JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
ISRAEL WILL CONTROL AND MILITARISE GAZA AND WESTBANK.NOT THE USELESS PA OR UNITED NATIONS.OR AMERICA.
WORLD TERRORISM
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.
STRONGS CONCORDANCE FOR VIOLENCE IN THE BIBLE-SEE IT FOR YOURSELVES.
2554.
chamas - Strong's Concordance - chamas: to treat violently or wrong -
Part of Speech: Verb - Transliteration: chamas -Phonetic Spelling:
(khaw-mas') - Definition: to treat violently or wrong - make bare, shake
off, violate, do violence, take away violently, wrong -A primitive
root; to be violent; by implication, to maltreat -- make bare, shake
off, violate, do violence, take away violently, wrong, imagine
wrongfully.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD
said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son,
and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because
the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE
ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND
DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM
HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES
FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the
presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN
JEWS)
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 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 MOON GOD ALLAH
OF ISLAM)
SECOND ANGEL: The Middle East DR DOCTORIAN
Then
Isawthat the second angel had a sickle in his hand,such asis used in
harvesting. The second angelsaid, “Harvest time has come in Israel and
the countries all the wayto Iran.” Isawthose countriesin a
fewsplitseconds. “All of Turkey and those other 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. Isaw blood all over these countries. And I saw fire; nuclear
weapons were 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. Watershall be scarce all over the Middle East. Rivers shall dry
up, and men will fight for water in those countries.” The angelshowed me
that the United Nationsshall be broken in pieces because of the
crisisin the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The
angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.
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)
ISAIAH 54:3
03-King James
Bible-For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and
thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be
inhabited.
The right hand was a symbol of strength-Exodus 15:6, ”
Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power. Your right hand, O LORD,
shatters the enemy.”
EZEKIEL 17:15-24 (MUSLIM COUNTRIES HISTORY)
15
But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that
they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he
escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be
delivered?
16 As I live, saith the Lord God, surely in the place
where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and
whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall
die.
17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company
make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to
cut off many persons:
18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the
covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these
things, he shall not escape.
19 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; As
I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he
hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head.
20 And I
will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I
will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his
trespass that he hath trespassed against me.
21 And all his fugitives
with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall
be scattered toward all winds: and ye shall know that I the Lord have
spoken it.
22 Thus saith the Lord God; I will also take of the
highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from
the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high
mountain and eminent:
23 In the mountain of the height of Israel will
I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a
goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the
shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
24 And all the trees
of the field shall know that I the Lord have brought down the high
tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have
made the dry tree to flourish: I the Lord have spoken and have done it.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7
Gebal,(HEZBOLLAH, LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and
Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the
inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
8 Assyria (SYRIA) also has joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot. Selah
9 Deal with them as with Midian, As with Sisera, As with Jabin at the Brook Kishon,
10 Who perished at En Dor, Who became as refuse on the earth.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and like Zeeb, Yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 Who said, “Let us take for ourselves The pastures of God for a possession.”
13 O my God, make them like the whirling dust, Like the chaff before the wind!
14 As the fire burns the woods, And as the flame sets the mountains on fire,
15 So pursue them with Your tempest, And frighten them with Your storm.
16 Fill their faces with shame, That they may seek Your name, O Lord.
17 Let them be [e]confounded and dismayed forever; Yes, let them be put to shame and perish,
18 That they may know that You, whose name alone is the Lord, Are the Most High over all the earth.
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.
4 IRGC officers, including Syria
intel chief, killed in Damascus strike blamed on Israel-Revolutionary
Guards’ deputy intel chief in Syria also among the dead; security source
says multi-story building entirely flattened by ‘precision-targeted
Israeli missiles’ By Agencies and ToI Staff Today, 1:04 pm-JAN 20,24
An
alleged Israeli strike on Damascus killed the Iranian Revolutionary
Guards’ intelligence chief for Syria and his deputy as well as two other
Guards members on Saturday, Iranian media said.“The Revolutionary
Guards’ Syria intel chief, his deputy and two other Guards members were
martyred in the attack on Syria by Israel,” Iran’s Mehr news agency
said, quoting an informed but unnamed source.Local reports in Syria said
that at least five people were killed in the strike.An official with an
Iran-backed group in the Middle East told The Associated Press that the
building was used by Revolutionary Guard officials, adding that the
“Israeli missiles” destroyed the whole building.Syrian state media also
blamed the strike on “an Israeli aggression.”A security source, part of a
network of groups close to Syria’s government and its major ally Iran,
said the multi-story building was used by Iranian advisers supporting
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government, and that it was entirely
flattened by “precision-targeted Israeli missiles.”There was no
confirmation from Israel, which rarely comments on alleged strikes in
Syria.A spokesman for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad said that no members
of the terror group were wounded in the strike, following reports that
some were at the bombed-out building. Unsourced Hebrew and Arabic media
reports had initially said that PIJ deputy Akram al-Ajouri had also been
killed in the strike.The strike was carried out in the Mazzeh
neighborhood, a high-security zone that is home to the United Nations’
headquarters and embassies.A grocer near the scene of the strike said he
heard five consecutive explosions at about 10:15 a.m., adding that he
later witnessed the bodies of a man and a woman being taken away as well
as three wounded people.“The shop shook. I stayed inside for few
seconds then went out and saw the smoke billowing from behind the
mosque,” said the man, who asked that his name not be used for security
reasons.The alleged Israeli strike came days after Iran fired missiles
at what it said were Israeli “spy headquarters” in an upscale
neighborhood near the sprawling US Consulate compound in Erbil, the seat
of Iraq’s northern semi-autonomous Kurdish region.Last month, senior
IRGC officer Brig. Gen. Razi Mousavi was killed in an alleged Israeli
airstrike in Damascus, drawing Iranian threats of retaliatory
action.Recent weeks have seen several alleged sorties carried out
against sites in Syria as part of Israel’s ongoing efforts to prevent
Iran from supplying arms to its proxy Hezbollah, which has stepped up
attacks on northern Israel over the past several months amid the ongoing
war in Gaza.Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told his American counterpart
Lloyd Austin on Thursday night that Israel was nearing a decision point
on Lebanon and the conflict with Iran-backed Hezbollah.Lebanese
officials said Thursday that Hezbollah had rebuffed Washington’s initial
proposal for stopping clashes with Israel, including pulling its
fighters further from the border, but remained open to US diplomacy to
avoid a ruinous war.Gallant’s comments followed similar remarks by IDF
Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi earlier this week, who said a war in the
north in the coming months was becoming more likely.Since October 8, a
day after the deadly Hamas attacks on southern Israel, Hezbollah has
engaged in cross-border fire on a near-daily basis, launching rockets,
drones and missiles at northern Israel in a campaign it says is in
support of Hamas.The attacks forced most residents several kilometers
from the border to evacuate. Israel has responded with its own regular
strikes on Hezbollah targets, and has warned it will not be able to
tolerate the terrorists’ continued presence on the border.The
Iran-backed terror group Hamas launched a massive onslaught on October
7, killing approximately 1,200 people in Israel and kidnapping 240,
mostly civilians, amid horrendous acts of brutality and sexual
assault.In response, Israel vowed to eliminate Hamas, launching a
wide-scale military campaign in Gaza aimed at destroying the group’s
military and governance capabilities.Iran, which supports Hamas both
financially and militarily, has hailed the devastating October 7 attacks
as a “success” but denied any direct involvement.
Iran says it
successfully launched satellite in Revolutionary Guards’ space
program-Tehran says it reached highest orbit yet; no independent
confirmation; US has said launch vehicle development ‘shortens timeline’
for intercontinental ballistic missile advancement
By Jon Gambrell Today, 11:40 am-JAN 20,24
AP
— Iran said Saturday it had conducted a successful satellite launch
into its highest orbit yet, the latest for a program the West fears
improves Tehran’s ballistic missiles.The announcement comes as
heightened tensions grip the wider Middle East over Israel’s ongoing war
on Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and just days after Iran and Pakistan
engaged in tit-for-tat airstrikes in each others’ countries.The Soraya
satellite was placed in an orbit at some 750 kilometers (460 miles)
above the Earth’s surface with a three-stage rocket, the state-run IRNA
news agency said. It did not immediately acknowledge what the satellite
did.The launch was part of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ space program
alongside Iran’s civilian space program, the report said.There was no
immediate independent confirmation Iran had successfully put the
satellite in orbit.The United States has previously said Iran’s
satellite launches defy a UN Security Council resolution and called on
Tehran to undertake no activity involving ballistic missiles capable of
delivering nuclear weapons.UN sanctions related to Iran’s ballistic
missile program expired last October.The US intelligence community’s
2023 worldwide threat assessment said the development of satellite
launch vehicles “shortens the timeline” for Iran to develop an
intercontinental ballistic missile because it uses similar
technology.Intercontinental ballistic missiles can be used to deliver
nuclear weapons. Iran’s nuclear program now enriched uranium closer than
ever to weapons-grade levels after the collapse of its nuclear deal
with world powers.Tehran has enough enriched uranium for “several”
nuclear weapons, if it chooses to produce them, the head of the
International Atomic Energy Agency repeatedly has warned.Iran has always
denied seeking nuclear weapons and says its space program, like its
nuclear activities, is for purely civilian purposes. However, US
intelligence agencies and the IAEA say Iran had an organized military
nuclear program up until 2003.Israel has long said it will not allow
Iran to have nuclear weapons.The involvement of the Guard in the
launches, as well as it being able to launch the rocket from a mobile
launcher, raise concerns for the West.Over the past decade, Iran has
sent several short-lived satellites into orbit and in 2013, launched a
monkey into space. The program has seen recent troubles, however. There
have been five failed launches in a row for the Simorgh program, another
satellite-carrying rocket.A fire at the Imam Khomeini Spaceport in
February 2019 killed three researchers, authorities said at the time. A
launchpad rocket explosion later that year drew the attention of then-US
president Donald Trump, who taunted Iran with a tweet showing what
appeared to be a US surveillance photo of the site.In December, Iran
sent a capsule into orbit capable of carrying animals as it prepares for
human missions in the coming years.Times of Israel staff contributed to
this report.
In 6th set of Yemen strikes, US hits Houthi
anti-ship missile launchers ready to fire-US official says operation
carried out by F/A-18 aircraft off the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft
carrier; Yemeni media says al-Jabaana neighbourhood in Hodieda
targeted-By Agencies Today, 10:38 am-JAN 20,24
United States
fighter jets struck Iran-backed Houthi sites in Yemen for a sixth time
Friday, taking out anti-ship missile launchers that were prepared to
fire.“US forces identified the missiles in Houthi-controlled areas of
Yemen and determined that they presented an imminent threat to merchant
vessels and the US Navy ships in the region. US forces subsequently
struck and destroyed the missiles in self-defense,” the US Central
Command said in a post on X.A US official said the strikes were carried
out by F/A-18 aircraft off the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft
carrier. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing
military operations.Al-Masirah, a Houthi-run satellite news channel,
said that there were air raids in the western port city of Hodeida,
targeting the al-Jabaana neighborhood in the west of the city. The
location of the US strikes could not be immediately confirmed.A
spokesman for the Houthis said in an interview published Friday that
they did not intend to expand their attacks on shipping in and around
the Red Sea further, beyond their stated aims of blockading Israel and
retaliating against the United States and Britain for air strikes.US
President Joe Biden said Thursday that US military strikes against
Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen will continue, but he acknowledged
that the American and British bombardment has yet to stop shipping
attacks by the militants on vessels in the Red Sea.Biden said the US
would continue the strikes in an exchange with reporters before
departing the White House for a domestic policy speech in North
Carolina.“When you say working, are they stopping the Houthis, no. Are
they going to continue, yes,” Biden said.On Wednesday, the US military
fired another wave of ship- and submarine-launched missile strikes
against Houthi-controlled sites, as violence that ignited in the wake of
the October 7 Hamas onslaught in southern Israel and subsequent war in
Gaza continues to spill over in the Middle East.Those strikes were
launched from the Red Sea and hit 14 missiles that the command deemed an
“imminent threat.”Hours later, a US-owned ship in the Gulf of Aden came
under attack Wednesday from a bomb-carrying drone launched by Houthi
rebels.The attack caused a fire onboard the vessel, which was
extinguished, the ship’s captain said in a statement. “Vessel and crew
are safe and proceeding to next port of call,” the statement added.Brig.
Gen. Yahya Saree, a military spokesman for the Houthis, identified the
ship attacked as the bulk carrier Genco Picardy.The Houthis “confirm
that a response to the American and British attacks is inevitably
coming, and that any new attack will not remain without response and
punishment,” Saree said in a prerecorded video address.He claimed the
ship suffered a “direct hit.”The attack followed an official
announcement Wednesday that the US has put the Houthis back on its list
of specially designated global terrorists, three years after they were
removed. The sanctions that come with the formal designation are meant
to sever violent extremist groups from their sources of financing.The
move is aimed at blocking the group’s access to the global financial
system, though it falls short of the more far-reaching option at the
Biden administration’s disposal — re-labeling the Houthis as a “foreign
terrorist organization.”The Iran-backed group said it would continue to
target ships using the vital Red Sea shipping lanes and would not be
deterred by the response.“We will not give up targeting Israeli ships or
ships heading towards ports in occupied Palestine… in support of the
Palestinian people,” the group’s spokesman Mohammed Abdelsalam told Al
Jazeera TV, adding that they would respond to new strikes on Yemen by
the United States or Britain.The Houthis have launched dozens of attacks
since November on vessels in the Red Sea, in what they claim is an
effort to support Palestinians during Israel’s war against Hamas in
Gaza. However, many of the ships targeted have had no ties to Israel
whatsoever.The attacks are part of a broad response to the Gaza conflict
by a so-called Axis of Resistance, which includes the Houthis, Hamas
and Hezbollah — all of whom are backed by Iran.The Houthis, who rally
under the banner “Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews,
Victory to Islam,” have also launched a number of drones and missiles
directly at Israel.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
In
Lebanon, residents say strange calls can precede Israeli
attacks-Civilians in Hezbollah-dominated regions report numerous
instances of phone calls and CCTV hacks ahead of IDF strikes;
Iran-backed terror group suspects subterfuge
By Layal Abou Rahal 19 January 2024, 8:29 pm
BEIRUT
(AFP) — “Good morning, madame. This is the bank calling. Are you at
home?”Since the Israel-Hamas war broke out more than three months ago,
residents of southern Lebanon have been receiving strange phone calls
from Lebanese numbers and from people speaking in Lebanese accents.The
voices on the other end may claim to be conducting a survey,
distributing aid or calling from a public body.But the callers ask about
families and their whereabouts, just before towns or homes come under
Israeli attack, residents told AFP.Lebanese security officials and the
Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist organization, part of the “axis of
resistance” network of Iran proxies that also includes Hamas, believe
the strange calls are in fact from Israelis.Last week, Umm Hussein, who
is in her 70s and originally from the southern Lebanon village of Khiam,
received a call from “the bank” asking her to come and collect some
money at the nearby branch.But according to her grandson Hassan Shukeir,
Umm Hussein doesn’t even have a bank account.“They asked her if she was
in Khiam, and the call ended when she said she was in Beirut,” Shukeir
told AFP.Shortly after the call was terminated, an Israeli strike
targeted the house next to hers in the village, the grandson said.Since
October 8, a day after the deadly Hamas attacks on southern Israel,
Hezbollah has engaged in cross-border fire on a near-daily basis,
launching rockets, drones and missiles at northern Israel in a campaign
it says is in support of Hamas. The attacks forced most residents
several kilometers from the border to evacuate. Israel has responded
with its own regular strikes on Hezbollah targets, and has warned it
will not be able to tolerate the terrorists’ continued presence on the
border.While stopping short of declaring all-out war on Israel in
support of Hamas, Hezbollah chairman Hassan Nasrallah has pledged to
continue attacking the Jewish state until a ceasefire is reached in
Gaza, much to the chagrin of Lebanese government officials who want to
avoid war. Israel, meanwhile, has indicated it would be willing to wage
war on Hezbollah if necessary.As Israel has carried out regular strikes
on Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon, the group has told residents of
villages in the south not to divulge any information to people calling
from Lebanese numbers they do not recognize.“The enemy exploits such
information to try to ensure the presence of our brother fighters in
houses it intends to target,” Hezbollah said in a statement.A Lebanese
security source told AFP that army intelligence and the police were
investigating the calls which they believe originated in Israel, meaning
Lebanon’s communications network has been compromised.The source, who
requested anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the
media, said Israel has used this tactic before to target Hezbollah
members holed up in homes.In one case on November 22, a strike hit a
house in the village of Beit Yahun, killing five Hezbollah members,
including the son of Mohammed Raad, who heads the group’s bloc in
parliament.Shortly before that attack, an unknown caller had asked the
owner of the house whether she and her family were at home, the security
source said.A spokeswoman for the Israeli military told AFP she was
“unable to answer that question,” when asked if Israel was behind the
phone calls.According to Hezbollah, Israel has also hacked into security
surveillance cameras at homes and businesses in border villages.In
December, it said Israel was using this access to target its members,
and urged Lebanese citizens to “disconnect the private cameras… from the
internet.”Hezbollah said Israel had hacked the cameras to gain
visibility after the group’s cross-border attacks had “targeted most of
the cameras” that Israel itself had installed near the border.One
resident, who asked to remain anonymous for security reasons, told AFP a
local Hezbollah official called him recently and demanded he turn off
and disconnect CCTV cameras installed around his house.He complied with
the demand.The security source said three men had been arrested recently
on suspicion of working with Israel-affiliated companies. One is
accused of scanning for home Wi-Fi networks in Hezbollah’s southern
Beirut stronghold.Abed Kataya of digital rights group SMEX said civilian
communications networks and CCTV cameras in Lebanon are easy to hack
because the infrastructure lacks basic security measures.Private
surveillance cameras, mostly Chinese imports, can be connected to the
internet so owners can monitor them from afar using phone apps.But the
connection is often “unencrypted, which makes it easy to hack,” Kataya
said.He said Israel has “a long history in espionage techniques,”
especially in Lebanon, deploying spy balloons and observation towers
along the border.On January 7, even the departures and arrivals screens
at Beirut airport came under cyberattack, with media publishing footage
showing anti-Hezbollah messages displayed instead and baggage conveyor
belts that had ground to a halt.Those behind the airport hack have yet
to be unmasked, with Public Works and Transportation Minister Ali Hamieh
saying the incident was under investigation but also admitting Lebanon
lacks cybersecurity expertise.Times of Israel staff contributed to this
report.
Pakistan, Iran agree to ‘de-escalate’ after trading air
strikes-Foreign ministers speak in bid to calm waters following
cross-border attacks on militants-By AFP 19 January 2024, 7:16 pm
ISLAMABAD
— Pakistan and Iran “agreed to de-escalate” tensions Friday, Islamabad
said, after trading deadly airstrikes on militant targets in each
other’s territory this week.The rare military actions in the porous
border region of Baluchistan — split between the two nations — had
stoked regional tensions already enflamed by the Israel-Hamas war.Iran
carried out a missile and drone attack on what it called “terrorist”
targets in Pakistan on Tuesday night, with Pakistan in turn striking
militant targets inside Iran on Thursday.Pakistan recalled its
ambassador from Tehran and said Iran’s envoy — on a visit home — was
blocked from returning to Islamabad.The United Nations and the United
States appealed for restraint, while China offered to mediate.But after
speaking by phone, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani and
his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian agreed “close
coordination on counterterrorism and other aspects of mutual concern
should be strengthened.”“They also agreed to de-escalate the situation,”
according to a summary of the conversation released by Islamabad’s
foreign ministry.After the call, Amir-Abdollahian said in a statement,
“The cooperation of the two countries to neutralize and destroy
terrorist camps in Pakistan is essential.”The muted rhetoric matched
analysts’ predictions that both sides would seek to defuse the
confrontation.“The upshot of the new situation is that the two countries
are seemingly and symbolically even,” said Antoine Levesques, of the
International Institute for Strategic Studies.Meanwhile, on Friday,
Pakistani Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar held an emergency security
meeting with military and intelligence chiefs.Kakar cut short his visit
to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland following the
strikes.His caretaker government is leading Pakistan into general
elections in three weeks, which have been marred by allegations of
pre-poll rigging.Tehran and Islamabad have both said they hit their own
domestic militants sheltering on foreign territory.A collective death
toll of 11 — mostly women and children — was reported from both sides of
the border that bisects an arid region where militant movements have
simmered for decades.In the remote villages near the strike site in the
Panjgur district, where mobile signal is rarely available, farmers
pieced together the events from reports passed on from visiting security
officials who set up checkpoints in the area.“Helicopters were flying
overhead and going in the direction of where the Iranian strike hit, but
we didn’t know what had happened,” Maulana Mohammad Sadiq, 42, the
prayer leader of a small seminary around five kilometers (three miles)
from where a missile hit, told AFP on Thursday.Villagers feared that
deteriorating relations between the two sides could lead to border
closures and cut off residents from Iranian trade, which the area relies
on for employment and food imports.“If Iranians close the border, the
people will starve and it will cause more militancy because youth will
join the separatist organizations,” said 55-year-old Haji Mohammad
Islam.Baluch separatists have been waging a low-level insurgency against
Pakistani authorities from the largely ungoverned, impoverished region
fighting for a better share of mineral resources.Rights groups say the
military’s crackdown on the insurgency has included widespread enforced
disappearances and extrajudicial killings.Militancy has also risen
sharply along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan further north, after
the Taliban’s return to power there in 2021.
EU set to sanction 6
tied to Hamas funding; Borrell: Israel boosted the group-EU foreign
policy chief says Netanyahu strengthened Hamas to weaken the PA; Moscow
hosts delegation from terror group, speaks of need to free hostages
By Agencies and ToI Staff 19 January 2024, 7:16 pm
The
European Union has adopted a dedicated sanctions regime targeting
Palestinian terror group Hamas, a high-ranking EU official said Friday,
adding that the first measures would target six people involved in the
financing of Hamas.“What we are doing now — it has been done today and I
think it will be announced in the coming hours — [is that] we have
adopted a dedicated regime for Hamas. We have listed six people,” said
the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.The official added
the six people were all from Arab or African countries and were all
involved in financing Hamas, which has become the subject of Western
reprisal after its assault on Israel in October.At the same time, EU
foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said that Israel had financed Hamas
“in an attempt to weaken the Palestinian Authority led by
Fatah,”Netanyahu is widely reported to have said on several occasions
over the years that he sought to boost Hamas in order to fuel the schism
within Palestinian society and alleviate international pressure for a
Palestinian state.Netanyahu has denied any such efforts.“Yes, Hamas was
financed by the government of Israel in an attempt to weaken the
Palestinian Authority led by Fatah,” Borrell said in a speech at the
University of Valladolid in Spain, without elaborating.Borrell added the
only peaceful solution included the creation of a Palestinian state.
And he suggested that this may need to be “imposed from the
outside.”Hamas carried out a surprise attack on southern Israel from
Gaza on October 7, killing some 1,200 people and seizing around 240
hostages in the deadliest day in Israel’s history.The Israeli government
launched a counteroffensive in a bid to end Hamas’s rule over Gaza and
release the hostages. The Gaza health ministry, run by Hamas, says the
death toll in the Strip has passed 24,000 people, though figures from
the terror group cannot be independently verified, and are believed to
include both civilians and Hamas members killed in Gaza, including as a
consequence of the terror groups’ own rocket misfires. The IDF says it
has killed over 9,000 operatives in Gaza, in addition to some 1,000
terrorists inside Israel on October 7.Hamas has run the Gaza Strip since
2007 after a brief civil war with forces loyal to the Fatah movement
led by PA President Mahmoud Abbas, who is based in the West Bank.Russia
on Friday hosted a delegation of Hamas members, Moscow’s foreign
ministry said in a statement-During the talks, the Russian side
emphasized the need to release hostages, it added.The Hamas delegation
was led by senior official Moussa Abu Marzouk and the Russian team was
led by deputy foreign minister Mikhail Bogdanov.Moscow also said the
humanitarian situation in Gaza had reached “catastrophic” levels.Dutch
Prime Minister Mark Rutte said after a phone call with Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu that he’d urged him to “drastically” reduce the level
of violence against Palestinians amid the war with Hamas and to
immediately pause fighting to let more aid into the war-battered
enclave.“Israel needs to let in much more relief goods, much quicker,”
Rutte said. “We have talked about concrete measures to do so.”
Tens
of thousands of Germans protest against resurgence of far-right AfD
party-Mass demonstrations against populist faction, which has discussed
mass deportations, held across the country, with more than 100 rallies
expected over the weekend
By Isabelle Le Page 19 January 2024, 3:24 pm
BERLIN
(AFP) — Revelations that members of the far-right AfD party had
discussed mass deportation plans are pushing tens of thousands of
Germans to protest in the streets — and sparking debate on whether the
anti-immigrant party should be banned.From Cologne to Leipzig to
Nuremberg, Germans across the country have mobilized over the last week,
with another 100 demonstrations expected through the weekend.Many of
the demonstrations are held under the banner “together against the
far-right,” with Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Foreign Minister Annalena
Baerbock also joining a spontaneous gathering in Potsdam, where they
live.Bundesliga coaches and church bishops have also issued calls
warning against support for the AfD, with the manager of SC Freiburg
Christian Streich saying that “anyone who does nothing now has learned
nothing from school or history.”The sudden and widespread mobilization
was sparked by a January 10 report by investigative outlet Correctiv
which revealed that AfD members had discussed the expulsion of
immigrants and “non-assimilated citizens” at a meeting with
extremists.Among the participants at the talks was Martin Sellner, a
leader of Austria’s Identitarian Movement, which subscribes to the
“great replacement” conspiracy theory that claims there is a plot by
non-white migrants to replace Europe’s “native” white population.News of
the gathering sent shockwaves across Germany at a time when the AfD is
soaring in opinion polls, just months ahead of three major regional
elections in eastern Germany where their support is strongest.The
“scandalous meeting” revived “the fear of deportations of millions of
citizens or non-citizens, a fear that is part of the criticized heritage
of Nazism,” said Hajo Funke, a political analyst who specializes in the
far-right.The “silent majority must wake up and take a clear position
against extremism in Germany,” urged domestic intelligence chief Thomas
Haldenwang.Thanking those who have come out in the last days to make
their voices heard, Scholz wrote on X that the protests “are encouraging
and show that there are more of us democrats than those who want to
divide us.”The AfD was created in 2013 as an anti-euro outfit before
seizing on anger over mass migration to Germany to garner enough votes
to enter the Bundestag in 2017.While support for the party eased
subsequently, it has enjoyed a resurgence over the last year, feeding on
frustration as Germany ails from soaring inflation and a weak
economy.Nationwide, it is polling at about 22 percent, behind the
conservatives but well above Scholz’s social democrats at about 16%.In
eastern Germany however, it is leading the polls, with more than 30% in
the states of Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg, which are all due to
hold regional elections in September.The AfD had planted itself firmly
onto the political landscape since its entrance in the Bundestag but
after the meeting unveiled by Correctiv, “this normalization of the
party is over,” said Funke.The AfD confirmed the presence of its members
at the meeting but has denied taking on the “remigration” project
championed by Sellner.But the scandal showed “the real face” of the
party, said Lars Klingbeil, co-leader of Scholz’s SPD.Voices calling for
an outright ban of the party have also grown louder.Even if it has few
chances of succeeding, a petition demanding the removal of
constitutional rights for Bjoern Hoecke, one the AfD’s most
controversial politicians, has already garnered a million
signatures.Several branches of the AfD are already under close
surveillance of the domestic intelligence agency and in this context,
“the state should look at a possible ban of the AfD,” said Wolfgang
Thierse, a former speaker of parliament.But others are skeptical about
the effectiveness of launching such a long and complex procedure, as
failure to win the ban risks further nourishing the AfD’s “victim
narrative.”But “if it’s proven that a party wants to transform the
country into a fascist state, it must be banned, no matter how powerful
it is,” said Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck in an interview with Stern
magazine.
North Korea says tested 'underwater nuclear weapon system' by AFP Staff Writers-Seoul (AFP) Jan 19, 2024
North
Korea said Friday that it had tested an "underwater nuclear weapon
system" in response to joint naval exercises by Washington, Seoul and
Tokyo that involved a US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.The drills
were "seriously threatening the security" of the North, so in response,
Pyongyang "conducted an important test of its underwater nuclear weapon
system 'Haeil-5-23' under development in the East Sea of Korea,"
according to a statement from the defence ministry carried by state news
agency KCNA.Early last year, Pyongyang said it had carried out multiple
tests of a purported underwater nuclear attack drone -- a different
version of the Haeil, which means tsunami in Korean -- claiming it could
unleash a "radioactive tsunami".Analysts have questioned whether
Pyongyang has such a weapon.Earlier this week, South Korea, the United
States and Japan carried out joint naval drills in waters off southern
Jeju Island, which they said were in response to North Korea's Sunday
launch of a hypersonic missile.The drills involved nine warships from
the three countries, including the aircraft carrier USS Carl
Vinson.Pyongyang said Friday the drills "constituted a cause of further
destabilising the regional situation, and they are an act of seriously
threatening the security" of the North, the defence ministry spokesman
said, according to KCNA.North Korea's own test -- the exact date of
which was not given -- ensured "our army's underwater nuke-based
countering posture is being further rounded off and its various maritime
and underwater responsive actions will continue to deter the hostile
military maneuvers of the navies of the US and its allies," the
spokesman said.Recent months have seen a sharp deterioration in
long-tense ties between the two Koreas, with both sides jettisoning key
tension-reducing agreements, ramping up frontier security, and
conducting live-fire drills along the border.North Korean leader Kim
Jong Un last week declared the South his country's "principal enemy",
jettisoned agencies dedicated to reunification and outreach and
threatened war over "even 0.001 mm" of territorial infringement.- Drones
deployed? - The new announcement on the underwater test "is a clear
sign of Haeil drones deployment to its navy fleets for use", said Hong
Min, a senior analyst at the Korea Institute for National Unification in
Seoul."The North's statement illustrates Pyongyang's stance that it
will respond in proportion to military exercise by the South, Japan and
the US," he said, adding that the North didn't appear to be trying "to
cross the line so as to provoke an armed conflict."Ahn Chan-il, a
defector-turned-researcher who runs the World Institute for North Korea
Studies, told AFP that it was "difficult to determine the exact
capabilities" of North Korea's purported underwater nuclear weapons
systems." Considering North Korea's defence science level and the fact
that the weapon is still in a developing stage, it is not yet at a stage
to pose a significant threat," he said.At Pyongyang's year-end policy
meetings, Kim threatened a nuclear attack on the South and called for a
build-up of his country's military arsenal ahead of armed conflict he
warned could "break out any time".On Sunday, the North launched a
solid-fuel hypersonic missile, just days after Pyongyang staged
live-fire exercises near the country's tense maritime border with South
Korea, which prompted counter-exercises and evacuation orders for some
border islands belonging to the South.Kim also successfully put a spy
satellite into orbit late last year, after receiving what Seoul said was
Russian help, in exchange for arms transfers for Moscow's war in
Ukraine.
NKorea confirms test-firing of solid-fuel mid-range ballistic missile-by AFP Staff Writers-Seoul (AFP) Jan 14, 2024
North
Korea successfully test-fired an intermediate-range solid-fuel
ballistic missile, state-run news agency KCNA confirmed early Monday,
categorizing the launch as part of its "regular activities for
developing powerful weapon systems."The missile was loaded with a
hypersonic maneuverable controlled warhead when it was fired off Sunday
afternoon, according to the outlet.The test was meant to verify "the
gliding and maneuvering characteristics" of the warhead and "reliability
of newly developed multi-stage high-thrust solid-fuel engines," KCNA
said.It added that the test-firing "never affected the security of any
neighbouring country and had nothing to do with the regional
situation."However it came just days after Pyongyang staged live-fire
exercises near the country's tense maritime border with South Korea,
which prompted counter-exercises and evacuation orders for some South
Korean border islands.The missile flew towards the East Sea travelling
approximately 1,000 kilometres (621 miles), Seoul's Joint Chiefs of
Staff said in a statement Sunday, adding that authorities in Seoul,
Washington and Tokyo were analysing the specifications.North Korea's
last missile test was of a Hwasong-18 solid-fuel intercontinental
ballistic missile (ICBM), which it fired into the East Sea on December
18.Leader Kim Jong Un earlier this week branded Seoul his "principal
enemy" and warned he would not hesitate to annihilate South Korea, as he
toured major weapons factories."The historic time has come at last when
we should define as a state most hostile toward the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea the entity called the Republic of Korea (South
Korea)," Kim was reported as saying by KCNA.- A shift -Analysts said at
the time that the change in language was notable, signifying a shift in
Pyongyang's approach to an "ultra-hawkish mode".Relations between the
two Koreas are at one of their lowest points in decades, after Kim
enshrined the country's permanent status as a nuclear power into the
constitution and test-fired several advanced ICBMs.Meanwhile traditional
allies Russia and North Korea have recently boosted ties, with Kim
making a rare overseas trip to see President Vladimir Putin in Russia's
far east in September.On Sunday a North Korean government delegation
headed by Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui left for an official visit to
Russia, KCNA reported.Last year, Pyongyang successfully put a
reconnaissance satellite into orbit, after receiving what South Korea
claimed was Russian assistance, in exchange for arms shipments for
Moscow's war in Ukraine.Despite its difficult economic situation,
Pyongyang conducted a record-breaking series of weapons tests in 2023,
including its first solid-fuel ballistic missile -- which experts called
a major technological breakthrough.
N. Korea fires 'unidentified ballistic missile': Seoul military-by AFP Staff Writers-Seoul (AFP) Jan 14, 2024
North
Korea fired a ballistic missile on Sunday, Seoul's military said, days
after Pyongyang staged live-fire exercises near the tense maritime
border with the South."North Korea fires unidentified ballistic missile
towards East Sea," Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement,
referring to the body of water also known as the Sea of Japan.The Joint
Chiefs of Staff said had it detected the launch but gave no further
details.Japan's coast guard said that an "object, potentially ballistic
missile, launched from North Korea," citing information from the
country's defence ministry, and warning vessels to take care.North
Korea's last missile test was of a Hwasong-18 solid-fuel
intercontinental ballistic missile, which it fired into the East Sea on
December 18.The apparent test comes days after North Korea conducted a
series of rare live-fire drills near the maritime border with the South,
prompting counter-exercises and evacuation orders for some South Korean
border islands.Leader Kim Jong Un also earlier this week branded Seoul
his "principal enemy" and warned he would not hesitate to annihilate the
South, as he toured major weapons factories."The historic time has come
at last when we should define as a state most hostile toward the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea the entity called the Republic of
Korea (South Korea)," Kim was reported Wednesday as saying by the
official Korean Central News Agency.Analysts said at the time that the
shift was significant, signifying a shift in Pyongyang's approach to
Seoul into "ultra-hawkish mode".- Ties woeful -Relations between the two
Koreas are at one of their lowest points in decades, after Kim
enshrined the country's permanent status as a nuclear power into the
constitution and test-fired several advanced intercontinental ballistic
missiles.Last year, Pyongyang also successfully put a reconnaissance
satellite into orbit, after receiving what South Korea claimed was
Russian assistance, in exchange for arms shipments for Moscow's war in
Ukraine.Kim has also test-fired a string of advanced intercontinental
ballistic missiles (ICBMs) including a purported solid fuel version.At
Pyongyang's year-end policy meetings, Kim threatened a nuclear attack on
the South and called for a build-up of his country's military arsenal
ahead of armed conflict that he warned could "break out any
time".Pyongyang declared itself an "irreversible" nuclear power in 2022
and has repeatedly said it will never give up its nuclear weapons
programme, which the regime views as essential for its survival.The
United Nations Security Council has adopted many resolutions calling on
North Korea to halt its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes since
Pyongyang first conducted a nuclear test in 2006.
WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
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.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26
And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF
69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and
the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the
sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof
shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are
determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND
PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL
WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant
(PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of
the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2
yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of
abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and
that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction
cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not
escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring
man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised
the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS
HIMSELF GOD)
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
GENESIS 25:20-26
20 And
Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+)
when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of
Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21 And Isaac intreated
the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was
intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22 And the
children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her;
and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went
to enquire of the LORD.
23
And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner
of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and
the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER
THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE
YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE
OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26
And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's
heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was
threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE
THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2
TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN
CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS
JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell
are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through,
it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under
falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord
GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a
precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not
make haste.17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to
the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the
waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with
death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not
stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be
trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall
take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by
night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
DANIEL 8:23-25
23
And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are
come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and
understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And
his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and
he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall
destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy
also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify
himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also
stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken
without hand.DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to
his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself
above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of
gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that
that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God
of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of
women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38
But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY
GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold,
and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus
shall he do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA
MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and
increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY
LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of
the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR
PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) shall
come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and
with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall
overflow and pass over.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall
be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have
fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they
stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,
and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall
come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be
among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his
neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his
neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)
US hails yet-to-be-announced
Israeli move to let flour into Gaza-After phone call, Biden says
two-state solution not ‘impossible’ while Netanyahu is PM-US president
intimates that some ‘types’ of two-state solution may be acceptable to
Israeli premier, who again ruled out Palestinian sovereignty just a day
earlier-By Agencies and ToI Staff Today, 4:48 am-JAN 20,24
WASHINGTON
— US President Joe Biden said the creation of an independent state for
Palestinians is not impossible while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
is still in office, and that the two leaders discussed the issue during
their phone call on Friday.Speaking to reporters after a meeting with US
mayors, Biden was asked directly whether a two-state solution was
impossible with Netanyahu still in office.“No it’s not,” the president
replied.He was then asked: “Are you going to reconsider conditions on
Israel aid given what Bibi [Netanyahu] said on a two-state solution?”
(The Israeli prime minister reiterated and detailed his opposition to
Palestinian sovereignty during a press conference on Thursday.)-Said
Biden: “I think we’ll be able to work something out.”Asked how this
could be done, the president intimated that there might be “types” of
two-state solutions that Netanyahu may not be opposed to: “There are a
number of types of two-state solutions. There’s a number of countries
that are members of the UN that are still — don’t have their own
militaries. Number of states that have limitations on [inaudible]. And
so I think there’s ways in which this could work.”The reporter then told
Biden that “Bibi just said he’s opposed to any two-state solution.”“No,
he didn’t say that,” Biden asserted.Asked what Netanyahu was open to,
Biden said: “I’ll let you know.”POTUS on why he thinks a two state
solution is possible with Bibi in power: https://t.co/bOGPDJt0hc
pic.twitter.com/4zhoArwBvG— Weijia Jiang (@weijia) January 19,
2024-Biden’s comments came shortly after he and Netanyahu spoke for the
first time in 27 days.There has been growing daylight between Jerusalem
and Washington over the war in Gaza, which Israel launched in response
to the Hamas-led onslaught on October 7, when Palestinian terrorists
slaughtered some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took around 240
hostages. Netanyahu has rejected Biden’s vision for a post-war Gaza,
which would be reunited politically with the West Bank under the
Palestinian Authority’s rule as part of a broader diplomatic initiative
aimed at an eventual two-state solution and an expanded Abraham
Accords.While Netanyahu has ruled out the notion of establishing a
Palestinian state, he has offered few details on his alternative vision
for Gaza while blocking the cabinet from holding discussions on the
matter, knowing that it risks collapsing his coalition.“Whoever is
talking about the ‘day after Netanyahu,’” Netanyahu said during the
press conference on Thursday, “is essentially talking about the
establishment of a Palestinian state with the Palestinian Authority.”
(NBC had reported on Wednesday that the US administration was “laying
the groundwork with other Israeli leaders in anticipation of a
post-Netanyahu government.”)-Most Israeli citizens are opposed to the
establishment of a Palestinian state, Netanyahu said, and he would
always resist it.“All territory we evacuate, we get terror, terrible
terror against us,” he said, citing Gaza, southern Lebanon and parts of
Judea and Samaria (the West Bank). Therefore, “in any future
arrangement, or in the absence of an arrangement,” he said, Israel must
maintain “security control” of all territory west of the Jordan River —
meaning, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. “That is a vital condition.”He
acknowledged that this “contradicts the idea of sovereignty [for the
Palestinians]. What can you do? I tell this truth to our American
friends.”Nonetheless, Netanyahu asserted that his stance would not
prevent Israel from expanding the circle of peace to new Arab countries,
“along with our American friends.”Netanyahu reportedly rejected a US
proposal, presented by Secretary of State Antony Blinken when he visited
earlier this month, that would have seen Saudi Arabia help with the
reconstruction of Gaza along with several other Arab countries in
addition to agreeing to normalize ties with Israel, on the condition
that Jerusalem agree to take steps to create a pathway to an eventual
Palestinian state.UK Opposition Leader Keir Starmer also hit out Friday
at Netanyahu for opposing Palestinian sovereignty, calling the premier’s
comments “unacceptable and wrong.”“Palestinian statehood is not in the
gift of a neighbor, it’s the inalienable right of the Palestinian
people. It’s also the only way to a secure settlement and a secure
future,” Starmer told ITV News.US says Israel to let flour into Gaza via
Ashdod port-During Friday’s phone call, White House National Security
Council spokesman John Kirby said Biden and Netanyahu discussed ongoing
efforts to secure the release of all remaining hostages held in
Gaza.“The two leaders also reviewed the situation in Gaza and the shift
to targeted operations that will enable the flow of increasing amounts
of humanitarian assistance, while keeping the military pressure on Hamas
and its leaders significant,” Kirby said.Biden stressed “Israel’s
responsibility — even as it maintains military pressure on Hamas and its
leaders — to reduce civilian harm and to protect innocent civilians,”
Kirby said.The US president also told Netanyahu that he welcomed the
decision by the Israeli government to permit the entry of large
shipments of flour into Gaza via Israel’s port in Ashdod, Kirby said,
adding that the sides “are separately working on options for more direct
maritime delivery of assistance into Gaza.”Kirby’s remark appeared to
be the first time that Israel has used its Ashdod port to transfer aid
to Gaza and came days after Hebrew media reported that Israel agreed
earlier this month to allow 150 truckloads of flour into Gaza, where the
UN says there is a growing risk of famine.Israel has refrained from
announcing this decision regarding the flour shipments itself ostensibly
due to its unpopular nature among large swaths of the public, given
that the hostages remain in Gaza.Three UN agencies — the World Food
Program (WFP), UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) — pushed
for the opening of Ashdod in a joint statement on Monday.The use of
Ashdod, located some 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of the Gaza border,
is “critically needed by aid agencies,” they said, while calling for a
“fundamental step change in the flow of humanitarian aid into
Gaza.”Opening the Ashdod port would reduce the time it takes to
transport food to Gazans from the north, WFP’s regional director for the
Middle East, Corinne Fleischer, told AFP earlier this month.In
December, Israel approved the temporary delivery of aid into Gaza via
its southern Kerem Shalom border crossing, opening a new route for
supplies after weeks of pressure.
Group of Jewish Democrats in US
House slam Netanyahu for rejecting Palestinian state-Fifteen lawmakers
say they ‘strongly disagree’ with PM for opposing Palestinian
sovereignty and that two-state solution ‘is the path forward’
By Ron Kampeas Today, 5:48 am-JAN 20,24
WASHINGTON
(JTA) — Fifteen Jewish Democrats, including some pro-Israel stalwarts,
slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after he rejected the idea of
creating an independent Palestinian state after the Israel-Hamas war.“We
strongly disagree with the prime minister,” said the brief statement
released Friday morning by the office of Representative Jerry Nadler,
the New York representative who is the unofficial dean of Jewish House
Democrats. “A two-state solution is the path forward.”The statement —
which comes amid rising calls from some Jewish lawmakers for a ceasefire
— signifies growing impatience among Democrats with Netanyahu as the
war persists indefinitely. The prime minister, who heads a coalition
with far-right elements, has openly rejected the Biden administration’s
hopes of forging a postwar two-state outcome.In a press conference
Thursday, Netanyahu used unusually clear language in opposing Biden
administration initiatives.“Therefore, I make clear in any future
foreseeable arrangement — with an agreement or without an agreement —
the State of Israel must have security control of the entire area west
of the Jordan,” he said, referring to the area that covers Israel, the
West Bank and Gaza. “It’s a necessary requirement, and it clashes with
the idea of sovereignty, what can you do?”He continued: “This truth I
tell our American friends. And I also obstructed an attempt to coerce us
into a reality that would harm the security of Israel. An Israeli prime
minister must be able to say no even to our best friends, to say no
when necessary and to say yes when possible.”Netanyahu’s statement was
an especially strong rejection of the idea of Palestinian sovereignty,
and its substance also reflects what he has said for years about the
future of the West Bank. In 2018, he proposed a “state-minus” for
Palestinians in which Israel retained a military presence across the
West Bank. The same idea was reflected in the 2020 plan proposed by
then-US president Donald Trump, in which Israel would retain security
control over the territory of a future Palestinian state. Palestinian
leadership roundly rejects that idea.Netanyahu endorsed the idea of a
Palestinian state in a landmark speech in 2009, then backtracked on the
eve of an election six years later.John Kirby, the National Security
Council spokesman, was not surprised by Netanyahu’s statement.“This is
not a new comment by Prime Minister Netanyahu,” he told reporters
Thursday. “We obviously see it differently. We believe that the
Palestinians have every right to live in an independent state with peace
and security. And the president and his team is going to continue to
work on that.”Netanyahu and Biden spoke on Friday for the first time
since December 23.Netanyahu’s tough talk appears to have triggered the
two-sentence statement, along with other notes of reproval from
pro-Israel Democrats. It also drew fire from at least one Jewish
Democrat in the Senate, Brian Schatz of Hawaii. “He is, at every
opportunity, making things worse,” Schatz told NBC.Representative
Ritchie Torres, a progressive New York Democrat who is not Jewish and is
known for his outspoken defense of Israel, said that closing off any
prospect of a Palestinian state was unsustainable.“I am under no
illusion that a two-state solution will happen in the immediate future
but to assert that it should NEVER happen — that either Jews or
Palestinians should never have self-determination — is morally wrong,”
he said Friday on X, formerly Twitter, without directly naming
Netanyahu.The list of 15 Jewish Democrats who issued Friday’s statement
was significant for including at least seven lawmakers endorsed by the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s affiliated political action
committee. AIPAC discourages open disagreement with Israeli governments
on security issues.Those seven are Jake Auchincloss of Massachusetts,
Suzanne Bonamici of Oregon, Dan Goldman of New York, Elissa Slotkin of
Michigan and Mike Levin, Adam Schiff and Brad Sherman of California.
(AIPAC endorsed Schiff and Slotkin in 2022; they are running for Senate
this year, and the lobby is waiting to see who emerges from the
primaries before giving an endorsement.)-Sherman, long one of Israel’s
fiercest defenders in Congress, is a standout: He helped found the
now-defunct Israel Project, launched in the early 2000s to push back
against negative portrayals of the country in the media. In a
contentious primary race between two Jewish incumbents in 2012, he
accused his rival, Howard Berman, of being weak on Iran, and was one of a
minority of Democrats who in 2015 opposed the Iran nuclear deal.Now
Sherman has emerged as one of the most outspoken critics of Netanyahu.
In a post on X, he lashed out at the prime minister.“First #Netanyahu
fails #Israel by basing a highly inadequate portion of the IDF near Gaza
in the months before October 7,” Sherman wrote, echoing a critique from
Netanyahu’s Israeli critics. “Then he ignores the warnings of October
6. Then this.”He linked to a Guardian article about Netanyahu’s
statements. Reports have said the Israeli security establishment ignored
substantive intelligence from lower-level officials ahead of October 7
showing that Hamas terrorists were preparing for the massacre they
carried out that day, which began the current war.Slotkin, a CIA
veteran, also was outspoken in a post.“This is plain wrong,” she wrote.
“A two-state solution has been official US policy for decades for a
reason: because however far away it feels right now, it’s the only way
to bring dignity to both Israelis and Palestinians, and lasting
stability to the Middle East.”Sherman and Slotkin did not respond to
requests for further comment, nor did spokespeople for a number of the
others, including Nadler.There are 24 Jewish Democrats in the House, and
the nine who did not sign the statement include some who are among
Israel’s most outspoken defenders, among them Brad Schneider of
Illinois, Jared Moskowitz and Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida and
Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey.“I agree with Secretary [of State Antony]
Blinken that a future peace between Israel and the Palestinians, and a
better future for all people in the region, requires both a true safe
and secure, democratic, Jewish state of Israel and a very real pathway
for Palestinians to realize their own peaceful aspirations for a viable
state,” Schneider said in a text to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.A
spokesman for Moskowitz said he may issue a statement later.
Spokespeople for Wasserman Schultz and Gottheimer did not return
requests for comment.Four of the signatories have already made clear
their unhappiness with the direction of the war, joining calls for a
ceasefire, including Becca Balint of Vermont, Jamie Raskin of Maryland,
Jan Schakowsky of Illinois and Dean Phillips of Minnesota, who is also
running in a longshot campaign for president.The other three signatories
are Steve Cohen of Tennessee, Seth Magaziner of Rhode Island and Kim
Schrier of Washington.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
