CHANUKKAH WOULD EVEN BE HAPPIER IF JEWS COULD PRAY ON THE MOUNT

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

OTHER PRAYER ON MOUNT NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2013/11/open-letter-to-sara-netanyahu-wife-of.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2013/11/jewish-prayer-on-mount-gains-support.html
TEMPLE MOUNT FAITHFUL
http://templemountfaithful.org/
TEMPLE INSTITUTE
http://www.templeinstitute.org/
http://www.templeinstitute.org/red_heifer/red_heifer_contents.htm
http://www.templeinstitute.org/temple_mount.htm

REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE

REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a(MEASURING) reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out,(TO THE WORLD NATIONS) and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.(JERUSALEM DIVIDED BUT THE 3RD TEMPLE ALLOWED TO BE REBUILT)

DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

WASHINGTON POST

Jewish activists want to pray on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, raising alarm in Muslim world 

Hatem Moussa/AP - Gazans protest in Gaza City on Sept. 24 against visits to a disputed Jerusalem holy site by religious Jews, claiming it is a desecration of al-Aqsa Mosque. The hilltop compound is revered by Jews as the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, and by Muslims as the Haram al-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary, the third-holiest site in Islam.

By William Booth and Ruth Eglash, E-mail the writer

JERUSALEM — A small but growing movement by Jewish activists demanding the right to pray at the site of their destroyed temple, in the heart of this disputed capital’s Old City, is creating a potentially explosive clash with the Muslim world, which considers the spot holy and bans Jews from public worship there.
Each week, hundreds of Jews ascend the creaky wooden ramp built above the Western Wall and enter what is often called the most contested real estate on Earth. Many then embark upon a game of hide-and-seek with their police escorts — whispering forbidden prayers while pretending to talk into cellphones, and getting in quick but banned bows by dropping coins and then bending to pick them up.

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Several cycles of building and destruction have shaped what is on Jerusalem's Mount Moriah today. See the layout of the most contested real estate on Earth.

long dismissed as extremist, are now being debated in the Israeli parliament and embraced by an expansionist wing in the ruling coalition government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.These political leaders, many in Netanyahu’s party, want Israel to assert more, not less, control over the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Old City, including the place known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, or the Noble Sanctuary.“We’re looking for it to be divided between Jews and Muslims,” said Aviad Visoli, chairman of the Temple Mount Organizations, which claims 27 groups under its umbrella. “Today, Jews realize the Western Wall is not enough. They want to go to the real thing.”Two millenniums ago, this place was the site of the Jews’ Second Temple, destroyed in A.D. 70 by Roman legions under Titus, who cast the Jews into exile. The Western Wall, visited by 10 million people a year, is part of the remaining rampart built around the raised temple complex. Together, the wall and the site of the destroyed temple are the holiest landmarks in Judaism.The same courtyard is home to al-Aqsa mosque, one of the oldest in Islam, and the Dome of the Rock, the golden landmark where tradition says the prophet Mohammad made his night journey to heaven.For Palestinians and much of the Muslim world, any mention of changing the status quo at the site, the third-holiest in Islam, is incendiary. Protecting al-Aqsa has been a rallying cry for generations.“This place belongs to the Muslim people, and no others have the right to pray here,” said Sheik Azzam al-Khatib, director of the Waqf, the Islamic trust that administers the site. Khatib said the mosque is a unifying symbol for the world’s 1.2 billion Muslims.“If they try to take over the mosque, this will be the end of time,” Khatib warned. “This will create rage and anger not only in the West Bank but all over the Islamic world — and only God knows what will happen.”The site, like all of Jerusalem’s Old City, was under Jordanian control until 1967, when it was captured by Israel during the Six-Day War. The Waqf administers and protects the site. Israeli police also patrol the area and accompany Jewish visitors while they visit.Non-Muslim tourists are welcome to wander freely around the grounds. But non-Muslim prayer is forbidden. Jews in religious garb are taken aside at the entrance by Israeli security officers, screened more closely and sternly warned not to pray, bow, sing, tear their clothes in mourning or display any religious items.

Israel’s Chief Rabbinate has ruled that Jews should not enter the Temple Mount esplanade, for fear they will accidentally walk upon ground that is part of the Holy of Holies, the inner sanctum of the temple, where the Ark of the Covenant was kept and only the high priest was permitted to enter.
But political leaders are urging that this stance be reexamined. Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan, deputy minister of religious affairs, has proposed giving Jews an hour a day to pray there.

 
War of words
The hearing quickly devolved into a shouting match. “Every citizen of Israel should have the right to pray at their holy sites without harassment or being attacked,” said Miri Regev , the committee chairwoman. “If Jews want to go up to the Temple Mount to pray, they should have that right.”“There is no such thing as the Temple Mount!’’ interrupted an Arab Israeli parliamentarian, Jamal Zahalka. “It does not exist. It is not there. ”Legislators hurled shouts of “Barbarian!” and “Fascist!”Arab Israeli lawmakers stormed out in protest.“Because of your games at the al-Aqsa mosque, a third intifada could erupt,” Ahmad Tibi, deputy speaker of the Knesset and leader of the Arab political party Ta’al, told Regev. “You are a dangerous woman — to yourself, your children and all of us. Enough of playing with fire!”In 2000, in the aftermath of failed peace negotiations mediated by President Bill Clinton, Israeli politician Ariel Sharon — campaigning to become prime minister — visited the Temple Mount with an escort of 1,000 police officers.Some analysts say the visit sparked the second Palestinian uprising, often referred to as the al-Aqsa Intifada. Others claim that Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat was looking for an excuse to unleash the uprising and found one in Sharon’s action. In a report by former U.S. senator and peace negotiator George P. Mitchell, Sharon’s visit was called “poorly timed” and “provocative.” But the report said Israel’s use of lethal force against rioters in subsequent demonstrations had a greater negative effect.Today, as yet another round of U.S.-brokered Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are underway, Khatib and other Islamic clerics warn that proposals to grant “time and space” to Jews looking to pray on the Temple Mount could ignite a holy war.
The clerics say they have pleaded with Israeli police to limit the number of Jews allowed to visit the site and warned that Jewish extremists are trying to change a delicate status quo and create new facts on the ground.
Uri Ariel, Israel’s minister of construction and housing, told reporters after a recent visit: “The Temple Mount is ours, and it cannot be argued about or negotiated. . . . It must be open for prayer at every hour, to every Jew.”

This is our job as Jews’
On a recent weekday morning, a dozen Jews led by an activist rabbi assembled at Mughrabi Gate to enter the Temple Mount. Because they had skullcaps and some had long beards and were wearing religious garments, they were escorted by armed Israeli police and trailed by three escorts from the Waqf.

“When we come here, it is very uncomfortable. They look at us as if we are serial killers,” said David Nashbaum, a father of six who was born to American parents and raised in Jerusalem. “This is our job as Jews, to come here and pray. I don’t know what they are so afraid of.”The Israeli Supreme Court has ruled that Jews are allowed to pray at the Temple Mount, but the court also grants the Israeli police power to curtail any activities that would create “a disturbance to the public order.”Jews who sing the national anthem or religious songs, and who pray, are regularly detained and escorted away.A frequent visitor to the site is Rabbi Chaim Richman, a director of the Temple Institute, whose mission is to prepare for the building of the Third Temple where the Dome of the Rock now stands.He says he envisions a new temple rising toward the clouds, with underground parking, Internet connectivity, radiant heating for the sanctified floors (the priests, in accordance with Jewish law, will be barefoot), and a return of burnt offerings and animal sacrifice.In April, Richman’s Temple Institute moved to a large, renovated space in the Old City’s Jewish Quarter, overlooking the Western Wall. The project was funded by Henry Swieca, the billionaire American investor, and his wife, Estee.Inside, researchers and artisans have created silver trumpets, wooden lyres and three-pronged forks that would turn over burnt offerings. They sewed a priest’s robe with a breastplate of golden thread and 12 precious stones, as described in the Bible and representing the 12 tribes of Israel. There is a golden menorah and an ark for the covenants. And there are architectural plans. Evidence, Muslim leaders say, that proves that the Jews have literal designs on the mount.“This is not incitement,” Richman said. “Our mission is to kindle the spark of desire for the time when Jews are a light unto the world, and Muslims will agree it is time to rebuild, and all nations of the world will come to the Jews and ask them to rebuild.”Sufian Taha contributed to this report

BENJAMIN MEETS WITH POPE FRANCIS AT THE VATICAN

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)

EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18

FALSE POPE FROM THE VATICAN

REVELATION 13:11-13
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;(FALSE VATICAN POPE) and he had two horns like a lamb,(JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD) and he spake as a dragon.(HES SATANICALLY INSPIRED,HES A CHRISTIAN DEFECTOR FROM THE FAITH)
12 And he (FALSE RELIGIOUS LEADER) exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,(WORLD DICTATOR) and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.(THE WORLD DICTATOR CREATES A FALSE RESURRECTION AND IS CROWNED LEADER OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER).
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

REVELATION 17:1-5,9,15-18
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,(VATICAN IN POLITICS) and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman (FALSE CHURCH) was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,(VATICAN COLOURS)(ANOTHER REASON WE KNOW THE FALSE POPE COMES FROM THE VATICAN) and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.(THE VATICAN IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS OR MOUNTAINS)
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.(VATICAN-CATHOLICS ALL AROUND THE WORLD OVER 1 BILLION)
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

12/ 2/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

Francis and Netanyahu shake hands: “All is resolved through dialogue”

Netanyahu and Francis during today's Audience

Today Francis held a cordial meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu who gave him a book by his father on the Inquisition in Spain in the fifteenth century

Giacomo Galeazzi vatican city To the great pastor and guardian of our common heritage” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote as a dedication to Francis in the book “The Origins of the Inquisition in Spain in the fifteenth century" which he gave to him at today’s meeting in the Vatican. In the current geopolitical context, the expected scenario was a meeting between the Israeli hawk and the Vatican dove. But what we saw was a frank and constructive meeting on some thorny issues regarding the Middle East.The warmth and personal charisma that characterise the Francis effect are even changing the face of papal diplomacy. The Holy See has changed its approach: it is willing to collaborate and is focusing on what unites, not on what causes division. Instead of presenting the Israeli leader with a list of issues to resolve (for example the issue of the holy places in the Holy Land and the visa question), he made some positive proposals for development. His vision of unity specifically for the Middle East goes hand in hand with Francis’ geopolitics, based on his aspirations for peace and equality.In a part of the world where the winds of war blow strong in Syria, the Pope witnessed willingness for dialogue on the issue of Iran’s nuclear program and called for peaceful coexistence for the sake of a higher common good, leaving behind particularisms and age-old differences. Confrontation does not solve anything, while dialogue can open doors that have remained closed until now. Hence, the Holy See diplomacy is adopting a cooperative approach. Francis and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s tête-à-tête meeting at the Apostolic Palace lasted 25 minutes. During the customary exchange of gifts, the Prime Minister gave Francis a book written in Spanish by his father, on the Inquisition.“My father spoke Spanish well but I don’t speak a word,” Netanyahu said. The Prime Minister included a dedication to Francis in the book and also presented the Pope with a silver tray complete with menorah and a jar for oil. "To His Holiness Pope Francis with great respect", an inscription on the tray read. Francis, in exchange, presented the Prime Minister with a bronze bas-relief depicting St. Paul.An interpreter translated during the meeting. Francis spoke in Spanish and Netanyahu in English. The Prime Minister arrived at the Vatican with a 14-member delegation. There were no ministers present, just military officials. The book Francis was presented with was published in 1995 by Random House USA and tells the story of the conversos, Jews who were forced to convert to Catholicism. The book argues that these Jews were not persecuted for religious reasons but for ethnic ones. One of the officials accompanying the Prime Minister seized the opportunity to have his photo taken with a Swizz Guard during a break.As the meeting drew to a close, a remark made by the Prime Minister’s wife Sara sounded like a reference to the Pope’s announced visit to the Holy Land (for which no official dates have been set yet): “We can’t wait.” After this, the Israeli delegation was received by the new Vatican Secretary of State, Mgr. Pietro Parolin who made an implicit reference to the time when he as Under-Secretary for Relations with States, he led the Holy See delegation in the bilateral negotiations with Israel: When he met Netanyahu today he said in English: “I think we’ve already met.”

Netanyahu gives pope his late father’s book on the Inquisition

In their first sitdown, Francis and Israeli premier discuss peace talks with Palestinians; pontiff voices hope for lasting peace

By Lazar Berman December 2, 2013, 12:33 pm Updated: December 2, 2013, 4:45 pm 28-The times of Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Monday morning with Pope Francis at the Vatican and presented the pontiff with a copy of his late father’s book about the Spanish Inquisition.Netanyahu presented a Spanish translation of the 1995 book, “The Origins of the Inquisition,” to Francis during their 25-minute closed-door meeting, as well as a Hanukkah menorah.Netanyahu’s father, Benzion Netanyahu, was an Israeli historian who died last year. A Zionist activist who opposed partitioning Palestine between Arabs and Jews, he was best known in academic circles for his research into the Catholic Church’s medieval inquisition against the Jews of Spain.“To his Holiness Pope Franciscus, a great shepherd of our common heritage,” the Israeli leader wrote on the inside cover of the book.Francis thanked him and presented Netanyahu with a small bronze plaque of St. Paul.The Vatican Press Office said the conversation touched on “complex political and social situation in the Middle East, with Particular reference to the reinstatement of Negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians, expressing Hope that a just and lasting solution Respecting the rights of Both Parties may be reached as soon as possible.”According to Ynet, Sara Netanyahu, the prime minister’s wife told the Holy See after the meeting, “We’re expecting you, we can’t wait.” The paper quoted Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi saying that the Pope had yet to set a date to visit the Holy Land.Later Monday, Netanyahu met with Italian Premier Enrico Letta and warned that Iran represented a threat to Europe and the entire world if it acquires nuclear weapons.Letta, for his part, announced that Italy had set aside funding to build a Holocaust museum in Ferrara, and invited Netanyahu to join him for the inauguration.The encounter was the prime minister’s first with the current pope, who has already met at the Vatican with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in October and with Israeli President Shimon Peres in April. Netanyahu met with the previous pope, Benedict XVI, in 2009, and with pope John Paul II in 1997.

Citing an anonymous official Israeli source, CNN reported last week that the pope was scheduled to make his first visit to Israel in May. The Vatican has not confirmed that report.Six government ministers joined Netanyahu on the trip and were set to meet with Italian ministers.The pope and the prime minister reportedly discussed negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians and security threats Jerusalem faces in the region from Iran and elsewhere, as well as recent European legislation banning circumcision and kosher slaughter, said Murray Watson, a Christian-Jewish relations expert.“The Vatican’s support for the Jewish community in various European countries, where either kosher slaughter or circumcision have recently been called into question or forbidden by law” would likely come up, said Watson, a co-founder of the Centre for Jewish-Catholic-Muslim Learning at King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario.

Attempts to bring about a meeting between the two leaders have not always gone smoothly. In October, Netanyahu’s office issued a statement announcing that the prime minister would be meeting with the pope at the Vatican shortly thereafter to discuss nuclear talks with Iran and the ongoing peace negotiations with the Palestinians.However, it later emerged that the PMO’s announcement was premature; there were no confirmed plans for a meeting with the pontiff, which typically has to be scheduled further in advance.

Peres and Abbas both invited the pontiff to Israel and the Palestinian territories, and Francis has said he would like to visit the Middle East.Abraham Skorka, a rabbi closely affiliated with the leader of the Catholic world, said in October that the pope aimed to visit Israel in March 2014. Skorka said that Francis’s “lifelong dream” was to visit the Holy Land and “to embrace” the rabbi in front of the Western Wall.Around that time, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) met Pope Francis in the Vatican, and invited him to Israel and to the Knesset.Francis replied emphatically, “I’ll come! I’ll come!”Pope Francis’s visit would coincide with the 50th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s visit to Jerusalem in 1964, which took place before the Vatican recognized the State of Israel.The future trip would mark Francis’s second visit to the Holy Land. He arrived here in 1973, just as the Yom Kippur War broke out. As The Times of Israel revealed in April, Jorge Mario Bergoglio (as he was then) spent six days confined to his Jerusalem hotel, studying the Letters of Saint Paul to the Corinthians.

12/ 2/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

“G8” looks into Vatican dicasteries

The Pope's first meeting with the "G8"

Tomorrow the Pope’s Council of Cardinals is to start a three-day meeting to look into the work of all the main Congregations and potential role changes

Andrea Tornielli vatican city The “G8”, the Council of Cardinals appointed by Pope Francis to assist him with Curia reform and the government of the universal Church , begins a series of morning and afternoon meetings tomorrow which are due to conclude on Thursday. This is the second formal round of meetings being held by the papal “council” which is coordinated by Cardinal Oscar Andrés Rodriguez Maradiaga. Other members include Giuseppe Bertello (the only Italian and Curia member in the group), Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa (the only archbishop emeritus in the group), Oswald Gracias, Reinhard Marx, Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Sean Patrick O’Malley and George Pell. The Bishop of Albano (Italy), Marcello Semeraro, is the group’s secretary.This session will only examine the work and roles of the Vatican Congregations, not the pontifical councils. This subject was barely touched on in October because of the time dedicated to the Synod and the consideration of possible reforms in the Secretariat of State. The three-day meeting will therefore examine proposals for the Holy See’s top “ministries”. The Pope is expected to  take part in all the discussion sessions except  those on Wednesday morning, as he will be holding the General Audience.Role changes and adjustments have already been made in the past. For example, Benedict XVI ordered that the Congregation for the Clergy should took charge of the Seminaries after these had been the responsibility of the Congregation for Catholic Education. Other similar changes could yet be made. For instance the council is looking into the possibility of transferring judicial competencies belonging to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, to the Holy See Tribunals.In various interviews, some “G8” members mentioned the potential merging of Pontifical Councils but the Council will not be examining this aspect in any detail just yet. The eight cardinals are due to meet again on 17 and 18 February, before the consistory for the creation of new cardinals which Francis will hold on 22 February, the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter. This means the cardinals will be given some guidelines on Curia reform before this date.

LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).

THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

ISAIAH 33:8
8  The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

On eve of Kerry visit, peace talks limping along

Israel, Palestinians met last week for another round of negotiations despite reports of an impasse

By Avi Issacharoff December 2, 2013, 7:00 pm 4-The Times oF Israel

Israeli and Palestinian negotiators held a meeting last week amid reports that the talks were headed for a breakdown, the Times of Israel has learned, despite increased tensions recently on the eve of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s return visit to the region this week.The most current tensions revolve around the tenders published last month — and promptly cancelled by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — for the planning of some 20,000 units in the West Bank, an unprecedented number, including 1,200 units in the controversial E1 corridor linking Jerusalem with Ma’aleh Adumim. On Sunday, Palestinian Authority sources said that the Palestinians were considering ending peace talks with Israel over the announcement.

The Palestinians claim that although the plans were cancelled by Netanyahu, the tenders still appeared on the website of the Housing and Construction Ministry headed by Uri Ariel (Jewish Home), proving, according to the Palestinians, that Israel intends to implement the plans. Officials in Jerusalem rejected the charges, accusing the Palestinian Authority of “looking for excuses to stop the negotiations.”A senior Israeli political source stressed that Netanyahu’s cancellation of the building plan was in effect.Before Kerry’s last trip to the region in early November, the talks had also suffered a crisis. Israel charged then that the Palestinians were created an artificial crisis for the secretary of state’s sake, in hopes of getting him to up the pressure on the Israeli side.The Palestinians shot back that Israel was avoiding presenting detailed stances on issues, and was thwarting progress in talks by opting to remain vague and non-committal .Despite these setbacks, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas made clear on several occasions that the Palestinians were going to honor their commitments to the US government, vowing that the peace talks with Israel would run their full, nine-month course.Abbas refused to accept the resignation letters tendered to him by members of his negotiating team, Saeb Erekat and Mohammed Shtayyeh. Since those letters were submitted a month ago, several rounds of talks have been held, including the one last week. The two were present at most of the meetings except the last one, to which Erekat arrived without Shtayyeh.Before and after the meeting, Erekat slammed Israel in the media, while denying that talks were taking place.On Monday, Erekat told the Times of Israel that he was not present at the meeting last week with the Israeli negotiating team.Under heavy US pressure, peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians resumed in July after a three-year hiatus. Although they have continued out of the media spotlight, reports have mounted that the two sides have reached an impasse.

WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u820yZWuZf0&feature=youtu.be
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2005/11/questions-ww3-whats-coming.html (WW3 COMPLETE HAPPENINGS)

EZEKIEL 32:2-9 (GODS IN CONTROL OF EVERYTHING)(PROTECTS ISRAEL)
2  Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
3  Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.
4  Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.
5  And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.
6  I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.
7  And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
8  All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
9  I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.

AMOS 9:10
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

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

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 6:9-12
9  And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
10  Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
11  Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
12  And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

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

The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.

ISAIAH 11:10-16
10  And in that day (WHEN JESUS IS RULING ON EARTH AT THE END OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD) there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
11  And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
12  And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
13  The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
14  But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
15  And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
16  And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL

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.(ITS AT THIS TIME I BELIEVE WHEN AMERICA GETS NUKED BY RUSSIA ON THE WAY TO THE MIDEAST)

DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)

REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(4 WINDS OF THE WORLD-WORLDWIDE WAR)(TURKEY-IRAQ-SYRIA)(EUPHRATES RIVER CONSISTS OF 760 MILES IN TURKEY,440 MILES IN SYRIA AND 660 MILES IN IRAQ)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,(COULD ALSO MEAN THE 4 CORNERS OF THE EARTH OR WORLDWIDE WAR) which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)

WARS AND RUMURS OF WARS.

MATTHEW 24:6-8
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:7
7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.

Biden: China air zone raises risk of accidents

By JOSH LEDERMAN 1 hour ago-DEC 3,13-YAHOONEWS

TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Vice President Joe Biden voiced strong opposition Tuesday to China's new air defense zone above a set of disputed islands, showing a united front with an anxious Japan as tension in the region simmered.Standing side by side in Tokyo with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Biden said the U.S. is "deeply concerned" about China's attempt to unilaterally change the status quo in the East China Sea.
"This action has raised regional tensions and increased the risk of accidents and miscalculation," he said.
Biden said the U.S. is coordinating closely with allies Japan, South Korea and others, adding that the U.S. has an interest in lowering tensions in the region."I will be raising these issues with great specificity when I meet with Chinese leadership the day after tomorrow," Biden said.Biden's remarks came as Japan is pressing the U.S. to more actively take Japan's side in an escalating dispute over China's new air defense zone above a set of contested islands in the East China Sea.The U.S. and Japan have refused to recognize China's air defense zone above tiny islands that China and Japan both claim. The U.S. and its allies are concerned China's move is part of a broader strategy to assert increasing authority in the region."The prospect for miscalculation and mistake is too high," Biden said of the air defense zone.Abe, who met with Biden at the prime minister's residence here Tuesday, said he and Biden confirmed that neither country would tolerate the attempt to change the status quo by force. He invoked Japan's decades-long alliance with the U.S. in pledging the two would work closely to deal with the situation.

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At the same time, Abe appeared to try to smooth over a minor rift that emerged between the U.S. and Japan as Biden headed to the region over whether commercial airlines should comply with China's demand that they file flight plans before flying through the zone. Japanese leaders were concerned after word came that the U.S. was advising American carriers, in line with existing protocol, to comply with such requests from foreign governments."We agreed we will not condone any action that could threaten safety of civilian aircraft," Abe said.Reluctant to cede any ground, Tokyo has been urging Japanese commercial flights not to notify China before flying through the zone. Word that the U.S. had advised American commercial carriers to comply rankled leaders in Tokyo, who are hoping a united front with the U.S. will increase pressure on Beijing to reverse course.But senior Obama administration officials said Tuesday that the U.S. never told American commercial carriers to comply specifically with China's demands. Rather, the Federal Aviation Administration merely reaffirmed existing policy that pilots should comply with such instructions anywhere in the world, said the officials, who weren't authorized to comment by name and demanded anonymity.
The zone covers more than 600 miles from north to south, above international waters separating China, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan. China says all aircraft entering the zone must notify Chinese authorities beforehand or face unspecified defensive measures.Although the U.S. has joined Japan and other allies in refusing to recognize the zone, Washington has treaded carefully, wary of creating a new fault line in its relationship with China just as the U.S. is pursuing a new era of economic cooperation with Beijing.
The show of unity between Biden and Abe will be closely watched by China, as well as other Asian nations worried that the new defense zone may portend further steps by China to assert control in the region. On Monday, China's ambassador to the Philippines claimed China has a sovereign right to establish a similar zone over the South China Sea, where China and the Philippines are locked in another long-running territorial dispute.The feud promises to trail Biden throughout his weeklong trip to Asia — a tour intended to affirm Washington's continued interest in upping its presence in the region, in part to counter China's growing influence.After a working dinner with Abe on Tuesday night, Biden will fly to Beijing on Wednesday to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping, where officials said Biden would raise U.S. concerns over the zone directly. Biden will then travel Thursday to South Korea — another U.S. ally at odds with China over the air defense zone.Japan, which claims the islands as its own, is concerned that compliance with China's demands will allow China to slowly solidify its claim to the tiny islands and the strategically important waters that surround them. The United States sees rising tensions between China and its neighbors as a threat to U.S. interests, and is concerned that the tense atmosphere increases the likelihood of an incident in the air spiraling out of control.The U.S. doesn't take a position on the islands' sovereignty but acknowledges that Japan administers them, meaning U.S. treaty obligations to defend Japan could come into play.After a morning meeting with Japanese lawmakers and Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso, Biden made his way to Shibuya, a bustling Tokyo district and fashion center, where he toured a technology company founded by a female entrepreneur to highlight the role of women in Japan's economy. U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy joined Biden as he mingled with young employees in a chic, 24th floor lunchroom overlooking Tokyo's sprawling skyline.At a roundtable later with business executives, Biden said he'd heard some say women are good in the workforce because they are kinder and gentler."I've never found that to be the case," Biden said to laughter. "They're as tough, they're as strong, they're as everything as a man is — and vice-versa."___Reach Josh Lederman at http://twitter.com/joshledermanAP

Casualties from Terror in Heartland 'Up 120%'

There are more casualties in Judea and Samaria 'because there are more residents with less protection,' says MK.-By Gil Ronen-First Publish: 12/3/2013, 2:27 PM-Israelnationalnews

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A senior IDF commander admitted in a Knesset session Tuesday that there has been a spike in the number of casualties from terrorism in Judea and Samaria, Israel's mountainous Biblical heartland. There has also been a “dramatic” cut in the size of the forces providing security for the residents of the area, he added. However, he said, the number of terror incidents is similar to those of previous years.Yigal Lahav, the mayor of Karnei Shomron in Samaria, who was present at the discussion, said afterward that the officer said there had been a 120% rise in the number of casualties. Lahav said the IDF should put up more fences and lighting, and it should catch rock- and firebomb-throwers and punish them more severely. In addition, he said, the Finance Ministry must provide funds for reinforced buses and cars, so that they can withstand these attacks.MK Moti Yogev (Jewish Home) said after the session that “there is a rise in casualties because there are more Jewish residents in Judea and Samaria but less protection for the residents. Central Command must defeat the terror attacks and increase the feeling of security: make sure that a youth who throws rocks goes to jail for 5 years and stop the revolving door policy. The main effort needs to be on the offensive, and the rest should be in security and fortification measures to save lives.”Shlomo Vaknin, regional security officer for the Yesha Council, disgreed with the IDF's version of things and insisted there had been a spike in terror events as well. The reason the IDF numbers do not reflect this, he explained, is that if a firebomb misses its target, the IDF does not count it as a terror incident, and if a rock ambush is not reported, it is not counted either. In addition, he said, if rocks are thrown at a number of cars in the same junction, all of these attacks are counted as just one attack.The IDF has been sending contradictory messages on the subject. Brigadier-General Tamir Yadai, Commander of the IDF's Judea and Samaria Division admitted this week that terrorism in Judea and Samaria is on the rise, and becoming more lethal.

JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36  And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37  For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)

EZEKIEL 35:3-6,11-15
3  And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir,(ARABS) I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
4  I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
5  Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred,(AGAINST ISRAEL) and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
6  Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
11  Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
12  And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
13  Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
14  Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.(ARAB,MUSLIMS)
15  As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir,(ARABS) and all Idumea,(ARAB,MUSLIMS) even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

ISAIAH 17:1,11-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
11  In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12  Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13  The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14  And behold at evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD KILLED IN OVERNIGHT RAID) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.

AMOS 1:5
5  I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden:(IRAQ) and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir,(JORDAN) saith the LORD.

JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23  Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24  Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25  How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26  Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27  And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

JEREMIAH 47:1-7
1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN/ARABS) before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
2  Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north,(NORTHERN TSUNAMI POSSIBLY) and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
3  At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses,(ISRAELS ARMY) at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;(ISRAEL POSSIBLY NUKES GAZA)
4  Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN FAKE ARABS) and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
5  Baldness is come upon Gaza;(NUKED POSSIBLY) Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
6  O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
7  How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? (MEDITTERANEAN SEA) there hath he appointed it.

Israeli criticism of Iran deal ‘frustrating’ White House

Netanyahu and Obama in frequent ‘businesslike’ telephone contact over Iranian nuclear agreement, report says

By Times of Israel staff December 3, 2013, 1:07 pm 5

The White House has been left “very frustrated” by the recent public criticism by Israeli officials of last week’s interim nuclear deal between Iran and Western powers, according to a Tuesday report that cited US officials close to the Obama administration.The US is attempting to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue through diplomacy and sanctions, but is “not determined to avoid a confrontation with Iran at any price,” as some Israeli officials have said, according to a Tuesday article in the Haaretz daily.“We understand that on the Iranian issue there is public support in Israel for a hard line,” a senior US official told the paper. He added that the administration was “not looking to avoid a confrontation with Iran… but there is a window where sanctions, new leadership in Iran and international unity give us a chance to solve this thing diplomatically more than any time before. We got our leverage and we want to use it.”The disagreement between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama over Iran is something the US administration has “learned to live with” and is not seen as “a crisis,” according to the report, which noted that dialogue between the two countries remained frequent and “businesslike.”The senior official said that “we understand that Netanyahu will always take a harsh public line on Iran” but noted that “disagreements on the interim agreement harm our cooperation over the more important thing,” namely, the comprehensive agreement with Iran over its nuclear future, to be drawn up over the next six months.The interim agreement, announced early last week, sets a six-month limit for Iran and the West to agree on a final status agreement regarding Iran’s nuclear power. In the meantime, the interim deal rolls back some of the economic sanctions imposed on Iran, in return for increased international inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities and a limit to uranium enrichment by the Islamic Republic.The prime minister and other Israeli officials have been publicly critical of the interim deal, saying that it does not go far enough in reducing Iran’s nuclear capability.

Egypt: Morsi’s links to jihadists probed

Former president could face charges for his ties to groups that have become increasingly violent since his imprisonment

By Hamza Hendawi December 3, 2013, 1:43 pm 0-The Times of Israel

CAIRO (AP) — During his year as president, Egypt’s Mohammed Morsi cultivated ties with Islamic radicals, making them a key support for his rule by pardoning dozens of jailed militants, restraining the military from an all-out offensive against jihadis in Sinai and giving their hard-line sheiks a platform to spread their rhetoric.Now with Morsi ousted and imprisoned, investigators are looking into possibly putting him on trial for links to jihadis, accusing him and his Muslim Brotherhood of being behind a wave of violence by Sinai-based militants in retaliation for the July 3 military coup that removed the Islamists from power, military and security officials say.Since Morsi’s ouster, violence by jihadi groups has escalated into a full-fledged insurgency, with increasing shootings, bombings and al-Qaida-style suicide attacks against troops and police in Sinai. The attacks have spread outside the restive peninsula with bombings and assassinations in the capital, Cairo, and other parts of the country.The investigation marks a new track of possible prosecution against Morsi, who is already on trial on charges of inciting murder over a December attack by Islamists on protesters and who also is under investigation on possible other charges.It also represents a new turn in the crackdown that the military-backed government has waged against Morsi’s Brotherhood. Security forces have been seeking to crush continuous protests by his Islamist supporters, arresting several thousand and killing hundreds since the coup.The investigation also comes as authorities are increasingly depicting their crackdown as part of a war against terrorism and overtly blaming the Brotherhood for militant violence. They have used the fight against terrorism to justify tougher measures against all protests, including by secular activists opposed to military power and police abuses. The Brotherhood has denied any connection to violence.The security and military officials said they believe Morsi is at least “indirectly” linked to the militant violence, saying they are investigating whether he and his Brotherhood had contacts with the groups while in power, cultivating them to bolster their rule against opponents.The officials, from the military, the Interior Ministry and National Security Agency, who all have first-hand knowledge of the ongoing investigations, spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the probe.They said the security agencies are analyzing communications by Morsi — making clear that, as widely suspected, the agencies spied on the president during his year in office. Also among those under investigation are two top presidential aides of Morsi, Essam el-Haddad and Khaled el-Qazaz, who continue to be held in secret military detention, they said.

Suspicions that militants launched their campaign of violence as part of a deal with the Brotherhood have been fueled by statements by leading members of the group.During Morsi’s final days in office, the Brotherhood’s most powerful figure, deputy leader Khairat el-Shater, threatened in a meeting with military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi that removing the president would prompt militants to take up arms against the state, according to el-Sissi’s account of the meeting.Another Brotherhood leader, Mohammed el-Beltagy, told a television interviewer shortly after the coup that militants in Sinai would halt their attacks if Morsi is released and reinstated.During his final months, Morsi grew closer to radicals. On June 15, he chaired a rally in a Cairo stadium to support Syrian rebels, appearing alongside radical clerics who denounced Shiite Muslims and Morsi’s opponents in Egypt as infidels.But an outright alliance with jihadis to fight back against the coup would be a significant, dangerous move for the Brotherhood, which forswore violence in the 1970s and sought to depict itself as a moderate movement.Refaat Sayyed Ahmed, head of the Haifa Center for Arab Studies and an expert on Islamic groups, said that while in office, Morsi “encouraged and strengthened” militants and “cashed in on their presence, but we have no proof that he nurtured them as a last-resort card against his opponents.”“Morsi and the Brotherhood are not the only reason behind what is happening in Egypt now,” he said.Morsi’s need for allies from the ranks of militant Islamists was pressing. Throughout his presidency, he was unable to win the loyalty of the military, police, the judiciary and the media, and street protests mounted against his rule.Soon after Morsi came to office on June 30, 2012, northern Sinai — long a refuge for militants — began to attract jihadists from across much of the Arab world, benefiting from a flood of heavy weapons smuggled from Libya into Sinai, which borders Israel and the Gaza Strip.In August 2012, militants killed 16 soldiers in a Sinai ambush. The army dramatically built up its forces in the peninsula to combat them, but in the months that followed, Morsi several times restrained them from heavy assaults on militants, according to Morsi himself and military officials. Instead, his administration used allies from the hard-line Salafi movement to mediate with jihadis.The security officials said they are probing whether Morsi and the Brotherhood struck a deal with the militants to step up violence in retaliation for his ouster — a claim frequently echoed by opponents of the group.“What is happening now, from the attacks in Sinai to the bombings of military intelligence offices and the targeted killings is not random,” said Makram Mohammed Ahmed, an expert on Islamic movements who is a sharp critic of the Brotherhood. “There is a maestro for all that and there is a plan that was put in place well before the execution.”The officials said investigators are also looking into a series of pardons Morsi gave to militants.

The generals who ran Egypt for nearly 17 months after Mubarak’s ouster also freed jailed militants, including the brother of al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri, Mohammed.The pace of pardons, however, picked up significantly after Morsi took office. Morsi issued nine decrees with pardons starting soon after he was inaugurated, releasing some 2,000 people.The list includes militants convicted or suspected of taking part in the Islamist insurgency waged against Mubarak’s government in the 1980s and 1990s, including ones convicted in an attempted assassination of Mubarak while in Ethiopia. Several pardons also covered key figures from the Brotherhood who had been convicted in absentia.The head of prisons at the time, Gen. Mohammed Ibrahim Naguib, opposed some of the pardons, which were not run by security agencies for assessment as it is customary, the officials said.Under Morsi, the pardons were explained as part of his efforts to close one of the darkest chapters of the Mubarak era: Lengthy detention of Islamists without charges or trial. Some of the militants pardoned had served their jail terms but were kept in detention under emergency laws in force during most of Mubarak’s 29 years in power. Others were never charged but remained in jail under emergency laws.A panel of defense and security officials is now reviewing the pardons to determine if some of those released should be re-arrested, the officials said.

EARTHQUAKES

ISAIAH 42:15
15  I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. 

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide

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1. 4.4 North Pacific Ocean 2013-12-03 05:38:55 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
2. 2.8 45km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico 2013-12-03 05:27:55 UTC-05:00 42.0 km
3. 5.1 89km ESE of Kitaibaraki, Japan 2013-12-03 04:16:44 UTC-05:00 27.4 km
4. 2.8 42km SW of Ferndale, California 2013-12-03 03:25:46 UTC-05:00 18.5 km
5. 4.6 10km ENE of Kashima-shi, Japan 2013-12-03 01:58:17 UTC-05:00 12.5 km
6. 2.8 2km SE of The Geysers, California 2013-12-03 01:39:40 UTC-05:00 3.0 km
7. 2.8 64km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2013-12-03 00:57:47 UTC-05:00 32.0 km
8. 2.6 124km W of Fort Yukon, Alaska 2013-12-03 00:52:14 UTC-05:00 0.0 km
9. 2.6 76km SW of Delta Junction, Alaska 2013-12-03 00:31:49 UTC-05:00 0.1 km
10. 2.5 55km SSW of Delta Junction, Alaska 2013-12-03 00:21:42 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
11. 3.4 64km NW of Sand Point, Alaska 2013-12-02 18:33:00 UTC-05:00 176.5 km
12. 4.6 1km S of Okunoya, Japan 2013-12-02 16:26:39 UTC-05:00 69.8 km
13. 2.5 44km SSE of Adak, Alaska 2013-12-02 15:40:51 UTC-05:00 31.0 km
14. 2.9 73km SW of Homer, Alaska 2013-12-02 13:49:48 UTC-05:00 34.7 km
15. 4.5 31km WNW of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina 2013-12-02 09:53:32 UTC-3 km
16. 4.9 Easter Island region 2013-12-02 09:45:29 UTC-05:00 14.7 km
17. 4.9 19km NNE of Nila Dua, Indonesia 2013-12-02 08:25:19 UTC-05:00 198.5 km

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

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

JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)

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) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED)(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 BOMS)

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.

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

LUKE 17:34-37
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.
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 24:37-51
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.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

A-bomb cities to invite U.S., China envoys

December 1, 2013

Jiji Press HIROSHIMA (Jiji Press)—The cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will ask new U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy to visit the sites of U.S. atomic bombings during World War II, Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui has said.Matsui and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue are arranging a trip to Tokyo to meet with Kennedy by the year-end, the Hiroshima mayor said at a regular news conference.Matsui also thanked Hiroshima Gov. Hidehiko Yuzaki for eliciting a recent comment by Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua signaling his willingness to attend Hiroshima’s annual memorial ceremony on its Aug. 6 anniversary in the future. The Hiroshima mayor said he will join Yuzaki to ask Cheng to participate.

ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST

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

ISRAELS TROUBLE

JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.

DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)

Israel Asks Germany to Return Art to Jewish Hands

JERUSALEM December 1, 2013 (AP)-YAHOONEWS

Israel's deputy foreign minister urges Germany to give any Jewish-owned art from a trove discovered in Munich to Jewish or Israeli museums if heirs are not found.He said Israel has requested to join the German investigation into the roughly 1,400 artworks found in the apartment of a reclusive Munich collector last year.

German prosecutors are checking whether up to 590 works were seized by Nazis. Several heirs of Jewish collectors persecuted by the Nazis have already made claim to individual artworks in the collection.The collector says he inherited the works from his father, an art dealer commissioned by the Nazis.Elkin said Israel suggested Germany give any Jewish-owned art with no locatable heirs to an institution like the Israel Museum in Jerusalem or a Jewish museum in Germany.

LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).

THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

ISAIAH 33:8
8  The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

Palestinians threaten to end peace talks’

Channel 2: PA officials tell US that if recently announced settlement construction isn’t frozen, they’ll walk

By Stuart Winer December 1, 2013, 9:59 pm 4-The Times of Israel

The Palestinians told US Secretary of State John Kerry that they’ll terminate negotiations with Israel forthwith unless Jerusalem halts a plan to build 20,000 housing units over the Green Line, Channel 2 reported on Sunday.According to the report, furious Palestinian officials sent a clear message to Kerry, apparently over the weekend, that if Israel doesn’t freeze the settlement construction plans as stated, they will no longer attend any more peace negotiations.As proof that the construction process is still going ahead, despite Israel’s claims to the contrary, the Palestinians noted that the projects in question were still listed as active on the Israel Housing Ministry website at the end of last week, the Channel 2 report said. The unnamed Palestinian officials regarded this as a broken promise by Israel and by the Americans, who had attempted to calm the situation after the announcement of the settlement construction plans last month.The Prime Minister’s Office, however, insisted that the construction plans were halted, as promised.Last month the Housing and Construction Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) announced tenders for some 20,000 units in the West Bank and the controversial E-1 corridor near Jerusalem – setting off an international outcry, which led Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to order Ariel to pull the plug on the plans.Peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians restarted in late July. Although they have continued out of the media spotlight, reports have mounted that that two sides have reached an impasse.Last week, senior Palestinian official Nabil Shaath said negotiations with Israel have already failed, and that the prospect of freeing Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails is all that’s keeping the talks alive. Top negotiator Saeb Erekat told reporters that the world needs to get tough with Israel over its continued settlement building to ensure the remaining five months of talks won’t be wasted.Earlier Sunday evening, former prime minister Ehud Olmert launched an attack on Netanyahu’s settlement construction policies, saying all of Israel’s security concerns — including that posed by Iran — could be solved by reaching a lasting peace agreement with the Palestinians.“The key to any strategic situation in the Middle East and the Iranian problem is to reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians,” he said during a a panel discussion at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.

The former prime minister also railed against the Netanyahu government’s approval of thousands of settlement housing units, saying such a move could only set back negotiations with the Palestinians.

“A government which announces the construction of 5,000 new housing units is not conducting serious negotiations for peace,” Olmert remarked.

Israel's Herzog calls for 'brave' steps in peace talks

1 hour ago-YAHOONEWS-DEC 1,13

Ramallah (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog said Sunday he would push the government to take "brave" steps in US-brokered peace negotiations, after holding talks with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.The meeting at the West Bank headquarters of the Western-backed Palestinian Authority was the first of its kind since Herzog was elected head of the opposition Labour Party at the end of November.Israel and the Palestinians returned to the negotiating table in July after a nearly three-year hiatus, and following an intense diplomatic push by US Secretary of State John Kerry.But the negotiations have faltered amid Israeli announcements of new settlement construction in the occupied West Bank and annexed east Jerusalem, lands demanded by the Palestinians as part of their future state.Herzog said his party, which was in power when Israel signed the Oslo accords with the Palestinians in 1993, is willing to help push the process forward and would urge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to take bold steps to reach a deal."The current negotiations brokered by the United States provide a historic opportunity for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, particularly because president Abbas has a real desire to achieve peace," Herzog told a news conference after the meeting.

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The chairman of Israel's Labor party Isaac Herzog (C), flanked by Israeli Parliament members Omer Ba …

"I will carry that message to the prime minister... (and) we will try to put pressure on the Israeli government to take brave positions to achieve peace and security for our children," he added.He said Labour rejects the construction of Jewish settlements "on Palestinian land" and has voiced opposition to recent plans for the construction of 20,000 settler homes in the West Bank.Herzog also said he discussed with Abbas the possibility of holding a meeting between Abbas and Netanyahu, saying face-to-face talks can help bolster the peace process.Abbas reiterated his commitment to the full period of talks agreed upon with Washington, with the negotiations extending to April, said his spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina.Palestinian negotiators resigned last month in protest at Israeli settlement construction, but Abbas has so far refused to accept their resignations.

In Ramallah, Herzog seeks Labor’s return as dovish alternative

Newly elected opposition leader envisions party as a front runner in next elections, hopes to champion peace prospects and advance real change in society

By Haviv Rettig Gur December 1, 2013, 10:44 pm 1-The Times of Israel

Isaac Herzog, son of a president and grandson of a chief rabbi, believes he has a chance to make some history of his own.Last month, he won the leadership race to head the Labor Party, a once-indomitable political force that has shrunk in the wake of the two-decade failure of peace talks to a mere 15 Knesset seats (out of 120). The main party of government for Israel’s first three decades, and later at least a contender to rule the country, Labor is today just one more middling party among others, saddled with an ill-defined political agenda, uninspiring leadership and an unreliable voter base.If he is to fulfill his ambition of bringing Labor to reclaim its historic role as Israel’s governing party, Herzog believes he must deliver a clear political message. His predecessor Shelly Yachimovich touted her socialism and got clobbered for it, losing the party leadership after bringing home a disappointing 15 seats in the national elections in January. Yachimovich’s predecessor Ehud Barak led the party into a Netanyahu-led government, giving him a place at the highest levels of decision making but costing Labor dearly by eliminating it as a credible contender to replace the Likud.Those lessons weigh heavily on Herzog, as does the grim precedent of a party that consumes its leaders at an alarming pace. Labor has ousted 10 party leaders in just 21 years.To secure his place at the helm and restore Labor’s place as an alternative to the ruling Likud, the party’s new leader is looking for that new agenda – in all the old places. He now seeks to return Labor to its old role as the party of peace talks.On Sunday, Herzog took two close Labor allies for a meeting in Ramallah with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.There was no doubt as to the purpose of the meeting. It was touted by Herzog’s staff as the two leaders’ “first update meeting” – indicating we can expect more.Herzog’s delegation included his closest ally, MK Erel Margalit, one of the few MKs who supported his bid for party leader this time – and the only one who supported it, albeit belatedly, in the last primary in 2011.Herzog also brought with him MK Omer Bar-Lev, a noteworthy choice. Bar-Lev brings the defense credentials of a former commander of Israel’s most elite and secretive military unit, Sayeret Matkal. More than that, Bar-Lev, like Herzog, is heir to a famous political name. His father, Haim Bar-Lev, was an IDF chief of staff and cabinet minister.“My impression was that we have a partner willing to go far to achieve peace, to take creative, brave steps on core issues,” Herzog said after the closed-door meeting.His own message to Abbas, Herzog related, focused on Israel’s security, as befits any responsible Israeli leader: “I explained to Abu Mazen [Abbas] the need to reach fundamental arrangements related to security in order to ensure the shared future of our children, and to courageously seek an agreement fulfilling the vision of two states on the basis of territorial swaps.”In his own statement following the meeting, Bar-Lev, too, emphasized security. “I explained [to Abbas] that from an Israeli viewpoint, we must first guarantee our security, so that the West Bank does not turn into Gaza,” Bar-Lev said in a reference to the rocket threat from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.“To my surprise,” Bar-Lev continued tantalizingly, “Abu Mazen didn’t try to avoid the issue, and presented his position with a frankness I have not yet heard from a leader in the Arab world. He asked not to publicize his comments, but said [his position] had been presented in the negotiations conducted [in 2008] with [former premier Ehud] Olmert, and I was led to understand also in the current negotiations.”The “bottom line” for Bar-Lev was that “there is someone to talk to and plenty to talk about… And we must not forget, of course, that the issue at stake here is the future of Zionism.”Herzog’s conclusion was similarly grand: “I repeated and emphasized to Abu Mazen, as I’d emphasized to [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu [in a meeting last week], that we have before us a historic opportunity for peace, and we must do all that we are able to see it through.”The message underlying Herzog’s political theater, then, was specific and clear: A Herzog and a Bar-Lev – the aging colonel may be the closest Labor comes to the politician-generals of old – must lecture both the Palestinian leader and the Likud prime minister on the need for peace; there are hints at a softening of the other side’s stance; and Labor’s leaders will place Israel’s security as the first order of business in its contacts with Palestinians. Or in other words: this Labor party, like its pre-second intifada predecessor, the Labor party that could still win elections, can be trusted with the keys to the kingdom.

A rise in the polls?

In his bid to build a newly relevant party, Herzog can already point to some success. A recent Knesset Channel poll, taken after Herzog’s primary win, showed Labor rising from 15 seats to 19.But a closer look at the numbers suggests the increase is far from indicative of a broad trend. While Labor rose to 19, Tzipi Livni’s dovish Hatnua dropped two seats to just four in the new poll, and the centrist Yesh Atid dropped nine, coming in at 10 seats. The left-wing Meretz was the biggest winner, as it has been in a bevy of recent polls, more than doubling from the six seats it holds currently to 13.But what do these results mean for the left itself? It turns out, not much.In the current Knesset, the dovish coalition of Hatnua, Yesh Atid, Meretz and Labor would contain an untenable minority of just 46 Knesset seats, and Labor would not lead that coalition. In the latest poll, that same alliance would control exactly the same number of seats – 46 – with the only difference being that Labor, not Yesh Atid, would be the coalition’s top dog.That’s certainly a satisfying (albeit theoretical) development for Herzog personally, but it won’t win him the premiership.

JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36  And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37  For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)

PM, under attack, insists he ‘won’t be silent’ on Iran

In speech to Rome’s Jews, Benjamin Netanyahu warns sanctions pressure is collapsing, easing Tehran’s path to the bomb

By Adiv Sterman December 2, 2013, 12:35 am 0-The Times of Israel

Israel will not stand silent as its security is compromised and will take action to dispel any threat leveled against the state, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday.Speaking at the Great Synagogue in Rome, Netanyahu shot back at critics of his policies, and said that he was concerned more with Israel’s safety than with his public image.“In contrast to others, when I see that interests vital to the security of Israel’s citizens are in danger, I will not be silent,” the prime minister said.“I am committed to the future of my state and in contrast to periods in the past, we have a loud and clear voice among the nations and we will sound it in time in order to warn of the danger.”These remarks were apparently directed at his predecessor Ehud Olmert, who earlier Sunday slammed Netanyahu’s public feuding with the US over the best way to thwart Iran’s nuclear weapons drive.Netanyahu went on to directly address Iran’s nuclear program, and said that weapons of mass destruction in the hands of the Islamic Republic would not only endanger Israel, but the entire Middle East.“I would like to dispel any illusions. Iran aspires to attain an atomic bomb,” he said, adding that Tehran was also spreading violence across the region.“Today there is a regime in Iran that supports terrorism, facilitates the massacre of civilians in Syria and unceasingly arms its proxies – Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad – with deadly missiles.”Netanyahu concluded his remarks by stressing that the lifting of sanctions on Tehran would pave the way for the Islamist regime in Tehran to produce nuclear weapons.“As we have warned, and I say this with regret, the sanctions have started to weaken and very quickly,” the prime minister said.“If tangible steps are not taken soon, [the sanctions pressure] is liable to collapse and the efforts of years will vanish without anything in exchange.”Netanyahu left Israel Sunday morning for a working trip to Rome, where he is also expected to meet with Pope Francis.Netanyahu has publicly savaged the Geneva interim accord with Iran, signed early last week, as a “historic mistake.” Officials in Jerusalem have repeatedly castigated President Barack Obama for overseeing a failed negotiating process with Iran under which, they claim, Iran’s nuclear weapons drive is not being thwarted while the sanctions pressure against Iran is collapsing.Earlier Sunday, Olmert launched a bitter attack against his successor, Netanyahu, for his “utterly misguided” and “dangerous” policy of publicly confronting the United States over its Iran policy.“We’ve declared war on the American government. You can’t deny this,” Olmert said at panel discussion at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.Olmert also accused Netanyahu of “wasting” 10 billion shekels — some $2.8 billion — preparing “something we didn’t need to prepare.” This was an apparent reference to a potential Israeli strike on Iran.“There is one country in the world that regularly votes in favor of the State of Israel at the United Nations over all those years, in cases in which we were 100 percent correct and in cases when we perhaps weren’t 100% correct,” Olmert added.

Raphael Ahren contributed to this report

Metro North train derails in NYC; 4 dead, 63 injured

By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo News 4 hours ago-DEC 1,13-YAHOONEWS

A Metro-North locomotive lies on its side after derailing, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013 in the Bronx borough of New York. The train derailed on a curved section of track in the Bronx on Sunday morning, coming to rest just inches from the water and causing multiple fatalities and dozens of injuries, authorities said. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)-A Metro North train bound for New York City derailed along the Hudson River early Sunday, killing four people and injuring 63, officials said.The train was en route to New York's Grand Central Station from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., when it derailed near the Spuyten Duyvil station in the Bronx.

It's unclear how many passengers were on board the train when it derailed. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the train's operator was among those injured."It's obviously a very tragic situation," Cuomo said. "The first order of business is to care for the people on the train."Aaron Donovan, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said that the derailment occurred at approximately 7:20 a.m. Five of the train's seven cars derailed, he said, but none went into the water.Three of the four people who died were found outside the train, the FDNY said. Scuba divers were dispatched to search the river near the derailed train."If this was a workday, it was fully occupied, it would've been a tremendous disaster," Fire Commissioner Salvatore J. Cassano told reporters.According to the MTA, the train left Poughkeepsie at approximately 5:54 a.m. and was scheduled to arrive at Grand Central at 7:43 a.m. Service has been suspended indefinitely on the Hudson Line between Grand Central and Croton Harmon.President Barack Obama was briefed on the accident Sunday, the White House said.Joel Zaritsky, a passenger who was on board the train, said he was asleep when the train derailed."I was asleep and I woke up when the car started rolling several times," Zaritsky told the AP. "Then I saw the gravel coming at me, and I heard people screaming. There was smoke everywhere and debris. People were thrown to the other side of the train."
Jack Babcock, another passenger, had a similar experience. "When I woke up, we were just flipping over," Babcock told Newsday. "Glass broke, and there were trees and dirt coming through the windows."
Aerial photos taken above the scene showed several train cars laying on their sides, and one near the water along a bank of the Bronx River.The train derailed about 100 feet north of the Spuyten Duyvil station.
In July, a freight train derailed near the same station. No one was injured in that incident.In May, a Metro North train derailed in Fairfield, Conn., injuring 60 people, five of them critically.The National Transportation Safety Board was en route to the scene to begin an investigation, Cuomo said. Officials will be investigating whether speed was a factor, the MTA said.

China launches lunar probe carrying 'Jade Rabbit' moon buggy

3 hours ago-DEC 1,13-YAHOONEWS

BEIJING (Reuters) - China launched its first ever extraterrestrial landing craft into orbit en route for the moon in the small hours of Monday, in a major milestone for its space program.The Chang'e-3 lunar probe, which includes the Yutu or Jade Rabbit buggy, blasted off on board an enhanced Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China's southwestern Sichuan province at 1:30 a.m. (12.30 p.m. EDT).President Xi Jinping has said he wants China to establish itself as a space superpower, and the mission has inspired widespread pride in China's growing technological prowess. State television showed a live broadcast of the rocket lifting off.If all goes smoothly, the rover will conduct geological surveys and search for natural resources after the probe touches down on the moon in mid-December as China's first spacecraft to make a soft landing beyond Earth.In 2007, China launched its first moon orbiter, the Chang'e-1 - named after a lunar goddess - which took images of the surface and analyzed the distribution of elements.
The lunar buggy was named the Jade Rabbit in a public vote, a folkloric reference to the goddess's pet.
Chinese scientists have discussed the possibility of sending a human to the moon some time after 2020.
In China's latest manned space mission in June, three astronauts spent 15 days in orbit and docked with an experimental space laboratory, part of Beijing's quest to build a working space station by 2020.
If the lunar mission is successful, China will become the third country, after the United States and the former Soviet Union, to soft-land on the moon.But it is still far from catching up with the established space superpowers, whose moon landings date back more than four decades.Beijing insists its space program is for peaceful purposes, but the U.S. Department of Defense has made clear it wants to prevent China's increasing space capabilities giving it any strategic advantage.China says it will share the technological achievements of its manned space program with other nations, especially developing ones, and will offer to train astronauts from other countries.(Reporting by Megha Rajagopalan and Michael Martina; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

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-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(TAKE OVER 3 WORLD REGIONS)

East African trade bloc approves monetary union deal

By Elias Biryabarema November 30, 2013 12:35 PM

By Elias Biryabarema
KAMPALA (Reuters) - The leaders of five East African countries signed a protocol on Saturday laying the groundwork for a monetary union within 10 years that they expect will expand regional trade.Heads of state of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, which have already signed a common market and a single customs union, say the protocol will allow them to progressively converge their currencies and increase commerce.In the run-up to achieving a common currency, the East African Community (EAC) nations aim to harmonize monetary and fiscal policies and establish a common central bank. Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda already present their budgets simultaneously every June.The plan by the region of about 135 million people, a new frontier for oil and gas exploration, is also meant to draw foreign investment and wean EAC countries off external aid."The promise of economic development and prosperity hinges on our integration," said Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta."Businesses will find more freedom to trade and invest more widely, and foreign investors will find additional, irresistible reasons to pitch tent in our region," said Kenyatta, leader of the biggest economy in east Africa.Kenyatta, who is due to face trial at the International Criminal Court on crimes against humanity charges in February, took over the chairmanship of the bloc from Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, hosting the summit.Kenya has launched a $13.8 billion Chinese-built railway that aims to cut transport costs, part of regional plans that also include building new ports and railways.Landlocked Uganda and Kenya have discovered oil, while Tanzania has vast natural gas reserves, which require improved infrastructure and foreign investment so they can be exploited.Tanzania, where the bloc's secretariat is based, has complained that it has been sidelined in discussions to plan these projects, but Kenyatta said the EAC was still united.Kenneth Kitariko, chief executive officer at African Alliance Uganda, an investment advisory firm, said the monetary union would boost efficiency in the region's economy estimated at about $85 billion in combined gross domestic product."In a monetary union, the absence of currency risk provides a greater incentive to trade," he said.Kitariko said, however, that achieving a successful monetary union would require convergence of the union's economies, hinting that some challenges lay ahead."Adjusting to a single monetary and exchange rate policy is an inescapable feature of monetary union ... but this will take time and may be painful for some," he said, referring to the fact that some countries may struggle to meet agreed benchmarks.(Writing by James Macharia; Editing by Alistair Lyon)

Gulf widens between Britain and EU nations

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London (AFP) - The difference in attitudes towards the European Union between Britain and its continental partners is widening on both sides, a poll of people in four countries showed on Saturday.The survey in the Observer newspaper, carried out by Opinium in Britain, France, Germany and Poland, shows Britons regard the bloc much more negatively.But other EU nations also increasingly think that Britain brings few benefits to the 28-nation union.British Prime Minister David Cameron has promised an in-out referendum on membership of the EU by the end of 2017, so long as he is re-elected in 2015.The survey showed that just 26 percent of Britons think the EU is a "good thing" overall compared with 62 percent of Poles, 55 percent of Germans and 36 percent of French.But on the question of whether Britain is a "positive force" in the EU, only 9 percent of Germans, 15 percent of French and 33 percent of Poles agree.

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The survey questioned more than 2,000 people in Britain and more than 1,000 in each of France, Germany and Poland.Cameron's vow to renegotiate Britain's relationship with the EU before putting the new terms to the country in his referendum has also irked European neighbours.Forty-four percent of Germans oppose giving Britain special membership terms and 16 are in favour, while in France 36 percent are against and 26 percent in favour.Poland is different, with 23 percent against and 38 percent in favour.But a so-called "Brexit" does not seem to trouble some Europeans, with only 24 percent of French saying it would have a negative effect on the EU and 36 percent of Germans, although again 51 percent of Poles said it would.
Concerns about the EU, buffeted by the eurozone crisis and worries about immigration, are not confined to Britain, though.Sixty-four percent of Britons say the EU has a negative impact on immigration but so do 59 percent of French and 42 percent of Germans, against 20 percent of Poles.

Olmert: PM has ‘declared war on the US government’

Netanyahu’s attacks on Obama’s Iran policy are ‘misguided and dangerous,’ former prime minister charges, says there are better ways to exert influence

By Raphael Ahren December 1, 2013, 8:18 pm 27-israel

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Sunday launched a bitter attack against his successor, Benjamin Netanyahu, for his “utterly misguided” policy of publicly confronting the United States over its Iran policy, and said that Netanyahu was causing an unprecedented and acutely dangerous rift in bilateral diplomatic relations.“We’ve declared war on the American government. You can’t deny this,” Olmert said at panel discussion at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.Under his leadership until five years ago, said Olmert, “It didn’t occur to us to go into battle against our best ally and to whip up Congress” against the US administration in the way that Netanyahu has done. “Any potential benefit” of such an open and unprecedented confrontation, he added, was far outweighed by the dangers.Olmert also accused Netanyahu of “wasting” 10 billion shekels — some $2.8 billion — preparing “something we didn’t need to prepare.” This was an apparent reference to a potential Israeli strike on Iran.Netanyahu has publicly savaged the Geneva interim accord with Iran as a “historic mistake.” Officials in Jerusalem have repeatedly castigated President Barack Obama for overseeing a failed negotiating process with Iran under which, they claim, Iran’s nuclear weapons drive is not being thwarted while the sanctions pressure against Iran is collapsing.“There is one country in the world that regularly votes in favor of the State of Israel at the United Nations over all those years, in cases in which we were 100 percent correct and in cases when we perhaps weren’t 100% correct,” Olmert added.“They [the United States] were always with us. What do you want from them?”

Hinting at a strike against a nuclear reactor in Syria that Israel reportedly executed in 2007 — when Olmert was prime minister — he said that Jerusalem has the right to act if need be but warned that such actions need to be kept secret and not talked about.“This is not because there is no problem with Iran. There is a problem with Iran. It is not because we don’t need to fight it with all strength. We need to fight it with all strength,” Olmert said.“Nobody will teach us a lesson about this — we acted and didn’t talk. Others only talk and didn’t act.”Olmert, who was prime minister from 2006 until 2009, said he was not enthusiastic about the terms of the interim nuclear agreement, which was signed last week in Geneva, but added that he believes there are hidden terms that must be studied in greater depth before Jerusalem can effectively lobby the Americans for a better permanent agreement, which is supposed to be signed six months after the interim deal takes effect.“I hope this will not be perceived as an attack on the prime minister,” Olmert said. “But the state of Israel should cease to criticize the policy of the US and the policymakers of the United States,” he said. ”There are many other ways in which can influence [it] in order to achieve our goals.”Olmert said Israel should refrain from leading the international effort against Tehran’s nuclear program, and should instead leave such a role to the US.“Israel should be a partner in this fight but cannot and should not lead the international fight,” Olmert said. ”This was the Sharon government’s position and the position of my government as well.”

Olmert remarked that all of Israel’s security concerns — including those posed by Iran — could be solved by reaching a lasting peace agreement with the Palestinians.“The key to any strategic situation in the Middle East and the Iranian problem is to reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians,” he said.The former prime minister also railed against the Netanyahu government’s approval of thousands of settlement housing units, saying such a move would only set back negotiations with the Palestinians.“A government which announces the construction of 5,000 new housing units is not conducting serious negotiations for peace,” Olmert said.

Netanyahu, in Rome on Sunday for a state visit to Italy and the Vatican, responded to Olmert’s statements saying, “In contrast to others, when I see that interests vital to the security of Israel’s citizens are in danger, I will not be silent.”He added: “It is very easy to be silent. It is very easy to receive a pat on the shoulder from the international community, to bow one’s head, but I am committed to the security of my people,” he said, and in a subtle jab at Olmert added, “I am committed to the future of my state and in contrast to periods in the past, we have a loud and clear voice among the nations and we will sound it in time in order to warn of the danger.”Adiv Sterman contributed to this report.