KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
FALSE TEACHERS,PROPHETS,DECIEVERS
2 CORINTHIANS 11:14
14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JEREMIAH 14:14
14 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
ACTS 20:29
29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
2 CORINTHIANS 6:14
14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
2 CORINTHIANS 11:13
13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
PHILLIPIANS 3:18
18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
1 TIMOTHY 6:5
5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
2 TIMOTHY 2:20
20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.
2 PETER 2:1-2
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
MARK 7:6
6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
LUKE 16:15
15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
TITUS 1:16
16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
MATTHEW 24:4-5,11,24-25
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many (MILLIONS) shall come in my name,(JESUS-I AM) saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.(MILLIONS)(THIS IS DEFINATELY THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT)
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.(CALIFORNIA THE NEW AGE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD-SO NO WONDER SAN FRANSICO IS THE SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPERS CAPITAL OF THE EARTH ALSO).
1 TIMOTHY 4:1-2
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits,(NEW AGE MOVEMENT) and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;(NEW AGERS BELIEVE SATANS LIES OF NO SIN,POSSITIVE THINKING,PEACE,LOVE,JOY,UTOPIA)
MARK 13:22-23
22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
2 TIMOTHY 3:13
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
DEUTORONOMY 18:10-12
10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire,(OCCULT SACRIFICES) or that useth divination,(NEW AGER AND CRYSTALS ETC) divination n. The art or act of foretelling future events or revealing occult knowledge by means of augury or an alleged supernatural agency.) or an observer of times,(Meaning of observer. ... for sketching it. horoscope - Comes from Greek hora, hour, time, and skopos, observer.) or an enchanter,(The word enchant is derived from the Latin word incantare which refers to uttering an incantation or casting a spell). or a witch,(WITCH. Definition: [noun] a female sorcerer (SORCERY IN THE BIBLE IS DRUGS OR OCCULT ACTIVITY) or magician.)
11 Or a charmer,(charmer means a dealer in spells, especially one who, by binding certain knots, was supposed thereby to bind a curse or a blessing on its object.) or a consulter with familiar spirits,(function as mediums or psychics) or a wizard,(MALE WITCH-influence; a magical spell WITH WANDS) or a necromancer.(one seeking unto the dead.)
12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
JUDE 10-13 (HERES FALSE PASTORS)
10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
MATTHEW 10:32-33
32 Whosoever therefore shall confess me(JESUS) before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
33 But whosoever shall deny me (JESUS)(AND MY WORD THE BIBLE) before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
SV FALSE POPE FROM THE VATICAN
REVELATION 13:11-13
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;(FALSE VATICAN POPE) and he had two horns like a lamb,(JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD) and he spake as a dragon.(HES SATANICALLY INSPIRED,HES A CHRISTIAN DEFECTOR FROM THE FAITH)
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,(WORLD DICTATOR) and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.(THE WORLD DICTATOR CREATES A FALSE RESURRECTION AND IS CROWNED LEADER OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER).
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
REVELATION 17:1-5,9,15-18
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,(VATICAN IN POLITICS) and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman (FALSE CHURCH) was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,(VATICAN COLOURS)(ANOTHER REASON WE KNOW THE FALSE POPE COMES FROM THE VATICAN) and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.(THE VATICAN IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS OR MOUNTAINS)
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.(VATICAN-CATHOLICS ALL AROUND THE WORLD OVER 1 BILLION)
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
10/ 6/2013 VATICAN INSIDER
St. Egidio meeting: “When you meet face to face things change. The other is no longer a stranger”
St. Egidio's 2013 International Meeting of Prayer for Peace
lisa palmieri billig
rome
In the 26th year of its international
interreligious conferences to which leaders of the world’s major
religions are invited as active, vocal participants, the Community of
St. Egidio this year managed to gather together in Rome nearly 200
panelists from all areas of the globe. Attended by approximately 5000
people, the three day meeting entitled “The Courage to Hope”, with its
33 panels and its impressive final Peace ceremony on Rome’s Capitol Hill
(Campidoglio), saw the largest Jewish participation to date.
Begun in 1987 with a first meeting in Rome aimed
at furthering the ground-breaking tradition begun by John Paul II in
1986 when he called the world’s religious leaders to come to Assisi to
pray for peace, the St. Egidio Community annually synergizes the
spiritual energies of these leaders in encounters held in different
international cities, with a multitude of panel discussions on the most
important issues of the day. Religious leaders from the world’s trouble
spots thus have opportunities to share eyewitness reports and in-depth
analyses.At the opening ceremony, Rabbi David Rosen,
International Director of Interreligious Affairs for AJC (the American
Jewish Committee) invited St. Egidio to reconvene a multi-faith
conference in Jerusalem to follow up on the one held there a decade ago.“Now, more than ever before St. Egidio can serve
as an inspiration for politicians” said Rabbi Rosen, “as it sets an
example by affirming the Divine Image in people from diverse religions
and cultures.”
“In the Middle East in particular”, he holds, “religion must be part of the solution”.In all panels, the international religious
representatives took stands against their own extremist factions and
condemned the misuse of God’s Name to justify killing and war. It was in
this interreligious consensus that many saw a glimmer of hope for the
future.The Syrian conflict cast a dark shadow over
discussions. A panel on the Middle East Crisis with political, media,
diplomatic and religious experts from Italy and the Islamic and
Christian Arab world, included Domenico Quirico, “La Stampa’s”
correspondent taken captive in Syria and only recently released.Quirico and the other panelists agreed that the
international community had waited too long to intervene to help the
fledgling forces of democracy of the Arab spring, thus allowing Islamist
extremist formations such as Al Qaeda to grow and gain strength. The
desperate humanitarian situation in Syria and other Arab countries was
described. Mohammad Sammak, a leader of the Christian-Arab dialogue in
Lebanon stressed the impellent need to invest in education, pointing out
that one third of the Arab world is illiterate, and more money was
spent on beauty products than books. Italian Ambassador Roberto Toscano
referred to the “Arab Human Development Reports” to support these
conclusions with statistics. Among the nearly 200 international panelists, over
a dozen were Jewish leaders and rabbis from Italy, Israel, the U.S.,
Argentina, Germany and Belgium. They too called for religions to summon
their highest spiritual resources to counter the wave of barbaric, evil
acts sweeping all over the world today, many of which are committed in
the name of religion.The Jewish representatives spoke on many topics.
They included “The Value of Life and Vulnerability” (Oded Wiener,
Director General of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel), “Religions respond
to violence against Women” and “The Suffering of Peoples and Paths to
Peace” (Rabbi David Rosen), “Old Age as a Blessing” (Riccardo Di Segni,
Chief Rabbi of Rome), “Latin America and Pope Francis (Rabbi Abraham
Skorka, Buenos Aires, Argentina),” God Loves the Poor”, (Rabbi Israel
Singer, Touro University, USA), “Poverty and the Environment:
Eco-Sustainability”(Rabbi Shmuel Goldin, President of the Rabbinical
Council of America), “The Power of Prayer throughout History”(Rabbi
Avichai Apel, Dortmund Germany), “Hope Today” (Lisa Palmieri-Billig, AJC
Liaison to the Holy See, Italy), “The Imperative Need of Family”
(Riccardo Pacifici, President of the Rome Jewish Community), “God is
Mercy” (Rabbi Elia Richetti, President of the Assembly of Rabbis of
Italy), “Terror in the name of Religion” (Rabbi Joseph Levi, Chief Rabbi
of Florence), “Is Violence Inevitable?” (Jakob Finci, President of the
Jewish Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina), “The Courage to Hope”
(Sandro di Castro, President of B’nai B’rith, Italy) and finally, Rabbi
David Brodman of Savyon, Israel, a Holocaust survivor whose heartfelt
talk at the Aula Magna of the Lateran University as a “Witness to Peace”
to 3000 high school (liceo) students in two separate sessions, moved
his young audience deeply.Rabbi Brodman, a white-bearded gentleman with a
cane, accompanied everywhere by his 14 year old grand-daughter, Tamar,
spoke of his early years as a deportee in the Theresienstadt
Concentration Camp. His memories reflected the sensibility and suffering
of the small child he was then. Recently, he accompanied over 500 university
student members of the Communities of Sant’Egidio in Eastern Europe to
Auschwitz on a pilgrimage of “Young People against Racism and
Anti-Semitism.”
“It is always painful to recall those events”
Rabbi Brodman said, “but my friendship with the Community of Sant’Egidio
persuaded me to take this step”. His simple message of peace is
contained in the sentence, “We must create a world without violence.”“So many young people came up to me after my
conversation with them at the Lateran University” he said, “They told me
‘You have changed my life. Thank you!’ Some asked what they could do
to accelerate the coming of the Messiah. I told them they must work on
changing this world, beginning with their families. Peace begins at
home.” Similar statements on peace, forgiveness, and the
importance of memory were delivered by another Holocaust survivor, Rita
Prigmore, a member of the Sinti Community in Germany. She recalled the
Shoah of the gypsies at the hands of Nazi Germany. “I always say to
young people ‘You are not responsible for what happened, but you bear
the responsibility of preventing that all this happen again.’ And quite
simply, I tell them my story.”Her story, in brief, is that as a newborn child
she and her twin sister were torn from their mother at birth by the
Gestapo. Both were subjected to horrible medical experiments by Dr.
Heyde, a disciple of Dr. Mengele. Her sister died as a result, and Rita
still suffers their consequences. “I am shaken to the bottom of my heart at the
growth of radical Right groups in many European countries” she says,
“and when I see gypsies insulted with the same words as in the past, or
when they are told that ‘the Third Reich forgot to gas you.’ ”“But I want to say to you that nothing can be
built through hatred except for more hatred… I am convinced that only
forgiveness can build a future, and hatred must be relegated to the
past. The future can be built only through reciprocal understanding.
And reciprocal understanding is an active process: one must show
interest in the other, speak to him, meet him and force oneself to
understand him.”Oded Wiener, Director-General of the Chief
Rabbinate of Israel attended this annual St. Egidio meeting for the
tenth consecutive year. In the course of these annual encounters, he
has established contacts with many Muslim and Christian representatives
from Arab countries. “When you meet one another, face to face, things
change”, he said. “The other is no longer an unknown stranger. This is
the beginning of reciprocal understanding.”Rabbi Rosen remarked on the coincidence that the
audience of the religious leaders with Pope Francis “who has generated
openness and engagement with the other religions of the world”, took
place on September 30 – on the same day as the announcement of the
forthcoming canonization on April 27 of John Paul II and John XXIII,
“two great heroes of Jewish-Christian reconciliation.”
LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Israeli, Palestinian teams plan to intensify talks
Ramallah: MKs visit Abbas, who says nine months is enough time for a final status agreement
Israeli and Palestinian officials held another round of negotiations in Jerusalem Monday, where they agreed to honor
an American request to increase the pace of talks.“The
intensity of the conversations went up,” a senior Palestinian official
told Reuters, “and the sides agreed to extend the meetings to eight
hours a day, and to increase their frequency. Within two months, they
will need to see in Washington how the unavoidable gaps between the
sides have been minimized.”“Up till now,” he said, ”we haven’t achieved anything.”
US Secretary of State John Kerry announced on
the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in late September
that Israelis and Palestinians had agreed to intensify peace talks aimed
at reaching a final status agreement.The secretary said that negotiators had
engaged in seven rounds of bilateral talks in recent months, with a
number of those meetings including US Special Envoy Martin Indyk.Also Monday,
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sounded an optimistic note
in a Ramallah meeting with 12 MKs –11 from Labor and one from Hatnua —
regarding peace talks.“The period of nine months [set aside for the
current talks] is enough to reach an agreement,” Abbas said, “All the
issues were discussed in the past, whether at Camp David, Taba, or with
[former PM Ehud] Olmert.He emphasized that security cooperation with
Israel was at an all-time high. “You all know, and the world knows, that
cooperation on all issues, on a day-to-day basis, is at 100%. The
reason is simple: we want a completely normal atmosphere between
Israelis and Palestine.”The MKs were in Ramallah on a visit of the Knesset Caucus to Resolve the Arab-Israeli Conflict headed by MK Hilik Bar (Labor).The caucus’s previous meeting, which took
place in the Knesset in late July, was joined by PA representatives and
marked the first time the Palestinian flag was raised in Israel’s
parliament. No Israeli flag was in evidence, however, during Monday’s
Ramallah meeting.
The MKs were
met in Ramallah by a group of senior Palestinian officials, including
Abbas’s adviser Yasser Abed Rabo and presidential spokesman Nabil Abu
Rudeineh.On Sunday, speaking at the 20th anniversary ceremony of Bar-Ilan University’s Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies,
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu placed blame for the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Ramallah’s refusal to come to terms with Israel as a Jewish state.“The Palestinians must abandon their refusal to recognize the right of the Jewish people to have their national state,” he said.Netanyahu dismissed claims that Israel’s
presence in the West Bank stood at the heart of the conflict, stating
instead that as long as the Palestinians don’t internalize the Jewish
state’s right to exist, there will not be peace.“In order for the process in which we find
ourselves to be significant… in order for it to have a real chance of
success,” he said, referring to the current rounds of negotiations begun
this summer, “it’s necessary to hear the Palestinian leadership finally
say that it recognizes the right of the Jewish people to a state of its
own, which is the state of Israel.”“I hope that it shall be so, so that we can advance a real solution to the conflict,” continued Netanyahu.Also Sunday, Maariv reported that Israel and
the Palestinian Authority have reached an impasse due to an Israeli
refusal to discuss land-swap and border issues.According to an unnamed, senior foreign
diplomat with knowledge of the discussions, during the latest round of
talks the Israeli team of Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and Netanyahu
adviser Yitzhak Molcho made it clear to the Palestinians that Israel
intends to retain some of the settlement blocs as part of a final
agreement, but refused to name which areas or discuss possible
compensation to the Palestinians for the territory to be annexed.
Havig Rettig Gur and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
PROVERBS 31:10-31
10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.
14 She is like the merchants’ ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
15 She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
16 She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
17 She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
18 She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.
19 She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.
20 She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
22 She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.
23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
24 She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.
25 Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.
26 She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
29 Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
Women of the Wall accept egalitarian prayer plaza
But group will not move its monthly public prayers to the new location until other demands are met
The Women of the Wall agreed in
principle to transfer its monthly prayer services to a newly built
egalitarian plaza and withdraw its demand to hold services in the
women’s section of the Western Wall.However,
the group, which made the decision during a board meeting Sunday night,
stated that it would only do so once all of its demands were met, among
them for funding equal to the traditional prayer sites and the creation
of a continuous plaza at the Wall to connect them all.In a statement on the group’s website, Women
of the Wall chair Anat Hoffman stated that the decision was not an easy
one, but that as “agents of change, we see before us the duty to
consider this new strategy.”“We have to rise above dispute in order to
build the future that we wish for the future generations of our
daughters and granddaughters,” she said.The statement concluded by noting that change
and acceptance were required not only of the group, but also of Rabbi
Shmuel Rabinovitch, the Western Wall’s rabbi. It said that Rabinovitch
would have to ease his grip on the holy site and make it a place where
members of all the streams of Judaism can pray freely.The group’s demands are already known to
Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky, who outlined a proposal in April
to build an egalitarian prayer plaza in order to end the ongoing feud
between the pluralistic prayer group and Orthodox groups.The Women of the Wall were pressured by the
Conservative movement to be open to Sharansky’s proposal following the
construction of the egalitarian plaza
in August. When the plaza was initially built, Hoffman dismissed it as a
“sunbathing deck,” and said that the organization would not accept a
“second-rate Wall for second-rate Jews.”The group is due to submit a position paper in the upcoming days to a committee appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resolve the ongoing dispute.
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)
New Song: 'Boycott Israel, If You Think That's Just'
Jewish rapper Ari Lesser makes "Boycott Israel" music video viral about the wrongs of other nations violating human rights.-By Kochava Rozenbaum-First Publish: 10/8/2013, 1:42 AM-Israelnationalnews
Amid the constant bashing of Israel on
the internet
and other media platforms, Jewish musician and rapper Ari Lesser has
produced a video to highlight the "double standard" which singles-out
the Jewish State.
The chorus says it all: "Boycott Israel, if you think that's just,
but unless you have a double standard you must, also boycott the rest of
the nations with allegations of
human rights violations."The American-born and now Tzfat based MC admitted that the
65-year-old country is sometimes "not perfect," and yet the State of
Israel is, by comparison, better than the nations which kidnap, torture,
oppress, and murder its civilians.
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Discordant Shas faces possible schism after Yosef’s death
The
peerless spiritual leader held together a fractured party; the feuding
politicians he left behind may be unable to to do the same
It
is hard to exaggerate the influence on Israeli religion, politics and
public life of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who died Monday at the age of 93. For millions of Israelis –
some 800,000 of whom attended his funeral in Jerusalem Monday night – Yosef was the embodiment of religious piety, learning and Sephardi pride.His
religious rulings, famously composed of long compendia of past rabbinic
opinions, showcased his vast, encyclopedic knowledge of Jewish law. His
was a genius matched by few living Jews.And he used that genius to correct a historic
wrong: the shunting aside of Sephardi Jewish immigrants in the early
years of the Jewish state. Born into an Iraqi Jewish family, Yosef took
great pains throughout his career to appeal to Sephardic Jewish
communities that were starkly different from his, successfully uniting
religious Yemenites, Moroccans, Algerians, Egyptians and others both in
religious doctrine and, from the 1980s onward, under the banner of the
Shas party.Political founder, ethnic unifier,
unparalleled legal genius, religious mentor to a generation of
successful Sephardic politicians, Maran — or “master” as his followers
called him — was the political and spiritual heart of the Shas movement.In that sense, his passing marks the fading of
an age. No single Israeli was more central to the reclaimed pride of
Sephardic Jewry in a state founded by a narrow Ashkenazi elite. And,
perhaps, no single Israeli generated more political opposition than the
politician-rabbi whose electoral power was founded on ethnic division
and resentment.His passing also marks a political crisis for
the movement he founded. Shas’s leadership, both the political and the
religious, is divided into two opposing factions: supporters of former
party chief MK Eli Yishai and those of the current leader MK Aryeh Deri.
The divide is also rabbinic: Yishai supports former chief rabbi Shlomo
Amar to replace Yosef as Shas’s spiritual and political supreme leader,
whereas Deri seeks an heir either in Yosef’s son, the current Sephardi
Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, or in Rabbi Shalom Cohen, head of the Porat
Yosef Yeshiva and a member of Shas’s four-member Council of Torah Sages.
With the old
master who kept them united in shared allegiance to him now gone, the
party faces the very real danger of splitting along that factional
divide.The two camps – Yishai-Amar and Deri-Yosef – have a history of bad blood between them.Deri was the political genius behind Shas’s
rapid rise to power in the 1980s. He was Israel’s interior minister at
the tender age of 29, a role in which he garnered praise from unexpected
quarters, including legendary Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kolek, a Labor
Party man who nevertheless called Shas’s first interior minister the
most effective Israel had ever had.Deri’s ascent was followed by an abrupt fall
when he was convicted of bribery in 2000 and sentenced to three years in
prison. He announced his return to politics in mid-2011 and managed to
obtain Ovadia Yosef’s blessing to lead Shas once again in October 2012,
unceremoniously ousting Yishai as party leader ahead of the January 2013
national elections.Deri’s return from the political desert was
swift and comprehensive. Last year, he worked hard to stymie the efforts
of then-chief rabbi Shlomo Amar to be reelected to a second 10-year
term. Amar was too closely identified with Yishai, he felt. Deri
preferred Ovadia Yosef’s son, Yitzhak, who was eventually elected chief
rabbi in July 2013.Deri’s closest confidante, MK Ariel Atias, was
placed third on the party list, ensuring his appointment as Knesset
faction chair in charge of the party’s legislative agenda.It was a rapid takeover, made possible by the all-important support of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.Now, all eyes are on Shas’s top leaders to see if the party’s new leadership can survive the old master’s death.The challenge to Deri’s power could come
quickly. Deri is unlikely to be unseated as party chairman by Shas’s
Council of Torah Sages so soon after Ovadia Yosef himself approved his
appointment. But Yishai, Deri’s political nemesis, may not need to oust
him in order to get out from under his yoke.By law, a group of MKs can split from their
current party and still receive public campaign financing if they take
with them at least one-third of the MKs of the party they are leaving.
Eli Yishai enjoys the support of several Shas MKs, including Avraham
Michaeli and Yaakov Margi. MKs David Azulai and Meshulam Nahari are
thought to be wavering between the camps. The loyalty of several others
is either unknown or in flux. In fact, of eleven Shas MKs in the current
Knesset, Deri can count with absolute surety only on himself and Atias.
And since Yishai, bristling under the thumb of his hated adversary,
only needs three additional MKs to establish his own financially viable
party overnight, the temptation to walk away from Shas may be hard to
resist.Hundreds of thousands of Israelis lost a
spiritual guide on Monday. The party he founded lost something more. The
party’s very raison d’etre was in its service to Maran. Shas’s leaders
will now find themselves faced with two uneasy choices: to unite in
fashioning a post-Ovadia party out of the political shell he left
behind, or to splinter away into more comfortable fragments destined for
political oblivion.
US budget trouble hits EU trade talks
Today @ 09:28-OCT 8,13
By Benjamin Fox
BRUSSELS - Talks between the EU and US
on a landmark trade deal have been cancelled this week as a result of
the continuing government shutdown in Washington DC.US trade officials were expected to arrive in Brussels on Monday (7
October) for the second round of negotiations on a proposed
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Plan (TTIP) with talks planned to
last all week.As yet there are no indications of when the talks will be rescheduled.The US government was forced into a partial shut-down last week,
after Democrats and Republicans in Congress failed to reach a deal on
the country's budget.Republicans are refusing to adopt new spending plans unless President
Obama's healthcare reforms are blocked or are stripped of funding,
three years after the bill was adopted in Congress.Only essential government functions will take place until the two
parties reach an agreement with thousands of state employees going
without pay.
However, a deal needs to be reached by 17 October, the date when the US is due to default on its debt repayments.Obama also scrapped plans to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic
Co-operation summit in Bali, the other key priority of US trade policy,
although US Trade Representative Michael Froman was present.
Speaking with Bloomberg television on Sunday (6 October), Froman said
that there could be little progress in trade negotiations until the end
of the shut-down.“We’ve had to pull back on our negotiations, we’ve had to stop some
of our enforcement efforts, we’re not able to monitor a lot of our
existing agreements,” he said.
The cancellation of the talks will also come as a blow to EU
officials, particularly the commission's trade chief, Karel de Gucht,
who has set an ambitious deadline - next year - for concluding the
talks.The EU executive believes that a trade deal harmonising technical and
regulatory standards, as well as scrapping remaining tariff barriers,
could be worth up to 1 percent of GDP.In a statement released Friday (4 October), de Gucht described the
move as “unfortunate” but did not undermine the “clear commitment of the
EU and the US to the TTIP process.”“It in no way distracts us from our overall aim of achieving an
ambitious trade and investment deal between Europe and the US,” he
added.For her part, Marietje Schaake, a Dutch MEP on the Parliament's US
delegation, called on the two sides to continue talks “via digital
means” until the US side could re-open formal negotiations.
ISAIAH 17:1,11-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
AMOS 1:5
5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden:(IRAQ) and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir,(JORDAN) saith the LORD.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
JEREMIAH 47:1-7
1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN/ARABS) before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north,(NORTHERN TSUNAMI POSSIBLY) and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses,(ISRAELS ARMY) at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;(ISRAEL POSSIBLY NUKES GAZA)
4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN FAKE ARABS) and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
5 Baldness is come upon Gaza;(NUKED POSSIBLY) Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
6 O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? (MEDITTERANEAN SEA) there hath he appointed it.
EGYPT
ISAIAH 19:1-5
1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
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)
Assad Places War Jets in Iran for Safety
German intelligence agents say Syrian jets are parked in Iran; Iran sent elite troops to support Assad’s forces.-By Kochava Rozenbaum-First Publish: 10/8/2013, 2:44 AM-Israelnationalnews
President Bashar al-Assad-AFP photo
Iran has given permission to Bashar Assad's regime to keep his war
planes in their territory to protect them from possible attack,
according to a report by the German newspaper,
Der Spiegel.According to the report, marked "classified," Iran and Syria had
signed an agreement a while back permitting Assad to transfer a large
part of his air force to Iran, taking back the aircraft when he needed
them.The German intelligence paper reportedly said Iran had also sent
elite troops from its Revolutionary Guard to support the forces of
Syrian President Bashar Al Assad.The intelligence report also said a source had reported that a
Syria-Iran military deal from November 2012 allowed Assad “to station
large parts of his air force on safe Iranian territory and to use them
when needed,” said
Spiegel Online.The weekly news magazine published an interview with Assad in which
he again denied responsibility for deadly chemical weapons attacks in
late August, accusing rebels whom he labels terrorists of being behind
them.“We have not used chemical weapons. This is wrong,” Assad is quoted
as saying. “And so is the picture you’re drawing of me of someone who
kills his own people.”Assad also suggested Germany could play a mediator role in ending the
bloody conflict that has killed more than 100,000 people in over two
years.Germany’s outgoing Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, during an
Afghanistan visit, rejected the idea, saying Berlin supports UN special
envoy Lakhdar Brahimi,
Spiegel Online reported.
Attacks surge in Egypt, a day after deadly clashes
Nine
security personnel are dead after strikes that blur the lines between a
wave of Islamist protests and an insurgency previously confined to Sinai
CAIRO (AP) — A string of attacks
killed nine members of Egypt’s security and military forces and hit the
country’s main satellite communications station Monday, in an apparent
retaliation by Islamic militants a day after more than 50 supporters of
the ousted president were killed in clashes with police.The
attacks show a dangerous expansion of targets, including the first
strike against civilian infrastructure in the heart of the capital. They
also blur the lines between the wave of Islamist protests against the
military ouster of President Mohammed Morsi, and an insurgency that had
been previously been largely confined to the northern Sinai Peninsula.It is also likely to harden positions of the military-backed government and its opponents, making reconciliation more difficult.“We are at war with them,” said Mohammed
Ibrahim, the country’s interior minister in charge of security forces,
pointing to militant groups. He suggested the surge in attacks,
particularly the targeting of the satellite station— which left a minor
damage on one of the dishes — was in retaliation for the government
crackdown on Sunday’s protests.“This is an attempt to prove they are still
around and are not broken,” he told The Associated Press, without
specifying which groups are behind the attacks. “They also aim to
confuse, to distract” security forces.In another development Monday likely to give
momentum to the government crackdown on Islamists, a panel of judges
recommended the dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political party,
the Freedom and Justice Party, which was registered months after the
2011 ouster of autocrat Hosni Mubarak.The judges’ recommendation said the party
represents an outlawed group. The recommendations will be delivered to a
Cairo court reviewing a case demanding the party’s dissolution on Oct.
19.Another court had already ordered a ban on the
Brotherhood’s activities, and froze its assets, a decision currently
reviewed by a government appointed committee amid legal challenges from
group members.Ashraf Badreddin, a member of the FJP, said
authorities had already shut down offices of the party long before a
court decision, telling Doha-based satellite broadcaster Al-Jazeera
Mubasher Masr that the recommendation was “politicized.”At least 2,000 of the group’s leading and
mid-level members have been detained, including Morsi, and head of the
FJP, Saad el-Katatni. Most of them will face trial on charges that range
from murder and inciting violence to abuse of power and conspiring with
foreign powers. Hundreds others died in a violent crackdown on protests
and sit-ins held by Morsi supporters.Authorities accuse pro-Morsi supporters of
seeking to create chaos to discredit the new government. The government
declared it is waging a war against terrorism.Pro-Morsi supporters deny they resort to violence.Ahmed Mostafa, a Brotherhood student leader,
said there are plans to hold rallies at universities this week to
denounce the killings and the military leaders, saying authorities are
engaged in a campaign to pull his group and supporters toward violence,
or armed confrontation. There are also calls for protest in Cairo’s
central Tahrir Square.
He dismissed accusations that Islamists are behind the surge in attacks.“We reaffirm that peacefulness of our actions
is stronger than weapons,” he said. Such attacks, he said, “may be
fabrications by intelligence agencies to justify their campaign against
(us).”A suicide bomber struck a security
headquarters in the town of el-Tor, in southern Sinai, earlier Monday,
killing three policemen, wounding 55 others, and damaging the building.
Southern Sinai is famous for its beach resorts such as Sharm el-Sheikh
and has been generally spared the violence of the northern tip of the
peninsula in the past six years. Attacks there in 2005 and 2006 left
dozens, including tourists, dead.Near-daily attacks against security forces and
soldiers in the volatile northern Sinai Peninsula have increasingly
resembled a full-fledged insurgency, especially in the three months
since the ouster of Morsi. Ibrahim said counter-insurgency operations
there have pushed militants into neighboring southern Sinai.The body parts of the suicide bomber in el-Tor are still being analyzed to determine who was behind the attack, Ibrahim said.In another attack, masked gunmen pulled
alongside a pickup truck full of troops on patrol near the Suez Canal
and opened fire, killing six soldiers, security officials said on
condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief
reporters.And in a brazen targeting of a civilian
infrastructure, gunmen believed to be hiding in nearby buildings fired a
projectile into the compound housing the satellite dishes just before
dawn, leaving a hole in one but causing no disruption of communications.
Earlier, security officials said they believed rocket-propelled
grenades were used in the attack, but Ibrahim said it was unlikely.The surge in violence in the aftermath of the
coup has raised questions about whether extremist sympathizers of Morsi,
and others within his Brotherhood group, are using such attacks to
bargain with authorities for a political goal, said political science
professor Gamal Abdel-Gawad.
On the other hand, he said: “The government in
Egypt is more prepared to deal with terrorism rather than with
political instability.“This is a security apparatus that has long
experience in dealing with terrorism,” he said in reference to a wave of
terror attacks in the late 1980s and 1990s that targeted Egypt’s
security forces, liberal figures, politicians, Christians, and tourist
resorts.The violence is certain to set back efforts by
the interim, military-backed government to revive the economy,
especially the vital tourism sector, and bring order to the streets of
Cairo, where crime and lawlessness have been rife.In a sign of increased nervousness, security
measures were heightened at Cairo International Airport Monday, with
authorities using explosives detectors and dogs to inspect vehicles.Abdel-Gawad said the targeting of the
communications center appeared aimed at “paralyzing” symbols of the
modern state by disrupting communications, but added that it was too
early to say whether this is a new trend.Abdel-Gawad said militants now have more
capabilities than before. This time around also, “there are more people
willing to grant legitimacy to terrorist activities because of the
political developments,” he said.
Erdogan calls Assad a ‘terrorist,’ blasts Kerry
Turkish PM’s comments come after Syrian president said he was a liar ‘responsible for the blood of tens of thousands of Syrians’
Turkish Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan leveled scathing criticism at Syrian President Bashar
Assad, calling him a terrorist who is no longer a politician.“I
don’t regard Bashar Assad as a politician anymore. He’s a terrorist
carrying out state terrorism. A person who killed 110,000 of his people
is a terrorist. There’s state terrorism — I’m speaking frankly,” Erdogan
said at a press conference Sunday after a meeting with India’s
president,
Hurriyet reported. “I’m having difficulty understanding those in the Turkish media who defend this.”Erdogan has been one of Assad’s harshest
critics since Syria’s uprising erupted in March 2011. On Monday he also
denounced US Secretary of State John Kerry for praising Syria’s
compliance with the international community in relinquishing its
chemical weapons.“You are a human being and me, too,” said
Erdogan. “How can we appreciate the behavior of a person who killed
110,000 people, I ask you. The result of either chemical or other types
of weapons is death. Then how can we appreciate this? I cannot imagine a
person who appreciates this. I don’t think Mr. Kerry made such a
statement. If he made it, he would be contradicting himself.”Erdogan’s comments came only days after his country was harshly criticized by Assad.In an
interview with Turkey’s private Halk TV last Thursday,
the Syrian president warned that Ankara would pay “a high price” for
allowing foreign fighters to enter Syria from its territory and join
rebel forces. Assad also called Erdogan a liar, and accused him of
supporting terrorists.Assad made no mention of his government’s role
in the civil war that has killed at least 100,000 people so far,
instead blaming foreign fighters and governments, including Turkey’s,
for the bloodshed.“This government, represented by Erdogan, is
responsible for the blood of tens of thousands of Syrians, and is
responsible for the destruction of Syria’s infrastructure,” Assad said.
It is also “responsible for endangering security of the region, not only
Syria.”
“You cannot hide terrorists in your pocket.
They are like a scorpion, which will eventually sting you,” Assad added,
saying Muslim extremists from more than 80 countries are coming to
Syria by sneaking across the border with Turkey.Erdogan has long advocated the removal of Assad from power.On August 31, the Turkish leader said a
limited military response to the reported use of chemical weapons by
Assad’s regime was not enough, and any kind of intervention should aim
to topple him.“It can’t be a 24 hours hit-and-run,” Erdogan
told reporters at the presidential palace in Ankara. “What matters is
stopping the bloodshed in Syria and weakening the regime to the point
where it gives up.”There are currently some 500,000 Syrian refugees living in Turkey. Erdogan, a former ally of the Syrian president, turned against him several months after the Syrian conflict began in March 2011.The Associated Press contributed to this report.