources did not specify what form such support could take.
Sinwar said to demand halt to IDF operations in Gaza as precondition for talks-Netanyahu again denies report that he has added new stipulations to proposed agreement, saying updates from last month are only ‘essential clarifications’ to implement the deal-By ToI Staff Today, 6:40 pm-AUG 13,24
Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar is reportedly refusing to attend slated talks on a truce-hostage deal unless Israel halts its military operations inside the Gaza Strip — a clear nonstarter for Jerusalem.According to a Wall Street Journal report, Sinwar told Arab mediators on Monday night that the IDF should stop its activity inside the Strip to show that it is “serious about negotiations” and to convince Hamas to attend talks.The report added, however, that such a demand is “unlikely to be met by Israel,” which has staunchly rejected the possibility of pausing operations as a precondition for talks.Long-stalled negotiations have been expected to resume on Thursday in either Cairo or Doha aimed at reaching some sort of deal to release the hostages being held by the terror group in Gaza in exchange for a pause in fighting and the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons.Last week, leaders of the US, Egypt and Qatar urged Israel and Hamas to meet for negotiations on August 15, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office responded that Israel would “send the negotiations team” to the talks.Hamas has sent mixed messages on its attendance, casting doubt on its participation, while other sources have indicated that Sinwar is interested in reaching some sort of deal. The US State Department nevertheless said Monday that it “fully expects talks to move forward,” declining to say whether it believed Hamas officials would attend.According to reports, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to head to the Middle East this week, with planned stops in Qatar, Egypt and Israel, and pushing for a ceasefire deal expected to be at the top of his agenda.US President Joe Biden welcomed and laid out a three-phase Israeli ceasefire-for-hostages proposal in an address on May 31. Washington and regional mediators have since tried to finalize a deal but have run into repeated obstacles.A number of reports over the past few weeks have accused Netanyahu of adding new Israeli demands to the negotiations, possibly torpedoing the talks, something the prime minister has steadfastly and repeatedly denied.An article in The New York Times on Tuesday echoed such earlier reports, claiming that the newspaper has reviewed documents showing that Netanyahu’s mediators presented new demands to negotiators last month.The report said that Netanyahu added a stipulation that IDF forces remain in control of the Philadelphi Corridor between Israel and Egypt; and added restrictions on those displaced people allowed to return to northern Gaza when fighting is halted.In response, Netanyahu’s office once again denied that the prime minister had added any news demands to Israel’s US-endorsed May 27 proposal, saying that any further stipulations laid out in a letter written on July 27 merely offered “essential clarifications” to implement the original framework.“Hamas is the one that demanded 29 changes to the May 27 proposal, something the prime minister refused to do,” his office said in a statement.The missive from Netanyahu’s office then addressed several matters in which he has been widely accused of introducing new demands that undermine the negotiations.However, the statement by the Prime Minister’s Office notably did not refer to Netanyahu’s new demand for Israeli forces to remain at the Philadelphi Corridor, which does contradict the earlier proposal’s clause guaranteeing the “withdrawal of Israeli forces eastwards away from densely populated areas along the borders in all areas of the Gaza Strip.”The New York Times also reported that Israel’s updated response on July 27 included a map that showed how Israel planned to remain in control of the narrow strip of land along the border between Gaza and Egypt.The report also says that the July 27 letter demands screening for weapons for those returning to the northern Gaza Strip to be “implemented in an agreed upon manner,” an issue on which Israel had earlier softened its language.The Prime Minister’s Office said Tuesday in response that the updated letter “refers to the need to establish an agreed inspection mechanism in order to guarantee that only unarmed civilians will return to northern Gaza… in accordance with what was proposed on May 27.”Netanyahu’s office also addressed two accusations that did not appear in the New York Times article on Tuesday, that Israel is demanding only living hostages be released in the first stage, and that it should have veto power over a certain number of Palestinian prisoners slated for release.The statement said that while the May proposal mentioned both “living and human remains,” the updated draft stipulates that all living hostages in the relevant criteria must walk free, “in accordance with the May 27 outline, which said a certain number of hostages — live or dead — will be released.”It added that the July 27 draft includes “necessary clarifications in order to implement what was written in the May 27 outline” in regard to the selection of Palestinian security prisoners set to be freed, including demanding that a certain number be released abroad.During its October 7 onslaught, Hamas terrorists kidnapped 251 people, including a number of bodies, bringing them to Gaza to use as bargaining chips. In the 10 months that have followed, 109 hostages have been released, seven rescued by IDF troops and the bodies of 24 of them recovered by the military.Israeli authorities believe that 111 of those abducted on October 7 remain in the Strip, including the bodies of 39 that the IDF has confirmed are dead — both those killed during the initial onslaught and those since slain in captivity.
Columbia student group urges 'total eradication of Western civ'Anti-Israel students in US plan to ring in academic year with ‘strike for Palestine’Student activists hope to pressure schools to divest from Israel by absenting themselves from campus, after tent encampments last semester failed to make schools heed their demands-By ToI Staff Today, 9:21 pm-AUG 13,24
Pro-Palestinian college students may choose to stay home from class at the start of the upcoming fall semester as part of a national student strike organized by the Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA), which hopes to revive the anti-Israel protest movement that gained traction at schools around the United States during the last academic year.A report published Monday by The Free Press found that the YDSA — the youth and student wing of the far-left Democratic Socialists of America — published a new resolution last month in which it encouraged members of its more than 100 university chapters across the country to take part in a “Student Strike for Palestine” at the start of the 2024-2025 academic year.The movement’s chapters were encouraged to “organize democratically-run campaigns demanding their school’s divestment from Israel, a ceasefire in Gaza, and free speech on campus,” the report stated, adding that it was not clear how long the strike could last.The planned strike is the latest in a series of actions taken by left-wing groups on American college campuses as they protest Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which began following the terror group’s shock October 7 onslaught in southern Israel.During the previous academic year, anti-Israel groups at universities set up tent encampments to protest the war in Gaza and demand that colleges divest from companies that do business in Israel or with Israelis.The protests were rife with accusations of antisemitism from Jewish students who reported feeling unsafe on campus, and in several instances, the demonstrations led to clashes, including at Columbia University and the University of California, Los Angeles, and other incidents of violence such as takeover of Columbia’s Hamilton Hall.The anti-Israel action was pervasive and continued throughout the summer months, including at Columbia’s Barnard College, where inverted red triangles — the symbol that the Hamas terror organization uses to identify targets — were spray-painted on buildings.The YDSA has since acknowledged that the campus protests were largely unsuccessful when it came to having their demands met, The Free Press reported, citing an article published by the YDSA, in which a member claimed that the encampments “did not win” despite being the “largest national student movement of our lifetime.”The YDSA publication asserted that unlike the tent encampments, a student strike would pressure the university into meeting the protesters’ demands as “no one can just turn around and plug their ears when the university can no longer call itself a university.”As part of its preparations, the YDSA pledged in its resolution that it would form a “Palestine Committee” to guide and oversee the management of the planned strike.The committee would be required to provide training to “define the nature of a student strike, explain why a student strike is strategic in terms of YDSA winning our demands, and help plan an escalatory campaign timeline for chapters,” according to the Free Press report.Among the schools that host chapters of the YDSA are Columbia University, UCLA and New York University, all of which found themselves at the center of scandals relating to the anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian protests last year.In July, NYU settled a lawsuit by Jewish students who accused the school of failing to stop antisemitism on campus, and said it had violated federal civil rights law by enforcing its anti-discrimination policies unevenly, including by allowing chants such as “Gas the Jews” and “Hitler was right” while ignoring other bigotry.The students also alleged that the NYU administrators including President Linda Mills had “ignored, slow-walked, or met with gaslighting” Jewish students’ complaints.Meanwhile at UCLA, a federal judge ordered the university to craft a plan to protect Jewish students following a lawsuit alleging that they experienced discrimination on campus.The scenes that played out at the California university became some of the most prominent of the tent protest movement, after counter-demonstrators attacked the encampment, injuring at least 15 protesters and causing the police to order the demonstration be disbanded. Dozens were then arrested after they tried to set up a new encampment.At Columbia, unrest has threatened to break out before the school year has even started. In June, the Manhattan District Attorney dropped charges against a majority of anti-Israel protesters who broke into and occupied Hamilton Hall in April, claiming insufficient evidence as the protesters had concealed their faces with masks and covered security cameras.Earlier in August, Columbia’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) announced that it would be back at the start of the academic year.“We recommit to continue strategic, targeted attacks on all aspects of university life. There will be no business as usual during genocide,” the group wrote on Instagram.Along with the university’s chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace, Columbia said it was suspending SJP last November for failing to adhere to the school’s policies.In their stead, a coalition of student organizations operating under the name “Columbia University Apartheid Divest” took over responsibility for organizing the campus’s anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian events.CUARD has vowed to escalate its activities going forward, and in a recent social media post hailed the October 7 Hamas onslaught and the recent unrest in Bangladesh as a model of “escalating the global battle for liberation.”Declaring itself to be “on the frontlines of the fight against tyranny and domination which undergird the imperialist world order,” CUARD wrote in the same post that its members were “Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.”Cathryn J. Prince and Reuters contributed to this report.
Terror group operatives use makeshift launchers-Hamas fires rockets at Tel Aviv, a first since May, as IDF advances in Khan Younis-One projectile shot from southern Gaza city lands in sea, second impacts in Strip; military says troops have killed more than 100 gunmen in Rafah amid ongoing operation there-By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies Today, 8:28 pm-AUG 13,14
Hamas launched rockets toward Tel Aviv on Tuesday for the first time in months, as Israeli troops continued to operate in Gaza and Palestinian medics claimed at least 19 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes throughout the Strip.According to the Israel Defense Forces, the terror group fired two rockets toward central Israel on Tuesday afternoon, with one falling in the sea and the second failing to cross the border and falling short inside Gaza.No sirens were set off as neither rocket threatened any populated areas, though some residents reported hearing a loud boom from the underwater explosion.Hamas claimed responsibility for the rockets, its first attack on Tel Aviv since late May.The projectiles were launched from the Khan Younis area in Gaza, not far from where the 98th Division is operating.Hamas later released footage of the failed attack, which showed operatives using makeshift rocket launchers instead of the standard launch pits that the terror group would normally use for long-range rocket fire on Israel.The IDF has assessed that Hamas still possesses the capability to carry out attacks on central Israel or Jerusalem, but the terror group does not have many long-range rockets or launchers left to use.Several hours after the rocket attack, the military issued a new evacuation order for Palestinians in Khan Younis, with the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman publishing a list of the zones that need to be cleared.The announcement by Col. Avichay Adraee called for Palestinians in the specified areas to evacuate to the Israeli-designated humanitarian zone.The military said earlier Tuesday that troops in that division were pushing ahead with a new offensive in Khan Younis, and had also targeted a cell of terrorists who had launched a site in an airstrike. Evacuation orders were also issued for these areas before the raid.In a statement, the Israeli military said that a drone strike attacked a cell of terrorists that launched a rocket from Khan Younis at the Gaza border community of Ein Hashlosha on Monday.According to the army, the airstrike was carried out shortly after the rocket attack, and additional strikes were carried out against sites used by terror groups in the area.Troops on the ground in Khan Younis, meanwhile, demolished sites used by terror groups and killed several Hamas terror operatives, including others involved in rocket fire, the IDF said.Further south, in Rafah, troops with the 162nd Division located weapons and intelligence materials in the past day, the IDF added.Meanwhile, in the Netzarim Corridor in the Strip’s center, the IDF said troops with the 252nd Reserve Division directed strikes on numerous Hamas sites, including rocket launchers, sniper positions and observation posts.Later Tuesday, the IDF released footage of a recent airstrike on a group of gunmen in southern Gaza’s Rafah, and said Givati Infantry Brigade troops have killed more than 100 gunmen in the city amid the ongoing operation there.The cell targeted in Rafah had been spotted by troops of the Givati Brigade using a drone, the military said.Overall, more than 1,000 terror operatives have been killed in Rafah since early May, according to the IDF.In one engagement, the IDF said Givati soldiers battled and killed a cell of gunmen inside an apartment in Rafah. Inside the home, the troops found weapons, military equipment and a tunnel shaft.Meanwhile, Palestinian medics claimed Tuesday that Israeli airstrikes had killed 19 Palestinians in the central and southern Gaza Strip over the past day. One strike reportedly killed six people in Deir Al-Balah, including a mother and her twin four-day-old babies, while seven other Palestinians were killed in a strike on a house in the nearby Al-Bureij camp.Four people were killed in two separate strikes on the Al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip and Rafah in the south, and two were killed in a strike on a house in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City in the north, medics said.According to AFP, 10 members of the same family were killed in an airstrike in eastern Khan Younis on Tuesday, citing a medic from Nasser Hospital in the city.Israel launched its war against Hamas in Gaza following the terror group’s onslaught on southern Israel on October 7, during which it killed around 1,200 people and took 251 hostages, 111 of whom are believed to still be held in the Gaza Strip.The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 39,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 15,000 combatants in battle and some 1,000 terrorists inside Israel during the October 7 attack.Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 332.
'It was the quickest way to leave' Looking to escape war at home, Israelis seek refugee status in Portugal-As the Israel-Hamas conflict stretches into its 11th month, locals looking to flee its physical and economic perils find a shortcut – albeit temporary – in applying for EU asylum-By Romain Chauvet Today, 7:52 pm-AUG 13,24
PORTO, Portugal — Since the Hamas onslaught of October 7, Nufar Bar, an Israeli immigration lawyer living in Porto, has seen a nonstop flow of requests from Israelis seeking refugee status.“We get them almost every day,” said Bar, who works with the Portuguese law firm Cotarelli e Rodrigues helping Israelis move abroad.Portugal offers many options for those seeking to immigrate, but Bar has found that many Israelis choose to apply as refugees through the asylum application process in Portugal as detailed by the UNHCR.For one 28-year-old Israeli woman who requested anonymity, applying for refugee status was the natural choice when the outbreak of the conflict caught her off guard.“I was on vacation in Europe when the war started, and I did not want to return to Israel,” she told The Times of Israel. “I was thinking of going to Berlin, but the visa application times were too long. My tourist visa was going to expire, so when a friend told me about this option, I didn’t hesitate for a single second.”Since October, however, she has had to renew her status with the Portuguese authorities every two months. “It’s a lot of paperwork, but it’s a pretty simple process,” she said.Lawyer Bar explained how straightforward the system is: “When you arrive in Portugal, you can declare that you want to apply for refugee status at the airport or later at an AIMA [Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum] office. You say you’re from Israel and want to apply for asylum. They give you a form to fill out and collect your biometric data.”Applicants are called for an interview within six to nine months, after which a decision is made about their application. In the meantime, they get support from the Portuguese authorities.“So basically they get immediate rights. Some of them can work immediately, bring their kids to school, have access to healthcare and if they need they can have food and accommodation from the government,” said Alex Bayer, another immigration lawyer at Cotarelli e Rodrigues.A temporary solution to permanent problems-No official information about the number of Israelis applying for asylum in Portugal can be found online and repeated requests for comment from the Portuguese authorities went unanswered. However, it is a topic of widespread discussion on Israeli blogs and Facebook groups.“If you do not have any other options like EU or Portuguese citizenship and your income in Israel has stopped and you were evacuated from your home and you need a solution, this is an option,” said Bar. “I’ve also seen young people who see it as an opportunity to try living in Europe.”Such is the case of another young Israeli, who at 27 years old, sees it as a chance to start a new life.“I had the impression that with the war, my future was compromised in Israel,” said the refugee seeker, who like the others interviewed for this story wished to remain anonymous.“I lost my job and I didn’t know what to do,” she said. “So when I saw this possibility, I took the opportunity and saw it as the start of a new life, as I had nothing to lose.”According to the hopeful emigre, most people discover the asylum option through word of mouth; several of her friends decided to follow suit after seeing her experience.Asked if she would encourage others to do the same, she replied, “If you have nothing to lose in Israel, of course, I recommend it 100 percent.”It’s unclear whether other European countries offer the same ease of entry — each one has its unique list of countries deemed dangerous to return to. The European Commission’s Department for Migration and Home Affairs said in an email only that “the EU remains a safe haven for many of those forced to leave their homes due to persecution, wars, conflicts or natural disasters,” adding that “member states… decide on asylum applications on the basis of an individual assessment.”Bar points out that as attractive as it may seem, asylum represents at best a temporary solution.“It’s not the ideal visa. Actually, it’s not really a visa — it’s an application for a visa and it has limitations. It has no future on its own. You need to change to another type of visa that has a permanent future if you want to stay,” said Bar, who discourages applicants from going this route, though she does help those who do choose it.“This is not what asylum is meant for. If you have other options, you should explore them,” she said.-Rise of the far right and antisemitic incidents-The results of Portugal’s parliamentary elections this past March could change the situation. The far right achieved a historic victory in a country previously spared the recent nationalist spike seen in other parts of Europe.Led by André Ventura, the populist Chega party, whose name means “enough” in English, more than doubled in popularity, earning 18% of the vote in March compared to 7.2% during the previous legislative elections in 2022.The party has placed a strong emphasis on fighting corruption as well as immigration, which may not bode well for many.“When there is a hate for strangers, Jews will suffer even if they are not the target,” said Bar. “So I don’t think this party will be good for Israelis.”As in other European countries, Portugal has also recorded an increase in antisemitic incidents since October 7, when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists invaded southern Israel butchering 1,200 people, kidnapping 251 to the Gaza Strip, and sparking the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.Cases of vandalism at the Porto synagogue and the Jewish Cultural Center in Lisbon have been reported, and Israel’s Ambassador to Portugal Dor Shapira recently said he “continue[s] to receive messages of fear at the Embassy from Israelis and Jewish students from all over Portugal.”Chega, now the third-largest political party in Portugal, will have an important role to play, with the new government unable to achieve a parliamentary majority, which could influence the country’s migration policies.“So far immigration is something that has been very accepted in Portugal. Right now with the right wing, we will have to see,” said lawyer Bayer.
Top commander says Ukraine now controls 1,000 square kilometers of Russian territory-Russia scrambling to respond to surprise Ukrainian attack on Kursk region, with Putin claiming offensive is meant ‘to destabilize the domestic political situation in our country’-By AP Today, 4:44 pm-AUG 13,24
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s top military commander says his forces now control 1,000 square kilometers (386 square miles) of Russia’s neighboring Kursk region, the first time a Ukrainian military official has publicly commented on the gains of the lightning incursion that has embarrassed the Kremlin.Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi made the statement in a video posted Monday to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Telegram channel. In the video, he briefed the president on the front-line situation.“The troops are fulfilling their tasks. Fighting continues actually along the entire front line. The situation is under our control,” Syrskyi said.Russian forces are still scrambling to respond to the surprise Ukrainian attack after almost a week of fierce fighting.Russian President Vladimir Putin said the incursion, which has caused more than 100,000 civilians to flee, is an attempt by Kyiv to stop Moscow’s offensive in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region and gain leverage in possible future peace talks.Zelensky confirmed for the first time that the Ukrainian military is inside the Kursk region. On Telegram, he praised his country’s soldiers and commanders “for their steadfastness and decisive actions.” He did not elaborate.The Ukrainian operation is under tight secrecy, and its goals remain unclear. The stunning maneuver that caught the Kremlin’s forces off guard counters Russia’s unrelenting effort in recent months to punch through Ukrainian defenses at selected points along the front line in eastern Ukraine.Speaking Monday at a meeting with top security and defense officials, Putin said the attack that began August 6 appeared to reflect Kyiv’s attempt to achieve a better negotiating position in possible future talks to end the war. He insisted Moscow’s army would prevail.Putin said Ukraine may have hoped the attack would cause public unrest in Russia, but that it has failed to do so, and he claimed the number of volunteers to join the Russian military has increased because of the assault. He said Russian forces will carry on with their offensive in eastern Ukraine regardless.“It’s obvious that the enemy will keep trying to destabilize the situation in the border zone to try to destabilize the domestic political situation in our country,” Putin said. Russia’s main task is to “drive the enemy out of our territories and, together with the border service, to ensure reliable cover of the state border.”Acting Kursk Governor Alexei Smirnov reported to Putin that Ukrainian forces had pushed 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) into the Kursk region across a 40-kilometer (25-mile) front and currently control 28 Russian settlements.Smirnov said 12 civilians have been killed and 121 others, including 10 children, have been wounded. About 121,000 people have been evacuated or left the areas affected by fighting on their own, he said.Tracking down all the Ukrainian units that are roaming the region and creating diversions is difficult, Smirnov said, noting that some are using fake Russian IDs.The governor of the Belgorod region adjacent to Kursk also announced the evacuation of people from a district near the Ukrainian border.Zelensky said the territory now controlled by Ukrainian forces was used to strike Ukraine’s Sumy region many times, adding that it is “absolutely fair to destroy Russian terrorists where they are.”“Russia brought war to others. Now it is coming home,” he said in a video posted on Telegram.Russia has seen previous incursions into its territory during the nearly 2 1/2-year war, but the foray into the Kursk region marked the largest attack on its soil since World War II, constituting a milestone in the hostilities. It was also the first time the Ukrainian army has spearheaded an incursion rather than pro-Ukraine Russian fighters.The advance delivered a blow to Putin’s efforts to pretend that life in Russia has been largely unaffected by the war. State propaganda tried to play down the attack, emphasizing the authorities’ efforts to help residents of the region and seeking to distract attention from the military’s failure to prepare for the attack and quickly repel it.Kursk residents recorded videos lamenting that they had to flee the border area, leaving behind their belongings, and pleading with Putin for help. But Russia’s state-controlled media kept a tight lid on any expression of discontent.
Retired Gen. Andrei Gurulev, a member of the lower house of the Russian parliament, criticized the military for failing to protect the border.
“Regrettably, the group of forces protecting the border didn’t have its own intelligence assets,” he said on his messaging app channel. “No one likes to see the truth in reports, everybody just wants to hear that all is good.”The combat inside Russia rekindled questions about whether Ukraine was using weaponry supplied by NATO members. Some Western countries have balked at allowing Ukraine to use their military aid to hit Russian soil, fearing it would fuel an escalation that might drag Russia and NATO into war.Though it’s not clear what weapons Ukraine is using across the border, Russian media widely reported that American Bradley and German Marder armored infantry vehicles were there. The claim could not be independently verified.Ukraine has already used US weapons to strike inside Russia.Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said in an interview published Monday that the weapons provided by his country “cannot be used to attack Russia on its territory.”Meanwhile, German Defense Ministry spokesperson Arne Collatz said Monday that legal experts agree that “international law provides for a state that is defending itself also to defend itself on the territory of the attacker. That is clear from our point of view, too.”Russia’s Defense Ministry said Monday that reinforcements sent to the area backed by air forces and artillery had fended off seven attacks by Ukrainian units near Martynovka, Borki and Korenevo during the previous 24 hours.The ministry said Russian forces also blocked an attempt by Ukrainian mobile groups to forge deep into Russian territory near Kauchuk.Pasi Paroinen, an analyst with the Finland-based Black Bird Group open-source intelligence agency, which monitors the war, said the toughest phase of Ukraine’s incursion is likely to begin now as Russian reserves enter the fray.
Top commander says Ukraine now controls 1,000 square kilometers of Russian territory-Russia scrambling to respond to surprise Ukrainian attack on Kursk region, with Putin claiming offensive is meant ‘to destabilize the domestic political situation in our country’-By AP Today, 4:44 pm-AUG 13,24
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s top military commander says his forces now control 1,000 square kilometers (386 square miles) of Russia’s neighboring Kursk region, the first time a Ukrainian military official has publicly commented on the gains of the lightning incursion that has embarrassed the Kremlin.Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi made the statement in a video posted Monday to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Telegram channel. In the video, he briefed the president on the front-line situation.“The troops are fulfilling their tasks. Fighting continues actually along the entire front line. The situation is under our control,” Syrskyi said.Russian forces are still scrambling to respond to the surprise Ukrainian attack after almost a week of fierce fighting.Russian President Vladimir Putin said the incursion, which has caused more than 100,000 civilians to flee, is an attempt by Kyiv to stop Moscow’s offensive in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region and gain leverage in possible future peace talks.Zelensky confirmed for the first time that the Ukrainian military is inside the Kursk region. On Telegram, he praised his country’s soldiers and commanders “for their steadfastness and decisive actions.” He did not elaborate.The Ukrainian operation is under tight secrecy, and its goals remain unclear. The stunning maneuver that caught the Kremlin’s forces off guard counters Russia’s unrelenting effort in recent months to punch through Ukrainian defenses at selected points along the front line in eastern Ukraine.Speaking Monday at a meeting with top security and defense officials, Putin said the attack that began August 6 appeared to reflect Kyiv’s attempt to achieve a better negotiating position in possible future talks to end the war. He insisted Moscow’s army would prevail.Putin said Ukraine may have hoped the attack would cause public unrest in Russia, but that it has failed to do so, and he claimed the number of volunteers to join the Russian military has increased because of the assault. He said Russian forces will carry on with their offensive in eastern Ukraine regardless.“It’s obvious that the enemy will keep trying to destabilize the situation in the border zone to try to destabilize the domestic political situation in our country,” Putin said. Russia’s main task is to “drive the enemy out of our territories and, together with the border service, to ensure reliable cover of the state border.”Acting Kursk Governor Alexei Smirnov reported to Putin that Ukrainian forces had pushed 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) into the Kursk region across a 40-kilometer (25-mile) front and currently control 28 Russian settlements.Smirnov said 12 civilians have been killed and 121 others, including 10 children, have been wounded. About 121,000 people have been evacuated or left the areas affected by fighting on their own, he said.Tracking down all the Ukrainian units that are roaming the region and creating diversions is difficult, Smirnov said, noting that some are using fake Russian IDs.The governor of the Belgorod region adjacent to Kursk also announced the evacuation of people from a district near the Ukrainian border.Zelensky said the territory now controlled by Ukrainian forces was used to strike Ukraine’s Sumy region many times, adding that it is “absolutely fair to destroy Russian terrorists where they are.”“Russia brought war to others. Now it is coming home,” he said in a video posted on Telegram.Russia has seen previous incursions into its territory during the nearly 2 1/2-year war, but the foray into the Kursk region marked the largest attack on its soil since World War II, constituting a milestone in the hostilities. It was also the first time the Ukrainian army has spearheaded an incursion rather than pro-Ukraine Russian fighters.The advance delivered a blow to Putin’s efforts to pretend that life in Russia has been largely unaffected by the war. State propaganda tried to play down the attack, emphasizing the authorities’ efforts to help residents of the region and seeking to distract attention from the military’s failure to prepare for the attack and quickly repel it.Kursk residents recorded videos lamenting that they had to flee the border area, leaving behind their belongings, and pleading with Putin for help. But Russia’s state-controlled media kept a tight lid on any expression of discontent.Retired Gen. Andrei Gurulev, a member of the lower house of the Russian parliament, criticized the military for failing to protect the border.“Regrettably, the group of forces protecting the border didn’t have its own intelligence assets,” he said on his messaging app channel. “No one likes to see the truth in reports, everybody just wants to hear that all is good.”The combat inside Russia rekindled questions about whether Ukraine was using weaponry supplied by NATO members. Some Western countries have balked at allowing Ukraine to use their military aid to hit Russian soil, fearing it would fuel an escalation that might drag Russia and NATO into war.Though it’s not clear what weapons Ukraine is using across the border, Russian media widely reported that American Bradley and German Marder armored infantry vehicles were there. The claim could not be independently verified.Ukraine has already used US weapons to strike inside Russia.Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said in an interview published Monday that the weapons provided by his country “cannot be used to attack Russia on its territory.”Meanwhile, German Defense Ministry spokesperson Arne Collatz said Monday that legal experts agree that “international law provides for a state that is defending itself also to defend itself on the territory of the attacker. That is clear from our point of view, too.”Russia’s Defense Ministry said Monday that reinforcements sent to the area backed by air forces and artillery had fended off seven attacks by Ukrainian units near Martynovka, Borki and Korenevo during the previous 24 hours.The ministry said Russian forces also blocked an attempt by Ukrainian mobile groups to forge deep into Russian territory near Kauchuk.Pasi Paroinen, an analyst with the Finland-based Black Bird Group open-source intelligence agency, which monitors the war, said the toughest phase of Ukraine’s incursion is likely to begin now as Russian reserves enter the fray.
