SYRIA-ISRAEL MUST SIGN WMD TREATIES SAYS ASSAD

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

Abbas: Meet Our Conditions, Then We Can Have Peace

PA Chairman tells university graduates in Jericho: Unless all our demands are met, there will not be a peace agreement with Israel.-By Elad Benari-First Publish: 9/16/2013, 5:44 AM-IsraelNationalNews

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas-Flash 90

Israel’s “peace partner”, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, has once again outright rejected an Israeli demand to ensure a peace agreement that does not harm its security.In a speech on Sunday to graduates of a university in Jericho, Abbas also clarified that unless all of the PA’s demands are met, there will not be a peace agreement with Israel.Abbas told the graduates that the eastern border of the State of Palestine along the Dead Sea and the Jordan Valley will be with Jordan, thus essentially rejecting an Israeli demand for a special security arrangement in the Jordan Valley, that would allow IDF soldiers to remain in the region after the establishment of a Palestinian state.In the past, Abbas indicated his willingness to allow an international UN presence in a future Palestinian state, but stressed that not a single Israeli – civilian or soldier - will be allowed in “Palestine”.Abbas also told the students that the current negotiations between Israel and the PA are intended to reach a two-state solution based on the borders that existed before June 4, 1967, end “the occupation”, bring about the realization of the independence of the State of Palestine whose capital is Jerusalem, and bring a settlement to all final status issues, including releasing PA Arab terrorists from Israeli jails.“Unless all the demands and rights of our people are realized" there will not be an arrangement, he stressed.The speech in Jericho is the latest example of Abbas saying one thing when he speaks in English to Western officials or to Israelis, then turning around and telling his own people the opposite in Arabic.

Most recently, members of the Israeli leftist party Meretz who met with Abbas claimed that the PA Chairman had reassured them that if a peace agreement is reached with Israel, it would bring an end to his people’s demands of the Jewish state. He also assured the Meretz members that the PA would give up its demand for the “right of return”, which would see millions of Arabs who fled Israel in 1948 and their descendants flood Israel.However, several days later an official statement from Abbas’s Fatah party made it clear that "the main goal of the negotiations with Israel is to establish an independent Palestinian state within the [pre-]1967 borders with its capital Al-Quds (Jerusalem -ed.), and the return of refugees in accordance with resolutions by international legitimate institutions and the Arab Peace Initiative.”For years, the PA has demanded a state based on the borders that existed before the 1967 Six Day War. Israel refuses, as these borders, which were termed “Auschwitz borders” by the late former Foreign Minister Abba Eban, are indefensible and would guarantee its destruction.Abbas agreed to resume negotiations with Israel in July after being pressured to do so by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.Kerry asked both sides to keep the details of the negotiations secret in order to give the process a chance to work and, while Israeli officials have remain tight-lipped about the talks, PA officials have made several leaks to the press.In the most recent leak, a PA official said that during the negotiations, Israel agreed to a wholesale deportation of thousands of Jews from Judea and Samaria and the transfer of their property to PA Arabs. However, the PA official who reported on that Israeli offer added that the PA side had rejected it as not going far enough. In an earlier leak to the press, the PA's chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, told an Arabic radio station that the US has guaranteed the PA all of its key preconditions in advance of negotiations.At the same time, PA officials have publicly stated that achieving peace with Israel was impossible, blaming the Jewish state and its “occupation” of Judea and Samaria for this.

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

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

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

SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS-CHEMICAL WEAPONS

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(BIOLOGICAL/CHEMICAL/NUCLEAR) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I COMMENTED ON.THAT RUSSIA-SYRIA AND THE ARAB-MUSLIMS WOULD TRY TO FORCE THIS BAN ON ISRAEL

Israel worried it may be forced to join chemical weapons ban

With deal to disarm Syria of WMDs underway, some policymakers concerned US, Russia may pressure Jerusalem to ratify arms treaty

By Times of Israel staff and AP September 16, 2013, 4:55 am 5-The Times of Israel

The deal to strip Assad of his chemical weapons stockpile has some policymakers in Jerusalem concerned that Israel may be forced to sign an international chemical weapons ban treaty, something it has been unwilling to do until now.The Chemical Weapons Convention, an international arms control pact which bans the production and amassing of chemical weapons materiel, is ratified by 183 states. Only Israel and Myanmar have signed the treaty but not ratified it into law.Israel refused to ratify the treaty on the claim that “there is no significance to being part of an agreement like this while a neighboring country like Syria possesses a vast stockpile of chemical weapons,” Channel 10 reported Sunday night.“Israel cannot allow itself to be the one that everyone thinks doesn’t have chemical weapons,” retired brigadier general Yitzhak Ben-Israel, head of Tel Aviv University’s Security Studies department, told the station.Neither Syria nor Egypt signed the CWC, and both have active chemical weapons programs. South Sudan, North Korea and Angola are the remaining non-signatory states.According to a Channel 10 report, Israel is concerned that now that the US and Russia on Saturday reached a deal which aims to destroy Syria’s chemical stockpile by the middle of next year, the two world powers may force Israel to ratify the treaty. As a party to the CWC, Israel would be forced to permit international inspectors access to its most sensitive security facilities, including the Dimona nuclear reactor and the Nes Ziona Biological Institute. According to a CIA document published in Foreign Policy magazine, US spy satellites in 1982 uncovered “a probable CW (chemical weapons) nerve agent production facility and a storage facility… at the Dimona Sensitive Storage Area in the Negev Desert.”Since Israel has not ratified the treaty, it isn’t presently subjected to such inspections.

The Foreign Ministry last week stated that Israel wouldn’t ratify the CWC so long as other states in the region with chemical weapons refuse to recognize Israel and threaten to destroy it, Haaretz reported.

Despite this, should Syria be disarmed of its WMDs, officials in Israel’s defense establishment are confident that Israel can safely become a signatory to the treaty without compromising national security, the Channel 10 report said.At a joint press conference with US Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked him for his efforts to purge Syria of chemical weapons and linked the agreement with Syria to the ongoing campaign to curb Iran’s controversial nuclear program.“We have been closely following – and support – your ongoing efforts to rid Syria of its chemical weapons,” Netanyahu said. “The Syrian regime must be stripped of all its chemical weapons, and that would make our entire region a lot safer.“The world needs to ensure that radical regimes don’t have weapons of mass destruction because as we’ve learned once again in Syria, if rogue regimes have weapons of mass destruction, they will use them. The determination the international community shows regarding Syria will have a direct impact on the Syrian regime’s patron, Iran. Iran must understand the consequences of its continual defiance of the international community, by its pursuit toward nuclear weapons… if diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.”Netanyahu earlier Sunday expressed cautious optimism about the deal, stressing that the proof of its effectiveness would be in deeds, not words.Officials in Jerusalem said late Saturday Israel would of course be delighted to see the Assad regime stripped of chemical weapons, but that it was wary of the unfolding diplomatic framework and concerned that Assad was bent on buying time and won’t adhere to the timeline.

EU offers to help destroy Syria weapons

15.09.13 @ 19:35

By Andrew Rettman

BRUSSELS - EU countries have offered to help destroy Syria's chemical weapons as part of a Russia-US deal.Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and US secretary of state John Kerry agreed the plan on Saturday (14 September) in Geneva after three days of talks.It says Syria must in one week disclose details of its chemical arsenal to the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), an intergovernmental body created in 1997 and based in The Hague.It must give OPCW staff full access to it facilities.OPCW personnel are to destroy "production and mixing/filling equipment" by November.
They are to destroy all remaining "weapons material and equipment" in the first half of 2014.If Syria does not comply, if it uses chemical weapons or if it tries to sneak them to allies in Lebanon and Iran, then Russia and the US "concur" that "the UN Security Council should impose measures under chapter VII of the UN charter," or, in other words, should authorise use of military force.Syria itself on Saturday ratified the OCPW charter.It also welcomed the deal. "It's a victory for Syria achieved thanks to our Russian friends," its reconciliation minister, Ali Haidar, told Russian news agency Ria Novosti.But Syrian rebel leaders rejected it. "We cannot accept this initiative … We will continue to fight until the fall of the regime," Free Syrian Army chief Selim Idriss told press in Istanbul.For his part, Kerry said in Geneva: "I have no doubt that the combination of the threat of force and the willingness to pursue diplomacy helped to bring us to this moment."
Lavrov warned Syrian rebels "not to create threats to [OPCW] international personnel."Leading EU countries France, Germany and the UK, as well as China and Iran, have endorsed the agreement.
Chancellor Angela Merkel told an election rally in Germany on Sunday it creates hope for a political solution to the civil war.French foreign minister Laurent Fabius, while visiting China, said: "Only a few days ago, Syria was denying having chemical weapons and having used them. From now on we are in a new phase."
British foreign minister William Hague noted in London: "This is a significant step forward."EU foreign relations chief Catherine Ashton added in a statement: "A number of EU member states have the technical knowledge necessary to assist in securing sites, and in dismantling and destroying certain chemical agents … the EU stands ready to offer further support to the OPCW in carrying out its important and urgent tasks."
Syrian rebels are not the only ones unhappy with developments, however.Two US senators from the opposition Republican Party, John McCain and Lindsey Graham, predict Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad will use the chemical deal to muzzle international critics while he continues to massacre civilians.They said it is "the start of a diplomatic blind alley, and the Obama administration is being led into it by Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin," referring to US President Barack Obama and Russian head of state Vladimir Putin.
With Kerry due in Jerusalem for talks with Israeli leaders on Sunday, Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt noted that Israel is also suspected of having chemical weapons."After Syria deal, with implementation to be watched carefully, Israel should ratify and Egypt sign and ratify Chemical Weapons Convention," he tweeted.
Kerry in Geneva also explained how the deal came about.The initiative took off after Kerry, at a press conference in London last Monday, said, in an off-the-cuff remark, that al-Assad could avoid military strikes by handing over "every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week."
He noted in Switzerland on Saturday that he had discussed the idea with Lavrov by phone in the run-up to the G20 summit in St Petersburg before the London press event.He said Obama and Putin also talked about it in St Petersburg and that "the rest is history."In EU circles, the Polish foreign ministry is putting it about that its minister, Radek Sikorski, came up with the plan.An EU diplomat told EUobserver it originated in a meeting of eight Nordic and Baltic foreign ministers in Visby, Sweden, on 4 September, however.The diplomat said the eight countries discussed Syria after requests for Ashton to convene an EU-level debate fell on deaf ears.

Assad’s biological weapons absent from US-Russia deal

Syrian regime has two bases producing anthrax and other devastating agents, Israel’s Channel 10 reports

By Times of Israel staff September 15, 2013, 9:20 pm 4-The Times of Israel

Syrian President Bashar Assad has two biological weapons bases, developing anthrax and other devastating biological agents, and yet the US-Russia deal aimed at stripping his regime of chemical weapons makes no provisions for his biological weapons capability, Israeli TV reported Sunday night.There is “not a word” about biological weapons in the agreement that US Secretary of State John Kerry discussed with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Sunday, Channel 10 news said.Assad has two biological weapons bases, one of them subterranean and a second in a coastal location, producing anthrax and other agents, the report saidIn an unclassified report in April, US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper assessed that Syria could be capable of producing limited biological weapons.“Based on the duration of Syria’s longstanding biological warfare (BW) program, we judge that some elements of the program may have advanced beyond the research and development stage and may be capable of limited agent production,” Clapper wrote. “Syria is not known to have successfully weaponized biological agents in an effective delivery system, but it possesses conventional and chemical weapon systems that could be modified for biological agent delivery.”A 2008 report on Syrian WMDs, by Anthony Cordesman of the US Center for Strategic and International Studies, went further, citing Israeli sources. According to Israel, Cordesman wrote, “Syria weaponized botulinum and ricin toxins in the early 1990s, and probably anthrax.”

He noted “reports of one underground facility and one near the coast,” cited a “possible production capability for anthrax and botulism, and possibly other agents,” and mentioned “limited indications [Syria] may be developing or testing biological variations on ZAB-incendiary bombs and PTAB-500 cluster bombs and Scud warheads.”The Cordesman report noted that “using advanced agents – such as the most lethal forms of anthrax – can have the effectiveness of small theater nuclear weapons. It is difficult to design adequate missile warheads to disseminate such agents, but this is not beyond Syrian capabilities – particularly since much of the technology needed to make effective cluster munitions and bomblets for VX gas can be adapted to the delivery of biological weapons.“The design of biological bombs and missile warheads with the lethality of small nuclear weapons may now be within Syrian capabilities, as is the design of UAV, helicopter, cruise missile, or aircraft-borne systems to deliver the agent slowly over a long line of flight and taking maximum advantage of wind and weather conditions,” he wrote.On Friday, Sen. John Cornyn (R., Texas) wrote to President Barack Obama to warn that “omitting Assad’s bioweapons from any agreement would represent a gaping hole in the plan.” Such weaponry, in the hands of Assad or his allies, wrote Cornyn, “represent a direct security threat” to the US and its allies. If Hezbollah and other terror groups got hold of this materiel, he warned, “this would be a direct threat to the United States and our allies, particularly Israel.”

France doesn’t rule out ‘military option’ in Syria

French president says that without a credible threat of force, ‘there will be no pressure’

By AP September 15, 2013, 11:51 pm 0-The Times Of Israel

PARIS — French President Francois Hollande hasn’t ruled out the “military option” against Syria, as US Secretary of State John Kerry flies to Paris for talks Monday on how to rid Syria of its chemical weapons stockpile.In a televised address Sunday night, Hollande said: “The military option must remain; otherwise there will be no pressure.”France, which has been at the forefront of international diplomacy on Syria, firmly backs the rebels and has strategic and historic interests in the region. It urged military action after a chemical attack on August 21 that Paris and Washington blame on Bashar Assad’s government.The diplomatic breakthrough, which has been seen to avert the threat of US military action against Syria, came Saturday after American and Russian diplomats in Geneva agreed on a plan for Syria’s chemical weapons. France wasn’t present.Hollande, Kerry, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and British Foreign Secretary William Hague will meet in Paris Monday to agree on a draft UN resolution that would set out how Syria can secure and destroy its stockpile.But Hollande said there needs to be sanctions to coerce the Syrian regime into sticking to turning over its chemical weapons.“It is necessary to include the threat of sanctions if the agreement and the aims of the Security Council resolution aren’t carried out,” he said.“The next step, it has to be finding a political solution to the Syrian crisis,” he added.Speaking from Beijing on Sunday, Fabius said questions over the deal remained, including what measures should be taken if the Syrian government fails to adhere to it.After being first drafted in Paris, the UN resolution will then travel to Moscow to be validated by Russian President Vladimir Putin.Russia and China have consistently blocked resolutions at the UN Security Council aimed at sanctioning Assad’s regime.More than 100,000 people have been killed in the 2½-year-long Syrian conflict.

Chemical weapons inspectors submit report on Syria

Secretary general to brief Security Council in closed session on Monday, then General Assembly later in the day

By AP September 16, 2013, 2:25 am 0-The Times Of Israel

UNITED NATIONS — The UN said its chief chemical weapons inspector has turned over his team’s report on last month’s alleged poison gas attack in Syria to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said the report was transmitted Sunday and the secretary-general will brief a closed session of the UN Security Council on its contents Monday morning. He will also brief the 193-member General Assembly later that day.The inspection team led by Swedish expert Ake Sellstrom was mandated to report on whether chemical weapons were used in the Aug. 21 attack in the Damascus suburbs and, if so, which chemical agents were used — not on who was responsible.The secretary-general said Friday that he believes there will be “an overwhelming report” that chemical weapons were used in the attack.

20 trucks with Syrian chemical equipment said sent to Iraq

Unconfirmed report in Lebanese newspaper echoes claims by Syrian rebels that Assad is hiding his WMD stocks to evade inspectors

By Times of Israel staff September 15, 2013, 1:08 pm 3-The Times of Israel

Twenty trucks laden with equipment used in the manufacture of chemical weapons were driven across the border from Syria into Iraq on Thursday and Friday, the Lebanese newspaper Al-Mustaqbal reported on Sunday.The trucks were “heavily protected” by security forces, and were not inspected by border guards, the paper reported, adding that its sources confirmed the illicit cargo.There was no confirmation of the report in Al-Mustaqbal, a newspaper associated with groups opposed to the regime of President Bashar Assad.

Sunday’s report came amid ongoing claims by the leader of the Free Syrian Army, Salim Idriss, that Assad was busy hiding his chemical weapons so that, when UN inspectors arrive to record and ultimately oversee the destruction of his stockpiles, a sizable amount of his WMD stocks will not be affected.In interviews over the weekend, Idriss insisted his group had accurate information that Assad was sending some chemical weapons to Lebanon and Iraq, and more to “dozens of sites” across Syria to torpedo any attempt at international inspection and destruction of the stockpiles, as mandated by Saturday’s US-Russia agreement.

A CNN report on Thursday also quoted Idriss claiming that the Syrian government had begun moving its chemical weapons stockpiles to Lebanon and Iraq.Baghdad rejected Idriss’s claim, and Israeli officials who spoke to the news outlet said they had no indication that Assad had moved the WMDs to Lebanon or Iraq.

The Wall Street Journal last week also cited “American and Middle Eastern officials” as saying that the Syrian military unit running Assad’s chemical weapons program was scattering the regime’s stockpiles to as many as 50 sites across the country to confound American efforts to track them.“The movements of chemical weapons by Syria’s elite Unit 450 could complicate any US bombing campaign in Syria over its alleged chemical attacks,” the paper wrote, citing officials. “It also raises questions about implementation of a Russian proposal that calls for the regime to surrender control of its stockpile.”According to US officials, American and Israeli officials are confident that they can still identify the locations of Assad’s chemical weapons sites, “but with less confidence than six months ago,” the paper wrote.Another Syrian rebel leader said last Friday that the Assad regime has transferred chemical weapons to the Lebanese Shiite terrorist group Hezbollah.According to a report in Saudi Arabia’s al-Watan newspaper, Syrian National Coalition member Kamal al-Labwani said the rebels obtained documents and testimony from a defector from one of the Syrian government’s chemical weapons research centers that indicate Assad transferred roughly one metric ton of VX nerve gas to its ally, Hezbollah.Al-Labwani told al-Watan that he forwarded documentary proof of his claim to the US Embassy in Jordan and British intelligence in Doha. The al-Watan report could not be independently confirmed.Israel has repeatedly vowed to prevent Hezbollah’s acquisition of sophisticated weaponry, including chemical weapons. In January, Israeli fighter jets carried out an airstrike near a chemical weapons facility outside Damascus. US officials said the Israelis struck the military research center and a convoy next to it, which was carrying anti-aircraft weapons destined for the Islamic militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon.Western intelligence estimates that the Assad regime possesses roughly 1,000 metric tons of chemical and biological weapons.

Assad says US must stop military threats, and Israel must sign WMD treaties

Syrian president, announcing plans to submit data on his chemical weapons a month after signing int’l convention, issues demands of his own

By Times of Israel staff and AP September 12, 2013, 5:24 pm Updated: September 12, 2013, 10:51 pm 24-The Times of Israel

MOSCOW — Syria’s President Bashar Assad on Thursday demanded that Israel ratify international treaties on non-proliferation of nonconventional weapons, and that the US promise not to attack his regime, as he set conditions for a negotiated resolution of the crisis over his chemical weapon.Assad said he would submit data on his country’s chemical weapons stockpile a month after signing an international convention banning the arms, adding that it was Russia, and not the US, that was making a negotiated solution possible. His comments were believed to mark Assad’s first formal acknowledgement that he has chemical weapons.

Calling a month wait the “standard process,” Assad said his country would abide by agreements, but said that such a process is “two-sided” and indicated it would only work if the US halts its threats of military action against Syria, if Washington does not arm Syrian rebels, and if Israel also ratifies weapons ban conventions.“When we see that the United States really wants stability in our region, and will stop threatening and striving to attack, and will stop providing weapons to the terrorists, then we will consider that we can carry out these necessary processes to the end,” he said.Speaking to Russia’s state-run Rossiya-24 TV, he added that any war against Syria would destroy the whole region.“If we want stability in the Middle East, all the countries in the region should stick to [international] agreements,” he said. “And Israel is the first state that should do so, since Israel possessed nuclear, chemical, biological and all other kinds of weapons of mass destruction.”A United Nations spokesperson told al-Jazeera Thursday evening that the UN had received a document from Syria initiating the process of Syria declaring its chemical weapons stockpile.Assad told the news channel that his government had agreed to surrender its chemical weapons in response to Russia’s initiative and not because of the US threat of attack.“Syria is transferring chemical weapons under international control because of Russia,” Assad said.Assad added that “the US threats hadn’t influenced” his government’s decision.“The most important role belongs to the Russian government, because we do not trust the United States and have no contact. Russia is the only government that can carry this out right now,” he said.Russia on Monday proposed that Syria place its chemical weapons under international control and eventually dismantle them in order to avert a US strike, and Syria quickly accepted the proposal.US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov were set to sit down together to discuss details of the plan in Geneva later Thursday.Speaking to his Cabinet Thursday, US President Barack Obama said he hoped the two could work out a deal with a “concrete result.”“I know that [Kerry] is going to be working very hard over the next several days to see what the possibilities are there,” he said.

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http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2011/10/today-in-israel-fastof-gedaliah.html (YOM KIPPUR ENDED SATURDAY-YESTERDAY AT 11AM EST-6PM ISRAEL TIME)

4-ROSH-HASHANA WAS JUST OVER.SEPT 4-6 6PM (2 DAYS)(ISRAEL NEW YEAR)
5-YOM KIPPUR IS ON SEPT 13TH 6PM (1 DAY)
6-SUKKOT IS ON SEPT 18-25,13 6PM (WEEK LONG)
7-SHEMINI ATZERET IS ON SEPT 25,13 6PM (1 DAY)
8-HANUKKAH IS ON NOV 27,13 6PM (1 WEEK)

NOTE: All holidays begin at sundown on the evening before the date given.

1. Feast of Lots.

2. Feast of Unleavened Bread.

3. Hebrew Pentecost; or Feast of Weeks, or of Harvest, or of First Fruits.

4. Jewish New Year.

5. Day of Atonement.

6. Feast of Tabernacles, or of the Ingathering.

7. Assembly of the Eighth Day.

8. Festival of Lights.

Length of Jewish holidays:

Orthodox and Conservative:

 In Israel: Purim: 1 day. Passover: 7 days; first and last are holy. Shavuot: 1 day. Rosh Hashanah: 2 days. Yom Kippur: 1 day. Sukkot: 7 days; first is holy. Shemini Atzeret: 1 day. Hanukkah: 8 days.

 Outside Israel: Purim: 1 day. Passover: 8 days; first 2 and last 2 are holy. Shavuot: 2 days. Rosh Hashanah: 2 days. Yom Kippur: 1 day. Sukkot: 7 days; first 2 are holy. Shemini Atzeret: 2 days (2nd called Simchat Torah). Hanukkah: 8 days.

Reform:

 Purim: 1 day. Passover: 7 days; first and last are holy. Shavuot: 1 day. Rosh Hashanah: 1 day. Yom Kippur: 1 day. Sukkot: 7 days; first is holy. Shemini Atzeret: 1 day. Hanukkah: 8 days.
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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,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)

THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.

Hurricane Ingrid, TS Manuel threaten Mexico

RODRIGO SOBERANES SANTIN 1 hour ago-sept 15,13-yahoonews

XALAPA, Mexico (AP) — Tropical Storm Manuel churned very near to Mexico's southwest Pacific shoreline Sunday as thousands on the country's Gulf rim sought shelter from approaching Hurricane Ingrid amid the threat of heavy rains, dangerous flash floods and mudslides along both coasts.Manuel and Ingrid appeared set to wallop Mexico with a one-two punch and mar several planned observances of the country's Sept. 15 and 16 Independence Day celebrations.The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Ingrid, the second hurricane of the Atlantic storm season, could reach the Mexican mainland early Monday after gathering strength over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. It was packing top sustained winds of 85 mph (140 kph) as it slowly crawled toward land with little change in strength in hours.Manuel, sustaining maximum winds of 70 mph (120 kph), was about 75 miles (120 kilometers) from the Pacific coast near the Mexican port city of Lazaro Cardenas early Sunday. Forecasters said that storm was moving toward imminent landfall over the coming hours.The Mexican government late Saturday issued a hurricane warning for the country's Pacific Coast from Lazaro Cardenas to Manzanillo. The storm was expected to rapidly weaken once it began heading into the Mexican interior through the afternoon.

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Forecasters warned, meanwhile, that both storms presented dangers.Manuel was expected to dump 10 to 15 inches of rain over parts of the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Guerrero with maximums of 25 inches possible in some isolated areas. Authorities said those rains would present an especially dangerous threat in mountains, where flash floods and mudslides were possible.Hurricane Ingrid also was expected to dump very heavy rains. It was centered Sunday about 150 miles (240 km) east of Tampico, Mexico, and moving northwest at 7 mph (11 km). A hurricane warning from Ingrid was in effect from Cabo Rojo to La Pesca.
In Tamaulipas state to the north, where Ingrid is expected to make landfall, the government said in a statement that Independence Day festivities were cancelled in the cities of Tampico, Madero and Altamira. The Sept. 15 and 16 celebrations commemorate Mexico's battle of independence from Spain.Officials in the Gulf state of Veracruz began evacuating coastal residents Friday night, and civil protection authorities said that more than 5,300 people had been moved to safer ground. Of those, about 3,500 people were being housed in official shelters with the rest staying with family and friends. There were no immediate reports of injuries blamed on the storm.

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More than 1,000 homes in Veracruz state have been affected by the storm to varying degrees, and 20 highways and 12 bridges have suffered damages, according to the state's civil protection authority.A bridge collapsed near the northern Veracruz city of Misantla on Friday, cutting off the area from the state capital. Thirteen people died when a landslide buried their homes in heavy rains spawned by Tropical Depression Fernand on Monday.State officials imposed an orange alert, the highest possible, in parts of southern Veracruz.

Colorado floods leave hundreds unaccounted for

2 hours ago-sept 15,13-yahoonews

More than 500 stranded victims of major flooding in Colorado braced for a new round of heavy rain Sunday that is threatening to impede rescue efforts.Officials noted that many of those unaccounted for may simply not be able to telephone loved ones because of flood damage to many cell phone towers.New flash floods were expected to inundate the area, which thousands were forced to evacuate. A flash flood watch was in effect through the evening for the entire Denver metro area, as well as the northern Front Range Foothills and mountains.On Saturday, large hail the size of peas or even marbles pummelled parts of the city of Aurora, according to local weather reports. A series of thunderstorms also struck the area.Raging floodwaters in the city of Boulder, already confirmed to have killed at least four people, apparently claimed the life of a fifth on Saturday -- a 60-year-old woman swept away in the torrent.The Larimer County Sheriff's Office said on Twitter that the woman was "missing presumed dead," after floodwaters destroyed her house, and officials warned that the toll would likely climb further."There might be further loss of life," Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle told reporters. "It's certainly a high probability... We're hoping to reach everyone as soon as possible."
But some additional help was on the way, with President Barack Obama declaring a major disaster in Colorado and ordering federal aid to support state and local efforts."Assistance can include grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses, and other programs to help individuals and business owners recover from the effects of the disaster," the White House said.
And the Wyoming National Guard was helping the evacuation effort after Governor Matt Mead activated five UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and 20 crew members, the state's military department said.In the disaster zone, helicopters circled above submerged houses in a search for survivors in the western US state, with hundreds still missing.The storms separated some families. A worried Robert Egloff told The Denver Post he has spent the past two days driving from shelter to shelter searching for his parents, both veterans.
"All I know is it's another bus without my parents on it," he said after watching friends and family greet evacuees who stepped off buses.

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About 350 people were unaccounted for in Larimer County alone, from where about 475 people were evacuated, according to the sheriff's office.In neighboring Boulder County, 231 people were unaccounted for, according to CNN, though authorities cautioned that the numbers were fluctuating."It is no doubt an epic event," Weld County Commissioner Sean Conway told The Denver Post. "It is a once in 500 years or 1,000 years situation."Search and rescue teams are being deployed to assess the situation and contact stranded residents.The US National Guard provided seven helicopters to help get people out of danger.Some 1,200 residents were pulled out of the Pinewood Springs area by the National Guard and Fort Carson personnel, state authorities said on Twitter.But many others are still awaiting rescue, which authorities said could take days for some.Impassable roads forced authorities to use a helicopter to evacuate 200 residents from Jamestown, northwest of Boulder, according to news reports.Residents' furry friends were also stranded by the torrential rains."Our victims' advocates told me tonight there were almost as many pets as people getting off the evacuation helicopters today," the Larimer County Sheriff's Office tweeted.Officials said there were widespread power outages as streets became raging rivers after the state received months' worth of rain in just a few days.Rain began pelting the state earlier this week, in Boulder, which saw 7.2 inches (18.3 centimeters) of precipitation in about 15 hours beginning Wednesday night, with more downpours likely over the weekend.Pictures from helicopter cameras showed heavy rain had reduced the towns of Jamestown, Lyons and Longmont to little more than islands, with ready-to-eat meals being dropped to stranded, anxious residents below.

SYRIA-ISRAEL,ACTION,NOT WORDS WILL TEST ASSADS MOTIVES

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

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

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

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

I JUST HOPE ISRAEL HAS PICTURES OF SYRIA TAKING THEIR CHEMICAL GASES TO IRAQ,IRAN AND LEBANON.THEN THE WORLD WOULD REALISE THEIR JUST STALLING FOR TIME TO MOVE SOME OF THE 1,000 TONS OF CHEMICALS TO OTHER ARAB/MUSLIM COUNTRIES.SO THESE OTHER COUNTRIES CAN USE THE CHEMICALS ON ISRAEL.THIS IS A NEVER ENDING CHEMICAL MOVE SCAM UNTIL THE ARAB/MUSLIMS USE THESE CHEMICALS ON ISRAEL.THE WORLD HAS TO STRIKE SYRIA NOW.OVERTHROW ASSAD.THE EUROPEAN UNION PUTS ONE OF ITS LEADERS IN SYRIA SO HE CAN TAKE CONTROL OF THE CHEMICALS QUICK.BRING IN EUROPEAN UNION TROOPS TO PROTECT THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS TILL THEIR DESTROYED AT ALL THE SITES.AND THE 100,000 EU TROOPS COULD GET RID OF THE ENEMIES OF THE NEW EUROPEAN UNION LEADER OF SYRIA.AND THEN SINCE MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE THE WORLD DICTATOR WILL COME FROM SYRIA.BUT THE BIBLE CLEARLY SAYS HE WILL COME FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION.THIS COULD FULFIL PROPHECY OF A EUROPEAN UNION LEADER. AND FOR THE ONES WHO BELIEVE THE DICTATOR WILL COME FROM SYRIA.WELL WE WOULD HAVE A SYRIAN-EUROPEAN UNION LEADER IF THEY TOOK MY ADVICE AND CONTROLLED SYRIA THIS WAY.

Netanyahu: Actions, not words, will be test for Syria and Iran

Marking Yom Kippur War anniversary, PM warns of ‘regional earthquake’; Peres says Syria is paying for refusing peace with Israel

By Naama Barak and Stuart Winer September 15, 2013, 12:26 pm 2-tHE tIMES OF iSRAEL

Syria’s agreement in principle to rid itself of chemical weapons after being threatened will reverberate in Tehran, Israeli leaders said Sunday while commemorating the 1973 Yom Kippur War.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed cautious optimism over the US-Russian deal, which will begin its implementation with Syria reporting on its chemical weapons stock by the end of the week.However, he said, the commitments had to backed up by actions, not only in Syria but in Iran as well.“We hope the understandings bear fruit. Those understandings will be judged by the results,” he said, referring to the total destruction of Syria’s chemical arms, which should take place by mid-2014. “The test of the results also applies to the efforts by the international community to stop Iran’s nuclear armaments. There, too, not words but actions will be the deciding factor.”Netanyahu added that Israel now needed to have the ability to defend itself more than ever.“We are now in a different era, in the midst of a regional earthquake, unprecedented since the establishment of the state. We face new threats: missiles, and cyber-weapons of mass destruction,” he said. “Israel will have to be ready to defend itself, by itself, against all threats… That capacity is more important today than ever… and Israel is stronger today than ever.”President Shimon Peres said “a disarmament agreement backed up by military threat should serve as a lesson to Iranian leaders.”Both leaders were speaking at a 40-year commemoration at Mount Herzl military cemetery for the Yom Kippur War, which Peres called Israel’s “last great war.”The president said Syria, which perpetrated a surprise attack on Israel together with Egypt during Judaism’s holiest day in 1973, had refused to become a partner in peace after the war, and was still paying the price for it today.He added that Syrian President Bashar Assad had “no choice” but to submit to the chemical arms deal and said that the US was still ready for a military operation should diplomacy fail.

Obama defends shift to diplomacy on Syria as ‘responsibility’

US president pledges to hold Assad accountable for WMD use by keeping military option on table

By Lazar Berman and AP September 15, 2013, 2:31 pm 0-The Times of Israel

US President Barack Obama continued to make the case for his policy in response to Syria’s use of chemical weapons, arguing in his weekly address Saturday that pursuing a diplomatic solution after threatening military strikes was both morally prudent and strategically effective.Obama’s moves over the last several weeks — including seeking authorization from Congress to use force and agreeing to back off a strike if Syria destroys its chemicals weapons — have left some pundits scratching their heads.However speaking on Saturday as the US and Russia hashed out a deal to see Syria give up its chemical arms, Obama defended his decision to shift from military force to diplomacy.“If there is any chance of achieving that goal without resorting to force,” Obama said, “then I believe we have a responsibility to pursue that path.”Still, the president sought to keep alive the possibility of American force, and argued that “this plan emerged only with a credible threat of US military action.”“We will maintain our military posture in the region to keep the pressure on the Assad regime,” he continued. “And if diplomacy fails, the United States and the international community must remain prepared to act.”US and Russian officials reached an agreement Saturday that calls for an inventory of Syria’s chemical weapons program and the seizure of all its components. The agreement includes imposing penalties if Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government fails to comply.Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and their teams had been meeting day and night in Geneva to develop a framework for ridding the world of Syria’s chemical weapons, in response to a gas attack in the Damascus suburbs on August 21.The US and others blame Assad’s government for the attack, though Assad denies the charge. More than 1,400 people died, according to US estimates, the latest victims of Syria’s 2½-year-old civil war. Yet polls showed relatively little support among Americans for a military strike against Syria, even after the Obama administration’s efforts to argue that punishing Damascus for violating international norms of warfare was in the security interests of the US.Obama emphasized that he was fully aware of the possibility that both Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin could be using the agreement as a stalling tactic, and said he would not allow them to manipulate the international community. “We are not just going to take Russia and Assad’s word for it,” Obama promised. “We need to see concrete actions to demonstrate that Assad is serious about giving up his chemical weapons.”Obama also underlined the international community’s responsibility to respond to the events, and emphasized his administration’s own efforts to gather international support for his policy.

“We’ll keep working with the international community to see that Assad gives up his chemical weapons so that they can be destroyed,” he said. “We will continue rallying support from allies around the world who agree on the need for action to deter the use of chemical weapons in Syria.”In Congress, Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who are among Obama’s sharpest foreign policy critics and support greater US assistance for Syria’s rebels, said the agreement would embolden enemies such as Iran.Other critics have also pounded Obama for his wavering and for decision not to pursue a punishing strike on Assad.The New York Times’ Peter Baker called Obama’s reversal “the rare instance of a commander in chief seemingly thinking out loud and changing his mind on the fly.”Richard N. Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, argued that this episode represents “the most undisciplined stretch of foreign policy of his presidency.”House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California, in contrast, credited the president’s “steadfast leadership” for “making significant progress in our efforts to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction.”

Syria rules out ties with Israel in acceding to chemical weapons treaty

UN document mentions that accession to the convention ‘does not imply’ recognition of Israel

By Times of Israel staff September 14, 2013, 10:35 pm 14-The Times of Israel

Taking care to rule out any recognition of Israel, Syria formally acceded to the Chemical Weapons Convention Saturday, and its commitments will go into effect in a month, according to a UN document released Saturday.The document states that Syria “shall comply with the stipulations contained [in the Convention] and observe them faithfully and sincerely, applying the Convention provisionally pending its entry into force for the Syrian Arab Republic.”The document also makes sure to affirm that “the accession of the Syrian Arab Republic to the Convention shall not in any sense imply recognition of Israel, and shall not entail entering into any relations with Israel in the matters governed by the provisions thereof.”Syria has maintained that “the chemical weapons in Syria are a mere deterrence against the Israeli nuclear arsenal,” Syria’s ambassador to the UN, Bashar Ja’afari said Thursday.UN document showing Syria’s accession to the Chemical Weapons Convention while affirming its non-recognition of Israel. (Photo credit: UN)In a Russian-American-brokered deal on Saturday, Syria will have to disclose a full inventory of its chemical weapons stockpile within a week.The deal also calls for all components of the chemical weapons program to be removed from the country or destroyed by mid-2014.US President Barack Obama welcomed the deal but warned that should diplomacy fail, the US “remains prepared to act.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/syria-to-come-under-chemical-weapons-treaty-in-30-days/ 

Kerry briefs Israel’s leaders on Syria deal

Jerusalem would be only too pleased to see Assad stripped of WMD, but worries that he won’t heed new agreement

By Times of Israel staff and AP September 15, 2013, 1:32 pm 1-The times of Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier Sunday expressed cautious optimism about the deal.

Officials in Jerusalem said late Saturday Israel would of course be delighted to see the regime of President Bashar Assad stripped of chemical weapons, but that Israel is extremely wary of the unfolding diplomatic framework, concerned that Assad is bent on buying time, and that the optimistic timetable set out in Saturday’s agreement will not be adhered to. Kerry will meet a “skeptical” Israeli leadership.Kerry was to have met with Netanyahu later this week in Rome, but Netanyahu cancelled his planned trip amid the current regional tensions.The two were also talking Sunday about the US-brokered Israeli-Palestinian peace talks which resumed in late July. This is Kerry’s first visit to the region since the resumption.The Palestinians have complained that Israel is not negotiating seriously on all core issues, and focusing overwhelmingly on border concerns. Israeli officials have said that the current instability in the region underlines Israel’s demand to retain a military presence in the Jordan Valley under any accord.On Saturday, after days of intense negotiations, the United States and Russia reached an agreement on a framework to secure and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons by mid-2014 and impose UN penalties if the Assad government fails to comply.The deal, announced by Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Geneva, includes what Kerry called “a shared assessment” of the weapons stockpile, and a timetable and measures for Assad to comply.

Kerry said the Syrian regime must submit a full inventory of its stockpile within a week.The deal calls for all components of the chemical weapons program to be removed from the country or destroyed by mid-2014.

Israel: We’ve been ‘absolutely certain’ for months Assad using nerve gas

Army’s top intelligence analyst, in rare interview, also says it is ‘extremely unlikely’ Israel could be taken by surprise as it was in the 1973 war

By Times of Israel staff and Mitch Ginsburg September 14, 2013, 10:43 pm 7-The Times of Israel

Israel has been “absolutely certain” for many months — long before the alleged August 21 chemical weapons attack that prompted the current Syria crisis — that President Bashar Assad was using chemical weapons in the civil war, the Israeli army’s top intelligence analyst said in an interview broadcast Saturday.

Brig. Gen. Itai Brun, the senior analyst in the IDF’s Military Intelligence hierarchy, said the Israeli army had an extremely effective intelligence-gathering capacity on Syria, but declined to go into specifics.That capacity, he indicated, allowed Israel’s intelligence chiefs to assert with high confidence that there was only a ‘low probability” that the Assad regime would attempt to fire chemical weapons into Israel in the event of international intervention in the civil war.In the rare interview, which coincided with the 40th anniversary of the 1973 Arab-Israel War — known in Israel as the Yom Kippur War — Brun said it was “almost impossible” that Israel could be hit by a surprise enemy attack at it was in that conflict, in which 2,500 Israeli soldiers were killed.Awareness that Israeli army intelligence had failed to predict the Arab armies’ attack on the most solemn day in the Jewish calendar, Brun said, “accompanies me every day.” He said the failure by his predecessors was a function of their limited imagination and the fact that they were “welded to a conception” that Egypt was too weak to attack Israel and that Syria would not attack without Egypt.

Nowadays, the IDF carried out war games, had special teams that questioned assumptions, worked on all kinds of scenarios, and took a range of other measures designed to ensure that the country could not be surprised again, he said.It was Brun who, in April, delivered a bombshell lecture in which he declared publicly that Assad was using nerve gas against rebel forces: “To the best of our professional understanding, the regime has used lethal chemical weapons,” he said in late April, and specified that the IDF believed the toxic element was Sarin. He noted then that it had been used on more than one occasion, including in an attack on March 19.His assertion was initially queried, but subsequently accepted, by US and other officials. The Israeli conclusion was “based on very special work,” by a team that “saw very clearly,” Brun said on Saturday.In his April address, Brun showed a photo of a child with narrowed pupils and foam coming out of his mouth. Both of these were indicative of a nerve agent, he said. He repeated those indicators in the Saturday interview, broadcast on Israel’s Channel 2 news, while making plain that the IDF had other, more conclusive, sources of information.Israeli military intelligence reportedly played a key role in providing evidence of Assad’s chemical weapons use in the August 21 attack that sparked the current crisis over Syria. On the Friday after that attack, Channel 2 reported that the weapons were fired by the 155th Brigade of the 4th Armored Division of the Syrian Army, a division under the command of the Syrian president’s brother, Maher Assad. The nerve gas shells were fired from a military base in a mountain range to the west of Damascus, the TV report said.The report did not state the source of its information. But subsequently, Germany’s Focus magazine reported that an IDF intelligence unit was listening in on senior Syrian officials when they discussed the chemical attack. According to the Focus report, a squad specializing in wire-tapping within the IDF’s prestigious 8200 intelligence unit intercepted a conversation between high-ranking regime officials regarding the use of chemical agents at the time of the attack.

Nicholas Kristof endorses Syria strike

By DYLAN BYERS | 

9/8/13 8:17 PM EDT-http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/09/nicholas-kristof-endorses-syria-strike-172091.html

An unexpected media figure has added his name to the pro-strike side of the Syria debate: New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.In a column for the Times' Sunday Review, Kristof, who has spent much of his career dedicated to documenting human rights abuses, urged support for President Obama's proposed military strike on the grounds that the suffering in Syria was so exceptional as to warrant action."When history looks back on this moment, will it view those who opposed intervening as champions of peace?" he asked. "Or, when the textbooks count the dead children, and the international norms broken with impunity, will our descendants puzzle that we took pride in retreating into passivity during this slaughter?"The endorsement, which comes amid low public support for military action, puts Kristof at odds with some of the progressives who have historically celebrated his emphasis on human suffering.In an email on Saturday, the editors of The Nation, the progressive magazine, urged their readers to contact lawmakers and demand they vote against intervention. MoveOn.org, the progressive political action committee, similarly opposes intervention, and released an ad on Sunday calling on congress to oppose the president's plan. But Kristof believes that Syria has reached a level of suffering that demands a response. He also believes that progressives' insistence on approval by the United Nations or other multilateral groups are, while fine in theory, impractical."[W]hile neither intervention nor paralysis is appealing, that’s pretty much the menu. That’s why I favor a limited cruise missile strike against Syrian military targets (as well as the arming of moderate rebels),"  he wrote. "As I see it, there are several benefits: Such a strike may well deter Syria’s army from using chemical weapons again, probably can degrade the ability of the army to use chemical munitions and bomb civilian areas, can reinforce the global norm against chemical weapons, and — a more remote prospect — may slightly increase the pressure on the Assad regime to work out a peace deal.""If you’re thinking, 'Those are incremental, speculative and highly uncertain gains,' well, you’re right," he added. "Syria will be bloody whatever we do."Elsewhere on Sunday, CBS "Face The Nation" host Bob Schieffer also endorsed President Obama's proposed strike, albeit for a different reason: that it wouldn't look good for America to go back on its word."When the President of the United States says something, the rest of the world -- our friends AND our enemies -- pay attention," he said on his program. "I don't like anything about where we are. But in a dangerous world, when the United States takes a stand and then goes back on its word, we are left in an even more dangerous place."

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AL QUDS DAY CANADIAN SPEAKER WANTS JEWS KILLED

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

ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST

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

ISRAELS TROUBLE

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

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

Canada: 'Al Quds Day' Speaker Calls for Israelis to be Killed

Elias Hazineh, former president of "Palestine House," calls for Israelis to be given a 2-minute warning to leave their homes "or be shot."-By Ari Soffer-First Publish: 8/5/2013, 3:52 PM-Israelnationalnews

Quds Day, Ontario, 2013-Jonathan Dahoah Halevy

The former president of "Palestine House," a Canadian NGO accused by the government of showing a "pattern of support for extremism," has called for the forced ethnic-cleansing of all Israelis Saturday.

In the video below, Elias Hazineh can be seen addressing a crowd of anti-Israel activists in Toronto during the annual Al Quds Day march."We have to give them an ultimatum," he said of Israelis, "you have to leave Jerusalem; you have to leave Palestine..."But Hazineh did not stop there. Dismissing negotiations, he called for the forced ethnic-cleansing of Israeli Jews as a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict:"We say get out or you're dead. We give them two minutes and then we start shooting! And that's the only way they'll understand.Nearly one million Jews were ethnically-cleansed from Arab states following the establishment of Israel, and today make up around half of the entire Israeli population.

     

Elias finished his speech by calling for war against the Jewish State."I am reminded of this verse from the Quran: 'And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and steeds of war' - that's the only thing that they'll understand!"Al-Quds Day has been marked annually around the world since 1979, when it was established by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini to express support for “the liberation of Jerusalem" by Muslim forces and to call for the destruction of the State of Israel.This year's gathering saw a mixture of around 300 Shi'a Islamists, radical leftists, and a small group of Neturei Karta activists, who were apparently unfazed by the event taking place on Shabbat (the Jewish Sabbath).  Demonstrators proudly waved the flags of Iranian, Syrian and Hizbullah flags, alongside pictures of Ayatollah Khomeini.The annual rally took place north of the Ontario parliament building this year, after the provincial government rejected a request by the organizers to hold it in front of the parliament building itself, as they had done in previous years. Sunni Muslims apparently boycotted the rally, most probably due to the war crimes carried out by the Assad regime of Syria with the full military support of Iran and their Lebanese proxies Hizbullah, against the largely Sunni opposition there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB57xrpe-yQ