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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)
ONCE AGAIN COCKROACH IRAN THREATINS ISRAEL WITH USELESS WORDS.THEIR COWARDS.THEY MUST USE PROXIS TO TRY TO HURT ISRAEL WITH.
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.
Major Israeli Rabbi: Gog and Magog War Will Begin (and end) Wednesday Morning-O mortal, turn your face toward Gog of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. Prophesy against him Ezekiel 38:2 (the israel bible)Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz-Biblical News-October 22, 2024
Rabbi Yitzchok Zilberstein, a prominent Orthodox rabbi in Israel, recently gave a lesson to his students in Ramat Elchanan, Bnei Brak, in which he said that the War of Gog and Magog would take place in its entirety in the three hours before dawn on Wednesday, the Jewish holiday of Hoshanna Rabba.Rabbi Zilberstein discussed the miracles happening to Israel throughout the year-long war in his lecture. He noted that Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Iran have fired over 2,000 rockets into Israel with relatively few casualties. The rabbi referred to a teaching by Rabbi Obadiah ben Abraham of Bertinoro, a 15th-century Italian rabbi known as the Bartenura. In his commentary on the Mishnah (Megillah 3:5), Bartenura predicted when the revival of the dead would occur and when the War of Gog and Magog would begin. He based his interpretation of the revival of the dead on Ezekiel’s vision of Dry Bones (Ezekiel 37:1-14), which is read in synagogues on Passover. Bartenura explains that this corresponds to the dead’s actual resurrection, which will occur on Passover.Bartenura writes that based on a later section of the Book of Ezekiel (38:18-39:16) the war of Gog and Magog will begin in Sukkot. This section is read in synagogues in Sukkoth.“Therefore,” he said, “we must strive not to spoil things. In other words, everything depends on us, on each and every one of us. This is a time of special favor, and we must try not to spoil it, meaning to make every effort to fulfill Hashem’s will, each person according to their ability.”It is to be remembered that the war began on the last day of Sukkot last year when Palestinian Hamas invaded Israel and massacred its citizens.Rabbi Zilberstein then referred to a teaching by the 18th-century Jewish scholar Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, also known as the Vilna Gaon, brought by the 16th-century Tzfat Kabbalist Rabbi Chaim Vital. They both taught that the War of Gog and Magog would take its entirety during the three hours before “Hanetz Hachama” (crack of dawn) of Hoshanah Rabbah, the last day of the week-long holiday of Sukkot.“Whoever wants to be saved should sit in the sukkah,” Rabbi Zilberstein taught. He based this on a verse in Psalms.“He will shelter me in His pavilion (sukkah) on an evil day, grant me the protection of His tent, raise me high upon a rock.Now is my head high over my enemies roundabout; I sacrifice in His tent with shouts of joy, singing and chanting a hymn to Hashem. Psalms 27:5-6Indeed, throughout the past week, Israel has been filled with the incongruous sight of Jews under the threat of rocket attack choosing to sit in flimsy sukkot rather than reinforced bomb shelters. Rabbi Zilberstein noted that his brother-in-law, Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, said these three hours are before sunrise on Hoshanah Rabbah.Rabbi Elie Mischel, the Director of Education at Israel365, wrote about the end-of-days battle of Gog and Magog in his recently released book, The War Against the Bible: Ishmael, Esau and Israel at the End Times. Rabbi Mischel noted that, like the War of Gog and Magog, the war in the Middle East is reverberating around the globe.“This is a war with global implications, pitting Jews and Christians, the people of the Bible, against Muslims and secular progressives, who reject the Bible and all that it stands for,” Rabbi Mischel wrote. Based on Jewish sources, Rabbi Mischel identifies the leader of the Gog and Magog coalition as Islamist Iran. He also identifies Iran as the fourth kingdom of Ishmael and Edom, described in the Book of Daniel as working together to persecute Israel at the end times. “Gog and Magog’s motivations for attacking Israel are different from those of other nations that have attacked Israel throughout history…Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah are not afraid that Israel will conquer their lands, nor do they seek economic benefits from attacking Israel. Hamas’ attacks have only brought death and destruction upon the Gaza Strip. They are driven by pure hatred of Israel, seeking only to murder and destroy.”“Gog and his allies believe they can uproot the people of Israel and send them, once again, into the darkness of exile.”Rabbi Mischel predicts that the focus of the pre-Messiah war will shift, pitting the former allies Esau and Ishmael against each other.“Not only will Gog and the people of Ishmael suffer for their sins, but so will Edom, the Western nations that support them,” Rabbi Mischel wrote. “Initially, the Edomites will join the Ishmaelites in an alliance against Israel. But ultimately, the Ishmaelites will turn on the Edomites, who will be forced to fight back. ““The Western nations trying so hard to appease the Ishmaelites will inevitably have no choice but to battle the Islamic jihadists of Iran and their allies and proxies. When the Ishmaelites go too far and directly attack the West, the Edomites will be forced to declare war against them. This will lead to the great war between Ishmael and the West, when “every man’s sword will be against his brother.”Many are concerned for the fate of Israelis as the hugely destructive War of Gog and Magog is described in prophecy as being fought inside Israel. In October 2015, Rabbi Shalom Berger, the spiritual leader of the Mishkoltz sect of Hasidic Judaism, gave a Torah lesson at the end of the holiday of Simchat Torah in which he made predictions regarding the imminent arrival of the Messiah.“My heart tells me,” concluded the rabbi, “that God has mercy on the nation of Israel and, despite what the prophets have prophesied – that the Gog Magog War needs to be within Jerusalem. Nevertheless, God sweetened this and is currently making it in Syria. And the proof is that it is brought down in Sifri (Devarim 1) that the gates of Jerusalem are destined to reach until Damascus.”“If that is the case, instead of the war being in Jerusalem with the inhabitants of Israel suffering from it, God widened Jerusalem so that it reaches as far as Damascus so that the great war will be there, as we saw when Russia entered with powerful forces into Syria.“All that remains for us now is the task of being united among ourselves and to be careful to stay away from arguments and speaking slander because the Messiah is already here and hears everything…”In Jewish tradition, there are two forms the final redemption can take: a redemption that is “Be’itah” – i.e., one that is set at a predetermined time. The Talmud (Tractate Avodah Zarah 9a) states that the world will last 6,000 years. The Messiah must come at the end of the 6,000 years, even if mankind has not prepared itself. The current (2023/2024) Hebrew year is 5785. By this calculation, the start of the 6000th year would occur at nightfall of 29 September 2239, and the end would occur at nightfall of 16 September 2240.The other form redemption can take is “Ahishena” – i.e., one that will come earlier than its set time. The Jews can bring redemption early based on the merits of performing God’s commandments.The main differences between the two forms of Redemption are the time it will take and the amount of suffering the Jewish people and the world, in general, will endure until it occurs.An “Ahishena” Redemption is a Redemption that comes suddenly, miraculously as the world has already reached its correct fulfillment and purpose.A “Be’ita” Redemption is a Redemption that a long and arduous process precedes it, full of suffering and tests for the Jewish people and for the world in general, which concludes with the terrible death of about two-thirds of the world, in addition to those among the Jewish people who, according to God’s calculation, are not fit to be redeemed.
I CAN'T BELIEVE WOMEN WOULD CHOOSE MURDERING GODS BABIES DISQUISED AS WOMENS HEALTH. BY VOTING BABY MURDERER HARRIS-BIDEN-WALZ ALL BRAIN-DEAD. OVER VOTING TRUMP AND SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL AND CHRISTIANITY.
‘I’m an American, but I’m also Jewish’Israel or abortion rights: College-age US Orthodox women face tough call at ballot box-Torn between two candidates with diametrically opposed value systems – and sharing some of each – young female voters debate whether support for the Jewish state trumps all else-By Jackie Hajdenberg Today, 8:42 pm--NOV 2,24
JTA — Just days out from the presidential election, Shalva Perlman doesn’t know for sure how she will cast her ballot.The two issues on her mind: protecting abortion rights, and supporting Israel.The issue that she expects to prioritize in the voting booth: Israel.“I’m having difficulty voting at all,” Perlman said. “I’ve been a registered Democrat for a while, but I don’t know. It’s difficult to vote Democrat with everything happening in the Middle East right now.”Perlman is a junior at Stern College for Women at Yeshiva University, the flagship Orthodox educational institution. And as an Orthodox Jew, she is part of a constituency that has moved to the right and toward Trump in recent years, driven in large part by attitudes on Israel.According to a recent survey conducted by the YU Commentator, Yeshiva University’s student newspaper, 84 percent of the 122 Stern College students surveyed say they will vote for Donald Trump. That puts them in line with other surveys of Orthodox voters, which predict large majorities for the Republican candidate.But Perlman matches most of her Stern classmates in another way: She is opposed to the Supreme Court stripping away federal abortion protections — an issue that is at the center of Kamala Harris’ campaign. Nevertheless, she says Israel will probably drive her vote.“I think my alliance is obviously staying with my country more than that at this point,” Perlman said. She added, “It’s basically all about Israel in my family. And that’s what we’re seeing in the election.”The tension Perlman is articulating is what puts Stern’s population of around 1,000 students in a somewhat unique spot: Like women their age, a majority support abortion rights. But like their community, a majority will be voting for Donald Trump, who has praised the 2022 Supreme Court ruling even as he has said he would not sign a federal abortion ban.Stern students told the Jewish Week that there’s little conflict on campus when it comes to politics. While there are student clubs at YU for both Democrats and Republicans, the survey found that support for Trump is above 80% at both campuses. Israel tends to dominate the political agenda at the school.“My vote is to help Israel,” said Layla, a first-year student and first-time voter who declined to give her last name, and who cast her ballot by mail in California. “Because I firmly believe if I’m a Zionist, that’s something that I need to think about when I’m voting. Yes, I’m an American, but I’m also Jewish.”Layla said she doesn’t enjoy discussing politics and didn’t volunteer who she was voting for. Her roommate Talia did: Trump.“I just think he’s good towards Jews,” said Talia, who also declined to give her last name. “He may not be a good person, but he’s good towards Jews.”Daphne Lazar Price, the executive director of JOFA, the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, told the Jewish Week these are the exact conversations she has been having with young American women voters, whether they’re voting in the United States or casting absentee ballots from abroad.“Young Modern Orthodox women are incredibly worried about Israel and who would be the better candidate to help ensure its safety in the immediate and in the long term,” Lazar Price said in an email. “That said, young Modern Orthodox women are also worried about access to comprehensive reproductive health care [abortion, birth control and IVF] as the domestic signature issue.”Many Jewish women in the United States, including some who are Modern Orthodox, have taken up reproductive rights as a key issue, with some suing their home states on religious grounds to try to regain access to abortion. (American Jews favor abortion rights, more than any other religious group, according to public polling. And traditional Jewish law permits, and even requires, abortion in some circumstances.)“They recognize the weightiness of each of their votes because the stakes in this next set of elections are so high,” Lazar Price added, speaking of young women voters. “They are also rightfully concerned about the rise of antisemitism and how they perceive each candidate will staunch or fuel those flames.”Some Harris supporters at Stern don’t see any contradiction between their Orthodox identity and their vote. For Selma Spinner, a political science student and co-president of the Yeshiva University Democrats, the party’s values and Jewish values go hand in hand.“I try to think about everything I do as a Torah Jew, as a Modern Orthodox student,” Spinner said. “And everything I do and believe is centered around that. I find that I identify a lot more with — I would even venture to use the word, ‘humanity,’ of the Democratic Party, and in this specific election, of Kamala Harris. And I find that I as a Jew can identify more not only with her policies but also with her rhetoric.”But others said there is a tension between liberalism and Orthodoxy — and that they’re choosing the former at the ballot box.“The liberal agenda in general goes against a lot of traditional Jewish values,” said Talia Isaac, a sophomore from Teaneck, New Jersey, who is majoring in political science and cast her vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz by mail. “So Orthodox Jews may be less likely to vote for a candidate who believes in expanding access to reproductive healthcare, who believes in expanding access to gender-affirming healthcare, things like that.”Isaac said she doesn’t defer to others when she thinks about the issues that determine her vote. In addition to reproductive rights and Israel, she has worked with multiple organizations that focus on obtaining legal assistance for survivors of sexual assault.“The only aspect of my Judaism that I consider when I vote might have to do slightly with my protections and my rights as a Jewish citizen of America,” Isaac said. “I do want to make sure that I’m protected.”She added, “For the most part, I find that the reasons I vote are because I, for my own values and my own reasons, align with the policies and the values of a certain candidate. And it really has very little to do with my Jewish identity, with the Torah, with halacha [Jewish law]. I just feel like I have my own personal code of ethics and my own personal values.”
Joint US-Egypt archaeology team unearths 4,000-year-old tomb in Luxor-Coffins for men, women and children found inside necropolis, suggesting it was a family tomb-By AP and ToI Staff Today, 8:12 pm-NOV 2,24
CAIRO — Archeologists from Egypt and the United States unearthed an ancient tomb with 11 sealed burials near the famed city of Luxor, Egyptian authorities said in a statement Friday.Egypt’s Tourism and Antiquities Ministry said that the tomb, which dates back to the Middle Kingdom (1938 BCE-1630 BCE), was found in the South Asasif necropolis, next to the Temple of Hatshepsut on the Nile’s West Bank in Luxor.The joint Egyptian-American mission excavating the necropolis found coffins for men, women and children, suggesting that it was a family tomb used for generations during the 12th Dynasty and the beginning of the 13th Dynasty, said Mohamed Ismail Khaled, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt.He said ancient floods destroyed most of the burials’ wooden coffins and linen wrappings.However, some items such as jewelry in women’s burials were found intact, including a finely crafted necklace with 30 amethyst beads and two cylindrical agate beads framing a hippo-head amulet, according to the statement.Catherine Blakeney, chief American archeologist with the mission, said they found two copper mirrors, one with a lotus-shaped handle, and the second with a unique design of Hathor, goddess of the sky, women, fertility and love in ancient Egypt.The discovery came as Egypt has doubled efforts to attract more tourists, a significant source of foreign currency for the cash-strapped North African country, which depends heavily on tourism to Egypt’s rich archeological sites.The tourism sector is crucial to the country, and at its peak in 2010 employed around 12 percent of the Egyptian workforce before the political unrest and violence that struck the country in 2011, during the Arab Spring. The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 further decimated the industry, and the country has struggled to get back to pre-COVID tourism levels.The government hopes that increased spending into archaeology and research will bring more excitement and coverage to Egypt’s vast wealth of historical sites, and bring the tourists back with it.Last month, the Grand Egyptian Museum, a mega project near the famed Giza Pyramids, opened 12 halls exhibiting Pharaonic artifacts for visitors as a trial ahead of the yet-unannounced official opening.
Unusual north Lebanon raid said to take a mere 4 minutes-Wearing Lebanese uniforms, some 20 Israeli commandos took part in Friday raid – report-Hezbollah-affiliated media says special forces were likely in area for reconnaissance before nabbing alleged terror operative, reiterates claim German Navy coordinated with Israel-By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian-Today, 2:48 pm-NOV 3,24
New alleged details emerged on Sunday about an Israeli naval raid in northern Lebanon in which commandos captured a Hezbollah operative over the weekend, in a report by a publication affiliated with the Iran-backed terror group.According to the Al-Akhbar report, operatives from the Navy’s Shayetet 13 commando unit were disguised as Lebanese security forces during the unusual raid in Batroun, south of Tripoli, some 140 kilometers (87 miles) north of Israel’s maritime border with Lebanon.While the Israeli military has attacked northern Lebanon via airstrikes, its ground forces have been operating only in the country’s south.The late Friday raid lasted a mere four minutes and involved some 20 operatives, along with several unidentified civilians, the report said, adding that some Israeli special forces had likely been in the area for reconnaissance and surveillance before the operation.While surveillance footage from a nearby building apparently captured part of the Israeli commando raid, Al-Akhbar reported that recordings were deleted from the residential building from which the Hezbollah operative, Imad Amhaz, was captured.The report also said that Lebanese investigators believe a young man riding a bicycle seen in the widely circulated footage of the operation was part of the Israeli commando unit.The Hezbollah-affiliated outlet cast doubt on the Israel Defense Forces’ assertion that Amhaz is a “significant source of knowledge” in the terror group’s naval force.The IDF said Amhaz was taken to Israel to be questioned by the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504 — which specializes in HUMINT, or human intelligence — on Hezbollah’s naval operations.The Al-Akhbar report on Sunday also reiterated earlier accusations in Lebanese media that the German Navy operating within UN peacekeeping forces in the area had assisted with the Israeli raid.UNIFIL, the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon, denied involvement in the operation, with an unnamed deputy spokesperson telling the Saudi channel Asharq News on Saturday that the organization “has no involvement in facilitating any kidnapping or any other violation of Lebanese sovereignty.”The Friday raid came as Israel pressed on with its military campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon. The operation aims to allow the fade return of some 60,000 displaced residents of northern Israel who were evacuated from their homes near the Lebanon border shortly after Hamas’s October 7, 2023, onslaught, amid fears Hezbollah would carry out a similar attack and persistent rocket fire by the terror group.After warning for nearly a year that it would not tolerate the ongoing attacks, Israel launched a major operation against Hezbollah in September, eliminating much of its leadership and crippling some of its fighting capabilities.In October, it launched a ground offensive in Lebanon’s south to clear the border area of terror infrastructure it said was to be used in an October 7-style attack on northern communities.
Homefront Command eases some restrictions on gatherings-130 rockets, 10 drones fired at Israel Saturday; helicopter downs drone south of Haifa-Footage shows chopper interception of terror group’s UAV; IDF says Hezbollah left with 30% of drones it had at start of war-By Emanuel Fabian-Today, 8:23 pm-NOV 2,24
Over 130 rockets were fired at northern Israel from Lebanon throughout Saturday, the military said, with sirens repeatedly sending people rushing to shelters.Meanwhile, 10 drones targeted the country — six from Lebanon, three from Iraq and one whose origin was unclear. Seven drones were intercepted by the military.A rocket attack early in the morning in central Israel wounded 11 people after one of three rockets struck a home in Tira. The IDF said it was investigating the failure to intercept the rocket.An Israel Air Force attack helicopter was filmed intercepting a Hezbollah drone in the Binyamina area, south of Haifa, after the drone set off sirens in area communities.Footage posted to social media showed the moment the drone was shot down.Attack drones have emerged as one of the most potent threats to Israel’s home front since the beginning of the year.According to fresh data from the Israel Defense Forces, some 1,300 drones have been launched at Israel since the start of the war in Gaza last year, from all fronts — Lebanon, Gaza, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Iran.The IDF said that 231 of the drones struck Israel, causing causalities and damage in some cases (including drones that exploded in open areas).Some 80 percent of drones have been intercepted, according to the military.Footage shows the moment an IAF attack helicopter shot down a Hezbollah drone over northern Israel this afternoon. https://t.co/DBFLNJhZ2x pic.twitter.com/vW3JGAI4cQ— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) November 2, 2024-Despite multiple attacks throughout the day, the IDF Homefront Command said it was easing restrictions in several areas in northern Israel, following a fresh assessment.As part of the changes, the Command adjusted the activity scale in the Lower Galilee and southern Golan Heights from “partial activity” to “full activity,” meaning that gatherings of up to 2,000 people are permitted. There are no changes, however, to other areas in the country.The IDF says it is increasing its efforts against Hezbollah’s aerial force, known as Unit 127, which is responsible for drone attacks on Israel.So far, the commander of the unit has been killed, along with other officers. In all, around 10% of the unit’s members have been killed or wounded, according to the IDF.Hezbollah’s aerial forces are currently left with some 30% of the hundreds of drones they had before the war, according to IDF assessments.The military says it has struck 54 sites used by the aerial forces to store drones, 24 sites used to store cruise missiles, eight sites where drones and cruise missiles were assembled, six underground sites, and seven weapon depots.Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the terror group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there.Some 60,000 residents were evacuated from northern towns on the Lebanon border shortly after Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, amid fears Hezbollah would carry out a similar attack, and increasing rocket fire by the terror group.The attacks on northern Israel since October 2023 have resulted in the deaths of 39 civilians. In addition, 61 IDF soldiers and reservists have died in cross-border skirmishes and in the ensuing ground operation launched in southern Lebanon in late September.Two soldiers have been killed in a drone attack from Iraq, and there have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.The IDF estimates that more than 2,000 Hezbollah operatives have been killed during the ongoing ground offensive in southern Lebanon.Since the start of the conflict with Hezbollah on October 8, a day after Hamas launched its terror onslaught, nearly 3,000 Hezbollah members have been killed, according to IDF assessments.Around 100 members of other terror groups, along with hundreds of civilians, have also been reported killed in Lebanon.Hezbollah has named 516 members who have been killed by Israel amid the fighting, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. These numbers have not been consistently updated since Israel began a new offensive against Hezbollah in September.
DF: 3,000 terror operatives killed since start of conflict-Israeli commandos nab top Hezbollah naval operative in north Lebanon raid-Lebanese minister argues Imad Amhaz is captain of civilian ships; military says he was taken to Israel for questioning on terror group’s naval operations-By Emanuel Fabian-Today, 5:10 pm-NOV 2,24
Israeli naval commandos captured a Hezbollah official in a raid in northern Lebanon late Friday, the military confirmed on Saturday night, marking an unusual operation both in its nature and location deep inside the country.Lebanese media reported that Israeli special forces arrived from the sea and raided a chalet on the coast of Batroun, south of Tripoli, and took one person with them before leaving the area in speedboats.The raid took place some 140 kilometers (87 miles) north of Israel’s maritime border with Lebanon.The Israel Defense Forces later confirmed that the Navy’s Shayetet 13 commando unit had carried out the operation.The Hezbollah operative, named in media reports as Imad Amhaz, was considered by the IDF to be a “significant source of knowledge” in the terror group’s naval force.He was taken to Israel to be questioned by the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504 — which specializes in HUMINT, or human intelligence — on Hezbollah’s naval operations.Speaking to the local Al Jadeed News station, Ali Hamie, Lebanon’s Minister of Public Works and Transport, claimed that Amhaz was a captain of civilian ships and was studying at a civilian naval institute. Images posted to social media showed Amhaz in what appeared to be a navy uniform.While the IDF has attacked northern Lebanon via airstrikes, its ground forces have been operating in the country’s south, making the raid noteworthy.Lebanese journalist Hasan Illaik, who first reported on the raid, cited anonymous Lebanese military officials as saying the operation was apparently carried out in coordination with the German Navy operating within UNIFIL forces, to prevent the Lebanese Navy from interfering.UNIFIL, the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon, denied involvement in the operation, with an unnamed deputy spokesperson telling the Saudi channel Asharq News that the organization “has no involvement in facilitating any kidnapping or any other violation of Lebanese sovereignty.”The spokesman added that the dissemination of “misleading information and unfounded rumors is irresponsible and puts peacekeeping forces at risk,” according to Asharq.Meanwhile, the IDF said Saturday it estimates that some 2,000 Hezbollah operatives have been killed by ground troops and in airstrikes since the start of the ground offensive in southern Lebanon a month ago.Since the start of the conflict with Hezbollah on October 8, 2023 a day after Hamas launched its terror onslaught, nearly 3,000 Hezbollah members have been killed, according to IDF assessments.The Israel Air Force continued to pound Lebanon on Friday, with the IDF releasing footage of fighter jets striking Hezbollah rocket launchers used earlier in the day in a barrage on central Israel.Three rockets were launched in the Hezbollah attack, one of which struck a home in Tira, wounding 11 people.Later in the day, a barrage of some 30 rockets was fired from Lebanon at the Galilee, with the IDF saying most of the rockets were shot down by air defenses. There were no reports of injuries from the attack.Lebanese media later reported an Israeli airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold known as Dahiyeh, but there was no immediate comment from the IDF on the matter.Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there.Some 60,000 residents were evacuated from northern towns on the Lebanon border shortly after Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, amid fears Hezbollah would carry out a similar attack, and increasing rocket fire by the terror group.After warning for nearly a year that it would not tolerate the ongoing attacks, Israel launched a major operation against Hezbollah in September, decimating much of its leadership and crippling some of its fighting capabilities. In October, it launched a ground offensive in Lebanon’s south to clear the border area of terror infrastructure it said was to be used in an October 7-style attack on northern communities.The attacks on northern Israel since October 2023 have resulted in the deaths of 39 civilians. In addition, 61 IDF soldiers and reservists have died in cross-border skirmishes and in the ensuing ground operation launched in southern Lebanon in late September. Two soldiers have been killed in a drone attack from Iraq, and there have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.The IDF estimates that more than 2,000 Hezbollah operatives have been killed in the conflict. Around 100 members of other terror groups, along with hundreds of civilians, have also been reported killed in Lebanon. Hezbollah has named 516 members who have been killed by Israel amid the fighting, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. These numbers have not been consistently updated since Israel began a new offensive against Hezbollah in September.
Hamas now accepts Israel killed Muhammad Deif, has arrested 2 people, sources tell paper-Tests of mangled remains produced inconclusive results, but after months without word from military chief, terror group now acknowledges he did not survive, Asharq al-Awsat reports-By ToI Staff Today, 4:38 pm-NOV 2,24
Finally acknowledging terror leader Muhammad Deif was killed in a July airstrike in Gaza, Hamas has interrogated two people on suspicion that they led Israel to him, Asharq al-Awsat reported Saturday.Hamas sources cited by the London-based, Saudi-owned newspaper said Hamas’s leadership had taken time to confirm the matter as communication with the shadowy terror chief had been limited prior to the July 13 strike. But it concluded that Deif was dead after not hearing from him for some time.Parts of a disfigured body found at the site days after the strike had been tested and found to likely belong to Deif, but their state had made it impossible to reach a definitive result, the report said. Due to the disfigurement, Deif’s “family and associates” had remained unconvinced that it was his body, according to Asharq al-Awsat.Israel had targeted Deif and Hamas’s Khan Younis Brigade chief Rafa’a Salameh in the airstrike on a Hamas compound that killed dozens in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis. The IDF confirmed Salameh’s death a day later, and Deif’s on August 1. Hamas has so far officially denied the killing of Deif, who led the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the terror group’s military wing.Asharq al-Awsat said one of the men arrested over Deif’s killing was one of Deif’s couriers, as was previously reported by Al Arabiya, which said the terror group suspected he had tipped off Israeli security forces. The paper said that the results of the investigation have not been disclosed.Deif, who was 58, had commanded the Brigades for over two decades, and had long been one of the terror figures most wanted by Israel.It was Israel’s eighth attempt to eliminate Deif, who was key to Hamas’s transformation from a small terror group into a paramilitary force. Deif managed to evade and survive multiple attempts on his life between 2001 and 2021, though he was seriously injured in two of them, and his ability to frustrate Israel’s formidable security apparatuses for so long had made him something of a mythical figure for Palestinians as well as Israelis.Deif, along with Hamas’s Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar, was an architect of Hamas’s October 7 massacre in southern Israel, when thousands of terrorists broke through the border and killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, while taking 251 people hostage to Gaza. He had topped Israel’s most-wanted list since 1995 for his involvement in the planning and execution of a large number of terror attacks, including many bus bombings in the 1990s and early 2000s.
3 drones from Iraq shot down by air defenses over Red Sea-11 hurt, three moderately, in overnight Hezbollah rocket attack on central Israel-IDF says Friday strikes killed two top members of terror group; Lebanon’s health ministry reports 52 dead, transport minister says Syrian border crossing forced shut-By Emanuel Fabian,ToI Staff and Agencies Today, 12:30 pm-NOV 2,24
Eleven people were injured in the central Arab town of Tira on Saturday in an overnight rocket attack by Hezbollah, as Israel struck the Iran-backed terror group in Lebanon, killing dozens of people, including two senior Hezbollah members.The Magen David Adom ambulance service said three people sustained moderate injuries and eight were lightly injured by shrapnel and glass shards as one of three rockets launched by Hezbollah directly struck a home in Tira.Seven others were treated for acute anxiety, MDA added.Three rockets were launched in the attack triggering sirens in central Israel, shortly before 2:30 a.m., according to the Israel Defense Forces.The IDF said the other two rockets were apparently successfully intercepted by air defenses.Hezbollah took responsibility for the attack, claiming it had “fired a salvo of rockets at the Glilot base” outside Tel Aviv, where the IDF’s 8200 intelligence unit is headquartered — some 20 kilometers (12 miles) southwest of Tira.The Ynet news site cited Tira resident Ibrahim Qassem as saying there were just 40 seconds between the siren and the explosion. According to the IDF Home Front, Tira residents should have 90 seconds alert time.Qassem said the blast damaged “everything, the doors, the windows, the car,” despite his living “a significant distance away” from the site of the explosion, according to Ynet.Another resident, Tamer Abdelhay, told Walla that “in 90% of the homes there is no safe room or shelter, so there is nowhere to escape to… During the sirens, you can only pray.”Another 20 rockets were fired from Lebanon at northern Israel in the morning, setting off sirens in the Galilee, Haifa Bay area, and Golan Heights.Some of the rockets were intercepted and others struck open areas. There were no reports of injuries or major damage.Also Saturday, several drones launched from Lebanon also set off sirens in the Haifa area.According to the IDF, one of the drones was successfully shot down by the Israeli Air Force. Another drone reportedly impacted a factory building in an industrial zone near Nahariya. There were no reports of injuries in the attack.Several drones were launched from Lebanon at northern Israel in the past hour, setting off sirens in the Haifa area.According to the IDF, one of the drones was successfully shot down by the Israeli Air Force.Another drone reportedly impacted a factory building in an… pic.twitter.com/5Cb0jqlOrw — Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) November 2, 2024-Three more drones launched at Israel from Iraq were shot down by Israeli air defenses over the Red Sea on Saturday, according to the military.The drones were launched “from the east,” a term the IDF uses to describe attacks from Iraq.The Iran-backed Islamic Resistance in Iraq took responsibility for launching them, claiming to have targeted sites in Eilat. No sirens sounded in Eilat as the drones were shot down before entering Israeli airspace.Throughout October alone, more than 100 drones were launched at Israel, mostly from Lebanon and Iraq.Hezbollah commanders killed.Meanwhile, Lebanon’s health ministry said 52 people had been killed in Israeli strikes in the country’s east on Friday — attacks for which the Israeli army had not issued evacuation warnings, as it often does.Without differentiating between civilians and combatants, the ministry reported that “52 people killed and 72 wounded in an updated toll of today’s Israeli enemy strikes on the Baalbek-Hermel region.”Twelve of the victims were killed in the village of Amhaz, it said, while nine others were killed in Yunin and eight in Bednayel.The IDF said its airstrikes in the Tyre area on Friday had killed Moein Musa Izz al-Din, the commander of Hezbollah’s coastal regional unit, and Hassan Majed Diab, the commander of the unit’s artillery array.Diab was responsible for a rocket barrage on the Haifa Bay area on Thursday, which killed a mother and son, along with more than 400 other rockets in the past month, according to the IDF.Ali Hamieh, Lebanon’s Hezbollah-affiliated transport minister, said an Israeli strike near a border crossing between northeast Lebanon and Syria forced the crossing to shut after it had been partly reopened.The strike hit the same location within Syria, just past the Syrian border installation, as an Israeli bombardment last month that closed the crossing, Hamieh said. It had been partly reopened for cars but not trucks, and was now closed again.Israel accuses Hezbollah of smuggling Iranian arms into Lebanon via civilian border crossings with Syria.Hundreds of thousands of people, mainly Syrians, have fled Lebanon for Syria since Israel stepped up its strikes in September.The strikes came as Israeli troops continued ground operations against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. The IDF said soldiers with the 91st and 146th divisions raided Hezbollah sites, seized weapons, and directed airstrikes on terror operatives during operations in the past day.On Friday, during a tour of southern Lebanon, an army vehicle with the chief of the IDF Northern Command, Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin, and chief of the Central Command, Maj.Gen. Avi Bluth, overturned.Gordin was slightly hurt in the incident, and after a brief visit to a hospital, returned to duty, the IDF said.Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there.Some 60,000 residents were evacuated from northern towns on the Lebanon border shortly after Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, amid fears Hezbollah would carry out a similar attack, and increasing rocket fire by the terror group.The attacks on northern Israel since October 2023 have resulted in the deaths of 39 civilians. In addition, 61 IDF soldiers and reservists have died in cross-border skirmishes and in the ensuing ground operation launched in southern Lebanon in late September.Two soldiers have been killed in a drone attack from Iraq, and there have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.The IDF estimates that more than 2,000 Hezbollah operatives have been killed in the conflict. Around 100 members of other terror groups, along with hundreds of civilians, have also been reported killed in Lebanon.
Khamenei threatens Israel and US with ‘a crushing response’ to Israel’s airstrikes-Iran’s leader makes harshest threats yet, sending currency to new low; IRGC general says reprisal for Israeli attack that followed Iran’s missile barrage will be ‘wise, powerful’By AP and ToI Staff Today, 12:20 pm-NOV 2,24
Iran’s supreme leader on Saturday threatened Israel and the US with “a crushing response” over attacks on Iran and its allies.Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke as Iranian officials are increasingly threatening to launch yet another strike against Israel after its October 26 attack on the Islamic Republic that targeted military bases and facilities and that Iran said killed at least five people.Israel’s retaliatory strikes on Iranian military facilities came weeks after the October 1 attack, in which Iran launched 200 ballistic missiles at Israel, sending most of the population rushing to bomb shelters and safe rooms, causing relatively minor damage to military bases and some residential areas, and killing a Palestinian man in the West Bank.Any further attacks from either side could engulf the wider Middle East, already teetering over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip and Israel’s ground operation of Lebanon, into a wider regional conflict just ahead of the US presidential election this Tuesday.“The enemies, whether the Zionist regime or the United States of America, will definitely receive a crushing response to what they are doing to Iran and the Iranian nation and to the resistance front,” Khamenei said in video released by Iranian state media.The supreme leader did not elaborate on the timing of the threatened attack, nor the scope. The US military operates throughout the Middle East, with some troops now manning a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, battery in Israel.The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier likely is in the Arabian Sea, while Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said Friday that more destroyers, fighter squadrons, tankers and B-52 long-range bombers would be coming to the region to deter Iran and its terror allies.The 85-year-old Khamenei had struck a more cautious approach in earlier remarks, saying officials would weigh Iran’s response and that Israel’s attack “should not be exaggerated nor downplayed.”But efforts by Iran to downplay the attack faltered as satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press showed attacks damaged military bases near Tehran linked to the country’s ballistic missile program, as well as damage at a Revolutionary Guard base used in satellite launches.Iran’s terror proxies, called the “Axis of Resistance” by Tehran, also have been severely hurt by ongoing Israeli attacks, particularly Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Iran has long used those groups as both an asymmetrical way to attack Israel and as a shield against a direct assault. Some analysts believe those groups want Iran to do more to back them militarily.Israel launched a war on Hamas in Gaza after the October 7, 2023 massacre that killed some 1,200 people and took another 251 hostages. And it recently stepped up strikes on Hezbollah, which began launching rockets at Israel a day after the Hamas onslaught. Israel has vowed to push Hezbollah away from the border and allow tens of thousands of evacuees to return to their homes in northern Israel.Iran, which directly attacked Israel with missiles and drones for the first time in April, has been dealing with its own problems at home, as its economy struggles under the weight of international sanctions and it has faced years of widespread, multiple protests. After Khamenei’s speech, the Iranian rial fell to 691,500 against the dollar, near an all-time low. It had been 32,000 rials to the dollar when Tehran reached its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.Gen. Mohammad Ali Naini, a spokesman for Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard which controls the ballistic missiles needed to target Israel, gave an interview published by the semiofficial Fars news agency just before Khamenei’s remarks were released. In it, he warned Iran’s response “will be wise, powerful and beyond the enemy’s comprehension.”“The leaders of the Zionist regime should look out from the windows of their bedrooms and protect their criminal pilots within their small territory,” he warned. Israeli air force pilots appear to have used air-launched ballistic missiles in the October 26 attack.Iran has long threatened Israel with destruction and called to wipe out the Jewish State.Khamenei on Saturday met with university students to mark Students Day, which commemorates a November 4, 1978, incident in which Iranian soldiers opened fire on students protesting the rule of the shah at Tehran University. The shooting killed and wounded several students and further escalated the tensions consuming Iran at the time that eventually led to the shah fleeing the country and the 1979 Islamic Revolution-The crowd offered a raucous welcome to Khamenei, chanting: “The blood in our veins is a gift to our leader!” Some also made a hand gesture — similar to a “timeout” signal — given by the slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in 2020 in a speech in which he threatened that American troops who arrived in the Mideast standing up would “return in coffins” horizontally.Iran will mark the 45th anniversary of the US Embassy hostage crisis this Sunday, following the Persian calendar. The November 4, 1979, storming of the embassy by Islamist students led to the 444-day crisis, which cemented the decades-long enmity between Tehran and Washington that persists today.
Analysis-Iran fears Trump win would bring Israeli strikes on nuclear sites, Western sanctions-Tehran said to believe that if reelected, the former US president would exert the utmost pressure on Khamenei to cave to nuclear containment deal on Washington and Israel’s terms-By Reuters and ToI Staff Today, 11:53 am-NOV 3,24
DUBAI (Reuters) — Iran’s leadership and allies are bracing for what they would regard as a dreadful outcome of the imminent US presidential election: a return to power of Donald Trump.Opinion polls suggest that Republican Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris remain locked in a close contest. But Iranian leaders and their regional allies in Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen are concerned that Trump could well triumph on November 5 and this could spell more trouble for them.Iran’s main concern is the potential for Trump to empower Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to strike Iran’s nuclear sites, conduct targeted assassinations, and reimpose his “maximum pressure policy” through heightened sanctions on its oil industry, according to Iranian, Arab and Western officials.They anticipate that Trump, who was president in 2017-21, will exert the utmost pressure on Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to cave in by accepting a nuclear containment deal on terms set by himself and Israel.This potential change in US leadership could have far-reaching implications for the Middle East balance of power and might reshape Iran’s foreign policy and economic prospects.Iran and its proxies have long threatened Israel with destruction and called to wipe out the Jewish state.Analysts argue that whether Harris or Trump leads the next US administration, Iran will lack the leverage it once held — largely due to Israel’s year-old military campaign aimed at degrading the Islamic Republic’s armed proxies, including the terror groups Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.However, Trump’s stance is perceived as more detrimental to Iran due to his more automatic support for Israel, they added.“Trump will either put very tough conditions on Iran or let Israel carry out targeted strikes on its nuclear facilities. He is fully endorsing a military action against Iran,” Abdelaziz al-Sagher, head of the Gulf Research Center think tank, said.“It’s Netanyahu’s dream day to have Trump back in the White House,” he told Reuters.Poison chalice? A senior Iranian official who declined to be named told Reuters Tehran was “prepared for all scenarios. We have [for decades] consistently found ways to export oil, bypassing harsh US sanctions… and have strengthened our ties with the rest of the world no matter who was in the White House.”But another Iranian official said a Trump victory would be “a nightmare. He will raise pressure on Iran to please Israel… [and] make sure oil sanctions are fully enforced. If so, [our] establishment will be economically paralyzed.”In an election speech in October, Trump stated his unwillingness to go to war with Iran but said Israel should “hit the Iranian nuclear first and worry about the rest later,” in response to Iran’s massive ballistic missile attack on Israel on October 1. Iran launched some 200 ballistic missiles at Israel, sending most of the population rushing to bomb shelters and safe rooms. The attack caused relatively minor damage to military bases and some residential areas, and killed a Palestinian man in the West Bank.Israel retaliated with airstrikes on Iranian military targets, especially missile production sites and long-range air defense systems, on October 26.Khamenei on Saturday threatened Israel and the US with “a crushing response” to attacks on Iran and its allies. “The enemies, whether the Zionist regime or the United States of America, will definitely receive a crushing response to what they are doing to Iran and the Iranian nation and to the resistance front,” Khamenei said in video released by Iranian state media.Iran’s choices are limited going forward, analysts say.“The reality is: Trump is going to support Netanyahu and give him the green light to do whatever he wants,” said Hassan Hassan, an author and researcher on Islamic groups. “Trump is much worse [than Harris] for Iran.”Hassan noted that Washington has delegated a substantial share of responsibility to Israel in the conflict with Iran and its proxies, with Israel leading the way. “The US is involved enough in that it’s backing Israel, maybe more so than before.“This time it’s just things are really bad for Iran. Iran is seen as a problem by both Republicans and Democrats.”During her campaign, Harris called Iran a “dangerous” and “destabilizing” force in the Middle East and said the US was committed to Israel’s security. She said the US would work with allies to disrupt Iran’s “aggressive behavior.”But Trump’s reelection would be a “poisoned chalice” for Khamenei, according to two regional officials.If he were to reinstate stringent sanctions, Khamenei may be forced to negotiate and accept a nuclear pact more favorable to US and Israeli terms to preserve theocratic rule in Iran, which is facing growing foreign pressure and has been buffeted by bouts of mass protest at home in recent years.A US-Saudi defense pact tied to Riyadh’s establishing diplomatic relations with Israel, now in its final negotiating stages, poses a significant challenge to Khamenei too.This alliance threatens to shift the regional balance of power by creating a more unified front against Iran, impacting its geopolitical standing and strategy in the Middle East.New architecture-Hassan said Israel’s recent retaliatory attacks on Iran and strikes on the leadership of terror proxies Hamas and Hezbollah allies have been widely perceived as a significant success. They offered insights into what a limited strike on Iran might look like, setting a precedent and altering assumptions that military action on Iran would inevitably spark a wider Middle East war.A senior Arab security official said that Tehran could “no longer brandish its influence through its armed proxies” in the wake of Israel’s deadly strikes on Hezbollah and Hamas leaders.For its own part, Iran has every reason to fear another Trump term.It was Trump who in 2018 unilaterally pulled the US out of Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers and ordered the killing of Qassem Soleimani, Khamenei’s right-hand man and mastermind of overseas attacks on US and allied interests.Trump also imposed punitive sanctions targeting Iran’s oil export revenues and international banking transactions, which led to extreme economic hardship and exacerbated public discontent in the Islamic Republic.He frequently said during his presidential campaign that US President Joe Biden’s policy of not rigorously enforcing oil export sanctions has weakened Washington and emboldened Tehran, allowing it to sell oil, accumulate cash, and expand its nuclear pursuits and influence through armed militias.In March, Trump told the Israel Hayom newspaper in an interview that Iran could have a nuclear weapon in 35 days and that Israel — which deems Iran’s nuclear activity an existential threat — was in a “very treacherous and dangerous neighborhood.”An Arab government adviser noted that Tehran recognizes there is a “new architecture in the making,” but also that Trump, despite his tough rhetoric, realizes there is no alternative to a deal with Iran given its accelerated uranium enrichment program.“Trump might aim for a new nuclear agreement, he could say I tore up the 2015 agreement because it was incomplete and replace it with a long-lasting agreement, touting it to ‘make America great again’ and preserve US interests,” the adviser said.As the 2015 deal has eroded over the years, Iran has escalated the level of fissile purity in enriched uranium, cutting the time it would need to build an atom bomb if it chose to, though it denies wanting to.Iran Online, a state-run news website, stated that when Trump left office, Iran was capping enrichment at 3.67 percent under the deal, far below the 90% of weapons-grade uranium.Now, Iran has “enriched uranium to 60% with IR-6 advanced centrifuges” and could achieve nuclear weapons capability “within a few weeks… Completing the nuclear deterrence cycle is Iran’s greatest trump card against Trump,” it said.Arab and Western officials warn that the more Iran hints it is nearing the development of an atomic bomb, the more it incites the need for Israel to strike.“If Trump reassumes power, he will support Israeli plans to strike Iranian nuclear facilities,” a Western official said.
IDF reveals commandos captured man in Syria gathering intel on border for Iran-Elite forces entered Syrian territory in recent months and snatched Ali Suleiman al-Asi, who told interrogators he was told to monitor troop movements along border, says military-By Emanuel Fabian-Today, 8:48 pm-NOV 3,24
Israeli commandos recently carried out a raid in southern Syria where they captured a Syrian man who was allegedly carrying out surveillance operations on the border on behalf of Iran, the IDF revealed Sunday in a rare acknowledgment of a ground operation in its northeastern neighbor.According to the Israel Defense Forces, the raid in Syria was carried out in recent months by the Egoz commando unit, along with field interrogators of the Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504.The commandos captured Ali Suleiman al-Asi, a Syrian man who lived in the village of Saida, in the Daraa Governorate.The IDF said that al-Asi worked on behalf of Iran, and was involved in collecting intelligence on the Israeli military’s operations along the Syrian border “for future terror activity.”The military was “closely monitoring” al-Asi before he was captured and taken to Israel for questioning.His arrest has “prevented and disrupted a future attack and led to the exposure of the modus operandi of Iranian entities on the Golan Heights front,” the IDF said.The IDF released footage of the mission and also from al-Asi’s interrogation, during which he said that he was approached by a man who told him: “Your area is good, strategic, we can get something from this.” Al-Asi said that the man was “linked to Iran.”The detained Syrian man told Israeli interrogators that he was instructed by the Iranian-linked source to “just observe the borders,” while under the guise of Syria’s military intelligence, and pass on information on Israeli patrols.He told interrogators that, among other things, he passed on information about troop and tank movements on the Israeli side of the border.Israel has been carrying out airstrikes inside Syria since the outbreak of that country’s civil war in 2011, mainly targeting attempts to transfer weapons to the Iran-backed Lebanese Hezbollah terror group or to keep Iranian fighters themselves from gaining a foothold near Israel’s border.In July, Israeli special forces allegedly carried out a raid on an Iranian weapons facility in the Masyaf area in Syria, which has long been associated with the manufacture of chemical weapons and precision missiles by the Syrian regime and Iranian forces.The raid was said to have been carried out alongside Israeli air strikes on military facilities in the area that reportedly killed at least 14 people and wounded 43.Local Syrian media reported at the time that the strikes hit the area surrounding the Scientific Studies and Research Center, known as CERS or SSRC, which according to Israel is used by Iranian forces to manufacture precision surface-to-surface missiles.Various reports in foreign media claimed that Israeli troops operated on the ground during the action at Masyaf, which lies about 200 kilometers (124 miles) north of Israel, though only about 30 kilometers (18 miles) from Syria’s western coastline.The reports said that commandos of the Israeli Air Force’s Shaldag Unit rappelled down from helicopters and raided CERS. Israeli troops removed equipment and documents and then laid explosives to destroy the facility.The IDF has not publicly confirmed the details of the operation.Since Hamas’s brutal October 7, 2023, massacre, which saw some 1,200 people killed in southern Israel and 251 kidnapped, Israel has escalated its strikes on Iranian-backed terror targets in Syria and has also struck Syrian army air defenses and some Syrian forces.
UN experts say Houthis exploited Gaza war to boost regional status, aided by Iran-Yemen rebels get ‘unprecedented’ outside military support, in particular from Iranians and Hezbollah, making them a potent force, according to report presented to Security Council-By Agencies and ToI Staff Today, 8:11 pm-NOV 3,24
Yemen’s Houthi rebels are transforming themselves into a “powerful military organization” due to “unprecedented” military support from outside sources, particularly Iran and Hezbollah, according to a UN report published Friday.The Iranian-backed Houthis have exploited the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and worked to enhance their status in Iran’s self-described “Axis of Resistance,” which includes Hamas and Hezbollah, to gain popularity in the region and beyond, the experts monitoring sanctions against the Houthis said in the 537-page report to the UN Security Council.Since the beginning of the war in Gaza last year, the Houthis, who have controlled large swaths of war-torn Yemen for a decade, have “exploited the regional situation and enhanced cooperation with the Axis of Resistance,” the UN experts said.The panel noted “the transformation of the Houthis from a localized armed group with limited capabilities to a powerful military organization, extending their operational capabilities well beyond the territories under their control.”The report, which analyzed the period from September 2023 through July 2024, said such a transformation was aided by the transfer of military materiel and financial support.The rebels also benefited from training and technical assistance provided by the Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, as well as Hezbollah and pro-Iran groups in Iraq, the UN experts said.It said joint operations centers have been set up in Iraq and Lebanon with Houthi representatives “aimed at coordinating joint military actions of the Axis of Resistance.”“The scale, nature and extent of transfers of diverse military material technology provided to the Houthis from external sources, including financial support and training of its combatants, is unprecedented,” the report warned.The report is based on testimony from military experts, Yemeni officials and sources close to the Houthis. Experts found that the rebels themselves lack the ability to “develop and produce complex weapon systems,” such as the missiles they have used to target ships in the Red Sea.But they also said some of their weapons bear similarities with equipment used by Iran and Iran-backed groups.To support Hamas — which led the cross-border attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023 that sparked the war in Gaza — the Houthis have been attacking vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, disrupting global shipping in a key geopolitical area. They have also directly attacked Israel with ballistic missiles and drones.Despite Houthi claims that they would target ships linked to Israel, the panel said its investigations revealed the rebels have been targeting vessels indiscriminately.Its analysis of data from the International Maritime Organization, the US and the United Kingdom revealed that at least 134 attacks were carried out from Houthi-controlled areas against merchant and commercial vessels and US and UK warships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden between Nov. 15, 2023 and July 31, 2024.“The group’s shift to actions at sea increased their influence in the region,” the UN experts said. “Such a scale of attacks, using weapon systems on civilian vessels, had never occurred since the Second World War.”The attacks have seriously disrupted a route that carries 12 percent of global trade, triggering reprisal strikes by the United States and Britain against rebel targets in Yemen. Israel has also twice bombed Houthi targets in retaliation for ballistic missile and drone attacks, including one that killed a man in Tel Aviv.Houthi fighters are being trained outside Yemen, either in Iran or at Hezbollah training facilities in Lebanon, the panel said.Hezbollah was named as one of the Houthis’ “most important supporters” due to the terror group’s involvement in rebel decision-making, support for assembling weapons systems, financing, “ideological guidance” and propaganda efforts.The report said the Houthis have carried out a vast recruitment project, resulting in a force that numbered 350,000 in mid-2024, as compared with 220,000 in 2022.“While the panel has not been able to independently verify the number of newly recruited fighters, a large-scale mobilization would be a matter of concern,” it said.The Houthis also have been recruiting large numbers of Yemeni youths and children as well as exploiting Ethiopian migrants, forcing them to join the fight against the government and engage in trafficking narcotics, it said.Exploiting high illiteracy rates, particularly in tribal areas, they have reportedly mobilized boys as young as 10 or 11, often despite parental opposition,” they said. “Recruitment sermons and weekly classes on jihad are reportedly delivered in schools.”Child recruitment reportedly increased after the war in Gaza started and the US and UK airstrikes in Yemen, the experts said. Yemen’s government said it received 3,298 reports of child recruitment in the first half of 2024, with youngsters reportedly used as human shields, spies and in combat — and for planting landmines and explosives, reconnaissance and as cooks.The Houthis have been engaged in a civil war with Yemen’s internationally recognized government, backed by a Saudi-led coalition, since 2014, when they took control of the capital Sanaa and most of the north.The Hamas-led attacks in October last year killed 1,200 people in Israel, mostly civilians. Israel’s military response is aimed at destroying Hamas in Gaza and saving the hostages. The day after the Hamas attack, Hezbollah began firing rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel, also saying it was supporting Gaza, and eventually escalating into a broad conflict that has included an ongoing, limited Israeli incursion into southern Lebanon.
Turkey presses UN for arms embargo on Israel in joint letter with 52 countries-Russia, China, Iran among signatories of missive, which comes a month after Erdogan’s similar demand to UN; Turkish FM: ‘Selling arms to Israel means participating in its genocide’By AFP and ToI Staff Today, 6:33 pm-NOV 3,24
Turkey’s foreign minister said Sunday that it had submitted a letter to the United Nations, signed by 52 countries and two inter-governmental organizations, calling for a halt in arms deliveries to Israel.“We have written a joint letter calling on all countries to stop the sale of arms and ammunition to Israel. We delivered this letter, which has 54 signatories, to the UN on November 1,” said Hakan Fidan at a press conference in Djibouti, where he was attending a Turkey-Africa partnership summit.“We must repeat at every opportunity that selling arms to Israel means participating in its genocide,” said Fidan, adding that the letter is “an initiative launched by Turkey.”Among the signatories were Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Algeria, China, Iran and Russia. The Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, both inter-governmental organizations within the UN, also signed the document.Last month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on the UN to impose an arms embargo on Israel. He said the measure would be an “effective solution” to end Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza, which was sparked when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages.Erdogan has been a harsh critic of Israel throughout the war in Gaza, at one point appearing to say he would invade Israel to end the war. In May, he banned trade with Israel, ending the two countries’ robust economic ties.Erdogan also met with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Istanbul in April, several months before he was slain in an explosion in Tehran widely attributed to Israel. Government officials told The Times of Israel earlier this year that Hamas’s leadership had briefly moved from Qatar to Turkey that month amid tensions with Doha.Some of Israel’s allies have also floated restricting arms deliveries to the country. French President Emmanuel Macron said last month that an arms embargo is the only way to end the war in Gaza. In September, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer halted the delivery of some weapons out of fear they could be used to commit war crimes, but stopped short of calling for a full embargo. Canada’s Foreign Minister Melanie Joly also announced in September that she was suspending some 30 permits for arms shipments to Israel, saying Ottawa would not have “arms or parts of arms be sent to Gaza.”Israel’s two largest arms sources, the United States and Germany, have resisted calls for an embargo on Israel, though each has been accused of withholding certain arms during the war.
Iranians mark 1979 hostage crisis anniversary with protest outside former US embassy-Chants of ‘Death to America,’ ‘Death to Israel’ spread among protesters, who burn flags to celebrate standoff that brought an end to Iran’s relations with the US-By AFP and ToI Staff Today, 10:36 am-NOV 3,24
Iranian demonstrators gathered on Sunday outside the former US embassy in Tehran to mark the anniversary of the 1979 hostage crisis that has for decades shaped relations between Washington and Tehran.The hostage crisis began in November 1979 following the Islamic Revolution led by Iran’s late supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini that ousted the Western-backed shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.Students loyal to Khomeini stormed the embassy building and held 52 staff hostage for 444 days while demanding that Washington hand over Iran’s recently toppled shah, who was being treated in the United States for cancer.Washington officially broke off relations with Tehran in 1980, midway through the crisis, and they have been frozen ever since.“Death to Israel, death to America!” chanted crowds of Iranians outside the building, which is currently a museum known as the “Den of Spies,” and covered with striking anti-American murals.Others burnt the Israeli and US flags.Iranians have held the rallies annually since 1979.Regional tensions have soared since the outbreak of war in Gaza last October, following the Hamas terror group’s assault on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, in which some 1,200 people were killed — most of them civilians — and 251 were seized as hostages.Israel, an ally of the US and long-standing foe of Iran, has been battling Hamas in Gaza ever since. It is also fighting against Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon to push the terror group back from the border and allow the safe return home of some 60,000 displaced people following a year of daily rocket and missile attacks on northern Israel.On October 26, Israel conducted targeted airstrikes on military sites in Iran in response to the massive ballistic missile attack launched by Tehran on October 1. Iran said at the time that its attack had been retaliation for the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut in September.Israel has warned Iran against responding to its attack.Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed on Saturday a harsh response against Israel and the US to attacks on Iran and its allies.“The enemies, both the USA and the Zionist regime, should know that they will definitely receive a crushing response to what they are doing against Iran, the Iranian nation and the resistance front,” Khamenei said in a speech to students in Tehran.Sunday’s event took place days ahead of the US elections pitting Republican former president Donald Trump against Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris.
Egypt hosting Fatah-Hamas talks on postwar Gaza governance, as part of truce efforts-Sources say talks are focused on putting together a committee of non-aligned Palestinian figures to comply with Israel’s demand that neither group run the Strip after the war-By Reuters and ToI Staff Today, 6:37 am-NOV 3,24
Senior officials of the rival Palestinian groups Fatah and Hamas have been meeting in Cairo to discuss forming a committee to manage Gaza’s postwar governance, an Egyptian security source was quoted as saying by Egypt’s Al Qahera News TV on Saturday.The talks are part of Egypt’s broader mediation efforts to broker a ceasefire between Israel and terror group Hamas and to expand humanitarian access to the enclave.Leaders from Hamas and the Fatah faction of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met in Cairo last month to discuss forming the committee based on a proposal put forward by Egypt, but talks were adjourned for later discussion, sources close to the talks told Reuters.The sources said the committee would be made up of independent Palestinian figures not aligned with a particular movement, addressing the question of who would run Gaza after the ongoing war is over.Israel rejects any role by Hamas in Gaza after the war is ended and has said it does not trust the rival Palestinian Authority of Abbas to run the enclave.Mediators, including Egypt and Qatar with backing from the United States, have so far failed to secure a truce that would end the war and facilitate a release of Israeli and foreign hostages held by Hamas, in exchange for Palestinian security prisoners held by Israel for crimes that include terror offenses.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that the war will continue until Hamas is dismantled. The terror group has demanded an end to the war and has rejected any hostage deal that doesn’t include an upfront commitment from Israel to end hostilities and withdraw its forces from the Strip, which Jerusalem says would leave Hamas free to plan a repeat of its October 7, 2023, onslaught that killed some 1,200 and resulted in the kidnapping of 251 hostages.Hamas political official Izzat al-Risheq dismissed proposals of limited or temporary truces as “smokescreens.”“We are positively open to any proposals or ideas that ensure the cessation of aggression and the withdrawal of occupation forces from Gaza,” al-Risheq said in a statement.According to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, 43,314 Palestinians have been killed and 102,019 injured 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 18,000 combatants in battle and another 1,000 terrorists inside Israel on October 7.
US said to warn Iran it won’t be able to restrain Israel if Tehran attacks again-American B-52 bombers arrive in region as Israel reportedly identifies initial signs of Iran preparing for attack, vows strong response even if strike carried out via proxies-By ToI Staff Today, 4:47 am-NOV 3,24
The US has reportedly warned Iran in recent days against launching another attack on Israel, adding that Washington will not be able to restrain Israel if it attacks again, the Axios news site reported Saturday, citing an unnamed US official and a former Israeli official.“We told the Iranians: We won’t be able to hold Israel back, and we won’t be able to make sure that the next attack will be calibrated and targeted as the previous one,” the US official was quoted as saying.The report quoted the official as saying the message had been conveyed directly to the Iranians, though the Israeli source said a message was passed to Tehran via Swiss intermediaries.There was no response from Washington or Tehran to the report, which came hours after Iran’s supreme leader threatened Israel and the US with “a crushing response” over attacks on Iran and its allies.Iranian officials are increasingly threatening to launch yet another strike against Israel in response to Jerusalem’s October 26 attack on the Islamic Republic that targeted military bases and facilities and that Iran said killed at least five people.Israel’s retaliatory strikes on Iranian military facilities came weeks after the Islamic Republic’s October 1 attack, in which Iran launched some 200 ballistic missiles at Israel, sending most of the population rushing to bomb shelters and safe rooms. It caused relatively minor damage to military bases and some residential areas, and killed a Palestinian man in the West Bank.Any further attacks from either side could engulf the wider Middle East, already teetering over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip and Israel’s ground operation in Lebanon, into a wider regional conflict just ahead of the US presidential election this Tuesday.Israel’s Kan public broadcaster reported Saturday that while US authorities have identified “initial movements” that indicate Iran is weighing how to respond, there aren’t yet clear indications regarding when or how it will happen.Channel 12 news reported, meanwhile, that Israel’s security establishment was estimating that Iran could choose to act via its Shiite militias in Iraq and Yemen, rather than responding directly, in an attempt to lower the risk of another Israeli attack on Iranian soil. The outlet said senior Israeli security officials were threatening to respond strongly to any attack regardless of where it originates.Meanwhile, Arab media outlets published footage Saturday indicating that an Israeli Navy missile boat had crossed the Suez Canal and was now in the Red Sea carrying an advanced launcher capable of firing the advanced LORA missile, which was developed by Israel Aerospace Industries and has a 400-kilometer range.— Shachar Kleiman שחר קליימן (@skleiman5791) November 2, 2024This is in addition to US deployment in the region.The US military operates throughout the Middle East, with some troops now manning a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, battery in Israel. The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier likely is in the Arabian Sea, while Pentagon press secretary Maj.Gen. Pat Ryder said Friday that more destroyers, fighter squadrons, tankers and B-52 long-range bombers would be coming to the region to deter Iran and its terror allies.The US Central Command said early Sunday that the B-52 bombers had arrived in the region.B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers from Minot Air Force Base's 5th Bomb Wing arrived in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. pic.twitter.com/6mDs4n5G2u— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) November 2, 2024-Earlier Saturday, Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei threatened Israel and the US with “a crushing response” over attacks on Iran and its allies.“The enemies, whether the Zionist regime or the United States of America, will definitely receive a crushing response to what they are doing to Iran and the Iranian nation and to the resistance front,” Khamenei said in video released by Iranian state media.The 85-year-old Khamenei had struck a more cautious approach in earlier remarks, saying officials would weigh Iran’s response and that Israel’s attack “should not be exaggerated nor downplayed.”But efforts by Iran to downplay the attack faltered as satellite photos and multiple reports in global media showed Israel’s strikes had crippled Iran’s ballistic missile production by destroying at least a dozen solid fuel mixers, and disabled crucial air defenses protecting major energy installations.Iran’s terror proxies, called the “Axis of Resistance” by Tehran, also have been severely hurt by ongoing Israeli attacks, particularly Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Iran has long used those groups as both an asymmetrical way to attack Israel and as a shield against a direct assault. Some analysts believe those groups want Iran to do more to back them militarily.Israel launched a war on Hamas in Gaza after the October 7, 2023, massacre in which some 3,000 Hamas-led terrorists invaded southern Israel, killed some 1,200 people and kidnapped 251 as hostages. Israel recently stepped up strikes on Hezbollah, which began launching rockets at Israel a day after the Hamas onslaught. Israel has vowed to push Hezbollah away from the border and enable tens of thousands of evacuees to return to their homes in northern Israel.Iran, which directly attacked Israel with missiles and drones for the first time in April, has been dealing with its own problems at home, as its economy struggles under the weight of international sanctions and it has faced years of widespread, multiple protests.Iran has long threatened Israel with destruction and called to wipe out the Jewish state.On Sunday, Iran marks the 45th anniversary of the US Embassy hostage crisis, following the Persian calendar. The November 4, 1979, storming of the embassy by Islamist students led to the 444-day crisis, which cemented the decades-long enmity between Tehran and Washington that persists today.AP contributed to this report.
'They can't go to Hillel, so they're doing their own thing' US campus ‘Gaza solidarity sukkahs’ ignite debates on anti-Zionist Jews’ observance-While almost certainly intended to be provocative, ceremonial huts at universities pose a question of whether the political messaging is cynical or genuine religious expression-By Andrew Lapin Today, 4:01 am-NOV 3,24
JTA — Last week the Brooklyn rabbi Andrue Kahn received a request from a group of Jewish students at New York University: Would he come to lead prayers at their sukkah?It wasn’t an unusual request for a rabbi during the holiday of Sukkot, but the circumstances behind it were decidedly more so. The student group was Jews Against Zionism, and the sukkah they constructed was what they called a “Gaza solidarity sukkah,” employing the traditional outdoor huts of the Jewish harvest festival to level pointed critiques at Israel’s ongoing military campaign in the Gaza Strip.Jews Against Zionism NYU has also expressed vocal support for Within Our Lifetime, a radical pro-Palestinian group that advocates Israel’s destruction and whose protest targets — including Brooklyn’s “OY/YO” sculpture and an exhibit commemorating the victims of the Nova festival massacre — have led mainstream Jewish groups and a range of politicians across the political spectrum to charge it with antisemitism.But Kahn didn’t bat an eye at the request, and came to Washington Square Park to lead the students in prayer and meditation. Because Jews Against Zionism reportedly hadn’t sought permission from NYU to build the structure, he had to do so from the other side of a barrier erected by campus police around the sukkah. (A spokesperson for NYU did not immediately return a request for comment.)Shortly afterward, according to NYU’s student newspaper, the student group took down their sukkah voluntarily and ahead of schedule, citing “aggressive agitators” and claiming that campus police had treated them with hostility. Betar US, a right-wing pro-Israel group that traces its roots to pre-state Zionist activist Zeev Jabotinsky, told the student paper they “happily and proudly” disrupted the sukkah. On Instagram, Betar referred to it and similar Gaza solidarity sukkahs as a “Jihaddi [sic] Sukkah” and referred to its participants as “thugs” and “terrorists.”“We joined their Gaza Solidarity Sukkah and we will again and again and again. We don’t apologize,” Betar wrote on a post decorated with images of the “Inglourious Basterds” movie character The Bear Jew. “We celebrate Sukkot and you don’t.” Comparing the groups behind the solidarity sukkah to the Hitler Youth, Betar added, “You advocate for jihad, and terror and hatred and are anti-American and antisemitic.”It was far from the only row over campus anti-Zionist versions of the sukkah this month.Across the country, around two dozen anti-Zionist Jewish groups, most aligned with Jewish Voice for Peace, constructed their own Gaza solidarity sukkahs in a similar spirit to the Passover seders and Shabbat services they held in encampments this spring.With this year’s High Holidays falling around the one-year anniversary of the October 7 massacre in which Hamas-led terrorists slaughtered 1,200 men, women and children in southern Israel and kidnapped 251 to the Gaza Strip, anti-Zionist Jews sought ways to merge their religious rituals with their political identities.While Sukkot was the most visible example of tensions around that, there were other signs of intra-Jewish unrest on campuses, including Harvard Hillel’s suspension of its chapter of the liberal pro-Israel group J Street U after the latter group initiated a Yom Kippur-themed flyer protest campaign.The sukkahs were met with a range of reactions, mostly in opposition, from universities on edge about stoking further campus tensions around Israel. In many cases, the sukkahs were classified as unauthorized structures and removed by university administrators, who cited new public protest rules solidified in the aftermath of this spring’s pro-Palestinian encampment movement.Such responses at times turned aggressive: Rutgers University, for example, brought a bulldozer to the site of its students’ anti-Zionist sukkah — where activists were chanting “L’chaim Intifada” — before ultimately removing it without the use of the construction vehicle. The students said they found this action especially offensive because the brand of bulldozer, Caterpillar, is routinely used in the West Bank by Israel and has long been a target of Israel divestment campaigns. (The family of American peace activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by a Caterpillar bulldozer operated by the IDF in 2003, sued the company.)So what was the Gaza solidarity sukkah movement and its institutional blowback? Was it a way to employ Jewish ritual to establish another encampment of sorts, given the overlap between the temporary structure of a sukkah and this spring’s efforts by pro-Palestinian groups to occupy campus spaces? Or was it an authentic effort to merge Jewish teachings with genuine Jewish anger at Israel over the colossal death toll in Gaza in the year-plus since the October 7, 2023, Hamas onslaught?For those close to the anti-Zionist Jews, the answer was obvious.“I thought that it was really important to support Jewish students looking to celebrate in a way that is meaningful to them,” Kahn, who until recently worked in the Hebrew school of the Reform Congregation Beth Elohim and has sharply criticized Israel from other pulpits in the past, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “These students can’t go to Hillel or Chabad for their Jewish practice because of their political beliefs. So they’re creating their own thing.”Kahn was certainly sympathetic to the students’ politics: He is currently trying to relaunch the American Council for Judaism, a group that formed in 1942 to advance objections to the Reform movement’s growing embrace of Zionism. (The group’s influence began to wane a few short years later, after the Holocaust and the formation of the State of Israel led most Reform Jews to embrace Zionist ideas.)At NYU’s Gaza solidarity sukkah, Kahn said, he saw more than an excuse to launch another protest against Israel. He saw a sukkah that, as far as he could tell, was heartfelt in its Jewish approach and fully in compliance with traditional sukkah construction, albeit one also adorned with slogans including “Disclose & Divest” and “Free Palestine.”“As far as I could tell, it was a kosher sukkah. The roof was see-through, they had three walls. They were doing it,” he said, noting also the students had sourced a lulav and etrog for the occasion (Israel, Morocco and China are prime etrog exporters; Kahn said he didn’t know where the students’ was from).Comparing the movement to the Freedom Seders of the civil rights era and afterward, Kahn said it fell in with a history of Jews merging political causes with their religious observance: “Although, yes, there were political messages on the sukkah itself, the intent of the students was a religious one.”Elsewhere, the line between the sukkah movement and the encampments became blurred. At Columbia University, whose students originated the encampment movement, anti-Zionist Jews continued the language of their protester coalition by deeming their hut a “liberation sukkah.” At the University of Pennsylvania, students had founded their campus JVP chapter only days before hosting the sukkah. Some of the sukkah, like one at Northwestern University, were constructed on the same campus locations where the encampment movement had been held.And the University of California, Los Angeles, played host to perhaps the most chaotic scene surrounding a Gaza solidarity sukkah. Joining up with a brief attempt to resurrect an encampment at the same spot, the sukkah shared space with a banner reading, “Resistance is justified from Warsaw to Palestine.” UCLA campus police soon broke up the display, arresting one protester for failing to obey a dispersal order as they broke up the sukkah, whose participants numbered around 40. A Betar group also showed up, threatening to “organize groups of Jews” to remove the display themselves until their progress was also halted by police.Signs like the one at UCLA, that directly advocate for violence against Israelis, are why detractors say the Gaza solidarity sukkot shouldn’t be seen as authentic means of Jewish practice.“Using these holidays as an excuse to justify the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust does a disservice to Jewish students,” Julia Jassey, founder of the activist group Jewish On Campus, told JTA. Jassey pointed to the UCLA sign in particular.UCLA authorities said the sukkah had violated several “time, place and manner” restrictions around campus speech, including “assembling in an area not designated for public expression, using unauthorized structures, and they have used amplified sound.” The justification was notable at UCLA, which recently received a legal ruling ordering it to do a better job protecting Jewish students’ freedom of movement throughout the campus.And UCLA wasn’t the only site of a Sukkot clash between Jews. A Hillel sukkah at Simmons University, a private school in Boston, was vandalized with messages reading “Gaza Liberation Sukkah” this week. The university president condemned the action as “the antisemitic vandalism of a Jewish religious symbol on our campus” in a statement and said it was being investigated as a potential hate crime.The school’s Hillel chapter also called the vandalism antisemitic in a statement, adding that its sukkah had been “co-opted through vandalism to make political statements” and that the act “sends a clear message: Jewish students are not welcome to openly celebrate and practice our customs.”On Instagram the Simmons JVP chapter pushed back, posting an image of the graffiti and declaring, “This is not antisemitism.” The chapter argued that the wording of the vandalism “is quite clearly meant to represent these Gaza Solidarity Sukkahs” on other campuses, and declared that labeling it antisemitic instead of anti-Zionist “directly harms and endangers Palestinian students and BIPOC and Muslim students who support Palestine.” The JVP post added, “Drop Hillel. Drop this bs.”Such endorsement of a sukkah sabotage was cause for alarm in some corners of the Jewish world, and the national JVP movement generally steered away from endorsing such actions. Instead it pushed the idea that most Gaza solidarity sukkahs were intended as alternative modes of Jewish practice for anti-Zionists. (Individual JVP chapters are given a degree of independence from the national movement to declare their own positions.)“This year, students could not separate their observance from the fact that tens of thousands of Palestinians are forced to live in temporary shelters due to [the] Israeli military’s mass destruction of homes in Gaza,” JVP said in a news release last week about the solidarity sukkahs. Among the guests at these solidarity sukkahs were Jewish author Naomi Klein and Jewish pro-Palestinian activist Simone Zimmerman.At some schools, students intended to stay in their sukkahs for eight days, a Jewish tradition that is rarely practiced in full outside Orthodox communities. These students were prevented from doing so by their administrators in most cases. This was wrong, JVP maintained.“The students explained that sleeping in sukkahs is an essential part of this holiday and part of their religious rights, but administrators choose to disregard the students’ pleas,” the JVP statement said, calling the dismantling of the sukkahs “a desecration of a religious structure.”Not every Gaza solidarity sukkah was built without trying to seek permission. At the University of Southern California, for example, a student JVP chapter sought and said it initially received permits to construct a sukkah at a religious center on campus. But, according to student newspaper The Daily Trojan, USC later denied the permits to JVP after catching wind of the group’s plans to adorn the sukkah with “political” messaging like a Palestinian flag banner. JVP later constructed its “solidarity sukkah” elsewhere on campus. (The school said it had denied the permit because the JVP chapter was not an officially recognized student organization.)And at Brown University, the school initially approved permit requests from BrownU Jews for Ceasefire Now to host a Gaza solidarity sukkah, until the students announced their intent to sleep in the structure for eight days. This, Brown said in a statement to JTA, was a “prohibited” act. The university said it first attempted to quietly resolve the situation with the students. When the sleep-in continued, a spokesperson said, the school began initiating disciplinary proceedings against the students. The students themselves then took down the sukkah after the eight days of the holiday were up; they claim that 17 of them are currently facing potential conduct violations.Such actions aren’t occurring in a vacuum. Days before at Brown, 150 activists had protested the university’s governing board after it voted down a proposal to divest from Israel; the school has since suspended its chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine for conduct violations related to the protest.Some progressive Jewish observers who are not students also denounced universities for shutting down the sukkahs. Rabbi Lex Rofeberg, who runs the Jewish digital learning project Judaism Unbound and visited Brown’s Gaza solidarity sukkah, said this year’s Sukkot “should be remembered as a pivotal moment in the history of American Judaism” due to university actions against the solidarity structures, and alleged that universities had overstepped their bounds by policing them.“It is not the place of universities to determine what is and is not an authentic manifestation of Jewish religious practice, as filtered through Bible, through Talmud, and through more recent Jewish texts,” Rofeberg wrote on the social network X. “And yet universities have asserted that that’s precisely their role.”His position was supported by some prominent progressive Jews and Jewish groups, including Jews for Racial and Economic Justice. But not every Jewish analyst agreed. Haviv Rettig Gur, a commentator for The Times of Israel, described anti-Zionist sukkahs as “unkosher” and accused them of deploying a “cynical use of Palestinian iconography.”For Kahn, the sukkah pointed to something much bigger.“I think that the Jewish community needs to very broadly get used to having a greater diversity of Jewish expression,” he said.
Not in trickles or phases’: At Tel Aviv rally, hostage families demand one-stage deal-Relatives and supporters appeal for ceasefire across country, argue deal would be ‘magnificent victory’; separate anti-Zionist protest in city accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza-By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff Today, 1:13 am-NOV 3,24
Protesters gathered across Israel Saturday evening to repeat their call for a deal to free hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.The protests have been held weekly nearly every Saturday night since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, onslaught, which saw terrorists kill some 1,200 people and kidnap 251.Some 500 people gathered at Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square for the Hostages and Missing Families Forum’s weekly rally to demand a deal to release the remaining 101 captives all at once.“There is no time for a multi-stage deal and no use for it,” said Ronen Neutra, father of Israeli-American hostage Omer Neutra, who was kidnapped while serving as a tank commander near Gaza.Two of the possible deals currently being discussed are an Egyptian proposal to release four hostages during a two-day ceasefire, and a multi-stage, Qatari-American proposal that would ultimately see all hostages released and the war ended.Hamas has rejected the proposed deals, insisting that any agreement include an upfront commitment by Israel to end the war and withdraw all its forces from Gaza. Israel has been accused by mediators of hindering progress in negotiations on several occasions by introducing new demands.Earlier draft agreements envisioned a staggered release, beginning with “humanitarian” cases, meaning female, elderly and injured hostages.“All the hostages are humanitarian [cases],” Neutra argued, adding that a speedy release of all the captives would afford Israel a “magnificent victory” over Hamas.Speaking in English, Orna Neutra, the hostage’s mother, said that during the Hamas assault, her son fought Hamas terrorists, knowing “that if something happened to him, he would not be left behind.”“That is the Israeli ethos,” she added.Noam Idan Ben Ezra, whose brother Tsahi Idan was kidnapped from his home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, said: “The hostages’ release requires an end to the war… The army has already won. Now it’s the political echelon’s turn.”Ben Ezra demanded a deal to release “everyone now, not in trickles and not in phases — Tsahi and all the hostages.”The rally also featured speeches by Amir Idan, Tsahi Idan’s cousin; Noam Katz, whose father Lior Rudaeff was killed on October 7 and his body kidnapped to Gaza; freed hostage Maya Regev; Ilan Dalal, father of hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal; and Dr. Ayelet Levy Shahar, mother of hostage Naama Levy.Levy Shahar urged the Israeli public to “take to the streets,” calling on them to “vote with your feet to save the values on which the state was founded.”A similar-sized protest was held simultaneously a block away on Begin Street, also calling for a hostage deal and accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of thwarting negotiations.Bolstering the Begin Road rally were organizations opposed to the government’s judicial overhaul advanced last year, including Darkenu, the Movement for Quality Government, and the reservist protest group Brothers in Arms, as well as a column of far-left activists who marched over from an earlier anti-war protest at Habima Square.That demonstration saw some 300 people protest under heavy police guard against the “genocide” in Gaza, an allegation Israel denies.“Killing children is a war crime. Starvation is a war crime. Destruction of cities is a war crime,” activist Alon Lee Green said. “All of this is happening in the name of the settlements,” he added, using the term “the Israeli Ku Klux Klan.” He assailed Israeli media and the Zionist left for “not telling us what is happening in Gaza.”In Jerusalem, protesters calling for the release of hostages marched from Zion Square to Paris Square.Some anti-government activists carried a large banner reading “A spy in my office? I didn’t see anything. Netanyahu — a useful idiot,” a criticism of Netanyahu amid an ongoing investigation into the alleged leak of classified documents from his office said to be aimed at countering the hostage families’ regular protests.Simultaneous anti-government protests also took place in Kfar Saba, Karkur and Hadera.It is believed that 97 of the 251 hostages abducted by Hamas in the October 7 attack remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 34 confirmed dead by the IDF.Hamas released 105 civilians during a weeklong truce in late November, and four hostages were released before that. Eight hostages have been rescued by troops alive, and the bodies of 37 hostages have also been recovered, including three mistakenly killed by the military as they tried to escape their captors.Hamas is also holding two Israeli civilians who entered the Strip in 2014 and 2015, as well as the bodies of two IDF soldiers who were killed in 2014.
IDF: Terrorist from Oct. 7 attack on Nir Oz killed in strike-Three soldiers killed in north Gaza; IDF says 900 terror operatives dead in Jabalia op-Military Police probing death of 3rd soldier; troops destroy Hamas underground weapons plant in Gaza City, as IDF denies claims by WHO, Hamas that it hit vaccination center-By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff 2 November 2024, 10:47 pm
Three Israeli soldiers were killed in two separate incidents in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, the military announced.Two of the slain troops were named as Staff Sgt. Itay Parizat, 20, from Petah Tikva, and Staff Sgt. Yair Hananya, 22, from Mitzpe Netofa.Both served in the Givati Brigade’s Shaked Battalion.Another soldier was seriously wounded in the same incident, the Israel Defense Forces said.The military said it was still probing the deadly incident.Their deaths brought Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip to 370.Separately, on Sunday morning, the IDF announced that another soldier was killed by a grenade explosion early the previous morning in northern Gaza, without publicizing his identity.He was named by local authorities as Shneur Zalman Cohen, 20, from the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar.The Military Police launched an investigation into the circumstances of the deadly incident, which was apparently not directly related to the fighting. — Carmel Dangor כרמל ×“× ×’×•×¨ (@carmeldangor) November 2, 2024-Meanwhile, the IDF announced Saturday that, according to the latest assessments, Israeli troops had killed some 900 terror operatives during an ongoing operation in northern Gaza’s Jabalia, which began last month.Another 700 Palestinians have been detained, among whom at least 300 have so far been confirmed to be members of terror groups, according to the IDF.In Gaza City, the IDF located and demolished a large underground weapons manufacturing plant operated by Hamas.The army said that troops with the 252nd Division located the tunnel network, where Hamas had previously manufactured weapons.The site was located “in the heart of a civilian population,” near Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood, the IDF said.In the tunnel, the IDF said troops found lathes and hundreds of components used to build rockets, mortars, grenades, and diving equipment, which would have been used by Hamas terrorists to infiltrate into Israel via the sea.Also in the tunnel, the IDF said it found several rooms where Hamas operatives could reside for long periods. The rooms included kitchens, bedrooms and offices.Combat engineers mapped out the tunnel system before demolishing it.The IDF said that by demolishing the tunnel and seizing the equipment, it “foiled another attempt by the Hamas terror organization to rearm.”Throughout the war, Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stressed that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools and mosques.Terrorist from Oct. 7 attack on Kibbutz Nir Oz killed-On Sunday the IDF announced that a Hamas Nukhba Force terrorist who participated in the October 7 onslaught was killed in a drone strike in the southern Gaza Strip last week.According to the military, Rafaat Ibrahim Mahmoud Aqdih was among the Nukhba terrorists who raided Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023, killing and abducting civilians.During the war, the IDF said he served as an assistant to the head of the Nukhba Force in Khan Younis. — Israeli Air Force (@IAFsite) November 3, 2024-Also on Saturday, the IDF denied claims made by the World Health Organization and Hamas that it had carried out a strike against a vaccination center in Gaza City earlier in the day, wounding six.“We have received an extremely concerning report that the Sheikh Radwan primary health care center in northern Gaza was struck today while parents were bringing their children to the life-saving polio vaccination in an area where a humanitarian pause was agreed to allow vaccination to proceed,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on X.“Six people, including four children, were injured,” he added.The WHO chief did not specify who carried out the strike, but a source in the Hamas-run civil defense agency tells AFP that it allegedly was “an Israeli quadcopter that fired two missiles which hit the wall of Sheikh Radwan clinic.”In response to a query on the matter, the IDF said it was aware of claims that civilians were hurt at the vaccination center, but contrary to the reports, it said that no Israeli strike had been carried out in the area at that time.“Today, a vaccination operation began, in coordination with the IDF via COGAT, and in cooperation with the international community, within which the population is allowed to safely reach the medical centers where the vaccinations will be given to the population,” the military said.“We are aware of a claim about the harm to Palestinian civilians at the Sheikh Radwan vaccination center in the northern Gaza Strip. Contrary to what was claimed, a preliminary investigation reveals that there was no strike by IDF forces in the area at the time in question,” the IDF said.The IDF added that it “emphasizes that the Hamas terror organization deliberately fires from civilian areas, systematically violates international law, and cynically exploits the civilian population as a shield for terror acts against the State of Israel.”The war erupted when Hamas-led terrorists attacked southern Israel on October 7, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 251 hostages to Gaza.According to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, 43,314 Palestinians have been killed and 102,019 injured 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 18,000 combatants in battle and another 1,000 terrorists inside Israel on October 7.
North Korea says new Hwasong-19 ICBM has 'matchless' nuclear attack capability by Thomas Maresca.
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 1, 2024-North Korea successfully test-fired its new Hwasong-19 intercontinental ballistic missile, state-run media reported Friday, with leader Kim Jong Un claiming the regime has secured an "irreversible" means of delivering nuclear weapons.Kim said the launch demonstrated the missile's "matchless strategic nuclear attack capability before the world," according to a report in the official Korean Central News Agency.The Hwasong-19, which was fired on Thursday, flew for 86 minutes and reached an altitude of 4,776 miles, KCNA said -- both records for a North Korean missile."The test of the latest strategic weapon system updated the recent records of the strategic missile capability of the DPRK and demonstrated the modernity and credibility of its world's most powerful strategic deterrent," the KCNA report said.The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is the official name of North Korea.The militaries of South Korea and Japan tracked the launch in real time Thursday and reported similar flight data."So far, the initial judgment is that it may have been a test launch of a new solid-propellant long-range ballistic missile," South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman Lee Kyung-ho said at a press briefing Thursday.Missiles using solid-fuel propellants have long been on Kim's wish list of weapons as they can be transported and launched more quickly than liquid-fuel models.The North's previous solid-fuel ICBM, the Hwasong-18, was first tested in April 2023 and is believed to have the capacity to reach anywhere in the continental United States.The new missile appears to be substantially larger than its predecessor. Images released by state media show the Hwasong-19 mounted on an 11-axle transporter-erector launcher while the Hwasong-18 uses a 9-axle TEL.However, it is still unclear whether Pyongyang has the atmospheric re-entry vehicle technology to successfully deliver a nuclear payload with its ICBMs.The missile test comes as North Korea has dispatched troops to Russia to assist Moscow's war against Ukraine.On Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that some 8,000 North Korean soldiers have moved to the border with Ukraine and may soon be deployed on the battlefield."We now assess that there are some 10,000 North Korean soldiers in total in Russia, and the most recent information indicates that as many as 8,000 of those North Korean forces have been deployed to the Kursk Region," Blinken said at a press briefing in Washington.The remarks came at a meeting at the State Department with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul and Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun."We've not yet seen these troops deploy into combat against Ukrainian forces, but we would expect that to happen in the coming days," Blinken said.South Korean defense officials warned earlier this week that North Korea was looking to stage a provocation ahead of the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday.On Friday, the South's Ministry of Unification, which oversees inter-Korean relations, echoed the assessment and added that the North may also want to distract attention from its troops in Russia."We believe that the launch may have had various purposes, such as demonstrating nuclear and missile capabilities and pressuring the United States, as well as diverting attention from the issue of sending North Korean troops to Russia," ministry spokeswoman Kim In-ae said at a press briefing.The United States, South Korea and Japan issued a joint statement condemning the test, saying the launch was North Korea's latest violation of multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions that restrict the regime's illicit nuclear and ballistic missile programs."We deplore the DPRK's decision to divert its scarce resources away from its people to these unlawful weapons programs," the statement said."The ROK, U.S. and Japan condemn in the strongest terms deepening military cooperation between the DPRK and Russia, including continued unlawful arms transfers, as well as the recent deployment of North Korean troops to Russia," the statement added.
Joint Russia sea drills signal start of Indonesian foreign policy shift By Marchio GORBIANO.
Jakarta (AFP) Nov 3, 2024-Indonesia's first joint military drills with Russia this week signal that new President Prabowo Subianto will seek a bigger role for Jakarta on the world stage as part of a significant foreign policy shift, analysts say.Indonesia has long maintained a neutral foreign policy and refuses to take sides in the Russia-Ukraine conflict or US-China rivalry, but Prabowo has called for stronger ties with Moscow despite Western pressure on Jakarta."It is part of a broader agenda to elevate ties with whomever it may be, regardless of their geopolitical bloc, as long as there is a benefit for Indonesia," said Pieter Pandie, researcher at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies.The southeast Asian ASEAN bloc, which Indonesia is a member of, held joint exercises with Russia in 2021, but Jakarta has never held drills alone with Moscow.Jakarta has billion-dollar trade ties with Moscow, but major arms imports have stalled in recent years, according to weapons watchdog SIPRI, following Western sanctions on Russia after it seized Crimea in 2014 and launched its full-scale military offensive on Ukraine in 2022.Still, Prabowo kept alive a $1.1 billion Russian fighter jet deal agreed in 2018 when he was appointed defence minister a year later, despite the reported threat of US sanctions.Jakarta also refused to budge when Western nations lobbied Indonesia to disinvite Russia from the G20 summit it hosted in 2022.Prabowo met Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in July, later announcing joint naval drills that experts say indicate how Moscow will grow in significance as part of a broader foreign policy.The five-day drills begin Monday in eastern Java where Moscow will send three corvette-class warships, a medium tanker ship, a military helicopter, and a tug boat."They reaffirm that we will not alienate one or two countries in the geopolitical arena," said Anton Aliabbas, an assistant professor at the Paramadina Graduate School of Diplomacy.- 'Great friend' -During his Kremlin visit, Prabowo -- a 73-year-old ex-general -- said he wanted to deepen the relationship with Russia."We consider Russia as a great friend and I would like to continue to maintain and enhance this relationship," Prabowo told Putin.Before his inauguration last month, Prabowo said he wanted to build a "web of strong friendships".To that end he visited more than a dozen countries including China and Australia, where he struck a key security deal, and Jakarta has since kickstarted a process to join the BRICS group of emerging economies.The new leader has already been tested at sea, with a Chinese coast guard vessel being driven away three times from Indonesian-claimed waters by Jakarta's ships last month.For Indonesia, the chance to host one of the world's most advanced navies is clear.It will allow "capacity building to be obtained" and for Jakarta to "exchange ideas" on maintaining Russian equipment it already owns, said Curie Maharani Savitri, defence analyst at Binus University.Indonesia has Russian-made amphibious tanks, helicopters, missiles and fighter jets in its arsenal.- 'Introductory phase' -Jakarta and Moscow have different maritime goals, with Indonesia facing threats of smuggling and piracy while Russia is looking for willing allies.Pieter said he expects the exercises to not be as advanced as annual Super Garuda Shield drills Indonesia hosts with the US and other allies."I think it's an introductory phase to the military relationship between the two, especially on the naval side," he said.But the drills may still raise eyebrows in Washington, which has been trying to diplomatically isolate Russia.The US embassy in Jakarta declined to comment on the drills.For Prabowo they allow him to send a message about his new policy in the early days of his presidency, said Pieter."Historically, the US has been the partner of choice for military exercises. But... Indonesia has been trying to diversify its partners," he said."And I think there's an overall bigger trend of that."
Taiwan detects 37 Chinese aircraft near island by AFP Staff Writers.
Taipei (AFP) Nov 3, 2024-Taiwan said it detected 37 Chinese fighter jets, drones and other aircraft near the self-ruled island on Sunday as Beijing carried out "long-distance" training flights.China has ramped up military activity around Taiwan in recent years as Beijing pressures Taipei to accept its claims of sovereignty over the island.The Chinese aircraft were spotted from 9:00 am (0100 GMT) and 35 of them crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait, which separates mainland China and Taiwan, and entered Taiwanese airspace on their way to the Western Pacific Ocean, the defence ministry said.Taiwan's military responded by deploying aircraft, naval vessels and shore-based missile systems, the ministry said.The exercise came a day after Taiwan said it had detected a Chinese military "joint combat readiness patrol" around the island involving fighter jets and warships.Taiwan spotted 27 Chinese aircraft and six warships in the 24 hours to 6:00 am on Sunday, the ministry said earlier.China considers Taiwan part of its territory and has refused to rule out the use of force to bring the democratic island under its control.Beijing held large-scale military drills around Taiwan last month, which were condemned by Taipei and its key backer the United States.The Chinese military conducted long-distance training flights in late September, the ministry said previously, when Beijing also fired an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean.
US bomber joins air drill with S. Korea, Japan by AFP Staff Writers.
Seoul (AFP) Nov 3, 2024-South Korea, Japan, and the United States on Sunday conducted a joint air drill involving a heavy bomber, Seoul's military said, in response to North Korea's latest long-range missile test.The exercise took place three days after Pyongyang launched one of its most powerful and advanced solid-fuelled intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), which experts say could reach targets in the mainland US.The drill mobilised the US' B-1B bomber, South Korea's F-15K and KF-16 fighter jets, and Japan's F-2 jets, Seoul's military said."The exercise demonstrates the commitment of the ROK-US alliance to integrated extended deterrence in response to the advancing nuclear and missile threats from North Korea," said South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff in a press release.During the aerial manoeuvre, South Korea and Japan's jets escorted the US strategic bomber to a designated location south of the Korean peninsula, "demonstrating an overwhelming capability to swiftly and accurately strike simulated targets," it added.The B-1B Lancer is a supersonic heavy bomber known for its high-speed performance with a payload of 75,000 pounds (34,000 kilograms) of munitions, including both conventional and precision-guided weapons.It was the fourth time this year the bomber was deployed to the Korean peninsula, the military said, and the second time for a trilateral aerial exercise to counter Pyongyang's military threats.The North's latest ICBM launch is said to have flown higher and further than any previous missile, according to North Korea as well as Seoul and Tokyo's militaries, which tracked it in real-time.The official Korean Central News Agency hailed it as "the world's strongest strategic missile," and leader Kim "expressed great satisfaction" at the successful launch.North Korea "would never change its line of bolstering up its nuclear forces," the agency said.The launch came amid growing international scrutiny over Pyongyang's purported deployment of thousands of troops to Russia to support Moscow's war efforts in Ukraine, raising concerns North Korean soldiers in Russian uniforms could soon engage in combat.
WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
The King of Jerusalem[1] was the supreme ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Crusader state founded by Christian princes in 1099 when the First Crusade took the city.Godfrey of Bouillon, the first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, himself refused the title of king, and instead chose the title "Defender of the Holy Sepulchre". Thus, the title of king was only introduced for his successor, King Baldwin I in 1100. The city of Jerusalem was lost in 1187, but the Kingdom of Jerusalem survived (also known as the "Second Kingdom of Jerusalem"), moving its capital to Acre in 1191. The city of Jerusalem was re-captured in the Sixth Crusade, during 1229–39 and 1241–44. The Kingdom of Jerusalem was finally dissolved with the fall of Acre and the end of the Crusades in the Holy Land in 1291.After the Crusader States ceased to exist, the title of King of Jerusalem was claimed by a number of European noble houses descended from the kings of Cyprus or the kings of Naples. The (purely ceremonial) title of King of Jerusalem is currently used by Felipe VI of Spain. It was claimed by Otto von Habsburg as Habsburg pretender, and by the kings of Italy until 1946.
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week:(7 YEARS) and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
GENESIS 25:20-26
20 And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22 And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went
toenquire of the LORD.
23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)
MATTHEW 24:37-42 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)(50% OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE)
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
DR SAMUEL DOCTORIANS VISION - SECOND ANGEL: MIDDLE EAST
Then I saw that the second angel had a sickle in his hand, such as is used in harvesting.The second angel said: "Harvest time has come in Israel and the countries all the way to Iran."I saw those countries in a few split seconds."All of Turkey and those [inaudible] countries that have refused me and refused my message of love shall hate each other and kill one another."I saw the angel raise the sickle and come down on all the Middle East countries. I saw Iran, Persia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, all of Georgia - Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, all of Asia Minor - full of blood. I saw blood all over these countries. And I saw fire; Nuclear weapons used in many of those countries. Smoke rising from everywhere. Sudden destruction – men destroying one another. I heard these words:"Israel, Oh Israel, the great judgment has come." The angel said, "The chosen, the church, the remnant, shall be purified. The Spirit of God shall prepare the children of God."I saw fires rising to heaven.The angel said: "This is the final judgment. My church shall be purified, protected and ready for the final day. Men will die from thirst. Water shall be scarce all over the Middle East. Rivers shall dry up, and men will fight for water in those countries."The angel showed me that the United Nations shall be broken in pieces because of the crisis in the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.
DANIEL CHAPTER 9:24-27 EXPLAINED.
24 Seventy weeks (70X7=490 YEARS) are determined upon thy people (ISRAEL) and upon thy holy city,(JERUSALEM) to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.(JESUS ANNOINTED WITH HOLY OIL AS KING OF JERUSALEM FOREVER).
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, (7X7=49 YEARS) and threescore and two weeks:(62X7=434 YEARS) the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.(490-49-434=7 YR PERIOD WERE GOD DEALS WITH ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM (NOT THE CHURCH-THE TRUE CHURCH IS IS IN HEAVEN WITH JESUS FOR THAT LAST 7 YEAR PERIOD.)(DANIEL 9:26-27 IS IN THE FUTURE WHEN GOD DEALS ON EARTH WITH ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM FOR THAT FINAL 7 TEAR PERIOD. WHEN ALL OF ISRAEL WILL BE SAVED BY MESSIAH JESUS.)(AT THE END OF IT)
26 And after threescore and two weeks (69X7=483 YEARS)(ONE 7 YEAR PERIOD UNTIL PROPHECY IS FULFILLED) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince (ROMANS) that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(2ND TEMPLE AND JERUSALEM) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(NOW THE FINAL ISRAEL-JERUSALEM COUNTDOWN FOR MESSIAH JESUS RETURN THE LAST 7 YEARS)
27 And he (HE WHO? HE HERE IS THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE LEADER THAT MAKES THE FINAL 7 YR CONTRACT WITH ISRAEL AND MANY MUSLIM COUNTRIES FOR A 7 YR PERIOD, AND THE EU WILL GUARENTEE ISRAELS SECURITY FOR THIS LAST PERIOD) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: (7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week (3 1/2 YEARS IN) he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, (THIS FALSE MESSIAH OR ROMAN LEADER STOPS THE ANIMAL SACRIFICES IN THE 3RD TEMPLE AT THE MIDPOINT OF THE 7 YR DEAL. A JEW MURDERS HIM WITH A SWORD WOUND AND HE HAS A FALSE RESSURECTION-SATAN INCARNATES IN HIS BODY. AND BRINGS HIM BACK TO LIFE.AND HE THEN SITS IN THE 3RD TEMPLE CALLING HIMSELF GOD AS THE WORLD SAYS HES JESUS REINCARNATED. AND BY THIS FALSE RESURRECTION GOD SENDS THIS STRONG DELUTION ON THE EARTH THAT ALL THE LOST WILL WORSHIP THIS ROMAN LEADER AS GOD AND ACCEPT HIS NAME, NUMBER OR NUMBER OF HIS NAME IN THEIR MICROCHIP IMPLANT. THAT THEY MIGHT BE DOOMED, DAMNED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE FOREVER. WHO WORSHIPS THIS ROMAN LEADER AS GOD.) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.(WARS NON STOP DURING THE LAST 3 1/2 YEARS OF THE 7 YEAR PERIOD. HAMAS DEATH CULT HOSTAGE RELEASE.
Israeli Think Tank Urges Greater Jewish Outreach to Evangelicals-Pray for the well-being of Yerushalayim, "May those who love you be at peace"Psalms 122:6 (the israel bible) Staff Writer-Israel News-November 3, 2024
A prominent Israeli think tank released a study last week emphasizing the importance of Jewish outreach to evangelicals, especially critical in light of the ongoing war. In “American Evangelicals, Jews, and Israel”, the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) urged Israeli decision makers to explore “new strategies, promoting shared values and inclusivity to maintain broad, stable support for Israel.”“With support for Israel dropping among young evangelicals and minority groups, the JPPI is correct in not only identifying the problems, but coming up with important recommendations that I hope are closely studied by Israeli decision makers,” commented Israel365 founder Rabbi Tuly Weisz.The JPPI’s study on Israel and the Jewish community’s relationship with evangelicals are summarized in a 70-page white paper and include the following seven specific recommendations:Engagement with Evangelicals: Israel should recognize the importance of evangelicals, enhancing tourist, volunteer and student visa policies and participate in Christian events to build relationships especially in North America.Fund Pro Israel Initiatives: Support initiatives for young evangelicals, particularly Black, Latino, and youth groups, highlighting shared narratives like liberation and anti-racism, while allowing for some Israeli policy criticism.Focus Groups: Establish focus groups to craft effective messages for targeted evangelical groups, focusing on shared values like Jerusalem’s significance and a narrative connecting divine mission with redemption post-Holocaust.Orthodox Collaboration: Explore partnerships between young Jewish Orthodox and evangelical students, particularly in college, to foster mutual support based on common values like faith and community.Latino Evangelical Support: Study Latino evangelicals’ views on Israel, as their support may mirror that of White evangelicals.Bridge-Building with Young Evangelicals: Engage young evangelicals and young evangelicals of color to strengthen ties with Jewish communities, using inclusive, populist messaging.New Department for Christian Outreach: Create a new agency focused on Christian interests in Israel and relationships with diverse evangelical groups in North America.A webinar held last week featured opening remarks by JPPI president Prof. Yedidia Stern and moderated by JPPI fellow Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn. The webinar featured a panel discussion with Rev. Akaya Kitchen, President, Lifting up Zion; Rev. David Parsons, International Christian Embassy, Jerusalem; Prof. Gil Troy, Senior Fellow, JPPI and Rabbi Steve Wernick, Beth Tzedec Congregation, Toronto.
THESE SLIME BAG SUCKERS TO SATAN WILL FIND OUT THE SECOND THEY CLOSE THEIR EYES IN DEATH THAT WITCHES BURN IN HELL FIRE TORMENTS AND DEMON TORTURES FOREVER AND EVER WITH THEIR NEVER DYING BODIES.
Witches Try to Curse Trump but Fail - “Do not turn to ghosts and do not inquire of familiar spirits to be defiled by them, I am Hashem your God.Leviticus 17:31 (the israel bible)-Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz-Israel News-November 3, 2024
A Reddit thread has revealed a widespread effort by self-proclaimed witches to block President Donald Trump’s campaign. While this has happened in the past, for the first time, the spellcasters are complaining that the spells are being blocked because the GOP candidate has “some kind of protection around him.”The Toronto Star reported on a group of about 100 witches who have been gathering each month by Zoom to curse Trump. Armed with orange candles, tarot cards, and a photo of Trump, they cast a spell to block his return to the White House. The final words of their synchronized ritual—’You’re fired!’—echo as Trump’s image burns to the ground,” the Star reports.Another group of witches was led by Wendy Houseman, a D.C.-based witch who left her corporate career to practice witchery full-time. With 25,000 subscribers on her mailing list, she has invited all of them to join her in a spell she calls “future-casting” to prevent Trump from winning the election.Michael M. Hughes, one of the originators of the Trump binding spell in 2017, suggested that these rituals gained momentum in participation as the election neared.“There was a renewed energy from witches once Kamala got the nomination,” he said.But despite their best efforts, several posts report that the spells are being blocked. “I hate to say this, but don’t do magic against him. He has a form of protection surrounding him that feeds off of magic done against him,” one post read. “You will have better results if you focus your magic on helping his opponent or protecting yourself and others. I wish it would work to bind him or do a freezer spell, but you will only be helping him.”Reddit "Witches" are trying to cast spells on Trump but they're upset because he has "some kind of protection around him." pic.twitter.com/WdCaAsUTtH — Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) October 22, 2024-Trump has frequently been targeted by people who claim to practice the dark arts.In 2017, Israel365 News reported that the noted mystic spiritual leader Rabbi Nir Ben Artzi warned against witchcraft and black magic making a comeback in the world in his weekly sermon. Rabbi Ben Artzi warned that these dark powers would be used against world leaders in an attempt to usurp God’s rule, explicitly mentioning President Trump as a target of these dark powers. Rabbi Ben Artzi reassured his followers that these efforts would prove futile.“[God] rules the world, and not the powers of impurity. Idol worshippers look to the stars and tell fortunes in tea cups, using tarot cards, and other methods. They believe these things rule the future,” the rabbi said.
REPORT: CBS News tells reporters: “Jerusalem is not in Israel”If I forget you, O Yerushalayim, let my right hand wither;Psalms 136:5 (the israel bible)Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz-Jerusalem-October 11, 2024
According to a recent report, Mark Memmott, CBS News’s senior director of standards and practices, emailed all of its employees in August, instructing them to “be careful with some terms when we talk or write about the news” from Israel and Gaza. According to the report in The Free Press, the employees were instructed that when referring to Jerusalem, “Do not refer to it as being in Israel.” It should be emphasized that this instruction was issued to thousands of journalists and reporters. “Yes, the U.S. embassy is there and the Trump administration recognized it as being Israel’s capital. But its status is disputed. The status of Jerusalem goes to the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel regards Jerusalem as its ‘eternal and undivided’ capital, while the Palestinians claim East Jerusalem—occupied by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war—as the capital of a future state.”The story comes as part of ongoing revelations made by The Free Press on “a double standard exists for journalism at CBS when it relates to Israel and Jews.”Jerusalem was unified in the 1967 Six-Day War and annexed in its entirety by the Israeli government under the Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel passed by the Knesset on 30 July 1980.The US government has recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital under the Jerusalem Embassy Act passed by Congress in 1995.A previous report revealed a meeting of CBS Mornings’ editorial team Tuesday that included a debate about whether it is “fair to talk about whether Israel should exist at all.” During the debate, Tony Dokoupil was admonished for his tough questioning of Ta-Nehisi Coates about the inaccuracies and anti-Israel views expressed in his new book, The Message. Coates was provided the questions before the interview by co-host Gayle King. “Why leave out that Israel is surrounded by countries that want to eliminate it? Why leave out that Israel deals with terror groups that want to eliminate it?” Dokoupil had asked Coates.One CBS employee told the Free Press that the controversy surrounding Dokoupil has revealed a double standard at the network. “There is a huge difference between how all ethnic or minority groups are treated and how Jews and Jewish issues are treated,” the CBS insider said. “The rule of thumb is: If you are Jewish and you are interested in reporting on Jews or Jewish issues, that’s a ‘hold on’ or a ‘no,’ whereas for any other group it would be an enthusiastic ‘yes.’”Dokoupil is Jewish and his ex-wife and two children live in Israel.
Sanhedrin Counts the Jubilee Cycle in Jerusalem-And you shall hallow the fiftieth year. You shall proclaim release throughout the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you: each of you shall return to his holding and each of you shall return to his family.Leviticus 25:10 (the israel bible) Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz-Biblical News-October 23, 2024
On Sunday, eight members of the nascent Sanhedrin appeared in Jerusalem near the Temple Mount to bless the new year in the Jubilee cycle. When Rosh Hashana ended, it was time for Jews to count the tenth year of the Jubilee cycle. The blessing and the count are as follows:Baruch Atah Adonai Elohenu Melech Ha-olam, Asher Kidshanu B’Mitsvotav, V’Tsivanu Al Sfirat Shemittim v’Yovalot.Blessed art thou, Ruler of the Universe, who sanctifies us in his commandments, and has commanded us to count the sabbaticals and the Jubilees.Hashana HaZot Hee Hashanna Hachamisha La’Yovel Harishon v’Hashanna Hashnia LaShmitta Rishon Bayovel Harishon.This year is the tenth year of the first Jubilee, which is one ‘week’ and three years for the first sabbatical in the first Jubilee.The Shemitah is part of a larger framework of seven Shemitah (sabbatical) cycles, in which we count 49 years, and then the 50th year is the Jubilee year, as described in Leviticus.And you shall hallow the fiftieth year. You shall proclaim release throughout the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you: each of you shall return to his holding and each of you shall return to his family. Leviticus 25:10-In Judaism, it is a positive religious commandment “to sanctify the 50th year” (Leviticus 25:8). In actual practice, the Biblically-mandated requirement to observe the Jubilee year was disrupted when the 10 Tribes were exiled approximately 2,700 years ago. Prior to that time, the Jews were careful about counting the cycles leading to the Jubilee year. They observed all the Biblical requirements of the Jubilee year, including freeing slaves and returning property to its original owner.The Jubilee year is observed only when all of the Nation of Israel is in the Land of Israel. Therefore, when the Jews returned from the Babylonian Exile, since many chose to remain in the Diaspora, the Jubilee was not observed. For the same reason, the Jubilee was not observed in modern Israel.This all changed in 2016 when the Sanhedrin ruled that the conditions for counting the Jubilee existed. When Rosh Hashana ended, it was time for Jews to count the fifth year of the Jubilee cycle. The Jubilee can still be counted. The blessing and the count are as follows:Observance of the Jubilee is dependent upon most of Israel being in the land of Israel. There are 5 mitzvot connected to the Jubilee: counting the Jubilee, letting free slaves, returning land, blowing the shofar, and forgiving debts.On the Jubilee, the shofar of an ibex is blown to announce freedom to the land. An ibex represents freedom, because of the character of the ibex itself, running free in the mountains. The Jerusalem Talmud says that you blow a shofar from a rare animal to announce freedom, which is a rare and wonderful thing.To begin counting the Jubilee in 2018, the Sanhedrin, as a bet din (rabbinic court), ruled that the Jews have returned to inherit the land as a nation and not just as individuals. This requires at least 600,000 Jews, equal to the number of Israelites that returned to Israel from Egypt under Joshua.It is interesting to note that despite the actions of the Jews determining the initiation of the Shemitah year, the first Shemitah year was a multiple of seven since the creation of the world, according to the Jewish calendar. The year after the destruction of the Second Temple, 3829, was also known to be a Shemitah year, 547 seven-year cycles since the world’s creation. The current Hebrew year is 5780; precisely 825 Shemitah cycles plus five years.According to Jewish tradition, re-establishing the Biblically-mandated Jubilee year is part of the messianic process.“On that day, will I raise up the fallen booth (Sukkah) of David.” Amos 9:11This verse comes in the context of a prophecy about God bringing the nation of Israel back from exile among the nations. Amidst descriptions of the days preceding the Messiah, the Babylonian Talmud in the Tractate of Sanhedrin, 97a, explains the verse from Amos and its implications.“As it is written, in that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen. Our Rabbis taught: in the seven-year cycle at the end of which the son of David will come-in the first year, this verse will be fulfilled.”
Musk amplifies conservative voices in liberal Silicon Valley By Julie JAMMOT.
San Francisco (AFP) Nov 1, 2024-Silicon Valley, a stronghold of Democratic politics, is experiencing a shift as more voices, seemingly emboldened by Elon Musk, have openly declared their support for Donald Trump.The South African-born tech mogul is leading this change, committing nearly $100 million to the Republican's presidential campaign, while leveraging his X social media platform and personally campaigning in crucial swing states to aid Trump's White House bid."Musk is revered by a lot of people in Silicon Valley," said tech entrepreneur and author Vivek Wadhwa, who teaches at Carnegie Mellon University."More people on the right are just saying 'Look, we're fed up, we're going to vote for Trump,' and they're doing it fearlessly and are impacting the opinion of others."Musk's embrace of Trump has amplified ideological currents that have long existed quietly in the California tech scene, best represented today by Peter Thiel, a conservative investor who worked with Musk at PayPal 25 years ago.PayPal veteran David Sacks, a college friend of Thiel's, co-hosted a high-profile fundraiser for Trump in San Francisco in June and spoke at the Republicans' nominating convention.Nick Pinkston, founder and CEO of Volition, noted that many conservative voices, led by Thiel, have always been present, guided by libertarian principles."Some of those people were already conservative, and now they're given more license to speak," he said.According to Pinkston, who closely follows tech-world politics, this group has grown disillusioned with today's version of democracy and sees Trump as a ticket to less government and lower taxes.- 'It's gone too far' -Trump secured only 34 percent of California's vote in 2020 -- and just 12.7 percent in San Francisco -- but recent developments have given voice to anti-progressive sentiment.A perceived, if statistically nonexistent, rise in crime, and the city's strict Covid-19 regulations, which led to the temporary closure of companies like Tesla, drew bitter criticism, with Republicans slamming San Francisco as out of control."San Francisco is far more left than the rest of the country, and many people think it's gone too far," said Sheel Mohnot, a Fintech investor. "We have a lot of problems -- crime, homelessness, et cetera -- and people are just wanting to pivot hard against that."These Silicon Valley conservatives argue that progressive policies focusing on diversity, inclusion and LGBTQ+ rights have come at the expense of addressing crime and taxes, and advancing innovation."People are fed up with the extremism of the proclaimed progressives, how they have made San Francisco a complete mess and chased out companies such as Tesla," Wadhwa said.Pinkston insisted that most tech workers remain relatively apolitical but vote Democratic in presidential elections."The typical worker is a centrist Democrat," he said, and not part of a group "that spends a lot of time thinking about women, for sure."Abortion rights, protected in California but abolished or sharply limited in many American states, are a major theme of Democrat Kamala Harris's presidential campaign.For Lawrence Quill, professor of political theory at San Jose State University, the start-ups of the early days of innovation have grown up."In the 1970s and '80s, technology companies...thought of themselves as revolutionaries, good guys.""That simplistic view of morality is hard to maintain in a global marketplace," he said, adding, "Consider the issues surrounding Apple and Google doing business in China."- Many techies still lay low -While some billionaire tech leaders, notably including Musk, have been outspoken, most are avoiding political involvement.Trump's relationship with this group has been contentious. During his presidency, he frequently criticized Amazon, allegedly denying the company a major defense contract due to his animosity toward founder Jeff Bezos.Bezos recently prohibited the Washington Post, which he owns, from endorsing any presidential candidate, while Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reportedly initiated informal discussions with Trump.Other tech giants are similarly distancing themselves from politics and trying not to offend Trump.Mark Zuckerberg has stopped election-related philanthropy, while his company Meta has modified its algorithms to reduce political content.Trump claims to have received calls from Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple CEO Tim Cook.But as their bosses lay low, opponents to Musk and Trump still outnumber their fans among "techies.""Objectively, 'you' are the biggest threat to democracy in America today," Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun replied to a Musk post last week."You are an oligarch who bought himself a huge megaphone so he could use it to support a would-be dictator, and to discredit...all the institutions necessary for a functioning democracy," he added.
