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)
ISRAEL INHERITING WESTBANK, GAZA, LEBANON SO FAR.AND GETTING MORE PROMISED LAND.PRAISE JESUS ISRAEL NFOR KEEPING HIS PROMISES.
SCOFFERS MOCKING CHRISTS LITERAL 2ND COMING TO EARTH BODILY.
2 PETER 3:3-7
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:(NOTICE EVOLUTION IS THE GODLESS'BELIEF)
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
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.
SEX SINS
1 CORINTHIANS 6:9,14-18
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
GALATIONS 5:19-21
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
SINS OF OCCULT WORSHIP
DEUTORONOMY 18:10-12
10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire,(OCCULT SACRIFICES) or that useth divination,(NEW AGER AND CRYSTALS ETC) divination n. The art or act of foretelling future events or revealing occult knowledge by means of augury or an alleged supernatural agency.) or an observer of times,(Meaning of observer. ... for sketching it. horoscope - Comes from Greek hora, hour, time, and skopos, observer.) or an enchanter,(The word enchant is derived from the Latin word incantare which refers to uttering an incantation or casting a spell). or a witch,(WITCH. Definition: [noun] a female sorcerer (SORCERY IN THE BIBLE IS DRUGS OR OCCULT ACTIVITY) or magician.)
11 Or a charmer,(charmer means a dealer in spells, especially one who, by binding certain knots, was supposed thereby to bind a curse or a blessing on its object.) or a consulter with familiar spirits,(function as mediums or psychics) or a wizard,(MALE WITCH)-influence; a magical spell WITH WANDS) or a necromancer.(one seeking unto the dead.)
12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
ISAIAH 8:19-22
19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
REVELATION 9:20-21
20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils,(OCCULT) and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries,(DRUG ADDICTIONS OR SELLING DRUGS) nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE)(PROSTITUTION FOR MONEY) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)
SINS OF PEOPLE
ISAIAH 5:20-25
20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
1 TIMOTHY 1:9
9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
ROMANS 3:13-18
13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17 And the way of peace have they not known:
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
2 TIMOTHY 4:3-4
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
DECIEVERS WAXING WORSE AND WORSE.
2 TIMOTHY 3:13
13 But evil men and seducers (RAPERS AND SEX SIN DOERS) shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
MORE SIN SIGNS
EPHESIANS 5:5-8
5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-10
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,(sex while married) nor effeminate,(HARDENED SODOMITES) nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards,(ALCOHOLICS) nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
JEREMIAH 17:9
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
LUKE 6:43-45
43 For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
44 For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
MATTHEW 15:17-20
17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
MARK 7:21-23
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
GALATIONS 5:19-21
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
REV 22:15
15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers,(DRUG ADDICTS-PUSHERS) and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
US aid group admits Gaza convoy taken over by unvetted people before IDF fired at them-Israel says individuals were gunmen, which it specifically targeted without harming others; Anera does not explain their presence but says it did not view them as ‘hostile threat’By Emanuel Fabian-31 August 2024, 1:25 am
A US-based aid group admitted Friday that a group of individuals — who the Israeli military says were armed — took control of an aid convoy in the southern Gaza Strip the day before, without the organization having vetted them or coordinated the matter with the Israel Defense Forces.The military said Thursday that it struck the gunmen, killing them while not harming aid workers.According to the IDF, Hamas operatives frequently try to hijack aid deliveries.The IDF had said on Thursday that a convoy of aid trucks from the American Near East Refugee Aid (Anera) organization entered the southern Rafah area with Israeli coordination. It said that during the drive, it identified a group of gunmen taking over a vehicle at the front of the convoy and beginning to lead it. The IDF described the act as a hijacking attempt.Shortly afterward, the IDF said it was able to determine that it could strike just the car with the gunmen, without harming the rest of the convoy, and so it carried out a strike, killing at least four.In a vaguely worded statement on Friday, Anera said that after the convoy departed the Kerem Shalom crossing, “four community members with experience in previous missions and engagement in community security” with their transport company, Move One, “stepped forward and took command of the leading vehicle, citing concern that the route was unsafe and at risk of being looted.”Anera did not explain who the four were, or why persons who had not been coordinated with the military were allowed to take control of the convoy. It acknowledged that “the four community members were neither vetted nor coordinated in advance.”Still, the organization said “the four individuals were not perceived by the convoy as a hostile threat” and that the Israeli strike “was carried out without any prior warning or communication.”No Anera employees were hurt in the incident, and the convoy arrived at its destination, both the IDF and the organization said. According to the Anera, only one employee was present in the convoy, and they were unharmed.The IDF said Thursday that “the presence of armed men in a humanitarian convoy without coordination is against the procedures, makes it difficult to secure the convoys and their workers and thus also harms the humanitarian effort in Gaza.”The military also said that representatives from the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) unit spoke with members of Anera, who “confirmed that all the members of the organization who were part of the convoy, along with the humanitarian aid, were safe and sound and reached their destination safely.”The Anera incident followed a shooting on Tuesday toward a United Nations World Food Programme humanitarian aid convoy inside Gaza. Israel said the shooting was a result of a communication error between army units, leading the US to call on Israel to “immediately rectify” its conduct.On Wednesday, the WFP suspended the movement of its employees across the Gaza Strip. It said at least 10 bullets struck one of its clearly marked vehicles as it approached an Israeli military checkpoint at the Wadi Gaza bridge, in northern Gaza, after completing a mission in the Strip’s south. No one was hurt.“Humanitarian workers are there to help innocent civilians, and Israel must ensure they are protected,” US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller wrote on X.A bullet-ridden World Food Programme vehicle in Gaza on August 27, 2024. (WFP)-The strikes came as the UN readies to inoculate some 640,000 children in Gaza against polio after an unvaccinated 10-month-old boy was found to have the Strip’s first case of the disease in 25 years.The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office confirmed Wednesday night that there would be localized humanitarian truces in the Strip to facilitate the vaccination campaign.Israel has previously come under intense criticism for harm to humanitarian convoys in Gaza. In April, the IDF struck a clearly marked World Central Kitchen aid convoy near Deir al-Balah, in the Strip’s center, killing seven aid workers. The army said the strike was a grave error, and two senior IDF officers were fired over the incident.Times of Israel staff and Jacob Magid contributed to this report.
DISEASES-ANIMAL TO HUMAN (500 million Dead )
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 billion) of (8 billion) to kill with sword,(WEAPONS)(500 million) and with hunger,(FAMINE)(500 million) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES)(500 million) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE)(500 million).
DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS
1 PET 5:8
8 Be sober,(NOT DRUGED UP OR ALCOHOLICED) be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.
REVELATION 9:21 (RAGE OF THE LAST DAYS AGE SATAN WORSHIP AND DRUG SELLING AND JUNKIES)(THEY REFUSE TO REPENT OF THESE SINS)
21 Neither repented they of their murders,(KILLING) nor of their sorceries (DRUG ADDICTS AND DRUG PUSHERS), nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE OR PROSTITUTION FOR MONEY) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)
Behind Gaza polio case, experts see ‘horrible’ WHO decision fueling outbreaks worldwide-UN body removed strain from oral prophylactic in 2016, leaving children vulnerable to vaccine-derived viruses circulating silently, with over 3,300 paralyzed by disease since-By AP and ToI Staff 29 August 2024, 11:48 pm
LONDON — The baby in Gaza who was recently paralyzed by polio was infected with a mutated strain of the virus that vaccinated people shed in their waste, according to scientists who say the case is the result of “an unqualified failure” of public health policy.The infection, which marked the first detection of polio in the war-torn Palestinian territory in more than 25 years, paralyzed the lower part of one leg in the unvaccinated 10-month-old child. The baby boy was one of hundreds of thousands of children who missed vaccinations because of the fighting between Israel and Hamas.Scientists who have been monitoring polio outbreaks said the baby’s illness showed the failures of a global effort by the World Health Organization and its partners to fix serious problems in their otherwise largely successful eradication campaign, which has nearly wiped out the highly infectious disease. Separately, a draft report by experts deemed the WHO effort a failure and “a severe setback.”The polio strain in question evolved from a weakened virus that was originally part of an oral vaccine credited with preventing millions of children worldwide from being paralyzed. But that virus, known as Type 2, was removed from the vaccine in 2016 in hopes of preventing vaccine-derived outbreaks.Public health authorities knew that decision would leave people unprotected against that particular strain, but they thought they had a plan to ward off and quickly contain any outbreaks. Instead, the move resulted in a surge of thousands of cases.“It was a really horrible strategy,” said Columbia University virologist Vincent Racaniello, who was not involved with the report or the WHO. “The decision to switch vaccines was based on an incorrect assumption, and the result is now we have more polio and more paralyzed children.”A draft copy of the report commissioned by the WHO and independent experts said the plan underestimated the amount of the strain in the environment and overestimated how well officials would be able to squash outbreaks.The plan led to vaccine-linked polio outbreaks in 43 countries that paralyzed more than 3,300 children, the report concluded.Even before the Gaza case was detected, officials reviewing the initiative to tinker with the vaccine concluded that “the worst-case scenario has materialized,” the report said.The report has not yet been published, and some changes will likely be made before the final version is released next month, the WHO said.The strain that infected the baby in Gaza had lingered in the environment and mutated into a version capable of starting outbreaks. It was traced to polio viruses spreading last year in Egypt, according to genetic sequencing, the WHO said.In 2022, vaccine-linked polio viruses were found to be spreading in Britain, Israel and the US, where an unvaccinated man was paralyzed in upstate New York.Scientists now worry that the emergence of polio in a war zone with an under-immunized population could fuel further spread.The WHO said Thursday that it had reached an agreement with Israel for limited pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow for the vaccinations. The agency’s representative in the Palestinian territories said the first three-day pause would start Sunday in central Gaza. That will be followed by another three-day pause in southern Gaza and then another in northern Gaza. The pauses were to last eight or nine hours each day.Racaniello said the failure to track polio carefully and to sufficiently protect children against the strain removed from the vaccine has had devastating consequences.“Only about 1% of polio cases are symptomatic, so 99% of infections are silently spreading the disease,” he said.The oral polio vaccine, which has reduced infections globally by more than 99%, is easy to make and distribute. Children require just two drops per dose that can be administered by volunteers. The oral vaccine is better at stopping transmission than the injected version, and it is cheaper and easier to administer.But the weakened live virus in the vaccine can be shed by immunized kids in human waste, allowing it to circulate and eventually mutate into a form that can trigger outbreaks in unvaccinated people. In 2016, the WHO removed Type 2 from the vaccine, reasoning that the wild version had been eradicated, but leaving populations vulnerable to vaccine-derived outbreaks.In Gaza, authorities will use a newer version of the oral polio vaccine that targets the problematic strain. The weakened live virus in the new vaccine is less likely to cause vaccine-derived outbreaks, but they are still possible.Most wealthy countries, including the US, use an injected vaccine, which carries a dead virus and does not come with the risk that polio will be present in human waste. However, it does not prevent those who are vaccinated from spreading the virus around to others.Racaniello said it was “unethical” that the WHO and its partners were using a vaccine that is unlicensed in rich countries precisely because it can increase the risk of polio in unvaccinated children.Vaccine-linked cases now comprise the majority of polio infections in more than a dozen countries, in addition to Afghanistan and Pakistan, where transmission of the wild virus has never been stopped.“This is the result of the Faustian bargain we made when we decided to use” the oral polio vaccine, said Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the University of Philadelphia. “If we really want to eradicate polio, then we need to stop using the vaccine with live (weakened) virus.”The report’s authors faulted leaders at the WHO and its partners for being unable or unwilling “to recognize the seriousness of the evolving problem and take corrective action.”WHO spokesman Oliver Rosenbauer acknowledged that the vaccine strategy “exacerbated” the risk of epidemics linked to the vaccine.He said in an email that immunization “was not implemented in such a way to rapidly stop outbreaks or to prevent new strains from emerging.”The WHO estimates that 95% of the population needs to be immunized against polio to stop outbreaks. The UN health agency says the rate has since dropped to below 90% of Gaza’s population.Rosenbauer said not hitting vaccination targets was the biggest risk for allowing vaccine-linked viruses to emerge.“You need to reach the children with the vaccines,” he said. “Regardless of which vaccines are used.”
REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE (THE EU DICTATORS TEMPLE)
ISAIAH 30:10-15
10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
REBUILT 4TH TEMPLE (THE TRUE MESSIAHS TEMPLE)
ZECHARIAH 6:12-13
12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
13 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
ISAIAH 60:9-10
9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.
ISAIAH 2:1-5
1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
MARK 11:9-10,15-17
9 And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord:
10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.
EZEKIEL 40 TO 48 IS THIS 4TH TEMPLE TO BIG FOR THE MOUNT I BELIEVE TO BE BUILT 25 MILES FROM JERUSALEM.
A synagogue on the Temple Mount? Temple Institute founder answers-Temple Institute founder and dean of the Temple Yeshiva Rabbi Yisrael Ariel speaks with Arutz Sheva and voices support for the establishment of a synagogue on the Temple Mount.
Uzi Baruch- Aug 27, 2024, 4:13 PM (GMT+3)
Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, the founder of the Temple Institute and the dean of the Temple Yeshiva, sat with Arutz Sheva-Israel National News for an interview following the renewed debate regarding Jewish visits to the Temple Mount.The debate surrounding the issue was rebooted after National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said that he would establish a synagogue on the Temple Mount.Asked if Ben-Gvir's remarks crossed a line, Rabbi Ariel answers: "The real question is who draws that line? For us, G-d is the one who draws the lines which were set in the Torah and during the return to Zion in the Land of Israel and Jerusalem after the Six Day War." Rabbi Ariel harkens back to the days after the war when he was assigned to guard the Dome of the Rock, the site of the Holy of Holies in the Temple. "Since then I haven't left the position. We must protect the place. That is our line, and we have no other."Regarding rabbinical rulings prohibiting entry to the holy site, Rabbi Ariel emphasized: "To be honest, there was never a discussion on the matter at the Chief Rabbinate. There were decisions made, but there was never a discussion about entering the mount." According to him, there is no sweeping halachic ruling prohibiting entry, he notes that "there isn't even half a document that confirms this."Rabbi Ariel recounts that he spoke with Minister Ben-Gvir and reminded him that the idea to build a synagogue on the Temple Mount is not a new one. He mentions the Chief Rabbinate Council's decision from the 12th of Av 5760 (August 13th, 2000), 24 years ago, which decided to hold deliberations regarding the construction of a synagogue on the Temple Mount. "That means that there was a Chief Rabbinate decision to discuss the matter, and not to prohibit entry to the mount," Rabbi Ariel says.Rabbi Ariel also mentioned claims made mostly by haredi rabbis that visits to the Temple Mount provoked the Gentiles, especially during such a sensitive time of war. He emphasized that "whoever says it's prohibited to provoke the nations of the works disagrees with the Torah. The entire book of Deuteronomy talks about inheriting the land and settling it, and there is no place to fear the nations."Rabbi Ariel concluded by mentioning the stance of Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook, which was communicated in a letter by the late Haifa Chief Rabbi She'ar-Yashuv Hacohen, according to which everything possible must be done to restore Jewish control over the Temple Mount. According to him, Rabbi Kook encouraged the establishment of a synagogue on the Temple Mount but asked that it be done through a Chief Rabbinate Council decision. "Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda planned, together with Rabbi She'ar-Yashuv Hacohen, the establishment of a synagogue on the Temple Mount under the direction of the Chief Rabbinate," Rabbi Ariel concluded.
Open Jewish prayer, prostration on Temple Mount now ‘routine,’ activists say-In recent weeks police are no longer preventing or penalizing acts at holy site as Ben Gvir pushes practice, and are allowing them on a daily basis-By Jeremy Sharon-29 August 2024, 8:04 pm
Open prayer and prostration on the Temple Mount by Jewish worshipers is now a matter of routine and permitted by the police on a daily basis, activists for prayer rights at the holy site have said.The practice was witnessed during a visit to the Temple Mount by The Times of Israel on Wednesday, where an afternoon prayer service was conducted out loud. Activists say the prayers take place during morning and afternoon services every day.The prostrations are conducted on the eastern side of the Temple Mount esplanade, out of sight of Muslim worshipers, but in full view of police who accompany Jews during their visits, and who previously did not allow such prayers under the decades-old, vague status quo regarding conduct on the Temple Mount.Prostration on the Temple Mount is considered a special form of religious worship and even a distinct religious commandment in the right spot on the site, which is why the ability to carry out the practice has been welcomed enthusiastically by Temple Mount activists.Prior to August 13 this year, police would in general detain and remove Jewish and any non-Muslim visitors engaging in demonstrative prayer such as prostration. A police officer briefing visitors before their visit would also instruct them not to engage in demonstrative prayer.But such instructions are now no longer given, it appears.The new practice first gained attention on August 13, which this year was the date of the Jewish Fast of the Ninth of Av, when worshipers who visited the Temple Mount at the same time as National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir prostrated themselves and prayed out loud. Police did not detain or remove any of the worshipers who engaged in such demonstrative prayer.Ben Gvir insisted then and subsequently that his policy, as the minister with authority over the police, was to allow Jewish prayer at the site. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sought to play down the development, asserting that there had been no change to the status quo. But Ben Gvir brushed off his protestations, and prayers have continued uninterrupted.One key Temple Mount activist who has been involved in lobbying for greater Jewish prayer rights at the site for many years told The Times of Israel that although the changes since August 13 were “substantive,” he did not believe they constituted a change in the status quo.Discreet Jewish prayer has been permitted by the police since at least 2018, during the tenure of Gilad Erdan as police minister. According to the activist, who wished to remain anonymous, that move was the real change to the status quo in recent years.He added that along with the ability to prostrate oneself, the police also permit prayer with singing and dancing on the eastern side of the Temple Mount, although this reporter did not witness such activity during Wednesday’s visit.At the beginning of the visit, a group of some 30 people, mostly men but including some women and children, ascended to the Mughrabi Gate from the entrance to the Western Wall plaza singing, “And they will prostrate themselves to God on the holy mountain in Jerusalem” — a verse from the Biblical book of Isaiah.As is the general procedure for Jewish visitors ascending during visiting hours for non-Muslims, the group was taken by a police escort around the Temple Mount counter-clockwise from the southwestern corner of the plaza to the eastern side.Upon arriving there, numerous members of the group bowed down facing west to where the sanctuary of the ancient Jewish temples was located, in full view of police.The worshipers also prostrated themselves during the afternoon prayer service which they conducted, with the relevant parts of the service performed out loud.
Two activist rabbis then gave short lessons lasting a few minutes each, before the police instructed the group to conclude the visit, coming around the northern end of the site and out through the Chain Gate.Veteran Temple Mount activist Rabbi Yitzhak Brand, who, unusually for such activists, is ultra-Orthodox (most Haredim oppose visits to the site), gave one of the lessons, noting the ability to perform prostration without restriction since August 13.“We must give thanks to God that we have now merited greater closeness to God. Prostration is already a special form of worship on the Temple Mount and the site of the Temple, and this is another stage in the redemption,” Brand told the group of worshipers.Rabbi Ofer Elyashiv, another ultra-Orthodox activist who has been visiting the Temple Mount for just a few years, also extolled the new-found liberty to bow down at the holy site and, like Brand, insisted it was another step toward the final redemption.“The completion of the ingathering of the exiles is prostration [on the Temple Mount]. On the Ninth of Av, an opening was created by God… and prostration was formally allowed on the Temple Mount,” said Elyashiv.“Everything begins slowly. We are beginning to build the infrastructure for the Temple.”Speaking on Army Radio on Monday, Ben Gvir — a longtime proponent of Jewish prayer rights on the Temple Mount predating his time in politics — insisted that Israeli law does not discriminate between the religious rights of Jews and Muslims at the Temple Mount, which is considered the holiest site in Judaism and the third-holiest in Islam.“The policies on the Temple Mount allow prayer, period,” Ben Gvir said. “You are allowed to pray; it’s illegal to prevent you from praying.”Asked if he would put a synagogue on the site if he could, he answered, “Yes, yes, yes, yes.”In response to Ben Gvir’s comments, Netanyahu issued an oft-repeated statement insisting that there was “no change to the official status quo on the Temple Mount,” but avoided mentioning his ultranationalist coalition partner by name.The unwritten status quo at the site in the past provided few restrictions on Muslim prayer and access to the Temple Mount and its Islamic holy sites, while non-Muslims, including Jews, were not allowed to pray and could only visit during limited time slots via a single entrance to the site.Police began allowing discreet Jewish prayer around 2018, although the restrictions on access to the site for non-Muslims have remained in place.Israeli security officials view changes at the Temple Mount as having the potential to set off mass unrest, as 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.Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who has increasingly clashed with Ben Gvir in recent months, has accused the minister of endangering Israel with his comments.“Ben Gvir’s actions endanger Israel’s national security and its international standing,” Gallant wrote on X on Monday.Ben Gvir fired back, accusing Gallant of “bowing to Hamas and dragging the State of Israel into a reckless deal,” in reference to proposals for a hostage release deal and ceasefire agreement with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report
Spanish PM to visit China amid EU trade standoff.
Madrid, Aug 30 (AFP) Aug 30, 2024-Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will visit China in September, his office said Friday, as Beijing and the European Union are locked in a trade standoff over Chinese subsidies for electric vehicles.Sanchez's office did not provide details for the visit, which will run between September 7 and 12, but he is expected to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping and other officials during his trip.The Spanish premier met with Xi during his last visit to China in March 2023, and took part in the Boao Forum for Asia -- similar to the World Economic Forum held in Davos -- in China's Hainan province.That visit came as Xi was trying to galvanise support for China's peace proposal for Ukraine, and Spain -- the eurozone's fourth largest economy -- was preparing to hold the rotating presidency of the European Union during the second half of 2023.Sanchez's upcoming visit to China comes after the European Commission, which oversees the bloc's trade policy, announced last week that it planned to impose five-year import duties of up to 36 percent on electric vehicles imported from China.The duties are to counter what it says are unfair subsidies.Beijing responded by launching a probe into EU subsidies of some dairy products imported into China.That investigation will cover a range of items including fresh cheese and curd, some milk and cream.
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.
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.(ON EARTH)
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.(ON EARTH)
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?
ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST
1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
GENESIS 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE.
ISLAMIC DEATH CULT AND FAKE MOHAMMAAD AND FAKE MOON GOD ALLAH WHICH IS SIMPLY SATAN IS THE LEADER OF ISLAM.
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart:(WARS AND DEATH) and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.(CHINA CONTROLS AMERICAS ECONOMY BY BUYING UP DEBT)
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)
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)
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.
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 8:44
44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
1,200 people were massacred, women were horribly raped on Oct. 7' Harris says she won’t change US policy on arming Israel, stresses need for hostage deal-VP: I’m ‘unwavering’ in support for Israel, but how it defends itself matters; too many innocent Palestinians have died; ending war will allow to move toward two-state solution-By Jacob Magid-Today, 6:09 am-AUG 30,24
US Vice President Kamala Harris said Thursday that she won’t change US President Joe Biden’s policy of arming Israel, in her latest rejection of calls to curb weapons shipments or end them completely.Harris was pressed on the matter during a CNN interview with her running mate Tim Walz — her first since becoming the Democratic party’s presidential nominee last month.Highlighting calls by progressives to withhold weapons shipments to Israel, CNN asked Harris whether she would take a different approach to the Israel-Hamas war than Biden has. Interviewer Dana Bash didn’t mention that Biden has, in fact, withheld one transfer of heavy bombs, though, part of it was eventually released and all other shipments have continued.Harris began her answer by pivoting, reiterating the remarks she made in her speech at the Democratic National Convention last week.“I’m unequivocal and unwavering in my commitment to Israel’s defense and its ability to defend itself, and that’s not going to change,” Harris said.“But let’s take a step back. October 7 — 1,200 people were massacred, many young people who were simply attending a music festival. Women were horribly raped,” the vice president continued.Harris doesn't commit to any policy changes on Israel/Hamas but says, "Israel has a right to defend itself … and how it does so matters." pic.twitter.com/n4722VycmF— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 30, 2024 “As I said then, I say today: Israel has a right to defend itself. We would,” she said.“And how it does so matters. Far too many innocent Palestinians have been killed,” Harris added, referencing her concern over Israel’s prosecution of the war — something she has been slightly more vocal in Biden in emphasizing.The vice president then reiterated her belief in the urgent need for a ceasefire and hostage release agreement between Israel and Hamas. Indirect negotiations continued in Doha this week, though the sides remained at odds regarding the withdrawal of IDF troops from two key corridors: Philadelphi between Egypt and Gaza and Netzarim, which divided the northern and southern halves of the enclave.“This war must end, and we must get a deal that is about getting the hostages out,” Harris stresses, noting that she has met with the families of the eight American hostages. “Let’s get the ceasefire done.”Pushed again on whether she would change the current policy regarding weapons shipments, Harris responded, “No” before quickly continuing her point about the need for a hostage deal.“When you look at the significance of this to the families, to the people who are living in that region — a deal is not only the right thing to do to end this war but will unlock so much of what must happen next,” the vice president said, not straying from her message.Harris on Israel/Gaza:"I will always stand up for Israel's right to defend itself""At the same time, what has happened in Gaza is devastating""[I will work to make sure] The Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, security, freedom, and self-determination" pic.twitter.com/Kkhc0lW8qJ— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) August 23, 2024-“I remain committed — since I’ve been on October 8 — to what we must do to work toward a two-state solution, where Israel is secure and — in equal measure — the Palestinians have security and self-determination and dignity,” the Democratic presidential nominee added.In her DNC speech last week, Harris pledged that if she is elected in November, Israel will always have the support it needs to defend itself.“Let me be clear: I will always stand up for Israel’s right to defend itself and I will always ensure Israel has the ability to defend itself,” she said, drawing thunderous applause from the tens of thousands in the United Center.The line amounted to a rejection of a loud and heavily-covered fringe of Democratic delegates and anti-Israel protesters outside of the party who have been calling for an Israel arms embargo.Harris has not deviated publicly from the Biden administration’s policies on Israel during her time as vice president, although some have seen her rhetoric throughout the war as more sharply emphasizing the plight of Palestinians.
New School senate blocks funding to clubs in effort to demand Israel ‘divestment’Manhattan university student body’s announcement doesn’t specify how it expects university to carry out divestment; school indicates move will be circumvented-By Luke Tress Today, 4:03 am-AUG 30,24
New York Jewish Week via JTA — The student senate at The New School voted to suspend funding for all student organizations in protest of the university’s Israel policies.The University Student Senate at the Manhattan school said that on Friday it had voted to suspend all funding in order to demand “divestment from industries implicated in military and police violence in Gaza and the West Bank.”The statement added, “The USS voted and passed to halt all external funding operations until the [university investment committee] votes in favor of divestment.”At The New School, the student senate’s 12 members are responsible for disbursing funding to campus groups, drawing from an $8 per semester fee from every student to fund programs like the figure skating club and the printmaking club.The statement did not specify how the student activists expected the university to carry out divestment.
“This is not a duty we take lightly,” the senate said. “We understand this leaves students with many questions and will provide more information soon.”Persuading campus governments to withhold funding from student groups in protest of Israel appears to be an emerging tactic for pro-Palestinian activists, whose approaches are evolving as a new school year begins with many of their demands from last year unmet. The student government at the University of Michigan has also vowed to block funding from student groups to demand divestment.Michigan’s administration says it will circumvent the student government if it carries out the pledge. At The New School, too, the university said it was taking responsibility for allocating the funds normally controlled by the senate, effectively nixing the senate’s decision.“To ensure continued access and support for all students on campus, we will temporarily transfer the responsibility of managing this university fee to the Division of Student Success,” The New School said in a statement. “This decision was made with careful consideration, as this fee is crucial to the work of student leaders on campus.”The campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine called the move “part and parcel to the structure of z*onist violence globally,” and blamed “z*onists within the New School Administration.”A New School university spokesperson said the board of trustees postponed a vote on divestment in June, based on a recommendation by the university’s Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility, which said it was looking into “ways to divest from military industry and military surveillance companies.” The committee aims to provide a proposal for divestment to the board of trustees during a committee meeting next month.Founded in 1919, The New School, which is located in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, has a long history of radical activism. In line with that tradition, the university employed an anti-Zionist rabbinical student, Louisa Solomon, last year to serve some Jewish students.The university confirmed on Wednesday that Solomon was no longer with the university because her one-year internship had finished.“Student Rabbi Solomon’s engagement with The New School was intended to be temporary, and the university is exploring ways to provide students with sustained clerical and rabbinical support,” the university said.Pro-Palestinian activism has swept across New York campuses, including the New School, since Hamas’ Oct. 7 invasion of Israel and the outbreak of the war in Gaza. Those tensions are reemerging with the start of the fall semester.The university’s new president, Joel Towers, was repeatedly interrupted by anti-Israel protesters during his first public address last week, the New School Free Press reported.The New School spokesperson told the New York Jewish Week that the university had been preparing for the upcoming semester since classes ended in the spring. As part of those preparations, the university is offering a new course, Socially Responsible Investing: History, Theory, and Practice, that will be open to all members of the university community for free.“The New School is committed to providing a rigorous, equitable, and intellectually challenging learning environment. We believe deeply in making space for educational dialogue in our community to better understand complex and challenging issues,” the university said in a statement.
Berlin Holocaust memorial vandalized with antisemitic, pro-Palestinian graffiti-‘Block of Women’ monument commemorating non-Jewish women who in protested agains Nazis daubed with ‘Jews are committing genocide,’ ‘Free Palestine,’ and Palestinian flagBy Jackie Hajdenberg Today, 3:50 am-AUG 30,24
JTA — A Berlin Holocaust memorial was vandalized with pro-Palestinian and antisemitic graffiti, local police said Thursday.The graffiti, sprayed across the sandstone monument, said “Jews are committing genocide” in English. The words “Free Palestine,” accompanied by the image of a Palestinian flag, were sprayed on the ground below it. A local tour guide discovered the vandalism on Wednesday, according to the Juedische Allgemeine, a German Jewish publication.The incident is the latest in which Holocaust memorials and Jewish sites have been hit with pro-Palestinian and antisemitic graffiti since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war on October 7. Earlier this summer, a Seattle Holocaust museum was tagged with pro-Palestinian graffiti, and US synagogues have also been defaced with anti-Israel messages. In the Netherlands last month, a statue of Anne Frank was vandalized with spray paint, and in the fall a mural in Italy honoring Frank was also damaged.Berlin police called the graffiti antisemitic, and the European Jewish Congress condemned it. The State Security Police agency is investigating.The Berlin monument, called the “Block of Women,” designed by German Jewish artist Ingeborg Hunzinger and built in 1995, commemorates the non-Jewish women who in 1943 publicly protested against the Nazis when their Jewish husbands and fathers were set to be deported.“This monument honors the courageous women who, in 1943, protested against the Nazi persecution of their Jewish husbands,” the EJC said in a statement. “This outrageous disrespect of Shoah victims doesn’t advance the Palestinian cause. It is simply unacceptable.”Denkmal in der Rosenstraße in Berlin-Mitte. @Report_Antisem @JFDA_eV pic.twitter.com/snzlGXQsFa— Noa Sapir (@Czupczik) August 28, 2024-The 1943 protest was led by non-Jewish women, most of them married to Jewish men who were detained in a building that had formerly functioned as the Jewish Welfare Administration.Until that point, Jews in mixed marriages had not been immediately targeted for deportation or murder by the Nazi regime, for fear of antagonizing their non-Jewish relatives.More than 100 women participated in the protests, which lasted for a week until the approximately 2,000 men were released. The protest on Rosenstrasse was the only open demonstration in the face of Nazi authorities on behalf of Jews in wartime Germany, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The men were once again arrested and then deported to labor camps shortly afterward. About 25 of them were deported to Auschwitz and designated as laborers by the Gestapo.An inscription on the monument reads: “The strength of civil disobedience; the vigor of love; overcomes the violence of dictatorship; Give us our men back; Women were standing here; defeating death; Jewish men were free.”
Families Forum: PM takes every opportunity to thwart talks-Ministers back Netanyahu’s demand for IDF to stay in Philadelphi Corridor in any deal-Gallant votes against, Ben Gvir abstains, in largely symbolic vote after maps of planned IDF presence were already shown to Hamas and mediators; demand has impeded talks’ progress-By Jacob Magid-Today, 10:34 am-AUG 30,24
The security cabinet voted Thursday to back Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s position in favor of maintaining Israeli military presence along the Gaza-Egypt border as part of any potential ceasefire and hostage release deal, a senior official in the premier’s office said.The top panel of ministers was asked to approve a series of maps that the Israel Defense Forces has drawn up, showing how Israel plans to keep its troops deployed in the nine-mile narrow stretch known as the Philadelphi Corridor. The maps have already been adopted by the US, the official said, apparently referencing the “bridging proposal” that the White House submitted earlier this month.The eight-to-one vote, with one abstention, was all but symbolic since the maps had already been submitted to Hamas and to mediators Egypt and the US.Bucking Israel’s security establishment, Netanyahu presented the continued IDF deployment in the Philadelphi Corridor as a new demand in the hostage negotiations last month, slowing the talks, which had picked up momentum after Hamas agreed to cave on its main demand for Israel to agree up-front to a permanent ceasefire.In the Thursday night security cabinet meeting, eight ministers voted in favor of Netanyahu’s position, while only Defense Minister Yoav Gallant voted against it, representing the security apparatus’s position.Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir cast the vote’s lone abstention. A source close to Ben Gvir was cited by Hebrew media as explaining this was because the proposal included a gradual drop in the number of soldiers in case of a deal, while he supports maintaining full military presence at the corridor and in all of Gaza.The vote drew an outraged reaction from the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, which represents relatives of many of the remaining 107 hostages held by terrorists in Gaza.“After close to a year of neglect, Netanyahu doesn’t miss a single opportunity to ensure that there won’t be a deal,” the Forum said. “Not a day goes by in which Netanyahu doesn’t take concrete action to jeopardize the return home of all the hostages.”But the Tikva Forum, which represents some hawkish hostage relatives, praised the decision and said IDF presence at Philadelphi “creates highly significant pressure on Hamas that could help return all the hostages home.”Netanyahu has insisted that remaining in the Philadelphi Corridor is essential for preventing continued weapons smuggling, which would allow for the revival of Hamas after the war. This is despite the demand not featuring in a previous Israeli proposal issued on May 27.The premier believes control of the border zone is key to pressuring Hamas into signing a deal, Republican US Senator Joni Ernst, who met Netanyahu this week as she led a US congressional delegation to the Middle East, told Axios. She added she found it unlikely that Israel would soon agree to withdraw its troops from there.The US has urged Israel to compromise on the issue, while also offering a bridging proposal that allows for a limited number of soldiers to remain in the corridor, which both Hamas and mediator Egypt have to date opposed, two Arab officials told The Times of Israel earlier this week.According to the officials, the bridging proposal over-catered to Israel’s demands and it has since been adapted.The security establishment has pushed the government for more flexibility on the Philadelphi issue, fearing Netanyahu’s stance will further drag out the talks, risking the lives of the hostages, and arguing that Israel would be able to return to the corridor if need be.Channel 12 news reported Thursday that at the meeting in which the vote was eventually held, Gallant presented a document presenting the security establishment’s opinion that without a hostages-for-ceasefire deal, Israel faced “imminent deterioration into a multifront war.”According to the senior Prime Minister’s Office official who reported the vote’s results, Netanyahu told ministers during the meeting that Hamas had been able to carry out its October 7 onslaught because Israel didn’t have control over the Philadelphi Corridor.Netanyahu stressed that by maintaining control over the corridor, Israel will prevent another attack of that nature from unfolding since Hamas won’t be able to re-arm itself.He also argued that this stance will make a hostage deal more likely because Hamas will see that it has no other choice but to compromise on this issue, just as it did when it agreed to forgo its demand for a permanent end to the war.In the proposal Hamas submitted earlier this month, the terror group agreed to only have a six-week ceasefire, during which the sides would negotiate the terms of subsequent phases. While the offer envisions the mediators keeping Israel and Hamas at the table, it does appear to provide Israel with the ability to resume fighting if Hamas is deemed to be violating the terms of the deal and not negotiating in good faith.Netanyahu at the Thursday night meeting assailed the defense establishment, claiming it had wrongly supported Israel’s so-called Disengagement from Gaza in 2005 — which Netanyahu himself helped pass — as well as the withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000 and the Oslo Accords of the 1990s.“Security officials claimed that they would know how to deal with the first rocket [from Gaza], but this did not happen after Hamas began raining fire on Israel,” Netanyahu told the ministers, according to the statement from an official in his office. Hamas had also been launching rockets at Israel before the Disengagement.“Security officials also believed that they would know how to deal with the withdrawal from Lebanon and, before that, with the import of terrorist elements into Judea and Samaria as part of the Oslo Accords,” Netanyahu said, using the West Bank’s Biblical name. “These estimates were also wrong.”Separately, during Thursday night’s meeting, the security cabinet was presented with the preliminary results of an IDF review that found that most of the dozens of hostages who are no longer alive were killed during the first six months of the war, closer to the October 7 onslaught, and not in recent months, the Israeli official says.That comes amid an uproar from hostage families, who frequently claim that more of their loved ones could have been brought back alive had the negotiations not dragged on for as long as they have. Earlier this month, six hostages — who had been alive until earlier this year — were returned to Israel in body bags.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
Head of Hamas in Jenin, 2 other operatives killed in IDF drone strike, shootout-Wissam Hazem shot dead by undercover forces amid ongoing major operation in northern West Bank; Palestinians say death toll rises to 20-By Emanuel Fabian-Today, 1:19 pm-AUG 30,24
The commander of Hamas’s military wing in the West Bank city of Jenin was killed along with two other operatives in clashes and drone strikes on Friday morning, the Israel Defense Forces, Shin Bet security agency, and police said.According to the military, amid an ongoing operation in the northern West Bank, troops spotted a cell of gunmen in a car in the Jenin area town of Zababdeh.Inside the car was Wissam Hazem, the head of Hamas’s terror network in Jenin.Undercover Border Police officers opened fire at the car, killing Hazem, while the other two gunmen fled, the joint statement said. A short while later, a drone struck and killed the pair.The military released footage of the incident.According to Israel, Hazem was involved in numerous shooting and bombing attacks and was advancing additional attacks.The other two gunmen, killed by the drone, were named by the IDF as Maysara Masharqa and Arafat Amer.The military said they were Hamas members working under Hazem and were also involved in shooting attacks, including against Israeli communities near the West Bank security barrier.Inside the car and on the bodies of the terror operatives, the IDF says it recovered assault rifles, handguns and other equipment.No troops were hurt in the incident.The drone strikes came amid an ongoing large-scale operation in the northern West Bank launched early Wednesday. The military has been operating mostly in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, but also in Jenin and the Far’a camp near Tubas.According to Palestinian media, the death toll since the start of the operation had risen to 20 as of Friday morning. The IDF has said that it has killed at least 17 gunmen.Early Thursday, Israeli forces killed five Palestinian gunmen who were hiding in a mosque in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, including the commander of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s local wing in the Nur Shams camp, the military said.Another founding member of Islamic Jihad’s local wing in Tulkarem was detained.The large operation, involving the Kfir Brigade, the Duvdevan Commando Unit, combat engineers and Border Police, was expected to last at least several days, military sources said Wednesday.The ongoing operation was focused on dismantling a Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror network in the Tulkarem area, as well as in Jenin and the Far’a camp near Tubas.While the army has said it has seen a relative decline in terror coming from the northern West Bank in recent months, it has also seen continued attempts by terror operatives to launch attacks.After a series of smaller operations in the northern West Bank, the IDF decided to launch a more extensive operation, targeting three areas at once — Jenin, Tulkarem and Far’a — where terror operatives were seen as operating together, military sources said.The large-scale operation was also launched in part following an intended suicide bombing in Tel Aviv earlier this month.The IDF has carried out several drone strikes amid the operation. In the past 10 months, the IDF has carried out more than 60 airstrikes in the West Bank, using drones, attack helicopters and fighter jets.A Border Police officer was lightly hurt and an IDF soldier was moderately wounded amid the operations on Wednesday and Thursday.Tensions in Israel and the West Bank have soared since October 7, when terrorists burst through the Gaza border into Israel in a Hamas-led attack, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 251 hostages.Since October 7, troops have arrested some 4,850 wanted Palestinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,960 affiliated with Hamas.According to the Palestinian Authority’s health ministry, more than 670 West Bank Palestinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were gunmen killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or terrorists carrying out attacks.During the same period, 27 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another five members of the security forces were killed in clashes with terror operatives in the West Bank.
Seized Hamas documents show terror group inflated its support rates, IDF says-Actual support for Hamas, Sinwar and Oct. 7 said to be far lower than published; army says influential Palestinian polling firm uninvolved in scam; lead pollster doubts claims-By Emanuel Fabian and Gianluca Pacchiani-Today, 9:34 am-AUG 30,24
The Israel Defense Forces released Hamas documents on Thursday that it said showed Hamas had secretly falsified its levels of public support in polls conducted by the Ramallah-based Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR).The IDF said the documents do not prove that PCPSR was cooperating with Hamas, but rather that the terror group was conducting clandestine actions to fraudulently influence the results of the polls.PCPSR, which is based in the West Bank city of Ramallah, is run by prominent Palestinian pollster Khalil Shikaki.In the Gaza Strip, the firm uses Gazan data collectors to conduct surveys in residential areas and shelters for displaced Palestinians, and it is thought that Hamas was able to take advantage of this to manipulate the results later sent back to Shikaki.The alleged Hamas security apparatus documents (English translated version), which the military said were found in Gaza, showed the results of a PCPSR poll from March 2024, with both the alleged original data and the falsified numbers.One document, under “corrected result” — the figure that was published — gave Hamas’s approval rating in Gaza as 62 percent, compared with what was termed the “actual result” of 31.9% support; Hamas Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar’s “corrected” approval rating as 52%, up from 22.1% “actual” support; and there was a 71% “corrected” approval rating for the October 7 onslaught, up from an “actual” 30.7%.“The survey results have been revised according to the practices followed in previous surveys, and the results have been sent by the source to the center in Ramallah,” read the document.“Note: The attached actual survey results are confidential and intended for limited distribution,” it added.According to the IDF, the documents it recovered in Gaza “prove an extensive effort by the terror organization to falsify the results of [the PCPSR] polls, to create a false representation of the Gazan public’s support for the terror organization, especially after the massacre [in Israel] on October 7.“These documents are part of a systematic process, the purpose of which is to disguise the collapse of the organization, and the collapse of public support for it,” the IDF claimed.The military said the documents “emphasize the importance that the Hamas terror organization sees in the results of the polls, to falsify Palestinian support and to influence the Palestinian public and Arab and international public opinion.”Prominent Palestinian pollster Khalil Shikaki, who runs the polling firm, said it was “highly unlikely” that Hamas falsified the results of the polls conducted in Gaza.“Our Gaza team worked with us for more than 20 years. But we will investigate all claims as part of a commitment to ensure full quality control,” Shikaki told The Times of Israel.Shikaki maintained that the IDF claim was part of a “battle over narratives” between the military and the terror group. “The center doesn’t involve itself in politics, which is how I view this: The army against Hamas in the battle over narratives,” he said.The documents shared by the IDF said the falsified poll results were shown “as-is on Al Jazeera” after Hamas reached out to “Brother Tamer Al-Misshal,” a Doha-based Palestinian host for the channel.Alongside the inflation of Hamas’s approval rating, the documents showed an occasional downgrading in support for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, head of the terror group’s secularist rival Fatah, which rules the West Bank.In a poll question on who Gazans would vote for in a potential election between Abbas and Hamas’s then-chief Ismail Haniyeh, the documents gave Abbas a 22% “corrected result” — down from a 25.8% “actual result” — and Haniyeh 48% of the “corrected vote,” up from an “actual” 21.3%.In other areas of the survey, however, support for Abbas was revised modestly upward. Thus, when respondents were asked who would rule Gaza after the war, “PA led by Abbas” received a “corrected” 19%, up from an “actual” 18.2%, according to the documents the army released. Hamas, meanwhile, got a “corrected” 52%, up from an “actual” 36.8%, while the IDF received a “corrected” 1%, down from an “actual” 11.5%.Gaza has been devastated in the war sparked by Hamas’s October 7 attack, which saw thousands of terrorists storm southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages.The Strip’s Hamas-run health ministry says more than 40,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far. The toll, which cannot be verified, does not distinguish between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 17,000 combatants in battle and another 1,000 terrorists inside Israel on October 7.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
Jordan said concerned IDF ops in West Bank, settler violence may lead Palestinians to cross border in search of refuge-AUG 30,24
Jordan is concerned that Palestinians fleeing intensified IDF operations and extremist settler violence in the West Bank will seek to enter the Hashemite Kingdom, the Qatari-owned Al-Araby Al-Jadeed news outlet reports.According to the report, Jordanian officials fear that as a result of Palestinians crossing into Jordan, sky-high regional tensions will escalate further, leading to increased security risks in the country and across the region as a whole.Earlier this month, King Abdullah II warned that Jordan would “not allow any escalation in the region to be at the expense of Jordanians or Jordan’s security and safety.”Echoing the king’s comments, a Jordanian security expert tells Al-Araby that “any displacement of the residents of the West Bank will pose an existential threat to Jordan, and is absolutely rejected by Jordan and the Palestinian people.”There are also concerns among senior Jordanians that by leaving the West Bank, Palestinians could become permanently displaced, leaving their land empty and at risk of being taken over by settlers, the report states.This possibility, combined with recent statements by Israeli government ministers that threaten the status quo on the Temple Mount, would destroy “any possibility of a political solution based on the two-state solution, which harms Jordan’s predominant interest in establishing an independent Palestinian state,” posits a Jordanian analyst.
Gaza protests already marring kickoff of fall semester at several US campuses-4 arrested at University of Michigan ‘die-in,’ but none of them students; 150 protesters stage demonstration against Israel in campus dining hall at Cornell on first day of class-By Andrew Lapin Today, 3:42 am-AUG 30,24
JTA — University of Michigan security broke up an anti-Israel student “die-in” demonstration Wednesday and police arrested four people, in the latest sign that campus activism across the United States is resuming as the fall semester begins.None of the four people arrested were students, a university spokesperson told the press. One is a temporary university employee. At least one arrested protester got into a physical altercation with police, according to the Michigan Daily, the student newspaper.The protest was backed by a pro-Palestinian student coalition that includes the university’s chapter of the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace and was staged during a popular outdoor showcase for fall student activities. Members of the collective claimed on Instagram that one student had been arrested and later released.Many universities, including Michigan, have said they will enforce rules surrounding demonstrations more assertively this term. The school agreed to change its enforcement policies after the U.S. Department of Education determined that it had violated the civil rights of its Jewish students by not doing a better job disciplining protesters. Jewish and free-speech groups had also expressed concern that the demonstrations, and subsequent mass arrests, created a hostile environment on campuses in the spring.But in Ann Arbor and elsewhere, groups pushing for divestment from Israel have also returned to campus determined to continue their activism.The evening before the arrests, Michigan’s student government tentatively passed a budget for fall student activities after its student body president was elected on a platform of denying funding to all student groups until the university divests from Israel.Arrests made at the University of Michigan after police mobilized to stop pro-Palestine campus takeover during The Diag Festival on campus.#michiganstate #PalestineProtests #CampusProtests pic.twitter.com/1iEJ4Qz0jg — Ukraine Lives Matter (@ULM_Info) August 28, 2024-The scene at Michigan was the most striking example of volatile campus protests returning with the start of classes, but other campuses have also already encountered controversy surrounding Israel and Gaza. A pro-Palestinian flyer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology referenced the Mapping Project, a website targeting Boston-area Jewish institutions that has been condemned as antisemitic by a host of Jewish groups and politicians. The project has also been disavowed by the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement.The incident prompted condemnation from MIT’s Jewish president, Sally Kornbluth. Kornbluth faced intense blowback last year over antisemitism at MIT but has held onto her job, the only Ivy League president to appear before Congress who remains in place.“I believe the Mapping Project promotes antisemitism,” Kornbluth wrote in a letter to students this week. She added, “I have heard from students who felt the flyers sent the message that they are not welcome at MIT. Do we really want to draw lines on Day One and risk making any of our newest students question whether they belong here?”And on the first day of classes at Cornell University on Monday, around 150 protesters staged a demonstration against Israel in a campus dining hall. They unfurled signs reading “If Not Now, When?” in Hebrew, a reference to a famous quote by Hillel, an ancient Jewish sage. At one point the protesters were joined by unionized university employees striking over pay. No arrests were made, but the university condemned spray-painted blood on an administrative building.Some schools, including Harvard, preemptively warned their students this week against participating in disruptive protests. Yet even at schools that have taken extra steps to gird their campuses against unrest, a fresh round of protests is still expected.At a consortium of California universities, pro-Palestinian activists planned a coordinated action Thursday. A masked protest group at Pomona College, a private school near Los Angeles, shut down its school’s convocation Tuesday. The event was switched to streaming; no arrests were made, despite the school warning ahead of time that violators of its mask ban would be disciplined.New kinds of student protests seem designed to flaunt their school’s restrictions: After a federal judge ruled that a university can’t allow protesters to restrict Jewish students’ movement through campus, student protesters at Sonoma State University set up fake Israeli “checkpoints” and blocked student access through campus.Conservative political pushback to the protests is also mobilizing again. This week 24 Republican state attorneys general warned Brown University not to move forward with a plan to vote on divestment from Israel in October, saying that it could lead to the states cutting off all business with Brown in accordance with their laws against boycotting Israel. Brown had agreed to the vote as part of negotiations with its pro-Palestinian encampment movement in the spring.Some campuses that were hotbeds of protest last year have so far remained relatively calm. At Columbia University and Barnard College in New York City, where students have begun moving in but classes have not yet begun, small groups of activists offered leaflets denouncing Israel to passersby on Broadway, the city street separating the campuses, but staged no protests on Thursday. Both campuses are closed to people unaffiliated with the schools to mute the effect of outsiders on activism there.
IDF: Hamas’s Rafah Brigade has collapsed, 80% of border tunnels neutralized-Islamic Jihad intelligence commander killed in strike; military says documents found in Gaza show terror group falsified prominent polling results-By Emanuel Fabian-Today, 1:38 am-AUG 30,24
The Hamas terror group’s Rafah Brigade had “collapsed” as a result of the Israel Defense Forces’s ongoing offensive in the city in the southern Gaza Strip, military sources said on Thursday.The remarks come a week after Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said the Rafah Brigade had been defeated.Hamas’s Rafah Brigade was made up of four battalions: Yabna (South), Shaboura (North), Tel Sultan (West), and East Rafah. It had been considered one of the terror group’s final strongholds in the Strip until the IDF’s 162nd Division launched its offensive there in May.Amid the fighting in Rafah, the military has seen Hamas operatives increasingly trying to escape from tunnels and flee north to the Israeli-designated humanitarian zone, instead of fighting troops. IDF troops have successfully been ambushing Hamas gunmen in the area who have tried to flee, the military sources added.The IDF has said it has killed more than 1,000 terror operatives in Rafah amid the ongoing offensive, and that many gunmen fled with the Palestinian population as the operation began.In addition to fighting in the city itself, the operation in Rafah has also focused on the Philadelphi Corridor — the Egypt-Gaza border area, where IDF combat engineers have discovered dozens of tunnels, some of them cross-border.Combat engineers have been meticulously sweeping the entire Gaza-Egypt border for tunnels while expanding the corridor by demolishing structures within about 800 meters (875 yards) of the border.Such tunnels have been used by Hamas for smuggling, although military sources have said that the terror group in recent years has been smuggling weapons via the overground Rafah Crossing, rather than using tunnels. The crossing was captured by the IDF on the first day of the offensive in Rafah.As of Thursday, the IDF said that around 80 percent of Hamas’s tunnels along the Philadelphi Corridor had been neutralized. More than 150 tunnels have been discovered along the corridor, Gallant said last week.Earlier Thursday, the IDF said a Palestinian Islamic Jihad intelligence officer was killed in a drone strike in Rafah.According to the military, Osama Gadallah served as a commander in Islamic Jihad’s military intelligence unit, and he also participated in the October 7 onslaught.The IDF said that dozens more gunmen were killed by troops with the 162nd Division in Rafah in the past day.Further north, in Khan Younis and on the outskirts of Deir al-Balah, the IDF said troops with the 98th Division also killed dozens of gunmen in clashes and by directing drone strikes over the previous 24 hours.In the Netzarim Corridor in the Strip’s center, reservists with the 252nd Division directed a drone strike on a cell of gunmen, while carrying out pinpoint raids in the area, the military said.In addition, the Israeli Air Force struck more than 40 targets across Gaza in the past day, which the IDF said included buildings used by Hamas and other positions used by terror operatives to open fire at troops.-Falsified polling results-On Thursday, the IDF revealed Hamas documents recovered from the Strip that it said showed the terror group has been secretly falsifying the results of polls conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR).The IDF said the documents do not prove that PCPSR was cooperating with Hamas, but rather that the terror group was conducting clandestine actions to fraudulently influence the results of the polls.PCPSR, which is based in the West Bank city of Ramallah, is run by prominent Palestinian pollster Khalil Shikaki.In the Gaza Strip, the firm uses Gazan data collectors to conduct surveys in residential areas and shelters for displaced Palestinians, and it is thought that Hamas was able to take advantage of this to manipulate the results later sent back to Shikaki.In a document released by the IDF, a letter written by one Hamas official to another read: “Following the subject, we would like to inform you that we have completed the preparation of Research Survey No. 91. The survey results have been revised according to the practices followed in previous surveys, and the results have been sent by the source to the center in Ramallah.”According to the IDF, the documents it recovered in Gaza “prove an extensive effort by the terror organization to falsify the results of [the PCPSR] polls, to create a false representation of the Gazan public’s support for the terror organization, especially after the massacre [in Israel] on October 7.“These documents are part of a systematic process, the purpose of which is to disguise the collapse of the organization, and the collapse of public support for it,” the IDF claimed.The military said the documents “emphasize the importance that the Hamas terror organization sees in the results of the polls, to falsify Palestinian support and to influence the Palestinian public and Arab and international public opinion.”The alleged Hamas document released by the IDF (English translated version) showed the results of a PCPSR poll from March 2024, with both the original data and the falsified numbers.The published poll showed 71% of Palestinians supporting the October 7 Hamas attack, while the IDF said the actual data showed support from just 30.7% of respondents.“The documents show that the falsified results are in favor of the organization and its leaders, with an emphasis on Yahya Sinwar,” the military said.In response, Shikaki said it was “highly unlikely” that Hamas falsified the results of the polls conducted in Gaza.“Our Gaza team worked with us for more than 20 years. But we will investigate all claims as part of a commitment to ensure full quality control,” Shikaki told The Times of Israel.Shikaki maintained that the IDF claim is part of a “battle over narratives” between the military and the terror group. “The center doesn’t involve itself in politics, which is how I view this, the army against Hamas in the battle over narratives,” he said.Gianluca Pacchiani contributed to this report.
Iran is further increasing stockpile of highly enriched uranium, UN report finds-Atomic agency document says regime has 164.7 kilograms of material enriched to 60%, up by 22.6 kilos since May-By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN 29 August 2024, 11:48 pm
VIENNA (AP) — Iran has further increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels in defiance of international demands, a confidential report by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said Thursday.The report by the International Atomic Energy Agency, seen by The Associated Press, said that as of August 17, Iran has 164.7 kilograms (363.1 pounds) of uranium enriched up to 60 percent. That’s an increase of 22.6 kilograms (49.8 pounds) since the IAEA’s last report in May.Uranium enriched up to 60% purity is just a short technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%. By the IAEA’s definition, around 42 kilograms (92.5 pounds) of uranium enriched to 60% is the amount at which creating one atomic weapon is theoretically possible — if the material is enriched further, to 90%.The IAEA chief, Rafael Mariano Grossi, has previously warned that Tehran has enough uranium enriched to near-weapons-grade levels to make “several” nuclear bombs if it chose to do so. He has acknowledged the UN agency cannot guarantee that none of Iran’s centrifuges may have been peeled away for clandestine enrichment.Thursday’s report is the latest low in spiraling relations between Tehran and the IAEA. It follows a June 6 resolution by the 35-member IAEA Board of Governors that censured Iran for failing to cooperate fully with the Vienna-based agency.Iran’s mission at the UN in New York did not immediately respond to a request from the AP for comment. There were also no immediate comments from Tehran on the IAEA report.Iran’s 2015 landmark nuclear deal with world powers had put limits on its nuclear program — which the West fears could be used for making nuclear weapons and Tehran insists is only for peaceful purposes — while lifting punitive economic sanctions imposed on Iran.But the deal collapsed after the Trump administration in 2018 pulled the United States out of the agreement, leading Iran to abandon all limits the deal had put on its program, and enrich uranium to up to 60% purity.Meanwhile, surveillance cameras installed by the IAEA have also been disrupted and Iran has barred some of the Vienna-based agency’s most experienced inspectors. Iranian officials also have increasingly threatened that they could pursue atomic weapons.The IAEA report further says that Tehran has also not reconsidered its September decision to ban the agency’s inspectors from monitoring its nuclear program and that IAEA surveillance cameras remain disrupted.The agency said it had requested an August 8 letter that Iran provide access to a centrifuge manufacturing site in the city of Isfahan, to enable the agency to service its cameras, but received no reply.Additionally, the report says Iran has still not provided answers to the nuclear watchdog’s years-long investigation about the origin and current location of man-made uranium particles found at two locations that Tehran has failed to declare as potential nuclear sites, known as Varamin and Turquzabad.The IAEA report comes just days after Iran’s supreme leader opened the door to renewed negotiations with the US over his country’s rapidly advancing nuclear program, declaring there was “no harm” in engaging with the “enemy.”Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s remarks on Tuesday set clear red lines for any talks taking place under the new government of reformist Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and reiterated his warnings that Washington was not to be trusted.The IAEA report said that as of August 17, Iran’s overall stockpile of enriched uranium stood at 5,751.8 kilograms (12,681 pounds).“The continued production and accumulation of high enriched uranium by Iran, the only non-nuclear weapon state to do so, adds to the agency’s concern,” it concluded.The report acknowledged that before the June elections in Iran, the IAEA was told “that further engagement with the agency would be determined by the new government.”After Pezeshkian’s win, the IAEA congratulated him and offered to send the agency’s chief to Tehran “to re-launch the dialogue and cooperation between the agency and Iran,” the report said. But while the newly elected Iranian president confirmed “his agreement to meet” with the IAEA chief, nothing has moved forward on this since.The IAEA report also said the agency verified that Tehran had completed the installation of eight cascades of IR-6 centrifuges at its underground plant at Fordo. Those additional eight cascades are not operational yet, meaning they are not yet enriching uranium.Also, Iran has completed the installation of 10 out of 18 planned cascades of IR-2m centrifuges at the underground site in Natanz, and the installation of another two cascades was ongoing there, it said. At the same site, Iran has increased the number of operating cascades of IR-2m centrifuges by six to a total of 15, and cascades of IR-4 centrifuges by nine to a total of 12.Under the 2015 deal, Iran was allowed to install just first-generation centrifuges. The more advanced model of centrifuges enriches uranium at a much faster pace than the baseline IR-1 centrifuges.The IAEA report is likely to add to the wider Middle East concerns, with tensions between Iran and Israel hitting a new high since the Hamas October 7 attack on Israel and the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.Tehran launched an unprecedented drone and missile attack on Israel in April after years of a shadow war between the two countries reached a climax with Israel’s apparent attack on what Iran said was a consular building in Syria, which killed two Iranian generals and others. The assassination in Tehran of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh also prompted Iran to threaten to retaliate against Israel.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
Houthis said to okay salvage of burning tanker after setting off bombs on ship-Footage released by Iran-backed group shows detonation of at least 6 explosive devices on deck, sparking blaze that now threatens to decimate Red Sea ecosystem; EU says no leak yet-By Agencies 29 August 2024, 11:48 pm
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have agreed to allow tugboats and rescue ships to assist a Greek-flagged oil tanker that it set ablaze in the Red Sea, Iran said late Wednesday, amid concerns that it could begin leaking oil, causing a massive environmental catastrophe.However, the Houthis, who are believed to have blocked an earlier attempt to salvage the vessel, did not offer specific details. On Thursday the group released footage of its fighters setting off bombs aboard the tanker after it was abandoned, and a European Union mission said the ship was not yet leaking oil, as diplomats scrambled to find a solution for the looming environmental disaster.The Sounion carried some 1 million barrels of oil when the Houthis initially attacked it on August 21 with small arms fire, projectiles and a drone boat.A French destroyer operating as part of Operation Aspides rescued the Sounion’s crew of 25 Filipinos and Russians, as well as four private security personnel, and took them to nearby Djibouti.Days later, monitors reported that several fires had broken out on the ship, apparently the result of Houthi bombs planted on it.Iran’s UN mission said Wednesday that following the fire on the Sounion “and the subsequent environmental hazards,” several countries it didn’t identify reached out to the Houthis “requesting a temporary truce for the entry of tugboats and rescue ships into the incident area.”“Ansar Allah has consented to this,” the Iranian mission said, using another name for the Houthis.It offered no further details, nor did the Houthis, who have repeatedly attacked ships in the Red Sea since the outbreak of war in Gaza, claiming they are doing so in support of Hamas.Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdul-Salam, in comments carried by the Houthi-controlled SABA news agency, said late Wednesday that the attack showed how serious the rebels took their campaign against shipping.“After several international parties contacted us, especially the European ones, they were allowed to tow the burning oil ship Sounion,” Abdul-Salam said, without giving further details.On Tuesday, the Pentagon said an unidentified “third party” that tried to send two tugboats to the stricken Sounion was blocked by the Houthis.Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters that the Houthis’ actions demonstrate “their blatant disregard for not only human life, but also for the potential environmental catastrophe that this presents.”Western countries and the United Nations have warned any oil spill from the Sounion could devastate the coral reefs and wildlife that call the Red Sea home.The EU’s Red Sea naval mission Aspides said on Thursday that no oil spill has been detected on the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion in the Red Sea, despite “multiple fires” detected on the main deck of the vessel.It said the Sounion was still anchored and not drifting.Greece’s foreign minister said on Thursday he had been in touch with his Saudi counterpart as part of intensive efforts to avert an environmental disaster.“There is a significant diplomatic endeavor underway among countries and Greece, so we can avert any potential ecological disaster,” George Gerapetritis said on arrival at an informal EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels.The attack on the Sounion capped the most serious attack in weeks by the Houthis in their campaign disrupting the $1 trillion in goods that pass through the Red Sea each year over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, as well as halting some aid shipments to conflict-ravaged Sudan and Yemen.In footage released Thursday by the group, masked Houthi fighters carrying Kalashnikov-style rifles can be seen boarding the Sounion after it was abandoned, then rigging explosives over hatches on its deck leading to the oil tankers below.At least six simultaneous blasts could be seen in the footage as the fighters were heard chanting their motto: “God is the greatest; death to America; death to Israel; curse the Jews; victory to Islam.”The US State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment over the new Houthi footage.Ryder said Tuesday that the Sounion appeared to be leaking oil. A US official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, later said the ship was leaking an unidentified substance.A million-barrel oil spill would be one of the largest from a ship in history, threatening to destroy the area’s fishing industry and regional ecosystems, government officials have warned.The Houthis in their campaign have seized one vessel and sunk two in the campaign that also killed four sailors. Other missiles and drones have either been intercepted by a US-led coalition in the Red Sea or failed to reach their targets.The rebels maintain that they target ships linked to Israel, the US or the UK to force Israel to quit its war against Hamas in Gaza, launched when Hamas-led terrorists carried out an unprecedented attack on Israel, killing 1,200 people and kidnapping 251.Many of the ships attacked have little or no connection to the conflict, including some bound for Iran.In the case of the Sounion, the Houthis have claimed the Greek company operating the vessel had other ships serving Israel. The Joint Maritime Information Center, a multinational organization overseen by the US Navy, assessed that the Sounion “has no direct association with Israel, US or UK within the company business structure” though other ships had “visited Israel in the recent past.”
China Achieves 12th Successful Sea-Based Satellite Launch-by Simon Mansfield.
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 30, 2024-Galactic Energy, a private rocket manufacturer based in Beijing, successfully completed the third sea-based launch of its Ceres 1 carrier rocket on Thursday afternoon.To date, China has conducted 12 sea-based launches, utilizing four different rocket types: Long March 11, Smart Dragon 3, Ceres 1, and Gravity 1."The company said in a news release that the rocket blasted off at 1:22 pm from a mobile launch platform - a modified deck barge - in the Yellow Sea off the eastern province of Shandong and then sent six satellites into a sun synchronous orbit about 535 kilometers above the Earth.""The satellites, from multiple operators, will be used to collect meteorological data, demonstrate optical remote-sensing technologies and collect hyper-spectral remote-sensing data," according to Galactic Energy.Galactic Energy has now conducted 15 orbital launches with the Ceres 1 model, significantly surpassing other private competitors. These missions have successfully placed 54 commercial satellites into orbit.The first sea-based launch of the Ceres 1 occurred in September 2023 off the coast of Shandong, placing four Tianqi satellites into space, marking Galactic Energy as the first Chinese private company to launch a rocket at sea.The second sea-based launch took place in May, also successfully deploying four satellites.The Ceres 1 rocket stands about 20 meters tall with a diameter of 1.4 meters and primarily utilizes solid propellant. With a liftoff weight of 33 metric tons, it is capable of sending a 300-kilogram satellite or several satellites with a combined weight of 300 kg into a 500-km sun-synchronous orbit, or payloads of 350 kg into a low-Earth orbit at an altitude of 200 km.
