ARABS GET OUTTA LEBANON NOW YOUR OCCUPYING ISRAEL LAND.

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)

 ARABS GET OUTTA LEBANON NOW YOUR OCCUPYING ISRAEL LAND.
 

WARN THE PEOPLE-WW3

EZEKIEL 33:1-6
1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2  Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:
3  If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
4  Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
5  He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.
6  But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.

DANIEL 11:40-45 (WW3 BREAKDOWN)
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

ISAIAH 24:1
1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste,(NUKES USED) and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(ARAB/MUSLIM) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man;(RIOTS-BURNING-MURDEROUUS RAGE) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM WANTS WORLD DOMINATION) and every man's hand against him;(DEFENDING THEMSELVES) and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(ARAB/MUSLIMS LIVE WITH ISRAELIS)

ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF THEIR MOON GOD ALLAH)

ISAIAH 14:12-23
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, (SATAN) son of the morning! (HEBREW MEANS CRESCENT MOON ANGEL-ISLAM OVIOUSLY)(SATAN IS THE GOD OF ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

Ecclesiastes 9:10
10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.

EZEKIEL 31:10-17
10 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.
12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:
14To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.(HELL).
15Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
17They also went down into hell with him unto [them that be] slain with the sword; and [they that were] his arm, [that] dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
18To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with [them that be] slain by the sword. This [is] Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

EZEKIEL 32:17-32
17 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, [even] her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.
20 They shall fall in the midst of [them that are] slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.
21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
22 Asshur [is] there and all her company: his graves [are] about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:
23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.
24 There [is] Elam (IRAN) and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves [are] round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of [them that be] slain.
26 There [is] Meshech, Tubal,(RUSSIA) (GERMANY, TURKEY) and all her multitude: her graves [are] round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.
27And they shall not lie with the mighty [that are] fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though [they were] the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
28 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with [them that are] slain with the sword.
29 There [is] Edom,(JORDAN) her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by [them that were] slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.
30 There [be] the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with [them that be] slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.
31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, [even] Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with [them that are] slain with the sword, [even] Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

EZEKIEL 38:1-23
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I (GOD) will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say,(RUSSIA-ARAB-MUSLIMS) I will go up to the land of unwalled villages;(ISRAEL) I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil,(OIL IS IN SPOIL) and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
13  Sheba, and Dedan,(SAUDI-ARABIA) and the merchants of Tarshish,(SPAIN) with all the young lions thereof,(ENGLAND,AND ALL ITS ASSOCIATES-CANADA,AUSTRALIA-NEW ZEALAND, USA, AND WESTERN ENGLISH SPEAKING NATIONS) shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?(OIL IS IN SPOIL-I BELIEVE THATS WHY RUSSIA,ARAB/MUSLIMS MARCH TO ISRAEL)
14  Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
15  And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16  And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.

EZEKIEL 39:11-22
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18  Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19  And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20  Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21  And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
22  So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.

REVELATION 19:17-18
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;(AGAINST ALL NATIONS ARMIES THAT COME AGAINST JERUSALEM AND ISRAEL)
18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.

PROOF HALF ON EARTH DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD (8 BILLION ON EARTH)

REVELATION 6:7-8 (8 BILLION- 2 BILLION = 6 BILLION)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 BILLION) to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).

REVELATION 9:15,18 (6 BILLION - 2 BILLION = 4 BILLION)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,
18 By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS)

HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)

LUKE 17:34-37 (8 TOTAL BILLION - 4 BILLION DEAD IN TRIB = 4 BILLION TO JESUS KINGDOM) (HALF DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS)(GOD DOES NOT LIE)(AND NOTICE MOST DIE IN WAR AND DISEASES-NOT COMETS-ASTEROIDS-QUAKES OR TSUNAMIS)
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.(half earths population 4 billion die in the 7 yr trib)
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES.BECAUSE NOT HALF OF PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.AND THE CONTEXT IN LUKE 17 IS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION OR 7 YR TREATY PERIOD.WHICH IS JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH.NOT 50% RAPTURED TO HEAVEN.

MATTHEW 24:37-42 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)(50% OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE)
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.(ON EARTH)
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.(ON EARTH)
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)

EZEKIEL 32:18-29 (NOTICE ALL THE COUNTRIES LAND PROMISED ISRAEL BY GOD ARE IN THE JORDAN VALLEY BURIED)
18 “Son of man, wail for the multitudes of Egypt, and consign her and the daughters of the mighty nations to the depths of the earth with those who descend to the Pit:
19 Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be placed with the uncircumcised! (IN HELL FIRES)
20 They will fall among those slain by the sword. The sword is appointed! Let them drag her away along with all her multitudes.
21 Mighty chiefs will speak from the midst of Sheol about Egypt and her allies: ‘They have come down and lie with the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword.’
22 Assyria (SYRIA) is there with her whole company; her graves are all around her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword.
23 Her graves are set in the depths of the Pit, and her company is all around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword—those who once spread terror in the land of the living.
24 Elam (IRAN) is there with all her multitudes around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword—those who went down uncircumcised to the earth below, who once spread their terror in the land of the living. They bear their disgrace with those who descend to the Pit.
25 Among the slain they prepare a resting place for Elam with all her hordes, with her graves all around her. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword, although their terror was once spread in the land of the living. They bear their disgrace with those who descend to the Pit. They are placed among the slain.
26 Meshech and Tubal (RUSSIA) are there with all their multitudes, with their graves all around them. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword, because they spread their terror in the land of the living.
27 They do not lie down with the fallen warriors of old, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were placed under their heads, whose shields rested on their bones, although the terror of the mighty was once in the land of the living.
28 But you too will be shattered and lie down among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword.
29 Edom (JORDAN) is there, and all her kings and princes, who despite their might are laid among those slain by the sword. They lie down with the uncircumcised, with those who descend to the Pit.THIS IS RIGHT FROM 93:

SECOND ANGEL: MIDDLE EAST
Then I saw that the second angel had a sickle in his hand, such as is used in harvesting.The second angel said: "Harvest time has come in Israel and the countries all the way to Iran."I saw those countries in a few split seconds."All of Turkey and those [inaudible] countries that have refused me and refused my message of love shall hate each other and kill one another."I saw the angel raise the sickle and come down on all the Middle East countries. I saw Iran, Persia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, all of Georgia - Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, all of Asia Minor - full of blood. I saw blood all over these countries. And I saw fire; Nuclear weapons used in many of those countries. Smoke rising from everywhere. Sudden destruction – men destroying one another. I heard these words:"Israel, Oh Israel, the great judgment has come." The angel said, "The chosen, the church, the remnant, shall be purified. The Spirit of God shall prepare the children of God."I saw fires rising to heaven.The angel said: "This is the final judgment. My church shall be purified, protected and ready for the final day. Men will die from thirst. Water shall be scarce all over the Middle East. Rivers shall dry up, and men will fight for water in those countries."The angel showed me that the United Nations shall be broken in pieces because of the crisis in the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.

PSALMS 83:1-8 (GODS LAND PROMISED TO ISRAEL)
1 O God, do not remain silent;do not turn a deaf ear,do not stand aloof, O God.
2 See how your enemies growl,  how your foes rear their heads.
3 With cunning they (ARAB,MUSLIMS) conspire against your people;they plot against those you cherish.(ISRAELIS)
4 “Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.”
5 With one mind they plot together;(TREATIES) they form an alliance against you—
6 the tents of Edom (JORDAN)  and the Ishmaelites, (EGYPTIAN ARABS SO CALLED PALESTIANS) of Moab (JORDAN) and the Hagrites,(EGYPT)
7 Byblos,(HEZBOLLOH) Ammon (JORDAN) and Amalek,(SYRIAN ARABS IN THE SINAI) Philistia,(ARABS) with the people of Tyre (LEBANON).
8 Even Assyria (SYRIA) has joined them to reinforce Lot’s descendants.

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

1 OF 3 GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO
1-PROMISCUOUS SEX AMOUNG EACH OTHER.
ROMANS 1:24
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: (THE 60S FREE SEX)
2 OF 3 GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO
2-SODOMITES - MEN LUSTING MEN, AND WOMEN LUSTING AFTER WOMEN.
ROMANS 1:26-27
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
3 OF 3 GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO
3-A DEPRAVED MIND-ANY SIN GOES.
ROMANS 1:28-31
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO THESE 3 DEPRAVED ABOMINATION SINS?
OH OH NOAHS DAY. WHAT HAPPENED IN NOAHS DAY. THE WHOLE WORLD WAS JUDGED BY WATER.
GENESIS 6:7,17
7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
GENESIS 7:4
4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
GENESIS 8:16
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
WELL THE SODOMITES PICKED THE RIGHT SIGN OF A RAINBOW FOR JUDGEMENT. THE SODOMITES TRYED TO STEAL GODS SIGN THAT THE WHOLE EARTH WILL NEVER DIE FROM FLOOD WATERS AGAIN. BUT THE JUDGEMENT THIS TIME IS GOING TO BE BY FIRE.NOT WATER.
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

EZIKIEL 38:12-13
13 Sheba, and Dedan,(SAUDIA ARABIA) and the merchants of Tarshish,(ENGLAND) with all the young lions thereof,(USA,CANADA,AUSTRALIA,NEW ZEALAND,EU,ENGLAND,ENGLISH SPEAKING shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil? (AGAINST ISRAEL)
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, (RUSSIA AND HER MUSLIMS HORDES)Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?

ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST

1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

GENESIS 12:1-3
1  Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2  And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3  And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE.(ALL THESE ARAB, MUSLIMS ARE OCCUPYING ISRAELS LAND. GET OFF IMMEDIATELY. BECAUSE YOUR DEATH CULT DAYS ARE NUMBERED)

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.

THESE ARAB, MUSLIM HYPOCRITES ARE ALL OCCUPYING ISRAELS LAND. THE SUCK HOLE LIBERAL WHORE MEDIA ALL STICK UP FOR THE ARAB, MUSLIM DEATH CULT. BUT WHEN ISRAEL GIVES THE ARAB MUSLIMS THEIR WISH TO DIE FOR THEIR MOON GOD SATAN.THE FOOLISH DEATH CULTIST CRY GENICIDE AGAINST ISRAEL. THE LIBERALS AND ISLAM WHORE TOGETHER. THE LIBERALS WORSHIP ABORTION. THE MURDER OF THEIR OWN CHILDREN. WHILE ISLAM MURDERS ANYONE IN THE NAME OF THEIR (ALLAH AK-BAR) MOON GOD SATAN. NOW WE CAN SEE THE WHORDOM BETWEEN ISLAM AND LIBERALISM. AND BOTH DEATH CULTS WORSHIP DEATH. THESE 2 CULTS ARE A BUNCH OF HYPOCRITES. ONE DEATH CULT MURDERS THEIR OWN CHILDREN. WHILE THE 2ND DEATH CULT MURDERS ANY BODY IN THE NAME OF THEIR MOON GOD SATAN. AND FOR ALL THE ARAB,MUSLIMS OCCUPYING ISAELS LAND IN LEBANON, JORDAN, EGYPT, WESTBANK , SYRIA, GAZA.IRAN AND SAUDIA ARABIA, TURKEY. QUIT OCCUPYING ISRAELS LAND YOU FOOLS DECIEVED BY SATAN TO DIE FOR THE CAUSE OF A FAKE MOON GOD THAT DOES NOT EVEN EXIST ONLY IN THEIR PEA BRAINS. ALL THESE DEATH CULTS ARAB,MUSLIM HYPOCRITES. ARE ALL OCCUPING ISRAELS PROMISE LANDS. GET OFF ISRAELS LAND YOU BURN IN THE LAKE OF FIRE DEATH CULTS. ISLAM WANTS TO DIE FOR THEIR MOON GOD SATAN. BUT WHEN ISRAEL DOES KILL THE DEATH CULT OFF. GIVING THEM THEIR DEATH FOR SEX WITH 72 VIRGINS BABIES IN PARADISE FOREVER. THEY CRY ONCE AGAIN-ISRAEL IS GENOCIDING US CANCEROUS TUMOURS. ISLAM SAYS WE GOTTA TAKE AFTER OUR PEDOPHILE LEADER MOHAMMID. SEE HOW THE LIBERALS AND ISLAM BOTH ARE LEAD BY SATANS LIES AND MURDER. AND GET OFF ISRAELS LAND YOU OCCUPYING DEATH CULTISTS. LEAD BY SATAN. GET READY TO BURN IN HELL YOU HYPOCRTICAL SEX FOR MURDER DEATH CULTISTS. OH I AM MAD-ISRAEL ITS BIRD MIGRATION TIME. THE 500 MILLION ARE IN ISRAEL RIGHT NOW. ISN'T IT TIME TO LET THEM FEAST ON ISLAM AFTER YOURS NUKES DO THEM IN.

sraeli envoy: We're 'not eager' for ground op in Lebanon-At UN, world leaders warn against ‘full-scale war’ between Israel and Hezbollah-Biden says ‘diplomatic solution still possible,’ ahead of Security Council session on Lebanon set for Wednesday; Macron urges Iran’s president to use his influence on Hezbollah-By AFP and ToI Staff Today, 4:18 am-SEP 25,24

World leaders lined up at the United Nations on Tuesday to call on Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah to refrain from a full-scale war, with the UN chief warning the situation was on the “brink.”The UN General Assembly, the high point of the international diplomatic calendar, comes after Lebanese authorities said Israeli strikes targeting Hezbollah had killed 558 people — 50 of them children, without differentiating between civilians and combatants.“Full-scale war is not in anyone’s interest. Even though the situation has escalated, a diplomatic solution is still possible,” US President Joe Biden said in his farewell address to the global body.“In fact, it remains the only path to lasting security to allow the residents from both countries to return to their homes on the border safely,” Biden said ahead of an emergency UN Security Council session on Lebanon planned for Wednesday.Biden’s remarks drew disappointment from Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib who said they were “not promising” and “would not solve the Lebanese problem,” as he estimated that the number of people displaced by Israel’s strikes has likely soared to reach half a million.“We should all be alarmed by the escalation. Lebanon is at the brink,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said when he opened the gathering.Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said his country was “not eager” for a ground invasion of Lebanon.“We don’t want to send our boys to fight in a foreign country,” he said.‘End this war’It is unclear what progress can be made to defuse the situation in Lebanon, from where Hezbollah has been attacking northern Israeli communities and military posts for nearly a year, with efforts to broker a ceasefire in the Gaza war between Israel and Hamas coming to nothing.Biden on Tuesday pushed again for an elusive ceasefire-hostage deal between Israel and Hamas, telling the global body it was time to “end this war.”Mediator Qatar charged that Israel was obstructing Gaza ceasefire talks, with Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani saying “there is no Israeli partner for peace” under the government of Benjamin Netanyahu.But he added: “We will continue our efforts of mediation to resolve the disputes through peaceful means.”Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel of dragging the entire region “into war.”“Not only children but also the UN system is dying in Gaza,” Erdogan said in a scathing speech.Guterres cautioned against “the possibility of transforming Lebanon (into) another Gaza,” calling the situation in the Palestinian territory a “non-stop nightmare.”European Council President Charles Michel said that Israel had the right to exist and defend itself but without inflicting “collective punishment” on civilians living in areas targeted by its military.President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran — which backs Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza — condemned “senseless and incomprehensible” inaction by the UN against Israel.Pezeshkian later met with French President Emmanuel Macron, whose office said he called on his Iranian counterpart to use his influence to reduce the soaring tensions in Lebanon.Macron “highlighted the responsibility of Iran to support a general deescalation and use its influence with destabilizing actors,” said an Elysee statement on the meeting, in a clear reference to Iranian-backed Hezbollah.‘Charade of hypocrisy’British Foreign Minister David Lammy also sounded the alarm over the escalating violence in Lebanon.“I am very worried about the risk of escalation, and this breaking into a wider regional conflict,” he told AFP as Britain announced it was deploying military units to Cyprus to assist with any evacuation of its citizens from Lebanon.Responding to criticism of Israel, Danon called the General Assembly debate an “annual charade of hypocrisy.”Since last year’s annual gathering, when Sudan’s civil war and Russia’s Ukraine invasion dominated, the world has faced an explosion of crises.Hamas’s October 7 attack, in which Palestinian terrorists killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages, triggered the ongoing war in Gaza, while violence has raged across multiple other fronts in the Middle East since that crisis erupted, with the conflict exposing deep divisions at the UN.Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas took his seat alongside the Palestinian delegation, placed in alphabetical order in the General Assembly for the first time on Tuesday after the delegation received upgraded privileges in May.At the rostrum, Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Tuesday ruled out any forced displacement by Israel of Palestinians to his country, which he said would be a “war crime.”Ukraine was also on the agenda Tuesday with President Volodymyr Zelensky addressing a UN Security Council meeting on the Russian invasion.“Russia can only be forced into peace, and that is exactly what’s needed — forcing Russia into peace,” Zelensky said.    

Israeli officials pan UN chief’s remarks on Gaza, Lebanon at General Assembly-Guterres accuses Israel of ‘collective punishment’ in Gaza, warns Lebanon on ‘brink’; Israel’s UN envoy blasts UNGA ‘hypocrisy’ for only responding when Gaza mentioned-By Lazar Berman-and Jacob Magid-24 September 2024, 11:59 pm

UN Secretary-General António Guterres drew ire from Israeli officials on Tuesday after he accused the Jewish state of “collective punishment” of the Palestinians in Gaza, and warned of similar destruction in Lebanon during his opening speech at the UN General Assembly.At the start of the annual event at UN headquarters in New York, Guterres said that “nothing can justify the abhorrent acts of terror committed by Hamas on October 7 or the taking of hostages, both of which I have repeatedly condemned.”“And nothing can justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people,” he continued, this time to applause.Guterres said that the “speed and scale of the destruction and killing in Gaza are unlike anything in my years as secretary-general.” He also noted that over 200 UN staff have been killed in the war.He stressed that the UN still provides services in Gaza, and said to the assembled officials: “I know you join me in paying a special tribute to UNRWA,” referring to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.Israel has accused UNRWA employees of participating in the October 7 Hamas-led massacre in southern Israel – during which 1,200 were killed and 251 taken hostage.Israel’s military response to destroy Hamas in Gaza and free the hostages has stretched for 11 months, with recent ceasefire talks failing to reach a breakthrough, while violent clashes with Hezbollah intensified over the few days as Israel began a sustained offensive against Hezbollah’s missile capabilities.Guterres said that the international community “must mobilize for an immediate ceasefire, the immediate and unconditional release of hostages, and the beginning of an irreversible process toward a two-state solution.”“What is the alternative? How can the world accept one state in which a large number of Palestinians will be included without any freedom, any rights, or dignity?” he asked.Guterres also expressed alarm over the recent escalation between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis in solidarity with Hamas.“Gaza is a nonstop nightmare that threatens to take the entire region with it,” he said. “Look no further than Lebanon. We should all be alarmed by the escalation. Lebanon is at the brink. The people of Lebanon, the people of Israel, and the people of the world cannot afford Lebanon to become another Gaza.”In response, UN Ambassador Danny Danon blasted the assembly’s reaction to Guterres’s speech. “When the UN secretary-general speaks about the release of our hostages, the UN assembly remains silent,” he said, “but when he speaks about the suffering in Gaza he receives wild applause. This is the opening signal for the annual show of hypocrisy.”Mr. Secretary General @antonioguterres, the nightmare you speak of, is in fact reality. The reality is that Hezbollah has taken Lebanon hostage, and the UN is neither acknowledging their actions, nor fulfilling its fundamental obligation – preventing Hezbollah attacks and… https://t.co/wbQ8XrXK3W— יואב גלנט – Yoav Gallant (@yoavgallant) September 24, 2024-Criticizing Guterres’s position on Lebanon, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said in a statement on X that Hezbollah has taken “Lebanon hostage.”“The UN is neither acknowledging their actions nor fulfilling its fundamental obligation – preventing Hezbollah attacks and demanding the implementation of resolution 1701,” he said of the resolution that ended the 2006 Second Lebanon War and requires Hezbollah to disarm and withdraw north of the Litani River.“UN Secretary-General Guterres, if Hezbollah continues to act against Israel, Lebanon will look exactly like Gaza,” Energy Minister Eli Cohen said in a post on X. “The real nightmare, which you have already forgotten, occurred on October 7, when thousands of Hamas terrorists invaded Israel and murdered women and children and kidnapped civilians.”Cohen noted that Hezbollah had decided to join Hamas’s attack on Israel, and accused Guterres of encouraging terrorism. He vowed that Israel would continue to operate against both groups to prevent another massacre.The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 41,000 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 348.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

The school ‘routine’ up north: Sirens, unshielded classrooms, bus rides under fire-Amid escalating flare-up, parents in bombarded communities say their children are paying the price of war, and struggle to come up with solutions-By Tani Goldstein Today, 1:04 am-SEP 24,24

Noam Yonash, a sixth grader from the community of Ben Ami in the western Galilee, goes to school in Kibbutz Kabri, seven kilometers from the border with Lebanon. Even prior to the current escalation of fighting in the north, sirens were going off around Kabri every week.The school’s classrooms aren’t reinforced, the protected areas aren’t big enough for all the students, and are a 30-second run away from his classroom anyway, while the advance warning time ahead of rocket fall is zero.“When sirens go off, they lie on the floor with their hands over their heads and hope for the best,” says Noam’s mother Shiri Yonash. “It’s really scary. How can you concentrate on school that way? How can we sleep at night, knowing that come morning, we’ll send him there? How can the education ministry and home front allow schools to operate under such conditions?”Many of the homes in the area are likewise not protected and people who live there lie on the floor when sirens go off. Asked how they differ from students in school, Shiri insists, “This is outrageous too. But my home has a reinforced room, and we don’t lie on the floor when sirens go off. Ben Ami is two kilometers south of Kabri. Why should my son go to school someplace more dangerous than his home?”Ben Ami and Kabri, both adjacent to the city of Nahariya, are among the so-called “second line” communities bordering Lebanon that are now under constant rocket fire from Hezbollah.They were not evacuated during the war and the continual barrages by the Hezbollah terror group have utterly obstructed their day-to-day lives.‘My home has a reinforced room, and we don’t lie on the floor when sirens go off. Why should my son go to school some place more dangerous than his home?’The Kabri elementary school is attended by kibbutz members and residents of Ben Ami and the nearby Netiv HaShayara, as well as students from “first line” communities that have been evacuated but who still live in the area (mostly in Nahariya).Yonash is heading a group of parents from Ben Ami and Netiv HaShayara who demand that their children be transferred south of Kabri, or to a protected institution. The Mateh Asher Regional Council is building additional shielded areas at the Kabri school and its chair, Moshe Davidovitch, promises these will be ready in about two months.But in the meantime, he is trying to comply with the parents’ demand that their children be transferred.After struggling for about six months, parents from Ben Ami and Netiv HaShayara believed that Davidovitch had come up with a solution: The Kabri school would be split, so that students whose parents demanded it could study in a building allocated to them in Kibbutz Shomrat near Acre. Parents who opposed the move, as well as children of Kabri and evacuees, would remain at the Kabri school.“Shomrat has only had seven siren alarms thus far,” Yonash said earlier in the month. “There’s a 30-second advance warning there, and every classroom has a shielded room next to it that you can run for. We were overjoyed when we visited there and witnessed this solution.”The council conducted a poll among parents in both communities and found that approximately 80 percent of them wish to transfer their children to Shomrat. Parents who work in Kabri and those who have children with special needs asked that they remain there. The transfer was set to take place soon, and meanwhile, some of the children didn’t start the school year at Kabri but stayed home.However, on September 12, the education ministry announced that it would not approve the transfer. This was because the 73 students whose parents had asked for the transfer did not meet the ministry’s minimal number of 90 students required to open a new school (15 students per school year class).“Since Thursday, I’ve been on the phone with broken-hearted parents,” says Yonash.‘How can you overrule the decision to transfer students under such circumstances, under such pretext? This amounts to extreme negligence’“I found a memo by the education ministry’s director general by which the minimum stood at 66, namely an average of 11 students per school year class. But even if I’m wrong on this, how can you overrule the decision to transfer students under such circumstances, under such pretext? This amounts to extreme negligence.”Some parents claim that the education ministry’s director of the northern district, Orna Simhon, ruled out the transfer due to what they described as “unprofessional considerations.” The school principals, they claim, aren’t interested in a move that would necessitate hiring more employees and believe that Simhon is backing them.In its reaction, the education ministry insists this was a “joint decision made by the local authority and the education ministry, partly because of a poll that had found that such a transfer was unfeasible due to an insufficient number of students who were interested to do so.”The ministry further emphasizes that attending the school in Kabri is “in full compliance with the home front instructions,” adding that “the local authority is planning to build two additional reinforced areas in the coming weeks for the benefit of the students.”“Regrettably, there were not enough parents who had asked to transfer their children to Shomrat,” Davidovitch says, but remains ambivalent. “I supported the parents’ demand, but the education ministry’s opposition is not unreasonable.”‘We’re like a frog that is being cooked and is already used to it’Yonash, an engineer by training, her spouse, who is self-employed in the field of construction, and their children, all left their community when the war broke out. They spent about a month and a half in Haifa and Kibbutz Beit Oren and then returned.“A lot of families left the community when the war started [last October], but almost all of them returned. The sense of belonging and the force of habit are stronger, and the situation during the previous school year was reasonable,” she notes.“During the summer, things deteriorated. We sometimes think about picking up and leaving. When they talked about a major onslaught, we packed our bags and planned to flee to our relatives down south. But our work is here, our older children are in high school, and their friends are here. If things really get worse – we’ll flee. In the meantime, we’re like a frog that is being cooked and is already used to it,” she says.They saw the fire through the bus windowMany of the “second line” communities are facing the opposite situation than the one the Yonash family is facing. Before the war broke out, some high school students in the area had been attending an unprotected high school in Kibbutz Gesher HaZiv, north of Nahariya, and were transferred during the previous school year to a high school in Kiryat Motzkin.Some students and their parents – primarily residents of Gesher HaZiv – are frustrated by the current situation and demand to return to the school in the kibbutz.Inbal Bernstein, the owner of a small business and a single mother from Gesher HaZiv, has two children who attend the high school that was evacuated to Kiryat Motzkin. When the war broke out, she fled with her children to her parents in Acre, where she subsequently rented an apartment. But since Gesher HaZiv had not been evacuated, she was not eligible for assistance. Two weeks ago, they returned to the kibbutz.“I could not afford to pay the rent anymore,” she says. Bernstein is part of a group of parents who are demanding that their children be brought back to Gesher HaZiv.‘The ride from Gesher HaZiv to the Krayot takes an hour and a half each way, on a crowded bus, and is a mortal danger’“The ride from Gesher HaZiv to the Krayot takes an hour and a half each way, on a crowded bus, and is a mortal danger. Sirens have already gone off during the ride and the driver would not pull over, saying it was unsafe. He was probably right. It was scary and unpleasant. More than 100 youths are standing at the bus stop and there are two mobile shelters there, each one able to fit 20 people at a time. The bus is sometimes 30 minutes late and they are waiting there in the meantime.”An official at the Mateh Asher Regional Council notes that the bus stops have recently been upgraded, mobile shelters have been added, and buses have been arriving more frequently so that students would not have to wait as much.“Last week, when there was a fire on Route 89, they saw and smelled it from the bus window,” Bernstein recounts. “Sometimes, in between classes or during shorter days, they have to wait two-three hours in Kiryat Motzkin before the bus comes. My children want to do their homework but to no avail. They come back exhausted from school – when the alternative is a five-minute walk with their friends.“Even the matriculation exams they will have to take in Kiryat Motzkin. At the very least, let them take the bagrut exams nearby! Not to mention extracurricular activities in the afternoon, to which I can’t drive them, so I’ll just have to end them. My son is in the chess league and won’t be able to continue playing.”It should be noted that her kibbutz is the most northern among the communities that have not been evacuated. The school is only five kilometers away from the border and is not properly protected.But this does not deter Bernstein, who has a solution.“Near the school are vacant afternoon childcare facilities which can be repurposed. We live here, the kibbutz hasn’t been evacuated. My home has a reinforced room, but the advance warning time is zero, so we don’t make it in time anyway. Some homes in the kibbutz have no reinforced rooms at all. So, I prefer that the children remain here under the same conditions during school than spend three hours a day on the bus, which is much scarier and more dangerous.”That the afternoon childcare facilities are too small for all the students to fit in does not deter Bernstein either. “They can split into groups and study on alternate days, to fit in everybody,” she says.But implementing this would not be easy. It’s unclear whether parents of students living south of Gesher HaZiv would agree to such a thing; whether the schools could in fact be divided without harming the students’ social ties; and whether there would be enough teachers.“The whole area is under attack,” she insists. “There isn’t much of a difference between Gesher HaZiv and other places – and, yes, you can divide. Social life in school mainly involves being crammed inside a bus. We can do without it in the meantime.”Concerning the bagrut exams, the education ministry responds, “Given the security situation, the ministry is currently considering further alleviations for students of the north in the upcoming January 2025 bagrut exams.”‘True, the ride is worrisome, but I’d rather them go to Motzkin and back, and be safe in school, than to spend all day long at Gesher HaZiv’Yonash’s two older children go to high school in Kiryat Motzkin, but she sees things differently than Bernstein: “True, the ride is worrisome, but I’d rather them go to Motzkin and back, and be safe in school, than to spend all day long at Gesher HaZiv.”The buses can’t be reinforced but authorities are striving to provide them with optimal aerial protection.Having learned from the army that buses in the north weren’t being protected from the air, Davidovitch says he “gave them all the student bus routes and they provided maximal aerial protection of the routes during the rides.”Taking into account buses don’t always go on the scheduled time, he added: “We took a 30-minute margin of error. Is that totally safe? Absolutely not.”But students wait a long time at the bus stops and the mobile shelters can’t fit everyone. Davidovitch agrees, but says “there are no complete solutions. I reached out to Kiryat Motzkin mayor and made sure that he allocated two buses for the students who go there, for them not to ride together and stand at the bus stops together, but rather in separate groups.”Some parents in various communities are demanding that their children attend schools closer to their homes, while others prefer someplace farther and safer. Splitting the schools thus seems reasonable, but Davidovitch remains adamant.“I understand all parents, but some splits are possible while others aren’t. By fragmentizing schools, we will destroy the social fabric that the children need, especially during times like these,” he says.‘By fragmentizing schools, we will destroy the social fabric that the children need, especially during times like these’The parents’ conflicting demands lead to harsh arguments between them. Tali Oz Albo is a spokeswoman for the Mateh Asher Regional Council and herself a resident of the community of Shavei Tzion near Nahariya.“I received phone calls from alarmed parents from communities that had been evacuated, such as the one in Betzet, saying: ‘We heard there is a group of parents who spoke with a correspondent [of Zman Yisrael], telling him they want the children to transfer from Kiryat Motzkin to Gesher HaZiv.’ The idea infuriated the evacuee parents,” she recounts.“The evacuee parents rented apartments in Kiryat Motzkin for the sole purpose of being near the school. One of them was in tears and asked me: ‘Does someone really think I am going to let my child ride every day now, from here to Gesher HaZiv? Does that sound sane? For the past year, I’ve been moving with him from one hotel to another, and now we finally rented an apartment near the new school to give him a sense of stability!’“The parents are all right. Each one is experiencing hardship differently. They make conflicting demands because the reality we find ourselves in here — to which we have been abandoned – is simply surreal, unbearable, impossible, incomprehensible. We try to help everyone, but some problems just have no solutions.”Oz Albo herself has a daughter who goes to high school in Nahariya. Her class is on the third floor, while the shelter is underground and is too small for all the students to fit in anyway.“My daughter is experiencing the government’s failure to provide protection first-hand,” she says. “When sirens go off, they lie in the corridors with their hands over their heads. Last year, there was firing during the bagrut exam. Every time she goes out in the evening, logistics are required to move her between shielded areas.”The situation in the upper or eastern Galilee is similar to that in the western Galilee, perhaps more difficult due to more frequent firing from Lebanon. Also students from “second line” communities — in the areas of Mount Meron, Safed, the Naphtali mountains and the Hula Valley – all ride to school for hours, while others attend poorly protected schools.An unacceptable reality-Some students are unable to adjust to the reality that has been forced upon them. Parents and students we spoke with tell of children and youths who have become recluses in their homes, miss school for long periods of time and don’t engage with friends. Some sleep with their clothes on or shower wearing swimsuits.Most students adjust, but it isn’t easy on them either. Gilad Yarchi of Kabri attends the kibbutz high school, studying in a classroom with a collapsible gypsum ceiling and large windows. The nearest shielded area is a 30-second run away down the stairs, but no one runs. Additional protected areas are currently under construction at the school, but in the meantime, when sirens go off, the students lie on the floor.‘There are booming sounds during school, as well as during the bagrut practice exam’“There are booming sounds during school, as well as during the bagrut practice exam,” he recounts. “We saw fires through the windows. It’s difficult to concentrate this way. Sometimes, the Israel Defense Forces warn us not to leave our homes. Most days we do, but we remain alert. I keep track on my phone of warnings in other communities because let’s say a warning is issued for Kibbutz Matsuva, we then know we have to prepare ourselves. But I prefer going to school here, rather than riding someplace else.”His father Amir, who is CEO at Israel Friends of Technion, wishes for his children to stay near home, despite all the hardship. “The children are under unbelievable stress, and so are we,” he says.“Some parents wish that their children went to school elsewhere. I wouldn’t want them to go on long rides, because the bus isn’t reinforced and the roads are targeted, so it’s better for them to stay here, close to home, to their friends and familiar surroundings. The community has already suffered a blow when some evacuees moved far away, and some of them will never return.”‘We’ve been in this shit for 11 months with no end in sight’“We’ve been in this shit for 11 months with no end in sight,” he says while acknowledging other communities have it worse, specifically in the upper Galilee. Nor would he switch places with the evacuees. At the same time, he believes “some people stay here simply because they cannot afford, financially, to leave.”He remains sober and pragmatic, saying that “if we reach a situation of daily shooting, as was the case during the Second Lebanon War, or other extreme circumstances, we will use our savings to leave. We will not remain here at any cost and in every scenario.”

Netanyahu huddles with security chiefs after vowing to ‘continue to hit Hezbollah’Around 300 rockets fired at northern Israel, with drones reaching deepest targets so far; Gallant says IDF has ‘additional blows already prepared’ for Lebanese terror group-By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff 24 September 2024, 10:26 pm

As Israel carried out major waves of airstrikes against Hezbollah targets across Lebanon and rocket fire targeted communities deep in northern Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu huddled with security chiefs Tuesday evening to discuss the next stages of fighting.Netanyahu met with IDF chief Herzi Halevi as well as his military secretary, Roman Goffman, and his chief of staff, Tzachi Braverman, according to his office. He was reportedly slated to meet later in the night with a number of senior ministers and other security officials, including Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, Foreign Minister Israel Katz and Shas chief Aryeh Deri.The prime minister earlier in the day publicly urged the Lebanese people to reject Hezbollah, while Gallant warned that the terror group had yet to see the IDF’s full capabilities.Israel will “continue to hit Hezbollah,” Netanyahu said during a visit to an IDF intelligence base.Addressing the people of Lebanon, he stressed that “our war is not with you, our war is with Hezbollah.”“[Hezbollah leader Hassan] Nasrallah is leading you to the brink of the abyss,” he said. “I told you yesterday to evacuate the houses where he put a missile in the living room and a rocket in the garage. Those who have a missile in their living room and a rocket in their garage will not have a home.”Netanyahu added that Nasrallah is putting Lebanon in danger: “Free yourself from the grip of Hezbollah; free yourself from Nasrallah’s grip, for your own good.”The IDF said in the evening that close to 300 rockets had been fired at northern Israel during the day, repeatedly setting off sirens in Haifa and Safed and across many towns and communities in the Galilee and the Jezreel Valley. Many of the rockets were intercepted or fell in open areas. However, there were several impacts that damaged homes and property and at least two people were injured by shrapnel.A home in the town of Rosh Pina in the Upper Galilee suffered a direct hit from a Hezbollah rocket, but the family of four emerged physically unscathed after taking shelter in their reinforced room. The terror group also launched drones at the Mount Carmel region and the Israeli Navy’s Atlit base, the deepest drone attacks of the war so far.IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Hezbollah planned to launch even more rockets toward Israel on Tuesday, but was foiled by IDF strikes on the group’s infrastructure.“We are foiling, striking, and disrupting its attacks,” he said. “I won’t go into detail about the data on the Hezbollah capabilities [that the IDF has destroyed]. We have [this data], we are studying it. I will not detail it, to not endanger our intelligence and not to give the enemy clarity.”The IDF spokesman said that despite Israel’s accomplishments, “Hezbollah still has more capabilities of different kinds. Our job is to take care of each of them, but first of all, we are focusing on its strategic capabilities that pose a greater risk to the Israeli home front.”Israel carried out several waves of intensive airstrikes across Lebanon on Tuesday, including a targeted strike in Beirut that killed Hezbollah’s rocket and missile division chief Ibrahim Qubaisi and several other Hezbollah commanders.The IDF said it has hit more than 1,500 Hezbollah targets in some 200 different areas of Lebanon since Monday morning, mostly targeting homes where Hezbollah had stored munitions. Lebanese officials said at least 569 people were killed on Monday, and at least another six on Tuesday, without differentiating between civilians and combatants.Speaking to troops at a drill simulating a ground offensive in Lebanon, Gallant said Tuesday that the IDF has “additional blows already prepared” for Hezbollah.“Today’s Hezbollah is not the Hezbollah of a week ago. The sequence of blows it faced in its command and control, its operatives, its weapons, all these things are extremely severe blows,” he told troops of the 7th Armored Brigade and 202nd Paratroopers Battalion.“We have more blows ready, we know what to do,” he said. “Any Hezbollah force that encounters you will be destroyed, they are troubled by the experience you have gained in combat,” Gallant told the soldiers, who previously fought against Hamas in Gaza.Tuesday’s drill was the latest in a series carried out by the IDF for a potential ground offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon.Senior defense officials reportedly told security cabinet ministers on Monday that the IDF will not hesitate to use any means necessary to fulfill the government goal of enabling the safe return homes of tens of thousands of displaced residents of the north.The comments, reported by Channel 12 news on Tuesday, appeared to underline the assessment that Israel wants to avoid a full-scale war with Hezbollah, but has not ruled it out if there is no other means to restore calm to the border.According to the TV report, ministers were told by the security chiefs in their meeting on Monday: “The strategy [being followed by the IDF in Lebanon] is to change the balance of power in the north. The goal is twofold: to strengthen deterrence against Hezbollah and return the residents of the north safety to their homes, while deterring the entire Iranian axis and first of all Iran itself.”“We are continuing with the incremental strategy,” the security chiefs reportedly said. “Each time, we move up one stage and then another stage, and as the days go by, Hezbollah will increasingly internalize the IDF’s power.”Israel and Hezbollah have exchanged near daily cross-border fire since the start of the war in Gaza in October, but largely avoided escalating into an all-out war, despite more than 40 deaths in Israel and the killing of hundreds of Hezbollah operatives and dozens of civilians in Lebanon.The coordinated explosions last week of hundreds of Hezbollah communication devices — an operation widely attributed to Israel — which killed 39 people and wounded thousands marked a dramatic escalation in fighting, with the IDF on Friday also killing the group’s elite Radwan Force commander, Ibrahim Aqil, in an airstrike on Beirut.

Israel has been defeated in Gaza,' Iran president tells UN-Iran’s president tells UN Israel’s ‘terrorism in Lebanon cannot go unanswered’Hezbollah has reportedly asked Tehran to attack Israel as fighting intensifies, but regime unwilling to do so while Pezeshkian is in New York for General Assembly-By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid-24 September 2024, 10:06PM

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, in an address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, demanded a global response to Israel’s assault on the Hezbollah terror group.“Israel’s state terrorism in Lebanon cannot go unanswered,” Pezeshkian said. “Responsibility for all consequences will be borne by those governments who have thwarted all global efforts to end this horrific catastrophe.”Pezeeshlian also accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, where he said it had been defeated, and of backing terrorist groups such as ISIS.The Iranian president’s first address to the General Assembly came a day after he said that in a CNN interview that Hezbollah “cannot stand alone” against Israel and called on the international community to “not allow Lebanon to become another Gaza,” in response to a question on whether Iran would use its influence with Hezbollah to urge restraint.Shortly before Pezeshkian spoke at the UN General Assembly, a US media report said Hezbollah asked its Iranian patrons to attack Israel as the Israel Defense Forces increased pressure on the Lebanese terror group over the past week, but so far, Tehran has rebuffed the request.Two Israeli officials cited by the Axios news site said that the Iranians told Hezbollah that “the timing isn’t right” for it to intervene because Pezeshkian is in New York for the UNGA.Hezbollah asked the Iranians to attack as part of their response to the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran two months ago, according to the officials and an unnamed Western diplomat.Israel has neither confirmed nor denied involvement in the assassination of Haniyeh, who was killed in a guesthouse in Tehran hours after attending the swearing-in ceremony for the Pezeshkian. Nevertheless, Iran and Hamas have both blamed Jerusalem and vowed to retaliate.The sources said that the “Iranians expressed reservation about joining the fight against Israel now and didn’t give a positive response.”Furthermore, a senior Israeli security source told Axios that the Israel Defense Forces has received instructions from the security cabinet to avoid carrying out actions that would give Tehran a reason to join the fight.Tehran carried out an unprecedented missile and drone attack on Israel in April after several members of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were killed in an Iranian consular building in Damascus in a strike blamed on Israel.Iran provides financial and military backing to Hezbollah, the Houthis, Hamas, and a number of other terror groups in Iraq and Syria that have been attacking Israel on a regular basis since the Hamas-led October 7 onslaught started the war in Gaza.‘Israel has been defeated in Gaza’ In his UN General Assembly address, Pezeshkian lashed out at Israel over the Gaza war, saying “the world has witnessed the true nature of the Israeli regime” over the past year.“It has witnessed how the regime carries out atrocities in Gaza, and how in 11 months it has murdered in cold blood over 41,000 innocent people, mostly women and children,” Pezeshkian said, citing unverified Hamas figures that make no differentiation between civilians and combatants.“Its leaders label this genocide — the killing of children, war crimes and state terrorism — as legitimate self-defense. They label hospitals, kindergartens and schools as legitimate military targets. They label the freedom-loving and brave people around the world who protest against their genocide as antisemitic. They label oppressed people who have stood up against seven decades of occupation and humiliation as terrorists,” he went on.“It is Israel that has assassinated our scientists, diplomats and even guests on our soil,” the Iranian president said, apparently referring to Haniyeh, who was assassinated while visiting Tehran for Pezeshkian’s inauguration. Pezeshkian claimed, without proof that Israel “supported — both covertly and overtly — terrorist groups like ISIS.”“Israel has been defeated in Gaza, and no amount of barbaric violence can restore its myth of invincibility,” he further asserted.He called for a ceasefire in Gaza — without mentioning the hostages held by Hamas — and “an end to the desperate barbarism of Israel in Lebanon before it engulfs the region and the world.”Pezeshkian also sought to make the case for the Western world to shift its approach to the Islamic Republic, saying his country was “prepared to foster meaningful economic, social, political and security partnerships with global powers and its neighbors based on equal footing.”“The appropriate response to this message from Iran is not to impose more sanctions, but to fulfill existing obligations to remove sanctions benefiting the Iranian people, hence laying the foundations for more constructive agreements,” he said.He spoke positively about the 2015 nuclear agreement his country inked with the US and other world powers.“Iran agreed to the highest, unprecedented level of nuclear oversight in return for recognition of our rights and the lifting of sanctions,” he said, blasting former US president Donald Trump’s 2018 unilateral withdrawal from the agreement and implementation of major sanctions against Tehran.“The goal was to securitize Iran, which instead leads to insecurity for all the policies of the US,” Pezeshkian claimed.“We are ready to engage with JCPOA participants if JCPOA commitments are implemented fully and in good faith, dialogue on other issues can follow,” he adds, using the initials for the normal name of the 2015 nuclear agreement.Pezeshkian then addressed his remarks to the American people.“It is not Iran that has established military bases along your borders… imposed sanctions on your country, obstructed your trade relations with the world… prevents you from accessing medicine… restricted access to the global banking and financial system… targeted your military leaders. Rather, it is the United States that assassinated Iran’s most revered military commander at the Baghdad airport,” he said, referring to former Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps top commander Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated in 2020.AFP contributed to this report.

Iranian president says Hezbollah ‘cannot stand alone’ against Israel-In interview ahead of his UN General Assembly speech, Masoud Pezeshkian calls on international community not to allow Lebanon to ‘become another Gaza’By AFP and ToI Staff 24 September 2024, 6:37 pm

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tuesday that his country’s proxy Hezbollah “cannot stand alone” against Israel, as the terror group fired rockets at northern Israel towns and the IDF renewed airstrikes against targets in Lebanon.“Hezbollah cannot stand alone against a country that is being defended and supported and supplied by Western countries, by European countries and the United States,” Pezeshkian said in an interview with CNN translated from Persian to English.He called on the international community to “not allow Lebanon to become another Gaza,” in response to a question on whether Iran would use its influence with Hezbollah to urge restraint.The IDF said Tuesday that it had struck more than 1,600 Hezbollah sites over the previous day — mostly weapons stored within homes — marking its heaviest airstrikes against the terror group in its history.The Lebanon health ministry said Tuesday that nearly 600 people, including 35 children, were killed in the strikes across Lebanon. The figures do not distinguish between combatants and civilians.Hezbollah has fired hundreds of rockets deep into northern Israel over the past several days, wounding several. Fighting between Israel and the Lebanese terror group has been ongoing for the past 11 months — since Hezbollah started launching missiles at Israel on October 8, one day after the Hamas massacre in southern Israel — with violence spiking over the past few days since Israeli began a sustained offensive against Hezbollah’s missile capabilities.Iran called on the UN Security Council to “take immediate action” against the “insane” Israeli escalation.“Iran will NOT remain indifferent,” Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in a post on X late Monday. “We stand with the people of Lebanon and Palestine.”The Israeli strikes came less than a week after coordinated sabotage attacks, widely attributed to the Jewish state, targeted Hezbollah’s communication devices, killing 39 people and wounding almost 3,000 across Lebanon.Iranian media blamed Israel for the apparent slide toward full-fledged war.“The Zionist regime has pressed the all-out war button,” said the ultraconservative Javan newspaper, while its rival Kayhan asked: “Has the big war begun?”Government daily Iran warned “the region is on the verge of a massive explosion.” Reformist newspaper Etemad said “peace in Lebanon is hanging by a thread.”Pezeshkian, who is in New York for the annual UN General Assembly, accused Israel of warmongering.“We know better than anyone that if a larger war erupts in the Middle East, it will benefit no one globally,” Pezeshkian told journalists at a roundtable. “It is Israel that seeks to create this wider conflict.”He claimed Iran had “never started a war in the last 100 years” and was “not looking to cause insecurity.”But he insisted that Iran “will never allow a country to force us into something and threaten our security and territorial integrity.”In April, Iran launched its first ever direct attack on Israel, firing more than 300 missiles and drones at the country, most of which were downed by air defenses outside of Israeli airspace.Iran also provides financial and military backing to Hezbollah, the Houthis, Hamas and a number of other terror groups in Iraq and Syria that have been attacking Israel on a regular basis since the start of the war in Gaza.

Airlines put brakes on Tel Aviv and Beirut trips as Israel-Hezbollah tensions soar-British Airways, Lot, Azerbaijan and Wizz all cancel flights to Ben Gurion Tuesday, while several Middle Eastern airlines announce planes will avoid Lebanon for next two days-By ToI Staff and Agencies 24 September 2024, 5:33 pm

European airlines canceled flights to Tel Aviv and Mideast airlines temporarily suspended trips to Beirut on Tuesday, as tensions soared between Israel and Hezbollah amid some of the heaviest exchanges of fire the region has seen in years.British Airways, Hungary-based low-cost carrier Wizz, Poland’s flagship Lot, and Azerbaijan’s AZAL all canceled service to and from Ben Gurion Airport for Tuesday, with the latter two also canceling some flights for Wednesday.AZAL, also known as Azerbaijan Airlines, said it was canceling flights between Baku and Tel Aviv “due to recent events and security concerns in Israel.” It did not announce an expected timeframe for flights to resume.British Airways said in a statement that it was canceling flights until September 26, adding, “Safety is always our top priority, and we’re contacting customers to advise them of their travel options.”Lot said in a statement on its website that “due to the current situation, we are constantly analyzing the safety of LOT Polish Airlines’ operations.”Wizz did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Times of Israel.The airlines were the latest to suspend flights to the region as tensions have ratcheted up, joining Air India, KLM, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, EasyJet, RyanAir, Spanish budget airline Vueling, and others that have previously announced service freezes to Israel, as well as several more that have canceled flights to Lebanon.Germany’s Lufthansa, which said last week it would resume flights to Tel Aviv and Tehran on Tuesday, instead announced it was extending the suspensions until at least October 14, with flights to Beirut remaining canceled until October 26.Lufthansa continues to “monitor the situation closely and will assess it further in the coming days,” it said on its website.In Lebanon, where Israel’s air force continued to bombard Hezbollah strongholds after over 550 people were killed in airstrikes Monday, several Gulf carriers announced they were suspending flights to Beirut’s international airport for Tuesday and Wednesday.“The safety of our crew and customers is of utmost importance and will not be compromised,” Emirates said in a statement, announcing the suspension of flights on Tuesday and Wednesday. Flydubai, its sister value brand, canceled its daily flights on Tuesday and Wednesday “due to the ongoing developments,” a spokesperson said.The Israel Defense Forces said it carried out sorties against some 1,600 targets across Lebanon Monday, mostly homes where it said Hezbollah was hiding missiles and other arms. The Iran-backed terror group fired over 200 rockets at Israel over the course of Monday, with at least 100 more flying into Israel on Tuesday.Qatar Airways, the national flag carrier which operates two flights a day to the Lebanese capital, also canceled services for two days.“Due to the ongoing situation in Lebanon, Qatar Airways has temporarily suspended flights to and from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport until September 25,” it said in a statement.Etihad Airways, the United Arab Emirates national airline, canceled its return flight from Abu Dhabi to Beirut scheduled for Wednesday, according to a statement sent to AFP.UAE-based Air Arabia also canceled flights from Sharjah and Abu Dhabi to Beirut for Tuesday, and Egyptian flag carrier Egypt Air canceled flights to and from Beirut starting on Tuesday, state-affiliated Al Qahera News TV reported.Turkey’s Pegasus also canceled flights to Beirut on Tuesday due to risk assessments on the situation in Lebanon, the company told Reuters.Air France extended its suspension to Beirut on Tuesday to October 1, and Germany’s Sundair said Sunday it was canceling flights from Berlin to Beirut until Friday. It had previously suspended flights from Bremen to Beirut until October 23.Lufthansa, Air France, and Delta have also suspended flights to Beirut.A source at Lebanese flagship Middle East Airlines told AFP its flights were booked out for days.“Our flights are all overbooked because of the cancelations of other airlines,” the source said on condition of anonymity. “There is not a single seat available for any destination before Sunday.”Last week, Qatar Airways announced a ban on pagers and walkie-talkies on its Beirut flights after communications device explosions, blamed on Israel, killed 37 people and wounded thousands over two days.

Despite rocket fire at Haifa, Israeli seaports operating as usual, authorities say-In letter, Port Authority says Israel’s ‘multi-layered security,’ including Iron Dome, keeps ships safe from Eilat to Ashdod and Haifa amid rocket and drone attacks-By Reuters and ToI Staff 24 September 2024, 5:13 pm

Israel’s ports in the northern city of Haifa are operating at normal capacity despite the escalation in fighting with Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, which has targeted the city with rocket fire, Israeli authorities said Tuesday.Haifa, Israel’s third largest city, handles much of the country’s vital seaborne trade. On Monday, sirens sounded in the center of the city for the first time after 11 months of rocket fire from Lebanon, and the IDF fired interceptors at Hezbollah rockets above Haifa Bay. No damage was reported. Sirens sounded again in the city on Tuesday.The government’s Port Authority issued a letter to clarify that no changes had been made at ports ranging from the southernmost point of Eilat on the Red Sea to the major Mediterranean ports in Haifa and Ashdod.“Following recent events, we find it necessary to reassure that our ports… are fully open for business and functioning at full capacity,” said the letter, which was seen by Reuters.“Israeli ports are considered the safest in the world, thanks to multi-layered security, a high standard of cyber security at all times and also protected by the highly efficient Iron Dome, among other anti-rocket systems both on land and at sea that are assigned specifically to protect our ports,” the letter continued.The Transportation Ministry, which oversees the administration of shipping and ports, gave no details beyond what was in the letter, saying only that all activities were coordinated with the military’s Home Front Command.“The security situation is assessed continuously; any change will be communicated immediately,” the port administration added in the letter. The letter said Israel would provide war damage compensation for commercial vessels within the country’s economic waters.In August, the Marshall Islands ship registry, one of the world’s biggest flags, maintained its highest security level for the Haifa port as well as for Ashdod in the south.“The threat of collateral damage to merchant vessels has increased significantly,” the Marshall Islands said in its August advisory.A number of ports operate in Haifa, including Haifa Port led by India’s Adani Group, Bayport operated by China’s SIPG, and the smaller Israel Shipyards port.Shipping and insurance sources said ships calling at Israeli ports faced the broader threat of being targeted by Yemen’s Houthi terror group in open waters in the Red Sea.The Iran-backed Houthis say they are acting in solidarity with Palestinians in Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza. In more than 70 attacks, the Houthis have sunk two vessels, seized another and killed at least three seafarers.They have warned that ships with any links to Israel, the UK or the United States will be attacked, although in practice they have targeted vessels from a large number of origin countries.Industry sources said additional war risk premiums, paid when vessels sail through the Red Sea to Israel from Asia, were quoted at up to 2% of the value of the vessel from around 1.0% in August.

Sweden says Iran was behind mass text messages calling for revenge over Quran burnings-Officials say Islamic Revolutionary Guard breached major Swedish text messaging company, sent out 15,000 messages aiming to ‘destabilize’ country-By Agencies 24 September 2024, 12:29 pm

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Swedish authorities accused Iran on Tuesday of being responsible for thousands of text messages that were sent to people in the Scandinavian country calling for revenge over the burnings of Islam’s holy book in 2023.Officials in Stockholm claimed that Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guards carried out “a data breach” and managed to send “some 15,000 text messages in Swedish” over the string of public burnings of the Quran.Senior prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist said that a preliminary investigation, carried out by Sweden’s SAPO domestic security agency, showed that “it was the Iranian state via the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC, that carried out a data breach at a Swedish company that runs a major SMS service.”The Swedish company was not named. There was no immediate comment from Iranian authorities on the accusations from Sweden.In August 2023, Swedish media reported that a large number of people in Sweden had received text messages in Swedish calling for revenge against people who were burning the Quran. Ljungqvist said the sender of the messages was “a group calling itself the Anzu team.”Swedish broadcaster SVT published a photo of a text message saying that “those who desecrated the Quran must have their work covered in ashes” and calling Swedes “demons.”The protests were held under the freedom of speech act, which is protected under the Swedish constitution. The rallies were approved by police. However, the incidents left Sweden torn between its commitment to free speech and its respect for religious minorities.In a separate statement, SAPO’s operational manager Fredrik Hallström said the text messages’ intent was to also “paint the image of Sweden as an Islamophobic country and create division in society.”He accused “foreign powers” of seeking to “exploit vulnerabilities” and said they were “now acting more and more aggressively, and this is a development that is likely to escalate.” He did not name any specific country.Meanwhile, Sweden’s justice minister, Gunnar Strömmer, told Swedish news agency TT “that a state actor, in this case Iran, according to [SAPO’s) assessment is behind an action that aims to destabilize Sweden or increase polarization in our country, is of course very serious.”There is no law in Sweden specifically prohibiting the burning or desecration of the Quran or other religious texts. Like many Western countries, Sweden doesn’t have any blasphemy laws.“Since the actors are acting for a foreign power, in this case Iran, we make the assessment that the conditions for prosecution abroad or extradition to Sweden are lacking for the persons suspected of being behind the breach, “Ljungqvist said.Ljungqvist, who is with Sweden’s top prosecution authority, said that although the preliminary investigation has been closed, it “does not mean that the suspected hackers have been completely written off,” and that the probe could be reopened.In August last year, SAPO raised its threat level to four on a scale of five after a series of protests that included Quran burnings had made the country a “prioritized target.”Relations between Sweden and several Middle Eastern countries were strained by the protests which were concentrated over the summer of 2023.Iraqi protesters stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad twice in July of that year, starting fires within the compound on the second occasion.The Swedish government condemned the desecrations while noting the country’s constitutionally protected freedom of speech and assembly laws.Sweden and Iran’s relations in particular have also been strained in recent years, with one of the main sticking points being Sweden’s arrest and conviction of Hamid Noury.Noury, an Iranian former prisons official, was arrested at Stockholm airport in November 2019 and sentenced to life in prison in July 2022 for his role in mass killings in Iranian jails in 1988.In June, the countries announced a prisoner swap in which Noury was released in Sweden in exchange for a European Union diplomat and a second Swede.The two Swedes were EU diplomat Johan Floderus and Saeed Azizi, a Swedish national arrested in Iran in November 2023.Floderus had meanwhile been held in Iran since April 2022, accused of espionage, for which he risked a death sentence.In May, SAPO also said that Iran was recruiting Swedish criminal gang members, some of them children, as proxies to commit “acts of violence” against Israeli and other interests in Sweden.

Erdogan tells ICC prosecutor Israel planning ‘new massacres’ in Gaza-Turkish president, PA’s Abbas press Karim Khan on expediting war crimes charge against Netanyahu in meeting on sidelines of UN General Assembly, saying Israel acting with impunity-By ToI Staff 24 September 2024, 12:28 pm

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel of genocide and urged International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan to continue pursuing war crimes charges against Israeli leaders in a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Monday.Erdogan, who has been a vociferous critic of Israel since war broke out following the shock October 7 attack by Hamas, accused Israel of planning to “add new massacres to their list,” presenting Khan with a book of news photos Turkey claims shows evidence of Israeli war crimes.Israel “committed a genocide in Gaza,” Erdogan told Khan, according to the Turkish president’s spokesperson, charging that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government had violated international law and human rights with impunity.“It is extremely important for the genocide case filed against Israel at the International Criminal Court to be concluded and for the perpetrators of genocide to receive the punishment they deserve,” Erdogan’s spokesperson said he told Khan.There was no official comment on the meeting from the ICC prosecutor, who in May requested arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and leaders of the Hamas terror group on charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes for the October 7 atrocities committed by Hamas, and Israel’s military policies in its subsequent war against the terror group.Since then, he has twice pressed the ICC’s Pre-Trial Chamber I to approve the warrants “with utmost urgency,” after the process became bogged down by a court review of amicus briefs on the case, including over the question of whether the ICC has jurisdiction over Israeli nationals.Turkey maintains strong financial ties with Israel, yet Erdogan has repeatedly engaged in inflammatory anti-Israel rhetoric, includes comparing the country and its leaders to Nazis, while supporting Hamas and attempting to lead an Islamic alliance against the Jewish state.War erupted in Gaza after thousands of Hamas-led terrorists burst across the border into Israel on October 7, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 251 hostages amid horrific acts of brutality including sexual assault. Israel says its military campaign in Gaza is aimed at toppling its Hamas rulers and freeing the hostages, refuting charges that it has targeted Palestinian noncombatants or attempted to use starvation as a weapon of war.In August, Turkey made an official bid to join South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, which is separate from the ICC and examines the conduct of countries rather than individuals.Erdogan’s meeting with Khan was held at Turkey’s diplomatic mission in New York, where Erdogan also held talks with Iran’s new president amid an escalation of violence between Israel and the Tehran-backed Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon.During the Monday meeting with Masoud Pezeshkian, Erdogan similarly urged the international community to intervene to “end the violence that Israel is committing in the Palestinian and Lebanese territories,” his press office said.Pezeshkian “emphasized that unity among Islamic countries will end the crimes being committed in Gaza,” according to Iran’s official news agency.On Tuesday, Erdogan told German Chancellor Olaf Scholz that Western support for Israel had contributed to “unprecedented massacres in Gaza,” and lobbied for improved ties between Ankara and the European Union.Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas also met with Khan on the sidelines of the high-level UN meeting, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa.During their meeting, Abbas “demanded to expedite investigations into Israeli war crimes,” decrying Israeli “impunity” as encouragement for it “to continue committing its crimes against the Palestinian people,” the agency reported.The UN meeting, which Netanyahu is slated to join later this week, comes as violence in the region has ratcheted up, with Israel and Hezbollah trading intense fire on Monday amid fears that the regional conflict could widen and pull in Iran.Israel has stepped up its military activity in recent days with a series of wide-range aerial bombardments and assassinations in response to nearly a year of cross-border attacks by the terror group.Israel carried out strikes on some 1,600 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon Monday, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said, with most of them aimed at weapons stored in homes following warnings to civilians to evacuate such buildings immediately.These included “cruise missiles that can reach hundreds of kilometers, heavy rockets with a 1,000-kilogram warhead, medium-range rockets that reach a range of up to 200 kilometers, short-range rockets, and armed unmanned aerial vehicles.”Lebanese health officials said at least 492 people were killed and some 1,645 injured Monday in the Israeli strikes, marking one of the deadliest days in recent history for the war-scarred country.Hezbollah has fired hundreds of rockets at Israeli cities in recent days, causing serious damage and several injuries.

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Michigan attorney general calls Rashida Tlaib’s criticism of her ‘antisemitic’Dana Nessel, who is Jewish, calls out pro-Palestinian Democrat congresswoman for suggesting she’s biased in prosecuting student protesters for ‘violence and criminal behavior’By JTA and ToI Staff 24 September 2024, 10:32 am

Michigan’s Jewish attorney general has accused the state’s Palestinian-American congresswoman of antisemitism, in a war of words between two prominent Democrats that could upend an already tense battleground state.The exchange between Attorney General Dana Nessel and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, formerly friends, stems from Nessel’s decision to file charges this month against 11 pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of Michigan. In a September 12 statement, Nessel emphasized the right to free speech but accused the 11 protesters at the university’s encampment last spring of “violent and criminal behavior,” including obstructing police and trespassing.In an interview with a local paper the following day, Tlaib likened the campus protests to other demonstrations against racism and for immigrant rights. She told the Detroit Metro Times that Nessel chose to prosecute the 11 because of “possible biases.”“It seems that the attorney general decided if the issue was Palestine, she was going to treat it differently, and that alone speaks volumes about possible biases within the agency she runs,”  she said.Nessel’s office confirmed to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that she took that remark as a reference to her Jewish identity. In a social media post on Friday, she condemned a political cartoon that suggested Tlaib was affiliated with Hezbollah — and also called out the congresswoman for antisemitism.The Detroit News cartoon depicted Tlaib looking at a smoking device on her desk, and saying “Odd, my pager exploded,” a reference to last week’s attacks on the Hezbollah terror group’s communications devices in Lebanon. Thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by operatives exploded in an attack that Hezbollah blamed on Israel, which has not claimed responsibility.“Rashida’s religion should not be used in a cartoon to imply that she’s a terrorist. It’s Islamophobic and wrong,” Nessel said on X. “Just as Rashida should not use my religion to imply I cannot perform my job fairly as Attorney General. It’s antisemitic and wrong.”Tlaib’s office declined to comment. In the wake of the furor, the Detroit Metro Times ran an article entitled “Fact-check: Tlaib did not say Nessel charged pro-Palestinian protesters because she’s Jewish.”The article, by the same reporter who initially interviewed Tlaib, noted that the congresswoman did not explicitly reference Nessel’s being Jewish and said that “Tlaib was referring to anti-Palestinian attitudes” when she alleged there was bias in Nessel’s office.Tlaib’s defenders have cast doubt on the idea that she was commenting on Nessel’s identity.Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt in a tweet reproached Tlaib for accusing “the attorney general of prosecuting protestors simply because she’s Jewish.”.@GovWhitmer, when your attorney general prosecutes people for violating the law, harassing Jews, and attacking police officers, it’s in the interest of public safety. When a congresswoman accuses the attorney general of prosecuting protestors simply because she’s Jewish, it’s… pic.twitter.com/mC7Y3dLDcc — Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) September 22, 2024-Tlaib’s defenders said that was a distortion.“This is just a lie,” tweeted Dylan Williams, vice president for governmental affairs at the Center for International Policy, a progressive think tank, quoting Greenblatt’s tweet. “Falsely accusing a Congresswoman who is a frequent target of bigotry of doing something she didn’t isn’t just defamatory — it risks inciting more hatred and even violence against her.”The public spat between the two officials comes as the state’s top Democrats are seeking to tamp down debate over Israel and Gaza as a tight presidential and Senate election nears. Democrats are relying on Michigan’s large Jewish and Arab populations if they are to win.On Sunday, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer did not answer directly when CNN anchor Jake Tapper asked her if Tlaib’s statement was antisemitic.“I’m not going to get in the middle of this argument that they’re having,” she said. “I can just say this. We do want to make sure that students are safe on our campuses, and we recognize that every person has the right to make their statement about how they feel about an issue, a right to speak out, and I’m going to use every lever of mine to ensure that both are true.”The Tlaib cartoon, which also appeared in the National Review Online, has drawn broader condemnation, including from Rep. Elissa Slotkin, the Jewish Democratic nominee for Michigan’s Senate seat. She called the cartoon “Islamophobic and downright dangerous” and called for its retraction. A group of Jewish House Democrats from across the country condemned the cartoon in similar terms, calling it a “toxically Islamophobic and anti-Arab affront.”“While none of us always agrees with Representative Tlaib (just as she surely does not always agree with any of us) that is no reason to excuse this,” said the statement, issued Sunday.Cartoon: Tlaib Pager Hamashttps://t.co/wdwWCbCgmj pic.twitter.com/8AF3kA8Llk— Henry Payne (@HenryEPayne) September 19, 2024-The exchange is the latest stage in a souring of relations between Nessel and Tlaib, who were once allies. In 2019, Nessel came to the defense of Tlaib when the Trump administration persuaded Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to block her from entering Israel and the West Bank, where Tlaib’s grandmother lives.“As both a Jew and personal friend of Rep. Tlaib, I am outraged that she continues to face vile attacks simply for who she is and for doing her job,” Nessel said at the time. “Rashida does not judge a person based on religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation or any other classification.”But as in so many other relationships, the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war last October 7 marked a shift. In November, Nessel took Tlaib to task for defending the phrase “From the river to the sea,” which many Jews see as a call for the destruction of Israel, but which supporters of Palestinians assert is a call for equality.“Rashida Tlaib, I have supported and defended you countless times, even when you have said the indefensible, because I believed you to be a good person whose heart was in the right place,” Nessel said then. “But this is so hurtful to so many. Please retract this cruel and hateful remark.”War erupted on October 7 when Hamas led thousands of Palestinian terrorists in a devastating cross-border attack on Israel, killing 1,200 people — mostly civilians — and abducting 251 people who were taken as hostages to Gaza.Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian demonstrations spread across college campuses in the US earlier this year, with some Jewish students saying they felt an accompanying antisemitic attitude. There were violent clashes with police at some protest camps.