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)
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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.
'Trying to simulate the Holocaust is absurd'‘Gestapo Game’ at Tim Walz’s school was part of a trend Holocaust educators now reject-Amid reports that the VP candidate helped end an outdated role playing game while a teacher in Minnesota, one thing is certain – he condemned such exercises in his master’s thesis
By Andrew Lapin and PHILISSA CRAMER 19 August 2024, 1:30 am
JTA — As Tim Walz inveighed against trends in Holocaust education in his 2001 master’s thesis, the very high school where he worked employed one of those methods: a “game” that, by today’s standards, would repel almost every expert in the field.One of the school’s teachers divided his class into halves: Some would have to wear yellow stars and play “Jews,” while the others would play the part of Gestapo officers charged with tormenting them.A Jewish former student who was disturbed by the activity told The Jewish Telegraphic Agency last week that Walz had stepped in to stop the game after her father complained. But her father, Stewart Ross, subsequently told JTA that he did not recall anything beyond his daughter’s distress.Bob Ihrig, the teacher who led the Gestapo activity, and John Barnett, Mankato West’s principal from the time, also told JTA that they did not recall such an incident. But Ihrig said Walz, now the Democratic candidate for vice president, had been aware of the activity.“When students start wearing stars, walking down the hall, they go from my classroom down the hall past Tim’s classroom,” he said. “There’s no way that you could avoid that.”What is certain is that in another context, Walz had cautioned against exercises like the one Ihrig used, which was called the “Gestapo Game” and was a trademarked activity conducted in settings around the world. In his thesis for his master’s degree in experiential education at Minnesota State University, Mankato, which argued for changes to Holocaust education, Walz noted that researchers had “deemed counterproductive” activities in which students were asked to play roles from the Holocaust.“Trying to simulate the conditions that victims of the Holocaust experienced was absurd,” Walz wrote. “The result on student learning was a trivialization of the horrors experienced during the Holocaust.”Walz was not alone in objecting to the game: The activity championed by Ihrig is anathema in the field of Holocaust education today. Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial; the US Holocaust Memorial Museum; and the Anti-Defamation League all warn against Holocaust role plays.“Even when great care is taken to prepare a class for such an activity, simulating experiences from the Holocaust remains pedagogically unsound,” the US museum says on its website. “The activity may engage students, but they often forget the purpose of the lesson and, even worse, they are left with the impression that they now know what it was like to suffer or even to participate during the Holocaust.”Walz completed his thesis at the same time that Agustin recalls being in Ihrig’s class. The thesis reflected a longstanding interest in teaching about the Holocaust and genocide that predated Walz’s years at Mankato West and extended into his current tenure as Minnesota’s governor.Walz’s thesis argued that schools would do better to remove teaching about the Holocaust from units about World War II and instead situate it within instruction about genocides and human rights. That way, he said, students could understand the root causes of the violence with the aim of preventing future genocides.The belief appeared to be long-held. Walz had previously taught about the Holocaust and other genocides in an early teaching role in Alliance, Nebraska. There, after studying the Holocaust as one of several genocides, his class accurately predicted that Rwanda was the most likely place for a future genocide to take place; one unfolded there the following year.But Walz did not discuss his outlook on Holocaust education with some of his closest colleagues, several of them told JTA. Ihrig and Mike Sipe, another teacher who was also Mankato West’s wrestling coach, both said they had been surprised to learn last week that Walz had written a thesis about Holocaust education while they worked with him. They noted that completing a master’s degree conferred benefits including a pay raise and did not always reflect a teacher’s core interests.Both recalled Walz as an inspiring teacher and good colleague who participated in the collaboration that took place informally in their department. (The student yearbook named Walz “Most Inspiring” the same year it called Ihrig “Most Likely to Conquer the World.”) Ihrig said Walz had been “encouraging” and “inquisitive” about the Holocaust activity, showing curiosity about elements of the exercise — which Ihrig recalls as a highlight of his teaching career more than a decade after he retired.Ihrig said he first encountered the activity in a catalog for teachers in the late 1970s — making him one of thousands to purchase Rabbi Raymond Zwerin’s Gestapo game since its release in 1976.Zwerin, a congregational rabbi in Denver who was married to a Holocaust survivor, designed the game in response to clamor from classroom educators for more engaging curriculum materials about the Holocaust, according to a 2022 story in the Forward. He told the news outlet that the game was meant to illustrate the role that luck — mazel, in Yiddish — played in survival.“I think about my wife’s situation. Her parents were killed, her sister was killed, and she escapes,” he said. “Somebody found her on the street, as a little kid, and got her to the right ship at the right time. Total mazel.”Zwerin’s game landed in a receptive climate. An explosion of interest in the Holocaust had generated an NBC miniseries, best-selling books and courses in high schools and colleges across the country. Simulation activities abounded: A made-for-TV movie released in 1981, “The Wave,” dramatized a classroom activity that turned students against each other without ever mentioning the Holocaust. Even some Jewish schools and camps engaged in simulations, with one boasting the slogan “Creative camping personalizes the Holocaust,” according to a 1980 New York Times story about the growing popularity of Holocaust narratives.But qualms were already emerging. The Times story reported that Elie Wiesel, the survivor and novelist who became the face of Holocaust memory and would later win a Nobel Prize, was “appalled by the fact that well-meaning teachers think they have conveyed the meaning of the Holocaust to children by locking them in small rooms to simulate gas chambers” — a move that he traced to the NBC miniseries. “When he asked one teacher why she used simulation techniques,” the newspaper reported, “he was told, ‘If NBC could do it, if they could create fake gas chambers for their audience, why can’t we do it for children?’”Ihrig’s classroom was never made to resemble a gas chamber. But the Gestapo activity morphed and expanded as generations of Mankato West students experienced it, Ihrig said. Students suggested that some of them act as the Gestapo. The stars, he said, were his own innovation. So was the decision to have the activity extend beyond his classroom walls.“I wanted the students to understand that the Jewish people didn’t stop being a Jew and stop being persecuted, that it was a constant 24/7,” he told JTA. “It was too easy for these students, when the bell rang at the end of the period, to pick up and leave and life was back to normal. And so I wanted that stress, that tension, that experience, to last longer.”But “Gestapo” students started harassing the “Jewish” ones in uncomfortable ways, Ihrig recalled, including in the bathrooms. The escalation was problematic but also instructive, he said.“They hadn’t been coached, they hadn’t been taught. They took this upon themselves,” he said. “Probably 95% of the students were just totally compliant and obedient, which is exactly what happened in Nazi Germany.”Holocaust educators today say there are far better ways to teach that lesson: through survivor testimonies, by examining primary source materials and by learning about psychology and human behavior. They say role plays serve to traumatize students and trivialize the experiences of survivors and victims while not teaching anything about history.“In the Holocaust education field, it’s universally frowned upon in the strongest way — role plays are inappropriate — and I think we’ve done a good job. All the organizations are communicating that to teachers,” said Deborah Lauter, executive director of the Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights.“Today it would not be seen as common,” Lauter added. “It happens once in a while, and it’s shut down pretty quickly.”A Florida middle school was inundated with criticism in 2006 after dividing students between the “privileged” and “persecuted” groups as part of a unit that included reading “The Diary of Anne Frank”; according to the ADL, one student told his parents, “The only thing I learned today is that I don’t want to be Jewish.”A 2015 article in an Indiana newspaper described a one-day simulation participated in by teachers and students alike — and where the teacher who had conducted the activity for over a decade said he was increasingly having to combat Holocaust denial among his students.Sipe, who still teaches at Mankato West, says there are no longer Holocaust simulations conducted in history classes there.“I certainly don’t think it’s something that should be part of public education today,” he said. “No, the activity is certainly not part of something we do anymore.”Ihrig said he understood that times have changed and that many would see the simulation as “traumatizing” today. But he also recalled years of positive feedback about the Gestapo activity that he said had predated Agustin’s experience, and followed it.“I had a mother who was a school board member who talked to me and said, ‘You know, this was really emotionally draining for my daughter, and she’d come home at the end of each day and all of the stress and tension,’ because I told the students that, you know, you take this seriously, it’s going to have an impact on you,” Ihrig said. “And she said, ‘You know, that was really difficult to deal with in the week before vacation break,’ but she says, ‘I’m glad that you did that for my daughter and other students, because they needed that experience.’”
Man killed in Tel Aviv when bomb in his backpack goes off; police probing possible terror-Passerby on electric scooter moderately wounded in incident in city’s south; police official says dead man was ‘not an innocent civilian,’ but motive still unclear-By ToI Staff 19 August 2024, 12:44 am
Police were probing a bomb blast that killed a man in Tel Aviv Sunday evening as a possible attempted terror attack, with the Shin Bet security agency also looking into the incident.The man was carrying the bomb in a bag on his back while walking down Lehi Road in the city’s south, when it went off.The man, in his fifties, was killed as a result of the explosion. A passerby on an electric scooter in his thirties was moderately wounded. Paramedics declared the man who’d been carrying the bomb dead at the scene, and evacuated the injured man to hospital.Speaking to reporters on location, Tel Aviv Police District Commander Peretz Amar said that the identity of the dead man held the key to the motive.“It is difficult to identify the body,” said Amar. “We know that he is not an innocent civilian, but somebody who was carrying an explosive device.”He added: “It could be terror and it could be criminal. The possibility of terror is real.”It was as yet unclear what had caused the bomb to go off, and whether the detonation was an accident.
I AGREE WITH EYAL GOLAN-ON OCT 8TH GAZA SHOULD HAVE BEEN NUKED AND SENT AS MARTYRS TO HELL FIRE FOREVER. FOR KILLING AND RAPING ALL THOSE ISRAELIS.IN 10 MINUTES ISRAEL WOULD HAVE CONTROLLED GAZA, LEBANON, SYRIA AND WEST BANK. WITH 4 HYDOGEN BOMBS. IT WOULD KILL ALL THE ISLAMIC DEATH CULT IN ALL 4 OF THOSE COUNTRIES. ISRAEL WOULD HAVE GODS PROMISED LAND. SIMCE THE H-B JUST KILLS PEOPLE ONLY.
State attorney seeks probe into pop singer Eyal Golan for calling to ‘erase Gaza’ Musician urged to ‘not leave a single person’ in Strip, days after the October 7 terror onslaught; Golan responds to reports: ‘Am Yisrael Chai’By ToI Staff Today, 11:14 pm-AUG 18,24
State Attorney Amit Aisman is looking to open a criminal investigation into pop singer Eyal Golan on suspicion of incitement to violence, after the musician called for the death of all Gazans shortly following the October 7 Hamas attack, multiple Hebrew media outlets reported on Sunday.Golan called a few days after the attack to “erase Gaza” and “not leave a single person there,” according to the Kan public broadcaster, which first broke the story.It was not immediately clear when Golan made the specific comments being looked into, but he said almost the exact same words during an October 15 interview with Channel 14, as he was performing for soldiers in the field.On October 7, 2023, some 3,000 Hamas-led terrorists invaded southern Israel from the Gaza Strip, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages, starting the ongoing war.Asked for comment about the potential charges, the singer responded with a terse statement saying “The nation of Israel lives” (Am Yisrael Chai) — a traditional rallying cry for Jewish survival that is also the title of Golan’s wartime anthem released after October 7.The singer has previously run into legal trouble for tax evasion and fraud – which he was found guilty in 2014 — and has been dogged by allegations of sex offenses against minors, for which his father was convicted and sent to prison.The decision of whether to open the investigation falls with Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, who will also decide whether to follow a similar recommendation by Aisman to investigate National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on incitement charges over statements he made at the beginning of the war.None of the officials involved believe an investigation against the minister would result in an indictment, much less a conviction, especially in light of Ben Gvir’s parliamentary immunity, the Kan public broadcaster reported last month.Rather, the investigation would be intended to show the International Court of Justice, where South Africa has alleged Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, that Israel is complying with its orders to investigate and punish anyone who violates the clause of the Genocide Convention prohibiting incitement to genocide.Gaza ❤️ Aisman-Israel ❤️ Eyal Golan — איתמר בן גביר (@itamarbengvir) August 18, 2024-Golan, who is popular among right-wing Israelis, received backing from Ben Gvir on Sunday night. The far-right minister tweeted in his terse style, using heart emojis, indicating that Aisman was acting on behalf of Gazans while Israelis agreed with Golan. Though It Seems Crazy Now, the Neutron Bomb Was Intended to Be Humane-By Mark Strauss Published September 19, 2014 | Until the day he died, physicist Samuel Cohen declared that his invention, the neutron bomb, was a “moral” and “sane” weapon that would kill enemy combatants, while sparing civilians and cities. But, despite the support of fans like Ronald Reagan, this weapon of not-as-much mass destruction proved to be a hard sell.Although Samuel Cohen never achieved the fame of Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller, he had been part of the U.S. nuclear weapons program from its very inception. He had worked on the Manhattan Project, where he performed calculations related to the atomic bomb’s yield of neutrons. After the war, he was a consultant at the Rand Corporation.According to his memoir, Shame: Confessions of the Father of the Neutron Bomb, he hit upon his idea during a 1951 visit to Seoul, where he witnessed the devastation of the Korean War: “The question I asked of myself was something like: If we’re going to go on fighting these damned fool wars in the future, shelling and bombing cities to smithereens and wrecking the lives of their surviving inhabitants, might there be some kind of nuclear weapon that could avoid all this?”A Kinder, Gentler Nuke-Cohen’s invention was, essentially, a smaller, “fun-sized” version of a hydrogen bomb with a few simple modifications under the hood.Since a hydrogen bomb utilizes fusion as well as fission, it releases much more of its energy in the form of prompt radiation—especially neutrons—than a fission bomb does. Most of those neutrons, however, are absorbed by a “jacket” of uranium-238 that encases the fusion-fission device, in order to further increase the explosive yield of the bomb.A neutron bomb is a hydrogen bomb without the uranium-238. This lowers the explosive yield while letting the neutrons bust out all over. So, when a fission bomb explodes, the released energy is distributed as:50% blast-35% thermal radiation (heat)-10% residual radiation (fallout)-5 % prompt radiation (gamma rays, neutrons, X-rays)-Cohen believed that he could increase the output of prompt radiation to as high as 80%, while scaling back on the amount of energy released in the form of blast, heat and fallout.As such, the neutron bomb would provide less bang for the buck. It would be a tactical nuke, explicitly used to kill enemy combatants on the battlefield while, supposedly, minimizing the amount of physical collateral damage. The official name for the bomb was an “Enhanced RadiationWeapon” (ERW).In order to be effective militarily, a neutron bomb would have to incapacitate its victims quickly. This requires a very high dose, in the neighborhood of 8,000 rems. For a one-kiloton ERW detonated at 1,500 feet, the required lethal dose would cover an area of about 0.8 square miles. Anyone in this kill zone would die in a particularly gruesome manner, as neutrons collided with protons inside living tissue. The ionization would break down chromosomes, cause nuclei to swell and destroy all types of cells, especially those in the central nervous system.A Political Explosion-Cohen and his colleagues at the nuclear weapons labs spent years lobbying government and military officials to develop the neutron bomb, arguing that it was a more discriminating weapon with both moral and military advantages.Finally, they found support from President Richard Nixon’s Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, who was seeking the capability to conduct limited nuclear warfare “so that if deterrence were to fail…the use of nuclear weapons would not result in [an] orgy of destruction.” This might be possible, he believed, through the use of “a sufficient accuracy-yield combination to destroy only the intended target and to avoid widespread collateral damage.”The neutron bomb offered Schlesinger what he wanted. He remained the Secretary of Defense after Nixon’s resignation and, in 1975, the Ford administration authorized development of the weapon, which would be overseen by the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA). The neutron bomb would be designed for tactical use to offset the Warsaw Pact’s three-to-one advantage in tank forces. The army requested neutron warheads for its Lance short-to-medium-range tactical missile and its 8-inch and 155 mm artillery pieces.But, it was President Jimmy Carter who would inherit the program and make the final decision about deployment. There was just one small problem: nobody had bothered to tell Carter that the weapon was being built. The president found out about it the same way as the rest of the world….he read about it in the Washington Post.Reporter Walter Pincus had learned about the neutron bomb when he saw a congressional committee report that included testimony about its development. On June 6, 1977, he published an article with the dramatic headline, “Neutron Killer Warhead Buried in ERDA Budget.” The article described the weapon as “specifically designed to kill people through the release of neutrons rather than to destroy military installations through heat and blast.”Most of the Carter administration had not been aware of the neutron bomb project. Those who had known about, including Secretary of Defense Harold Brown and James Schlesinger (who was now the Secretary of Energy), never imagined that it would be controversial.Carter’s aides knew differently—not least, because the president had made it a point to pledge in his inaugural address, “we will move this year a step toward our ultimate goal—the elimination of all nuclear weapons from this Earth.”Domestic critics saw the neutron bomb as an escalation of the arms race. Others charged that, by making nuclear weapons less destructive, it made nuclear war easier to wage. Leftists even called it a “capitalist” bomb because it killed people while protecting property.But criticism in the U.S. was calm compared to the backlash in Europe. The neutron bomb wasn’t a strategic weapon to serve as a deterrent; it was a tactical weapon intended for actual use on the battlefield—and that battlefield happened to be located on European soil.Ironically, the supporters of the bomb had thought that it would ease European fears, by promising a technological breakthrough that would limit the worst effects of nuclear war. Instead it had the opposite effect and served as a rallying issue for Europe’s growing anti-nuclear weapon movement, which had become increasingly convinced that the nuclear powers, despite their lip service to work toward disarmament, would continue to expand and modernize their arsenals.The extent of the opposition across Europe was stunning. A “Halt the Neutron Bomb” campaign in the Netherlands brought out 50,000 protesters, and delivered a petition to the Dutch parliament signed by 1.2 million. Polls in the UK found that 72% of voters who had heard of the neutron bomb opposed its deployment.But, while there was widespread grassroots opposition, some European governments felt differently. On July 22, 1977, National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski told Carter that, although NATO officials wanted the new weapon, “they are terrified by the political consequences of seeming to approve nuclear warfare on their territory and endorsing a weapon which seems to have acquired a particularly odious image.”Brzezinski later organized a compromise strategy: the U.S. announced that it would be willing to forego deployment if the Soviet Union, in turn, would forego deployment of its SS-20 intermediate range ballistic missile, and NATO publicly approved the plan.But then, without any warning, in April 1978, Carter announced that he was deferring production of the neutron bomb—a position that meant, in effect, he was canceling the program. The president had privately reached the conclusion that European governments would be unable to muster support. Carter told his advisors “that the burden and political liability for this weapon, which as far as he could see nobody wanted, was being placed on his shoulders instead of being shared by the whole alliance.”Carter’s surprise decision frustrated European leaders who had spent political capital to support the deployment of a weapons system that would not be produced. The administration was widely criticized domestically for its handling of the entire affair. The Washington Post ran a cartoon depicting the president as an out-of-control missile. The caption read: “It’s the Cartron bomb—it knocks down supporters without damaging opponents.”Reagan’s Raygun-Ronald Reagan also criticized Carter’s decision to halt production of the neutron bomb. He was excited about its potential, saying that:“Very simply, it is the dreamed of death ray weapon of science fiction. It kills enemy soldiers but doesn’t blow up the surrounding countryside or destroy villages, towns and cities…..Here is a deterrent weapon available to us at much lower cost than trying to match the enemy gun for gun, tank for tank, plane for plane.”After Reagan was elected president, he announced that he was reviving the neutron bomb program. But, in Europe, opposition against deploying the weapon had hardened even further.Security experts openly warned against the potential consequences of using the neutron bomb. Some were convinced that, if the U.S. used tactical nuclear weapons, the Soviet Union would escalate the conflict and respond with strategic nuclear weapons.Admiral Lord Hill-Norton, a former Chairman of the Military Committee of NATO wrote in The Times on August 18, 1980:“Once you cross the nuclear threshold you have taken an irreversible step which is almost bound to lead to a strategic nuclear exchange, which in turn is almost bound to lead to the end of civilization…I will go to my grave being certain that if you let off a neutron bomb anywhere in Europe you have gone 90% of the way toward triggering a strategic nuclear exchange.”Another concern was that the decision to use the weapon would be placed in the hands of field officers. Brigadier Michael Harbottle, a retired British army officer, wrote in 1981 that:“Because it is a close combat weapon with an immediate response capability, the decision to use it is likely to be delegated to the tactical field commander at the point of attack. The decision to fire will be tactical not strategic, and is unlikely to take into account the wider repercussions.”And then, there was the claim that civilians would be spared from the “collateral” effects of the weapon. Although the “kill zone” was, in theory, limited to 0.8 square miles, there was also a considerably larger area (about 2.5 square miles) within which the dose, though not enough to incapacitate quickly, could still cause radiation sickness. Hence, 2.5 square miles would need to be considered the lethal area of the weapon as far as civilians were concerned.That posed a big problem, since Western Europe was such a densely populated region. In Germany, the average distance between populated places was only a little over a mile, so there were simply not many areas in the prospective battle zone where 2.5 square miles would not contain substantial numbers of noncombatants.Indeed, a large-scale Warsaw Pact invasion would have involved something like 20,000 tanks. And those tanks would not be conveniently deployed in closely-packed formations. Surveillance of Warsaw Pact field exercises suggested that no more than 10 to 20 tanks would likely be within the effective area of a single weapon. Western forces, therefore, would have to detonate hundreds of neutron bombs.And, finally, the ultimate kicker. The warheads being built by the U.S. had not achieved the efficiency that physicist Samuel Cohen had envisioned decades earlier. They didn’t yield 80% neutron radiation, but only 30%, while the blast and thermal energy yields had been reduced only marginally, to 40% and 25%. Under those circumstances, it was viewed as folly to believe that Western forces could minimize collateral physical damage in Europe.Confronted with European refusal to allow deployment of the weapons, the bombs never left the U.S. and were dismantled during the first Bush administration. As precision-guided weaponry continued to mature and become more sophisticated, the rationale for building a neutron bomb faded.Samuel Cohen never forgave Ronald Reagan for what he deemed was a betrayal against him and his country. In 2006, the embittered physicist completed the third revision of his memoirs and published them for free on the Internet. This edition of the book had a new title: Fuck You! Mr. President.
3 UN peacekeepers lightly hurt in southern Lebanon blast; 20 rockets fired at north-UNIFIL reminds ‘all actors of their responsibility’ to protect civilians, peacekeepers; IDF says it struck Hezbollah sites in south Lebanon after Kiryat Shmona targeted-By Emanuel Fabian, Gianluca Pacchiani-and Agencies Today, 7:28 pm-AUG 19,24
Three United Nations peacekeepers suffered light injuries Sunday, the UN said, in an explosion near their vehicle close to Lebanon’s southern border, where the Hezbollah terror group has been trading near-daily fire with Israeli forces for the last 10 months.The UN peacekeepers had been on patrol in the southern Lebanon village of Yarine when an explosion occurred near their clearly marked UN vehicle, UNIFIL spokesperson Andrea Tenenti said of the incident.“All peacekeepers in the patrol returned safely to their base,” Tenenti said, without giving further details of the nature of the explosion or accusing any party.He said that the UN body was “looking into the incident,” reminding “all parties and actors of their responsibility to avoid harm to peacekeepers and civilians.”Although Lebanese media was quick to claim that the explosion was the result of an Israeli strike, there was no indication that this was the case and UNIFIL did not refer to the accusation.Nevertheless, the IDF said it was looking into the incident, which marked the second time in recent months that UN peacekeeping forces were wounded in a blast in southern Lebanon.In March, Lebanese security officials and Hezbollah-affiliated media blamed Israel for an incident in which four UN military observers were wounded when a shell exploded near their vehicle outside of the southern border town of Rmeish.The IDF later said, however, that the information available to the military had indicated that the peacekeepers were hit by a Hezbollah roadside bomb.Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid Israel’s war with Hamas.Earlier today, three peacekeepers on patrol were lightly injured when an explosion occurred near their clearly marked UN vehicle in the vicinity of Yarine, in south Lebanon All peacekeepers in the patrol returned safely to their base. — UNIFIL (@UNIFIL_) August 18, 2024
So far, the skirmishes have resulted in 26 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 18 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.Hezbollah has named 412 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 72 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have been killed.On Sunday afternoon, the IDF said a barrage of 20 rockets had been fired from Lebanon at the Kiryat Shmona area in northern Israel.The IDF said some of the rockets were intercepted by air defenses, and there were no reports of injuries.Across the border in southern Lebanon, the military said the Israeli Air Force had carried out a series of strikes on Hezbollah sites and operatives.In the town of Shebaa, the IDF said it had carried out a drone strike against a Hezbollah cell, while a fighter jet carried out a strike on a weapons depot.Another weapons depot and a building used by the terror group were stuck in Ayta ash-Shab and Matmoura, the IDF said, and a rocket launcher was hit in at-Tiri.The Israeli Air Force carried out a series of strikes on Hezbollah sites and operatives in southern Lebanon today, the military says.In the town of Chebaa, the IDF says it carried out a drone strike against a Hezbollah cell and a fighter jet strike against a weapons depot.… pic.twitter.com/ku5ERIfHU3— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) August 18, 2024-The northern front has been bracing for an escalation for several weeks now, after Israel killed senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr on July 30 in the wake of a deadly Hezbollah rocket attack that killed 12 children and teenagers in the Golan Heights.To that end, the Qatari-owned Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported on Sunday that Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty had called on Hezbollah to exercise restraint in its attacks on Israel, amid ongoing efforts to negotiate a hostage release-ceasefire deal in Gaza.During a visit to Beirut on Friday, Cairo’s top diplomat held meetings with Lebanese officials and conveyed a message to leaders of Hezbollah, urging it not to jeopardize the ceasefire talks.In exchange for the Iran-backed terror group’s restraint, Abdelatty reportedly promised an increase in humanitarian aid entering Gaza, which would “ease the pressure” on Hamas, along with unspecified “facilitations” from the United States on other issues related to Hezbollah in Lebanon.Lebanese officials were said to have responded positively to the Egyptian demands, on the condition that the ongoing ceasefire talks in Gaza lead to a favorable outcome.The fear of an escalation between Israel and Hezbollah appeared to be shared by civilians on both sides of the border, with the head of Lebanon’s National Emergency Committee Nasser Yassin telling Al-Araby Al-Jadeed on Sunday that the country had food reserves sufficient for four months and fuel for four weeks.Yassin, who is also Lebanon’s environment minister, told the Qatari outlet that simulations conducted by the National Emergency Committee had shown that in the event of a large-scale attack by Israel, there would be enough medicine to supply the hospitals for several weeks.Lebanon has not registered hikes in food prices despite widespread fears of an escalation, Yassin said, but there have been significant increases in rental prices in areas that witnessed a high influx of displaced people from the country’s south.Only 2 percent of them moved to government-run shelters, while the remaining 98% relocated into homes, either with relatives or rented, Yassin said.He said that although the Lebanese government would not be able to rebuild the houses of those who have lost them in the cross-border attacks or provide compensation, the government has paid handouts to families of war casualties.He said that so far, over 102,000 people have fled the border region. In Israel, estimates have placed the number of displaced civilians from the north of the country at around 80,000.Times of Israel Staff contributed to this report.
Soldier killed, another seriously hurt in Hezbollah drone attack on Western Galilee-Lebanese terror group launched five explosive-laden drones; one struck near Ya’ara, killing Chief Warrant Officer Mahmood Amaria; IDF kills two Hezbollah operatives-By Emanuel Fabian-Today, 3:55 pm-AUG 19,24
A noncommissioned officer in the Israel Defense Forces was killed and another soldier was seriously wounded in a Hezbollah explosive drone attack in northern Israel on Monday morning, the military said.The slain NCO was named as Chief Warrant Officer Mahmood Amaria, 45, a tracker in the 300th “Baram” Regional Brigade, from the northern Bedouin village of Ibtin.According to the IDF, five explosive-laden drones were launched from Lebanon in the attack, with three being intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system.Two of the drones impacted in the Western Galilee, one near Gesher Haziv and one near Ya’ara.The drone that struck near Ya’ara killed Amaria and injured several other soldiers, one of them seriously.Hezbollah took responsibility for the attack, claiming to have targeted a military position.It said that attack came in response to an Israeli “attack and assassination” in south Lebanon’s Tyre area. On Saturday the IDF said it had killed a commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force in a drone strike.Meanwhile, on Monday, the IDF said it carried out an airstrike against a cell of Hezbollah operatives in southern Lebanon’s Houla. The terror group announced the deaths of two operatives following the strike.Additional strikes on Monday targeted a rocket launcher and a building used by Hezbollah in Ayta ash-Shab, and another building in Hanine, the military added.On Sunday night, the IDF said fighter jets struck several more buildings used by Hezbollah in Ayta ash-Shab, Beit Lif, and Houla.The region has been bracing for a major escalation in violence for more than two weeks, since Israel killed Hezbollah’s military chief Fuad Shukr and was blamed for the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, drawing promises to retaliate from both Iran and its Lebanese proxy.Israel has been on high alert and has warned that it would respond if Iran or Hezbollah attack, even as low-level clashes with the Lebanese group have continued along Israel’s northern border.-Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there.So far, the skirmishes have resulted in 26 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 19 IDF soldiers and reservists — including in Monday’s attack. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.Hezbollah has named 414 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 72 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have been killed.Agencies contributed to this report.
Wounded bystander describes being engulfed in flames-Hamas claims Tel Aviv blast as attempted suicide bombing, vows to carry out more-Police and Shin Bet confirm incident an intended terror attack, dead bomber’s identity unknown; reports suggest attacker came from Nablus area in the West Bank-By Emanuel Fabian-and ToI Staff Today, 1:38 pm-AUG 19,24
The Hamas terror group on Monday claimed responsibility for an explosion in Tel Aviv the day before, saying it was a suicide bombing conducted as a joint operation with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and vowing further such attacks.The claim of responsibility came hours after the police and the Shin Bet security agency confirmed that the blast was an intended terror attack.The man behind the planned attack was walking down Lehi Road in south Tel Aviv on Sunday evening when the bomb he was carrying in his backpack detonated, killing him instantly and moderately wounding a passerby.In the immediate aftermath of the blast, police had also been examining the possibility that it was linked to criminal or gang activity, but on Monday morning the Shin Bet and police said in a joint statement that after an initial investigation, “it can be said that this was a terror attack, with the detonation of a powerful explosive device.”The Shin Bet said it was still working to confirm the identity of the bomber, a man in his 50s, although Hebrew media outlets reported that he was believed to be a Palestinian from the Nablus area in the West Bank.In its statement, Hamas said that it had carried out the attack along with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad — another Gaza-based terror group — and warned that suicide bombings would continue in response to Israeli attacks.The attack comes as Israel and Hamas are attempting to negotiate a hostage release and truce deal through intermediaries to end the Gaza war that started when Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel on October 7, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.Suicide bombings in Israel have been rare since the Second Intifada in the early 2000s, when hundreds of Israelis were killed in a series of deadly bombings.In the wake of the intifada, Israel constructed the West Bank security barrier that has been credited with helping thwart further bombing attempts.Security camera footage showed the man, believed to be in his 50s, walking down the street with a large blue backpack on his back.Other footage showed the moment of the explosion in the south Tel Aviv neighborhood.Recently, amid the war in Gaza, Israeli security authorities have identified attempts by Hamas and other terror groups in the West Bank to return to carry out such attacks.In March of this year, a would-be suicide bomber was killed while trying to infiltrate into Israel from the West Bank. Other attempted attacks have been foiled in recent months at earlier stages.According to the Ynet news site, security authorities have yet to determine whether the man in Tel Aviv intended to detonate the bomb when he did, or if it malfunctioned and exploded without warning in a fairly empty area before he could reach his target.One passerby, identified only by his first name Leonid, was wounded in the blast. He was passing by on an electric scooter on his way home from work when the bomb detonated.“I didn’t notice anything unusual and I didn’t see anyone,” he told Ynet from Ichilov Hospital, where he was undergoing treatment for his injuries, which medical staff said included a punctured lung. “Suddenly there was a huge explosion and I flew off the scooter.”“There was a lot of fire and I was right in the middle of it,” he said. “It felt like a movie — a giant explosion with me in the middle of the flames. I’ve been told a few times already in the hospital that I’m lucky to only have a few holes in me.”Prior to the Shin Bet’s confirmation that the blast was indeed a terror attack, Ayalon District Police Commander Haim Bublil told Kan radio that he was “99%” sure that a bomb blast was an attempted terror attack.“It may be that the terrorist planned to go to a nearby synagogue or maybe a shopping center. We can’t understand yet why it exploded at that point,” he said.A Tel Aviv resident told Ynet that at the time of the explosion, more than 80 people had been inside the nearby synagogue for evening prayers.“If he had entered the synagogue, it could have been an event with national consequences. There was a great miracle here,” he said.In its statement to the public on Monday, the police said that Tel Aviv Police District Commander Peretz Amar had conducted a special assessment to address the city’s security needs in the aftermath of the bombing.“The Israel Police continues with increased operational activity in crowded places with the cooperation of special units and and volunteers from the civilian defense squads,” the statement added.
GOP launches bid to impeach Biden on unproven claim he abused office to benefit son-Report by 3 powerful Republican-led US House committees, issued as Biden is set to address DNC, lacks smoking gun linking US president’s acts to embattled son Hunter-By AFP Today, 6:09 pm-AUG 19,24
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans lodged a formal case Monday for the impeachment of US President Joe Biden, using the opening day of the Democratic National Convention to launch a political assault unlikely to gain serious traction.The report from three powerful committees in the Republican-led House of Representatives accuses Biden of corruption linked to his son Hunter’s foreign business affairs.Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the head of the Judiciary Committee, said the probe showed “conclusively” that Biden had “abused his public office for the private financial benefit of the Biden family and Biden business associates.”“President Biden’s legacy is marked by abuse of public office, corruption and obstruction. The evidence produced by our impeachment inquiry is the strongest case for impeachment of a sitting president the House of Representatives has ever investigated,” said Republican James Comer, the Kentucky congressman who heads the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.However, there is no proof that Biden ever used his office to benefit his son or was involved in Hunter’s businesses. There was no smoking gun in a document built around inferences and innuendo about connections between father and son.Biden — set to deliver a swan song speech at the Democratic convention in Chicago on Monday, and pass the political torch to his vice president Kamala Harris — has repeatedly denied helping his son’s business ventures, including in Ukraine and China.Republicans have for years used Hunter Biden’s foreign links and chaotic personal life as a recovering drug addict to try and embarrass the president.However, marathon attempts to build an impeachment case against Biden — seen by many as a bid for revenge over the two impeachments of Republican Donald Trump when he was US president — have never come close to an actual vote by the House.Republicans hold only a razor-thin majority and would likely fail to remain unanimous on impeaching Biden, risking severe embarrassment.
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Is Black Lives Matter a Marxist movement? Civil Rights Criminal Justice Facebook Fact-checks -Tom Kertscher-July 21, 2020
Black Lives Matter was founded by community organizers. One of the three co-founders said in 2015 that she and another co-founder “are trained Marxists.”Black Lives Matter has grown into a national anti-racism movement broadly supported by Americans, few of whom would identify themselves as Marxist.Backlash against Black Lives Matter includes branding it as Marxist.The attack has been made in recent weeks by Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer; Ben Carson, Trump’s secretary of Housing and Urban Development; conservative talk show host Mark Levin; and PragerU, which has more than 4 million Facebook followers.Aren’t sure what Marxism is, actually? It was developed by 19th century German philosopher Karl Marx and is the basis for the theory of communism and socialism. "Marxism envisioned the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism by the proletariat (working class people) and eventually a classless communist society," Encyclopedia Britannica and Oxford Reference say.These days, Marxism usually means analyzing social change through an economic lens, with the assumption that the rich and the poor should become more equal.In a recently surfaced 2015 interview, one of the three Black Lives Matter co-founders declared that she and another co-founder "are trained Marxists." But the movement has grown and broadened dramatically. Many Americans, few of whom would identify as Marxists, support Black Lives Matter, drawn to its message of anti-racism."Regardless of whatever the professed politics of people may be who are prominent in the movement, they don’t represent its breadth," said Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Princeton University African American Studies professor and author of "From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation.""There are definitely socialists within the movement, as there have been in every single social movement in 20th century American history and today. But that does not make those socialist movements, it makes them mass movements," she said. ‘Trained Marxists’In a Facebook post labeling Black Lives Matter as a Marxist movement, PragerU included a video interview with Carol Swain, a Black conservative and former professor at Vanderbilt and Princeton universities. She said, "Now, the founders of Black Lives Matter, they’ve come out as Marxists."Swain alluded to Black Lives Matter’s three co-founders, who are still featured prominently on the group’s website — Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi. Their primary backgrounds are as community organizers, artists and writers. Swain, though, was referring to a newly surfaced interview Cullors did in 2015, where she said:"We do have an ideological frame. Myself and Alicia, in particular, are trained organizers; we are trained Marxists. We are superversed on, sort of, ideological theories. And I think what we really try to do is build a movement that could be utilized by many, many Black folks."We didn’t find that Garza and Tometi have referred to themselves as Marxists. But the book publisher Penguin Random House has said Garza, an author, "describes herself as a queer social justice activist and Marxist."What Black Lives Matter says-Black Lives Matter was formed in response to the 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager, in Florida. The group calls its three co-founders "radical Black organizers." The project started with a mission "to build local power and to intervene when violence was inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes," the group’s website says. "In the years since, we’ve committed to struggling together and to imagining and creating a world free of anti-Blackness, where every Black person has the social, economic and political power to thrive."Included on its list of beliefs is one that has drawn criticism as being consistent with Marxism:"We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable."A spokesperson for Black Lives Matter; Kailee Scales, managing director at Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation; and the three co-founders did not reply to our requests for information."On one level, these are just put downs," University of Massachusetts Amherst economics professor Richard Wolff, author of "Understanding Marxism," told PolitiFact about the attacks on Black Lives Matter.If people declare themselves Marxists, they are in effect Marxists, but "there really is no standard" of what Marxism is, "there’s no way to verify anything."Black Lives Matter today-It’s important to recognize that movements evolve.Noting Cullors’ declaration of being Marxist trained, "one has to take that seriously: if the leadership says it is Marxist, then there's a good chance they are," said Russell Berman, a professor at Stanford University and a senior fellow at its conservative Hoover Institution who has written critically about Marxism.But "this does not mean every supporter is Marxist — Marxists often have used ‘useful idiots.’ And a Marxist movement can be more or less radical, at different points in time," he said.Black Lives Matter’s "emphatic support for gender identity politics sets it apart from historical Marxism," and the goals listed on its website "do not appear to be expressly anti-capitalist, which would arguably be a Marxist identifier," Berman added. The group’s support is broad.Even as some Americans express support for socialism, most view it negatively, and few of the supporters would identify themselves as Marxist. Meanwhile, 50% of registered voters support Black Lives Matter as of mid-July, up from 37% in April 2017, according to Civiqs, an online survey research firm.In July, the New York Times reported that Black Lives Matter may be the largest movement in U.S. history, as four polls suggest that about 15 million to 26 million people in the United States have participated in demonstrations over the death of Floyd and others in recent weeks. (That does not account for similar protests overseas.)"I am fairly convinced these are mostly attempts to smear anti-racist activists. I think in some media, ‘Marxist’ is dog-whistle for something horrible, like ‘Nazi’, and thus enables to delegitimize/dehumanize them," Miriyam Aouragh, a lecturer at the London-based Westminster School of Media and Communication, told PolitiFact. Black Lives Matter "is not an organization, but a fluid movement; it doesn’t actually matter if one of its founders was a liberal, Marxist, socialist or capitalist."
Chicago shootings: At least 30 shot, 5 fatally, in weekend gun violence across city, police say-ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team WLS logo-Monday, August 19, 2024 12:51PM
CHICAGO (WLS) -- At least 30 people have been shot, five fatally, in shootings across Chicago so far this weekend, police said.On Sunday, a suspect died after two Chicago police officers shot at him in Pilsen, police said.COPA said the shooting happened near the 1800-block of South Blue Island Avenue in the Pilsen neighborhood near Loomis Street.Officers heard multiple shots fired around 1:16 a.m. and encountered armed suspects, according to Chicago police.Two CPD officers fired their weapons and shot a man, who police said had a gun. The suspect was taken to the hospital where he later died.A woman and another man were also shot on Sunday.Chicago police said the suspect had reportedly shot the two victims inside a car before officers arrived.Both were taken to the hospital with critical injuries, police said.Around the same time, a man was shot after a crash on the city's West Side, according to CPD.The shooting happened around 1:08 a.m. in the 500-block of Damen Avenue on Sunday.The victim, a 21-year-old man, crashed with the driver of a black truck.The driver of the black truck reportedly started shooting at the 21-year-old.The victim was shot in the head, shoulder, and cheek, police said. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition.The black truck fled the scene westbound. No one in custody.Around 11:45 p.m. on Sunday, a 59-year-old man was shot while sitting on a porch in West Englewood.Chicago police said a group of approached and started shooting in the 2100-block of W. 68th Place, police said.The victim was shot in the chest. At last check, he was in the hospital in serious condition.A 28-year-old man was shot and killed in the city's Bronzeville neighborhood early Saturday, Chicago police said.The shooting happened at around 12:29 a.m. in the 4500-block of South Champlain Avenue.A witness told police that the man was on the sidewalk when someone opened fire on him and took off. He suffered multiple gunshot wounds, police said. The victim was rushed to University of Chicago Hospital where he later died.A motive for the shooting is not known and no one is in custody.Area One detectives are investigating.Chicago shootings: Tracking gun violence in 2024-A few hours later, a man was killed and two other people were hurt in a shooting on the city's West Side, police said.Officers responded to the 4700-block of West Polk Street at around 4:40 a.m., police said. According to police, a 53-year-old man and a 41-year-old woman were outside when they heard shots and felt pain.The man sustained a gunshot wound to his abdomen and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where he later died.The woman was hit in the right ankle and taken to the hospital in good condition. A third victim, identified as a 33-year-old man, sustained a gunshot wound to his foot and taken to Rush Hospital in good condition.No one was in custody.Later Saturday, a man was fatally shot on the city's Southwest Side, police said.Police said the shooting happened in the 0-100-block of South Lavergne Avenue just after 2:30 p.m.An armed offender approached a man his 30s and fired multiple shots before fleeing the scene, police said.Police said the victim suffered a gunshot wound to the neck and back. He was transported in critical condition to Stroger Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.No one is in custody and Area Four detectives are investigating.Last weekend, at least 33 people were shot, one fatally, across Chicago, police said.
Protesters from both sides accuse Chicago of discrimination-Pro-Palestine, pro-Israel activists jostle for airtime as DMC gets underway-Historic panel on Palestinian rights to be held at Democratic convention’s satellite location, though unclear if activists for either side will command official DNC audience-By Ron Kampeas Today, 4:43 pm-AUG 19,24
CHICAGO (JTA) — American pro-Palestinian activists will host a panel on Palestinian rights on the first day of the Democratic National Convention in an event they called unprecedented, as they jostle with pro-Israel activists for the attention of the Democratic Party.The panel is taking place six miles (10 kilometers) from the main convention action, at a satellite location in Chicago’s McCormick Place convention center. Still, its official slot on the packed schedule — albeit at the convention’s smaller, secondary location — offers the first public confirmation that the Democrats will allow for discussion of the Israel-Hamas war, which has divided the party, at a convention meant to project unity.Pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian activists are vying for attention this week in Chicago, but up to now, the DNC has not offered any public confirmation that either would be able to command an official convention audience.Major questions, including whether advocates for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip or for the families of Israeli hostages held by Hamas get a spot on the convention stage, have not gotten official answers.The panel on Palestinian rights is being organized by the “Uncommitted” movement, which urged Democratic primary voters to withhold support from US President Joe Biden in protest of his backing for Israel’s war against the Palestinian terror group in Gaza.That war began in response to the October 7 massacre in which Hamas terrorists infiltrated the country, killing 1,200 people and seizing 251 hostages.The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 40,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 17,000 combatants in battle and another 1,000 terrorists inside Israel on October 7. Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.“We thank the DNC for working with us on creating this historical panel while we continue focusing on policy change,” Layla Elabed, the Michigan-based co-founder of the “Uncommitted” movement, said Sunday evening in a post on social media.It would be the first panel in political convention history “with Palestinian voices leading the conversation and the explicit subject being Palestinian human rights as an issue in the Democratic Party,” Natalia Latif, a spokeswoman for the movement, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.A spokesman for the DNC did not return a request for comment.The panel would not be the first time that a DNC sees public discussion of Palestinian rights. The party in 1988 had a floor debate on whether it should recognize Palestinian statehood as a goal; the motion failed, but the nascent pro-Palestinian movement saw the mere allowance of a debate as a win that pushed the issue to the forefront of progressive politics. There was also public protest in 2012 over the party platform’s discussion of Jerusalem.This year, hundreds of thousands of voters voted “uncommitted” or its equivalent during the primaries, when Biden was on the ballot, although it is not clear whether all of them did so as part of the protest. As a result, the movement secured more than 30 out of some 4,000 delegates. The 30 or so delegates will give the movement a voice from the floor.The war has riven Democrats, with strong pressure from progressives on the Biden administration to reduce its unstinting backing for Israel. Inside the convention, both pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel advocates are pressing for floor time. Outside, activists on both sides of the issue will be holding demonstrations, and both are accusing Chicago of treating them unfairly.Uncommitted has asked the DNC to give a primetime spot to Tanya Haj-Hassan, a pediatric intensive care surgeon who recently worked in Gaza. Latif said there has not yet been word on whether she would get the slot. Haj-Hassan will speak on Monday’s panel, as will Andy Levin, the Jewish former Michigan congressman who was defeated in 2022, in part because he was campaigned against by mainstream pro-Israel donors.Members of hostage families, who are also in Chicago, have also not been told yet whether they will have a slot. Parents of one American-Israeli hostage spoke at the Republican convention in July, where they were lauded as heroes.Ruby Chen, whose son Itay Chen was killed in the Oct. 7 Hamas invasion and whose body is still held by Hamas, said communications with the DNC had been “sketchy.” He said it was as important for Democrats to hear from the hostage families as it was for Republicans.Chen said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been overly focused on attracting Republicans to Israel’s cause. “He’s been more attentive to the Republican side, and we need to have the State of Israel be attentive to everything it can do and more, to get the hostages out,” he said in an interview.Republicans are set to seize on any sign of disrespect toward the hostages as evidence of anti-Israel sentiment among Democrats. The Republican Jewish Coalition has pledged to plant 1,800 trees in Israel in the name of any speaker on the main stage in Chicago who will “ask the crowd to cheer if they support Israel.”Outside the convention’s doors, pro-Palestinian protest planners say they expect tens of thousands of marchers at major rallies on Monday and Thursday. Pro-Israel groups, in the meantime, are planning events on the sidelines of the conference, often at undisclosed locations in order to avoid disruptions.The party appears hesitant to give much official breathing space to either side. An eight-session “Dempalooza” communications training seminar for delegates does not include a single session on the conflict. The day before the convention, signs of pro-Palestinian protest were barely visible throughout the city, which was marked overwhelmingly by signage celebrating the four-day convention.Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris briefly met with Uncommitted leaders in Michigan earlier this month and reportedly told them what was happening in Gaza was “horrific.” She later shushed protesters who were interrupting her speech, asking them if they wanted to elect Donald Trump, the Republican nominee.Hatem Abudayyeh, the spokesperson for the Coalition and US Palestinian Community Network, one of the organizers of the mass marches, staged a press conference on Sunday at Union Park to complain that the city had allotted them just a mile along narrow streets.He said he did not believe the city when officials said security considerations were behind the restrictions. “We say it’s a content-based restriction,” he said, based on what he termed the pro-Israel policies of Harris, Biden and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, who is Jewish and whom Abudayyeh called a “Zionist.”“J.B. Pritzker is a Zionist. J.B. Pritzker supports Israel unequivocally,” Abudayyeh said. “I believe that he’s done good work as a governor in general, but he’s one of those folks that we call progressive except on Palestine, and that’s not acceptable anymore.”The pro-Palestinian groups have one top local official on their side: Brandon Johnson, Chicago’s mayor, on Saturday, told Mother Jones that Israel’s actions were genocidal.The Israeli American Council, meanwhile, has also complained that the city declined to give it rally space near the convention. It plans to stage a “Hostage Square” with speakers from the families of captives on private property. IAC has also accepted a Wednesday evening spot at a “Speaker’s Platform” the city has set up in one of its parks to accommodate the many groups that applied for rally permits but were declined.The pro-Palestinian activists’ agenda is to get the United States to coerce Israel into accepting a ceasefire and to impose an arms embargo on Israel.Yet even among the progressives most dedicated to the cause of the Palestinians, the issue appears shunted to low priority because of the many threats Democrats perceive in Trump’s quest to regain the White House, which he lost to Biden in 2020.A Progressive Democrats of America conference on the convention’s outskirts on Sunday had initially meant to devote an hour and 15 minutes to the Palestinian issue; the session was delayed and scored barely 30 minutes of rushed speeches.Trump’s threats to round up undocumented migrants and deport them, to expand restrictions on abortion and to roll back Biden’s health care reforms got more urgent attention. Appeals from pro-Palestinian groups to leverage votes to persuade Biden and Harris to get tough on Israel fell flat in the venue.Just prior to the session on the Gaza war, Erika Andiola, an immigration activist, told the gathering that Democrats were not making sufficiently clear what could happen to migrants, including members of her family.“If Trump gets elected there could be mass deportations across the US,” she said.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
Anti-Israel delegates plan to disrupt DNC and call for arms embargo on Israel-Large pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protests set to challenge Biden administration’s stance on Israel as Harris receives official nomination for presidency-By Reuters and ToI Staff Today, 11:11 am-AUG 19,24
CHICAGO, Illinois – Dozens of Muslim delegates and their allies, angry at US support for Israel’s offensive against the Hamas terror group in Gaza, are seeking changes in the Democratic platform and plan to press for an arms embargo this week, putting the party on guard for disruptions to high-profile speeches at its national convention in Chicago.Calling itself “Delegates Against Genocide,” the pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel group says it will exercise its freedom of speech rights during main events at the four-day Democratic National Convention convening on Monday to formally nominate US Vice President Kamala Harris for president in the November 5 election against Republican former president Donald Trump.Group organizers declined to give details, but said they were encouraging supporters to wear Palestinian keffiyehs, or scarves, and to carry Palestinian flags, and would seek changes in the party platform while urging delegates to speak on the convention floor.On Sunday night, a crowd of roughly 1,000 pro-Palestinian protesters marched through downtown Chicago, chanting “Shut down the DNC.”US President Joe Biden is due to speak on Monday and Harris on Thursday.Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel delegates say they deserve a bigger role in the writing of the party platform.The group wants to include language backing the enforcement of laws that ban giving military aid to individuals or security forces that commit gross violations of human rights.“We’re going to make our voices heard,” said Liano Sharon, a Jewish business consultant and delegate who signed an alternative platform along with 34 other delegates. “Freedom of expression necessarily includes the right to stand up and be heard even when the authority in the room says to shut up.”“They want the convention to go smoothly. They don’t want to have any kind of disruption or any kind of statement or anything like that,” he told Reuters at an event hosted by Chicago’s large Palestinian population. “I’m sorry. A convention is a political engagement vehicle, okay? And if we’re not using it for that, then it’s just a beauty pageant.”The Harris campaign declined to comment.Biden seeks a ceasefire-The party’s draft platform released in mid-July calls for “an immediate and lasting ceasefire” in the war and the release of remaining hostages taken to Gaza during the October 7 attack on Israel by Islamist Hamas terrorists in which some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were murdered and 251 were taken hostage. It is believed that 111 of those hostages remain held in Gaza, of whom 39 are confirmed dead.The platform does not mention the more than 40,000 people that the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says have been killed in Israel’s subsequent offensive. The toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 17,000 combatants in battle in Gaza, and another 1,000 terrorists inside Israel on October 7.The platform does not mention any plans to curtail US arms shipments to Israel either.The United States approved $20 billion in additional arms sales to Israel on Tuesday.Mediators including the US have sought to broker a truce between Israel and Hamas, which rules Gaza, based on a plan Biden put forward in May, but so far have not succeeded.The Israel-Hamas war, now in its 11th month, reduced support for Democrats among Muslim and Arab-American voters, who represent crucial votes in election battleground states like Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania.While the activists make up a tiny fraction of convention delegates, disruptions inside the hall and large protests outside could mar the party’s plan to unify Democrats around Harris after Biden dropped out of the race on July 21 under pressure from fellow Democrats.‘I will not be silent,’ Harris saysPro-Palestinian activists say Harris has been more sympathetic to Gazans than Biden has been. Still, her national security adviser said on X this month that she does not support an arms embargo on Israel.After meeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month, Harris told reporters that Israel had a right to defend itself but also, in reference to Gaza: “We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering and I will not be silent.”Some 40,000 protesters are expected to gather outside the convention on Monday to demonstrate against the Biden administration’s position on Israel. Organizers say the number could swell to over 100,000.Nadia Ahmad, a law professor at Florida’s Barry University and a delegate, said there were about 60 Muslim delegates, a fraction of the 5,000 overall. But their concerns were shared by others, especially young voters, some of whom have disengaged with the party, she said.The Uncommitted National Movement, a separate effort pushing Democrats to change policy on Israel that won over 30 delegates in primary elections, also wants an arms embargo.It has focused, unsuccessfully so far, on winning a main-stage speaking slot for a Palestinian American or Gaza humanitarian worker, although organizers agreed on Saturday to add a daytime panel discussion on Arab and Palestinian issues to Monday’s agenda and one on antisemitism. Jewish Americans, traditionally Democratic voters, have voiced concern about rising anti-Jewish activity and Muslims have denounced rising American Islamophobia.Layla Elabed, the Uncommitted National co-chair, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, a Muslim ally of Biden’s, and a doctor who has worked on the Gaza frontlines will be among speakers on the first panel, sources said.Uncommitted, which said it is not planning to disrupt the convention proceedings, is pressing Harris to make a statement about the use of US weapons to kill Palestinians.
WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
The King of Jerusalem[1] was the supreme ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Crusader state founded by Christian princes in 1099 when the First Crusade took the city.Godfrey of Bouillon, the first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, himself refused the title of king, and instead chose the title "Defender of the Holy Sepulchre". Thus, the title of king was only introduced for his successor, King Baldwin I in 1100. The city of Jerusalem was lost in 1187, but the Kingdom of Jerusalem survived (also known as the "Second Kingdom of Jerusalem"), moving its capital to Acre in 1191. The city of Jerusalem was re-captured in the Sixth Crusade, during 1229–39 and 1241–44. The Kingdom of Jerusalem was finally dissolved with the fall of Acre and the end of the Crusades in the Holy Land in 1291.After the Crusader States ceased to exist, the title of King of Jerusalem was claimed by a number of European noble houses descended from the kings of Cyprus or the kings of Naples. The (purely ceremonial) title of King of Jerusalem is currently used by Felipe VI of Spain. It was claimed by Otto von Habsburg as Habsburg pretender, and by the kings of Italy until 1946.
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week:(7 YEARS) and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
GENESIS 25:20-26
20 And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22 And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went
to enquire of the LORD.
23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) 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.
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, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
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)
MATTHEW 24:37-42 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)(50% OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE)
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
DR SAMUEL DOCTORIANS VISION - SECOND ANGEL: MIDDLE EAST
Then I saw that the second angel had a sickle in his hand, such as is used in harvesting.The second angel said: "Harvest time has come in Israel and the countries all the way to Iran."I saw those countries in a few split seconds."All of Turkey and those [inaudible] countries that have refused me and refused my message of love shall hate each other and kill one another."I saw the angel raise the sickle and come down on all the Middle East countries. I saw Iran, Persia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, all of Georgia - Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, all of Asia Minor - full of blood. I saw blood all over these countries. And I saw fire; Nuclear weapons used in many of those countries. Smoke rising from everywhere. Sudden destruction – men destroying one another. I heard these words:"Israel, Oh Israel, the great judgment has come." The angel said, "The chosen, the church, the remnant, shall be purified. The Spirit of God shall prepare the children of God."I saw fires rising to heaven.The angel said: "This is the final judgment. My church shall be purified, protected and ready for the final day. Men will die from thirst. Water shall be scarce all over the Middle East. Rivers shall dry up, and men will fight for water in those countries."The angel showed me that the United Nations shall be broken in pieces because of the crisis in the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.
DANIEL CHAPTER 9:24-27 EXPLAINED.
24 Seventy weeks (70X7=490 YEARS) are determined upon thy people (ISRAEL) and upon thy holy city,(JERUSALEM) to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.(JESUS ANNOINTED WITH HOLY OIL AS KING OF JERUSALEM FOREVER).
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, (7X7=49 YEARS) and threescore and two weeks:(62X7=434 YEARS) the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.(490-49-434=7 YR PERIOD WERE GOD DEALS WITH ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM (NOT THE CHURCH-THE TRUE CHURCH IS IS IN HEAVEN WITH JESUS FOR THAT LAST 7 YEAR PERIOD.)(DANIEL 9:26-27 IS IN THE FUTURE WHEN GOD DEALS ON EARTH WITH ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM FOR THAT FINAL 7 TEAR PERIOD. WHEN ALL OF ISRAEL WILL BE SAVED BY MESSIAH JESUS.)(AT THE END OF IT)
26 And after threescore and two weeks (69X7=483 YEARS)(ONE 7 YEAR PERIOD UNTIL PROPHECY IS FULFILLED) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince (ROMANS) that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(2ND TEMPLE AND JERUSALEM) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(NOW THE FINAL ISRAEL-JERUSALEM COUNTDOWN FOR MESSIAH JESUS RETURN THE LAST 7 YEARS)
27 And he (HE WHO? HE HERE IS THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE LEADER THAT MAKES THE FINAL 7 YR CONTRACT WITH ISRAEL AND MANY MUSLIM COUNTRIES FOR A 7 YR PERIOD, AND THE EU WILL GUARENTEE ISRAELS SECURITY FOR THIS LAST PERIOD) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: (7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week (3 1/2 YEARS IN) he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, (THIS FALSE MESSIAH OR ROMAN LEADER STOPS THE ANIMAL SACRIFICES IN THE 3RD TEMPLE AT THE MIDPOINT OF THE 7 YR DEAL. A JEW MURDERS HIM WITH A SWORD WOUND AND HE HAS A FALSE RESSURECTION-SATAN INCARNATES IN HIS BODY. AND BRINGS HIM BACK TO LIFE.AND HE THEN SITS IN THE 3RD TEMPLE CALLING HIMSELF GOD AS THE WORLD SAYS HES JESUS REINCARNATED. AND BY THIS FALSE RESURRECTION GOD SENDS THIS STRONG DELUTION ON THE EARTH THAT ALL THE LOST WILL WORSHIP THIS ROMAN LEADER AS GOD AND ACCEPT HIS NAME, NUMBER OR NUMBER OF HIS NAME IN THEIR MICROCHIP IMPLANT. THAT THEY MIGHT BE DOOMED, DAMNED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE FOREVER. WHO WORSHIPS THIS ROMAN LEADER AS GOD.) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.(WARS NON STOP DURING THE LAST 3 1/2 YEARS OF THE 7 YEAR PERIOD. HAMAS DEATH CULT HOSTAGE RELEASE.
Interview
‘This is a religious war’: Likud MK calls for Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount-While repeatedly challenging Netanyahu on a range of issues, lawmaker Amit Halevi insists the PM is a ‘hero’ whose coalition deserves support despite internal disagreements-By Sam Sokol-Today, 4:49 pm-AUG 19,24
Last week, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir stood on the Temple Mount and, for the third time in as many months, declared the end to the longstanding status quo governing the contentious Jerusalem holy site.As Orthodox Jews prostrated themselves and prayed loudly, the chief of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party challenged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s authority, declaring that the government’s “policy is to allow prayer.”He was immediately rebuffed by Netanyahu, who reasserted his support for restrictions on Jewish worship at the site where the two Jewish Temples once stood and which is now the home of the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa Mosque.However, not everybody in Netanyahu’s party agreed with the premier, with several Likud lawmakers voicing support for Ben Gvir’s position — among them MK Amit Halevi, who was one of more than 1,600 Jewish Israelis to visit the Temple Mount during last week’s Tisha B’Av fast commemorating the destruction of the two Temples.In a statement, the national-religious Halevi told reporters that he had ascended the Mount to pray “for victory in the war.”“This is a war for the Mount, for God, against an enemy that in the name of religion fills the world with murderousness, barbarism and evil in the face of the Israeli culture and its call from the Temple Mount for justice, truth, morality and mercy,” he said.Interviewed recently by The Times of Israel in his Knesset office, Halevi — who has previously proposed dividing the holy site between Muslims and Jews — highlighted the centrality of the Temple Mount to the current conflict against Hamas in Gaza.“I think prayer on the Temple Mount is very important because this is the real war here,” he argued, insisting that Israel was battling “radical Muslims” and “real infidels” who are operating according to “the religious vision of the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood or the Shia ayatollah regime.”The Temple Mount represents “world peace, justice, truth, morality [and] this is the real answer,” Halevi continued, clarifying that he had not coordinated his trip with Ben Gvir and pushing back against arguments that Jewish visits are a provocation.“We are in a Jewish sovereign state. And if a Knesset member or a minister goes to the holiest place of the Jewish people, the Temple Mount, it’s unacceptable from my point of view that somebody will say: ‘Hey, that will cause the non-Jewish to kill you, the Muslims to kill you.’ That’s ridiculous,” Halevi said.“I don’t know if it’s a very central issue in Likud, but I hope more and more people understand that this is the war for Al Aqsa, as they call it themselves,” he continued, noting that Hamas termed its invasion and massacre in southern Israel 10 months ago “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.”“So they understand that this is a religious war. If we hide this dimension, we are only causing it to increase more and more. And we need to say, Okay, this is a religious war,” he said.-Failing to achieve Israel’s objectives-Halevi has also disagreed with Netanyahu on a variety of other issues, especially on how the war in Gaza is being waged and on the conditions necessary for Israel to sign a ceasefire-hostage release deal with Hamas.Last Thursday, he was one of 10 Likud MKs who signed a letter to the prime minister making a number of demands, including that Israeli retain control over the so-called Philadelphi Corridor along Gaza’s border with Egypt. (Netanyahu has repeatedly insisted on this in recent weeks.)-In a previous missive weeks earlier, Halevi and other ruling party lawmakers stated that they would refuse to back the deal under discussion without significant changes. He also told the Knesset Channel that “the IDF has barely made any strategic achievement in the Gaza Strip.”In an earlier telephone interview explaining his support for the letter, Halevi had asserted that Israel needs to establish full control over Gaza in order to prevent Hamas’s return to power and said that he would “not be part of a coalition that takes our soldiers out of Philadelphi.”Continuing in this vein during the Knesset interview, Halevi argued that in order to defeat “a terror state” whose residents have undergone nearly two decades of “extreme indoctrination,” it is necessary to “hold the infrastructure,” especially relating to education and religion, in order to implement some sort of “de-radicalization” plan.In addition, Israel needs to take control over “the energy, the gas… electricity and the food, the aid, and the education, the basic, the fundamental issues,” Halevi said. “Otherwise, you have thousands of new soldiers in the Hamas army,” because “Hamas is a product of the population.”Accusing Israel’s senior military leadership of failing to understand the enemy and accepting “many problematic concepts,” Halevi argued that the army has failed to properly manage the operation in Gaza and implement the government’s goals.He also had harsh words for Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, the IDF’s military advocate general, who has recently come under attack from right-wing politicians over her decision to arrest reservists accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian terror suspect at the Sde Teiman detention facility.According to Halevi, Tomer-Yerushalmi “revealed a lack of legal and military judgment and also a lack of national and political judgment in her decisions.”Masked military policemen arresting the soldiers “in broad daylight” caused Israel a significant image problem, he complained.“We woke up in the morning and we saw it in not only the Arab newspapers, but also in English newspapers all over the world that IDF soldiers are rapists,” he said — adding that wartime is “not a regular time. You can hurt your international status” and troops’ morale by taking such public action.Disagreement but not revolt-As to how much fault lays with Netanyahu and the political echelon, Halevi said that while “of course, the government has a responsibility,” the way in which the IDF is fighting must be changed “from its roots.”Recent months have seen several other Likud lawmakers publicly disagree with Netanyahu on a variety of issues and even buck him on important coalition legislation.In June, Moshe Saada and Tally Gotliv scuttled a Shas-backed religious services bill, while Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Yuli Edelstein has refused to push government-backed measures extending reservists’ terms of service and regulating ultra-Orthodox enlistment through his committee without achieving what he calls a “broad consensus.”Their activities do not appear to be part of a larger revolt against Netanyahu’s authority, however. Asked if he believes the prime minister is losing control of his coalition, Halevi responded by saying that “Bibi is a hero” for standing firm in the face of pressure from both the Biden administration and his own security chiefs.Members of the coalition “understand that we need a victory, and all the other issues besides the war are less important, and we cannot break the coalition for them,” he said.
Blinken: 'It is time for everyone to get to yes' After three-hour Blinken meeting, Netanyahu says Israel backs new US hostage proposal-Prime minister also agrees to send top negotiators to Cairo summit this week, as top American diplomat leads push for deal-By Lazar Berman-Today, 5:16 pm-AUG 19,24
After a three-hour meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Jerusalem on Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put out a statement publicly backing the latest US “bridging proposal” that was presented to Israel and conveyed to Hamas at the end of talks in Doha last week.“The Prime Minister reiterated Israel’s commitment to the current American proposal on the release of our hostages, which takes into account Israel’s security needs, which he strongly insists on,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement issued in Hebrew and English.The statement marked the first time Netanyahu publicly endorsed the latest US formula.On Saturday, Israel had cautiously welcomed the new US proposal. The PMO put out a statement at the time saying the proposal “contains components that are acceptable to Israel.”Hamas rejected the US formula on Sunday night. In its statement, Hamas charged that Netanyahu “sets new conditions and demands” to thwart the talks and prolong the war in Gaza.The terror group further claimed that the latest US-backed text was aligned with Israel’s demands.The proposal, designed by the US to enable the finalizing of a hostages-for-ceasefire deal by the end of this week, seeks to solve disagreements over the continued deployment of Israeli forces along the Gaza-Egypt border and in the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza, among other sticking points.Channel 12 news reported on Monday evening that the US proposal provides for “some kind” of ongoing Israeli presence on the Philadelphi Corridor on the border with Egypt. However, it added, Israel’s negotiators have told Netanyahu that this is not acceptable to Hamas and that there will be no deal if he insists upon it. On Saturday, several Hebrew media outlets, including Channel 12, had reported that the bridging proposal does not provide for an Israeli presence on the Philadelphi Corridor, or for a mechanism in central Gaza to prevent the return of armed Hamas forces to the Strip’s north, as also demanded by Netanyahu.According to the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar on Monday, Israel agreed to gradually reduce the number of soldiers deployed on the Philadelphi Corridor, while in return Cairo agreed not to set a timetable for the troops’ complete withdrawal.Egyptian officials still insisted that a full withdrawal be conducted as soon as possible, according to a source familiar with the talks quoted by Al-Akhbar. Egypt further asked the US negotiators to speed up the delivery of the equipment designated to secure the border route, and pledged to “work to ensure that there are no tunnels operating under it” through which weaponry could be smuggled into Gaza.In addition to demanding an ongoing IDF presence along the Egypt-Gaza border and a mechanism to prevent Hamas fighters from moving north inside the Strip, Netanyahu has also insisted that Israel retain the right to resume the battle against Hamas in order to achieve both of the war’s declared aims — the release of all hostages and the destruction of Hamas.It is not clear how the US “bridging proposal,” which has not been published, seeks to resolve these issues.Netanyahu told Blinken in their meeting — which his office described as “positive” — that he would send his top negotiators to a summit in Cairo later this week, an Israeli official told The Times of Israel.The team will be led by Mossad chief David Barnea, Shin Bet director Ronen Bar, and IDF hostage point man Nitzan Alon.Earlier Monday, ahead of his meeting with Blinken, President Isaac Herzog put the blame squarely on Hamas for the failure to reach a hostage deal.“People have to understand it starts with a refusal of Hamas to move forward,” said Herzog, adding that “we are simply still very hopeful that we can move forward in the negotiations that are held by the mediators.”Blinken called it “a decisive moment, probably the best, maybe the last opportunity to get the hostages home, to get a ceasefire, and to put everyone on a better path to enduring peace and security.”However, the secretary did not place the blame on Hamas: “It’s time for it to get done. It’s also time to make sure that no one takes any steps that could derail this process. So we’re looking to make sure that there is no escalation, that there are no provocations, that there are no actions that in any way could move us away from getting this deal over the line, or for that matter, escalating the conflict to other places and to greater intensity.”“It is time for everyone to get to yes and to not look for any excuses to say no,” stressed Blinken, in what was widely seen as an oblique message to Netanyahu.Blinken was set to meet Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in Tel Aviv later Monday, before heading to Egypt.Gianluca Pacchiani contributed to this report.
Gallant reportedly sees potential all-out war if talks fail-Hamas rejects US hostage-ceasefire proposal as PM said to warn chance for deal ‘not high’Reports say Israeli negotiators warn there’ll be no deal if Netanyahu insists on keeping IDF on Philadelphi Corridor; he retorts there’ll be no deal unless Hamas accepts demand-By Lazar Berman-and ToI Staff 19 August 2024, 1:42 am
The Hamas terror group published an official statement on Sunday evening in which it rejected the terms for a hostage release-ceasefire deal which were discussed in Doha on Thursday and Friday, and blamed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for putting up new obstacles in the talks.Netanyahu, for his part, reportedly told cabinet ministers earlier on Sunday that he was pessimistic about the chances for a deal, especially given that Israel had been effectively negotiating with mediating countries rather than with Hamas, which refused to send a delegation to the latest round of talks.“The chances are not high,” the Kan public broadcaster quoted Netanyahu as telling ministers.Netanyahu’s pessimism, coupled with Hamas’s rejection of the terms discussed in Doha, appeared to contradict reports from mediators that the negotiations were making progress, with a potential successful end in sight.Netanyahu is to host visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday. Blinken is then set to fly to Cairo, where talks on a deal are ongoing.The US has indicated that it aims to hold a second summit later this week and hopes to get deal finalized by the end of the week.Among the main sticking points in the negotiations is Netanyahu’s demand that the IDF remain deployed on the Philadelphi Corridor, which runs along the Gaza-Egypt border, to prevent Hamas from smuggling weapons into Gaza and reconstituting its military. This demand was not specified in Israel’s May 27 hostage deal proposal which has served as the basis for the subsequent talks, and is rejected by Hamas.Israel’s negotiators were reported to have told the prime minister on Sunday that without a compromise on the issue there would be no deal, and urged flexibility. The prime minister reportedly countered that so long as Hamas insisted on a full IDF withdrawal from the Philadelphi Corridor, there would indeed be no deal.In its statement on Sunday evening, Hamas charged that Netanyahu “sets new conditions and demands” to thwart the talks and prolong the war in Gaza.The terror group further claimed that the latest US-backed text — a “bridging proposal” that was conveyed to Israel and to Hamas at the end of the talks in Doha on Friday — was aligned with Israel’s demands. It cited stipulations that it said were contained in the proposal relating to the Philadelphi Corridor, the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, and the Netzarim Corridor which the IDF has established separating northern and southern Gaza. (A Hamas source was quoted in Saudi media earlier Sunday setting out some of these ostensible pro-Israel clauses.)-Hamas also claimed Netanyahu had introduced new demands relating to the release of Palestinian security prisoners.“We hold Netanyahu fully responsible for thwarting the mediators’ efforts and obstructing an agreement,” Hamas said, and consequently for the lives of the hostages. It said it stood by its own proposal for a deal, presented on July 2.Bitter arguments reported between Netanyahu and his negotiators-Netanyahu’s pessimistic outlook on the deal at Sunday’s cabinet meeting followed a contentious meeting earlier in the day with the Israeli negotiating team — led by Mossad’s David Barnea, Shin Bet’s Ronen Bar and the IDF’s Nitzan Alon — ahead of negotiators’ departure for follow-up talks in Cairo.The team reportedly warned Netanyahu that his insistence on ongoing Israeli control of the Philadelphi Corridor was dooming the negotiations.But a Channel 12 report said the prime minister refused to budge even after they told him flatly that it was “either Philadelphi or a deal.”In fact, the report said, Netanyahu retorted that there would indeed be no deal unless Hamas relinquished its demand for a full Israeli withdrawal from the Corridor.The negotiators told Netanyahu that they had managed to bring US mediators closer to Israel’s positions and demands on most issues, including such crucial matters as how many living hostages would be released in the first phase of the deal and the mechanism regarding Palestinian security prisoners who would go free.But they reportedly told the prime minister that they were “certain” that the issue of an ongoing IDF presence on Philadelphi was a “deal-breaker.”They told Netanyahu that the US, Egyptian and Qatari mediators regarded Israel’s demand for an ongoing presence at the Gaza-Egypt border as an indication that the prime minister is not truly interested in a deal. As such, those countries were not prepared to press Hamas with full force to accept the proposal.Urging compromise, the negotiators reportedly stressed to the prime minister that there are “security solutions” that would allow an IDF withdrawal from the border. Netanyahu said in response that the issue was not only a security issue but also a strategic one, since a temporary withdrawal could become permanent. Israel, he reportedly said, needs to control all the border crossings, and access to the Gaza Strip from all directions, as a matter of strategic importance.Netanyahu said he was prepared to discuss how the troops would be deployed, but not to compromise on the fundamental imperative for them to be present.He also reportedly accused the team of being too ready to compromise during their contacts with mediators.“You are carrying out negotiations. You can’t fold after two days,” Netanyahu was said to chastise them.In response, the negotiators were quoted as having said: “We have not been negotiating for two days. We have been negotiating for months. The Philadelphi Corridor is not a [critical] security issue [for the period while the deal is being implemented]. We will return there if we need to.”Reopening the Rafah Crossing-Israel’s security chiefs have for weeks been reported as telling Netanyahu in a series of meetings that it would be possible to withdraw from the Philadelphi Corridor during the initial six-week phase of the potential deal without Hamas significantly rearming itself, and having offered various alternative options for solving the issue.According to Channel 12 on Sunday, the options range from maintaining an IDF presence all along the 14-kilometer border route, withdrawing with the right to return if needed, and withdrawing but with ongoing coordination with the Egyptians.Various “technological” solutions have also been proposed, and reportedly discussed with the mediators, to prevent Hamas from being able to smuggle weaponry under the border.In addition to the premier’s insistence that the IDF not withdraw from Philadelphi, Israel is demanding that there be an international presence at the Rafah Border Crossing separating Gaza and Egypt, Channel 12 also said.The report stated that this was because while Hamas used tunnels beneath the border to smuggle in weaponry, “the vast majority” of its arms were brought into Gaza at the crossing itself.Channel 12 quoted Arab media reports claiming that in the US “bridging proposal” conveyed to Israel and Hamas on Friday, it is stated that the Palestinian Authority would run the Rafah Crossing, with remote Israeli oversight.Amid numerous Hebrew media reports on the content of his discussions with the security chiefs, Netanyahu blasted “serial leakers” both for divulging ostensible material from the consultations and for criticism of his prosecution of the war and handling of the negotiations on a deal.“They claimed in recent months that Hamas would never agree to give up on [its demand for] the end of the war as an [up-front] condition of the deal, and recommended giving in to Hamas’s demand,” Netanyahu’s office said of the unspecified leakers in a statement. Eventually, the statement asserted, Hamas did relinquish that demand. The critics “were wrong then — they are wrong today.”The statement also charged that the leaks were undermining Israel’s negotiating positions and reiterated that keeping Israeli troops on the Philadelphi Corridor was non-negotiable. It said Netanyahu would “continue to work to promote a deal that will maximize the number of living hostages [to be freed] and enable attaining all the war’s goals.”At odds with Gallant-Defense Minister Yoav Gallant was reported Sunday to have appealed to Netanyahu twice in recent days to hold deliberations over the deal in a wider cabinet forum.At present, the consultations are generally held in a small forum that comprises Netanyahu, Gallant, Minister Ron Dermer and MK Aryeh Deri, and key security chiefs and negotiators.It was not clear from a Channel 12 report whether Gallant was recommending that the security cabinet be convened or the full, unwieldy, 37-member cabinet. Ordinarily, convening the full cabinet would only be required to approve a finalized deal. But, Gallant has reportedly told Netanyahu, it is inappropriate for the discussions over the deal to be held in the current small forum because of the vast potential implications of advancing or rejecting an agreement, which he reportedly has said go beyond even the issue of the return of the hostages, and extend to the potential for a descent into a regional war.The report cited Gallant, who has made publicly clear that he regards a hostage-ceasefire deal as urgently needed, as saying that Israel is at a “strategic crossroads” and that if there is no deal, there is a growing risk of military escalation, ultimately leading to a potentially unstoppable war involving Hezbollah and Iran.The defense minister has reportedly made the request of Netanyahu twice — on Thursday and again today, in the presence of Barnea, Bar and Alon. Netanyahu has not agreed to it thus far, the report said.Hostilities have threatened to boil over into all-out regional war in recent weeks, after more than 10 months of fighting with Hamas in Gaza and cross-border skirmishes with Hezbollah in the north, following the late July killings of two Iran-backed terrorist leaders, Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah’s military chief Fuad Shukr.Iran has indicated that it is holding off on striking Israel to avenge the killing of Haniyeh in Tehran — an attack that Israel has not claimed — while the hostage-ceasefire talks are ongoing but will launch a direct attack if the negotiations fail or it perceives Jerusalem is dragging out the talks. The United States has repeatedly warned Iran against any escalation.The war in Gaza broke out on October 7 when thousands of Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel, slaughtering some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping 251. It is believed that 111 hostages remain in Gaza, including the bodies of 39 confirmed dead by the IDF. Hamas is also holding two Israeli civilians who entered the Strip in 2014 and 2015, as well as the bodies of two IDF soldiers who were killed in 2014.The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 40,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 17,000 combatants in battle, and another 1,000 terrorists inside Israel on October 7. Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 332.
As Blinken arrives in Israel, Netanyahu vows to stick to demands on hostage talks-Pressure must be applied to Hamas in order to reach an agreement, says PM, appearing to lower expectations as talks continue in Cairo with US expressing optimism-By Lazar Berman-Today, 6:39 pm-AUG 19,24
Shortly before the top US diplomat arrived in Israel Sunday to press for a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed that he was sticking to his demands, urging more pressure on an inflexible Hamas, potentially attempting to lower expectations as Washington has expressed optimism.“I want to emphasize,” Netanyahu said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting, “we are conducting negotiations [“give-and-take” in Hebrew], and not give-and-give. There are areas where we can show flexibility, and there are areas where we can’t show flexibility — and we are standing firm on them. We know quite well how to distinguish between the two.”US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived on Sunday evening for his ninth trip to the Middle East since the Gaza war broke out with the Hamas attack on October 7. He is set to meet Israeli leaders, including Netanyahu, as the White House indicates that a deal is ready to be closed.Mid-level Israeli negotiators held talks in Cairo on Sunday after two days of discussions in Qatar sparked some optimism among the mediating countries. Working groups remain in Doha.“We are closer than we have ever been,” US President Joe Biden told reporters at the White House on Friday.“Alongside the great efforts we are making to return our abduct-He claimed that the principles are “consistent with the May 27 outline, which received American support,” though he has been widely reported to have since made demands that aren’t featured in that proposal.On May 31, Biden publicly presented Israel’s proposal, which had been shared with the White House four days earlier.The framework for the deal included three stages, with the first six-week period seeing a pause in Israeli ground operations and withdrawal of troops in exchange for the release of 33 hostages in the categories of women, children, elderly and wounded, alongside Israel freeing 990 Palestinian prisoners.Hamas — as well as some analysts and Israeli protesters — have accused Netanyahu of hamstringing a deal to safeguard his ruling coalition, whose hard-right flank wants the war to continue until Hamas is destroyed.However, speaking with reporters about the talks in Doha last week, a US official said the Israeli team dispatched to Qatar was now “clearly empowered,” in an apparent nod to Netanyahu, who has been accused of not giving his negotiators enough leeway to secure a deal.In his remarks Sunday, Netanyahu insisted that it is Hamas that is refusing to close a deal: “It did not even send a representative to the talks in Doha. The pressure should be directed at Hamas and [its leader Yahya] Sinwar, not at the Israeli government.”“Strong military pressure, and strong diplomatic pressure, is the way to achieve the release of our hostages,” said Netanyahu, in a message likely aimed at Washington.One of the outstanding issues is the future of the Philadelphi Corridor between Gaza and Egypt. Despite the matter not being mentioned in the May 27 proposal, Netanyahu has demanded an ongoing Israeli presence along the border in order to prevent Hamas from smuggling weapons into Gaza and reconstituting its military.However, Israeli and other sources have said that Israel’s security chiefs believe withdrawing from the Gaza border for the six weeks of the deal’s first phase would not enable Hamas to rearm significantly, and that certain unspecified procedures along the border could compensate for an Israeli withdrawal from the border area. Channel 13 news, citing Egyptian sources, said Israel and Egypt were working on an arrangement as regards the Philadelphi Corridor and the Rafah Border Crossing.Disagreements between Israel, Hamas and Egypt over the future of the Philadelphi Corridor are “solvable,” unnamed senior Israeli officials told Kan news on Sunday. There are ongoing discussions in Cairo on the matter, and a solution is possible based on an American proposal, the officials said.The US has been working on a “bridging proposal” designed to enable the finalizing of a hostages-for-ceasefire deal in the coming week. But it does not provide for an ongoing Israeli presence along the Gaza-Egypt border or for a mechanism in central Gaza to prevent the return of armed Hamas forces to the Strip’s north, Hebrew media reported Saturday, citing unnamed officials familiar with the talks.Meanwhile, the Saudi-owned Asharq news outlet gave a somewhat different account of the American proposal, citing a Hamas source.In the proposal, the IDF would maintain a reduced presence at the Philadelphi Corridor, but would not withdraw, said Asharq. The Palestinian Authority would return to manage the Rafah Border Crossing under unspecified “Israeli supervision.”The report also said that Israel would be able to monitor the displaced people returning to their homes in northern Gaza and crossing the Netzarim Corridor, which currently bisects the Strip east to west and is controlled by the IDF. No details were given on how the monitoring would be conducted.According to the outlet, in the proposal, a large number of the Palestinian security prisoners freed in exchange for the release of Israeli hostages would be deported abroad; Israel would have the right to veto at least 100 names of Palestinian prisoners whose release Hamas demands; and Israel would not be expected to withdraw fully from the Strip, as demanded in a July 2 Hamas proposal.The Hamas source said that a permanent truce would only be discussed in the second phase of the ceasefire, and if Hamas does not agree to the Israeli conditions, the IDF would be allowed to resume military operations inside the Strip.Negotiations on Gaza’s reconstruction and on the lifting of the blockade would also be discussed in the second phase, based on the outcome of the first one.The stakes around a hostage deal and ceasefire have risen further since the late July killings in quick succession of two Iran-backed terrorist leaders, Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah’s military chief Fuad Shukr, and as the humanitarian crisis in the besieged Gaza Strip has deepened with a feared polio outbreak.Iran has indicated that it is holding off on striking Israel while the hostage-ceasefire talks are ongoing, but will launch a direct attack if the negotiations fail or it perceives Jerusalem is dragging out negotiations.The war broke out on October 7 when Hamas terrorists infiltrated Israel, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping 251. It is believed that 111 of those hostages remain in Gaza, including the bodies of 39 confirmed dead by the IDF.Hamas released 105 civilians during a weeklong truce in late November, and four hostages were released before that. Seven hostages have been rescued by troops alive, and the bodies of 24 hostages have also been recovered, including three mistakenly killed by the military as they tried to escape their captors.Hamas is also holding two Israeli civilians who entered the Strip in 2014 and 2015, as well as the bodies of two IDF soldiers who were killed in 2014.The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry claims more than 40,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 17,000 combatants in battle, and another 1,000 terrorists inside Israel on October 7. Israel says it seeks to minimize civilian casualties and notes that Hamas fights from homes, hospitals, mosques and schools.Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 332.Gianluca Pacchiani contributed to this report.
Abbas said to ask Israel to allow Gaza visit as PA works to line up support for trip-Official request to Tzachi Hanegbi indicates Palestinian leader wants to enter Strip via Israeli crossing and not through Egypt, Walla reports; Netanyahu thought to have final sayBy Gianluca Pacchiani and ToI Staff Today, 7:37 pm-AUG 19,24
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has reportedly asked Israel to grant him access to the Gaza Strip, seemingly looking to make good on a promise made last week to visit the beleaguered enclave.The PA president said in a speech to Turkey’s parliament on Thursday that he would travel to Gaza, even if it meant risking his life, for the first time since the Fatah faction he controls was violently ousted from the enclave by its Hamas rivals in 2007.On Sunday, Palestine Liberation Organization Secretary-General Hussein al-Sheikh formally asked Israel to permit Abbas to visit Gaza, using one of Israel’s crossings into the enclave and not via Rafah in Egypt, the Walla news site reported Monday.The request was made in a letter sent to National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi from al-Sheikh, who also serves as the PA’s liaison to Israel, according to Walla. A copy was sent to Washington as well, the site reported.A Palestinian source familiar with Abbas’s plans to travel to Gaza told The Times of Israel Monday that Abbas had appealed to the US and other members of the international community to help shore up the excursion.The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the PA was expecting to have to line up both Israel’s okay and international support to arrange the trip into the territory, which is ruled by the Hamas terror group and has been devastated by over 10 months of war sparked by the October 7 massacre.“Hamas’s approval is also important,” the source added. Fatah, which controls the PA in the West Bank, has been locked in a bitter rivalry with Hamas for decades, though the factions recently started a fresh round of rapprochement talks after years of halting progress on reaching a detente.As part of a campaign to garner support for Abbas’s trip, the PA has made contact with the UN and the permanent members of the UN Security Council, with Arab and Muslim countries, with members of the European Union and the African Union, and other countries, the Palestinian Ma’an news outlet reported this week.No date has been announced for the planned visit.The source familiar with the arrangements said the trip would not take place before the conclusion of indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas on a truce-hostage deal, currently the subject of intense diplomatic activity in Qatar and Egypt.The war in Gaza was sparked by Hamas’s brutal assault on Israel on October 7, in which some 1,200 people were killed inside Israel and 251 were taken hostage in Gaza, over a hundred of whom remain abducted. Israel tightened a blockade on the Strip and invaded in response, with the goal of toppling Hamas and freeing the hostages. Jerusalem is in midst of negotiating a deal with US, Egyptian and Qatari mediation that could halt the war and see hostages released.There was no comment on the request from the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who would have final say on whether to grant Abbas entry, according to Walla.Even should Abbas seek to enter Gaza from Egypt via the Rafah crossing, some level of coordination with Israel would be required, with the Israel Defense Forces controlling the Gaza side of the terminal.An Abbas trip to Gaza following a truce deal would constitute a powerful signal of the PA’s readiness to re-assume administrative control of the enclave in place of Hamas. The idea of having a reformed PA manage the Strip after the war has been championed by the international community, but largely rejected by Netanyahu, who alleges that the PA is insufficiently distant from Hamas or terror.Hamas and its allies also say they reject the Strip being administered by the PA or any other Western-backed entity, and would likely see a visit by Abbas as a challenge to what remains of the group’s control of the Strip.In 2018, PA prime minister Rami Hamdallah was targeted by a car bomb in a failed assassination attempt while visiting the Strip, underlining the dangers for such a visit by Abbas even if fighting has stopped.According to Walla, Israeli officials believe the PA expects the request for an entry permit to be turned down, allowing Abbas to collect political points for appearing willing to travel to Gaza while opening Jerusalem up to more global criticism for blocking him.In October, Abbas told US President Joe Biden’s administration that he would not return to Gaza “on top of an Israeli tank” and would only agree to retake control of Gaza as part of a larger statehood arrangement, according to a Palestinian official at the time.Reuters contributed to this report.
Hezbollah tunnel clip offers glimpse into an underground far more advanced than Gaza’s-Yearslong project of ‘massive proportions’ lets missile-laden trucks travel deep in Lebanon, has more strategic value than Hamas’s underground footpaths, say Israeli observers-By ToI Staff Today, 7:22 pm-AUG 19,24
The tunnel Hezbollah showed in a propaganda video last week gave a glimpse of a yearslong “tunneling project of massive proportions” that is more expansive, sophisticated and threatening than Hamas’s underground network in Gaza, according to Israeli analysis.The footage showed Hezbollah’s tunnel to be large enough for storing missiles and transporting them on trucks, Channel 12 reported. Though Hamas has some tunnels large enough for middle-sized vehicles, Gaza’s underground tunnel network serves mainly as a tactical footway for the terror group’s fighters, not as a strategic throughway for weapons.While it was unclear where Hezbollah’s tunnel was located, or how many there are like it, Channel 12 Arab affairs analyst Ohad Hemo opined, that it was probably “deep inside Lebanon.”Former military intelligence chief, Maj. Gen. (res.) Tamir Hayman, said that each of the 160 Shiite villages in south Lebanon was likely equipped with an underground combat position.Hayman, who directs the Institute for National Security Studies, said that although Hezbollah considers its tunnels to be secure, “Israel has intelligence capabilities and a capability for underground detections, developed in recent years, which is considered to be the most advanced tactically in the world.”Amid fears of war in Lebanon, Hezbollah on Friday published a highly edited video showing an underground missile facility called Imad 4. The footage showed missile-laden trucks driving around the facility, as well as launching positions for projectiles. An official from the Iran-backed terror group said the missiles in the video have a range of about 140 kilometers (86 miles), capable of reaching deep inside Israel.— Leb Now (@leb_now) August 16, 2024-According to Hemo, the tunnel was reminiscent of tunnels, replete with missiles and drones, that are known to exist in Iran. Those tunnels are apparently meant to give the Islamic Republic underground positions to fire at Israel in wartime, Hemo said.He said that like Hamas, Hezbollah had also built tunnels where its top officials could take shelter. However, he added, Hezbollah’s combat doctrine is not as dependent on underground tunnels as Hamas’s.Hezbollah has also tunneled directly into Israel, but those tactical tunnels were exposed and destroyed by the IDF in the January 2019 Operation Northern Shield, according to Tal Beeri, an expert on underground warfare.Beeri said in an interview with The Times of Israel in January that Hezbollah’s tunnel network was cumulatively several hundreds of kilometers long.In a research paper, Beeri assessed the route of a 45-kilometer (28-mile) long “attack tunnel” in southern Lebanon. He told The Times of Israel that North Korea, which has cooperated with Hezbollah on tunneling for some four decades, was also involved in the group’s latest tunneling efforts.Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the Lebanese border on a near-daily basis since October 8, a day after the war in Gaza was sparked by Hamas’s thousands-strong rampage through southern Israel that killed nearly 1,200 people and saw 251 kidnapped.Hezbollah says its attacks are meant to support Gaza amid the war there.The terror group has threatened all-out war against Israel in response to the July 30 killing of Fuad Shukr, Hezbollah’s military leader, in an airstrike on its south Beirut stronghold. The airstrike came three days after a Hezbollah rocket killed 12 children in the Golan Heights.Hours after Shukr’s killing, an explosion in Tehran killed Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh. Iran has threatened to exact “harsh punishment” on Israel, which has neither confirmed nor denied being behind the blast.Emanuel Fabian contributed to this report.
