1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS. 2-Thousands Lose Power In Northwest Storms. 3-South-west Qld cleans up after dust storms. 4-Lull before the storms . 5-Wildfire burns 290 acres, briefly threatens homes. 6-City electors more or less stand pat; Pink elected in race that sees only one incumbent fall. 7-Hamas okays peace talks, but won't accept Israel. 8-Vatican encourages NKorea denuclearization. 9-A religious Iranian bomb. 10-Israel will not tolerate a nuclear Iran: Olmert. 11-Academic set for Palestinian unity leadership. 12-Shabak Chief Warns - Again - of Gaza-Initiated War. 13-Olmert and Bush Agree: No Nukes for Iran.
EARTHQUAKES
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, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)
Update time = Tue Nov 14 11:30:50 AM EDT
NOV 14,2006
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 6.0 BANDA SEA
MAP 3.8 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.9 MARIANA ISLANDS REGION
MAP 2.5 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 5.3 MORO GULF, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
MAP 2.9 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.7 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 2.7 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 4.8 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 3.4 KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 3.7 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 3.1 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 5.3 MINDORO, PHILIPPINES
NOV 13,2006
MAP 3.4 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.3 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP 3.3 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 6.0 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 4.9 MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
MAP 4.7 FIJI REGION
MAP 2.8 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.0 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.1 SOUTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
MAP 5.0 PHILIPPINE ISLANDS REGION
MAP 2.9 UTAH
MAP 2.5 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 2.9 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.0 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 5.3 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 2.7 KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 3.7 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP 6.8 SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO, ARGENTINA
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Thousands Lose Power In Northwest Storms
November 13, 2006
PORTLAND -- Strong winds knocked out power to thousands of homes and businesses in the Portland, Oregon, area.
Weather stations along the Oregon Coast reported sustained winds of 60 mph Sunday, with even stronger gusts in many places.There was one report of a gust to 102 mph.The Tillamook County sheriff's office said there are many reports of downed trees and power lines.
Meantime, the mountains across much of the Pacific Northwest have gotten a lot of snow.As of midday Sunday, up to a foot had fallen in some parts of the Cascades, with another eight to 14 inches expected overnight, followed by six to 12 more inches Monday.The Associated Press.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006. 10:50am (AEDT)
South-west Qld cleans up after dust storms
Much of south-west Queensland is cleaning-up this morning after dust storms blanketed the region yesterday.Police say dust was reported from Charleville, west to Windorah, Bedourie and Birdsville, significantly reducing visibility. Weather bureau spokesman Brendan Bradford says there will be more dust storms today, but not with yesterday's intensity.At this stage the forecast is for fresh and gusty south-westerlies this morning, they could raise a bit of dust again during today and also on Wednesday through the channel country, he said. Not too much activity dust-wise through the Maranoa and Warrego district today, but as south-westerly winds develop again tomorrow we could see some more areas of raised dust.
Lull before the storms John Desjardins, Senior Meteorologist, The Weather Channel Tue Nov 14, 6:49 AM ET
West
Snow and wind will plaster the Rocky Mountains today as a powerful storm system works its way across the country. Winter storm warnings are in effect for the central Rockies as one to two feet of snow are possible across the mountains of Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado. In addition to the snow, look out for some very strong winds. Gusts of 50, 60, even 70 mph are possible today, with the strongest winds along the ridge tops.
The Pacific Northwest will finally get a break from wet weather today. Although skies will be mostly cloudy, no rain is expected for Washington and Oregon. Unfortunately, another storm system will impact the region on Wednesday. After a showery day on Monday, northern and central California will see more sun today. Sunny conditions will persist for Southern California and the Southwest as well. Highs for most of the region will be slightly cooler than average. Look for 30s and 40s from the Rockies through the Great Basin. Sixties will be widespread across the valleys of California, with 70s and even 80s for the Southwest.
South
Mostly sunny skies will prevail for the Southeast for at least one more day. Mild temperatures in the 60s and 70s will be commonplace from the Carolinas through Florida. Sunny conditions will also be widespread across the southern Plains. Expect 70s and 80s across most of Texas, with 60s in Oklahoma. In between these two regions, some inclement weather is expected. The day will start out on a good note, but showers and thunderstorms will begin to develop later today in parts of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Some of the storms could be strong to severe overnight. A strong storm system will deliver widespread heavy rain and possibly severe weather too the Southeast on Wednesday. Damaging winds could be widespread from Mississippi to southern Georgia, with the threat of tornadoes along toe Gulf Coast. Some areas could see three to five inches of rain.
Northeast
Another gloomy day can be expected across the Northeast, particularly New England. As a slow moving storms treks northward, rain will be abundant across eastern New England.
Some area could pick up an inch of rain. Clouds will be widespread across Upstate New York, Pennsylvania and the Virginias. Precipitation will be more in the form of widely scattered showers. High temperatures will continue to be mild, with 50s across New England any many interior locations. Highs in the 60s and 70s will
stretch from the New York metro area through Virginia. Although Wednesday looks to be a quieter weather day, another strong storm will impact the region on Thursday.
Midwest
Clouds will pass through the Midwest on Tuesday, but most of the area will be rain-free. A few peaks of sun are possible this afternoon across the western Great Lakes and Ohio Valley.
Showers will develop by this afternoon across the central Plains. Additionally, gusty winds will emerge into Kansas and Oklahoma later today. Highs will be in the 30s and 40s from the Dakotas through much of Ohio, with 50s for the southern Ohio Valley and Missouri Valley. A potent rain and wind storm is in store for the Midwest on Wednesday.
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
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.
Wildfire burns 290 acres, briefly threatens homes
By: The Californian (Nov 13,06)
Firefighters were struggling on Monday to tame a wind-driven wildfire that has charred dense brush and trees in the hills east of Los Angeles and briefly threatened hundreds of homes.Officials expected containment of the blaze, which had burned 290 acres, or almost half a square mile, by Monday evening. The cause was still under investigation.It's a very long, skinny fire, said Fire Capt. Julie Hutchinson of the California Department of Forestry. Right now the wind is our biggest obstacle. We don't need any huge gusts in either direction.Flames were dangerously close to hundreds of homes Sunday night, prompting a voluntary evacuation. The warnings were lifted by early Monday.
Hutchinson said firefighters using bulldozers were working to dig a line around the fire. Winds were blowing about 7 mph to 10 mph and temperatures that cooled into the 40s overnight helped firefighters get a handle on the blaze.The weather is cooperating with us, fire spokeswoman Cheri Peterson said.The fire in Lake Elsinore, about 75 miles east of Los Angeles, was the latest in a series of major Southern California wildfires in recent months. The fire was 40 miles from the site of last month's arson-sparked blaze that killed five firefighters and destroyed 34 homes.
City electors more or less stand pat; Pink elected in race that sees only one incumbent fall JIM ALGIE ,Local News - Tuesday, November 14, 2006 Updated @ 8:45:59 AM
Owen Sound electors stayed mainly with the council they know in a relatively light turnout in municipal voting Monday. Both Mayor Ruth Lovell and city/county councillor Arlene Wright were acclaimed to office. That left voters to sort out seven remaining council positions with a field of candidates that included seven members of the current council and three newcomers. All but one incumbent councillor was returned. With all 69 polls in, Jim McManaman led with 4,633 votes, ahead of Deb Haswell, with 4,234 votes.
Incumbent councillor Gary Levine stood eighth behind newcomer Tom Pink in the race for the final council position. Pink had 3,005 votes to Levine's total was 2,767. David Adair was third in the popular vote with 3,539. Peter Lemon was fourth with 3,434 votes. Bill Twaddle and John Christie placed fifth and sixth with 3,194 and 3,190 votes, respectively.Brent Jeffries and Kevin Dandeno stood ninth and tenth, respectively. Jeffries received 2,333 votes; Dandeno, 2,000.
The prospect of significant new development and associated services are the major challenges facing council in the four-year term ahead, Lovell said in an election wrap-up interview. There is no question that Owen Sound and this area is being discovered, Lovell said, citing a growing list of confirmed and expected residential and commercial projects for the city. Before it was quite a well-kept secret.We were so off the beaten track that people didn't tend to come here. The pressure of development in southern Ontario combined with the rising regional economy of Grey and Bruce counties have begun to make themselves felt in the pace of local growth. The city faces decisions about how to provide services for that growth. In 2005, the city cooperated with Meaford in a $2.5 million project to expand Owen Sound water treatment facilities to serve Meaford residents in the Leith area.
In late September, city council approved a $730,000 expansion of municipal water and sewer service to the city's eastern boundary for a new home building centre now under construction. The city has also commissioned a detailed engineering study of servicing needs for vacant land near the Grey Bruce Health Services hospital. Key projects include costly improvements to waste water treatment and new municipal water and drainage services for growth in eastern Owen Sound. A consultant's report for the city's draft recreational master plan recently recommended construction of a $18-million recreation centre at Victoria Park complete with seniors meeting rooms, swimming facilities and a third ice arena. Waste water treatment alone could cost at least $30 million, Lovell said. It's a huge investment but it's the sort of investment that a city has to make, she said. Successive councils have been building for the change with gradual capital improvements to underground piping in recent years and annual allocations of reserve funds which should help with associated financing.
The project is designed to reduce pollution by boosting city sewage treatment from primary to secondary levels. It will require a number of upgrades and important council decisions not only about finances but about the location and aesthetics of waste water treatment facilities, currently on the east shore of the city's harbour north of the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre. We have to decide whether you leave it where it is or whether you move it to another location, for example, the industrial park, whether that's financially feasible. If it's waterfront, how do you got about making it as inoffensive as possible? City planning officials have firm applications for five residential developments including at least 346 units of housing. They include a new three-storey, 122-unit development by Spectrum Seniors Housing Development LP which has begun construction on the city's east side. In early October, city officials completed the sale of a 6.4 hectare stretch of former industrial land on the city's east harbour to Mississauga-based developer, The Devco Group. It clears the way for residential development expected to begin in 2007 with a 100-unit water-view condominium. In late October, Grey-Bruce Health Unit officials kicked off construction of a $15 million office building on the east harbour.
I think it's going to be very challenging, Wright said Monday of the term ahead. Increased traffic alone brings implications for annual maintenance costs in the city, she said.Our roads were not built to carry the traffic that they're carrying, Wright said. We have to make sure we don't let our roads go just for the sake of new stuff. As one of two city representatives with Lovell on Grey County council, Wright hopes to develop a regional approach to solid waste management. A city owned landfill site closed in 2005 and has forced Owen Sound and Meaford, which also used the site, now ship garbage for disposal in Michigan. However, a recent deal between Ontario and Michigan officials limits the life of those arrangements to four years. The city has begun examining its options but Wright maintains the best solution lies in cooperation with other area municipalities. It's not the only area for cooperative ventures, she said.This is a community that does not stop at the limits of the city, Wright said. In order to expand, we're going to have to work very hard to get along with our neighbours .I don't think they're going to willingly give us land. I think we're going to have to do a lot of tough negotiations, she said.
2006-2010 OWEN SOUND ELECTION RESULTS. (OFFICIAL RESULTS)
TOP 7 ARE COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR 4 YEARS.
MAYOR - RUTH LOVELL ( ACCLAIMED )
Arlene Wright (acclaimed) but (LUKEWARM)
1-Jim Mcmanaman 4,633
2-Deborah Haswell 4,234 (LUKEWARM)
3-David Adair 3,593 (LUKEWARM)
4-Peter Lemon 3,434
5-Bill Twaddle 3,194
6-John Christie 3,190
7-Tom Pink 3,005
THE REMAINING MEMBERS INVOLVED
8-Gary Levine 2,767
9-Brent Jeffries 2,337
10-Kevin Dandeno 2,000
Hamas okays peace talks, but won't accept Israel
Source: The Jerusalem Post,November 13, 2006
Hamas Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar told the Arab League on Sunday that his government will endorse an international peace conference based on a 2002 plan calling for Israel's surrender of all Judea, Samaria, the Golan Heights and eastern Jerusalem.
Israel's acceptance of those terms is supposed to be met by regional acceptance of the Jewish state and a normalization of ties with it.However, earlier in the day, Zahar revealed that even if Israel bowed to current Arab demands, Hamas would never recognize its right to exist. The best Israel could hope for from Hamas would be a long-term truce, Zahar told the London-based Arabic newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat.Zahar said Hamas' goal remains the complete removal of the Jewish state.
Despite the sinister revelation, many Western governments were expected to quickly jump on the opportunity to strong-arm Israel into talks that would provide Hamas and its allies with a commanding base from which to relaunch their campaign of violence once the proposed truce expired.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
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 have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
JOEL 2:20,30-31
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Vatican encourages NKorea denuclearization Mon Nov 13, 7:14 AM ET
VATICAN CITY - The Vatican is encouraging negotiations to obtain the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, Pope Benedict XVI said Monday. In a speech to the new Japanese ambassador to the Vatican, Benedict referred to the crisis over North Korea's nuclear program.He said that the Holy See encourages bilateral or multilateral negotiations, convinced that the solution must be sought through peaceful means and in respect for agreements taken by all sides to obtain the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.More than ever, the search for peace among nations must be a priority in international relations, Benedict said in his speech, delivered in French. The crises which the world knows cannot find definitive solutions through violence on the contrary, they are resolved through peaceful means in respect for agreements.
The pope said he strongly urges the international community to pursue and intensify its humanitarian aid to the most vulnerable populations, notably in North Korea.The secretive, Communist nation has suffered in recent years from food shortages.Tensions have been running high in the region since North Korea announced it had conducted a nuclear test on Oct. 9.South Korea balked Monday at participating in a U.S.-led plan that foresees intercepting North Korean ships suspected of carrying arms cargo as part of sanctions on Pyongyang for conducting the test.Late last month, North Korea agreed to end an 11-month boycott of international talks with the United States and four neighbors China, Russia, South Korea and Japan.
Nov. 13, 2006 21:54
A religious Iranian bomb,By DANIEL DORON
The leaders of Iran, the ayatollahs, keep threatening that Israel, the Little Satan, and its master, the Great Satan, America , will be vanquished before long (three to five years?) by a triumphalist, nuclear-armed Islam determined to establish Allah's rule even at the cost of martyrdom. Yet the world does not seem too exercised. In fact Russia and China lend Iran a helping hand.
How serious is this threat, and, if it is serious, how to face it? At least part of the answer to these questions may involve factors, religious, nationalist and economic, that are not commonly discussed. Living in a secular culture, most of us underestimate the determination of true believers. We forget that only recently a relatively civilized Europe was engaged for centuries in the most bloody religious - and then ideological - wars. So we do not fully appreciate how martyrdom-seeking fanatics may take extraordinary risks and ignore the restraints that a balance of terror imposed on atomic confrontations in the past.
ESTABLISHING Muhammad's law by the sword, a basic duty for many Islamists (the Islamic empire stretching from ocean to ocean was not won, remember, by turning the other cheek), demands that Shi'ite Iran not only vanquish the Dar El-Harb (House of War) of Christendom, but also the intolerable Sunni heresy. The ayatollahs are therefore cleverly leveraging their war against Christianity and Judaism to also undermine, and eventually vanquish, Sunni regimes.
For Jihadist Shi'ites, Sunni control of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, by their most extreme sect, the Wahhabists, must be as outrageous as was the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem to the Crusaders. They must fervently feel that Saudi occupation has to be destroyed and replaced by Shi'ite rule.
But there are other, national and economic, reasons why the ayatollahs seek the destruction of Saudi Arabia, an ally of The Great Satan. A proud and racist (Aryan) nation, the Iranians have probably not forgotten nor forgiven Saudi support - and perhaps instigation - of Saddam Hussein's bloody war against them. It took decades, but the Iranians avenged America for deposing Muhammad Mossadeq's nationalist government. They killed hundreds of marines, kidnapped, tortured and brutally executed CIA operatives; they took American diplomats hostage and humiliated them. They will do the same, and worse, to the Saudis when they get a chance. AS FOR economics: After having destroyed its prosperous agricultural sector by slapping on price controls that benefited its lower-middle-class supporters (the Bazareens), the ayatollahs have had to spend an annual fortune on the huge welfare system that supports millions of farmers who migrated to city shanty-towns. Welfare, allocated by family size, encouraged a population explosion that more than doubled Iran's population and created a huge burden on the national treasury.
The Iranians, who always pushed for higher oil prices even under the Shah, are now dependent for their survival on high income from oil. Saudi Arabia wants to curb oil prices to avoid development of alternative fuels and sources. Control of oil prices is behind Iran's systematic military preparations to control the gulf's shipping lanes. It was behind the bloody Iraq-Iran war, and it is still a major Iranian objective. It made Iran occupy the islands in the gulf's exit and establish a base in the horn of Africa to stop US reinforcements coming through Suez.
The possession of an atomic bomb will, at a minimum, neutralize Western resistance to Iran's gradual control of the flow and price of oil. Iran could counter any Western intention to intervene militarily against such control by a credible threat to blockade oil shipping or incinerate the gulf's oil fields and vulnerable loading facilities, thus plunging the West into a deadly economic crisis.
The West is not likely to confront a fanatic, nuclear-armed Iran over the price of oil. It will most likely compromise, namely, cave in. Iran will then be able to initiate a huge transfer of wealth that will gradually impoverish and strangulate Western economies and facilitate their peaceful domination by Islam (see what Arab oil money has already achieved in Europe). If an opportunity arises then to demonstrate their determination and supremacy, the ayatollahs will no doubt try to annihilate Israel.
MEANWHILE, the Iranians cleverly exploit Arab, especially Saudi, hatred against the West and Israel, not only to distract attention from their ultimate goals but to actually assist them, as in Iraq, to gather jihad under the Shi'ite flag. Their sponsorship of worldwide terrorism, their undermining of any possible settlement of the Palestinian issue helps them rile up and distract Arab Sunni masses.
They hope that, eventually, when the tsunami of Muslim anger finally breaks its bounds, as they predict, it will also sweep away corrupt Sunni Arab regimes and replace them and their by-then discredited dispensation, by a purer and triumphant Shi'ism. This is an argument I made as long ago as the early 1990s (in The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times and The Jerusalem Post).
A strict oil blockade then, resulting in a severe cut in income, could have undermined the stability of the ayatollahs' regime, dependent on huge welfare payments. It would also have denied them the means for their costly atomic program. Today it may be too late. However, it may still be worthwhile to test how the ayatollahs' welfare- and military-dependent regime copes with a severe drop in oil income.Otherwise, military action seems the only alternative.
Israel will not tolerate a nuclear Iran: Olmert Mon Nov 13, 8:56 AM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Israel will not accept a nuclear Iran, visiting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told US television, but while not ruling out military action, said he hoped diplomacy would dissuade Tehran from pursuing its nuclear program. We will not tolerate the possession of nuclear weapons by Iran, Olmert told NBC television's Today Show program, ahead of talks with President George W. Bush on Iran's nuclear ambitions and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Asked whether his country was considering a preemptive strike targeting Tehran's nuclear facilities, Olmert answered: I hope we don't have to reach that stage.But the Israel leader said his first choice is a negotiated resolution.
Every compromise that will stop Iran from acquiring nuclear capabilities, which will be acceptable to President Bush, would be acceptable to me.
Olmert added that he was not seeking Washington's protection from Tehran.I am not coming to the United States to ask America to save Israel, he said, saying his country had drawn the lessons of the Holocaust and World War II.In the 20th century someone said, I will liquidate a nation of people.' And somehow the whole world heard it, may have understood it, but didn't do much to prevent it.Now we have the president of Iran speaking on every international platform that the purpose of his efforts is to ultimately wipe Israel off the map, Olmert said.I am not looking for wars or confrontations. I am looking for the outcome, he said, adding that in his view the only result that matters is whether it will succeed to stop Iran from possessing nuclear weapons.
Monday's summit, which comes six months after Olmert's first meeting with Bush at the White House, has been described by officials in Jerusalem as a down-to-business meeting on Iran.With Tehran continuing to reject international calls to halt its nuclear enrichment efforts, Israel in recent months has moved the Iranian threat to the top of its agenda.Backed by the United States, Israel has said sanctions are necessary following Tehran's failure to suspend uranium enrichment, and has hinted at possible military action against the Islamic republic.This is not an issue of Israel only. It is a moral issue of the whole world and the whole world has to stop it, Olmert said.
Academic set for Palestinian unity leadership
By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem
Published: 14 November 2006
A US-educated microbiologist who used to be president of Gaza's Islamic University is emerging as a possible candidate to head the national unity government that Palestinian leaders are predicting will replace the current Hamas-dominated cabinet. Mohammed Shabir, 60, is being promoted as a compromise technocrat who could replace the Hamas leader Ishmail Haniyeh as Palestinian Prime Minister. Mr Haniyeh announced on Friday that he was prepared to stand down if he was an obstacle to the lifting of the economic blockade of the Palestinian Authority.But Mr Shabir's appointment will probably only happen after further talks between Hamas and the Fatah opposition on the wider composition of a government, as well as the programme it would adopt. Mr Haniyeh and Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian President, suggested last week that the process could take between two to three weeks.
Israel, which has been withholding $60m (£330m) a month in duties owed to the Palestinians since March, and the international community have insisted that they will only deal with the PA if it recognises Israel, renounces violence and abides by all agreements made by the Fatah-led predecessor authority.
Mr Abbas had indicated on Saturday that the two sides had made great progress on the formation of the unity government which Mr Abbas wants to agree a programme consistent with the prisoners document providing for implicit rather than explicit recognition of Israel.Other candidates for senior ministerial office being seen as potentially acceptable to the international community include Ziad Abu Amr, another Gaza academic and secular politician who is not a Hamas member but who was given backing by the faction in last January's elections.
A possible finance minister could be Salam Fayad, who is favoured by Mr Abbas, has good contacts in the Washington political and banking community, and made serious, if lonely, efforts to regulate inefficiency and corruption in the Fatah-led PA when he held the post before.But the prospects of even forming such a government are closely linked with the question of whether the international community, in particular the US, would re-engage diplomatically and economically with coalition at the head of the PA. While Israel and Fatah have blamed Hamas's hardline exiled leadership for aborting the previous attempt to form a unity government in September, some Palestinian sources also say that an obstacle was the US insistence that nothing short of literal acceptance of the three international conditions would be acceptable.
While the US is watching developments, it is unclear whether it would be ready to soften its stance. Israel's Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, said: The issue is not who is sitting in the government but what the government says.Suggesting the new government would be Hamas-lite, a senior Israeli military official said last night that Hamas was building up its military infrastructure and would remain the leading player in Palestinian politics. It will have control of the parliament, control on the ground and [control of the capacity] to make terrorist attacks. It will have influence over every process in the Palestinian arena, the official said.The Arab League said its members had abandoned the US-led boycott of the PA in response to the US veto of a UN resolution condemning Israel's killing of 19 civilians in Beit Hanoun last Wednesday. We decided not to co-operate. There will no longer be an international siege, Bahrain's Foreign Minister, Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa, said.Although not active in politics, Mohammed Shabir is seen as closer to Hamas than to the other Palestinian factions.
Shabir in brief
* POLITICAL LEANINGS
Although not active in politics, Mohammed Shabir is seen as closer to Hamas than to the other Palestinian factions.
* ACADEMIC RECORD
Graduated in pharmacy at the University of Alexandria in 1968 and took a PhD at the University of West Virginia. He is seen as having successfully built up the Islamic University.
* WORLD VIEW
Told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz yesterday that he has no problem with any party. He said he would not answer questions about his views on Israel before being named to the post, but added he would act realistically.
Shabak Chief Warns - Again - of Gaza-Initiated War
By Hillel Fendel (INN)
Yuval Diskin, head of the GSS, tells Knesset Members yet again that Israel faces a massive military offensive initiated by increasingly- armed Palestinian terrorists in Gaza.Appearing this morning (Tuesday) before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Diskin said that the terrorists in Gaza are preparing and arming themselves for the coming clash. The extremist factions in particular are strengthening themselves, he said.Diskin told the MKs that the terrorists in Gaza are carefully studying the lessons of the recent war in Lebanon, and are receiving mass quantities of weapons smuggled in from Egypt. He added that terror experts
are also making their way into Gaza in various clandestine ways, as part of the preparations for the frontal clash with the IDF.
The General Security Service chief said that Israel will be left with no choice but to preempt the attack with a large, comprehensive offensive in Gaza. He added, however, that now is not the time for an offensive. Instead, he proposed that Israel enable Fatah to be strengthened at the expense of Hamas.Diskin has long painted a grim picture of the situation in Gaza. He told the same committee this past August, Samaria has become the land of Islamic Jihad following the Disengagement, noting that Judea and Samaria have become much harder to control since four Jewish communities in northern Samaria were destroyed by the Israeli government in 2005. He said that Hizbullah is becoming a greater threat than even Fatah and Hamas within these areas.
A week earlier, the Shabak chief told the government ministers that the intensification of terror infrastructure in Gaza is a strategic problem which, if not treated properly, will result in a situation just like in Lebanon. He said that tons of explosives and hundreds of weapons have been smuggled in recently through the Philadelphi Corridor [on the Gaza-Egyptian border].
In response to Dichter's comments, Attorney General Menachem Mazuz has been asked to initiate a public investigative committee to review the decision-making process that led to the Disengagement from Gaza. An organization named The World Task Force for the Nation and the Land demands an investigation into how such a decision could have been made in the face of strong security warnings and the firing of Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Yaalon, who opposed the plan.
Olmert and Bush Agree: No Nukes for Iran
By Hana Levi Julian (INN)
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert joined with U.S. President George W. Bush Monday night in calling for the international community to isolate Iran until it ends its nuclear development activities. Olmert and Bush met with reporters following their hour-long meeting in Washington Monday night. Both expressed concern about Iran’s nuclear development program.Bush agreed with Israel’s position that Iran is intent on developing a nuclear bomb, regardless of its insistence that it will use the technology for peaceful domestic use. They were also adamant that the Islamic Republic not be allowed to cross the technological threshold that would allow Iranian scientists to build a nuclear weapon.
If Iran has a nuclear weapon, it will be incredibly destabilizing and obviously threatening a strong ally, said Bush, referring to Israel’s fears of an existential threat from the Islamic Republic.
Bush urged the international community to take action. Sanctions threatened by the United Nations Security Council if Iran did not meet its ultimatum to end uranium enrichment by the end of August never materialized after Iran ignored the deadline.If they continue to move forward with the program, said Bush, there has to be a consequence. And a good place to start is working together to isolate the country. And my hope is, is that there are rational people inside the government that recognize isolation is not their country’s interest.
Olmert said earlier during a televised interview that any compromise which will be acceptable to President Bush will be acceptable to me in a bid to stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.The talks came in the wake of an election in which the Republican Party took a beating at the polls, losing control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate.Despite concerns in the international Jewish community that a Democratic government would be less supportive of Israel, the Prime Minister said he was confident the U.S. would continue to back Israel.In a conversation during the flight to Washington Sunday, Olmert told reporters, Support for Israel traditionally has been bipartisan. I don't see anything changing in the next two years that can alter the balance of feeling towards us.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Monday, November 13, 2006
OWENSOUND COUNCIL RESULTS
BOO my Brent Jeffries lost.
2006-2010 OWEN SOUND ELECTION RESULTS. (UNOFFICIAL RESULTS)
TOP 7 ARE COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR 4 YEARS.
MAYOR - RUTH LOVELL ( ACCLAIMED )
Arlene Wright (acclaimed) but (LUKEWARM)
1-Jim Mcmanaman 4,633
2-Deborah Haswell 4,234 (LUKEWARM)
3-David Adair 3,593
4-Peter Lemon 3,434
5-Bill Twaddle 3,194
6-John Christie 3,190
7-Tom Pink 3,005
THE REMAINING MEMBERS INVOLVED
8-Gary Levine 2,767
9-Brent Jeffries 2,337
10-Kevin Dandeno 2,000
Name: Stan L Bowman
Comment: Mondays election.
On Monday, Owen Sound we need Godly Christian leaders on City Council, make your VOTE count and put GOD and state as one like we should. VOTE FOR GODLY LEADERS ON COUNCIL. E-mail: stan120032000@yahoo.ca, Date: 11/13/2006
No sexy issues to fuel Owen Sound campaigns; Polls open until 8 p.m. tonight JIM ALGIE Local News - Monday, November 13, 2006
Polls are open today until 8 p.m. at 29 locations in Owen Sound following a relatively quiet campaign for city council. Both Mayor Ruth Lovell and Grey County council representative Arlene Wright were acclaimed in late September, and they've both laid low during the campaign, avoiding clashes and alliances with the remaining candidates. All current members of city council are running again as part of a field that includes just three new challengers for the remaining seven council positions. Even those challengers have campaigned on staying the course. It's a sleepy election compared to 2003, which featured a hot, two-way, mayoral race fueled by a now-dead city plan to blend fire and ambulance services. The combination of familiar faces with limited dissent may mean relatively low voter turnout, although Lovell maintains that a traditional interest among city residents in municipal politics will keep voting active.
The fact that everyone is running is an indication that they're all finding satisfactions with the job, particularly when you look at other municipalities, for example in Meaford where no one (incumbents) is running, Lovell said in an interview. The last three years have been very fulfilling for the council, Lovell said. We have had our challenges along the way but when we leave council, we're friends at the end of the evening and that makes my job easy. Advance polls conducted Oct. 28 and Nov. 8 have essentially kept pace with 2003, city clerk Glen Henry said in an interview. The first advance poll attracted 223 voters, down from 2003 when 246 people voted.
The second poll drew 383 voters, up from 2003 when 346 people voted. However, that may reflect a decision by city electoral officials to encourage 150 election workers to vote in advance, Henry said. Including the advance polls, there are a total of 69 polls for eligible voters who should have been notified by mail about polling locations. Others may qualify by completing a revision form at the polls. Eligible voters must be Canadian citizens, at least 18 years old and a city resident or the owner of city property.
2006-2010 OWEN SOUND ELECTION RESULTS. (UNOFFICIAL RESULTS)
TOP 7 ARE COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR 4 YEARS.
MAYOR - RUTH LOVELL ( ACCLAIMED )
Arlene Wright (acclaimed) but (LUKEWARM)
1-Jim Mcmanaman 4,633
2-Deborah Haswell 4,234 (LUKEWARM)
3-David Adair 3,593
4-Peter Lemon 3,434
5-Bill Twaddle 3,194
6-John Christie 3,190
7-Tom Pink 3,005
THE REMAINING MEMBERS INVOLVED
8-Gary Levine 2,767
9-Brent Jeffries 2,337
10-Kevin Dandeno 2,000
Name: Stan L Bowman
Comment: Mondays election.
On Monday, Owen Sound we need Godly Christian leaders on City Council, make your VOTE count and put GOD and state as one like we should. VOTE FOR GODLY LEADERS ON COUNCIL. E-mail: stan120032000@yahoo.ca, Date: 11/13/2006
No sexy issues to fuel Owen Sound campaigns; Polls open until 8 p.m. tonight JIM ALGIE Local News - Monday, November 13, 2006
Polls are open today until 8 p.m. at 29 locations in Owen Sound following a relatively quiet campaign for city council. Both Mayor Ruth Lovell and Grey County council representative Arlene Wright were acclaimed in late September, and they've both laid low during the campaign, avoiding clashes and alliances with the remaining candidates. All current members of city council are running again as part of a field that includes just three new challengers for the remaining seven council positions. Even those challengers have campaigned on staying the course. It's a sleepy election compared to 2003, which featured a hot, two-way, mayoral race fueled by a now-dead city plan to blend fire and ambulance services. The combination of familiar faces with limited dissent may mean relatively low voter turnout, although Lovell maintains that a traditional interest among city residents in municipal politics will keep voting active.
The fact that everyone is running is an indication that they're all finding satisfactions with the job, particularly when you look at other municipalities, for example in Meaford where no one (incumbents) is running, Lovell said in an interview. The last three years have been very fulfilling for the council, Lovell said. We have had our challenges along the way but when we leave council, we're friends at the end of the evening and that makes my job easy. Advance polls conducted Oct. 28 and Nov. 8 have essentially kept pace with 2003, city clerk Glen Henry said in an interview. The first advance poll attracted 223 voters, down from 2003 when 246 people voted.
The second poll drew 383 voters, up from 2003 when 346 people voted. However, that may reflect a decision by city electoral officials to encourage 150 election workers to vote in advance, Henry said. Including the advance polls, there are a total of 69 polls for eligible voters who should have been notified by mail about polling locations. Others may qualify by completing a revision form at the polls. Eligible voters must be Canadian citizens, at least 18 years old and a city resident or the owner of city property.
MIDEAST NUKE RACE
1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS. 2-Moderate quake hits near Papua New Guinea.. 3-Snowfalls hit Tasmania. 4-Killer floods wreak havoc as Kenya hosts UN climate change meet. 5-70 firefighters battling Hawke's Bay fires. 6-Iran to reply destructively to any Israeli attack. 7-Modern exodus in Mideast. 8-Shock announcement: Olmert still determined to realign. 9-Diplomats: PA accepts peace conference proposal. 10-Bush Standing Behind Bolton For U.N. Post. 11-Business leaders, ministers flock to LA Jewish conference. 12-PM says ready for prisoner swap. 13-A Mideast Nuke Race.
MAKE YOUR VOTE COUNT TODAY ONTARIO,GET CHRISTIANS IN POWER IN CANADIAN CITIES.
EARTHQUAKES
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, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)
Update time = Mon Nov 13 11:30:15 AM EDT
NOV 13,06
MAP 2.5 PUGET SOUND REGION, WASHINGTON
MAP 4.9 MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
MAP 4.7 FIJI REGION
MAP 2.8 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.0 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.2 SOUTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
MAP 5.1 PHILIPPINE ISLANDS REGION
MAP 2.9 UTAH
MAP 2.5 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 2.9 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.0 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 5.3 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 2.7 KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 2.5 OUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.8 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP 6.7 SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO, ARGENTINA
NOV 12,06
MAP 2.5 NEVADA
MAP 2.8 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.9 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.7 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 6.0 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 3.2 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 2.7 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 5.0 KOMANDORSKIYE OSTROVA, RUSSIA REGION
MAP 5.0 KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.2 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.0 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 3.2 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 2.8 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
Moderate quake hits near Papua New Guinea
Monday, November 13, 2006 (Canberra):
A second moderate earthquake in as many days rattled the coast of Papua New Guinea on Monday, the US Geological Survey said.No tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
The magnitude 6.0 quake struck at 2351 IST, 162 kilometers east of Kandrian on Papua New Guinea's island of New Britain and 35 kilometres under the Earth's crust. Charles McCreery, Director of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center at Ewa Beach, Hawaii, said the quake was too small to trigger a tsunami.An official at the Geophysical Observatory in the national capital Port Moresby said, on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media, the tremblor was felt 260 kilometres away at the city of Rabaul on the coast of New Britain but no damage was reported. A magnitude 5.9 quake struck on Sunday 94 kilometres northwest of Kandrian and 51 kilometres under the seabed, causing no injuries or damage.The archipelago nation is part of the Pacific Ocean's ring of fire, where earthquakes of this magnitude are common and rarely cause serious damage. (AP)
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
Snowfalls hit Tasmania
November 13, 2006 - 10:30AM (FAIRFAX)
Tasmanians are rugging up with for snow as a trough in the Tasman Sea amplifies cold fronts crossing the state.
Residents of Hobart awoke to a light dusting of snow on Mount Wellington this morning after temperatures dropped to -1.5 degrees celsius overnight.But meteorologist Ray Evans said heavier falls were expected overnight tomorrow.(Today's fall is) nothing to write home about ... the stuff coming Tuesday and Wednesday looks to be far more significant, he said.The Bureau of Meteorology was still finalising its forecast for the week but Mr Evans said early models indicated snow down to the 500 metre level.Today's falls follow a freak dumping to sea level in late October.Senior forecaster Barry Becker said at the time it was unusual for such a cold change so late in the year.
In Tasmania it can snow at just about any time of the year, he said.But for it to be falling this low, especially in October, is quite unusual.Last month's snowfall was the most significant fall since August 2005.AAP
Killer floods wreak havoc as Kenya hosts UN climate change meet by Bogonko Bosire Mon Nov 13, 6:29 AM ET
NAIROBI (AFP) - At least 21 people have been killed and 60,000 displaced by massive flooding in northern and coastal Kenya, triggered by three weeks of unusually heavy seasonal rains. As downpours continue, officials warned of further devastation, while delegates meet in Nairobi at a UN conference on climate change that many blame for altering weather patterns and causing deadly drought-flood cycles.Ironically, at the conference on Monday, the United Nations was presenting a report on harnessing the massive potential of rainwater harvesting in Africa, which it said could supply more than enough of the continent's needs.Kenyan emergency workers were meanwhile struggling with the effect of torrential, unharvested rains and floodwaters on an impoverished population.
We have floods across the country and, since it is still raining, we fear the situation will deteroriate, said Abdi Ahmed Monday, the acting disaster response chief at the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS).In addition, the Kenyan health ministry issued an alert for possible outbreaks of water-borne diseases, notably cholera, in the affected regions.
At the weekend, at least six people, including a schoolgirl, were swept away and drowned by raging waters around the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa and the northeastern town of Garissa, officials said. Two others are missing.The fatalities brought Kenya's flood death toll to 21 since October 25, when the first damaging effects of the unusually heavy October-to-December short rains season were reported by authorities.Since then, at least 60,000 Kenyans 50,000 on the coast and 10,000 in the northeast have been forced from their homes by flood waters that have washed away crop fields, bridges and roads and destroyed numerous buildings.
All these people are directly affected or completely cut off and we cannot access them, Ahmed told AFP.On Saturday, the main road linking Mombasa, about 500 kilometers (300 miles) southeast of Nairobi, to Tanzania was cut off with four bridges washed away, a local official said.Delivering food to the 50,000 people who are in need of urgent supplies is the main problem, said Moffat Kangi, the commissioner of Kwale district just south of Mombasa.We are looking for water, shelter and medicine for the affected people, but in the long run we will be required to assist up to 200,000 people here, he told AFP. Any help we can get will be appreciated.In the capital, municipal officials said flood waters had blocked the city's drainage system, causing floods in some residential districts.But the recent floods are not limited to Kenya, which is being hit as it hosts 6,000 international delegates to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that ends this week.The onset of rains has compounded problems across the Horn of Africa region already brought by a recent killer drought, since parched soil inundating the worst-affected areas is unable to absorb the water, officials said.In neighboring Somalia, floods have killed at least 42 and displaced 10,000 people over the past two weeks, compounding the misery affecting millions in the lawless Horn of Africa nation.In neighboring Ethiopia, flooding from late October rains that burst the banks of several river has killed at least 68 people and affected some 280,000 people, according to officials there.
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
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.
70 firefighters battling Hawke's Bay fires
UPDATED 12.40pm Monday November 13, 2006
About 70 firefighters remained at the scene of several apparently deliberate Hawke's Bay fires in the past 24 hours.Firefighters were first called to Mohaka, between Napier and Wairoa, about 1.45pm yesterday.Wairoa principal rural fire officer Te Aroha Cook said there were several fires in the Mohaka area yesterday afternoon and overnight.The biggest was a forest blaze over a 25ha block which closed State Highway 2 and caused a house to be evacuated.Seven helicopters, four appliances and two tankers battled the flames.Today, about 70 firefighters were still at the scene damping down the remains of the earlier fires and containing new outbreaks.Wairoa police were investigating the possibility of arson.Eastern region fire manager Trevor Brown said the fires were being treated as suspicious because of the significant number in the last couple of weeks.You can never be certain about this but you have to say yes conditions aren't that extreme at this stage.- NZPA
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
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 have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
JOEL 2:20,30-31
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Iran to reply destructively to any Israeli attack by Aresu Eqbali
Sun Nov 12, 8:49 AM ET
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran has vowed it would deliver a destructive response to any Israeli military attack on its atomic sites and said it would continue trying to boost its capacity for sensitive nuclear work. Foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said Iran was still seeking to install 3,000 centrifuges by March 2007 at an atomic plant to enrich uranium, a process the West fears could be diverted to make nuclear weapons.His comments came after a top Israeli official refused to rule out a strike on the Islamic republic to halt the progress of its atomic programme, with the United Nations still unable to agree on sanctions against Tehran.
Israel does not have the means and the capability to dare threaten Iran.if it commits such a stupidity the Islamic republic and its defenders will give a destructive response within a second, Hosseini said Sunday.Israel widely considered to be the Middle East's sole nuclear power is within the range of Iran's ballistic missiles and sees Tehran as its chief enemy, after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for the Jewish state to be wiped off the map.I am not advocating an Israeli preemptive military action against Iran... I consider it a last resort. But even the last resort is sometimes the only resort, Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim
Sneh said in comments published Friday.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in an interview published Sunday branded Ahmadinejad a dangerous man, saying Iran must start to fear and understand it will pay dearly if it does not compromise.Despite the looming threat of sanctions, Hosseini indicated that Iran intended to press on apace with its nuclear drive.Iranian officials and experts are seeking to install 3,000 centrifuges reaffirming a target which would allow Iran to enrich uranium on an industrial scale.He added that the work would take place under the supervision of the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).Enriched uranium lies at the center of the dispute over Iran's nuclear program, as it can be used both to make nuclear fuel and the core of a nuclear bomb.
Tehran vehemently rejects US allegations that its nuclear program is aimed at making nuclear weapons, saying the drive is solely aimed at providing energy for civilians.At present Iran has two cascades of 164 centrifuges on a research level enriching uranium to levels up to five percent rich enough for nuclear fuel but way off the 90 percent levels required for a nuclear bomb.Major powers at the UN Security Council are mulling a resolution that would impose sanctions on Iran after it refused to suspend enrichment in return for an international offer of incentives.The Security Council's five permanent members Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States plus Germany will resume talks Monday on how to censure a defiant Iran.Iran's chief nuclear negotatior Ali Larijani, on his return from talks in Moscow, said adopting a resolution against Iran would show a change of direction and that world powers had no desire for negotiations with Iran.If the Westerners show another behavior regarding Iran's nuclear issue, it should be made clear who is renouncing on their commitments, the IRNA agency quoted him as saying.
The passing of a resolution of the nature that is being discussed means a disruption of talks and it is the Westerners who have disrupted the talks. This means saying no to the talks.Ahmadinejad on Sunday called the United Nations Security Council incompetent, and pressured by domineering powers. It is disgraceful that the UN Security Council, which must defend countries rights and interests, threatens and makes a dossier against the states that are legally seeking nuclear fuel, he said on state television. World powers will be discussing a European-proposed draft resolution mandating nuclear industry and ballistic missile-related sanctions against Iran. But Russia and China, which have major energy and trade ties with Tehran, view the European draft as too tough and unlikely to bring about Iranian cooperation.
PERSECUSSION,BEHEADINGS
JESUS PERSECUTED BIGTIME
ISAIAH 53:4
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
MATTHEW 9:34
34 But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.
JOHN 8:41
41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
JOHN 10:20
20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
PHILIPPIANS 2:10-11(JESUS GETS REVENGE)
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.(JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST AND FOR SINNERS, THE GREAT WHITE THRONE FINAL JUDGEMENT).
WE ARE CHRISTIANS WE WILL BE TREATED THE SAME.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 (WHY WE ARE PERSECUTED BY THE WORLD)
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
MATTHEW 5:10-12
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
MATTHEW 24:9
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
JOHN 15:18-20
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me (JESUS) before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
REVELATION 6:9-11
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain(BEHEADED) for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
REVELATION 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Modern exodus in Mideast
But it's besieged Christians fleeing Muslim Holy Land
November 12, 2006,BY BRIAN MURPHY (Chicago Sun Times)
BETHLEHEM, West Bank -- The death threat came on fliers blowing down the streets at dawn. A group calling itself Friends of Muhammad accused a local Palestinian Christian of selling mobile phones carrying offensive sketches of the Muslim prophet.
The message went on to curse all Arab Christians and Pope Benedict XVI, still struggling to calm Muslim outrage from his remarks on Islam.While neighbors defended the merchant, saying the charges in the flier were bogus, the frightened phone dealer went into hiding, feeling less than satisfied with authorities' conclusion that the Oct. 19 note was probably a harmless rant.
Now the dealer is thinking of going abroad.
Call it part of a modern exodus, the steady flight of the tiny Palestinian Christian minority that could lead, some predict, to the faith being virtually extinct in its birthplace within several generations a trend mirrored in many dwindling pockets of Christianity across the Islamic world.
Vatican seeks reciprocity
This is one of the major themes the pope is expected to carry to Turkey for a four-day visit beginning Nov. 28 his first papal visit to a predominantly Muslim nation. The Vatican calls it 'reciprocity: Muslim demands for greater sensitivity from the West must be accompanied by stronger protections and rights for Christian minorities.In some places, such as Pakistan, it means more safeguards from extremist attacks. In Indonesia and elsewhere, it touches on appeals to quell growing sectarian clashes. In Turkey, Iraq and the rest of the Middle East, it seeks to preserve communities dating back to the time when Jesus and his apostles preached.But nearly everywhere in Muslim lands, Christian populations are in decline.
No place is this more striking than the Holy Land.
For decades, it was mostly economic pressures pushing Palestinian Christians to emigrate. The Palestinian uprisings and the separation barrier started by Israel in 2002 accelerated the departures by turning once-bustling pilgrimage sites such as Bethlehem into relative ghost towns.The growing strength of radical Islamic movements has added distinct new worries. During the protests after the pope's remarks in September, some of the worst violence was in Palestinian areas, with churches firebombed and hit by gunfire.
Faiths rarely mix now
The native Palestinian Christian population has dipped below 2 percent of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Arab east Jerusalem, down from at least 15 percent in 1950 by some estimates. Meanwhile, the Muslim Palestinian birthrate is among the highest in the world.Dire predictions abound. The Franciscan Foundation for the Holy Land said Christians could become 'extinct' in the region within 60 years.
Some are trying to change the momentum.
Groups dedicated to Muslim-Christian cooperation are active. During the protests over Benedict's remarks, militiamen from Islamic Jihad vowed to protect a West Bank church. A poll released Oct. 18 by the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion found 91 percent of respondents opposed attacking churches to protest Benedict's comments.
But Fuad Kokali, one of six Christian deputies in the 132-seat Palestinian parliament, recalled Muslims and Christians mixing freely at weddings and other events in the 1980s.
Now, it's a rarity, he said.The world is becoming a more unstable and frightening place, he said. In these times, people revert back to their core identity. That means closing yourself within your religion and looking out at the other with suspicion.AP
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 and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
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 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.
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships;
and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
Shock announcement: Olmert still determined to realign
By Stan Goodenough,November 12, 2006
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, en route this week for a meeting with US President George W. Bush in Washington DC, announced Friday his intention to, after all, implement the re-alignment plan that will facilitate the creation of a State of Palestine on ancient Jewish lands.News outlets in Israel all carried the story Sunday: Although he had earlier let it be known that he was no longer able to implement the platform on which he was elected to the premiership at the head of his Kadima Party last March, Olmert has now revealed that he is in fact still determined to try and carry it out.Realignment calls for the uprooting of as many as 100,000 Jews from their homes in Samaria and Judea the biblical heart of the Jewish homeland and the surrender for all time of that territory to the rabidly antisemitic Palestinian Arabs.It is not known whether the reason for Olmert’s return to his plan is at least partially because of the hammering the Republicans received at the hands of the American electorate last week.The results of those mid-term elections have, according to many pundits, signaled Israel that the USA will from now on expect more concessions from Israel, and a greater willingness for the Jewish state to take risks for peace.
Whatever the motivation, Olmert’s announced intention to move ahead with his plan comes despite the painful facts:That Israel’s withdrawals from southern Lebanon led directly to the painful war Israel fought in July, when the Lebanese Hizb’allah kidnapped Israeli soldiers and poured rocket fire down on northern Israel for weeks on end.That Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in August 2005 led directly to the establishment of the un-police-able terrorist mini-state whose killers kidnapped an Israeli soldier and from which multiple rockets are launched daily at Jewish civilian targets in the south of the country.That popular support has swung strongly away from the realignment plan and from the Kadima Party, with polls showing consistently that by far most Israelis have woken up to the folly of pursuing disengagements from the Arabs.That relinquishing Samaria and Judea would cede to the Arabs the high-ground overlooking Israel’s densely-populated coastal plain, in easy rocket-range from the Palestinian state that would be established.That Iran is a mushrooming threat with its Hitler-like leadership which is already sponsoring proxy forces north and south of Israel, and whose regional Islamic interests will be further served by Palestine And, most significantly:
That the land Olmert believes he has the right to barter away is Israel’s national cradle. It was the hope of return to these very areas Shechem, Shiloh, Bethel, Bethlehem, Hebron, and the Old City in Jerusalem with its Temple Mount, the holiest site for the Jews that kept Jewish identity, hope and faith alive during their centuries in exile.
Olmert’s plan imperils Israel on every front.It will play straight into the hands of the Arabs, multiplying and accelerating the militarily threat against the Jews.It will tear even more deeply at the national divide, driving those Jews who can see the existential threat it poses to acts of desperation to resist it.It will sever Israel from its national roots.For Israel, realignment spells national suicide. This
is the offering Olmert is preparing to present at the White House Monday.
Diplomats: PA accepts peace conference proposal
Associated Press Nov 12,06 (ynetnews)
Palestinian FM accepts call by Arab foreign ministers to convene conference ‘to reach just and comprehensive settlement to Arab-Israeli conflict; Arab diplomats lift financial blockade on PA in response to US veto Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar accepted an Arab proposal on Sunday for a peace conference to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Arab diplomats said.
Zahar, of the ruling Hamas party, endorsed a statement by Arab foreign ministers calling for the peace conference during a meeting in Cairo, said the diplomats, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
The ministers call to convene a peace conference attended by Arab parties, Israel and the permanent members of the UN Security Council in order to reach a just and comprehensive settlement to the Arab-Israeli conflict on all tracks according to international resolutions and the principal of land for peace, the statement said.
No international siege
The Top Arab diplomats decided to lift the financial blockade on Palestinians in response to a US veto on a UN Security Council draft resolution condemning Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip. We decided not to cooperate with it (the blockade). There will no longer be an international siege, said Bahrain's Foreign Minister Sheik Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa. On Saturday, the US Vetoed the Security Council draft resolution that condemned the Israeli military offensive and demands that Israeli troops pull out of the territory. Sunday's discussions on the offensive were attended by 11 Arab foreign ministers and other senior officials and diplomats at the Cairo headquarters of the Arab League.
Bush Standing Behind Bolton For U.N. Post (NOV 12,06)
Despite Bipartisan Opposition, White House Continues To Push For Controversial U.N. Ambassador To Remain
(CBS/AP) President Bush will not relent in his defense of John Bolton, his nominee for U.N. ambassador, despite unwavering opposition from Democrats who view Bolton as too combative for international diplomacy, aides said Sunday. Two of President Bush's top advisers said the White House is not backing down from a fight to win Senate approval for Bolton to continue in the job.
Mr. Bush gave Bolton the job temporarily in August 2005 while Congress was in recess. That appointment will expire when Congress adjourns, no later than January.White House counselor Dan Bartlett said Bolton has done a remarkable job. He's proven the critics wrong on all the charges they've leveled against him, Bartlett said.So let's have a conversation about it. We'll see.
The White House resubmitted Bolton's nomination on Thursday, though it has languished in the Senate for more than a year. Finding a replacement for Bolton would come at a sensitive time for the Bush administration. It is counting heavily on U.N. diplomacy to help confront North Korea and Iran over their nuclear programs and to end fighting in Sudan's Darfur region. With Democrats capturing control of the next Congress, Bolton's chances of winning confirmation appear slim at best. In fact, last week the incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), said he saw no point in considering Mr. Bolton's nomination again. Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was more succinct: Forget about John Bolton, he told CBS chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation. The Republicans didn't have enough votes to get the guy out of committee [before the Democrats take control]. So I think we should go to things that we can work together on. In spite of the lack of committee votes, White House chief of staff Josh Bolten said Sunday that We're putting him up for confirmation. I think if he actually was able to get a vote in the full Senate, he would succeed, he said.
Yet Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.), who lost on Election Day, said he would not end his opposition to Bolton. That probably would deny Republicans the votes needed to move the nomination from committee to the full Senate. Republicans now lack the 60 votes needed to force a vote. Democrats say Bush should alter course now and nominate someone less hard-charging, with greater finesse in handling sensitive diplomatic matters.There's a lot of competent people. Send someone new up, Mr. President, Biden said Sunday.He doesn't even have the votes in the committee. He doesn't even have the votes of a Republican-controlled committee today, Biden said. We're going to have a hearing on him. There is going to be a vote on him. He's going to lose. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), who is in line to head the Armed Services Committee, agreed. We would rely very heavily upon the Foreign Relations Committee, and they have not decided that he is the appropriate person for that job, Levin said.
In the president's view, however, Bolton has turned out to be a very effective representative at the U.N. and, in fact, has turned out to be something his critics expected him not to be, Bolten said. He's turned out to be a good consensus builder, and it's been reflected on resolutions on North Korea, in Lebanon, in other ways. Bush's chief of staff played down speculation the administration might go around the Senate and allow Bolton to somehow continue to represent the U.S. at the United Nations by finding an alternative means of paying his salary or appointing him to serve as an acting or deputy U.N. representative. I don't know about that, Bolten said. Our effort is going to be to try to get him confirmed in the ordinary course. Bolten, Biden and Levin appeared on ABC's This Week.Bartlett was on Fox News Sunday.CBS Broadcasting Inc.The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Business leaders, ministers flock to LA Jewish conference
The Ministries of Finance and Tourism will be setting up a joint exhibition booth at the conference.Ran Dagoni, Washington 12 Nov 06 16:07
Leading Israeli business figures will be among the many visitors assembling in Los Angeles to attend the annual United Jewish Communities (UJC) 2006 general assembly, which is opening today. The delegation, which includes Bank Leumi (TASE: LUMI) CEO Galia Maor, Iscar president Eitan Wertheimer, Strauss-Elite (TASE: STEL) president Ofra Strauss, and Delta Galil Industries (Nasdaq: DELT; TASE: DELT) chairman Dov Lautman, aims to highlight the economic aspect of life in Israel, an issue that was not given sufficient attention at previous assemblies. The Israeli ministers slated to appear at the assembly are Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor Eli Yishai, Minister of Foreign Affairs Tzipi Livni, Minister of Finance Abraham Hirchson, Minister of Tourism Issac Herzog, Minister of Public Security Avi Dichter, and Minister of Education Yuli Tamir. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will deliver the keynote address on Tuesday. Also attending the assembly is Likud chairman and leader of the opposition MK Benjamin Netanyahu.
The ministerial delegation will visit the joint exhibition booth of the Ministries of Finance and Tourism, and will also take part on various symposiums on current issues. In contrast to previous years, the UJC general assembly this year will focus on Israel, following the second Lebanon war in summer and the successful fund raising campaign that followed. According to official figures, $330 million was raised in cash and commitments. The UJC has allocated $92 million, out of the current fund of $109 million, for aid to disabled persons, children and new immigrants, the elderly, and others in Israel, mainly towns and communities in the north.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes.co.il - on November 12, 2006
Updated Nov. 13, 2006 16:56
PM says ready for prisoner swap
By JPOST.COM STAFF
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday reiterated his willingness to release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners after captured IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit was freed, and blamed Hamas for the delay in implementing a prisoner exchange deal. I give Palestinians my word of honor, Olmert told the east Jerusalem-based Al-Quds newspaper.You will see how far I will go to allow your sons to return to their houses.
PM: Barghouti release is not an option
Calling on Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to take responsibility and organize the Palestinians, Olmert said that Abbas must act of his own accord.
The time has come when no one can give any more guidance to Abbas, neither Damascus nor anyone else,Olmert asserted. Olmert went on to say that he would be prepared to speak to Hamas if the group were to accept the preconditions set out by the international community - recognizing Israel, renouncing violence and accepting existing peace deals.
I don't think it is necessary to investigate the records of the (Hamas) ministers, Olmert said, pointing out that Israel negotiated with the Palestinian Liberation Organization even though it was long considered a terrorist group. Olmert also called on Egypt to improve the performance of its troops patrolling the Philadelphi corridor. The prime minister said that he was interested in the presence of Egyptian forces along the Gaza-Egypt border route, but believed that the forces could operate with greater efficiency, Israel Radio reported. AP contributed to this report
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
JOEL 2:20,30
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
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; 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, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
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, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, 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).
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, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: 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.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
A Mideast Nuke Race
Arabs May Arm In Fear Of Iran
By Peter Brookes
November 13, 2006 We may have a nuclear-arms race on our hands in the Middle East.
Last week, four key Arab states, including Egypt and Saudi Arabia, told the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that they were launching their own nuclear
programs.
Sure, these are officially peaceful energy programs but everyone and his brother will suspect that they'll be accompanied by some sort of covert nuclear-weapons research. After all, Iran the Middle Eastern state that virtually the entire word believes is on a beeline to nukes has long insisted its program is purely for power generation, too. And, of course, the seeming lack of progress in getting Iran to curtail its nuclear quest gives nearby states serious motivation to get nukes of their own. Saudi Arabia, Egypt indeed, every Arab regime except Syria see Iran as an implacable rival. (And some claim even Syria wants out of its alliance with the mullahs.) Plus the region's Sunni Arab regimes fear the rise of Shia Persian Iran. Iran aspires to dominate the region and achieve superpower status, placing itself squarely atop the Muslim world - no doubt in large part at the expense of the region's current Sunni Arab rulers.
Then, of course, there are the multiple reasons everyone else doesn't buy Iran's atomic denials. For instance, Tehran:
* Had a relationship with A.Q. Khan, father of Pakistan's bomb and proliferator extraordinaire.
* Kept its nuclear program hidden away from the IAEA for 20 years.
* Refuses to allow the thorough inspections the IAEA wants to conduct now.
* Has a growing arsenal of ballistic missiles of ever-greater range and capability.
Tehran's threat last Friday to cut ties with the IAEA if the United Nations passes another resolution against Iran doesn't help matters, either. Nor do its recent war games - or its October decision to put more uranium-enrichment centrifuges online at Natanz.
No wonder Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Morocco all of a sudden expressed interest in nuclear power last week. Or that Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Yemen have openly talked of going nuclear in recent months, too. Interest in Egypt, the Arab world's first nuclear power state, is advanced. Just last week, President Hosni Mubarak discussed restarting Cairo's nuclear program while in China. (Egypt closed its nuclear program after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.) Mubarak also recently visited Russia to discuss the purchase of nuclear reactors. Moscow - which built Iran's reactor at Bushehr - is keenly interested in contracts to build the three-plus Egypt's planning along the Mediterranean Sea.
OK, with oil and gas prices still high, perhaps these states just want to diversify their energy sources. But Saudi Arabia? Does the king of the oil world really think it's going to run out? Note that the Saudis have already started a conventional military buildup, to balance the growing clout of Iran which sits just across the Persian Gulf (which some Arabs think is a misnomer, by the way). And, of course, there are those persistent rumors that Saudi Arabia is involved with the Pakistanis on nuclear issues indeed, Riyadh may have helped finance Islamabad's 1998 nuclear breakout. The problem is that every state that goes nuclear gives its neighbors strong reason to do likewise as a hedge against uncertainty. Hence the alarm over the Arab states' sudden, simultaneous announcement.
Their peaceful nuclear intentions might be above reproach, but it's hard to predict how their nuclear know-how and material (some supplied by the IAEA) will be used down the road. Nor do we know how their non-nuclear neighbors will react to their nuclear programs.
There is little doubt that these states' decisions to start or restart nuclear programs were guided and tempered at least in part by their plummeting faith in the United Nations' ability to rein in Iran's nuclear program. Building a nuclear program takes six to 10 years and considerable expense (e.g., $1 billion-plus per reactor). Eyeing Iran's strategic resurgence, these leaders may well think they don't have a moment to waste. The question is: In a number of years, if these programs go forward, will we see a map of the Middle East dotted with new peaceful nuclear-power reactors - or a map dotted with new nuclear-weapons states?
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing EditorPeter Brookes, a Senior Fellow at The Heritage Foundation, served 20 years on active duty and in the reserves with the U.S. Navy.
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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, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)
Update time = Mon Nov 13 11:30:15 AM EDT
NOV 13,06
MAP 2.5 PUGET SOUND REGION, WASHINGTON
MAP 4.9 MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
MAP 4.7 FIJI REGION
MAP 2.8 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.0 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.2 SOUTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
MAP 5.1 PHILIPPINE ISLANDS REGION
MAP 2.9 UTAH
MAP 2.5 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 2.9 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.0 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 5.3 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 2.7 KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 2.5 OUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.8 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP 6.7 SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO, ARGENTINA
NOV 12,06
MAP 2.5 NEVADA
MAP 2.8 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.9 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.7 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 6.0 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 3.2 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 2.7 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 5.0 KOMANDORSKIYE OSTROVA, RUSSIA REGION
MAP 5.0 KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.2 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.0 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 3.2 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 2.8 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
Moderate quake hits near Papua New Guinea
Monday, November 13, 2006 (Canberra):
A second moderate earthquake in as many days rattled the coast of Papua New Guinea on Monday, the US Geological Survey said.No tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
The magnitude 6.0 quake struck at 2351 IST, 162 kilometers east of Kandrian on Papua New Guinea's island of New Britain and 35 kilometres under the Earth's crust. Charles McCreery, Director of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center at Ewa Beach, Hawaii, said the quake was too small to trigger a tsunami.An official at the Geophysical Observatory in the national capital Port Moresby said, on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media, the tremblor was felt 260 kilometres away at the city of Rabaul on the coast of New Britain but no damage was reported. A magnitude 5.9 quake struck on Sunday 94 kilometres northwest of Kandrian and 51 kilometres under the seabed, causing no injuries or damage.The archipelago nation is part of the Pacific Ocean's ring of fire, where earthquakes of this magnitude are common and rarely cause serious damage. (AP)
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
Snowfalls hit Tasmania
November 13, 2006 - 10:30AM (FAIRFAX)
Tasmanians are rugging up with for snow as a trough in the Tasman Sea amplifies cold fronts crossing the state.
Residents of Hobart awoke to a light dusting of snow on Mount Wellington this morning after temperatures dropped to -1.5 degrees celsius overnight.But meteorologist Ray Evans said heavier falls were expected overnight tomorrow.(Today's fall is) nothing to write home about ... the stuff coming Tuesday and Wednesday looks to be far more significant, he said.The Bureau of Meteorology was still finalising its forecast for the week but Mr Evans said early models indicated snow down to the 500 metre level.Today's falls follow a freak dumping to sea level in late October.Senior forecaster Barry Becker said at the time it was unusual for such a cold change so late in the year.
In Tasmania it can snow at just about any time of the year, he said.But for it to be falling this low, especially in October, is quite unusual.Last month's snowfall was the most significant fall since August 2005.AAP
Killer floods wreak havoc as Kenya hosts UN climate change meet by Bogonko Bosire Mon Nov 13, 6:29 AM ET
NAIROBI (AFP) - At least 21 people have been killed and 60,000 displaced by massive flooding in northern and coastal Kenya, triggered by three weeks of unusually heavy seasonal rains. As downpours continue, officials warned of further devastation, while delegates meet in Nairobi at a UN conference on climate change that many blame for altering weather patterns and causing deadly drought-flood cycles.Ironically, at the conference on Monday, the United Nations was presenting a report on harnessing the massive potential of rainwater harvesting in Africa, which it said could supply more than enough of the continent's needs.Kenyan emergency workers were meanwhile struggling with the effect of torrential, unharvested rains and floodwaters on an impoverished population.
We have floods across the country and, since it is still raining, we fear the situation will deteroriate, said Abdi Ahmed Monday, the acting disaster response chief at the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS).In addition, the Kenyan health ministry issued an alert for possible outbreaks of water-borne diseases, notably cholera, in the affected regions.
At the weekend, at least six people, including a schoolgirl, were swept away and drowned by raging waters around the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa and the northeastern town of Garissa, officials said. Two others are missing.The fatalities brought Kenya's flood death toll to 21 since October 25, when the first damaging effects of the unusually heavy October-to-December short rains season were reported by authorities.Since then, at least 60,000 Kenyans 50,000 on the coast and 10,000 in the northeast have been forced from their homes by flood waters that have washed away crop fields, bridges and roads and destroyed numerous buildings.
All these people are directly affected or completely cut off and we cannot access them, Ahmed told AFP.On Saturday, the main road linking Mombasa, about 500 kilometers (300 miles) southeast of Nairobi, to Tanzania was cut off with four bridges washed away, a local official said.Delivering food to the 50,000 people who are in need of urgent supplies is the main problem, said Moffat Kangi, the commissioner of Kwale district just south of Mombasa.We are looking for water, shelter and medicine for the affected people, but in the long run we will be required to assist up to 200,000 people here, he told AFP. Any help we can get will be appreciated.In the capital, municipal officials said flood waters had blocked the city's drainage system, causing floods in some residential districts.But the recent floods are not limited to Kenya, which is being hit as it hosts 6,000 international delegates to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that ends this week.The onset of rains has compounded problems across the Horn of Africa region already brought by a recent killer drought, since parched soil inundating the worst-affected areas is unable to absorb the water, officials said.In neighboring Somalia, floods have killed at least 42 and displaced 10,000 people over the past two weeks, compounding the misery affecting millions in the lawless Horn of Africa nation.In neighboring Ethiopia, flooding from late October rains that burst the banks of several river has killed at least 68 people and affected some 280,000 people, according to officials there.
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
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.
70 firefighters battling Hawke's Bay fires
UPDATED 12.40pm Monday November 13, 2006
About 70 firefighters remained at the scene of several apparently deliberate Hawke's Bay fires in the past 24 hours.Firefighters were first called to Mohaka, between Napier and Wairoa, about 1.45pm yesterday.Wairoa principal rural fire officer Te Aroha Cook said there were several fires in the Mohaka area yesterday afternoon and overnight.The biggest was a forest blaze over a 25ha block which closed State Highway 2 and caused a house to be evacuated.Seven helicopters, four appliances and two tankers battled the flames.Today, about 70 firefighters were still at the scene damping down the remains of the earlier fires and containing new outbreaks.Wairoa police were investigating the possibility of arson.Eastern region fire manager Trevor Brown said the fires were being treated as suspicious because of the significant number in the last couple of weeks.You can never be certain about this but you have to say yes conditions aren't that extreme at this stage.- NZPA
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
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 have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
JOEL 2:20,30-31
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Iran to reply destructively to any Israeli attack by Aresu Eqbali
Sun Nov 12, 8:49 AM ET
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran has vowed it would deliver a destructive response to any Israeli military attack on its atomic sites and said it would continue trying to boost its capacity for sensitive nuclear work. Foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said Iran was still seeking to install 3,000 centrifuges by March 2007 at an atomic plant to enrich uranium, a process the West fears could be diverted to make nuclear weapons.His comments came after a top Israeli official refused to rule out a strike on the Islamic republic to halt the progress of its atomic programme, with the United Nations still unable to agree on sanctions against Tehran.
Israel does not have the means and the capability to dare threaten Iran.if it commits such a stupidity the Islamic republic and its defenders will give a destructive response within a second, Hosseini said Sunday.Israel widely considered to be the Middle East's sole nuclear power is within the range of Iran's ballistic missiles and sees Tehran as its chief enemy, after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for the Jewish state to be wiped off the map.I am not advocating an Israeli preemptive military action against Iran... I consider it a last resort. But even the last resort is sometimes the only resort, Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim
Sneh said in comments published Friday.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in an interview published Sunday branded Ahmadinejad a dangerous man, saying Iran must start to fear and understand it will pay dearly if it does not compromise.Despite the looming threat of sanctions, Hosseini indicated that Iran intended to press on apace with its nuclear drive.Iranian officials and experts are seeking to install 3,000 centrifuges reaffirming a target which would allow Iran to enrich uranium on an industrial scale.He added that the work would take place under the supervision of the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).Enriched uranium lies at the center of the dispute over Iran's nuclear program, as it can be used both to make nuclear fuel and the core of a nuclear bomb.
Tehran vehemently rejects US allegations that its nuclear program is aimed at making nuclear weapons, saying the drive is solely aimed at providing energy for civilians.At present Iran has two cascades of 164 centrifuges on a research level enriching uranium to levels up to five percent rich enough for nuclear fuel but way off the 90 percent levels required for a nuclear bomb.Major powers at the UN Security Council are mulling a resolution that would impose sanctions on Iran after it refused to suspend enrichment in return for an international offer of incentives.The Security Council's five permanent members Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States plus Germany will resume talks Monday on how to censure a defiant Iran.Iran's chief nuclear negotatior Ali Larijani, on his return from talks in Moscow, said adopting a resolution against Iran would show a change of direction and that world powers had no desire for negotiations with Iran.If the Westerners show another behavior regarding Iran's nuclear issue, it should be made clear who is renouncing on their commitments, the IRNA agency quoted him as saying.
The passing of a resolution of the nature that is being discussed means a disruption of talks and it is the Westerners who have disrupted the talks. This means saying no to the talks.Ahmadinejad on Sunday called the United Nations Security Council incompetent, and pressured by domineering powers. It is disgraceful that the UN Security Council, which must defend countries rights and interests, threatens and makes a dossier against the states that are legally seeking nuclear fuel, he said on state television. World powers will be discussing a European-proposed draft resolution mandating nuclear industry and ballistic missile-related sanctions against Iran. But Russia and China, which have major energy and trade ties with Tehran, view the European draft as too tough and unlikely to bring about Iranian cooperation.
PERSECUSSION,BEHEADINGS
JESUS PERSECUTED BIGTIME
ISAIAH 53:4
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
MATTHEW 9:34
34 But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.
JOHN 8:41
41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
JOHN 10:20
20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
PHILIPPIANS 2:10-11(JESUS GETS REVENGE)
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.(JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST AND FOR SINNERS, THE GREAT WHITE THRONE FINAL JUDGEMENT).
WE ARE CHRISTIANS WE WILL BE TREATED THE SAME.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 (WHY WE ARE PERSECUTED BY THE WORLD)
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
MATTHEW 5:10-12
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
MATTHEW 24:9
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
JOHN 15:18-20
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me (JESUS) before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
REVELATION 6:9-11
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain(BEHEADED) for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
REVELATION 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Modern exodus in Mideast
But it's besieged Christians fleeing Muslim Holy Land
November 12, 2006,BY BRIAN MURPHY (Chicago Sun Times)
BETHLEHEM, West Bank -- The death threat came on fliers blowing down the streets at dawn. A group calling itself Friends of Muhammad accused a local Palestinian Christian of selling mobile phones carrying offensive sketches of the Muslim prophet.
The message went on to curse all Arab Christians and Pope Benedict XVI, still struggling to calm Muslim outrage from his remarks on Islam.While neighbors defended the merchant, saying the charges in the flier were bogus, the frightened phone dealer went into hiding, feeling less than satisfied with authorities' conclusion that the Oct. 19 note was probably a harmless rant.
Now the dealer is thinking of going abroad.
Call it part of a modern exodus, the steady flight of the tiny Palestinian Christian minority that could lead, some predict, to the faith being virtually extinct in its birthplace within several generations a trend mirrored in many dwindling pockets of Christianity across the Islamic world.
Vatican seeks reciprocity
This is one of the major themes the pope is expected to carry to Turkey for a four-day visit beginning Nov. 28 his first papal visit to a predominantly Muslim nation. The Vatican calls it 'reciprocity: Muslim demands for greater sensitivity from the West must be accompanied by stronger protections and rights for Christian minorities.In some places, such as Pakistan, it means more safeguards from extremist attacks. In Indonesia and elsewhere, it touches on appeals to quell growing sectarian clashes. In Turkey, Iraq and the rest of the Middle East, it seeks to preserve communities dating back to the time when Jesus and his apostles preached.But nearly everywhere in Muslim lands, Christian populations are in decline.
No place is this more striking than the Holy Land.
For decades, it was mostly economic pressures pushing Palestinian Christians to emigrate. The Palestinian uprisings and the separation barrier started by Israel in 2002 accelerated the departures by turning once-bustling pilgrimage sites such as Bethlehem into relative ghost towns.The growing strength of radical Islamic movements has added distinct new worries. During the protests after the pope's remarks in September, some of the worst violence was in Palestinian areas, with churches firebombed and hit by gunfire.
Faiths rarely mix now
The native Palestinian Christian population has dipped below 2 percent of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Arab east Jerusalem, down from at least 15 percent in 1950 by some estimates. Meanwhile, the Muslim Palestinian birthrate is among the highest in the world.Dire predictions abound. The Franciscan Foundation for the Holy Land said Christians could become 'extinct' in the region within 60 years.
Some are trying to change the momentum.
Groups dedicated to Muslim-Christian cooperation are active. During the protests over Benedict's remarks, militiamen from Islamic Jihad vowed to protect a West Bank church. A poll released Oct. 18 by the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion found 91 percent of respondents opposed attacking churches to protest Benedict's comments.
But Fuad Kokali, one of six Christian deputies in the 132-seat Palestinian parliament, recalled Muslims and Christians mixing freely at weddings and other events in the 1980s.
Now, it's a rarity, he said.The world is becoming a more unstable and frightening place, he said. In these times, people revert back to their core identity. That means closing yourself within your religion and looking out at the other with suspicion.AP
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 and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
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 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.
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships;
and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
Shock announcement: Olmert still determined to realign
By Stan Goodenough,November 12, 2006
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, en route this week for a meeting with US President George W. Bush in Washington DC, announced Friday his intention to, after all, implement the re-alignment plan that will facilitate the creation of a State of Palestine on ancient Jewish lands.News outlets in Israel all carried the story Sunday: Although he had earlier let it be known that he was no longer able to implement the platform on which he was elected to the premiership at the head of his Kadima Party last March, Olmert has now revealed that he is in fact still determined to try and carry it out.Realignment calls for the uprooting of as many as 100,000 Jews from their homes in Samaria and Judea the biblical heart of the Jewish homeland and the surrender for all time of that territory to the rabidly antisemitic Palestinian Arabs.It is not known whether the reason for Olmert’s return to his plan is at least partially because of the hammering the Republicans received at the hands of the American electorate last week.The results of those mid-term elections have, according to many pundits, signaled Israel that the USA will from now on expect more concessions from Israel, and a greater willingness for the Jewish state to take risks for peace.
Whatever the motivation, Olmert’s announced intention to move ahead with his plan comes despite the painful facts:That Israel’s withdrawals from southern Lebanon led directly to the painful war Israel fought in July, when the Lebanese Hizb’allah kidnapped Israeli soldiers and poured rocket fire down on northern Israel for weeks on end.That Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in August 2005 led directly to the establishment of the un-police-able terrorist mini-state whose killers kidnapped an Israeli soldier and from which multiple rockets are launched daily at Jewish civilian targets in the south of the country.That popular support has swung strongly away from the realignment plan and from the Kadima Party, with polls showing consistently that by far most Israelis have woken up to the folly of pursuing disengagements from the Arabs.That relinquishing Samaria and Judea would cede to the Arabs the high-ground overlooking Israel’s densely-populated coastal plain, in easy rocket-range from the Palestinian state that would be established.That Iran is a mushrooming threat with its Hitler-like leadership which is already sponsoring proxy forces north and south of Israel, and whose regional Islamic interests will be further served by Palestine And, most significantly:
That the land Olmert believes he has the right to barter away is Israel’s national cradle. It was the hope of return to these very areas Shechem, Shiloh, Bethel, Bethlehem, Hebron, and the Old City in Jerusalem with its Temple Mount, the holiest site for the Jews that kept Jewish identity, hope and faith alive during their centuries in exile.
Olmert’s plan imperils Israel on every front.It will play straight into the hands of the Arabs, multiplying and accelerating the militarily threat against the Jews.It will tear even more deeply at the national divide, driving those Jews who can see the existential threat it poses to acts of desperation to resist it.It will sever Israel from its national roots.For Israel, realignment spells national suicide. This
is the offering Olmert is preparing to present at the White House Monday.
Diplomats: PA accepts peace conference proposal
Associated Press Nov 12,06 (ynetnews)
Palestinian FM accepts call by Arab foreign ministers to convene conference ‘to reach just and comprehensive settlement to Arab-Israeli conflict; Arab diplomats lift financial blockade on PA in response to US veto Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar accepted an Arab proposal on Sunday for a peace conference to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Arab diplomats said.
Zahar, of the ruling Hamas party, endorsed a statement by Arab foreign ministers calling for the peace conference during a meeting in Cairo, said the diplomats, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
The ministers call to convene a peace conference attended by Arab parties, Israel and the permanent members of the UN Security Council in order to reach a just and comprehensive settlement to the Arab-Israeli conflict on all tracks according to international resolutions and the principal of land for peace, the statement said.
No international siege
The Top Arab diplomats decided to lift the financial blockade on Palestinians in response to a US veto on a UN Security Council draft resolution condemning Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip. We decided not to cooperate with it (the blockade). There will no longer be an international siege, said Bahrain's Foreign Minister Sheik Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa. On Saturday, the US Vetoed the Security Council draft resolution that condemned the Israeli military offensive and demands that Israeli troops pull out of the territory. Sunday's discussions on the offensive were attended by 11 Arab foreign ministers and other senior officials and diplomats at the Cairo headquarters of the Arab League.
Bush Standing Behind Bolton For U.N. Post (NOV 12,06)
Despite Bipartisan Opposition, White House Continues To Push For Controversial U.N. Ambassador To Remain
(CBS/AP) President Bush will not relent in his defense of John Bolton, his nominee for U.N. ambassador, despite unwavering opposition from Democrats who view Bolton as too combative for international diplomacy, aides said Sunday. Two of President Bush's top advisers said the White House is not backing down from a fight to win Senate approval for Bolton to continue in the job.
Mr. Bush gave Bolton the job temporarily in August 2005 while Congress was in recess. That appointment will expire when Congress adjourns, no later than January.White House counselor Dan Bartlett said Bolton has done a remarkable job. He's proven the critics wrong on all the charges they've leveled against him, Bartlett said.So let's have a conversation about it. We'll see.
The White House resubmitted Bolton's nomination on Thursday, though it has languished in the Senate for more than a year. Finding a replacement for Bolton would come at a sensitive time for the Bush administration. It is counting heavily on U.N. diplomacy to help confront North Korea and Iran over their nuclear programs and to end fighting in Sudan's Darfur region. With Democrats capturing control of the next Congress, Bolton's chances of winning confirmation appear slim at best. In fact, last week the incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), said he saw no point in considering Mr. Bolton's nomination again. Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was more succinct: Forget about John Bolton, he told CBS chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation. The Republicans didn't have enough votes to get the guy out of committee [before the Democrats take control]. So I think we should go to things that we can work together on. In spite of the lack of committee votes, White House chief of staff Josh Bolten said Sunday that We're putting him up for confirmation. I think if he actually was able to get a vote in the full Senate, he would succeed, he said.
Yet Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.), who lost on Election Day, said he would not end his opposition to Bolton. That probably would deny Republicans the votes needed to move the nomination from committee to the full Senate. Republicans now lack the 60 votes needed to force a vote. Democrats say Bush should alter course now and nominate someone less hard-charging, with greater finesse in handling sensitive diplomatic matters.There's a lot of competent people. Send someone new up, Mr. President, Biden said Sunday.He doesn't even have the votes in the committee. He doesn't even have the votes of a Republican-controlled committee today, Biden said. We're going to have a hearing on him. There is going to be a vote on him. He's going to lose. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), who is in line to head the Armed Services Committee, agreed. We would rely very heavily upon the Foreign Relations Committee, and they have not decided that he is the appropriate person for that job, Levin said.
In the president's view, however, Bolton has turned out to be a very effective representative at the U.N. and, in fact, has turned out to be something his critics expected him not to be, Bolten said. He's turned out to be a good consensus builder, and it's been reflected on resolutions on North Korea, in Lebanon, in other ways. Bush's chief of staff played down speculation the administration might go around the Senate and allow Bolton to somehow continue to represent the U.S. at the United Nations by finding an alternative means of paying his salary or appointing him to serve as an acting or deputy U.N. representative. I don't know about that, Bolten said. Our effort is going to be to try to get him confirmed in the ordinary course. Bolten, Biden and Levin appeared on ABC's This Week.Bartlett was on Fox News Sunday.CBS Broadcasting Inc.The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Business leaders, ministers flock to LA Jewish conference
The Ministries of Finance and Tourism will be setting up a joint exhibition booth at the conference.Ran Dagoni, Washington 12 Nov 06 16:07
Leading Israeli business figures will be among the many visitors assembling in Los Angeles to attend the annual United Jewish Communities (UJC) 2006 general assembly, which is opening today. The delegation, which includes Bank Leumi (TASE: LUMI) CEO Galia Maor, Iscar president Eitan Wertheimer, Strauss-Elite (TASE: STEL) president Ofra Strauss, and Delta Galil Industries (Nasdaq: DELT; TASE: DELT) chairman Dov Lautman, aims to highlight the economic aspect of life in Israel, an issue that was not given sufficient attention at previous assemblies. The Israeli ministers slated to appear at the assembly are Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor Eli Yishai, Minister of Foreign Affairs Tzipi Livni, Minister of Finance Abraham Hirchson, Minister of Tourism Issac Herzog, Minister of Public Security Avi Dichter, and Minister of Education Yuli Tamir. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will deliver the keynote address on Tuesday. Also attending the assembly is Likud chairman and leader of the opposition MK Benjamin Netanyahu.
The ministerial delegation will visit the joint exhibition booth of the Ministries of Finance and Tourism, and will also take part on various symposiums on current issues. In contrast to previous years, the UJC general assembly this year will focus on Israel, following the second Lebanon war in summer and the successful fund raising campaign that followed. According to official figures, $330 million was raised in cash and commitments. The UJC has allocated $92 million, out of the current fund of $109 million, for aid to disabled persons, children and new immigrants, the elderly, and others in Israel, mainly towns and communities in the north.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes.co.il - on November 12, 2006
Updated Nov. 13, 2006 16:56
PM says ready for prisoner swap
By JPOST.COM STAFF
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday reiterated his willingness to release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners after captured IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit was freed, and blamed Hamas for the delay in implementing a prisoner exchange deal. I give Palestinians my word of honor, Olmert told the east Jerusalem-based Al-Quds newspaper.You will see how far I will go to allow your sons to return to their houses.
PM: Barghouti release is not an option
Calling on Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to take responsibility and organize the Palestinians, Olmert said that Abbas must act of his own accord.
The time has come when no one can give any more guidance to Abbas, neither Damascus nor anyone else,Olmert asserted. Olmert went on to say that he would be prepared to speak to Hamas if the group were to accept the preconditions set out by the international community - recognizing Israel, renouncing violence and accepting existing peace deals.
I don't think it is necessary to investigate the records of the (Hamas) ministers, Olmert said, pointing out that Israel negotiated with the Palestinian Liberation Organization even though it was long considered a terrorist group. Olmert also called on Egypt to improve the performance of its troops patrolling the Philadelphi corridor. The prime minister said that he was interested in the presence of Egyptian forces along the Gaza-Egypt border route, but believed that the forces could operate with greater efficiency, Israel Radio reported. AP contributed to this report
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
JOEL 2:20,30
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
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; 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, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
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, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, 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).
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, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: 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.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
A Mideast Nuke Race
Arabs May Arm In Fear Of Iran
By Peter Brookes
November 13, 2006 We may have a nuclear-arms race on our hands in the Middle East.
Last week, four key Arab states, including Egypt and Saudi Arabia, told the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that they were launching their own nuclear
programs.
Sure, these are officially peaceful energy programs but everyone and his brother will suspect that they'll be accompanied by some sort of covert nuclear-weapons research. After all, Iran the Middle Eastern state that virtually the entire word believes is on a beeline to nukes has long insisted its program is purely for power generation, too. And, of course, the seeming lack of progress in getting Iran to curtail its nuclear quest gives nearby states serious motivation to get nukes of their own. Saudi Arabia, Egypt indeed, every Arab regime except Syria see Iran as an implacable rival. (And some claim even Syria wants out of its alliance with the mullahs.) Plus the region's Sunni Arab regimes fear the rise of Shia Persian Iran. Iran aspires to dominate the region and achieve superpower status, placing itself squarely atop the Muslim world - no doubt in large part at the expense of the region's current Sunni Arab rulers.
Then, of course, there are the multiple reasons everyone else doesn't buy Iran's atomic denials. For instance, Tehran:
* Had a relationship with A.Q. Khan, father of Pakistan's bomb and proliferator extraordinaire.
* Kept its nuclear program hidden away from the IAEA for 20 years.
* Refuses to allow the thorough inspections the IAEA wants to conduct now.
* Has a growing arsenal of ballistic missiles of ever-greater range and capability.
Tehran's threat last Friday to cut ties with the IAEA if the United Nations passes another resolution against Iran doesn't help matters, either. Nor do its recent war games - or its October decision to put more uranium-enrichment centrifuges online at Natanz.
No wonder Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Morocco all of a sudden expressed interest in nuclear power last week. Or that Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Yemen have openly talked of going nuclear in recent months, too. Interest in Egypt, the Arab world's first nuclear power state, is advanced. Just last week, President Hosni Mubarak discussed restarting Cairo's nuclear program while in China. (Egypt closed its nuclear program after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.) Mubarak also recently visited Russia to discuss the purchase of nuclear reactors. Moscow - which built Iran's reactor at Bushehr - is keenly interested in contracts to build the three-plus Egypt's planning along the Mediterranean Sea.
OK, with oil and gas prices still high, perhaps these states just want to diversify their energy sources. But Saudi Arabia? Does the king of the oil world really think it's going to run out? Note that the Saudis have already started a conventional military buildup, to balance the growing clout of Iran which sits just across the Persian Gulf (which some Arabs think is a misnomer, by the way). And, of course, there are those persistent rumors that Saudi Arabia is involved with the Pakistanis on nuclear issues indeed, Riyadh may have helped finance Islamabad's 1998 nuclear breakout. The problem is that every state that goes nuclear gives its neighbors strong reason to do likewise as a hedge against uncertainty. Hence the alarm over the Arab states' sudden, simultaneous announcement.
Their peaceful nuclear intentions might be above reproach, but it's hard to predict how their nuclear know-how and material (some supplied by the IAEA) will be used down the road. Nor do we know how their non-nuclear neighbors will react to their nuclear programs.
There is little doubt that these states' decisions to start or restart nuclear programs were guided and tempered at least in part by their plummeting faith in the United Nations' ability to rein in Iran's nuclear program. Building a nuclear program takes six to 10 years and considerable expense (e.g., $1 billion-plus per reactor). Eyeing Iran's strategic resurgence, these leaders may well think they don't have a moment to waste. The question is: In a number of years, if these programs go forward, will we see a map of the Middle East dotted with new peaceful nuclear-power reactors - or a map dotted with new nuclear-weapons states?
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing EditorPeter Brookes, a Senior Fellow at The Heritage Foundation, served 20 years on active duty and in the reserves with the U.S. Navy.
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