1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS. 2-Asia slowly recovers from telecom outage. 3-Winter Wonderland, Traffic Nightmares and Accidents. 4-Rockies Snowstorm Coming Again Senior Meteorologist. 5-Top weather stories of 2006. 6-Thousands of homes swept away in Indonesia; Malaysia braces for new storms. 7-Study Links Western U.S. Wildfires to Atlantic Ocean Surface Temperatures. 8-Germans unenthusiastic about next week's EU enlargement. 9-Reward for Smuggling: Arms Transferred Directly to Abu Mazen. 10-Between Wars, U.S. Toughening Up on Israel. 11-Why Muslims Deny the Holocaust. 12-Space telescope to hunt planets. 13-Immigration to Israel falls in 2006. 14-New World Order-New Fix or New Failure?
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 = Fri Dec 29 1:00:13 UTC 2006
DEC 29,06
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
DEC 28,2006
MAP 2.7 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.4 TAIWAN REGION
MAP 2.8 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 2.7 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.2 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP 3.3 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC REGION
DEC 27,06
MAP 2.8 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.0 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.2 HAWAII REGION, HAWAII
MAP 6.0 BOUGAINVILLE REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 3.2 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.1 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
MAP 3.0 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 2.9 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 5.0 TONGA
MAP 2.9 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.6 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.4 OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.6 TAIWAN
Asia slowly recovers from telecom outage By PETER ENAV, Associated Press Writer Thu Dec 28, 7:19 AM ET
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Telecom companies quickly cobbled together new telephone and Internet networks on Thursday as Asia began recovering from a Taiwanese earthquake that snapped undersea cables, snarling service across the tech-savvy region. Less than 48 hours after the powerful quake ruptured the two crucial cables off Taiwan's southern tip, companies from South Korea to Singapore said they managed to partially restore most of their service to millions of customers.They did it by rerouting traffic through satellites and cables that weren't damaged by the 6.7-magnitude tremor that killed two people.Four repair ships were sailing to the quake zone, but they weren't expected to arrive until Tuesday, said Lin Jen-hung, vice-general manager of Chunghwa Telecom Co., Taiwan's biggest phone company.
The crews would need to find the fault, survey the conditions and pull up the cables for repair — a job Chunghwa said could take two weeks.Most international Internet data and voice calls travel as pulses of light through hundreds of undersea fiber optic cables crisscrossing the globe. The cables — clusters of glass fibers enclosed in protective material — are often owned by groups of telecom companies, who share costs and capacity.Cables break all over the place, from sharks nibbling, anchors dragged across, said Markus Buchhorn, an information technology expert at Australia National University.But Buchhorn added the broken cables become a problem if — like in the Taiwanese case — several snap at the same time and there are not immediate backup lines to keep the traffic flowing.
Chunghwa estimated its revenue loss from the earthquake damage at about $3 million. Repairing the cables would cost about $1.53 million, the company said in a filing to the Taiwan Stock Exchange.The outage reminded stock traders, travelers and online video gamers how addicted they've become to the Internet.Many lost the opportunity to make fast money, said Francis Lun, general manager at Fulbright Securities in Hong Kong.I haven't experienced anything like this before, Lun added. We've become too dependent on these optic fibers — a few of them get damaged, and everything collapses.Online gamer Daniel Lee, 28, said he was suffering in Hong Kong because he couldn't spend his usual eight to 10 hours a day playing games on the Internet.
Most online games are routed through Taiwan, and now I can't play any of them. I can't contact a lot of people because my e-mail is down. It's a hassle and it's depressing, but I can't do anything about it, said Lee, who's unemployed.Long lines formed at Hong Kong's airport because the computer system at the check-in counters for Taiwan's China Airlines weren't working.A woman at the airline's hot line said the computer system had been down since Wednesday afternoon.We had to switch to manual services because the system in Taipei was affected by the quake, said the woman, who only gave her surname, Sze. But all our computers are running normally now.
South Korea's biggest carrier, KT, said more than half of its 92 damaged lines should be fixed by the end of Thursday. One of the company's customers was the Foreign Ministry, which recovered its service. In Japan, major carriers KDDI Corp. and NTT Communications said most fixed-line telephone services were up and running. NTT spokeswoman Akiko Suzaki said that a full recovery would require a relaying of undersea cables and could take weeks. Tim Dillon, senior research director with U.S.-based Current Analysis, which studies the telecom industry, said customers in Asia will have to get used to sluggish service in the next few weeks. We have a lot of traffic all going to alternate routings at the same time, Dillon said. It's obviously going to result in slower speeds and congestion as everyone piles onto the same cable.
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.
AUTOMOBILES
NAHUM 2:3-4
3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots(AUTOMOBILES) shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation,(LIGHTS) and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
4 The chariots shall rage in the streets,(DRIVE FAST) they shall justle(ACCIDENTS) one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.(LIGHTS AND FAST)
Winter Wonderland, Traffic Nightmares and Accidents
By Hana Levi Julian (INN) DEC 28,06
Major arteries in the Golan Heights and Galilee are still sealed off in the wake of Wednesday’s stormy winter wonderland. The first snow of the season shut down traffic and caused blackouts that left thousands of Israelis from the north to the Negev without heat or lights for various durations on Wednesday.On the other hand, it marked a welcome end to the drought that had plagued the country for the last several weeks. Public transportation in Beitar Illit was shut down and the community’s snow committee urged residents not to leave the town limits. Access routes in and out of the community were blocked by the drifting snow, according to municipal hotline director Guy Akriv, who said the Tunnel Road and the Ein Kerem Road were both impassable.Galilee police blocked off traffic on Route 889 between Tzfat (Safed) and Rosh Pina due to the heavy accumulation of snow. The access road to Tzfat between Biria Junction and Meron was also sealed off, with drivers redirected to detour routes.
Traffic in the Upper Galilee and northern Golan Heights was moving, but very slowly, due to the icy conditions. Snow continued to fall overnight in the Mount Hermon area.A 19-year-old Tiberias youth was seriously injured when he was struck by a marble tile that flew off a building. In Akko, a woman was lightly injured when she was trapped under a tree that was blown down by the strong winds.
Motorists were crawling down the icy streets of Jerusalem as an accumulation of some 8 centimeters (3 to 4 inches) of the white stuff coated the capital. Local travelers found themselves walking to their destinations rather than wait endlessly for public bus service that was forced to a standstill for several hours by the messy weather.Heavy snowfall was also seen in Judea and Samaria, with residents in many small communities reporting they were snowed in Wednesday evening. More than 10 centimeters (4 inches) of snow was reported in Kiryat Arba; a similar accumulation was seen in Beit El.The snowstorm made its way south from Mt.
Hermon, reaching as far as the Negev desert town of Mitzpe Ramon by Wednesday afternoon. Strong winds blew down a group of tents and shacks in a small Bedouin village outside the city of Rahat, lightly injuring a pregnant woman and six children.
Some 200 tent dwellers were taken to a school in Rahat to spend the night and 30 members of the community were treated for frostbite.The Israel Electric Company announced it had reached capacity by early evening and that reserves were running very low.
Electricity use reached a record 9,450 megawatts as severe weather conditions and plunging temperatures sent Israelis straight to the electric space heaters.Power outages were reported in a number of communities in the south, including Yatir and Arad. The company asked consumers to refrain from using high-consumption appliances overnight in order to relieve the national grid.
Dishwashers, washing machines, baking ovens, electric grills, water heaters and vacuum cleaners were all on the please don’t-use-these-tonight list.
Rockies Snowstorm Coming Again Senior Meteorologist, The Weather Channel
Thu Dec 28, 2:48 AM ET
West
A low pressure center developing over the high plains of northeastern New Mexico will run up the battle standard for what appears to be a long, stormy campaign through the central and southern U.S. The forebears of the incipient storm, armed with damaging winds, already are howled through California and Nevada (see Storm Watch). Then, during the day tomorrow, the primary threat from the strengthening storm will transition from damaging winds to wind-driven snow. Accumulations from the sprawling system will coat areas from Montana southward to the high country of New Mexico and Arizona and into Wyoming and Colorado by afternoon. And while snowfall amounts tomorrow may not be massive, the slow movement and strength of the storm argue that some areas along the east slopes of the Rockies and adjacent high plains will end up with feet of snow, massive drifts and stinging winds by the time
Saturday rolls around. Travel will again be impacted on highways and at airports, including Denver and Chyenne. In the meantime, high temperatures tomorrow are forecast to range from the 20s in much of the Interior West to the 60s in portions of Southern California and southwest Arizona.
Midwest
Generally speaking, precipitation in the Midwest and Great Plains will be only light and scattered today before a strengthening storm launches a major assault into the region Friday and Saturday... and perhaps beyond. A light wintry mix may coat parts of the Upper Midwest, and a little light snow could dust portions of the far western Plains, but the real nastiness will come Friday and Saturday. On those days, heavy, wind-driven snow could well bury portions of the western Plains while drenching rain soaks areas farther east. In the meantime, look for high temperatures tomorrow to range from the 20s across northern North Dakota and far northern Minnesota to the 50s from eastern and southern Kansas to the Ohio Valley.
South
A few light showers may pop up here and there west of the Mississippi River and along the Southeast coast (and Florida) tomorrow as a powerful storm begins to crank up over eastern New Mexico. The showers, however, will be only warning shots from an army of downpours and severe thunderstorms (including the possibility of tornadoes) expected to smash through the South later in the week as the storm matures and lumbers into the central U.S. Meanwhile, high temperatures tomorrow are forecast to range from the 50s to the 70s, north to south. Gusty southerly winds will prevail from the Mississippi Valley westward.
Northeast
Only a few stray snow flurries will prevail in parts of the Northeast today as temperatures across much of the region climb back to above-average levels. Only in upstate New York to the high mountains of northern New England will it really feel like winter. Highs are expected to range from near 20 in northern Maine to the low 60s in southeast Virginia. Areas from Pennsylvania through southern New England will see readings top out in the 40s.
Top weather stories of 2006
By ALAN BLACK DEC 28,06
TORONTO (CP) - The drenching rain, destructive wind and deep snow that pummelled British Columbia in November and December took the first and second spots on Environment Canada's list of the top weather stories of 2006. Nine destructive storms battered Canada's West Coast since the beginning of November, three times the norm for the autumn period, the agency says in its annual report on the country's weather.
Stormy weather is not uncommon in B.C. at the end of the year, but the ferocity and frequency of the storms this year is unprecedented, said Environment Canada senior climatologist Dave Phillips, the report's author. November blew in with fury as the West Coast was hit hard and often by drenching rain, howling winds and high tides that even prompted a rare tsunami warning. The month ended in bitter cold and deep snow, again leaving thousands of people without electricity. Forty centimetres of snow gave the province its second deepest November snowfall in B.C. in 66 years of weather-keeping, while the month's rainfall broke or tied several rainfall records.
Then, just as storm-weary B.C. residents were recovering from November's wrath, three ferocious wind storms in mid-December caused more damage, toppling more than one thousand trees in Vancouver's picturesque Stanley Park. Phillips said there were no mysterious forces at work and discounts the possibility that the assault was a product of global warming or an El Nino current.
They may be factors, he said, but even with an unusual number of storms, sometimes, it just comes down to bad luck. Still, there's hope for the new year - B.C. residents might well see a reversal of weather fortunes to start 2007, Phillips said. In an average year, storms on the Pacific coast tend to peter out come January and February, he said. One would think nature's got nothing left to punish the west coast. Number three on the list was a series of powerful storms that marched across central and northeast Ontario and into western Quebec on July 17 and the weekend of Aug. 2-3. The July storms caused a swath of damage about 400 kilometres long, with the North Bay, Callander and Mattawa areas of northeastern Ontario taking the hardest punch. Many communities along the storm path declared states of emergency as Hydro One tried to repair the worst damage to the Ontario power grid since the 1998 ice storm. The same weather system also caused major flooding and significant damage in Quebec from the Abitibi region to Quebec City.
The August storm triggered 10 tornadoes as it hop-scotched through cottage country north of Toronto - the highest number of tornadoes on a single day in Ontario since 13 tornadoes were tracked on May 31, 1985. The same storm also left 450,000 people in Quebec without power, some for more than four days. Number four on the list was the summer heat wave of 2006. It was the second warmest summer on record with temperatures 1.4 degrees above normal, eclipsed only slightly by the summer of 1998. Newfoundland and Labrador boasted the warmest June and July ever recorded. Hail events on the Prairies came in fifth, setting a record in all three prairie provinces with 221 in total, breaking the record of 179 set just last year. The most destructive air assault was on Aug. 10 in central Alberta when snowplows were taken out of storage to clear hail the size of tennis balls from highways and runways. A coast-to-coast January heat wave was sixth on the list, followed by an unsually active forest fire season. The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre in Winnipeg recorded 9,482 fires over more than two million hectares of land - numbers not seen since the late 1980s. With B.C. experiencing savage year-end weather and eastern Canada baking under oppressive summer heat, Phillips said it appeared as though Canada has flipped around.
But I don't think I'd read too much into it, he added. I think this is just weather on steroids - not necessarily a permanent change to the Canadian climate. However, Phillips said he has no doubt global warming is now a fact of life in Canada after the country recorded the warmest winter and spring on record and the second-warmest summer. If fall had been a little warmer instead of being the 13th warmest, it would have been the warmest year on record, he noted. Are there any doubting Thomases any more? Phillips asked. The evidence is irrefutable that Canada is warming up, the world is warming up and the evidence just keeps pouring in. It's likely sooner rather than later we'll see the ice disappear in summertime in the Arctic and that'll be the first time in a million years. By The Canadian Press
Thousands of homes swept away in Indonesia; Malaysia braces for new storms The Associated Press December 28, 2006
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia: Flooding in remote northwestern Indonesia has swept away thousands of houses and killed at least 122 people, officials said Thursday, as neighboring Malaysia braced for more torrential rain and wind.Indonesian authorities deployed boats and helicopters to shift aid to survivors of flash floods and landslides that displaced more than 400,000 on Friday and Saturday.Local officials were still evaluating the extent of damage because some of the hardest hit areas were in remote jungle or beyond washed out roads and bridges.But the Aceh disaster relief task force said in a statement that more than 13,000 homes across six districts had been severely damaged or washed away entirely, 1,755 of them in the Aceh Tamiang district where waters were several meters (yards) deep in some areas.Nearly 200 people were still missing in Aceh province.The death toll there rose to 10 from flooding in recent days that has caused more than US$20 million in damage, officials said.
The extreme weather — the most severe in a century in southern Malaysia — has displaced nearly 90,000 people in a two weeks.Meanwhile, heavy rain continued to fall over the hardest hit districts in Aceh province on Sumatra, complicating relief efforts and adding to the misery of survivors, said local government spokesman Nadir Musa.The relief efforts followed days of seasonal downpours, the cause of dozens of landslides and flash floods each year in the sprawling archipelagic nation where millions of people live in mountainous areas or in fertile flood plains.Helicopters dropped food, tents and medicines while volunteers in dinghies also distributed aid, said Musa.French President Jacques Chirac on Thursday sent a condolence letter to Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.In such painful circumstances, I would like to address to you, as well as to the families of the victims and their friends, my very sincere condolences and my profound sympathy, it said.Aceh was the hardest hit province in the 2004 tsunami, losing an estimated 167,000 people, but the floods and landslides have affected inland regions that were untouched by that
disaster.
Study Links Western U.S. Wildfires to Atlantic Ocean Surface Temperatures Written by AScribe Thursday, 28 December 2006
BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Western U.S. wildfires are likely to increase in the coming decades, according to a new tree-ring study led by the University of Comahue in Argentina and involving the University of Colorado at Boulder that links episodic fire outbreaks in the past five centuries with periods of warming sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic.
States like Washington, Oregon, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and South Dakota all had an increased prevalence of wildfires in recent centuries when a phenomenon known as the Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation -- similar but longer in duration than the better known El Nino-Southern Oscillation -- periodically shifted from a cool to a warm mode that lasted roughly 60 years each time, said the study authors.
Warmer waters in the North Atlantic correspond with episodes of drought and subsequent fires in the West as shown by fire scars in annual tree rings studied by the researchers, said Thomas Kitzberger of the University of Comahue, who led the study with researchers from CU-Boulder, the University of Arizona, the U.S. Forest Service and Rocky Mountain Tree-Ring Research Inc., a private lab in Fort Collins, Colo. Kitzberger, who received his doctorate from CU-Boulder in 1994 under co-author and CU-Boulder geography Professor Thomas Veblen, said the North Atlantic warming trend, coupled with warming temperatures and the earlier onset of spring in the West, poses an increased hazard for wildfires that may continue for decades. The paper was published the week of Dec. 25 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. While previous tree-ring studies have linked fires in different regions of western North America to drought associated with the warm El Nino phase or cool La Nina phase of the Southern El-Nino Southern Oscillation phenomenon in the Pacific, the new study is the first to correlate the Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation with increased North American fires on such a large scale, said the authors. The team analyzed nearly 34,000 individual fire scar dates from tree rings, primarily ponderosa pine and Douglas fir, at 241 sites -- the largest record of tree rings linked to past wildfires ever assembled. This trend of warmer sea-surface temperatures in the North Atlantic appears to be correlated with dry spells we have
seen in the West since the late 1990s, said Veblen. If the trend continues for the next 60 years or so as it has in the past, the degree of fire occurrence in the West could be unprecedented compared to anything in recent memory.
Although the atmospheric mechanisms relating drought in North America to sea-surface temperatures in the North Atlantic are subject to debate among climatologists, there is a strong statistical association of drought and fire in western North America when the Atlantic sea surface warms, said Veblen. The sea-surface temperature of both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans combine to influence the climate of much of the world through a complex web of atmospheric interconnections, he said. The key issue is that the Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation persists on time scales of 60 to 80 years, compared to just one year or a few years for El Nino, he said. Veblen said warmer temperatures in the West since the 1990s have exacerbated outbreaks of spruce and pine beetle populations, which have decimated millions of acres of coniferous forests in the West. There is good evidence that warming trends like the one we are now seeing is very favorable for the population growth of these beetles.
Fire suppression activities during the 20th century have increased fuels and fire hazard in some forest types, although forest thinning may help reduce the impact of some severe fires by eliminating potential fuel sources, Veblen said. But the effectiveness of such practices pale in comparison to the potential of climatic factors. The driving factor influencing wildfires is overwhelmingly climate variation, which is why studies like these are crucial, he said. This study underscores the value of building large networks of high-resolution fire history data to better understand how climate may affect fire regimes over large areas of the globe, said Kitzberger. The team used data from the International Multiproxy Paleofire Database that is maintained by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Other study authors include Peter Brown from Rocky Mountain Tree-Ring Research Inc., Emily Heyerdahl the U.S. Forest Service in Missoula, Mont., and Thomas Swetnam of the University of Arizona.AScribe.org
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
Germans unenthusiastic about next week's EU enlargement
28.12.2006 - 09:24 CET | By Lisbeth Kirk (Euobserver)
Germans are neither enthusiastic about their country taking over the six-month EU presidency or about the prospect of Romania and Bulgaria joining the bloc next week, a new poll has shown.
A majority of Germans (53%) say they are opposed to Romania and Bulgaria becoming member states, while 39 percent are in favour of the bloc's latest expansion, according to an Infratest Dimap poll reported in German daily Die Welt. Opposition to enlargement is greatest in the conservative CDU and CSU camp, where only 33 percent are in favour of the two new countries joning the EU while a majority of the Social Democrats (49%) support enlargement, with 42% opposed.Meanwhile, expectations among German citizens for the country's time at the helm of the EU, beginning on 1 January, are also low. Some 62 percent do not believe Berlin's presidency will improve the public image of the EU.
For their part, the new member countries are also approaching EU membership with uncertainty - with the Romanian government having to set up a website to counter 22 myths in circulation about the consequences of EU membership.I got alarmed when an old woman asked me whether it's true she would no longer be allowed to use the parsley she's been growing in her yard in her soup, said Anca Boagiu, the Romanian minister in charge of EU integration, according to Bloomberg.The truth still hasn't reached many Romanians, particularly the 40 percent who live in rural areas, the minister said.Some believe rich foreigners will buy Romanian property on a large scale after enlargement, that butchers and milk-processing factories are to close and that Romanians will no longer be allowed to slaughter pigs or produce home-made brandy.Still, a majority of Romanians (65%) have a very positive or fairly positive image' of membership, according to an Eurostat poll released on 18 December, but this is down from 76 percent in 2004.
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)
Reward for Smuggling: Arms Transferred Directly to Abu Mazen
By Hillel Fendel (INN) DEC 28,06
As a result of Hamas's unceasing arms-smuggling into Gaza, and with Israeli govt's full cooperation, Egypt gave 2,000 rifles to PA Fatah chief Abu Mazen. Likud: The guns will be used against us. Israel allowed the transfer as part of the gestures and restriction-easings Prime Minister Olmet promised Abu Mazen earlier this week. Opposition Knesset Members fear the guns will ultimately be used against Israel. Israeli soldiers and citizens will be killed by these weapons, said MK Yuval Shteinitz, a former chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. We have not yet seen Abu Mazen determinedly fighting terrorism, Shteinitz said, and the chances are greater that these weapons will be used against us.The weapons - 2,000 Kalachnikovs, 20,000 magazines and two million bullets - are meant to strengthen the Fatah organization in its struggle with Hamas. Headed for Abu Mazen's Presidential Guard, the shipment had been waiting in Egypt for six months. Israel had refused to allow it to reach Gaza - until yesterday, when IDF Military Police accompanied the Egyptian shipment to a Gaza crossing.
Most ironically, Israel's consent to transfer the weapons stems from its inability to control the arms-smuggling through the Philadelphi Route alongside Rafah between southern Gaza and Egypt.
Fatah leaders had reportedly complained that they were under-armed because Hamas controls most of the arms-smuggling into Gaza through tunnels under Rafah. One observer noted, It's like a policeman saying, No one can have a gun, because you might shoot me - but because one group has obtained guns, I'll let the rest of you have some as well.If it helps strengthen Abu Mazen, I'm in favor, said Infrastructures Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, one of the more hawkish Labor Party ministers.
Between Wars, U.S. Toughening Up on Israel
By Hillel Fendel(INN) DEC 28,06
The Bush administration and State Department are blocking arms and technology transfers to Israel, Middle East Newsline reports. Quoting Israeli and U.S. sources, MENL reports that the State Department has blocked the transfer of weapons and technology to Israel over the past three months, reflecting deteriorating relations between the two countries since the war in Lebanon in August of this year.The unofficial suspension of U.S. arms deliveries, beginning in late September, halted the airlift of air-to-ground and other munitions that had been ongoing since the war - despite Israel's continuing need for them. Israel says it needs the equipment in order to replenish munitions and other stocks in preparation for a larger war that might include Syria in mid-2007.
Nobody will say openly that there is a problem, a government source said. But there is a serious problem that reflects the marginalization of Israel in U.S. strategy... The administration has not rejected any Israeli request. Instead, the State Department and Defense Department have said that all requests must be examined.Military cooperation between the two countries has also been hampered in other areas. The State Department recently prevented Northrop Grumman from providing Israel with details of its Skyguard laser weapon, which the company wanted to sell Israel. In turn, Israel suspended negotiations to procure the system, which is designed to intercept short-range rockets and missiles.
Two reasons have been given for the deterioration in relations. One is the perceived Israeli loss, or at least non-victory, in the war with Hizbullah, which has undermined U.S. confidence in Israel's military and government. In addition, the U.S. may be trying to assuage Saudi Arabia, whose help the U.S. seeks in Iraq. There's nothing like stopping the weapons flow to Israel to show the Saudis that the United States means business, a diplomatic source told MENL.
Why Muslims Deny the Holocaust DEC 28,06
A Muslim who immigrated to the Netherlands more than ten years ago is offering his insights into why so many in the Islamic world believe there was no Holocaust, AgapePress reports. Ayann Hirsi Ali was until recently a member of Holland's Parliament.
He remembers a visit from his Muslim sister a few years ago during which he told her that upon learning his European history, he had discovered there was an event called the Holocaust in which six-million Jews were massacred by Nazi Germans. She reacted with absolute rejection of that historic fact, saying instead that the Jews had made it up, and that she prayed that one day all the Jews in the world would bedestroyed. His sister was not saying anything new. As a child growing up in Saudi Arabia, Ali remembered his teachers, his mother, and their neighbors saying almost daily that Jews are evil, the sworn enemies of Muslims, and that their only goal was to destroy Islam. There was never a mention of the Holocaust. Ali says because of this fact of life in most of the Muslim world, Western leaders should not be surprised by the recent Holocaust denial conference held in Iran. But what troubles him most is that most of the mainstream Muslim world refused to denounce the conference.
KNOWLEDGE INCREASE (COMPUTERS) AND TRAVEL.
DANIEL 12:4
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
FEARFUL SIGHTS AND GREAT SIGNS FROM HEAVEN
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.
Space telescope to hunt planets DEC 28,2006
The French-led Corot mission has taken off from Kazakhstan on a quest to find planets outside our Solar System. The space telescope will monitor about 120,000 stars for tiny dips in brightness that result from planets passing across their faces. The multinational mission will also study the stars directly to uncover more about their interior behaviour. Corot blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 1423 GMT, carried into a polar orbit on a Soyuz-2-1b vehicle. A European Space Agency (Esa) spokeswoman said the take-off had gone smoothly. However, officials would not know until later whether the satellite had separated from its launcher correctly, she said.
From its vantage point 827km (514 miles) above the Earth, Corot will survey star fields for approximately 2.5 years. The French space agency, Cnes, is working with six international partners: Esa, Austria, Spain, Germany, Belgium and Brazil.
Chance observation
Ian Roxburgh, professor of astronomy at Queen Mary, University of London, UK, is the Esa scientist on the mission. The exciting part of this mission is to look, or to try to find, planets that are similar to the Earth, he told the BBC.
Finding a transit will involve a bit luck
That is, they'll be somewhat bigger than the Earth, but they'll be made of rocky material able to sustain an atmosphere, and probably provide the sort of environment in which life could form. And of course subsequently, many years downstream, we will have more sophisticated measurements, instruments that will look for signatures of life. But at this stage, we need to understand how often there are planets like the Earth around other stars. Corot will monitor the brightness of stars, looking for the slight drop in light caused by the transit of a planet.
This is a rare event - it relies on the chance alignment of the star and the planet with Earth. As a consequence, Corot must keep an eye on more than 100,000 stars.
Star tremors
With Corot, astronomers expect to find between 10 and 40 rocky objects slightly larger than Earth, together with tens of new gas giants similar to our Jupiter, in each star field they observe. Every 150 days, Corot will move to a new field and begin observing again. Its first target field is towards the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way.
Its next will be in the direction of the constellation Orion. Corot'sinstrumentation is also designed to detect the subtle variation in a star's light caused by sound waves rippling across the surface. These waves are the equivalent of seismic waves on the Earth. By studying these starquakes, astronomers can gain a detailed insight into the internal conditions of the star. Corot stands for Convection Rotation and planetary Transits.
The satellite is the first of a number of spacecraft that will hunt and study distant planets over the next few years.
1. 4CCD camera and electronics: Captures and analyses starlight
2. Baffle: Works to shield the telescope from extraneous light
3. Telescope: A 30cm mirror; it views the star fields
4. Proteus platform: Contains communication equipment, temperature controls and direction controls
5. Solar panel: Uses the Sun's radiation to power the satellite
ISRAEL WILL BECOME A NATION. LITERALLY IN THE SPRING.
GENESIS 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram,(CHANGED TO ABRAHAM LATER) Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:(PALESTINE,ISRAEL)
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
EZEKIEL 36:24
24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
EZEKIEL 37:9-28
9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds,(ALL THE WORLD) O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.(COME TO LIFE)
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.(ISRAEL WILL HAVE A POWERFUL ARMY)
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.(BURNED BY HITLER)
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.(THE DRY BONES COME TO LIFE IN ISRAEL)
13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
15 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:
17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
MATTHEW 24:32
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:(ISRAEL WAS LITERALLY REBORN JUST BEFORE SUMMER,MAY 14,1948).
MARK 13:28
28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:
DANIEL 9:24
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people (ISRAEL) and upon thy holy city,(JERUSALEM) to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
ISRAEL WILL BE IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM, THE SIGN OF THE START OF THE LAST GENERATION.
LUKE 21:24
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
These 2 things had to Happen to fulfill Daniels Prophecy. Israel become a Nation and in Control of Jerusalem. From Jerusalem being in Jewish hands , this was the beginning of the Final generation that will see all the Bibles Prophecies fulfilled and the Literal return to Earth of JESUS CHRIST (THE GOD OF ISRAEL AND THE WHOLE WORLD).
Like I always say GOD (JESUS) is the only leader that Died and came back to life, all other so called leaders of other Religions were just Men, they died and were burried like the Bible says. Proof there is only one way to Salvation through Christ the one GOD.
NO ALL PATHS DO NOT LEAD TO GOD, DONT BE DECIEVED INTO BELIEVING THIS LIE FROM HELL. The Bible says you can't get to heaven or the Father but through CHRIST. So yes Folks, there is only one way to Salvation, not many.
Immigration to Israel falls in 2006 DEC 28,2006
JERUSALEM - Immigration to Israel in 2006 slipped to its lowest level in 18 years, reflecting a shrunken pool of Jews living in former Soviet lands, figures released Thursday by a quasi-governmental agency showed. Some 21,000 immigrants moved to Israel in 2006, according to the Jewish Agency, which oversees immigration. That is down from 22,657 a year earlier and the smallest number since 1988, when 13,034 people moved to Israel.Immigration from the former Soviet Union fell by 23 percent to 9,378, continuing the downward trend of recent years. More than 1 million people have moved to Israel from the former eastern bloc since the Soviet Union began collapsing in 1989. Israel's total population is about 7 million.
Immigration from North America bucked the overall trend, rising 7 percent to 3,200. It was the second consecutive year of growth and reflected increased efforts to attract immigrants from the West. Under its Law of Return, Israel grants automatic citizenship to any Jew.About three years ago, the Jewish Agency concluded that the reservoir of immigrants from the former Soviet Union had dried up, and the potential for immigration lay in the West, said Michael Jankelowitz, a Jewish Agency spokesman.Today, Jews are coming to Israel out of free choice. They're not coming because they're running away from anything, he said. People are looking for a place where they can live their lives fully as Jews, in a majority culture.
Nearly 3 million immigrants have moved to Israel since its establishment in 1948, including about 118,000 from North America, according to Jewish Agency statistics.Yet the overall level of immigration from the U.S. and other wealthy countries remains low.
The U.S. has by far the largest concentration of Jews outside of Israel, numbering about 6 million.Earlier this week, Nefesh B'Nefesh, a grass roots group that helps North Americans move to Israel, reported its 10,000th immigrant since it launched its U.S.-based operations in 2001.
THE EU DICTATOR (CONTROLS THE WHOLE WORLD)
REVELATION 6:1-2,13:1-3,7-9,16
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(THIS IS THE EU DICTATOR)
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(7 HEADS ARE THE 7TH WORLD EMPIRE IN HISTORY (THE EU) AS WELL AS THE VATICAN WHICH IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS. 10 HORNS ARE 10 KINGS THAT ARISE FROM THE EU, THEN #11 COMES ON THE SCENE BECOMES THE HEAD OF 3 OUNTRIES AND THEN THE EU DICTATOR, COMES FROM 1 OF THE 3 COUNTRIES THAT RULE FOR THIS TERM. I BELIEVE THE 3 COUNTRIES RULING AT THE TIME ARE SPAIN AND 2 OF THE ORIGINAL 6 THAT STARTED THE EU. FROM 1 OF THESE 3 COUNTRIES COME THE FUTURE EU DICTATOR PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION WHO GUARENTEES ISRAELS SECURITY FOR A LAND FOR PEACE 7 YEAR TREATY.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(THE JEWISH EU DICTATOR GETS HIS POWER FROM SATAN,HE COMES FROM THE OCCULT).
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE DICTATOR HAS A FALSE RESURRECTION. JUST LIKE JESUS HAD A LITERAL RESURRECTION THIS DICTATOR GETS MURDERED AT THE 3 1/2 YR MARK OF THR 7 YEAR TREATY AND COMES BACK TO LIFE. THIS IS HOW HE CAN
CLAIM TO BE GOD AND GET AWAY WITH IT AND CONTROL THE WHOLE EARTH.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he 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.
December 27, 2006 BY MARK LOWY
New World Order-New Fix or New Failure?
Globalization and the new world order are profound failures. They are based on flawed economic logic that ignores need to have no government intervention in free markets controlled by supply and demand. Democracy can not be created by developing new economic markets based on government corruption. History indicates free states precede free markets. Politcal democracy creates economic democracy not the other way around.Conceptually, one world government is based on the idea international banking and other corporate interests can take over world governments just as they did in America. Henry Kissinger, Council on Foreign Relations said: Who controls the money controls the world. Proponents favor open borders, free trade, and international control over economic issues, and elimination of the present concept of national sovereignty in favor of a more global perspective on world governance.
Most agree with NEW WORLD ORDER views of Kissinger, David Rockefeller, Jimmie Carter, George H. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and many other globalists that a few wealthy individuals can better manage world government and economic affairs than any other government model especially those that rely on people governed to make decisions.
They think wealthy businesses are more intellectual and better capable of ruling in an orderly manner. Institutional tools were developed to accomplish purposes of one world government globalists. The United Nations is the first organization that helped globalists create other world institutions under the guise of international trade treaties such as GATT, and NAFTA to promote greater world prosperity through trade. World banking consolidation was a necessity to control the world’s supply of capital so accessible money for expansion could be used as a tool to persuade other countries to join the system. The World Trade Organization provides equal access to all markets but mostly the United States' by international corporations and countries that get preferred trade partner status. This creates opportunity to break down national sovereignty even more. International banking institutions like Citibank Group and corporations like Wal-Mart, Microsoft, and a litany of others are fighting to secure their place in the New World Order. Nations who don’t comply are deprived of the American consumer market and World Bank financing.
Once the one world government institutions were created with control over the money supply and consumer markets, they should have had an easy path to get to the final formation of the new world government. They just needed to convince individual populations of sovereign nations that it was best for them to give up national sovereignty for permanent prosperity in the New World Order. They tend to espouse the Neville Chamberlin philosophy of appeasement in the world markets.
They think if they give authoritarian governments an opportunity to realize benefits of free markets they will ultimately agree to more democratic forms of government and their will be world peace. So our leaders continue to give away the store by letting every dictator come and use our consumer markets while we give them free trade they cut us off and many small businesses in America are destroyed. This appeasement role will not create world peace through economic expansion. It is more likely to create world war through economic failures. Democracy and at least representative democracy is a necessity before any economic structure can survive. The people governed must be participants in the economic processes. Capitalism and free and fair markets follows freedom not the other way around.
The argument used to sell the public on the agenda is: Globalization increases the size of the world economic pie and wealth is increased for all companies and workers.
That argument is bogus. It is based on misconceptions that there is an inexhaustible supply of raw materials in vertical production business models that permit expansion of world wealth in the fictitious increasing economic pie and continued growth does not have added societal costs that offset the benefits. They fail to recognize the lack of logic followed by dictatorial governments that are ruled by a small group of people who don’t care if they live or die. Economic logic and free access to American markets is wasted on them. Current world economic model was developed in the 1700's by Adam Smith on the concept that only continued growth would create and maintain a high quality of life for society. That belief was based on the idea; increased wealth could only be created by continued business expansion and increased demands and supplies in a free market without government intervention. Selfish profit motive would theoretically control company operations creating new products, and competition would control corporate excesses so products would always be sold at the lowest cost based on supply and demand. Similar rules of supply and demand and selfish motivation applied to labor costs which would rise and fall based on market conditions.
Two basic problems exist with that theory. One is: free open competition does not exist in world economic markets. There are always a few companies and labor groups who fight to the top and control others with political control over world governments via lobbying. Those groups in turn control government policy and create monopolistic organizations that dictate not only economic but political and social policy. They both manipulate labor supply and dictate the cost of labor once they have control of government legislative processes. Labor unions artificially restrict labor supplies just as businesses increase it by any means possible to lower wages and increase profits. Adam Smith father of modern capitalist supply and demand theories of free markets urged suspicious attention to any proposed new law or regulation that comes from businessmen, because they have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public. He further stated: Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. He knew weaknesses of the capitalist free market system he proposed and those weaknesses apply to labor as well as the corporations who hire them. The ideal is to have balance of power between corporations and labor in any effective economic model because each are subject to corrupt influences detrimental to society. No economic model can succeed with corrupt governments that ignore the will of the people.
The world has learned lessons of monopolistic control with Robber Barrons in the 1800's. There is no altruistic motivation that provides benefit for society arising from these economic models that are manipulated by government and those involved from both labor and business. European labor unions have taught the lessons of monopolistic labor unions so greedy they are willing to destroy their governments for selfish motivation. For those who forget lessons of history we are about to get another dose of education but on a much larger scale. The second major problem with the continued growth economic model is: it was developed when world populations were small, and resources seemed inexhaustible. That is not the case now as the world has demonstrated shortages of water and basic government services and supplies because of overcrowding. Costs associated with overcrowding are well recognized but not included in the new world order economic models.The continued growth model was developed just after the last great Bubonic Plagues that ravaged European labor supplies. Labor was in short supply in many parts of Europe because of the massive deaths from the plague. Wages had to be increased to get and keep workers. Wealthier workers increased demand for luxury goods beyond the basic staples of life. It was an instance where reduced labor supplies increased cost of labor in compliance with the unfettered economic model defined by Smith. Economic growth benefited everyone. The model seemed to work well.
That labor cost increase was a lesson big business learned well. Business needs an increasing supply of labor and if possible an over supply of labor to control labor costs and maximize profits. That is being done now with business control of the US government elected officials and insistence of open borders to permit illegal aliens to increase the supply of labor. However they are forgetting the real hidden costs of this scheme that we all pay for. Organized big business now has greater political power than big labor. Consequently they are the ones who decide what type of government we are going to have.Overcrowded city infrastructures are being devastated as people look for survival in areas with jobs. Jails, schools, sewers and help centers are overflowing. Demands on government services at the local level are exploding. None of these social costs are recognized by governments and assessed in some form of taxation against those receiving windfall profits based on local government picking up the hidden societal costs. That cost will ultimately come back to haunt them. The sad part is we all will have to pay the price of overcrowding and over consumption of government benefits. We are all paying for this with much higher taxes that reduce our purchasing power further. Our elected leaders must recognize economic, political and social impact of the NEW WORLD ORDER, and its defined objectives of domination of world economies and in turn world government. There must be a balance of economic, political and social power between those corporations and the people governed. Representative democracy in the United States is struggling now. It will not be able to survive in the new world order.Globalization and the New World Order is based on false premises that could conceivably result in destruction of world wide national sovereignty and consumer markets, economic disaster and possible terrorist world wars over scarcity of supplies.
It looks like we all have to keep an eye open for the prospect of drastic economic downturns as economic problems begin to geometrically progress and the American consumer market faces destruction. If there are no buyers there are no big returns for anybody. The only things that will slow progress of the new world order representative democracy, those nations controlled by authoritarian dictatorships and widespread terrorist warfare. The last two will take whatever they can and subjugate the rest of the world under their authoritarian rule.The new world order is a profound failure. It is based on flawed economic logic that ignores need to have no government intervention in free markets controlled by supply and demand. Democracy can not be created by developing new economic markets based on government corruption. Free economic markets arise from free states not the other way around.-- Mark Lowy, Member SU71, retired and living in hell, the worst USA Sanctuary City; Corrupt, Backwater, Lawless, Lexington, Ky.Nothing unplanned happens in government FDR. Evil can’t win unless good people do nothing”... IT AIN'T OVER!
Friday, December 29, 2006
Thursday, December 28, 2006
TERROR GROUPS FORM GUERRILLA ARMIES
1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS. 2-Small earthquake rattles SoCal desert. 3-Quakes disrupt Asia communications. 4-Another Rockies to High Plains Snowstorm. 5-Fire alert: this is just the beginning. 6-A MESSAGE FROM RABBI ECKSTEIN. 7-Iran heads for key nuclear vote. 8-Army Begs: Let Us Fire Back! 9-EU says it's concerned about Israeli settlement. 10-Terror groups use cease fire to form guerrilla armies.
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 = Thu Dec 28 2:00 AM EDT
DEC 28 NO QUAKES YET
DEC 27,06
MAP 3.1 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.2 HAWAII REGION, HAWAII
MAP 6.0 REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 3.2 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.1 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
MAP 3.0 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 2.9 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 5.0 TONGA
MAP 2.9 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.6 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.6 TAIWAN
DEC 26,2006
MAP 5.2 KEPULAUAN SANGIHE, INDONESIA
MAP 2.8 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.8 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 5.7 WEST OF MACQUARIE ISLAND
MAP 2.5 OFFSHORE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.2 NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
MAP 5.4 TAIWAN REGION
MAP 5.4 TAIWAN
MAP 5.9 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.5 WYOMING
MAP 3.4 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.5 TAIWAN REGION
MAP 6.9 TAIWAN
MAP 7.1 TAIWAN REGION
MAP 4.7 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 5.0 SOUTHWEST OF AUSTRALIA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.5 JUJUY, ARGENTINA
MAP 2.9 GULF OF ALASKA
MAP 2.9 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
Small earthquake rattles SoCal desert Wed Dec 27, 11:09 PM ET
COACHELLA, Calif. A small earthquake rattled the desert Wednesday, but there were no immediate reports of any injuries or damage, authorities said.
The magnitude-3.1 temblor struck at 1:36 p.m. and was centered eight miles northeast of Coachella, according to a preliminary report from the U.S. Geological Survey.A dispatcher for the Riverside County Sheriff's Department said there were no reports of damage or injuries.
Quakes disrupt Asia communications
POSTED: 1104 GMT (1904 HKT), December 27, 2006 CNN
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -- Telecommunications around Asia were severely disrupted on Wednesday after earthquakes off Taiwan damaged undersea cables, slowing Internet services and hindering financial transactions, particularly in the currency market.Banks and businesses across the region reported problems with communications, with some telephone lines cut and Internet access slowing to a crawl.South Korea's top fixed-line and broadband service provider, KT Corp, said in a statement that six submarine cables were knocked out by Tuesday night's earthquakes.Twenty-seven of our customers were hit, including banks and churches, a KT spokesman said. It is not known yet when we can fully restore the services.Banks in Seoul said foreign exchange trading had been affected.Trading of the Korean won has mostly halted due to the communication problem, said a dealer at one domestic bank.
Some disruption was also reported in the important Tokyo currency market but the EBS system that handles much dollar/yen trading appeared to be working.Global information company Reuters Group Plc said all users of its services in Japan and South Korea had been affected.One Tokyo foreign exchange trader said: There are many currencies in which market-making is being conducted via Reuters and such currencies such as the Australian dollar and the British pound are in a very tenuous situation now.
State secret
In China, trading in currencies and copper appeared to be normal and both the Shanghai stock market and money market were working.But China Telecommunications Group, the country's biggest fixed-line telephone operator and parent of China Telecom Corp., said the earthquakes had affected lines from the Chinese mainland to places including the Taiwan area, the United States and Europe, and many have been cut.Internet connections have been seriously affected, and phone links and dedicated business lines have also been affected to some degree, it said.Officials declined to give further details. Undersea communications cables fall in the area of state secrets, said a ministry of communications official in Beijing.The main quake, measured by Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau at magnitude 6.7 and at magnitude 7.1 by the U.S. Geological Survey, struck off Taiwan's southern coast at 1226 GMT on Tuesday. Two people were killed.Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom said two of four major undersea cables out of Taiwan had been affected. Voice circuits had been reduced to 40 per cent of capacity to the United States and just 2 per cent to most parts of
Southeast Asia.
KDDI Corp., Japan's second-largest telecoms company, said communications along submarine cables out of Japan went through Taiwan before reaching Southeast Asian countries, which was leading to disruption.But it said communications were unlikely to break down completely since there were alternative lines.PCCW, Hong Kong's main fixed-line telecoms provider, said several undersea cables it part-owned had been damaged. Data transfer is down by half, a spokeswoman said.Both Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel), Southeast Asia's top phone company, and local rival StarHub Ltd., said customers were suffering slow access to Internet pages.But SingTel said traffic was being diverted and repair work was in progress, adding: Our submarine cables linking to Europe and the U.S. are not affected.Reuters.
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.
Another Rockies to High Plains Snowstorm J. Wilson, Meteorologist, The Weather Channel DEC 27,06
The storm that brought 50 to 100+ mph winds, 1-2 feet of mountain snow, and heavy rain through California will shift eastward into the interior West today. Snowfall accumulations from the sprawling system will coat areas from Montana southward to the high country of New Mexico and Arizona. Numerous winter storm watches and warnings are now posted for the major snow and wind threat to move from Montana to Arizona, Colorado to New Mexico, and into the western High Plains to the western Dakotas by Thursday night into Friday. This storm will be a very slow mover and will turn into a winter headache right through the weekend.
Snow will begin to fly along the Front Range by afternoon into the early evening. The slow movement and strength of the storm will bring heavy snow and strong winds for areas along the east slopes of the Rockies and adjacent High Plains into Saturday. This will bring snow totals in the range of 10 to 20 inches with locally higher amounts in the mountains with massive drifts and stinging winds as the event unfolds through Saturday.
Travel will be dangerous on all major highways near the central Rockies to High Plains by Thursday Night into Friday along I-25, I-76, I-70, and I-80 and at airports, including Denver to Cheyenne. Be ready for the severe conditions and be ready to take cover during the height of the storm. Another threat for this powerful storm will be developing thunderstorms on late Thursday in early Friday in southeast to western and central Texas. These storms will gather strength and have a potential for severe gusty winds and isolated tornadoes on Friday from eastern Texas into Arkansas and Louisiana. The threat will slowly move eastward along the Gulf of Mexico and western Tennessee Valley into Saturday. The slow movement of the storms will bring the chance for excessive heavy rain in addition to the strong storms. The thunderstorm and severe potential will need to be monitored closely if you have any travel plans for the Holidays.
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.
Fire alert: this is just the beginning
Email Print Normal font Large font Dan Harrison,December 28, 2006
FIRE services used another day of mild conditions yesterday to recharge, regroup and reassess their tactics for a bushfire season that promises to test their endurance.Department of Sustainability and Environment spokesman Kevin Monk said the fires that have blackened more than 870,000 hectares did not threaten any property yesterday, but warned people not to become complacent.We keep saying to people, it's only December. We've got a lot of summer to go yet, he said.Mr Monk said the rain that had fallen in several fire areas over recent days had been a mixed blessing, reducing the intensity of blazes but also hampering some fire control efforts.It's prevented us from doing back-burning. Access has been difficult in places because it's too slippery and wet to get into, and also some of the clouds have prevented our infra-red mapping aircraft from flying the edge of the fire.
Country Fire Authority state duty officer Peter Baker said no towns were under threat and encouraged holidaymakers to visit fire-affected communities. But he urged residents of fire-prone areas to remain vigilant.The fire activity has subsided … but there are still an enormous number of hot spots within the fire, he said.As many local firefighters enjoy their first decent break in weeks, 27 Northern Territory firefighters were due to arrive last night, to be joined today by about 10 from NSW and South Australia.About 55 New Zealanders and up to 70 Canadians are expected to arrive early in January, and Victorian authorities are in talks with their United States counterparts about further reinforcements.
A MESSAGE FROM RABBI ECKSTEIN
Stan,
The following biblical words came to my mind recently when I learned there were over 35,000 impoverished pre-school and kindergarten children across Israel in need of food: Feed the hungry, and help those in trouble. Then your light will shine out from the darkness. (Isaiah 58:10) In response to this great need, The Fellowship will be the light to these needy children by providing them with a hot lunch every school day for a year -- for only $92 per child! That meal is likely the only one these children will have in the course of their day.
Can we count on your donation today to help feed these children?
Think about it. For less than $8 per month, a poor Israeli child can receive a nutritious school lunch for an entire year. This is truly a small investment that provides a very rich return! The Fellowship has made the commitment to help 35,000 children through this program in 2007. And, to get started, we have set the goal of raising $92,000 before January 1 -- just five days from today. This will be enough to feed 1,000 children next year. It is an ambitious goal -- and we need your help to reach it. Please join us in this important work by giving a gift of $92 to feed one child in Israel for an entire year, or $184 to feed two children. Or, perhaps God has laid it upon your heart to provide meals for a child for six months for a gift of $46. Please make an online donation today, and know that your gift of any amount will be a great blessing to a hungry child. Thank you, my friend, for shining your light upon poor Israeli children through this important ministry.
With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
Iran heads for key nuclear vote
POSTED: 0915 GMT (1715 HKT), December 27, 2006
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran's parliament is debating how its government should respond to International Atomic Energy Agency demands for inspections and monitoring of its nuclear production facilities, and a decisive vote could happen Wednesday.
The parliament decided Sunday that it would revise its relationship with the IAEA in the wake of the U.N. Security Council voted to impose sanctions on Iran for failing to suspend its nuclear program.The U.N. resolution, passed by all 15 council members, orders all countries to ban the supply of materials and technology that could contribute to Iran's nuclear and missile programs. It also freezes assets of companies and individuals in the country's nuclear and missile programs. These are identified on a U.N. list.
The resolution is a reaction to Iran's failure to comply with an August 31 U.N. deadline to suspend uranium enrichment work and resume negotiations.While there is disagreement within the Iranian government on how it should respond to the international community's pressure, the parliament is seeking to create a united front for Iran which might include cooperation with the IAEA but with some conditions placed on inspections.The parliament's conclusions would become guidance for the government of President Ahmadinejad in dealing with the IAEA.
ISRAELS TROUBLE
JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.
DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same
time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
Army Begs: Let Us Fire Back!
By Hillel Fendel (INN)
The government's restraint in the face of the rocket attacks is immoral, ineffective, and must end. So say various IDF officers, as Olmert convenes an emergency security meeting this morning. Defense Minister Amir Peretz said it last night, following the serious wounding of two boys in Sderot by a Kassam rocket, and increasing numbers of army officers are now saying it publicly as well: The policy of restraint must end.Peretz told Olmert last night that Israel can no longer afford to restrain its fire. IDF forces are currently not permitted even to fire at a Kassam rocket launching cell, unless the soldiers' lives are directly and immediately endangered.Col. (ret.) Moshe Hager, a deputy division head during Operation Defensive Shield in 2002, told Arutz-7, The current policy is immoral - not because of any given Kassam attack, but because every minute, Gaza is becoming more and more like Lebanon, as the terrorists increase their military capabilities. The Negev will soon be lost to us, at this rate.
Hager's recommendation is to conquer all of Gaza, kill all the terrorists, install mayors whom we support, and realize that the Palestinian Authority has not fulfilled its Oslo commitments and that the Oslo Accords no longer exist... At the very least, the northern Gaza areas must be conquered in order to shorten the range of Kassam rockets. In addition, the Philadelphi corridor in southern Gaza must also be conquered; it will be hard, but it's absolutely imperative, in order to crumble the terrorist infrastructures, just like during Operation Defensive Shield.An unnamed government source, quoted on Voice of Israel Radio, said that the security establishment would recommend putting an end to restraint and taking military action against the rocket launchers.The IDF's inaction gives immunity to the rocket launching cells, an unnamed army official told Ynet. In the past, a terrorist who went out on a rocket launching mission thought seven times whether it was worth it and what were the chances that he would be hit. Now, he doesn't have to think even twice.Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Yom Tov Samiyeh, a former IDF Southern Region Commander, told Army Radio today that if we don't want to end up having to re-conquer all of Gaza - and I don't want to; who needs it? - then we had better implement smaller-scale military measures to uproot the terrorist infrastructure there.It is assumed that Prime Minister Olmert is still trying to fulfill his promises to Palestinian Authority chairman Abu Mazen at their Saturday night meeting. Olmert promises to remove many security checkpoints throughout Judea and Samaria - though the army is reviewing the issue and this will not happen until next week at the earliest.
Olmert also promised to free up $100 million in tax monies that Israel had been withholding.The wounding of the two boys last night was the climax of a day of Kassam rockets against Israel. No fewer than eight rockets were fired, the most in one day since the ceasefire took effect just over a month ago. Damage was caused, and one rocket landed dangerously close to a sensitive infrastructure in southern Ashkelon.
Noticeably differing in his approach is Yuval Diskin, the head of the General Security Service (Shabak). Diskin has recommended that Israel act diplomatically, not militarily. Just two days ago, Israel submitted a detailed complaint to the UN against the PA and its continued ceasefire violations.Meanwhile, Shimon Peres continues to reach out to Israel's deadliest enemies. In a speech in Spain last night, the Vice Prime Minister said he believes Hamas is an important factor in the Middle East peace process, and that the organization should play a role in it. Israel's official position is to conduct no negotiations with Hamas as long as it continues not to recognize Israel's right to exist and calls for its destruction.
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.
EU says it's concerned about Israeli settlement
27 Dec 2006 15:44:35 GMT,Source: Reuters
More HELSINKI, Dec 27 (Reuters) - The European Union said on Wednesday it was deeply concerned about Israel's plan to turn a former army base in the occupied West Bank into a settlement for 30 Jewish settler families evacuated from Gaza last year.A U.S.-backed Israeli-Palestinian peace plan known as the road map calls for a halt to settlement construction in the West Bank, land Palestinians want for a state.This development runs contrary to the commitment undertaken by Israel in the road map, Finland, which holds the rotating presidency of the EU, said in a statement.The Presidency of the European Union expresses its deep concern at the news that the Israeli Government has authorised the construction of the Maskiot settlement in the West Bank.
Such unilateral actions are also illegal under international law and threaten to render the two-state solution physically impossible to implement, it said.The families planning to move to the former army base in Maskiot lived in two of the 21 settlements Israel dismantled in the Gaza Strip in 2005 under a disengagement plan promoted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
Some 8,500 settlers were pulled out of the Gaza Strip, along with Israeli troops, after 38 years of occupation.The Presidency of the EU urges the parties to refrain from all activities that would endanger the ceasefire, Finland said. Extending the ceasefire to the West Bank must be an urgent goal.Some 260,000 settlers live in the West Bank, among 2.5 million Palestinians. The World Court has branded Israeli settlements on land captured in the 1967 Middle East war as illegal. Israel disputes this.
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)
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
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.
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
Terror groups use cease fire to form guerrilla armies
Palestinians enhancing capabilities, working to mimic Hezbollah warfare
December 27, 2006,1:00 a.m. Eastern,By Aaron Klein,WorldNetDaily.com
TEL AVIV -- Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups have been using a cease-fire agreed to last month to smuggle weapons into the Gaza Strip and build Hezbollah-like guerilla armies to confront the Jewish state, according to the Israeli Defense Forces. In another few months, in the Gaza Strip we will have to deal with military capabilities of the terror organizations that we haven't been familiar with until now, said Sami Turjeman, head of the IDF's operations department.
Yossi Beidetz, head of research for the IDF's military intelligence unit, warned Hamas has been using the cease-fire, which went into effect Nov. 26, to strengthen its forces and prepare for conflict with Israel. Senior defense officials told WND Palestinian terror groups in Gaza have been focusing their weapons procurement and training efforts on mimicking guerrilla warfare actions carried out by Hezbollah during its confrontation against Israel in Lebanon this past summer.
The officials said the Palestinian groups learned Hezbollah-like tactics, such as raids of military installations and the use of antitank fire, can be more effective than ordinary terror attacks. The officials said Hezbollah militants have been aiding in Palestinian training efforts in the Egyptian Sinai desert bordering the Gaza Strip. They also said more than 20 tons of weapons have been brought into
Gaza from the neighboring Sinai desert in the last 10 months, including a large number of anti-tank missiles, which caused the highest number of Israeli military casualties during the last Lebanon war.
The officials said the Palestinian terror groups are also focusing much of their efforts on smuggling from Egypt longer-range missiles such as advanced Qassams and Katyusha rockets, which could target Jewish communities deeper into Israel similar to Hezbollah's use of Katyusha rockets that devastated northern Israel last summer. Israel withdrew from Gaza in August 2005. In a deal brokered in November by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the Egypt-Gaza border, once controlled by the Jewish state, now is manned by Egyptian and Palestinian security officials and observed by European monitors. The monitors reportedly have fled their duty several times the past few months. Israeli security officials have noted multiple breaches in border security, including the open transport of terrorists and weapons across the border.
They say several key sections of the border are penetrable and that smuggling tunnels that snake under the border are thriving.
Terror leaders admit: We are copying Hezbollah
Speaking to WND, senior terror leaders in Gaza, including militants from Palestinian Authority President Abbas' Fatah party, admitted they are working to copy Hezbollah warfare tactics.
We are turning Gaza into south Lebanon, Abu Ahmed, northern Gaza leader for the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group told WND. We learned from Hezbollah's victory that Israel can be defeated if we know how to hit them and if we are well prepared, Abu Ahmed said. We are importing rockets and the knowledge to launch them and we are also making many plans for battle. Abu Abdullah, a leader of Hamas so-called military wing told WND his group is preparing for war against Israel. In the last 15 months, even though the fighters of Hamas kept the cease-fire, we did not stop making important advancements and professional training on the military level. In the future, after Hamas is obliged to stop the cease-fire, the world shall see our new military capabilities, said Abu Abdullah, who is considered one of the most important operational members of Hamas' Izzedine al-Qassam Martyrs Brigades, Hamas' declared resistance department. Al Aqsa's Abu Ahmed said his group is receiving help from Hezbollah to import long-range rockets and train in guerrilla warfare tactics. We have warm relations with Hezbollah, which helps with some of the training programs, Abu Ahmed said. We don't have anything to be ashamed of – that we are dealing with Hezbollah and that we are receiving training and information from them.
He said Hezbollah maintains cells in the Sinai.
The Sinai is an excellent ground for training, the exchange of information and weapons and for meetings on how to turn every piece of land into usable territory for a confrontation with Israel, Abu Ahmed said.
Palestinians establishing Gaza war bunkers
Abu Ahmed said Palestinian groups are developing war bunkers inside Gaza similar to the underground Hezbollah lairs Israel found during the war in Lebanon. Our preparations include the building of special bunkers. Of course, we are taking into consideration that Gaza is not the same topography as Lebanon, Abu Ahmed said. During its confrontation with Hezbollah, Israel destroyed scores of complex bunkers that snaked along the Lebanese side of the Israel-Lebanon border. Military officials said they were surprised by the scale of the Hezbollah bunkers, in which Israeli troops reportedly found war rooms stocked with advanced eavesdropping and surveillance equipment they noted were made by Iran. Abu Ahmed said the most important tool in the Palestinian resistance arsenal was rockets. He said his group learned from Hezbollah that Israel can be defeated with missiles. We saw that with the capacity to bombard the Israeli population with hundreds of rockets every day we can change the strategic balance with Israel, he said.
Since Israel's Gaza withdrawal, Palestinian terror groups have been regularly firing rockets at nearby Jewish communities, even after a cease-fire went into effect last month. The terrorists generally have fired three versions of Qassam rockets, improvised steel projectiles filled with explosives and fuel. Qassams can travel between one and five miles depending on the sophistication of the particular rocket.Israel has noted improvements in Qassams, including rockets carrying double engines. Israeli security officials say a large number of Katyusha rockets have been brought into Gaza. Katyushas can travel about 12 miles and can deliver large payloads. Hezbollah fired more than 2,800 Katyusha rockets into Israel in July and August. In August, Islamic Jihad fired a Katyusha rocket into the Israeli Negev. It landed in an empty area. In June, the group fired a Katyusha-like rocket that traveled about nine miles. The Katyusha we fired (in August) shows we can have every weapon we need, said Abu Ahmed. It is only a matter of a small period before Gaza is ready for war.
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 = Thu Dec 28 2:00 AM EDT
DEC 28 NO QUAKES YET
DEC 27,06
MAP 3.1 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.2 HAWAII REGION, HAWAII
MAP 6.0 REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 3.2 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.1 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
MAP 3.0 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 2.9 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 5.0 TONGA
MAP 2.9 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.6 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.6 TAIWAN
DEC 26,2006
MAP 5.2 KEPULAUAN SANGIHE, INDONESIA
MAP 2.8 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.8 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 5.7 WEST OF MACQUARIE ISLAND
MAP 2.5 OFFSHORE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.2 NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
MAP 5.4 TAIWAN REGION
MAP 5.4 TAIWAN
MAP 5.9 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.5 WYOMING
MAP 3.4 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.5 TAIWAN REGION
MAP 6.9 TAIWAN
MAP 7.1 TAIWAN REGION
MAP 4.7 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 5.0 SOUTHWEST OF AUSTRALIA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.5 JUJUY, ARGENTINA
MAP 2.9 GULF OF ALASKA
MAP 2.9 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
Small earthquake rattles SoCal desert Wed Dec 27, 11:09 PM ET
COACHELLA, Calif. A small earthquake rattled the desert Wednesday, but there were no immediate reports of any injuries or damage, authorities said.
The magnitude-3.1 temblor struck at 1:36 p.m. and was centered eight miles northeast of Coachella, according to a preliminary report from the U.S. Geological Survey.A dispatcher for the Riverside County Sheriff's Department said there were no reports of damage or injuries.
Quakes disrupt Asia communications
POSTED: 1104 GMT (1904 HKT), December 27, 2006 CNN
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -- Telecommunications around Asia were severely disrupted on Wednesday after earthquakes off Taiwan damaged undersea cables, slowing Internet services and hindering financial transactions, particularly in the currency market.Banks and businesses across the region reported problems with communications, with some telephone lines cut and Internet access slowing to a crawl.South Korea's top fixed-line and broadband service provider, KT Corp, said in a statement that six submarine cables were knocked out by Tuesday night's earthquakes.Twenty-seven of our customers were hit, including banks and churches, a KT spokesman said. It is not known yet when we can fully restore the services.Banks in Seoul said foreign exchange trading had been affected.Trading of the Korean won has mostly halted due to the communication problem, said a dealer at one domestic bank.
Some disruption was also reported in the important Tokyo currency market but the EBS system that handles much dollar/yen trading appeared to be working.Global information company Reuters Group Plc said all users of its services in Japan and South Korea had been affected.One Tokyo foreign exchange trader said: There are many currencies in which market-making is being conducted via Reuters and such currencies such as the Australian dollar and the British pound are in a very tenuous situation now.
State secret
In China, trading in currencies and copper appeared to be normal and both the Shanghai stock market and money market were working.But China Telecommunications Group, the country's biggest fixed-line telephone operator and parent of China Telecom Corp., said the earthquakes had affected lines from the Chinese mainland to places including the Taiwan area, the United States and Europe, and many have been cut.Internet connections have been seriously affected, and phone links and dedicated business lines have also been affected to some degree, it said.Officials declined to give further details. Undersea communications cables fall in the area of state secrets, said a ministry of communications official in Beijing.The main quake, measured by Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau at magnitude 6.7 and at magnitude 7.1 by the U.S. Geological Survey, struck off Taiwan's southern coast at 1226 GMT on Tuesday. Two people were killed.Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom said two of four major undersea cables out of Taiwan had been affected. Voice circuits had been reduced to 40 per cent of capacity to the United States and just 2 per cent to most parts of
Southeast Asia.
KDDI Corp., Japan's second-largest telecoms company, said communications along submarine cables out of Japan went through Taiwan before reaching Southeast Asian countries, which was leading to disruption.But it said communications were unlikely to break down completely since there were alternative lines.PCCW, Hong Kong's main fixed-line telecoms provider, said several undersea cables it part-owned had been damaged. Data transfer is down by half, a spokeswoman said.Both Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel), Southeast Asia's top phone company, and local rival StarHub Ltd., said customers were suffering slow access to Internet pages.But SingTel said traffic was being diverted and repair work was in progress, adding: Our submarine cables linking to Europe and the U.S. are not affected.Reuters.
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.
Another Rockies to High Plains Snowstorm J. Wilson, Meteorologist, The Weather Channel DEC 27,06
The storm that brought 50 to 100+ mph winds, 1-2 feet of mountain snow, and heavy rain through California will shift eastward into the interior West today. Snowfall accumulations from the sprawling system will coat areas from Montana southward to the high country of New Mexico and Arizona. Numerous winter storm watches and warnings are now posted for the major snow and wind threat to move from Montana to Arizona, Colorado to New Mexico, and into the western High Plains to the western Dakotas by Thursday night into Friday. This storm will be a very slow mover and will turn into a winter headache right through the weekend.
Snow will begin to fly along the Front Range by afternoon into the early evening. The slow movement and strength of the storm will bring heavy snow and strong winds for areas along the east slopes of the Rockies and adjacent High Plains into Saturday. This will bring snow totals in the range of 10 to 20 inches with locally higher amounts in the mountains with massive drifts and stinging winds as the event unfolds through Saturday.
Travel will be dangerous on all major highways near the central Rockies to High Plains by Thursday Night into Friday along I-25, I-76, I-70, and I-80 and at airports, including Denver to Cheyenne. Be ready for the severe conditions and be ready to take cover during the height of the storm. Another threat for this powerful storm will be developing thunderstorms on late Thursday in early Friday in southeast to western and central Texas. These storms will gather strength and have a potential for severe gusty winds and isolated tornadoes on Friday from eastern Texas into Arkansas and Louisiana. The threat will slowly move eastward along the Gulf of Mexico and western Tennessee Valley into Saturday. The slow movement of the storms will bring the chance for excessive heavy rain in addition to the strong storms. The thunderstorm and severe potential will need to be monitored closely if you have any travel plans for the Holidays.
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.
Fire alert: this is just the beginning
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FIRE services used another day of mild conditions yesterday to recharge, regroup and reassess their tactics for a bushfire season that promises to test their endurance.Department of Sustainability and Environment spokesman Kevin Monk said the fires that have blackened more than 870,000 hectares did not threaten any property yesterday, but warned people not to become complacent.We keep saying to people, it's only December. We've got a lot of summer to go yet, he said.Mr Monk said the rain that had fallen in several fire areas over recent days had been a mixed blessing, reducing the intensity of blazes but also hampering some fire control efforts.It's prevented us from doing back-burning. Access has been difficult in places because it's too slippery and wet to get into, and also some of the clouds have prevented our infra-red mapping aircraft from flying the edge of the fire.
Country Fire Authority state duty officer Peter Baker said no towns were under threat and encouraged holidaymakers to visit fire-affected communities. But he urged residents of fire-prone areas to remain vigilant.The fire activity has subsided … but there are still an enormous number of hot spots within the fire, he said.As many local firefighters enjoy their first decent break in weeks, 27 Northern Territory firefighters were due to arrive last night, to be joined today by about 10 from NSW and South Australia.About 55 New Zealanders and up to 70 Canadians are expected to arrive early in January, and Victorian authorities are in talks with their United States counterparts about further reinforcements.
A MESSAGE FROM RABBI ECKSTEIN
Stan,
The following biblical words came to my mind recently when I learned there were over 35,000 impoverished pre-school and kindergarten children across Israel in need of food: Feed the hungry, and help those in trouble. Then your light will shine out from the darkness. (Isaiah 58:10) In response to this great need, The Fellowship will be the light to these needy children by providing them with a hot lunch every school day for a year -- for only $92 per child! That meal is likely the only one these children will have in the course of their day.
Can we count on your donation today to help feed these children?
Think about it. For less than $8 per month, a poor Israeli child can receive a nutritious school lunch for an entire year. This is truly a small investment that provides a very rich return! The Fellowship has made the commitment to help 35,000 children through this program in 2007. And, to get started, we have set the goal of raising $92,000 before January 1 -- just five days from today. This will be enough to feed 1,000 children next year. It is an ambitious goal -- and we need your help to reach it. Please join us in this important work by giving a gift of $92 to feed one child in Israel for an entire year, or $184 to feed two children. Or, perhaps God has laid it upon your heart to provide meals for a child for six months for a gift of $46. Please make an online donation today, and know that your gift of any amount will be a great blessing to a hungry child. Thank you, my friend, for shining your light upon poor Israeli children through this important ministry.
With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
Iran heads for key nuclear vote
POSTED: 0915 GMT (1715 HKT), December 27, 2006
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran's parliament is debating how its government should respond to International Atomic Energy Agency demands for inspections and monitoring of its nuclear production facilities, and a decisive vote could happen Wednesday.
The parliament decided Sunday that it would revise its relationship with the IAEA in the wake of the U.N. Security Council voted to impose sanctions on Iran for failing to suspend its nuclear program.The U.N. resolution, passed by all 15 council members, orders all countries to ban the supply of materials and technology that could contribute to Iran's nuclear and missile programs. It also freezes assets of companies and individuals in the country's nuclear and missile programs. These are identified on a U.N. list.
The resolution is a reaction to Iran's failure to comply with an August 31 U.N. deadline to suspend uranium enrichment work and resume negotiations.While there is disagreement within the Iranian government on how it should respond to the international community's pressure, the parliament is seeking to create a united front for Iran which might include cooperation with the IAEA but with some conditions placed on inspections.The parliament's conclusions would become guidance for the government of President Ahmadinejad in dealing with the IAEA.
ISRAELS TROUBLE
JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.
DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same
time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
Army Begs: Let Us Fire Back!
By Hillel Fendel (INN)
The government's restraint in the face of the rocket attacks is immoral, ineffective, and must end. So say various IDF officers, as Olmert convenes an emergency security meeting this morning. Defense Minister Amir Peretz said it last night, following the serious wounding of two boys in Sderot by a Kassam rocket, and increasing numbers of army officers are now saying it publicly as well: The policy of restraint must end.Peretz told Olmert last night that Israel can no longer afford to restrain its fire. IDF forces are currently not permitted even to fire at a Kassam rocket launching cell, unless the soldiers' lives are directly and immediately endangered.Col. (ret.) Moshe Hager, a deputy division head during Operation Defensive Shield in 2002, told Arutz-7, The current policy is immoral - not because of any given Kassam attack, but because every minute, Gaza is becoming more and more like Lebanon, as the terrorists increase their military capabilities. The Negev will soon be lost to us, at this rate.
Hager's recommendation is to conquer all of Gaza, kill all the terrorists, install mayors whom we support, and realize that the Palestinian Authority has not fulfilled its Oslo commitments and that the Oslo Accords no longer exist... At the very least, the northern Gaza areas must be conquered in order to shorten the range of Kassam rockets. In addition, the Philadelphi corridor in southern Gaza must also be conquered; it will be hard, but it's absolutely imperative, in order to crumble the terrorist infrastructures, just like during Operation Defensive Shield.An unnamed government source, quoted on Voice of Israel Radio, said that the security establishment would recommend putting an end to restraint and taking military action against the rocket launchers.The IDF's inaction gives immunity to the rocket launching cells, an unnamed army official told Ynet. In the past, a terrorist who went out on a rocket launching mission thought seven times whether it was worth it and what were the chances that he would be hit. Now, he doesn't have to think even twice.Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Yom Tov Samiyeh, a former IDF Southern Region Commander, told Army Radio today that if we don't want to end up having to re-conquer all of Gaza - and I don't want to; who needs it? - then we had better implement smaller-scale military measures to uproot the terrorist infrastructure there.It is assumed that Prime Minister Olmert is still trying to fulfill his promises to Palestinian Authority chairman Abu Mazen at their Saturday night meeting. Olmert promises to remove many security checkpoints throughout Judea and Samaria - though the army is reviewing the issue and this will not happen until next week at the earliest.
Olmert also promised to free up $100 million in tax monies that Israel had been withholding.The wounding of the two boys last night was the climax of a day of Kassam rockets against Israel. No fewer than eight rockets were fired, the most in one day since the ceasefire took effect just over a month ago. Damage was caused, and one rocket landed dangerously close to a sensitive infrastructure in southern Ashkelon.
Noticeably differing in his approach is Yuval Diskin, the head of the General Security Service (Shabak). Diskin has recommended that Israel act diplomatically, not militarily. Just two days ago, Israel submitted a detailed complaint to the UN against the PA and its continued ceasefire violations.Meanwhile, Shimon Peres continues to reach out to Israel's deadliest enemies. In a speech in Spain last night, the Vice Prime Minister said he believes Hamas is an important factor in the Middle East peace process, and that the organization should play a role in it. Israel's official position is to conduct no negotiations with Hamas as long as it continues not to recognize Israel's right to exist and calls for its destruction.
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.
EU says it's concerned about Israeli settlement
27 Dec 2006 15:44:35 GMT,Source: Reuters
More HELSINKI, Dec 27 (Reuters) - The European Union said on Wednesday it was deeply concerned about Israel's plan to turn a former army base in the occupied West Bank into a settlement for 30 Jewish settler families evacuated from Gaza last year.A U.S.-backed Israeli-Palestinian peace plan known as the road map calls for a halt to settlement construction in the West Bank, land Palestinians want for a state.This development runs contrary to the commitment undertaken by Israel in the road map, Finland, which holds the rotating presidency of the EU, said in a statement.The Presidency of the European Union expresses its deep concern at the news that the Israeli Government has authorised the construction of the Maskiot settlement in the West Bank.
Such unilateral actions are also illegal under international law and threaten to render the two-state solution physically impossible to implement, it said.The families planning to move to the former army base in Maskiot lived in two of the 21 settlements Israel dismantled in the Gaza Strip in 2005 under a disengagement plan promoted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
Some 8,500 settlers were pulled out of the Gaza Strip, along with Israeli troops, after 38 years of occupation.The Presidency of the EU urges the parties to refrain from all activities that would endanger the ceasefire, Finland said. Extending the ceasefire to the West Bank must be an urgent goal.Some 260,000 settlers live in the West Bank, among 2.5 million Palestinians. The World Court has branded Israeli settlements on land captured in the 1967 Middle East war as illegal. Israel disputes this.
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)
EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
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.
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
Terror groups use cease fire to form guerrilla armies
Palestinians enhancing capabilities, working to mimic Hezbollah warfare
December 27, 2006,1:00 a.m. Eastern,By Aaron Klein,WorldNetDaily.com
TEL AVIV -- Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups have been using a cease-fire agreed to last month to smuggle weapons into the Gaza Strip and build Hezbollah-like guerilla armies to confront the Jewish state, according to the Israeli Defense Forces. In another few months, in the Gaza Strip we will have to deal with military capabilities of the terror organizations that we haven't been familiar with until now, said Sami Turjeman, head of the IDF's operations department.
Yossi Beidetz, head of research for the IDF's military intelligence unit, warned Hamas has been using the cease-fire, which went into effect Nov. 26, to strengthen its forces and prepare for conflict with Israel. Senior defense officials told WND Palestinian terror groups in Gaza have been focusing their weapons procurement and training efforts on mimicking guerrilla warfare actions carried out by Hezbollah during its confrontation against Israel in Lebanon this past summer.
The officials said the Palestinian groups learned Hezbollah-like tactics, such as raids of military installations and the use of antitank fire, can be more effective than ordinary terror attacks. The officials said Hezbollah militants have been aiding in Palestinian training efforts in the Egyptian Sinai desert bordering the Gaza Strip. They also said more than 20 tons of weapons have been brought into
Gaza from the neighboring Sinai desert in the last 10 months, including a large number of anti-tank missiles, which caused the highest number of Israeli military casualties during the last Lebanon war.
The officials said the Palestinian terror groups are also focusing much of their efforts on smuggling from Egypt longer-range missiles such as advanced Qassams and Katyusha rockets, which could target Jewish communities deeper into Israel similar to Hezbollah's use of Katyusha rockets that devastated northern Israel last summer. Israel withdrew from Gaza in August 2005. In a deal brokered in November by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the Egypt-Gaza border, once controlled by the Jewish state, now is manned by Egyptian and Palestinian security officials and observed by European monitors. The monitors reportedly have fled their duty several times the past few months. Israeli security officials have noted multiple breaches in border security, including the open transport of terrorists and weapons across the border.
They say several key sections of the border are penetrable and that smuggling tunnels that snake under the border are thriving.
Terror leaders admit: We are copying Hezbollah
Speaking to WND, senior terror leaders in Gaza, including militants from Palestinian Authority President Abbas' Fatah party, admitted they are working to copy Hezbollah warfare tactics.
We are turning Gaza into south Lebanon, Abu Ahmed, northern Gaza leader for the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group told WND. We learned from Hezbollah's victory that Israel can be defeated if we know how to hit them and if we are well prepared, Abu Ahmed said. We are importing rockets and the knowledge to launch them and we are also making many plans for battle. Abu Abdullah, a leader of Hamas so-called military wing told WND his group is preparing for war against Israel. In the last 15 months, even though the fighters of Hamas kept the cease-fire, we did not stop making important advancements and professional training on the military level. In the future, after Hamas is obliged to stop the cease-fire, the world shall see our new military capabilities, said Abu Abdullah, who is considered one of the most important operational members of Hamas' Izzedine al-Qassam Martyrs Brigades, Hamas' declared resistance department. Al Aqsa's Abu Ahmed said his group is receiving help from Hezbollah to import long-range rockets and train in guerrilla warfare tactics. We have warm relations with Hezbollah, which helps with some of the training programs, Abu Ahmed said. We don't have anything to be ashamed of – that we are dealing with Hezbollah and that we are receiving training and information from them.
He said Hezbollah maintains cells in the Sinai.
The Sinai is an excellent ground for training, the exchange of information and weapons and for meetings on how to turn every piece of land into usable territory for a confrontation with Israel, Abu Ahmed said.
Palestinians establishing Gaza war bunkers
Abu Ahmed said Palestinian groups are developing war bunkers inside Gaza similar to the underground Hezbollah lairs Israel found during the war in Lebanon. Our preparations include the building of special bunkers. Of course, we are taking into consideration that Gaza is not the same topography as Lebanon, Abu Ahmed said. During its confrontation with Hezbollah, Israel destroyed scores of complex bunkers that snaked along the Lebanese side of the Israel-Lebanon border. Military officials said they were surprised by the scale of the Hezbollah bunkers, in which Israeli troops reportedly found war rooms stocked with advanced eavesdropping and surveillance equipment they noted were made by Iran. Abu Ahmed said the most important tool in the Palestinian resistance arsenal was rockets. He said his group learned from Hezbollah that Israel can be defeated with missiles. We saw that with the capacity to bombard the Israeli population with hundreds of rockets every day we can change the strategic balance with Israel, he said.
Since Israel's Gaza withdrawal, Palestinian terror groups have been regularly firing rockets at nearby Jewish communities, even after a cease-fire went into effect last month. The terrorists generally have fired three versions of Qassam rockets, improvised steel projectiles filled with explosives and fuel. Qassams can travel between one and five miles depending on the sophistication of the particular rocket.Israel has noted improvements in Qassams, including rockets carrying double engines. Israeli security officials say a large number of Katyusha rockets have been brought into Gaza. Katyushas can travel about 12 miles and can deliver large payloads. Hezbollah fired more than 2,800 Katyusha rockets into Israel in July and August. In August, Islamic Jihad fired a Katyusha rocket into the Israeli Negev. It landed in an empty area. In June, the group fired a Katyusha-like rocket that traveled about nine miles. The Katyusha we fired (in August) shows we can have every weapon we need, said Abu Ahmed. It is only a matter of a small period before Gaza is ready for war.
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