ISLAMIC FATWAS AGAINST 2 CANADIANS

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

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RAHEEL RAZA AND NADAR FAWZY ARE 2 CANADIANS THAT THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IN EGYPT WANT KILLED FOR ALLEDGEDLY BEING INVOLVED IN THE FILM THAT SPARKED OUTRAGE BY THE MUSLIMS THANKS TO AMERICA FOR BLAMING THE FILM ON THE KILLING OF THE 4 AMERICAN EMBASSY WORKERS IN BENGHAZI LIBYA ON SEPT 11,12.THERE ARE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD MEMBERS LIVING IN CANADA HERE THAT WILL TRY TO KILL THESE 2 AS THERE IS A ASSASSINATION FATWA OUT FOR THEIR LIVES.SO THIS BRINGS HOME THAT HERE IN CANADA ISLAM IS TRYING TO KILL CITIZENS FOR SPEAKING TRUTH AGAINST THESE TERRORISTS ALSO.AND FOR FALSE ALLIGATIONS AGAINST THESE 2 INNOCENT CANADIANS.CANADIANS WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT.MAYBE BAN ANY MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD MEMBERS FROM CANADA TO TRY TO STOP INNOCENT CANADIANS FROM GETTING FATWAS AGAINST US CANADIANS THAT WANT TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE HORRORS OF ISLAM.
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FATWA - MURDER BY FIAT OF ISLAM
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http://www.muslim.org/sa-case/evidence/s18.htm

www.ContextwithLorna.com | Violence...in the name of God. Nader Fawzy is a human rights activist and is one of two Canadians accused by the government of Egypt of promoting an anti-Islamic film that has sparked riots. Raheel Raza is the President of Muslims Facing Tomorrow. She is a leading Canadian voice for reform within Islam.

The Religious Edict (Fatwa) 

In the Islamic states of the Abode of Peace (Dar Al-Silm), the Grand Mufti heads the Islamic Religious Court. He exercises a large concession of power by the hereditary right of his title. His legitimacy to power stems from the fact that he is the official expounder of the Islamic law. In the absence of a recognised Khalipha, the Grand Mufti gains the legitimacy of the custodianship of the title, interpretation of the Koran and the Hadeeth that helps to formulate Islamic law. His sectarian edicts overrule any other civil law.The teachings of the Koran and the Hadeeth, throughout the ages, has led to the conservative elements in Islam to a narrowed and radical interpretation, which see the use of violence as a normal and acceptable means to attaining their Umma Nation’s global dominance. Their quest for global dominance, through Jihad, resembles the struggle of a stray man in a desert running about in empty circles, in an effort to finding his way out of his wilderness to quench his thirst. Yet, his attempts are all but a wasteful effort in chasing a mirage.In an Islamic state, a decree issued by a civil court is secular judgement. A decree issued by a religious court is a religious edict (fatwa). This religious pronouncement is issued by the Religious Shari’ah Court made up of the theologians: expounders of the Islamic law (Ayatollahs, Ulama, Fuqaha’, Mojtahidoun, Muftis and Imams). They are jurisprudents, scholars and religious legists, versed in Islamic law. By virtue of the title of the Grand Mufti and the power vested in him as the legal interpreter of the Koran and the Hadeeth, the decisions issued by him stand.The Mufti is also able to exercise this Fatwa as a judicial decision for or against a person or event. Because of the religious nature of the religious shari’ah court, any fatwa that the religious court pronounces becomes official and binding. Depending on the circumstances and the elements involved, a fatwa may absolve or convict a committed act, and the person implicated in the act, is judged accordingly. Once issued, the fatwa must be enforced.

The fatwa decree, more often, shackles the person against whom it has been issued. It imposes restrictions on the will and the freedom of individual choice. In other words, he cannot express himself freely or choose the way of life he wants to pursue. Since such (fatwa) edict emanates from religious teachings, it becomes irrevocable.When the clergy, headed by the Grand Mufti, pronounces a fatwa against an offender, an apostate or a marked target, it becomes binding and enforceable. The life of the person in question hangs in the balance. The religious authority working with the state ostracizes him. He becomes a marked person, condemned and doomed. If the condemned is married, the clergy dissolve his marriage. He loses his spouse, his children and his wealth. Everything he owns is transferred to his wife and family. He loses all his assets. He is left with nothing except the clothes on his back. He loses his civic rights. More frighteningly, he loses custodianship on his life and the right of police protection, a risk to his personal safety, in public.In the case of a marked target, the Islamic organisation concerned, in coordination with its member network, scheme discreetly to attack and destroy the marked target, without warning, to inflict maximum damage and loss of life in execution of the Fatwa. The mujahideen and their supporters pride themselves on such barbaric acts by parading in the streets, expressing satisfaction for the execution of their fatwa and in jubilation of the success of their destructive mission.If the person against whom a fatwa has been issued happens to be living within the realm of the Abode of Peace, he will be arrested on sight. He will be held under custody, in isolation of interns, for his own personal safety. Government authority, under the guidance of the religious shari’ah court, will give him every chance to forgo beliefs that stray from the interpreted Islamic teachings, or repent of his misdeed. The authority will make every effort to point out to him that he has made a grievous error and try to convince him to reconsider and return to the religion of Allah and his prophet. He is repeatedly warned that his refusal to repent will lead to severe punishment or execution. Should he persist in his refusal, he will be put in complete isolation, barred from being visited by anyone. His family will eventually be obliged to deny him and distance themselves from him. While still in custody, very little will be heard about him and eventually be forgotten. How and when the sentence would be carried out, is decided between the state and the clergy. In most cases, rarely a third party is allowed to intervene.If living in the Abode of War, in a non-Muslim country, outside the Islamic realm, in hiding or under an assumed name, the order for his execution becomes direct. Depending on the circumstances, his elimination will be carried out overtly or in clandestine. The call, by the Islamic clergy, would be for any “good” Muslim who chances the person against whom the edict has been issued is to be killed on sight.Being marked by the clergy as an apostate, killing such a person is not considered homicidal. The killer’s action is in response to the religious call for enforcement of the (fatwa) edict. It is the duty of every “good” Muslim to purge such a person from amongst them. A blasphemer or apostate, by pursuing another religion, demeans and repudiates the Islamic faith. It is an unpardonable insult to the religion and the prophet.Some fatwas remain binding and enforceable indefinitely, until fulfilled. The executioner is exonerated. He is absolved from crime and from all acts of sin and guilt. He is vindicated and venerated by his community. The (Fatwas) religious edicts issued against British author Salman Rushdie and the Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen are two living examples.Depending on the interpretation and classification of the acts, pronounced fatwas vary in their degree of severity. Some are very lenient and humane, others exceedingly harsh. Some are pardonable while others are not, and carry the death sentence even if the offender shows remorse and repents.Fatwas are pronounced anywhere in the world and for any reason or against persons of any religion, that has insulted Islam. Members of the Islamic clergy act as the defenders of Islam, and their word is final.Like the Spanish Inquisition of the Medieval Ages that controlled the secular life of the public, and suppressed intellectual freedom of expression, the religious edict (fatwa) restricts the individual Muslim to a certain code of ethics. It makes sure that he or she remains in the fold, observe the Islamic rites and rituals and at no time steps out of line, else he or she would be meted out with corporal punishment, regardless of age and gender. The religious edict (fatwa) is not only a constant reminder but also a threat to those who might dare break away and choose a different way of life. Without the religious edict (fatwa), the clerics would have difficulty controlling Islamic society. Pluralism and democracy are seen as enemies and a threat to Islam.

SO FOR CANADIANS WHO THINK WERE IMMUNE FROM ISLAMIC FATWAS GOOD LUCK.WE CANADIANS HAVE TO BE ON GUARD AGAINST ISLAM.JUST THINK ABOUT POOR ISRAEL HAVING TO LIVE AMOUNG THESE MURDERER ARAB/MUSLIM COUNTRIES THAT ALWAYS PUTS FATWAS OUT ON EVERY ISRAELI LIFE.WERES THE OUTRAGE WORLD IS MY QUESTION.

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It is noteworthy that Islam considers the world its ummah and does not bother with national boundaries.  Hence, Islamic clerics feel free to issue fatwas and other adjudications regarding any person, group, or nation anywhere in the world.  Fanatic Muslims anywhere in the world take it upon themselves to carry out fatwas issued by Islamic high divines.  Other high-profile cases -- the killing of Theo van Gogh, a Dutch film director, and the recent attack on the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westeraard -- are instances of this barbaric, arbitrary practice, which runs counter to the civilized world's due process and has serious intimidating impact on the freedom of expression.
Fatwas are religious rulings with wide-ranging and shocking implications.  For one, not long ago, Salih bin Fawzan, "a prominent cleric and member of Saudi Arabia's highest religious council, issued a fatwa proclaiming that there is no minimum age for marriage, and that girls can be married even if they are in the cradle."  Why not?  Didn't Islam's founder, Muhammad, marry six-year-old Ayesha?
Islam needs be fully exposed for what it is, with its Godfathers de-frocked and punished if they keep issuing fatwas as binding rules for Muslims to obey and implement.
Half-hearted, perfunctory attempts by the civilized world at staying the hands of these villains and preventing them from issuing rulings by fiat serve only to embolden these perpetrators of hatred and violence.
Free people and nations should not sacrifice their God-given liberty to please the Islamists by muzzling dissenters and even endangering their safety and their lives.
In the final analysis, there is no difference between a Mafia Godfather issuing a death sentence on people who do not toe his line and a turbaned Islamist who masquerades as the authorized agent of Allah to run and ruin peoples' lives by fiat.
The civilized, free people of the world have paid the ultimate price far too many times in the past and are not likely to shirk their responsibility of fighting off the resurgence of the scourge of Islamism -- a cult of intolerance and violence that has shed and continues to shed the blood of far too many people.
Let freedom ring.  Let people sing their songs and lead their lives without death threats hanging over their heads.
No oppression of women, minorities, or freedom-lovers, and no death sentences by fiat.  Imams and mullahs who engage in these criminal acts must be dragged to the court of law and, after due process, given their due punishments, in the same way that any criminal is processed by a just and civilized society.

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ARAB/MUSLIMS WANT CEASEFIRE - I SAY NO GO ALLOUT ISRAEL-NO TURNING BACK NOW

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

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DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(TAKE OVER 3 WORLD REGIONS)

Now the scriptures that a week in Israel history is 7YEARS.

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

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

EU countries urge Israel not to invade Gaza

Today @ 09:25 By Andrew Rettman

BRUSSELS - Two leading EU countries have urged Israel not to launch ground operations in Gaza.
Speaking ahead of a foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels on Monday (19 November), the UK's Wiliam Hague told Sky news on Sunday that "a ground invasion of Gaza would lose Israel a lot of the international support and sympathy that they have in this situation."France's Laurent Fabius while on a visit to Tel Aviv also on Sunday told press: "War is not an option. It's never the solution."The EU in a joint statement last week blamed Hamas, the militant group which controls Gaza, for starting the fighting."The rocket attacks by Hamas and other factions in Gaza which began this current crisis are totally unacceptable," its communique said.But Hague and Fabius took different lines in their public remarks."It is Hamas that bears ... the principle responsibility for starting all of this," Hague said. "Responsibility is shared. There are rockets fired from Gaza and there are extremely deadly attacks against the people of Gaza," Fabius noted.For its part, the UN's office in East Jerusalem says the escalation began when Israel assassinated a senior Hamas commander on 14 November.The US-based NGO Human Rights Watch says it began when Israeli fire killed a 13-year-old Palestinian boy on 8 November.With 95 Palestinian and three Israeli deaths so far, the crisis is to dominate the EU ministers' talks, pushing other Middle East issues into the background.Ministers had planned to discuss Palestine's plan to call a UN vote on 29 November on upgrading its status to "observer state."
But Hague said the UN bid is a bad idea in the current context. "I think it would be a mistake for the Palestinians to try at this moment ... because it would be so divisive among all the people whose help they need to get the peace process going," he told Sky.Palestine's draft UN resolution has some sympathy in Brussels, however.One senior EU contact told EUobserver the text is "mild" because it does not call for countries which do not recognise Palestinian sovereignty to do so and does not call on Israel to take back the millions of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. At the same time, it givs a nod to UN resolution 181, which describes Israel as a "Jewish state."Ministers had also planned to take note of an EU report on Jewish settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.Giving a broader context to the decades-old enmity between the two sides, the report says the Israeli army does little to protect Palestinian victims.It urges individual EU countries to consider travel bans on settler extremists, an EU source noted.
Foreign ministers will also look at developments in Mali, Syria and Ukraine. But decisions on the three dossiers are to be left for later.There is no EU consensus on recognising the newly-formed National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces as the legitimate government of Syria despite the fact France took the step last week.Detailed plans on how many troops and what kind of financial or intelligence support to give to Mali to reconquer its northern provinces from Toureg and Islamist warlords are due in December.Ministers will also wait until next month to decide what to do with an EU-Ukraine political and trade agreement following flawed elections in the EU neighbour.

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.
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Van Rompuy: financial tax to form part of EU budget

16.11.12 @ 10:26 By Benjamin Fox

BRUSSELS - The much vaunted EU financial transaction tax (FTT) is set to be hard-wired into the EU budget, with most of its revenue going directly to the EU.A paper prepared by EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy and sent to European capitals ahead of next week's EU budget summit, where leaders aim to agree a mandate on the budget framework for 2014-2020, would deduct FTT revenues from national contributions to the annual EU pot.Van Rompuy put forward his ideas after private talks with EU countries' budget sherpas over the past 10 days.He has proposed a cut of €75 billion in commitments from the text put forward by the European Commission, leaving total commitments at €973 billion - a €20 billion reduction on the €993 billion agreed for the 2007-2013 period.The European Commission had tabled an initial proposal for an EU FTT to apply to the eurozone in autumn 2011.The initiative stalled following opposition from a handful of countries.But in October, the EU executive agreed to demands by 11 states, led by Germany and France, to re-table an FTT bill using the "enhanced co-operation procedure."This rule allows a group of countries within the EU to adopt legislation between themselves without affecting the rest of Europe.Under Van Rompuy's plan, two thirds of FTT revenues from each country would be transferred to the EU budget, with the national contributions made by member states reduced accordingly.Countries not using the FTT would not be affected by the change.While the Van Rompuy paper does not spell out precise figures on the revenue expected to be generated by an FTT, the impact assessment to the Commission's original proposal estimated annual revenue of €57 billion coming from levies of 0.1 percent on bond trading and 0.01 percent on derivatives trading.The EU budgets between 2014 and 2020 are expected to be worth around €140 billion a year on average.Although just 11 countries have to date confirmed that they will use an FTT, with the new Dutch government currently weighing up its options, other EU countries can still block the legislation if they wish.None has indicated that they will do so.The European Parliament, which has campaigned concertedly for an EU FTT since the start of the 2009-2014 legislature, can only give a non-binding opinion on the bill.The Van Rompuy paper, which will form the reference point for talks on 22 and 23 November, attempts a fine balance among member states - who are divided on whether to cut overall spending and on policy priorities - and for the European Parliament, which can veto the budget.EU diplomatic sources voiced hope that the proposal would be welcomed by MEPs, with one official commenting that "changing the system on own resources is big for the parliament."In a resolution adopted at the October Strasbourg session, MEPs said that an FTT and a new EU VAT levy could reduce direct GNI-based contributions to the EU budget to 40 percent by 2020.

Five EU countries call for new military 'structure'

16.11.12 @ 09:26 By Andrew Rettman

BRUSSELS - Five leading EU countries, but not the UK, have said the Union needs a new military "structure" to manage overseas operations.The foreign and defence ministers of France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain issued the call in a joint communique after a meeting in Paris on Thursday (15 November).
The paper says: "We are convinced that the EU must set up, within a framework yet to-be-defined, true civilian-military structures to plan and conduct missions and operations."It adds: "We should show preparedness to hold available, train, deploy and sustain in theatre the necessary civilian and military means."
It lists a number of EU military priorities for the coming years: helping Somalia to fight Islamists and pirates; "a possible training mission to support the Malian armed forces" in reconquering north Mali; "assistance to support the new Libyan authorities" against Islamist militias; "normalisation" of the Western Balkans; "conflict resolution" in Georgia; and police training in Afghanistan.The communique also calls for more "pooling and sharing" of EU defence hardware in the context of crisis-related budget cuts.It identifies "space, ballistic-missile defence, drones, air-to-air refuelling, airlift capacities, medical support to operations [and] software defined radio" as pooling areas.The reference to new "civilian-military structures" comes after the UK last year blocked the creation of a new operational headquarters (OHQ) in Brussels for EU military missions.
Britain's Telegraph newspaper earlier this week cited a "senior French source" as saying that EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton supports the idea of an OHQ, which will become a "ripe fruit" in the "long-term" as EU military operations multiply.Ashton officials denied the report.Meanwhile, the UK's role in future EU defence co-operation was a big topic at the Paris meeting.French foreign minister Laurent Fabius said the UK can join the group-of-five at any time: "The text which we have developed is open to all of our colleagues, especially Great Britain."French defence minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the communique is designed to "create a movement" ahead of an EU summit on defence in 2013.For his part, Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski said: "If the EU wants to become a superpower, and Poland supports this, then we must have the capability to exert influence in our neighbourhood ... Sometimes we must use force to back our diplomacy."He called for an "ambitious" EU budget for 2014 to 2020 to help with defence co-ordination.
Speaking in a separate interview in UK newspaper The Times also on Thursday, Sikorski blamed British "nostalgia" for past greatness as a reason why it is pulling back from EU integration and why it wants to cut the EU budget.He touched on historic sensitivities by describing EU spending as a kind of "Marshall plan."
He said Poland and other former-Soviet-controlled EU countries missed out on the plan - a massive injection of US money to rebuild Europe after World War II - because UK and US leaders at a summit in Yalta in 1945 gave the Soviet Union control of eastern Europe."We fought Hitler alone, giving you [the UK] valuable time to prepare for fighting. But we did not enjoy freedom after World War II ... Because of Yalta, we could not benefit [from the Marshall plan]. European cohesion funds are our Marshall plan for catching up with Europe," he noted.

International pressure for ceasefire grows, as Palestinian death toll rises

Western leaders make plain their opposition to ground offensive; China condemns Israel’s ‘over-use of force causing deaths and injuries amongst innocent ordinary people’

By Raphael Ahren November 19, 2012, 1:33 pm 3-The Times of Israel

As the number of Palestinian civilians killed in Israeli air strikes increased from Sunday to Monday, so did international pressure on Jerusalem to restrain its Gaza offensive and intensify efforts to find a ceasefire.

While Israeli government officials say the international community generally recognizes that Hamas is responsible for the current crisis and supports Israel’s right to defend herself, world leaders and the international press are growing increasingly impatient, with Western leaders heading to Israel to encourage a ceasefire and governments calling on Jerusalem to refrain from escalating the situation.By midday Monday, the Palestinian death toll had climbed up to 84, and the IDF continued to prepare for a ground operation in Gaza. According to unconfirmed reports, about half the casualties were civilians, many of them women and children. The death toll in Israel was three, with dozens of people injured; Hamas rocket fire into Israel continued, with a direct hit on an (empty) Ashkelon school, and much of the south confined to safe areas.

“I am deeply saddened by the reported deaths of more than 10 members of the Dalu family, including women and children, and additional Palestinian civilians killed as a result of the ongoing violence in the Gaza strip,” said United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Sunday in New York, as he headed to the Middle East.Ban also said he was “alarmed by the continuing firing of rockets against Israeli towns.”“This must stop,” he said, urging both parties to cooperate with Egyptian-led efforts to reach an immediate ceasefire. “Any further escalation will inevitably increase the suffering of the affected civilian populations and must be avoided.”The EU’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton called for “a solution that brings security to the region” and said she was “very concerned for the rising death toll on both sides… I have always been and remain in contact with the Israeli Prime Minister, with the Arab League and with the Arab Countries. It is necessary to find a long-term solution for Gaza: I was there three times; we must find a way of preventing rocket strikes and guarantee peace and security to the people in that area.”The IDF is currently investigating the deaths of members of the Dalu family, which might have been the result of a mistake during an attempt to kill Hamas’s rocket chief Yihya Abiya on Sunday. No official statement had been released as of Monday noon.A spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry on Monday said that Beijing is “extremely concerned about Israel’s continued large-scale military operations towards the Gaza Strip,” according to Reuters. “We condemn the over-use of force causing deaths and injuries amongst innocent ordinary people,” spokeswoman Hua Chunying said during a daily news briefing.“We strongly urge relevant parties, especially Israel, to maintain maximum restraint and ceasefire as soon as possible, to avoid any actions which may exacerbate the situation or raise tensions,” she said.A spokesperson of the Indian Foreign Ministry made similar statements, saying the government was “deeply concerned at the steep escalation of violence between Israel and Palestine.”But Israeli officials insisted that such statements do not constitute real pressure on Israel to change its course.“It’s not that they are sending someone over to intervene, or are calling for an urgent meeting of the Security Council, or suggesting anything concrete,” an Israeli official told The Times of Israel. “They just issued statements. These are unpleasant statements that are certainly disappointing, given the overall good relations we have with China and India. In light of our good strategic and cultural cooperation, you’d expect also a change of tone in statements on foreign policy. But there’s no pressure.”‘If Eli Yishai wanted to contribute to Israel’s hasbara efforts, he has done the exact opposite’Israel has also come under fire by some critics for comments made by Interior Minister Eli Yishai, who said that Operation Pillar of Defense’s goal is “to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages.” During a television interview on Sunday, the Shas political leader said that Israel did not seek to harm innocent bystanders but that the offensive should “wreak havoc and heavy destruction” on terrorist infrastructure in Gaza.“If Eli Yishai wanted to contribute to Israel’s hasbara (public diplomacy) efforts, he has done the exact opposite,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Yigal Palmor told The Times of Israel. The minister’s statements do not only have a “dismal impact on Israel’s good image in the world” but on the way Israelis themselves see their government, Palmor added.German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle was expected to arrive in Israel on Monday, to meet with Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman and President Shimon Peres. He is set to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leaders on Tuesday. Westerwelle so far been supportive of Israel’s operation but is also expected to urge Israel for restraint and to further efforts to achieve a ceasefire.“It is obvious that Israel has the right to confront the violence of Hamas rockets and to protect its people. Israel’s government is acting in order to protect its citizens. The trigger of this spiral of violence are Hamas’s rockets,”Westerwelle wrote Sunday in an op-ed in Bild, Germany’s largest daily. “But what’s also obvious is that the situation is extremely dangerous. The entire region risks to be drawn into an escalation. Everyone needs to be aware of their responsibility.”Middle East Quartet envoy Tony Blair met with Peres on Monday.

On Sunday, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius met with Netanyahu, Peres, Liberman and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, urging both sides to end the hostilities.France is interested in “preventing a war in the long run, and bringing about a ceasefire in the short run,” Fabius said.British Foreign Secretary William Hague, who was one of the first Western leaders to back Operation Pillar of Defense, on Sunday advised Israel against sending ground troops into Gaza, saying such a move would protract the conflict and erode international support for Israel.“It’s much more difficult to restrict and avoid civilian casualties during a ground invasion and a large ground operation would threaten to prolong the conflict,” Hague told Sky News. “A ground invasion is much more difficult for the international community to sympathize with or support — including the United Kingdom.”US President Barack Obama likewise said that it would be “preferable” if a solution to the conflict could be found “without a ramping-up of military activity in Gaza.” At a press conference in Bangkok, he said he had told Arab leaders that Israel has every right not have missiles fired into its territory. “If that can be accomplished without a ramping-up of military activity in Gaza, that’s preferable; that’s not just preferable for the people of Gaza, it’s also preferable for Israelis — because if Israeli troops are in Gaza, they’re much more at risk of incurring fatalities or being wounded,” he said.

Vice Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon rejected statements by foreign leaders advising Israel against launching a ground operation into Gaza, saying that Jerusalem would not determine how to best defend citizens’ lives based on the opinion of foreign leaders.“We expect our allies to support us [when we] use all tools available in order to defend our people. To say the least, we don’t like these kinds of reservations,” Ya’alon told foreign reporters on Sunday in Jerusalem. “Regarding a ground operation, we feel like we should have the freedom of operation in order to be able to defend our country without any reservations. But we don’t think we are under pressure.”Speaking to The Times of Israel on Monday morning, a government official said that there were no signs Western support for Operation Pillar of Defense was waning in the wake of news of Palestinian casualties.Western media outlets, however, highlighted the deaths and destruction in Gaza. While in the initial phase of Israel’s offensive, coverage largely seemed balanced and keen on portraying both sides of the conflict, Monday’s papers mainly focused on Palestinian casualties.The lead story on the front page of The International Herald Tribune, for example, was headlined “Heavy civilian toll from Israeli strikes.”

The strike that apparently killed the Dalu family in Gaza City’s Sheikh-Redwan neighborhood was widely reported.

A Palestinian man cries next the body of a dead relative in the morgue of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Sunday (photo credit: AP/Bernat Armangue)

“In the Israeli strike on Sunday morning, it took emergency workers and a Caterpillar digger more than an hour to reveal the extent of the devastation under the two-story home of Jamal Dalu, a shop owner,” The New York Times reported. “Mr. Dalu was at a neighbor’s when the blast wiped out nearly his entire family: His sister, wife, two daughters, daughter-in-law and four grandchildren ages 2 to 6 all perished under the rubble, along with two neighbors, an 18-year-old and his grandmother.”The French Le Monde newspaper also focused on the Palestinian casualties.“Since the Israeli offensive ‘Pillar of Defense’ started in Gaza on Wednesday with the assassination of the head of Hamas’s military operations, Ahmad Jabari, 90 people were killed: 87 Palestinians, half of them civilians, and three Israeli civilians,” the paper writes. “Sunday was the deadliest day with 31 Palestinians killed, mostly women and children.”The paper went on to quote a Hamas spokesperson vowing that Sunday’s “massacre” would not go unpunished.The website of the London-based Guardian newspaper headlined its main article on the conflict on Monday morning, “Israeli air strikes inflict bitter toll on Gaza children.”Reporting from Gaza, the paper’s Harriet Sherwood described unsettling scenes from the local Shifa hospital: “The bodies of four young children lay on two metal trays in the morgue, covered in dust and blood. A crowd of onlookers outside became increasingly distressed as the body of the children’s mother was wheeled in, covered in blankets.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/all-eyes-on-cairo-ahead-of-gaza-ground-incursion/

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



IF ISRAEL STOPS THE ATTACKS NOW.THE ARAB / MUSLIMS WILL CALL THEM LOSERS AND JUST CONTINUE CALLING FOR ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL.ISRAEL HAS TO FINISH OFF HAMAS AND THE PALESTINIAN ARABS THIS TIME.ISRAEL HAS TO KILL EVERY TERRORIST IN GAZA AND THEN TAKE OVER THE HAMAS GOVERNMENT .ISRAEL HAS TO INSTALL ISRAELI LEADERS OVER GAZA.AND IF THE ARABS THAT LIVE IN GAZA REFUSE TO OBEY THE ISRAELI LEADERS.THEN ALL THE ARABS THAT REBEL WOULD BE FORCED TO LIVE IN EGYPT OR SOME OTHER MUSLIM COUNTRY.IF THERE IS A CEASEFIRE,ISRAEL HAS TO INSIST THAT IF THE ARABS BREAK THE CEASEFIRE.THEN ISRAEL GOES ALL OUT AFTER GAZA AND TAKES IT OVER FULLY.AND IN THE CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT (WHICH NO ARAB / MUSLIM) WILL EVER KEEP.IF ISLAM BREAKS THE CEASEFIRE THEN ALL THE REBELLERS AGAINST ISRAELS TAKEOVER FROM GAZA WILL BE FORCED TO GO TO EGYPT.AND EGYPT CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT MUSLIM COUNTRY THE ARABS GO TO.IF THIS IS NOT IN THE CEASEFIRE.ISRAEL MUST JUST CONTINUE WITH THE BOMBINGS TILL MOST OF THE ARABS FLEE GAZA FROM THE WAR AND ISRAEL RECAPTURES SOME OF ITS PROMISED LAND PROMISED THEM BY GOD.SINCE GAZA IS ISRAELS PROMISED LAND AND THE WEST BANK TO.ISRAEL WILL SOME TIME GET ALL THAT LAND BACK FROM THE ARABS IN THE FUTURE.WE KNOW FOR SURE.

Israel says prefers diplomacy over Gaza invasion option

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Jeffrey Heller | Reuters – 1 hr 46 mins ago NOV 19,12

GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel bombed dozens of targets in Gaza on Monday and said that while it was prepared to step up its offensive by sending in troops, it preferred a diplomatic solution that would end Palestinian rocket fire from the enclave.As international pressure mounted for a truce, mediator Egypt said a deal to end the fighting could be close.Twelve Palestinian civilians and four fighters were killed in the air strikes, bringing the Gaza death toll since fighting began on Wednesday to 90, more than half of them non-combatants, local officials said. Three Israeli civilians have been killed.After an overnight lull, militants in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip fired 45 rockets at southern Israel, causing no casualties, police said. One damaged a school, but it was closed at the time.The deaths of 11 Palestinian civilians - nine from one family - in an air strike on Sunday - drew more international calls for an end to six days of hostilities and could test Western support for an offensive Israel billed as self-defense after years of cross-border rocket attacks.
Israel's military did not immediately comment on a report in the liberal Haaretz newspaper that it had mistakenly fired on the Dalu family home, where the dead spanned four generations, while trying to kill a Hamas rocketry chief.Echoes of explosions in Gaza mixed with cries of grief and defiant chants of "God is greatest" at the funeral of the four children and five women killed in the attack that flattened the three-storey house. Their bodies were wrapped in Palestinian and Hamas flags and thousands turned out to mourn them.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was due to arrive in Cairo to weigh in on ceasefire efforts led by Egypt, which borders both Israel and Gaza and whose Muslim Brotherhood-rooted government has been hosting leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, a smaller armed faction in the Palestinian enclave.
Israeli media said a delegation from Israel had also been to Cairo for the truce talks. A spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government declined comment on the matter."Israel is prepared and has taken steps, and is ready for a ground incursion which will deal severely with the Hamas military machine," a senior official close to Netanyahu told Reuters.But he added: "We would prefer to see a diplomatic solution that would guarantee the peace for Israel's population in the south. If that is possible, then a ground operation would no longer be required. If diplomacy fails, we may well have no alternative but to send in ground forces."The official's language echoed that of U.S. President Barack Obama, who said on Sunday it would be "preferable" to avoid a move into Gaza. Obama also said Israel had a right to self-defense and no country would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens.Egyptian negotiators could be close to achieving a deal between Israel and the Palestinians to stop the fighting could be close, the Egyptian prime minister said.
"I think we are close, but the nature of this kind of negotiation, (means) it is very difficult to predict," Hisham Kandil said in an interview in Cairo for the Reuters Middle East Investment Summit.Egypt's foreign minister is expected to visit Gaza on Tuesday with a delegation of Arab ministers to express solidarity with the Palestinians.In scenes recalling Israel's 2008-2009 winter invasion of Gaza, tanks, artillery and infantry have massed in field encampments along the sandy, fenced-off Gaza border and military convoys moved on roads in the area.Israel has also authorized the call-up of 75,000 military reservists, so far mobilizing around half that number.
WORLD CONCERN
The Gaza fighting has stoked the worries of world powers watching an already combustible region.
In the absence of any prospect of permanent peace between Israel and Hamas and other Islamist factions, mediated deals for each to hold fire unilaterally have been the only formula for stemming bloodshed in the past. But both sides now placed the onus on the other.Izzat Risheq, aide to Hamas politburo chief Khaled Meshaal, wrote on Facebook that Hamas would enter a truce only after Israel "stops its aggression, ends its policy of targeted assassinations and lifts the blockade of Gaza".Listing Israel's terms, Vice Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon wrote on Twitter: "If there is quiet in the south and no rockets and missiles are fired at Israel's citizens, nor terrorist attacks engineered from the Gaza Strip, we will not attack."Yaalon also said Israel wanted an end to Gaza guerrilla activity in the neighboring Egyptian Sinai, a desert peninsula where lawlessness has spread during Cairo's political crises.Israel bombed some 80 sites in Gaza overnight, the military said, adding in a statement that targets included "underground rocket launching sites, terror tunnels and training bases" as well as "buildings owned by senior terrorist operatives".Netanyahu has said he had assured world leaders that Israel was doing its utmost to avoid causing civilian casualties in Gaza. At least 22 of the Gaza fatalities have been children, medical officials said.Before leaving for Cairo, Ban urged Israel and the Palestinians to cooperate with all Egyptian-led efforts to reach an immediate ceasefire.But a big rocket strike might be enough for Netanyahu to give a green light for a Gaza invasion, despite the political risks of heavy casualties before a January election he is favored to win.Although 84 percent of Israelis supported the current Gaza assault, according to a Haaretz poll, only 30 percent wanted an invasion. Nineteen percent wanted their government to work on securing a truce soon.Israel's declared goal is to deplete Gaza arsenals and force Hamas to stop rocket fire that has bedevilled Israeli border towns for years.The rockets now have greater range, becoming a strategic weapon for Gaza's otherwise massively outgunned militants. Several projectiles have targeted Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. None hit the two cities and some of the rockets were shot down by Israel's Iron Dome interceptor system.As a precaution against the rocket interceptions endangering nearby Ben-Gurion International Airport, civil aviation authorities said on Monday new flight paths were being used.There was no indication takeoffs and landings at Ben-Gurion had been affected.Hamas and other groups in Gaza are sworn enemies of the Jewish state which they refuse to recognize and seek to eradicate, claiming all Israeli territory as rightfully theirs.Hamas won legislative elections in the Palestinian Territories in 2006 but a year later, after the collapse of a unity government under President Mahmoud Abbas the Islamist group seized control of Gaza in a brief and bloody civil war with forces loyal to Abbas.

PA Arabs Show Their Support for Hamas – By Attacking Israelis

Arabs in Judea and Samaria have begun to show their solidarity with their fellow Arabs – by throwing stones

By David Lev First Publish: 11/19/2012, 3:47 PM-INN

Vehicle damaged by rock attack-Binyamin Residents' Council

As Operation Pillar of Defense continues with mounting losses for Gaza Arab terrorists, Arabs in Judea and Samaria have begun to show their solidarity with their fellow Arabs – by rioting and throwing stones and other objects at Israeli cars driving on the roads. A large number of Israeli drivers have reported being targeted in the past several days.Among the victims of stone throwing attacks in recent days was Moti Hominer, a resident of Ateret in the Binyamin region, whose vehicle was attacked by a mob of stone-throwing Arabs as he returned from Petach Tikvah last Friday. Speaking to Arutz Sheva, Hominer said that he saw a number of Arab youths sitting on a hill by the side of the road, and he realized he was going to be attacked. There was damage to the vehicle as the youths lobbed large stones aimed at the driver's side window, but he was uninjured.When asked what he did when he realized that he was going to be attacked, Hominer said he prepared himself psychologically to barrel through the rock barrage, but that what he did was not necessarily what everyone could or should do in that situation. “How a driver reacts is really dictated by the facts on the ground,” he said. In discussions with experts afterwards, Hominer said that he realized he might have been better off stopping the car and making a U-turn, but that he decided at the last moment to try and outrun the attack. “Unfortunately these youths are very experienced, and they know exactly how to match the force and aim of the rock to the car's speed,” he said, with the subsequent damage to his vehicle.

On Monday, Israel Radio reported numerous incidents of rock throwing on roads in Judea and Samaria. A number of vehicles were damaged, but no injuries were reported.

Reservists Waiting for Orders to Move into Gaza

Tens of thousands of army reservists are waiting for orders to move into Gaza. A poll shows 84% of Israelis support Pillar of Defense.By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu First Publish: 11/19/2012, 2:11 PM-INN

Gantz meets reservists-Flash 90

Tens of thousands of army reservists are waiting for orders to move into Gaza. A poll shows 84% of Israelis support Pillar of Defense. A ground incursion apparently awaits the outcome of efforts for a truce.
A Dialogue survey carried out for the Haaretz newspaper revealed that 39% of respondents support a continuation of aerial attacks and 30% want a ground offensive. Only 19%% said they want a quick ceasefire.More than half of the respondents are satisfied with the performance of both Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak in the week-old counterterrorist campaign.
The country has mobilized to come to the aid of reservists, many of whom were called up after the Sabbath began last Friday night, recalling a similar situation at the start of the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
Jewish law not only allows but also requires taking actions that normally are prohibited on the Sabbath in order to save lives.Several reservists, including  fathers with several children, were told before the Sabbath to carry their cell phones in the case of a call-up, which was issued after the Sabbath began.Many synagogues began to empty as reservists rushed home to gather essentials before traveling, sometime taking their own cars.On-duty soldiers called their families to send supplies to friends who were stranded. One reservist from Ashkelon told Arutz Sheva that the parents of “a friend of a friend” surprised him with a personal visit adjacent to the community and gave him sheets, blankets and snacks.Many reservists replaced regular soldiers on patrols to free them for action in Gaza, if the IDF gives the go-ahead.Dozens of armored vehicles and tanks were seen on transports from the Golan Heights, along the Syrian border, to Gaza.Thousands of reservists swarmed into convenience stores on the way to their bases to stock up on goods.

Israel Takes Over Hamas TV Programming

The Israeli army took over Hamas TV programming "to broadcast warnings” on the sixth day of Pillar of Defense.By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu First Publish: 11/19/2012, 2:32 PM-INN

PMW Feature Hamas TV-PMW Screenshot

The Israeli army on Monday took over programming at a Gaza-based Hamas television station "to broadcast warnings” on the sixth day of Operation Pillar of Defense.Al-Aqsa television, the official station of Gaza's Hamas regime, said in a statement the Israeli army "is interfering with Al-Aqsa TV," with the picture going on and off for several hours and sometimes appearing scrambled, according to AFP."We took over the Hamas television to broadcast warnings," a military spokeswoman said, indicating the takeover would probably last for a number of hours.She told Arutz Sheva that AFP journalists' claims that “they could see no warning being sent out by the army” were incorrect.On Sunday, the army took over Hamas radio broadcasts in Gaza for several hours.The IDF on Sunday bombed an antenna used by Hamas. The surgical strike atop the 15-story building caused minimal damage, as seen in an IDF video, but Hamas has claimed that eight journalists were wounded in the operation.Mainstream media have reported the claim without verification.
The IDF later called  on "international journalists... to stay clear of Hamas's bases and facilities, which serve them in their activity against the citizens of Israel."

TORAH PORTION FROM NOV 18-24,12

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

TORAH PORTION FROM NOV 18-24,12
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2010/11/parshah-vayeitzei-genesis-2810-323.html 

5 STAGES THAT BRING JUDGEMENT ON A NATION

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

FROM HAL LINDSEYS REPORT NOV 9,12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoTKNBJq9sU

THERE ARE 5 STAGES IN HERE THAT BRING JUDGEMENT ON A COUNTRY.AND AMERICA IS AT STAGE 5 NOW.THE NEXT STAGE IS THE DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA OR  AMERICAS FALL FROM GRACE AS A WORLD POWER.A USELESS NATION.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIRLvuP2d0U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEN84XfpMRc
http://www.contenderministries.org/prophecy/romanempire.php

ROMANS 1:18-32

STAGE 1

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

STAGE 2

19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen,(CREATED NOT EVOLUTION NONSENSE) being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.(TO BELIEVE EVOLUTION)

STAGE 3

22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

STAGE 4

24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:(HOMOSEXUALITY,AND ALL SEX SINS)
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:(LESBIENS)
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly,(SODOMITES) and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.(AIDS ETC)

STAGE 5 THE LAST STAGE - THEN JUDGEMENT - AMERICAS AT STAGE 5 NOW

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate (DEPRAVED) mind, to do those things which are not convenient;(WHICH MEANS TO A MIND THAT CAN NOT EVEN THINK IN ITS OWN BEST INTERESTS)
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

NEXT STAGE ON AMERICA IS TOTAL JUDGEMENT.AND HAL LINSEY THINKS IT WILL BE AN EMP ATTACK ON AMERICA THAT CRIPLES AMERICA AND PUTS HER INTO THE DARK AGES AND AMERICA INSTANTLY LOSES ITS WORLD LEADING ROLE.

AND WHAT COUNTRY TAKES UP THE VACCUM AND BECOMES THE WORLD LEADER INSTEAD OF AMERICA.THE EU OR EUROPEAN UNION JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

DANIEL 9:24-25
24 Seventy weeks (490 YEARS) are determined upon thy people(ISRAEL) and upon thy(ISRAELS) 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.(JESUS ANNOINTED WITH HOLY OIL AS KING OF JERUSALEM FOREVER).
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks,(49 YEARS) and threescore and two weeks:(434 YEARS) the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.(AND THE FINAL 7 YEARS TO FULFILL THIS PROPHECY WILL BE DAN 9:27 WHEN THE EU IS GIVIN WORLD CONTROL AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION SIGNS A 7 YEAR PEACE TREATY WITH ISRAEL AND MANY ARAB/MUSLIMS.

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(TAKE OVER 3 WORLD REGIONS)


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

860 ROCKETS SHOT IN ISRAEL FROM GAZA IN LAST 5 DAYS

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

MUSLIM NATIONS

EZEKIEL 12:25
25  For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.

EZEKIEL 5:17
17  So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.

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,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-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.

EZEKIEL 39:1-8,11-18
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,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD I BELIEVE) 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.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)

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

ISAIAH 17:1,12-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
12  Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13  The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14  And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.

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

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

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

DANIEL 11:40-43
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.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS-MUSLIMS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them,(BEFORE THE NUKE GOES OFF) and behind them a desolate wilderness;(AFTER THE ATOMIC BOMB GOES OFF) yea, and nothing shall escape them.(EVERYTHING NUKED)
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,ARAB,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate,(SIBERIAN DESERT) 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.(FOR COMING AGAINST ISRAEL)
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.

JEREMIAH 8:7
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times;(MIGRATION TIME) and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming;(IN MIGRATION SEASON) but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.(WW3 MIGRATING BIRDS EAT ISRAELS ENEMIES FLESH AND BLOOD)

ITS 8:25AM SUN NOV 18,12 AND THE HAMAS/PALESTINIANS HAVE FIRED 860 ROCKETS AT ISRAEL IN THE LAST 5 DAYS AND IRON DOME HAS STOPPED 493 BLOWN FROM THE AIR.3 ISRAELIS HAVE BEEN KILLED AND 50 ARABS KILLED.ISRAEL DON'T YOU DARE HAVE A CEASEFIRE WITH HAMAS.OR ISRAEL WILL CEASE AND GAZA WILL CONTINUE FIRE.GET THE JOB DONE ISRAEL.ONE NUKE WOULD TAKE CARE OF GAZA AND THERE MURDERERS FOREVER.ISRAEL WOULD NEVER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT GAZA AGAIN. 

ITS NOW 10:45AM NOV 18,12-I PHONED INTO THE TAMAR YONAH SHOW AROUND 9:28AM AND TOLD HER.WHY DOES ISRAEL NOT EMP GAZA TO DESTROY ALL COMMUNICATIONS AND POWER.THEN ISRAELI TROOPS WHICH ARE ALREADY ON THE GAZA BORDER CAN BLITZKEG GAZA AND TAKE GAZA BACK FROM THE HAMAS MURDERERS.TAMAR ALSO WANTS THE JOB DONE SUCCESSFULLY THIS TIME.SHE ALSO DOES NOT WANT ISRAELI LEADERS TO HAVE A CEASEFIRE.BUT GET THE JOB DONE THIS TIME,TAKE BACK GAZA INTO ISRAELI HANDS AND GET RID OF HAMAS AND THE ARABS IN GAZA FOR GOOD.AND I TOTALLY AGREE WITH TAMAR YONAH.
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ISAIAH 51:3-4
3  For the LORD shall comfort Zion:(JERUSALEM) he will comfort all her waste places;(FROM NUCLEAR WAR) and he will make her wilderness like Eden,(I BELIEVE THE EZEKIEL-4TH TEMPLE WILL BE BUILT 25 MILES FROM THE CURRENT TEMPLE MOUNT AFTER JESUS RULE FOR THE 1,000 YRS FROM JERUSALEM) and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.(PRAISE TO JESUS IN THE DESERT-COULD BE THE NEW JERUSALEM-4TH TEMPLE BUILT 25 MILES INTO THE DESERT FROM THE CURRENT TEMPLE MOUNT.SINCE EZEKIELS TEMPLE IS WAY TO BIG FOR THE CURRENT TEMPLE MOUNT)
4  Hearken unto me, my people;(ISRAEL) and give ear unto me, O my nation:(ISRAEL) for a law shall proceed from me,(JESUS IN JERUSALEM) and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.(ISRAEL AND THE WORLD)
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.

Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.

12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE

Israel special forces on the ground in Gaza seeking out hidden rocket sites, British paper claims

The Sunday Times also reports fears that Hamas might resort to chemical weapons, and offers details on how Israel targeted Hamas commander Jabari

By Stuart Winer November 18, 2012, 1:26 pm 3-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

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Israeli special forces are deployed in Gaza searching for hidden rockets and weapons, the Sunday Times reported on Sunday, amid fears that a desperate Hamas might affix chemical weapons to its remaining long-range Fajr-5 missiles.According to the report in the London weekly, which was not attributed to any source, the commandos are looking for missiles hidden underground, a favorite tactic of Hamas.As Gaza terrorists over the weekend targeted Tel Aviv, a concern for Israeli officials is the threat that Hamas may fit chemical warheads on its long-range Fajr-5 missiles, the newspaper said, quoting an unnamed defense source.“Hamas might go for a desperate attempt to launch rockets with chemical warheads if the worst came to the worst,” the source said.The Sunday Times report (behind a paywall) also gave details of how Israel finally killed Hamas military commander Ahmed Jabari, whose targeting was the opening shot of Pillar of Defense.Jabari had long been at the top of Israel’s hit-list for his central role in overseeing terror attacks on Israelis. Paranoid about an attempt on his life, Jabari never carried a mobile phone and constantly switched between vehicles in a fleet he used for transport.Last week Israel’s Shin Bet security service tracked Jabari down in Gaza and succeeded in fitting one of his cars — a silver Kia — with a tracking device, the paper said. IDF Chief of General Staff Benny Gantz was updated, as was Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. With a window of opportunity of scant seconds, it was the Israeli Air Force Commander Amir Eshel himself who gave the order for a drone strike that killed the 52-year-old, the report said.“On a giant television screen at air force headquarters in Tel Aviv, Amir Eshel, its commander, supervised the operation. He gave the order: ‘Kill the bastard.’ At 3.55pm the drone operators hit the kill button. The Kia burst into flames as two missiles hit the car. Jabari and a son who was with him died on the spot.”In eliminating Jabari, said the Sunday Times, “the Israeli government had killed the instigator of virtually every attack from Gaza in recent years.”

Peres says no truce offers received, and rocket fire must stop before any agreement

Missile barrages on southern cities continue on day 5 of Operation Pillar of Defense, injuring 3 in Ashkelon; Egypt’s Morsi said to be working on brokering a ceasefire, but Netanyahu says operation to be expanded

By Times of Israel staff November 18, 2012, 2:18 pm 5

For the third day in a row, Tel Aviv is the target of Hamas attacks, and Iron Dome carries out successful interceptions. Amid rumors of a halt to fighting, Israeli officials tell The Times of Israel that Jerusalem is not currently interested in a ceasefire. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the IDF’s campaign will be expanded, hinting at a looming ground operation. The IAF, in the meantime, is targeting key Hamas personnel, several of whom were killed on Saturday. Hamas PM Haniyeh has gone underground. Since the start of Operation Pillar of Defense on Wednesday, the IDF has hit some 1,000 targets in the Gaza Strip, with Palestinians reporting 52 dead, over a dozen of them civilians, including children. Gazan terrorists have fired some 750 rockets at Israel and Iron Dome has shot down nearly 270, including three aimed at Tel Aviv. Israel’s death toll stands at three, with dozens more injured, including three on Sunday when a missile scored a direct hit on an apartment in Ashkelon. The Times of Israel is live blogging developments. Press “Refresh” for latest updates.

15:26 

A building in the southern town of Ofakim has reportedly suffered a direct hit from a Hamas missile. One person was lightly injured by shrapnel.

15:26 

Palestinian sources say at least two people were killed in an air strike on a civilian building in the Sheikh Radoan neighborhood in Gaza City. Sources say at least ten people were also injured in the attack.

15:19 

Israel under attack:

15:16 

President Barack Obama reiterates that the US is “fully supportive” of Israel’s right to defend itself, saying that no country would tolerate missiles on its citizens.

15:15 

IDF spokesman says 124 trucks carrying supplies crossed from Israel to Gaza since this morning. The trucks are carrying goods, medical supplies, dairy products, and gas.

15:07 

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman meets with his French counterpart, Laurent Fabius. At a press conference following their meeting, Liberman thanks France for all its efforts to bring about a long-term agreement between Israel and the Hamas-led Gaza Strip.

Liberman emphasizes that no country should have to tolerate a million citizens sitting in bomb shelters, children not attending school and adults not working.

The foreign minister says that the first condition for any ceasefire agreement must be the complete cessation of all rocket fire into Israel. Once all terror organizations operating in the Gaza Strip halts their attacks, Liberman said, Israel will be willing to discuss any options that are on the table.

15:01 

The latest barrage from Gaza consists of 18 missiles fired around 2 p.m., of which Iron Dome intercepted 15, Ynet reports.

14:51 

A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is on the verge of being completed, says senior Hamas official Mustafa Sawaf. Speaking to Al-Jazeera, Sawaf says that 90 percent of the agreement has been finalized and that they are waiting to hear from Israel regarding certain security guarantees.

14:49 

The scene in the Tel Aviv area where a car was set alight by shrapnel that fell from an intercepted rocket fired from Gaza.

14:46 

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi is meeting with Hamas political bureau head Khaled Mashal in Cairo to discuss a possible ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, according to reports in the Hebrew media.

14:33 

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi’s legal adviser calls for the Arab world to announce the establishment of a Palestinian state.During an interview with  US-based Radio Sawa, Mohammed Fouad says that the Palestinian factions should be armed by Arab countries so that the new country can protect itself. (Source Israel Radio)

14:30 

Seven injured in Gaza City from bombardment from Israeli helicopters, Ma’an news reports.

14:27 

Reports coming now of a large volley of rockets launched toward communities in the south, Beersheba, and coastal areas.

Ynet reports that two rockets have landed in Beersheba, one damaging a building and one landing in an open area next to an apartment building, and two have landed in Ashdod, one of which damaged a vehicle in a parking lot. No reports of injuries.

14:19 

The national police force is employing school security guards who have been left without work on account of the school closures in all communities within 40 kilometers of the Gaza Strip.Minister of Internal Security Yitzhak Aharonovitch indicates that the arrangement is beneficial for both the strained police force and the jobless guards.

14:18 

President Shimon Peres was just interviewed by Channel 2. He praises the conduct of the IDF and the government, which he called “very good” during the crisis. He says that he is unsure if national elections (currently set for January 22) will be delayed by the hostilities, and is open to the possibility that if there is a ceasefire soon, elections can proceed as planned.He says several times that Hamas must cease rocket fire from Gaza in order for a truce to be considered, and adds that “we have received no truce offers” so far. Peres praises Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi for taking a “responsible role” in attempting to broker, along with Turkey and Qatar, a truce between Israel and Hamas.The president explains that the current conflict is also a “technology competition,” with Hamas acquiring long-range missiles than can reach Israel’s heartland, which Israel can counter with the Iron Dome missile defense. Israel is “among the most advanced nations” in this regard, he says.

Israel: : At least 1 more rocket fired at Tel Aviv

Associated Press – 4 hrs ago NOV 18,12

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's military says Gaza militants have fired another rocket at Tel Aviv, but it was intercepted by the country's 'Iron Dome' missile defense system.Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says two rockets were fired Sunday. It was impossible to immediately reconcile the reports.The latest conflict between Israel and Palestinians in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip has seen Israel's heartland brought under long-range Palestinian rocket fire for the first time.

Grad Katyushas Hit Residential Areas in Be'er Sheva

Three Grad Katyusha missiles struck the southern city of Be'er Sheva Sunday afternoon. Two hit residential neighborhoods.By Chana Ya'ar First Publish: 11/18/2012, 1:55 PM-INN

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Three Grad Katyusha missiles struck the southern city of Be'er Sheva Sunday afternoon after being launched from Gaza by Hamas terrorists. Rescue crews raced to the scene to provide assistance.At least one of the missiles landed in an open area, officials said, but two apparently struck residential neighborhoods. At least one apartment building sustained a direct hit, although miraculously no one was physically injured. Numerous residents suffered from trauma and anxiety, however, and at least four people were treated by medics at the scene for hysteria.Extensive damage has been reported by local sources in the city.Gaza terrorists have continued to target southern Israeli cities despite repeated warnings that Operation Pillar of Defense will be expanded if the attacks continue.The IDF sent a message to Gaza over Hamas radio after seizing control of the region's radio waves earlier Sunday, announcing that the operation would be moved up if attacks did not cease.“Hamas is playing with fire, and is putting your lives in danger for no purpose,” the message stated. “The Israel Defense Forces is moving to the next stage,” the IDF warned Gaza's residents and terrorist leaders."By now the IDF has attacked over 1,000 terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip and it is continuing its operations as we speak," reported Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in opening remarks at the weekly government Cabinet meeting Sunday morning. "It is achieving significant hits on weapons aimed at Israeli citizens, as well as on those who use these weapons and those who dispatch them. We are exacting a heavy price from Hamas and the [other] terrorist organizations, and the IDF is prepared for a significant expansion of its operations."Today as well, I will continue to speak with world leaders. I appreciate the understanding that they are showing for Israel's right to defend itself. In my talks with the leaders, I emphasize the effort Israel is making to avoid hitting civilians, and this at a time when Hamas and the [other] terrorist organizations are making every effort to hit civilian targets in Israel."We are a responsible government that is obligated, above all, to the security of its citizens, and we are acting in accordance with this obligation," Netanyahu affirmed.