SUSPECTED NORTH KOREAN HYPERSONIC MISSLE EXPLODED IN MID FLIGHT.

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)

  SUSPECTED NORTH KOREAN HYPERSONIC MISSLE EXPLODED IN MID FLIGHT.


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.

NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.

JESUS SHED HIS BLOOD FOR US THAT WE CAN BE SAVED FOREVER.AND DURING WW3 PEOPLES BLOOD WILL BE SHED AS A JUDGEMENT FOR HATING HIM AND ISRAEL.GOD IS NOT MOCKED.

ZEPHANIAH 1:2-3
2  I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.
3  I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.

PSALMS 97:3
3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.

EZEKIEL 5:15-17
15  So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the (ARAB/MUSLIM) nations that are round about thee,(ISRAEL) when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
16  When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
17  So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts,(WHEN RUSSIA/MUSLIMS GET DEFEATED THIER BODIES GET EATEN BY BIRDS,ANIMALS IN ISRAEL MIGRATION SEASON) and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee;(NUKES) and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.

REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)

ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire,(NUKES) and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity:(GOD/ISRAEL HATE AND BRAKING OF HIS COMMANDMENTS) the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die - 3 BILLION).

ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.

JOEL 2:3,30

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 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

REVELATION 9:18
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.(ATOMIC BOMBS)(RUSSIA CHINA DESTROYED BY ISRAELS ATOMIC BOMBS)

REVELATION 16:12-16
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates;(WERE WW3 STARTS IN IRAQ OR SYRIA OR TURKEY) and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon,(SATAN) and out of the mouth of the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) and out of the mouth of the false prophet.(FALSE POPE)
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.(WERE 2 BILLION DIE FROM NUKE WAR)
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.

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.
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.

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:

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.

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.

Israel grants initial approval for additional gas exports from Leviathan reservoir-Energy minister says that more than doubling the quantity of natural gas exports will boost state revenue and improve diplomatic ties, while domestic energy needs will be secured
By Sharon Wrobel-Today, 5:01 pm-JUN 26,24
 
Israel on Wednesday gave preliminary approval to increase natural gas exports from the Leviathan reservoir off the country’s Mediterranean coast, alongside an expansion of gas supply to the domestic market.NewMed Energy, formerly Delek Drilling (part of Yitzhak Tshuva’s Delek Group), which owns a 45.3 percent stake in Leviathan, said that the partners in the gas field are now working to approve an investment of between $400 million to $500 million to expand production capacity at the reservoir.That’s after Israel’s Energy Ministry gave a preliminary green light for the export of an extra 118 billion cubic meters (BCM) of natural gas from the Leviathan field, in addition to the current quantity of 105 BCM allowed by the regulator for exports.Commenting on the decision, Energy Minister Eli Cohen said that it marks another important step for strengthening Israel’s diplomatic and international ties, and expanding the supply of natural gas in the local economy to advance energy security.The energy ministry said that the expansion will generate additional revenues for the state estimated at billions of shekels. The regulator emphasized that the partners in the Leviathan field will still be required to obtain export licenses for the additional export quantities.Leviathan, one of the world’s largest deep-water gas discoveries, contains an estimated 22 trillion cubic feet of gas located approximately 120 kilometers west of the port city of Haifa at a water depth of 1.7 kilometers. Other partners in the gas field are US energy giant Chevron with a 39.66% stake and Ratio Oil Corp. with 15%.Currently, a maximum capacity of up to 1.2 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day, or 12 BCM per year, is piped up from the Leviathan reservoir for the supply and sale of gas to Israel, Egypt, and Jordan.The partners in the field said they seek to boost production output from the Leviathan reservoir to an annual quantity of about 21 BCM to meet the growing demand for natural gas for domestic market use, alongside sales to neighboring countries, and other international markets.“The Leviathan expansion is taking shape and heralds a major development for the regional and global energy market in a period of enormous demand for natural gas,” said NewMed Energy CEO Yossi Abu. “The Leviathan reservoir is an energy hub containing a huge amount of resources, ensuring energy security for Israel alongside export to the regional market and, in the foreseeable future, also to the global market.”A representative for Chevron in Israel said that the US energy giant is “pleased to partner with Israel, and we look forward to supporting the country’s strategy to develop its energy resources for the benefit of the country and the region.”NewMed stated that the partners in the Leviathan site are continuing negotiations at various stages to ink agreements for the supply and sale of natural gas to the Israeli market and for exports, based both on the current production capacity and on the expanded future production output.As part of the Plan B development plan for the Leviathan reservoir, the group is seeking to sell gas to customers beyond the Eastern Mediterranean, to Europe, and the Far East.In June 2022, Israel, Egypt and the European Union signed a memorandum of understanding that will see Israel export its natural gas to the bloc for the first time. According to the agreement, Israeli gas will be supplied via Egypt’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants to the European Union.Natural gas from Leviathan started to flow to the Israeli domestic market in December 2019. Israel’s natural gas operations have put the country on a path to energy independence — and have shielded it from the worst of the energy crisis sparked by the Russian war on Ukraine this year — in a region with few natural resources.Both Israel and Egypt have emerged as gas exporters in recent years following major offshore discoveries, as Europe is determined to wean itself off dependence on Russian gas imports.

Ehud Barak and other prominent Israelis urge PM be disinvited-Netanyahu said set to offer new stance on Palestinian state in speech to Congress-PM’s aides reportedly tell White House the address will enable Saudi-Israel normalization to advance; his office stresses that his opposition to Palestinian state hasn’t changed-By Lazar Berman-Today, 3:22 pm-JUN 26,24

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will present a new position on Palestinian statehood during his speech in Washington in July that will allow normalization with Saudi Arabia to progress, according to a Tuesday evening report.Senior aides to the Israeli leader have told the White House that Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress will contain elements that back United States President Joe Biden’s grand vision for the Middle East, Channel 13 news reported.That plan includes a ceasefire-for-hostages deal to end the fighting in Gaza, a diplomatic solution for the Israel-Hezbollah conflict in Lebanon, a pathway toward a Palestinian state, and diplomatic ties between Riyadh and Jerusalem.Biden’s Middle East vision takes on additional urgency as presidential elections loom in November. According to a Tuesday New York Times poll, Republican challenger Donald Trump leads Biden in seven key swing states, and would triumph by 312 electoral votes to Biden’s 226 according to the current polling.Engineering a Saudi-Israel normalization deal would be a diplomatic masterstroke, one that could blunt criticism of Biden’s policies in Gaza and in Ukraine.The Prime Minister’s Office pushed back on the report in comments to The Times of Israel, saying that Netanyahu “opposes a Palestinian state and will not change his position in his address to Congress.”At the same time, the PMO response did leave some maneuvering space for Netanyahu to offer rhetorical support for a vague process that leads toward increased Palestinian autonomy short of a state.Last month, the US and Saudi Arabia discussed a “semi-final” version of wide-ranging security agreements between the countries. The agreements are considered a major part of Washington’s efforts to bring Riyadh around to recognizing Israel for the first time. Saudi Arabia and the US have been clear that movement toward Palestinian statehood is a condition for an agreement.A bilateral deal between Saudi Arabia and the US that cuts Israel out is seen as unlikely. The US Constitution demands a two-thirds Senate majority for a formal defense pact, one that both parties have reason to reject without the Israel element.Netanyahu’s July 24 speech is causing consternation among many Democrats, many of whom are torn between their long-standing support for Israel and dismay over the way Israel has conducted military operations in Gaza.While some Democrats are saying they will attend out of respect for Israel, a larger and growing faction wants no part in it, creating an extraordinarily charged atmosphere at a gathering that normally amounts to a ceremonial, bipartisan show of support for an American ally.The invitation from House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, to Netanyahu came after consultation with the White House, according to a person familiar with the matter who was granted anonymity to discuss the sensitive subject. As of now, no meeting with Biden has been scheduled during Netanyahu’s Washington visit, that person said.On Wednesday, a group of prominent Israeli figures, including former prime minister Ehud Barak, called on Washington to withdraw the invitation.In a New York Times opinion piece, they cast the invitation as a “terrible mistake,” warning that the prime minister’s speech “will not represent the State of Israel and its citizens, and it will reward his scandalous and destructive conduct toward our country.”“Inviting Mr. Netanyahu will reward his contempt for US efforts to establish a peace plan, allow more aid to the beleaguered people of Gaza and do a better job of sparing civilians,” the article read.The piece was signed by Barak; David Harel, the president of Israel’s Academy of Sciences and Humanities; Tamir Pardo, a former Mossad spy agency director; Talia Sasson, a former prosecutor in the State Attorney’s Office; Aaron Ciechanover, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004; and writer David Grossman.Tensions between Netanyahu’s office and the Biden administration re-emerged last week, when the prime minister issued a video statement slamming the “inconceivable” “bottlenecks” that the US had placed in transferring shipments of weapons and ammunition and claiming that he had raised the issue during his meeting the previous week with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who assured him that Washington would address the issue.The video shocked the Biden administration, which has insisted that it had no idea what Netanyahu was talking about. There was one shipment of high-payload bombs that was held up last month due to US fears that it would be used in the then-crowded southern Gaza city of Rafah, but all other transfers are continuing at a regular pace, the US has insisted.Two days later, the White House went further, calling Netanyahu’s video “deeply disappointing” given that “there’s no other country that’s done more or will continue to do more than the United States to help Israel.” Netanyahu retorted that he was prepared to incur such criticism as long as Israel “receives the ammo it needs from the US in an existential war.”There have also been strains over other issues, including efforts to reach a ceasefire deal on which Biden’s entire regional plan hinges. But US frustration with Hamas has grown in recent weeks, and Washington blamed the terrorist group on Tuesday for rejecting the proposal laid out by Biden and backed by Israel.An Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity to The Times of Israel, suggested that the shift in rhetoric out of Washington is part of an effort to further isolate Hamas and the provide Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group an “off-ramp” to taper off its cross-border attacks on northern Israel that threaten to ignite a full-blown war.Jacob Magid contributed to this report.

Erdogan accuses West of backing ‘Netanyahu’s plans to spread war’ throughout region-Turkish leader says ‘Western powers behind the scenes are patting Israel on the back and even supporting them’ amid rising global fears of all-out war between Israel, Hezbollah-By Agencies and ToI Staff Today, 2:16 pm-JUN 26,24

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday accused Western powers of backing what he charged were Israeli plans to attack Lebanon and “spread war” throughout the region.His remarks came as concern soared over the ongoing cross-border exchanges of fire between Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israeli forces, fueling fears it could descend into fully-fledged war.“Israel is now setting its sights on Lebanon and we see that Western powers behind the scenes are patting Israel on the back and even supporting them,” Erdogan told lawmakers from his ruling AKP party.Prime Minister Benjamin “Netanyahu’s plans to spread the war to the region will lead to a great disaster,” he said.Iran-proxy Hezbollah began firing rockets and launching drones at northern Israel on October 8, aiming to put pressure on Israel’s military in support of Hamas, but has indicated that the attacks will stop should the fighting in Gaza end. Near-daily skirmishes and cross-border fire on the northern border halted during a week-long truce in November, but efforts to secure a fresh deal have yet to bear fruit.So far, the skirmishes on the border have resulted in 10 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 15 Israel Defense Forces soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries. The Hezbollah attacks have displaced tens of thousands of residents from local towns and communities, and caused huge amounts of damage to homes and national parks.Hezbollah has named 349 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon, but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 64 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have been killed. Tens of thousands have also fled their homes in south Lebanon.An escalation in the conflict could also trigger wider involvement by other Iran-backed terror groups in the region or Tehran itself.The United States has placed a major emphasis on keeping tensions on Israel’s northern border from snowballing into all-out war, working to broker a long-shot diplomatic deal while pinning its hopes on a ceasefire in Gaza leading to the restoration of calm between Israel and Hezbollah.Erdogan, a vocal critic of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza following the terror group’s devastating attack on October 7, has often expressed support for the Palestinian terrorist organization as defenders of their homeland.Erdogan has also met with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Istanbul, after which he encouraged Palestinians to unite against Israel.He has also compared Israel to the Nazis and Netanyahu to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.Erdogan and Netanyahu have a long history of public attacks on each other, which have ebbed and flowed alongside Israel and Turkey’s on-again, off-again relations. The attacks had halted as Jerusalem and Ankara ties warmed, but the détente has seemingly fallen apart over the Israel-Hamas war.In May, Erdogan announced that Turkey would halt all trade between his country and Israel.

President: World barely doing anything-Herzog, Netanyahu tour north as UN warns of ‘apocalyptic’ war with Hezbollah-Premier vows ‘victory,’ president decries global apathy toward displaced Israelis; Iran said loath to send Iraqi militias to Lebanon; Katz slams Erdogan’s ‘support for Hezbollah’-By ToI Staff, Emanuel Fabian-and AFP Today, 11:40 pm-JUN 26,24

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog toured northern Israel on Wednesday, as months of skirmishes with Lebanon’s Hezbollah were feared to be on the verge of escalating to an all-out war the United Nations said would be “apocalyptic.”Netanyahu, touring the Lebanese border on Wednesday, observed a drill of the 55th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade, whose soldiers he hailed for their “determination to defend the country,” according to a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office.Flanked by his military secretary, Roman Gofman, the head of the IDF’s Northern Command Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin, and other lower-ranking commanders, Netanyahu asserted that Israel would achieve “victory” in the north in case of a full-blown war with Hezbollah.The visits came as the IDF published footage of airstrikes it carried out on Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon’s Kfarchouba, Ayta ash-Shab and Khiam. The army said it also shelled several more areas in south Lebanon with artillery. Earlier in the day, the army published footage of overnight airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon’s Shebaa and Matmoura.Meanwhile, Israeli local authorities said several anti-tank guided missiles fired by Hezbollah on Wednesday caused some damage.In the afternoon, at least five missiles struck Metula, causing damage and sparking a fire. Later in the day, a missile was fired at Avivim, striking a home. The same home was hit by another missile several hours later.Hezbollah took responsibility for a separate attack against the northern community of Even Menachem. It also reported launching attacks against military positions in northern Israel. There were no reports of injuries in the attack.Forces aligned with Hezbollah have carried out near-daily attacks on northern communities and military posts since October 8, a day after thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israel to kill nearly 1,200 people and take over 250 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza. Hezbollah says it is attacking Israel in support of the Palestinians.Early in the war, Israel evacuated communities along the border with Lebanon, fearing Hezbollah would carry out an onslaught similar to Hamas’s. Over eight months later, some 60,000 residents of northern Israel remain displaced.Fears of an all-out war have increased as displaced residents demand decisive action to remove Hezbollah from the border, as the Iran-backed terror group has escalated attacks, and as Israel has carried out a series of high-profile assassinations against it.UN humanitarian coordinator Martin Griffiths told reporters in Geneva on Wednesday that he saw Lebanon as “the flashpoint beyond all flashpoints,” pointing to southern Lebanon in particular.Griffiths, whose term ends this week, said he had been discussing with colleagues in Jerusalem the prospects of what might happen there.“We are worried about the potential for further tragedy and deaths,” he said, adding that war in Lebanon could also draw in Syria and would be “potentially apocalyptic.”Amid international concern, the foreign ministries of Germany and the Netherlands on Wednesday both called on their countries’ citizens to leave Lebanon, saying flights out of Beirut may soon no longer be available. The warnings, which came after German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock visited the region, followed a similar advisory issued by Canada’s foreign ministry on Tuesday.Diplomatic efforts by the United States and, to a lesser extent, France, have so far failed to make Hezbollah retreat beyond the Litani River, some 30 kilometers (19 miles) north of the border with Israel, in accord with UN Resolution 1701 which ended the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah conflict.Herzog, who on Wednesday concluded a two-day stay in northern Israel with his wife Michal, accused the world of not doing enough to de-escalate tensions there.“The international community should not be surprised if the situation gets out of control, because the international community is barely lifting a finger, barely doing anything to contribute to the full security of Israeli residents, after repeated violations of international treaties and agreements from Lebanon and from Hezbollah,” Herzog said, according to a statement from his office.The statement said the president and his wife stayed in Safed and toured several communities and army bases in the region over their two-day trip.Despite the bleak image conjured by the president, US officials have reportedly assured their Israeli counterparts that Washington would give its “full support” to Israel in case of a war with Hezbollah.On Tuesday, the White House was also said to have told Hezbollah that the terror group should not count on Washington to keep Israel from going to war.Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who has been in Washington since Sunday, conferred on Wednesday with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, telling him that Israel was fighting only “those who seek to harm us,” both in Lebanon and Gaza.“Let it be known that our war is not with the people of Gaza. Our war is not with the people of Lebanon,” Gallant told Sullivan, according to a transcript from the defense minister’s office. “Our war is against Hamas, Hezbollah and their backer — the Iranian regime.”Saudi-owned newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported on Wednesday, citing four unnamed sources, that Iran has expressed reservations about plans by Iraqi militias, backed by the Islamic Republic, to fight alongside Hezbollah against Israel.According to the sources, Iran was interested in proposals to supply Hezbollah, which included redeploying Iraqi militias in Syria and transferring weapons by a single truck, instead of a convoy, so as to not attract Israeli strikes. However, it was reportedly less enthusiastic about the Iraqi militias’ plan to travel to Lebanon, and Hezbollah was said to have rejected their offer of assistance.Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Israel Katz once again lashed out at Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday after the Turkish president accused Western powers of backing what he said were Israeli plans to attack Lebanon and “spread war” throughout the region.“Israel is now setting its sights on Lebanon and we see that Western powers behind the scenes are patting Israel on the back and even supporting them,” he told lawmakers from his ruling AKP party, adding that “Netanyahu’s plans to spread the war to the region will lead to a great disaster.”Katz, writing on X, accused Erdogan of “support for Hezbollah,” in the foreign minister’s latest social media jab at the Turkish strongman, who has harshly criticized Israel’s offensive in Gaza and hosted Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Istanbul.“Erdogan is a war criminal who slaughters innocent Kurds across the Syrian border and tries to deny Israel its right to self-defense against a terror organization attacking from Lebanon under Iran’s orders,” wrote Katz. “Be quiet and shame on you!”Skirmishes with Hezbollah along the border with Lebanon have so far resulted in 10 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 15 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuriesHezbollah has named 349 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 64 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have been killed.Lazar Berman contributed to this report.

Israel responds to UN war crimes claim: ‘Large parts of Gaza converted to combat sites’Document reacting to UN Human Rights office allegations says report suffers from ‘hindsight and methodological biases,’ lacks crucial information-By Jeremy Sharon-Today, 11:55 pm-JUN 26,24

Israel has rejected a UN report accusing it of having “systematically violated” key principles of the laws of armed conflict during the ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza.The report was issued last week by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). It detailed in particular the IDF’s use of air-dropped bombs in densely populated areas, and focused on six specific incidents with high casualty counts as examples of how Israel has allegedly violated the principles of distinction, proportionality, and precaution in its campaign.A response compiled by the Israeli government to the document has rejected the OHCHR’s claims, noting in particular that the agency made its claims based on the outcomes of attacks instead of assessing the decision making process behind them, as is required when assessing the legality of an attack.Israel’s military campaign in Gaza in response to Hamas’s October 7 invasion and mass atrocities has prompted numerous allegations that the IDF has violated the laws of armed conflict laid out by international law, in light of what appears to be the high number of civilian casualties and the massive destruction of civilian infrastructure.These claims have even been taken up by the International Criminal Court, with its prosecutor Karim Khan now seeking arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for, among other alleged crimes, “willful killing” and “intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population.”OHCHR’s report could likely be used by the ICC and other UN agencies to bolster the legal accusations against Israel.The OHCHR report issued on June 19 was scant on the details of its methodology, saying only that information was gathered from “multiple independent sources” including “through interviews carried out by OHCHR with witnesses, military and weapons experts,” but did not detail who those people were, or name the report’s authors.And the Israeli response, authored by Israel’s delegation to the UN in Geneva under the auspices of the Foreign Ministry, took the OHCHR to task for what it said were serious methodological failings.It insisted the organization did not have the relevant information to determine what the expected harm to civilians had been at the time of the attacks, and pointed out that Hamas’s comprehensive use of civilian infrastructure in Gaza had turned a multitude of previously civilian sites into military ones.Critically, the response pointed out that Hamas’s “extensive and unprecedented” use of the civilian environment for military purposes meant that broad swaths of urban Gaza had become legitimate military targets.“Large parts of neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip were converted, sometimes containing substantial portions of the buildings in them, into combat complexes that include ambushes, command and control apartments, weapons caches, observation posts, firing positions, trap houses and explosives in the streets and rocket launchers,” the response said.This was in addition to “the extensive use of terror tunnels, going beneath neighborhoods, schools, UN facilities, and other civilian objects, with thousands of tunnels shafts inside and around such infrastructure, and containing the presence of many military operatives inside these tunnels.”In many circumstances, using aerial munitions, including those with “wide area effects” were “the only type of weapon that can accomplish the military objective.”Addressing what it described as methodological flaws in the OHCHR report, the Israeli rebuttal pointed in particular to its reliance on publicly available information which did not include information and intelligence held by IDF commanders who carried out the strikes.“The chosen methodology by which OHCHR analyzes these strikes, which includes mainly relying on alleged results and media coverage, leads to an inaccurate understanding of which targets were struck, the military importance given to each target, and the operational constraints,” said the Israeli response, and this flaw led to “unjust accusations of violations.”It also noted that the OHCHR report relies on fatality figures provided by the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry which have been shown to be unreliable and potentially distorted, leading the UN itself to reduce its fatality estimates.In particular, the Israeli response observed that Hamas’s list of fatalities includes male combatants who are listed as women, minors who have been identified as combatants, and men who have been identified as combatants, which would potentially change the calculations of proportionality when assessing a strike.Hamas’s fatality list also includes deaths caused by Hamas and other terror groups, including misfired munitions and explosives placed in areas populated by civilians, the Israeli rebuttal said.The response also asserted that in general, estimating expected civilian harm in Gaza “can be very challenging” due to the fact that the IDF is operating in “a complex and dense urban environment where civilian presence is dynamic and often hard to ascertain.”And it observed that attacks cannot be legally evaluated based on the outcome, but rather “only the harm that could reasonably be anticipated at the time of the decision.”If the outcome of the attack is higher than expected “this does not necessarily indicate a violation,” the response noted, adding “compliance is conduct-oriented, not result-oriented.”The OHCHR study itself focused on six incidents during the war which resulted in heavy Palestinian casualties, to illustrate what it said was a broader pattern of Israeli violations of the laws of armed conflict.The first attack it highlighted was a strike in the Jabaliya camp on October 9 which resulted in the deaths of at least 42 people, including 14 children and one woman, according to OHCHR.Another airstrike on the Taj3 Tower in Gaza City on October 25 killed 105 people, including 32 women and 47 children, and leveled an area of 5,700 square meters, according to OHCHR.The organization said that another strike on Jabaliya on October 31 killed 56 people including 12 women and 23 children and flattened 2,500 square meters, noting that Israel said it killed the Hamas commander of the terror group’s Central Jabaliya Battalion in the attack.A strike on the Al Bureij camp in central Gaza on November 2 resulted in the deaths of at least 15 people including five women and nine children, OHCHR said, while an attack on the Al Buraq school on November 10 resulted in the deaths of 34 people, including a Hamas company commander named Ahmed Siam, along with other Hamas combatants.The final strike analyzed by OHCHR was an attack on the Shejaiya neighborhood in Gaza City on December 2, which it said resulted in the deaths of 60 people, including the commander of Hamas’s Shejaiya Battalion.In these various attacks, the report said Israel used guided bombs of different sizes, including the GBU-31 2000lb munition, the GBU-32 1000lb bomb, and the GBU-39 250lb bomb.Based on its analysis of the six airstrikes, the OHCHR report accused Israel of violating the principle of distinction, by which the laws of armed conflict require armed forces to target combatants alone, alleging that Israel has targeted “members of de facto civilian administration and Hamas political structures not directly participating in hostilities.”OHCHR said Israel had also violated the principle of proportionality, which requires that the expected military advantage of a specific attack be proportional to the damage done to civilians and civilian objects.The report alleged in regard to the strikes on Jabaliya, the Taj3 Tower, Al Buraq school and Shejayia that it was “hard to conceive” of a military advantage that would justify what it said was the “predictable scale” of harm to civilians in those strikes.It also alleged that there were “hundreds” of similar strikes, which it said appear, to have been committed “as part of a pattern of attacks” over several months.OHCHR also accused Israel of failing to take sufficient precautions in its attacks to avoid or minimize civilian casualties, another requirement of international law.It said that in some attacks the IDF failed to issue warnings of an impending strike, and said that the use of heavy bombs with “wide area effects in densely populated area” also demonstrated a violation of the principle of precaution.Additional Protocol I of the 1949 Geneva Conventions says that “effective advance warning” should be given of attacks which might affect the civilian population, “unless circumstances do not permit.”Addressing the specific strikes underlined in OHCHR’s report, the Israeli response revealed several details not known to the UN agency, which it said would have to be taken into account when evaluating the legality of the attack.Israel said the October 9 Jabaliya attack struck a terror tunnel with tunnel shafts which themselves were part of a Hamas compound, and included a rocket launcher and Hamas combatants.Any assessment of that strike would have to take into account the military advantage to be gained in striking all those targets, the response said, while pointing out at that early stage of the war, a ground attack was not possible.The response provided less specific information about the Taj3 Tower attack in which OHCHR claimed some 79 women and children were killed, but stated that the IDF struck “on that day” several “unique and high value Hamas military assets and infrastructure, which were used by Hamas’ highest level of military commanders, both above and underground.”The Foreign Ministry document did not detail whether those targets were in, around, or under the Taj3 Tower.The rebuttal made similar comments about the October 31 attack on Jabaliya and the Shejaiya attack, insisting that there had been multiple targets in those attacks including high ranking commanders and military infrastructure.“The notion that the expected incidental damage of the strikes were weighed against a single Al Qassam commander ‘whether with or without other combatants,’ is factually wrong, and leads to a flawed legal conclusion,” the response asserted.The document also pointed out that five of the six strikes, excluding the October 9 Jabaliya attack, are currently under review by the Fact-Finding and Assessment Mechanism (“FFA Mechanism”) of the IDF’s General Staff, which is responsible for conducting factual assessments of the legality of “exceptional incidents.”Once those are completed, the results are submitted to the Military Advocate General (MAG) corps for a decision on whether or not to open a criminal investigation.Israel’s rebuttal did not contend with OHCHR’s contention that “extensive civilian losses and damages” can never be justified.The OHCHR report, the Israeli response nevertheless argued, lacked “many crucial facts and understandings that are crucial for any sound legal discussion,” adding that, “It is apparent that the document suffers from hindsight and methodological biases which cast a shadow on the credibility of its legal assessment.”

Journalists tour American aid pier in Gaza as it resumes operations-US says its learning and improving as it launches another attempt to use the pier, after sea conditions left structure unusable for weeks-By Leo Correa, AMI BEN TOV and Julia Frankel Today, 6:44 pm-JUN 26,24

AP — With US soldiers within shouting distance of Gaza’s coast, the American military is taking another stab at delivering aid to hungry Palestinians by sea.After several fits and starts, a $230 million pier is up and running again. The US military invited reporters for a tour of it on Tuesday, marking the first time international media has witnessed its operations firsthand.International journalists have not been allowed to enter Gaza independently since the Israel-Hamas war began on October 7, when Hamas sent thousands of terrorists into Israel, where they killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 251 hostage.The project, which first launched in mid-May, resumed operations last week after a recent pause due to rough seas.As journalists looked on Tuesday, US soldiers with machine guns directed the pier’s operations. US vessels carrying trucks loaded with humanitarian aid docked at the pier.Israeli and Cypriot drivers drove the trucks off the vessels and headed down the 400-meter (437-yard) causeway to the beach, where they unloaded pallets of aid.The trucks then returned to the vessels to be ferried to large cargo ships and reloaded. The cargo ships travel across the Mediterranean Sea from Cyprus.Col. Samuel Miller, the commander of a joint task force, US Army 7th Transportation Brigade, said the vessels can ferry aid to the pier at least five times a day.“Our mission out here is to receive those humanitarian assistance pallets offshore from a larger vessel onto that floating pier,” he said, shouting over waves crashing against the pier. “Over time, we are learning organization and we’ve gotten better.”The floating pier was anchored back on Gaza’s shoreline on June 19 after heavy seas and high winds led the military to disconnect it from the beach. In May, similar conditions forced a two-week pause in operations after the pier broke apart and four US Army vessels ran aground, injuring three service members, one critically.Since coming back online, the pier has been delivering hundreds of pallets of aid a day to the shore, Miller said.From the pier, Associated Press journalists could see aid piling up against a backdrop of near-total destruction. Israeli army vehicles slowly moved between blown-out buildings along the coast. Tents stood on beaches in the distance.The US military said about 6,200 metric tons (6,800 tons) of aid have so far been delivered from the project to Gaza’s shore.While aid from the pier is reaching the beach, it’s still difficult to get it to Palestinians in Gaza. The UN World Food Programme has suspended aid delivery from the pier due to security concerns after the Israeli military used a nearby area in a June 8 hostage rescue. Lawlessness around the pier, with hungry Palestinians seizing aid off trucks headed to delivery zones, is also a major concern.The US launched the project to bring relief to Gaza, where Israel’s military offensive against Hamas has displaced over 80% of the territory’s 2.3 million people and unleashed a humanitarian disaster. International officials say hundreds of thousands of people are at risk of famine.UN and other international aid officials have voiced skepticism over the pier, saying its effectiveness is limited and it is no substitute for Israeli-controlled land crossings into the territory.Israel has said there is no shortage of aid entering Gaza through crossings, and that the problem lies with slow distribution by aid groups within Gaza. The latter blame chaotic conditions caused by Israel’s offensive and a lack of security for aid workers in the distribution delays.UN officials told the AP on Tuesday that they are considering suspending all aid operations across Gaza unless steps are taken to better protect humanitarian workers. That would plunge Gaza into an even deeper humanitarian catastrophe.Still, the soldiers operating the pier Tuesday were hopeful.“I talk to my sailors on a daily basis,” said US Navy Capt. Joel Stewart. “They understand that our aid is necessary for the people of Gaza who are suffering under the conditions of war.”

Knesset moves toward making ‘Al Jazeera Law’ permanent, allowing blocking of broadcasts-As bill passes preliminary reading, sponsor Ariel Kallner says: ‘I am in favor of freedom of the press, but not at the cost of the safety of our soldiers and citizens’By Sam Sokol-Today, 6:44 pm-JUN 26,24

Lawmakers voted 51-36 on Wednesday to approve a preliminary reading of a bill turning the so-called Al Jazeera Law into permanent legislation. The law gives the government powers to prevent foreign news networks from operating in Israel under certain limited circumstances.Initially passed by the Knesset in April, the current temporary measure provided the prime minister and the communications minister with the authority to order the closure of foreign networks operating in Israel and confiscate their equipment if they have grounds to believe they are “doing real harm to state security.”Such orders are valid for 45 days but can be renewed for further 45-day periods.The current law expires on July 31. If it makes it through the three readings in the Knesset required to become law, the new bill would make it permanent and extend the ban’s length to 90-day renewable periods.The current law was used to close down Qatari news network Al Jazeera’s operations in Israel last month and to temporarily seize equipment belonging to the Associated Press — an act which sparked criticism both within Israel and abroad.Though Israeli officials have long complained about Al Jazeera’s coverage, which they say is heavily influenced by Hamas and endangers IDF troops in Gaza, in the past they stopped short of taking action. Qatar bankrolled Palestinian construction projects in the Gaza Strip prior to the war, which were seen by all sides as a means of staving off conflict.The law empowers the communications minister to order “content providers” to cease broadcasting the channel in question, order the channel’s Israeli offices to be shuttered, order the channel’s equipment confiscated, and order the channel’s website to be blocked.It is the communications minister who can issue such orders, with the approval of the prime minister and the security cabinet, and after a professional position paper has been presented to the prime minister and the communications minister by security services detailing the “factual foundations” of allegations that the outlet is causing damage to Israel’s national security.In a tweet following the vote, Likud MK Ariel Kallner, the bill’s sponsor, stated that his “goal first and foremost is to protect our soldiers fighting in the field and at the front and to prevent a hostile media body inside Israel.”“I am in favor of freedom of the press and media but not at the cost of the safety of our dear soldiers and citizens,” he stated.The new bill’s explanatory notes said it would also give the communications minister “the authority to also order the halting of the broadcasts of a foreign channel..if he believes…that it is causing a real harm to the security of the state.” It was unclear how this differed from current legislation. A spokesman for Kallner did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Speaking with The Times of Israel, Gil Gan-Mor, who runs the Association for Civil Rights in Israel’s departments of Civil and Social Rights, said that the new authority granted to the minister was likely connected with efforts to block satellite signals, but that this change would only become clear as the bill advances through the legislative process.“Now its symbolic because you can watch [banned content] on private satellite systems, YouTube or on social media. So they want things that only totalitarian countries want — to block communications,” he said.“It’s a very bad thing. This law, to our minds, is not constitutional as a temporary order and clearly when it becomes a permanent law the violation of freedom of speech becomes permanent.”Reviewing petitions against the law, the High Court of Justice released a conditional order earlier this month requiring a government response, by August 5, to why the current law should not be invalidated, Gan-Mor noted. He called it a “kind of gesture from the court to the government not to extend the temporary order.”Jeremy Sharon contributed to this report.

Israeli officials believe ICC arrest warrants to be issued within weeks – report-Prime Minister’s Office said reexamining Netanyahu’s trip to US next month should warrants be issued, as any emergency landing in a signatory country could result in his arrest-By ToI Staff Today, 6:44 pm-JUN 26,24

Israel believes that the International Criminal Court will issue arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in the coming weeks, Channel 12 news reported Wednesday, after the court’s chief prosecutor announced applying for the warrants back in May.The expected warrants have been the subject of meetings at the Prime Minister’s Office, the Foreign Ministry and the Justice Ministry in recent weeks, the network said, and all have estimated that they will be issued in the next few weeks.ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan said in May that he was seeking arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant due to suspected crimes of “causing extermination, causing starvation as a method of war including the denial of humanitarian relief supplies, deliberately targeting civilians in conflict.”At the same time, Khan said he was also seeking warrants for top Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh, Yahya Sinwar and Muhammad Deif on charges of extermination, murder, hostage-taking, rape, and sexual assault.The decision was harshly criticized by Israeli officials, both due to the charges leveled against Netanyahu and Gallant, as well as the seeming comparison drawn between Israeli leadership in a war they did not start, and the Hamas terror group.United States President Joe Biden added his voice to the criticism and said that the US rejected the accusations against Israel by the international court.“What’s happening [in Gaza] is not genocide,” he said at the time.The US is not a signatory to the Rome Treaty which established the ICC, meaning it does not recognize the court’s jurisdiction.It would not be required, therefore, to place Netanyahu or Gallant under arrest should they be on US soil after a warrant is issued, meaning that Netanyahu should not run into any issues when traveling to the US next month for a July 24th address to a joint session of Congress.Channel 12 reported, however, that his office does not believe his visit will be risk-free. If his plane is required to make an emergency landing, it could very well have to do so in a country that recognizes the ICC’s jurisdiction, which could result in the arrest warrant being implemented.According to the report, legal officials have been conducting talks on the implications the warrant could have on Netanyahu, and on his planned visit to the US.The Prime Minister’s Office denied this, telling Channel 12 that “there is no concern regarding the prime minister’s travels.”

Germany, Netherlands urge citizens to leave Lebanon for fear of war-They join growing list of countries urging people to leave while commercial flights are still an option, as Hezbollah ramps up attacks on Israel-By ToI Staff Today, 10:55 pm-JUN 26,24

Germany and the Netherlands urged their citizens to leave Lebanon on Wednesday, a day after Canada issued a similar warning in light of escalating tensions between Israel and the Hezbollah terror group.In an updated travel warning on its website, the German Foreign Ministry stated that “the security situation in the region is highly volatile,” as clashes along the Israel-Lebanon border have intensified in recent weeks.“A further escalation of the situation and expansion of the conflict cannot be ruled out,” the travel warning continued. “This applies in particular to the southern parts of Lebanon, including the southern urban areas of Beirut, and the Bekaa Valley, including the Baalbek-Hermel district.“A further escalation could also lead to a complete suspension of air traffic from Rafiq Hariri Airport. Leaving Lebanon by air would then no longer be possible,” it added.The updated travel warning was issued amid a visit by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock to the region.In Jerusalem on Tuesday, she said that Germany was “extremely concerned about the increase in violence at the northern border,” and stressed that international partners were “working hard on finding solutions that can prevent more suffering. The risk of an unintended escalation and of all-out war is growing by the day.”She added that she would be visiting Beirut later in the week to impart the same message to the Lebanese government.Deutsche in #Libanon werden dringend aufgefordert auszureisen. Die Lage an der Grenze zwischen #Israel & Libanon ist sehr angespannt. #Reisewarnung und Ausreiseaufforderung für Libanon wurden daher heute erneut verschärft: https://t.co/YZ5Ze4UIMc— Auswärtiges Amt (@AuswaertigesAmt) June 26, 2024-Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there.So far, the skirmishes on the border have resulted in 10 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 15 Israel Defense Forces soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.Hezbollah has named 349 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 64 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have been killed.Israel has said that while it hopes the matter can be resolved through a diplomatic agreement, it is prepared for all scenarios, including a major IDF offensive to push the Iran-backed terror group away from the border.Like Germany, the Netherlands reiterated its call for citizens to leave Lebanon on Tuesday, should they have chosen to stay there after previous warnings.“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs repeats the urgent call not to travel to Lebanon,” the foreign ministry wrote on X. “Are you still there? Leave the country while there are (still) commercial flights.”Reisadvies #Libanon: het Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken herhaalt de dringende oproep om niet naar Libanon te reizen. Ben je er al? Verlaat het land nu er (nog) commerciële vluchten zijn. 1/3— Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken (@MinBZ) June 26, 2024-According to the Dutch foreign ministry website, the entirety of Lebanon is currently classified as level red, or “do not enter.”In comparison, in Israel only the Gaza border region and northern Israel are classified as red areas, with the remainder of the country considered orange, or “essential travel only.”For Dutch citizens already in Lebanon, the foreign ministry urged them to “leave the country if it is safe to do so,” and warned that the longer people wait, the more difficulty they may have leaving.The two EU member states have joined a growing number of countries urging their citizens to leave Lebanon as fears of all-out war grow. While many countries have had travel warnings in place since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, they have reiterated them in recent weeks.Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly called on Tuesday for Canadians to depart while commercial flights remain operational, saying that the situation “could deteriorate further without warning.”Meanwhile, Kuwait was reported to have started evacuating its citizens from Lebanon earlier this week, a day after the Gulf state’s foreign ministry renewed its call to avoid traveling to the region due to “consecutive security developments.”In Europe, North Macedonia similarly issued a call at the start of the week for its citizens to return home from Lebanon, and advised all non-essential travel there to be postponed.

Germany to advance bill to deport foreigners who glorify terrorism-‘We are taking tough action against Islamist and antisemitic hate,’ says minister. ‘Agitators living in the Stone Age have no place in our country’By AFP Today, 11:39 pm-JUN 26,24

FRANKFURT — The German government agreed to measures on Wednesday making it easier to deport foreigners who glorify acts of terror after a surge in online hate posts during the Gaza war.Under the new rules foreigners could face deportation for “even a single comment that glorifies and condones a terrorist offense on social media,” the interior ministry said after the cabinet agreed on a draft law.After the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, which triggered the Gaza war, there was a surge in hate posts on social media in Germany, with officials saying Islamists in particular were responsible.The fatal stabbing last month of a police officer by an Afghan asylum seeker in Mannheim also triggered a surge of such posts, fueling the debate on deportations.“We are taking tough action against Islamist and antisemitic hate crimes on the internet,” said Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, after ministers agreed on the measures.“It is clear that Islamist agitators who are mentally living in the Stone Age have no place in our country. Anyone who does not have a German passport and glorifies terrorist acts here must be expelled.”Asked about the threshold for deporting foreigners, Faeser offered assurances the changes would not target those who just made “little clicks” on social media or simply liked others’ posts.“We are talking here about real glorification of violence,” she said, adding that online hate posts “fuel a climate of violence that can encourage extremists to commit new acts of violence.”A ministry spokesman also stressed that those ordered deported would be able to challenge decisions in courts.The new law needs to be passed by parliament and Faeser said she hoped lawmakers would adopt it after the summer recess.Convictions have already been made over some social media posts. A Munich imam was this month fined 4,500 euros ($4,800) for posting on Facebook that “everyone has their own way of celebrating the month of October,” on the day of the Hamas attack.In parliament following the Mannheim attack, Chancellor Olaf Scholz also called for those who celebrate acts of terror to face deportation.Glorifying terrorist offenses amounted to a “slap in the face for the victims, their families and our democratic order,” he said.

NATO picks Dutch PM Mark Rutte as next chief, as alliance faces perilous times-Seen as safe pair of hands amid threat posed by Putin, possible election of Trump; predecessor Stoltenberg hails ‘true transatlanticist, strong leader, consensus-builder’-By Max Delany Today, 1:29 pm-JUN 26,24

BRUSSELS (AFP) — NATO’s 32 nations on Wednesday appointed outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as the alliance’s next head, handing him the job at a crucial moment with Russia on the march in Ukraine and American elections looming.Rutte will take over from Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on October 1 after major powers — spearheaded by the United States — wrapped up his nomination ahead of a summit of NATO leaders in Washington next month.“I warmly welcome NATO Allies’ choice of Mark Rutte as my successor. Mark is a true transatlanticist, a strong leader and a consensus-builder,” Stoltenberg said on social media after NATO ambassadors approved the appointment.“I know I am leaving NATO in good hands,” he added.The seasoned Dutch leader, whose 14-year tenure in charge of the Netherlands is set to end within weeks, is seen as a safe pair of hands capable of stewarding the 75-year-old alliance through perilous times.While the 57-year-old faces the specter of a possible return by former US president Donald Trump to the White House, Rutte will also have to grapple with the threat posed by Russian leader Vladimir Putin.After staking a claim for the NATO post following the collapse of his coalition last year, Rutte had to use all his diplomatic skills to win over reluctant allies Turkey and Hungary.He finally clinched the race for the top job last week when sole challenger Romanian President Klaus Iohannis dropped out.Back Ukraine, tame Trump? A staunch supporter of Ukraine, the straight-talking Dutchman has spearheaded a push to give Kyiv F-16 fighter jets to help fight off Russia’s invasion.As NATO chief he will play a key role in marshaling weary allies to keep backing the war-torn country — while treading a fine line over Kyiv’s push to join.The Kremlin’s 2022 assault on Ukraine has reinvigorated an alliance that often struggled for purpose after the end of the Cold War, and pushed European nations to up their defense spending.Rutte will now have to ensure NATO is fighting fit to deal with the threat Moscow will pose for years to come, and also keep a keen eye on the growing might of China.Most testing, however, could be the challenge of keeping the alliance together if Trump reclaims the presidency.Trump reportedly mulled pulling the military superpower out of NATO during his first term — only to be talked down by world leaders, including Rutte.On the campaign trail this time around, the volatile former reality TV star has rattled allies by saying he’d encourage Moscow to attack countries not spending enough on defense.It is not just the US that is facing political uncertainty — with crunch polls also coming up in other key countries like France.“From his many years in Dutch politics and on the international stage, Rutte is an adroit balancer of political relationships,” said Philippe Dickinson from the Atlantic Council think tank.“This political savvy will be put to the test to an unprecedented extent in the years ahead.”Rutte will look to learn from his predecessor Stoltenberg, who has headed NATO through its most consequential decade since the Cold War ended.The unflappable former Norwegian prime minister won plaudits for maintaining unity and strengthening NATO through a tumultuous period.Rutte will be the fourth Dutchman to head the alliance since it was founded in the ashes of World War II to face off against the Soviet Union.

Israeli delegation said set to visit US for talks on Iran-In first, US describes Hamas response to Israeli ceasefire offer as a ‘rejection’State Department spokesperson says terror group’s response with a counter-proposal amounted to ‘written rejection’ of deal that received strong international backing-By Jacob Magid-Today, 11:37 am-JUN 26,24

WASHINGTON — The United States characterized Hamas’s last response to Israel’s proposal for a ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza earlier this month as a rejection of that offer for the first time Tuesday, as Washington appeared to harden its rhetoric against the terror group.Hamas on June 11 said a proposal laid out by US President Joe Biden and backed by Israel did not meet its demand for a complete end to the war in Gaza, responding to the offer with significant amendments that mediators have struggled to bridge. Israel has insisted it will fight till Hamas is destroyed over its devastating October 7 attack on the country.The terror group “came back several weeks ago and rejected the proposal that was on the table,” US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said during a press briefing Tuesday.“They gave us a written response that rejected the proposal put forward by Israel, that President Biden had outlined, that the United Nations Security Council and countries all around the world had endorsed,” he added, calling it a “written rejection and counter-proposal that came from Hamas.”The comment marked the first time that a US official had publicly gone so far. To date, only Jerusalem has branded the Hamas response as a rejection. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken two weeks ago criticized Hamas’s counter-proposal as including changes that are “not workable,” but insisted the gaps were still bridgeable.Egyptian and Qatari mediators have been in contact with Hamas over the past two weeks in an attempt to bridge the gaps with Israel.An Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity to The Times of Israel, suggested that the shift in rhetoric out of Washington is part of an effort to further isolate Hamas and provide Iran-backed Hezbollah an “off-ramp” to taper off its cross-border attacks on northern Israel that threaten to ignite a full-blown war.The US has placed a major emphasis on keeping tensions on Israel’s northern border from snowballing into all-out war, working to broker a long-shot diplomatic deal while pinning its hopes on a ceasefire in Gaza leading to the restoration of calm between Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah.Israel’s latest ceasefire and hostage deal proposal, some of whose details were presented by US President Joe Biden last month, reportedly provides for a temporary ceasefire in the first phase of the deal, to be extended into “a sustainable calm (cessation of military operations and hostilities permanently)” in the second phase. However, Netanyahu has repeatedly denied that the proposal provides for ending the war before Israel achieves its two declared goals of destroying Hamas and bringing home all the hostages.The IDF launched its offensive in Gaza after thousands of Hamas-led terrorists rampaged across southern Israel on October 7, killing some 1,200 people and kidnapping 251. The government says the war will continue until Hamas is completely destroyed and the hostages are freed or released.Iran-proxy Hezbollah began firing rockets and launching drones at northern Israel on October 8, aiming to put pressure on Israel’s military in support of Hamas, but has indicated that the attacks will stop should the fighting in Gaza end. Near-daily skirmishes and cross-border fire on the northern border halted during a week-long truce in November, but efforts to secure a fresh deal have yet to bear fruit.An Israeli delegation will soon visit Washington for a meeting of the Strategic Consultative Group on Iran, with the sides planning the talks after deliberations set for last week were delayed, according to Hebrew media reports.The White House has said the meeting set for last week was pushed off due to a scheduling conflict, strongly denying it was canceled out of pique after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly accused the Biden administration of holding up arms deliveries to Israel.A new meeting hasn’t been actually rescheduled, but the sides have agreed to meet in the coming weeks, a US official told The Times of Israel. Senior Israeli and US officials said a date is expected to be set for July before Netanyahu is due in Washington where he will address a joint session of Congress on July 24, the Axios website reported.The Israeli delegation will be led by National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, according to Axios. Both were in Washington last week for talks on the situation with Hezbollah.So far, the skirmishes on the border have resulted in 10 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 15 Israel Defense Forces soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries. The Hezbollah attacks have displaced tens of thousands of residents from local towns and communities, and caused huge amounts of damage to homes and national parks.Hezbollah has named 349 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 64 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have been killed.Israel is also worried about Iran’s nuclear activities.Iran has been ratcheting up its enrichment of uranium in recent months and barring International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors from visiting its nuclear sites, drawing censure from the Group of Seven as well as the IAEA’s 35-nation board of governors.On Tuesday, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin during a meeting in Washington that “time is running out” to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

NYPD arrests anti-Israel protester who called to eject ‘Zionists’ from subway car-Anas Saleh charged with attempted coercion after widely circulated footage showed man matching his description shouting, ‘Raise your hand if you’re a Zionist’ on packed train car.-By Luke Tress Today, 6:16 am-JUN 27,24

JTA — Police in New York have arrested a man who allegedly demanded that “Zionists” identify themselves on a crowded subway car around the time of a controversial protest earlier this month at a Manhattan exhibit commemorating the Nova music festival massacre.Anas Saleh, 24, was arrested on Wednesday morning, the NYPD told the New York Jewish Week.The Staten Island resident was charged with attempted coercion in the third degree. Under New York law, coercion involves a person forcing another to do something against their will, usually under threat.Widely circulated footage from the June 10 protest showed a man matching Saleh’s description shouting, “Raise your hand if you’re a Zionist” on a packed subway car.“This is your chance to get out,” the man shouted. The call was repeated by other activists on the train, many of whom were wearing keffiyehs, or Palestinian scarves frequently worn by activists, that covered their faces.Last week, the NYPD released a photo of Saleh wearing a keffiyeh, the colors of the Palestinian flag and sunglasses, and urged the public to come forward with information. The New York Post reported that Saleh had turned himself in.Anti-Zionism is a modern manifestation of antisemitism.Example:An Anti-Zionist declaring on a NYC subway car: “Raise your hands if you’re a Zionist. This is your chance to get out.”Anyone threatening to purge “Zionists” (i.e. most Jews) from public places is an… pic.twitter.com/e3Wh6Ztp32 — Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) June 12, 2024-The Manhattan District Attorney’s office and the NYPD were actively investigating the incident since it occurred, the district attorney’s office said, urging anyone with additional information to come forward.The NYPD issued Saleh a desk appearance ticket ordering him to appear in court on July 1.The incident occurred surrounding an anti-Israel protest by the hardline group Within Our Lifetime at an exhibition commemorating the victims of the Nova massacre on October 7. The protest featured people wearing the insignia of terror groups and was widely decried as antisemitic. Families of Nova victims were at the exhibit during the protest.Before the incident, the protesters had gathered at Union Square. Within Our Lifetime had declared a “Day of Rage” in the city that featured stops at multiple locations. At Union Square, demonstrators carried a sign that said “Long live October 7,” bore symbols associated with terror groups, and sparred with pro-Israel counter-protesters. Pro-Palestinian activists in New York have increasingly espoused open support for terrorism in recent weeks. One man told the pro-Israel group, “I wish Hitler was still here. He would’ve wiped all you out.”https://twitter.com/NYPDTransit/status/180349636136032274-When Saleh allegedly called to target “Zionists,” the train was near the Fulton St. subway station, between Union Square and the Nova exhibit, police said.After coming under heavy fire for the protest, Within Our Lifetime doubled down on targeting the exhibit. “We are proud to protest one of the most egregious zionist propaganda projects in our city,” the group tweeted.The American Jewish Medical Association, a nonprofit representing Jewish healthcare workers, said Saleh had been identified as a lab technician at the Weill Cornell Medicine Rhee Lab in Manhattan. The medical group sent a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul, Attorney General Letitia James, and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Wednesday urging them to prosecute Saleh “to the fullest extent of the law.”“We believe this is truly a matter of safety for patients, students, and medical professionals,” the letter said.Kind of ironic that Anas Saleh, the guy who asked Zionists to identity themselves on a crowded subway, got his cronies working so hard to hide his identity. Cowards.pic.twitter.com/yNGMnyyZuy— David/Dovid Bashevkin (@DBashIdeas) June 26, 2024-The New York Post reported that the dean of Weill Cornell Medicine told employees on Wednesday that the school was investigating and said, “If any employee is confirmed to be involved in this incident, appropriate action will be taken.”Within Our Lifetime protested against Weill Cornell, claiming the center had “marginalized its Palestinian community members,” days before the Union Square rally. Video the group posted online showed demonstrators chanting “Israel will fall” outside the medical center. The group has also protested against the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.Antisemitism has surged in New York City since October 7 and police data shows that Jews are targeted by hate crimes far more than any other group.Following the arrest, Hochul condemned the incident as a “shameful display of antisemitism.” She tweeted, “We have zero tolerance for hate and this individual should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”New York Mayor Eric Adams said, “Threatening New Yorkers based on their beliefs is not only vile, it’s illegal and will not be tolerated.”

DISEASES-ANIMAL TO HUMAN (500 million Dead )

REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 billion) of (8 billion) to kill with sword,(WEAPONS)(500 million) and with hunger,(FAMINE)(500 million) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES)(500 million) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE)(500 million).

DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS

1 PET 5:8
8 Be sober,(NOT DRUGED UP OR ALCOHOLICED) be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.

REVELATION 9:21 (RAGE OF THE LAST DAYS AGE SATAN WORSHIP AND DRUG SELLING AND JUNKIES)(THEY REFUSE TO REPENT OF THESE SINS)
21 Neither repented they of their murders,(KILLING) nor of their sorceries (DRUG ADDICTS AND DRUG PUSHERS), nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE OR PROSTITUTION FOR MONEY) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)

Big Pharma at Warp Speed: Military at Heart of Covid Injection Program — Document-Sean Miller | Infowars-June 26th 2024, 9:14 am

A statement of work document from the Department of the U.S. Army, Contracting Command, dated July 21, 2020 detailed the financial cooperation between the military and pharmaceutical companies in respect to the Covid vaccination program.“Based upon the acceptable update of Pfizer, Inc.’s proposal for “COVID-19 Pandemic — Large ScaleVaccine Manufacturing Demonstration” and 1) The Project Agreement Recipient’s concurrence withthe requirements included in the Government SOW; 2) An acceptable milestone schedule that meets SOW requirements, and; 3) The price proposed that has been analyzed by the Government, you are hereby directed to issue a Project Agreement to Pfizer, Inc. for the subject project. The total project value has been determined fair and reasonable and Pfizer, Inc.’s proposal has been selected IAW the above referenced Basis of Selection,” the document said.According to the document, via Operation Warp Speed, the military funded the Pfizer mRNA vaccine operation.“The Government received and evaluated all proposal(s) submitted and a Basis of Selection has been executed, selecting Pfizer, Inc. as the awardee. The Government requests that a Firm-Fixed-Price Project Agreement be issued to Pfizer, Inc. to award this proposal under Other Transaction Agreement W15QKN-16-9-1002, to be performed in accordance with the attached Government Statement of Work (SOW),” the document said.YOU ARE IN A KILLBOX YOUR GOVT IS KILLING YOU & MAKING YOU PAY FOR IT Expose by @sasha_latypova pic.twitter.com/dG1CyXg29o-Save 40% on Ultimate Fish Oil today and improve your supplement routine & experience the world-renowned powerhouse formula! — DR JANE RUBY (@RealDrJaneRuby) June 25, 2024The funding totaled in the billions.“The total approved cost to the Government for this effort is not to exceed $1,950,097,500.00. The break-out of the costs is as follows: $1,950,000,000.00 to perform project efforts included in the SOW and $97,500.00 for the Consortium Management Firm (CMF) Administrative Cost. The CMF Administrative Cost was approved as a “Special Allocation” for Operation Warp Speed (OWS) Prototype Projects executed under the MCDC OTA. The effort currently has $1,950,097,500.00 of available funding, comprised of $1,950,000,000.00 for the Project Agreement, $67,500.00 for the CMF Special Allocation, and $30,000 for other, non G&A, ATI costs, which will be incurred, tracked in accordance with Article V of the OTA,” the document said. (4/5) Furthermore, retired pharma R&D executive Sasha Latypova has pointed out that "in 2020…what happened with this COVID 'live exercise'…[is the U.S. military] essentially crossed the proverbial Rubicon…They deployed the military [on U.S. soil]."https://t.co/q4mHOMWaB8— Sense Receptor (@SenseReceptor) June 23, 2024-Infowars reported on the military link to the Covid vaccine back in May 2020.Dr. Paul Alexander detailed how Operation Warp Speed was a military operation when interviewed by Dr. Jane Ruby in 2023.Infowars has recently reported that the Department of Defense is also now funding medical experimentation involving the administration of fentanyl or ketamine to non-consenting patients for military purposes.The Covid shots are known to make people retarded, increase in lethality after repeated doses and double the death rate of Covid patients, yet the death rate is still higher than what is reported, increase Covid infection rates, result in tons of bizarre and unusual skin disorders, insane and gross turbocancers, reproductive destruction, cause miscarriages, paralyzation, tinnitus, blood clots in the brain, increased excess death rates, autoimmune disorders in the thyroid, as well as deadly headaches, seizures and heart inflammation including in children, while also causing the vaccinated people’s skin to ‘erupt’, in addition to a multitude of serious ailments seen in massive population studies and contain hundreds of times the allowable levels of DNA contamination leading to mutagenic effects, contaminating the blood supply, as well as permanently altering the DNA of the vaccinated and their offspring while being expected to kill people for a very long time into the future.In the U.S. the CDC recommends all Americans receive their Covid shot and that young children receive extra, while Canada recommends another Covid shot for the pregnant, indigenous, ‘racialized’ & ‘equity-deserving’.

Caught between plague and cholera’: French Jews wary as extremes set to win votes-Snap election called by Macron sees center lag as far-right, left parties tainted by antisemitism expect parliament gains, amid soaring Jew-hatred post-Oct. 7-By Elizabeth Pineau Today, 8:46 pm-JUN 26,24

PARIS, France (Reuters) — As French Jews, Maury and Alain Fischler feel trapped between equally unpalatable extremes as France rushes into a snap election with the far right ahead in the polls, followed by a left-wing bloc that the Fischlers say harbors antisemites.French President Emmanuel Macron called the parliamentary election on June 9 after his centrist Together alliance was trounced in European elections by the anti-immigrant National Rally (RN), which is now the frontrunner to form France’s next government.This is profoundly worrying for the Fischlers, who detest far-right ideology and see the RN’s transition from a party that once flirted openly with antisemitism into one that denounces it as a cynical ploy to create a veneer of respectability.“Just because they’ve painted the door glossy and produced 10 good-looking people with impeccable rhetoric, that doesn’t mean we should believe them,” said Alain Fischler, 61, a furniture designer, speaking in the couple’s apartment in Paris.RN leader Marine Le Pen has worked hard to detoxify the party’s brand since taking the reins from her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, the party founder, who was convicted of inciting racial hatred for saying the gas chambers used to kill Jews in the Holocaust were “a detail” of World War II.She joined protesters marching through Paris in November to denounce a surge in antisemitic incidents after October 7, when thousands of Hamas terrorists stormed southern Israel to kill nearly 1,200 people and take over 250 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza.Marine Le Pen, a leader of French far-right party National Rally (RN) and member of the country’s parliament, attends a march against antisemitism in Paris, France, November 12, 2023. The party’s president and candidate for French prime minister, Jordan Bardella, is on the right. (Geoffroy Van der Hasselt / AFP)The RN has adopted a strongly pro-Israel stance.Marine Le Pen’s efforts have won over some French Jews, including prominent lawyer and Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld, 88, who said on June 15 that in a run-off between the RN and the left, he would vote for the RN, which he described as “pro-Jewish.”But for others, including Fischler — the son of a Holocaust survivor — this doesn’t wash. He accused the RN of courting Jews as cover for stigmatizing Muslims.‘Antisemitism is not residual’Just as frightening to the Fischlers is the New Popular Front, a leftist coalition hastily assembled to counter the far-right surge and currently in second place in the polls, ahead of Macron’s centrist camp.The group includes La France Insoumise (France Unbowed), a hard-left party led by Jean-Luc Melenchon. Opponents say LFI has repeatedly crossed the line between criticism of Israel and antisemitism, which the party denies.“I feel like I’m caught between plague and cholera,” said Maury Fischler, 61, an optician, using a colloquial expression to describe a choice between equally unpleasant alternatives.Gaza was already a contentious issue in France — home to Europe’s largest Jewish and Muslim communities — before the unexpected election exacerbated political tensions.Antisemitic incidents ranging from insults to vandalism and physical assaults rose by 300% in the first quarter of 2024 compared with the same period last year, according to figures released by French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who is Jewish. The number of anti-Muslim incidents has also risen, though less steeply.Melenchon, LFI’s leader, said earlier this month that antisemitism was “residual” in France, one of a long list of comments by him and others in his party that critics say have stoked and normalized anti-Jewish hatred.After a group of teens was accused of gang-raping a 12-year-old Jewish girl while hurling antisemitic slurs at her earlier this month, protesters in Paris held placards with slogans like “Antisemitism is not residual” and “Have you gotten used to antisemitism? We haven’t.”Protester Sidney Azoulay, himself a Jew, described the political stances of some parties as akin to “the pyromaniac-turned-firefighter.”“It’s a shame that in the 21st century, French Jews are still making headlines for reasons like this,” Azoulay said.Melenchon, who denies being antisemitic, condemned the rape, as did politicians from across the spectrum, including the RN.Taking part in a protest after the incident, Yonathan Arfi, head of the CRIF umbrella organization of French Jewish groups, called on voters to rally around the values of the French Republic and reject both extremes.“Our responsibility for now is to ensure that neither France Unbowed nor the National Rally come to power,” he said.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

Parts of campus only open to those with palms painted red-In Chile, a pro-Palestinian campus occupation turns witch hunt for ‘Zionist’ faculty-Feeling abandoned by the university, at least two pro-Israel lecturers are preparing to leave UMCE in Santiago over fears for their safety amid student agitation-By Canaan Lidor-Today, 6:41 am-JUN 27,24

In April, Gladys Briceño removed a Palestinian flag that had been affixed without permission to the façade of a building in a public university where she teaches, near the Chilean capital of Santiago.A musicology lecturer, who is not Jewish but who believes Israel has a right to exist, Briceño did this because she “didn’t think university facilities are the place to fly flags to make statements about controversial geopolitical conflicts,” she told The Times of Israel this week.But in Chile, which has one of the largest Palestinian communities outside the Middle East, this action had major consequences for Briceño’s career and the entire university. The flag removal helped trigger an ongoing campus occupation by anti-Israel activists seeking the dismissal of “Zionist professors,” as they call Briceño and another faculty member, Noemi Grinspun, who is Jewish.Occurring amid an uptick in violent antisemitism in Chile and beyond, the standoff (Spanish-language article) at the Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences (UMCE) stands out amid a global wave of anti-Israel campus protests for its targeting of individual lecturers, who feel abandoned by their university administration.The campaign coincides with weeks-long harassment of Chilean Jews at their community centers, a development that recently prompted the heads of Chile’s Jewish schools to tell students not to walk outdoors in their school uniforms for fear this would invite attacks against them.At her home in Santiago, Briceño is preparing to retire from the Metropolitan University, where her courses have been student favorites for many years. She is retiring earlier than planned because she doesn’t feel safe at the university. “Because, in fact, I wouldn’t be safe on campus,” she said of her workplace of 24 years.In a list of demands that the organizers of the May 29 occupation submitted to the administration, they wrote that the university should “disconnect” itself from “the Zionist lecturers Gladys Briceño and Noemi Grinspun.” They “inhabit and transgress on our university space, actively teaching hate speech in the classroom and through their social networks,” the organizers wrote.Briceño and Grinspun, who both deny having ever engaged in hate speech, said the campaign against them featured antisemitic overtones. During a discussion with students in an early attempt at de-escalation, “several of them told me that the Jewish people are trying to exterminate Palestinians,” Briceño recalled.“I think it’s an antisemitic campaign. They’re targeting Noemi and me because they identified us as Jews, mistakenly in my case, correctly in hers,” said Briceño, whose husband — who is also not Jewish — has family in IsraelThe campus occupation organizers also demanded their university sever ties with the Gordon Academic College in Haifa and all other Israeli institutions.“Above everything else, what pains me most is that there was no attempt at a defense by the administration, by the rector. Nothing. They abandoned us, Noemi and me. They left us in the lurch,” Briceño said. (The Metropolitan University did not respond to a request for comment by The Times of Israel.) Feeling unsafe and abandoned-Grinspun has lived in Israel since 2021 as a guest researcher at the University of Haifa, while still teaching at the Metropolitan University remotely via video link. Since the agitation against her began, the administration asked her to return to Chile and resume physical teaching. Like Briceño, she doesn’t feel safe enough to do so. Grinspun also thinks the demand is meant to make her quit.“I don’t have any security, and they [the protesters] are very violent,” Grinspun told The Times of Israel. “They wrote about me on social media with my name, picture and everything.”While Grinspun is distressed by the developments at her university, she is not shocked.“It didn’t come by surprise. I knew something like this could happen. And also we thought about our son because I didn’t want him to go to university in Chile and to have those experiences. It’s very hard for Jewish students now. For adults, too, but we can manage. For students it’s more complicated,” she said.At the University of Chile, another Santiago-based public institution that is the country’s oldest and most prestigious, students and lecturers have had to paint their palms red as a display of solidarity with Palestinians to be allowed into some parts of the campus by occupying protesters. That university suspended (link in Spanish) its ties with Israeli counterpart institutions earlier this month to appease the protesters.Grinspun is leaning toward staying in Israel permanently following the incident at UMCE, she said.A climate of intimidation-The campaign against Grinspun and Briceño is part of a broader pattern of anti-Israel harassment that escalated on October 7 following the Hamas onslaught on southern Israel that saw some 1,200 people murdered and 251 taken hostage to Gaza. The public outcry against the ensuing war with Hamas has bled over to antisemitism on several notable occasions, according to Ariela Agosin, the president of the Jewish Community of Chile organization, which represents the country’s 20,000-odd Jews.“Some people who wear a kippah receive screams or other forms of intimidation on the street. So the atmosphere is not easy,” she said. Students of Chile’s three Jewish schools have been instructed to change out of their school uniforms, which feature logos with Jewish symbols, on their way to and from school, she said, adding this was “very terrible.”Last month, an angry crowd gathered with Palestinian flags outside a Jewish community center in Santiago, later moving to demonstrate outside the nearby synagogue where a wedding was taking place (link in Spanish). Some protesters accosted the guests, and “some stones were thrown,” Agosin said. About half of Santiago’s dozen or so synagogues have been vandalized since October 7, she added.On campuses, “Jewish lecturers keep a low profile,” said Gabriel Colodro, the head of the Chilean Community in Israel, a nonprofit that assists immigrants from Chile.“It’s their livelihood, the money that feeds their children. Of course, they just keep quiet and wait it out,” Colodro said.His confidence in the long-term viability of Chilean Jewry decreased dramatically after October 7, he said.Part of the problem, many Chilean Jews believe, is that protesters feel emboldened by the government led by Gabriel Boric, a far-left politician who became president of Chile in 2021.In 2019, he spurned a Rosh Hashanah gift, a small pot of honey, that the Jewish Community of Chile had sent lawmakers.“I appreciate the gesture but they could start by asking Israel to return the illegally occupied Palestinian territory,” Boric wrote on X (then Twitter) about Chilean Jews, many of whom cited this post as proof that he is antisemitic. Boric is the only Chilean president who has declined to meet with representatives of Chilean Jews, Agosin said.His government has recalled its ambassador to Israel, as have several other Latin American countries after October 7. Some 37,000 Palestinians have died as a result of the operation, according to the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants, of whom Israel says it has killed at least 15,000.Keeping Judaism vibrant-Despite the difficulties posed by the anti-Israel agitation in Chile, the community still maintains a vibrant existence, Agosin, the Jewish community leader, said.Some major university administrations have resisted pressure to sever ties with Israel, she noted, and Israeli and Chilean Jews have many friends and allies in Chile. Immigration to Israel, or aliyah, from Chile has been low, with only about several dozen making the move annually in recent years.Agosin, a lawyer who has three children living in Chile, paused before replying to a question on whether she believed the community would be able to maintain its vibrancy in the coming 20 years.“That’s a tough question,” she said. “But I feel like things will change. First of all, in two years we’ll have a new government and the war will have ended. So hopefully things will be easier then.”

Suspected North Korean hypersonic missile explodes in mid-flight, Seoul says-by Thomas Maresca.

Washington DC (UPI) Jun 26, 2024-North Korea test-fired a suspected hypersonic missile on Wednesday morning, but it appeared to explode in mid-flight, South Korea's military said."Around 5:30 a.m. today, North Korea launched an unknown ballistic missile from the Pyongyang area toward the East Sea but it is presumed to have failed," Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a text message to reporters. "Further analysis is being conducted by South Korean and U.S. intelligence authorities."A JCS official later told reporters that the missile flew around 155 miles and exploded in the air off the east coast of the country, spreading debris into the sea over a radius of several miles.The official, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, speculated that the North was attempting to refine the development of a solid-fuel hypersonic missile it had test-fired earlier this year.More smoke than usual appeared to emanate from the missile, suggesting the possibility of combustion issues, the official added.In April, North Korea claimed it successfully launched a new solid-fuel intermediate-range hypersonic missile, a nuclear-capable weapon with a range that could place U.S. military installations in Guam -- around 2,100 miles away -- within reach.Such a weapon represents challenges for missile detection and interception systems. Missiles using solid-fuel propellants can be transported and launched more quickly than liquid-fuel models, while hypersonic weapons travel at least five times the speed of sound and are maneuverable mid-flight.The launch comes amid international concerns over a mutual defense treaty signed by North Korea and Russia during Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Pyongyang last week.It also follows North Korea's condemnation of a port call by an American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to the South Korean city of Busan.In a statement carried by state-run Korean Central News Agency on Monday, the North's Vice Defense Minister Kim Kang Il called the arrival of the USS Theodore Roosevelt a "provocative action" and warned that North Korea may respond by "demonstrating its overwhelming and new deterrent force."North Korea sent trash-filled balloons over the border with the South for a second day in a row, the JCS also said Wednesday, continuing back-and-forth provocations that have raised tensions near the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas.The North launched more than 250 balloons carrying scrap paper overnight, the JCS said in a message to reporters, with around 100 landing in Seoul and the northern part of neighboring Gyeonggi Province.The latest launch marked the sixth time in the last month that North Korea has sent balloons filled with debris and even excrement, according to South Korean officials.South Korea briefly resumed anti-Pyongyang loudspeaker broadcasts at the border earlier this month in response to the launches. On Tuesday, the military said it was prepared to begin the transmissions again at any time.The North's balloon launches appear to be a response to the longstanding practice of North Korean defectors floating balloons with anti-Pyongyang messages across the border.Activist group Fighters for a Free North Korea said it sent 20 balloons carrying some 300,000 leaflets, USB drives containing South Korean media and U.S. dollars across the border last week.The DMZ has been the site of multiple border incursions in recent weeks, with North Korean troops crossing the military demarcation line three times since June 9.On each occasion, the South Korean military fired warning shots and the North's soldiers returned to their side of the border.JCS officials said the crossings appear unintentional, as the North has been ramping up construction activity in frontline areas of the DMZ since withdrawing from an inter-Korean military agreement in November.

EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3-7
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
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.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

2 THESSALONIANS 2:3-4
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed,(EU WORLD DICTATOR)the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.(SOCIALISM)
13 These have one mind,(SOCIALISM) and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)

2 THESSALONIANS 2:9-12
9 Even him,(EU WORLD DICTATOR) whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion,(THE FALSE RESURRECTION BY THE WORLD DICTATOR) that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

GENESIS 49:16-17-POSSIBLY A JEW FROM DAN KILLS THE DICTATOR AT MIDPOINT OF TRIB
16  Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
17  Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950-Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.No one will enter the New World Order... unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation.- David Spangler Director of Planetary Initiative United Nations.

THE WORLD DICTATOR

REVELATION 6:1-2,13:1-3,7-9,16
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(EU WORLD DICTATOR) and he that sat on him had a bow;(PEACE) and a crown was given unto him:(WORLD LEADER) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(THIS IS THE EU DICTATOR)
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(7 HEADS ARE THE 7TH WORLD EMPIRE IN HISTORY (THE EU) AS WELL AS THE VATICAN WHICH IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS. 10 HORNS ARE 10 KINGS THAT ARISE FROM THE EU, THEN #11 COMES ON THE SCENE BECOMES THE HEAD OF 3 OUNTRIES AND THEN THE EU DICTATOR, COMES FROM 1 OF THE 3 COUNTRIES THAT RULE FOR THIS TERM. I BELIEVE THE 3 COUNTRIES RULING AT THE TIME ARE SPAIN AND 2 OF THE ORIGINAL 6 THAT STARTED THE EU. FROM 1 OF THESE 3 COUNTRIES COME THE FUTURE EU DICTATOR PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION WHO GUARENTEES ISRAELS SECURITY FOR A LAND FOR PEACE 7 YEAR TREATY.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(THE JEWISH EU DICTATOR GETS HIS POWER FROM SATAN,HE COMES FROM THE OCCULT).
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE DICTATOR HAS A FALSE RESURRECTION. JUST LIKE JESUS HAD A LITERAL RESURRECTION THIS DICTATOR GETS MURDERED AT THE 3 1/2 YR MARK OF THR 7 YEAR TREATY AND COMES BACK TO LIFE. THIS IS HOW HE CAN CLAIM TO BE GOD AND GET AWAY WITH IT AND CONTROL THE WHOLE EARTH.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
16 And he (FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

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 (THE EU DICTATOR) 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.

EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI5_pMvLZd8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0&feature=player_embedded

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 DIVSION REGION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)

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-NEW AGE MOVEMENT) 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 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; 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 JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) 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 with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) 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.

REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies,(UNITED NATIONS TROOPS) gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)

Robots integrate biometrics for parcel delivery, security, and military operations-Jun 24, 2024, 10:48 am EDT| Abhishek Jadhav

Tech firms have announced the development and testing of robotic systems with biometric capabilities aimed at enhancing operational efficiency and security surveillance.Hyundai Motor Group, for instance, has created robotics that integrate facial recognition for smart buildings. Similarly, Kody Technolab has deployed surveillance and service robots at the Tuneland Music Festival in India.In addition, countries like the United States and China are incorporating rifle-armed robot dogs into their militaries.Hyundai develops intra-building delivery robot for smart office-Hyundai Motor Group has designed the DAL-e Delivery, an autonomous robot for intra-building delivery. It is equipped with an AI face identification system for navigation within the smart office environment of Factorial Seongsu in Seoul. The biometric integration allows the robot to enhance security and efficiency by identifying delivery recipients.For autonomous navigation, the DAL-e Delivery robot is synced with the building’s elevator and door control system, enabling it to move freely across different floors and rooms. It is equipped with an 11.6-inch high-resolution display that provides detailed information about the service status to operators and recipients.“With DAL-e’s full-fledged delivery service, we aim to make Factorial Seongsu the first building to apply our Robot Total Solution,” says Dong Jin Hyun, vice president and head of Robotics Lab at Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation.In its efforts to provide comprehensive robotic solutions integrating various robotic services and facial recognition systems within smart buildings, Hyundai also developed a parking robot. This smart parking control system can simultaneously manage up to 50 parking robots, coordinating movements in tight spaces.Crowdfunding for personal AI companion robot-After two successful robotic crowdfunding campaigns, Luwu Intelligence has introduced another project: XGO-Rider, a desktop wheel-legged robot. The module integrates image-based AI features such as gesture recognition, face detection, and skeleton recognition using the TensorFlow-based MediaPipe framework.The XGO-Rider robot leverages the Raspberry Pi CM4 core module to improve personal AI companionship and mobility. The open-sourced robotic platform uses OpenAI’s API for voice-based AI functionalities. “With XGO-Rider, we aim to redefine personal robotics, empowering users to explore new possibilities and interactions in their everyday lives,” says PengFei Liu, chief executive officer of Luwu Intelligence.Robot with facial recognition at music festival in India-During the recent Tuneland Music Festival in Gandhinagar, India, Kody Technolab deployed two of its robotics -– known as Athena and Dasher — to handle security and service tasks, ensuring the safety of more than 35,000 attendees.Athena is equipped with 360-degree cameras that provide high-definition recording coverage of the festival grounds. Its advanced computer vision capabilities enable the robot to capture vehicle plate numbers and associate them with specific locations, facilitating vehicle plate recognition and monitoring of vehicles within its operational area.Athena also incorporates a facial recognition system, according to a post on the Interesting Engineering blog. The lack of clarity on the specific databases used for this purpose is raising privacy and security concerns.“The deployment of Athena and Dasher at the Tuneland Music Festival is a testament to the vast possibilities that robotics holds for improving both security and service in public spaces,” says Manav Patel, founder of Kody Technolab Limited.Chinese, US militaries add new robotic weapons to their arsenal-The Chinese military unveiled the Go2 robotic weapon, a gun-wielding robotic dog, during joint military exercises with Cambodia, as reported by CNN. This robot dog is armed with an automatic rifle mounted on its back and is accompanied by a similarly equipped quadcopter.In a YouTube video showcasing the Chinese Go2 robot dog, a soldier can be seen controlling it with a handheld device, indicating that human oversight is still required for its operation. Despite their advanced capabilities, both the robotic dog and drone appear to have been modified for consumer products.The idea of robotic dogs has evolved over time. Boston Dynamics developed the first well-known robotic quadruped, BigDog. This robot was initially created as a mechanical pack animal for the U.S. military, designed to carry heavy loads over challenging terrain.It is reported that the United States Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) is currently testing a robotic dog equipped with rifles. This robotic dog is designed to autonomously identify targets with person recognition, if not biometrics, and await human confirmation before engaging.Onyx Industries supplies these robotic dogs and has confirmed their deployment to The War Zone. At present, MARSOC has two robotic dogs equipped with SENTRY gun systems, which are designed to improve situational awareness and assist in combat by detecting and engaging targets.Eric Shell, the head of business development at Onyx Industries, informed The War Zone that these robotic dogs are being utilized in tunnel operations. The model employed for these tasks is the Vision 60 quadrupedal unmanned ground vehicle (Q-UGV) developed by Ghost Robotics.

Source: Move could provide water for 1 million people-Israel said preparing to increase Gaza’s water supply, but final approvals needed-Under pressure from allies to ease humanitarian crisis, Netanyahu government planning to directly supply electricity from Israel to large water desalination plant in Khan Yunis-By Emily Rose and Jonathan Landay Today, 6:55 am-JUN 27,24

REUTERS — Israel, under pressure from Western allies to ease a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, is preparing to boost electricity to a desalination plant so it can produce more water for people in the enclave, an Israeli security official and a western official told Reuters on Wednesday.An Israeli offensive against Hamas in Gaza in response to the terror group massacring some 1,200 Israelis and taking 251 hostages on October 7 has left millions in Gaza with little food, scarce water and failing sanitation, Western aid agencies say.The Israeli plan, the details of which were shown to Reuters, is to directly supply electricity from Israel to a large water desalination facility in Khan Yunis, the two sources said.The facility was established with United Nations funding in 2017 to provide drinking water to areas in Deir al-Balah, Khan Yunis and the Mawasi area, where many Gazans have fled due to the fighting.The facility has a production capacity of about 20,000 cubic meters of water per day, while today the facility provides only some 1,500 cubic meters due to the lack of electricity. Gaza depends on Israel for much of its electricity supply. That power has been cut since the fighting started.The Israeli source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the planned supply of electricity to the water plant could provide water for just under a million people.The source did not give a deadline for when the power supply would come on line. Current power is coming from generators and solar.The source said the plan has been approved by both Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant but still requires approval from other ministers in the government.“There are parties who are trying to cancel the process,” the source said without providing details.Netanyahu’s office declined a request for comment.A Western official familiar with the plan, speaking on condition of anonymity, also said preparations were being made to restore the power to the plant.The official said that Gallant approved the reopening of the power line when US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with him in Israel earlier this month.“The Israelis are ready on their side,” said the official. “Right now, Palestinian engineers are inside the strip checking the integrity of the line.”The official said restoring power to the line that feeds the desalination plant was a crucial element in alleviating the water crisis in Gaza but would not solve the issue.There was still a need to get in equipment to fix the sanitation system, and this was hampered by the fighting, the official said.

US hoping Saudi Arabia will lead reconstruction effort-Egypt, UAE prepared to participate in post-war Gaza security force — officials-Blinken informs counterparts that Cairo and Abu Dhabi are conditionally on board, as US seeks to recruit other allies before rolling out plans for post-war management of Strip-By Jacob Magid-Today, 4:42 am-JUN 27,24

WASHINGTON — Egypt and the United Arab Emirates are prepared to participate in a post-war Gaza security force, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken informed counterparts during his recent visit to the region, three officials familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel on Tuesday.The US has been looking to recruit Arab allies for the initiative, as it readies to roll out its vision for the post-war management of Gaza, even though a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas remains elusive.During visits to Qatar, Egypt, Israel and Jordan two weeks ago, Blinken informed interlocutors that the US has made progress on the issue, receiving support from Cairo and Abu Dhabi for the creation of a force who would work alongside local Palestinian officers, according to an Arab official, a US official and a third source familiar with the matter.However, the officials said that Egypt and the UAE both stipulated conditions for their involvement, including a demand that the initiative be linked to the establishment of a pathway to a future Palestinian state — an outcome Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to block.The third source familiar with the matter said that Egypt is also demanding the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza — a condition likely to clash with Netanyahu’s pledge to maintain overall security control of the Strip after the war, with the ability to re-enter as necessary in order to prevent the revival of Hamas.Meanwhile, the UAE has demanded US involvement in the post-war Gaza security force, an Arab official said.Blinken told counterparts that the US would help establish and train the security force and ensure that it would have a temporary mandate, so that it could eventually be replaced by a fully Palestinian body, the third source said, adding that the goal is for the Palestinian Authority to eventually take over Gaza. Reuniting the Strip and the West Bank under a single governing entity is seen as an integral step toward an eventual two-state solution.The secretary clarified, though, that the US would not be contributing troops of its own, the source said.During a June 12 press conference in Doha, Blinken said the US and its partners would soon release its plans for the post-war management of Gaza. “In the coming weeks, we will put forward proposals for key elements of the day-after — planning that includes concrete ideas for how to manage governance, security, reconstruction.”The officials speaking to The Times of Israel said the US is working on three concept notes on each of those issues, adding that Washington is hoping that Saudi Arabia will lead reconstruction efforts.As for governance, Blinken privately told counterparts that the goal would be to establish a transitional government in Gaza, which would work closely with countries in the region, the officials said.Blinken has held talks for months with a contact group of counterparts from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt and the PA. He has also looped in Morocco, Bahrain, Turkey, Indonesia and others in an effort to galvanize broad international support for the post-war stabilization of Gaza.The secretary acknowledged at the Doha press conference that Hamas will determine whether or not the war will continue, but later insisted that the terror group “cannot and will not be allowed to decide the future for this region.”The US has also implored Israel to advance “day after” planning of its own, warning that failure to do so will either result in Israel permanently occupying the Strip or ushering in a period of chaos where Hamas will be able to regain control.Netanyahu for months resisted holding high-level talks on the post-war management of Gaza, not wanting to confront his far-right coalition partners who want Israel to occupy Gaza and re-establish settlements there.National Unity chairman Benny Gantz cited Netanyahu’s ducking of the issue in explaining his decision to pull out of the wartime government.While Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has not followed Gantz, he has similarly criticized the premier’s conduct on the matter.Gallant told reporters on Tuesday that he discussed his own “day after” plans during his meetings this week with top US officials in Washington, saying Gaza should be managed by a combination of “local Palestinians,” regional partners and the US, while acknowledging that it would be “a long and complex process.”Responding to this report, a State Department spokesperson told The Times of Israel, “We are continuing discussions with the PA, key partners, and the Israelis on day after planning for Gaza, to include governance, security and reconstruction.”“A day after plan for Gaza will be key to building an enduring end to the conflict, but also turning an end of the war into a just and durable peace, and using that peace as a foundation for building a more integrated, a more stable, a more prosperous region,” the spokesperson added.The Egyptian embassy did not respond to a request for comment.

GlobalPlatform to drive EUDI wallet adoption across EU under eIDAS 2.0 regulation-Jun 26, 2024, 10:00 am EDT    | Abigail Opiah

GlobalPlatform is pushing its efforts to support the European Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallet with an initiative aimed at facilitating the adoption of a digital identity scheme across European Union (EU) member states.In line with the newly approved eIDAS 2.0 regulation, which mandates the establishment of a cross-border digital identity framework starting in 2026, the EUDI Wallet will serve as a centralized application for storing and managing identity documents such as passports, driving licenses, and health records.The EU’s goal is to equip 80 percent of its citizens with an eID Wallet by 2030, to ultimately ensure seamless use across all 27 member states regardless of where it is issued. The initiative aims to enhance online transactions, access government services, and enable digital signatures with security.Ana Tavares Lattibeaudiere, executive director of GlobalPlatform, emphasizes the organization’s commitment to supporting EU member states in safeguarding citizens’ identities and personal data.“The GlobalPlatform SE is the leading solution for meeting the high level of assurance required in the EUDI Wallet as defined by the upcoming ENISA certification scheme. Built on common technical standards, the GlobalPlatform SE leverages the technology already used in billions of smartphones today,” she adds.“We continue to introduce new capabilities that will make it seamless for governments to deploy eID Wallet schemes and for smartphone vendors and software developers to support a new era of digital services.”To meet the stringent security requirements set by eIDAS, the EU mandates the use of a secure element (SE) within devices, typically smartphones. GlobalPlatform, leveraging its SE specifications widely implemented in various smartphone form factors (such as UICC, eSE, eUICC, and iSIM), is optimizing these specifications to support EUDI Wallet schemes, according to the company.Currently, pilot programs for eID Wallets are underway in several EU countries, with additional trials expected to commence in the near future. GlobalPlatform is enhancing its support through initiatives such as defining Secure Application for Mobile (SAM) configurations and driving the development of Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) specifications. These efforts aim to facilitate the secure deployment of digital ID applets and ensure compatibility across certified platforms.Recently, the non-profit go.eIDAS-Association, focused on promoting interoperability and trust in digital identities, partnered with several German companies and foundations to introduce the eIDAS-Testbed.

UrbanID consultant roots for tokenization as key digital ID security option-Jun 25, 2024, 4:41 pm EDT    | Ayang Macdonald

As concerns about identity theft and data misuse fill out following the fast adoption of digital identity especially in Africa, it is imperative for governments, businesses and enterprises to consider privacy-preserving identity management choices including tokenization.This is the take of technology expert and consultant with UrbanID, a disruptive personal identity ecosystem company, Mannie Oyewole.Oyewole shared his thoughts in an interview with Biometric Update on the margins of the 2024 ID4Africa AGM which took place in South Africa last month.UrbanID had its PocketOne product on display at the event. This is a digital wallet built on a zero-knowledge architecture, which facilitates identity verification and authentication using decentralized technology.In the interview, Oyewole speaks on a wide range of issues including the importance of decentralised ID and tokenization, the critical nature of data protection especially with the growing adoption of digital ID, and how Africa can better embrace generative AI, just to mention this.Oyewole notes with satisfaction the fast pace of the transition to digital identity systems in Africa, saying it is the very foundation of every digital society. However, the way digital identity is managed to engender trust and transparency is where the focus should be, he says.In this regard, he explains the work which UrbanID has done over the years with the Nigerian government to enable a system where ID verification happens in a decentralized manner, including with the use of tokens.This, he says, makes it possible for individuals to share only the exact amount of data that is needed by any entity for a specific purpose or service.“In 2018 or thereabout, there were several problems and challenges that revolved around data protection in Nigeria. So, there was a federal government policy which directed every third party such as telcos, bank, enterprises and organizations dealing with citizen data to comply with data protection regulations. This means these entities needed to put in place infrastructure to ensure that every data collected from citizens is secure and not shared with anyone else,” he recalls.“This was a challenge as there was no technology to manage that entire process. So, UrbanID came into the scene, and later created a new product called PocketOne which was on exhibition at the ID4Africa AGM.”Limiting data shared with third parties is vital-Oyewole says their product was designed to enable limited data sharing. To illustrate the importance of this practice, he paints a scenario of a citizen who goes to a telco to purchase a SIM card. The telco asks for the individual’s ID card which contains a lot of information including their father’s and mother’s name.“They get all sort of information about you. They take it and offer you the service. Now, whatever they do with your data, you don’t know. Who is privy to it, you don’t know,” he says.In order to limit the amount of dada shared either through physical or remote identity verification processes, Oyewole says UrbanID uses tokenization.“What we have done digitally is we have been able to tokenize the ID. We worked with the [Nigerian] government to ensure that all government-issued IDs should be tokenized and then developed in an app.”“This app has multiple features. Once citizens are enrolled and their biometric data captured, the information is stored as the NIN, which is the detail that any enterprise can deal with during any transactions,” says Oyewole.“With our digital ID framework, we were able to build an ecosystem where the enterprise can have a presence on the platform, the individual can also have a presence on the platform, and documents such as IDs can be verified in a secure, and controlled environment.”For a scenario such as buying a SIM card which he painted earlier, Oyewole says the telco “doesn’t really need your mother’s or father’s name.”“They don’t need all the information on your ID card to sell you a SIM card. All they need to know is that you are a registered and valid citizen of the country. So, once the government has already registered your biometrics in its database and you have been able to successfully upload your digital ID, you can begin to access government services or third-party services digitally without having to compromise your identity.”He adds that what UrbanID helps to do is that “you don’t need to send all of your details to the service provider, which could be MTN for example.”“Rather than send all the details, you generate a virtual NIN which is specific only to MTN. Once this is generated, it is on MTN’s account and they are the only ones who can use it. If a third party intercepts that, they cannot use it. And once MTN has used it, it expires in about three days.”Apart from this, he mentions that “the transaction is recorded and registered on the blockchain,” which is one of the most secure technologies. This makes it possible that “for forensic purposes, as a user or ID holder, you are able to tell where and who checked your ID, what time did they check it, and what purposes they checked your ID for.  In the digital space, this has given power and ownership back to the ID holders.”To Oyewole, “tokenization is now becoming a new adoption for digital ID verification solution providers because tokenization, in its own form, is a cyber security aspect by design.”As an example of how vital tokenization is for digital ID, Mastercard said recently that it plans to tokenize all digital transaction in Europe by 2030.Digital ID, first framework for digital governance-According to the expert, efforts by African governments to embrace tech generally, including digital ID and generative AI, is laudable, but it is crucial to go a step further in ensuring these digital systems sufficiently earn the trust of those who are supposed to use to interact with them.“Digital ID, or even basic identification where governments can be able to identify their citizens, is the first framework for digital governance,” he notes.“When you are able to know the demography of the people, this can help you better distribute government services or grants, and better interact with your people. With a digital identity layer, you are able to get data-driven visuals for decision-making.”Oyewole says while he cannot over-emphasize the pressing need for countries to begin to digitize their national IDs, the issue however is trust.“How do you trust a digital document? How do you trust the digital space? You have to be sure of who you are discussing with, or sharing information with, so that your information is not proliferated for the wrong purpose.”Notwithstanding, he opines: “The adoption of digital ID is so important that we cannot circumvent it. My take is that governments across Africa should begin to look at compliance and controls especially when it comes to data privacy, ownership and user consent management. They can do this by partnering up with ID solution providers.”Understand AI first, embrace with caution-Talking about AI which is increasingly gaining a prominent place in the global digital identity discourse, Oyewole says while it comes with huge rewards, there are risks that belie it.“Before you embrace anything, you need to know about it. I can call ten people now at random and ask them to explain what generative AI is, and they may not know.”“As much as governments are encouraging people to embrace AI, they should also encourage symposiums to teach people about what AI does, what AI is, how it can be used, its risks and rewards. In understanding that, they can better build frameworks that will guide the adoption and use of the technology,” says Oyewole.Speaking about technology adoption generally, the consultant says “Africa is doing great,” although “there are still many gaps to be filled.”“In the western world, the ease and adoption of technology is so fast. Although the pace is slow in Africa, the continent is making huge jumps into the technological space through creating hubs like sandboxes, hubs for tech startups, and so on. There is a wide range of problems which technology can solve across Africa.”“We still have challenges in agriculture, power generation and power distribution. There’s an abundance of renewable energy we are not even tapping into. There are so many natural minerals we have that when you integrate with technology, you will be able to provide services that will benefit the citizens and benefit the state.”

McDonald’s pauses AI voice ordering system developed with IBM-Fast food giant plans to relaunch broader service soon-Jun 25, 2024, 2:13 pm EDT    | Joel R. McConvey

Despite claims that AI is infiltrating every corner of our lives, it will not be at the McDonald’s drive-through for the time being. The fast food chain has called off its two-year test of algorithmic, voice-activated automated order taking (AOT), which it ran in partnership with IBM. CNBC reports on an email memo sent to franchisees announcing its plan to halt AOT at all 100 McDonald’s drive-throughs using it by July 26, 2024.Despite the shuttering of the IBM initiative, a statement from McDonald’s to CNBC makes it clear that voice-based ordering technology will be back under the golden arches soon enough.“As we move forward, our work with IBM has given us the confidence that a voice ordering solution for drive-thru will be part of our restaurants’ future,” says the statement. “We see tremendous opportunity in advancing our restaurant technology and will continue to evaluate long-term, scalable solutions that will help us make an informed decision on a future voice ordering solution by the end of the year.”As such, the cancellation of AOT looks more like a pause to evaluate and re-arm ahead of a broader launch of automated AI ordering technology. IBM also indicates that it will take its AOT system to other interested parties in the quick-serve sector. But performance issues with IBM’s tech may have been part of the problem: CNBC quotes unnamed sources who say the system had trouble getting orders right when spoken in different accents and dialects. Problems with accuracy and high operating costs have caused frustration among franchisees.In December 2023, McDonald’s announced a new strategic partnership with Google Cloud, which is likely to figure into its future plans for voice-activated AI ordering systems. In a statement released at the time, McDonald’s Executive Vice President and Global Chief Information Officer Brian Rice says “connecting our restaurants worldwide to millions of data points across our digital ecosystem means tools get sharper, models get smarter, restaurants become easier to operate, and most importantly, the overall experience for our customers and crew gets even better.”The Google deal could easily eclipse any previous development in terms of scale and capacity.That said, McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski has said IBM’s AOT will continue to be integrated into its technology systems in some form.Having bought and rebranded AI-based voice recognition firm Apprente in 2019, McDonald’s sold its McD Tech Labs to IBM in 2021, as part of the deal to accelerate the deployment of AI voice ordering at its restaurants. That year also saw McDonald’s sell its Dynamic Yield dynamic ordering technology to Mastercard.Following the sale of McD Labs to IBM, Kempczinski told investors that the fast food company did not have the capacity to innovate at the leading edge of technology while also selling billions of cheeseburgers.Previous run-ins with BIPA over voice biometrics and consent-Regulatory pains may have played a role in the decision to kill AOT at McDonald’s drive-throughs. The company, which is based in Chicago, has run afoul of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) before.In 2021, it faced a $5 million class action alleging that it violated BIPA by deploying voice recognition software that collected user’s orders without their express consent. That suit accused McDonald’s of planning to monetize the data collected by identifying repeat customers and offering them special deals or upsells.Another BIPA class action suit followed in 2023, with similar complaints about the lack of consent to collect data in McDonald’s’ system. In response, the chain denied collecting identifying demographic data to attach to biometric data, and said no voiceprint was involved in its automated transactions.The question is likely to resurface in the future, as a gaggle of fast food chains integrates AI and voice recognition into their ordering systems. Panera, Del Taco, Checkers and Rally’s, Hardee’s, Carl’s Jr., Krystal, Wendy’s, Steak n Shake, Dunkin, Chipotle, and Taco Johns have all tested AI technology in their drive-throughs, as has Yum Brands, which owns KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and The Habit Burger Grill.

China protests EU sanctions on firms with Russian war links-by AFP Staff Writers

Beijing (AFP) June 25, 2024-China on Tuesday said it had protested to the European Union after the bloc imposed sanctions on 19 Chinese companies for abetting what the West believes is Beijing's support for Russia's war in Ukraine.A list published in the EU's Official Journal on Monday includes several companies located in Hong Kong as well as two global satellite giants.The firms are now subject to drastic restrictions over sales of "dual-use goods and technology" that could be used for the "enhancement of Russia's defence and security sector".Beijing hit back on Tuesday, saying it opposed "unilateral sanctions with no basis in international law" and had lodged "stern representations" with the EU."The development of normal exchanges and cooperation between Chinese and Russian businesses does not target any third party," foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said at a regular press briefing in Beijing."We urge the European side to revoke the sanctions, and will take necessary measures to resolutely uphold the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises," she added.The EU's 14th package of sanctions against Russia added 61 new companies to the list of entities accused of directly "supporting Russia's military-industrial complex" in the war in Ukraine, bringing the total to 675 firms.Among the newly added companies are two major players in the Chinese satellite industry involved in the sale of satellites and satellite imagery to Russia's Wagner mercenary group.In October, an AFP investigation revealed that Wagner in 2022 signed a contract worth more than $30 million with Chinese firm Beijing Yunze Technology Co Ltd to acquire two satellites and use their images.The contract was signed in November 2022, more than half a year into Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in which the Wagner group under its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin was playing a key role on the battlefield.The two high-resolution satellites belonged to Chang Guang Satellite Technology, a leading global satellite company which was the unit to be added to the EU's sanctions list.Another company named Monday was Head Aerospace Technology, which sells satellite images and was placed on a US sanctions list in 2023 for supplying the Wagner Group.Even if China does not deliver weapons directly to Russia, the United States and Europe accuse it of selling components and equipment to Moscow's military industry -- allegations Beijing strenuously denies.Russia-based companies make up about half of the 61 entities added to the EU's list Monday.In addition to the 19 Chinese companies, it also added nine from Turkey, two in Kyrgyzstan, one in India, one in Kazakhstan, and one in the United Arab Emirates.burs-mjw/je/mtp