EVENTS IN TIME (BIBLE PROPHECY LITERALLY FULFILLED)(BY GOD)

I WRITE NEWS ABOUT AND PUT NEWS ARTICLES ABOUT ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM PERTAINING TO BIBLE PROPHESY HAPPENINGS.JOEL 3:20 But Judah (ISRAEL) shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.(THATS ISRAEL-JERUSALEM WILL NEVER BE DESTROYED AGAIN)-WE CHRISTIANS ARE ALL WAITING PATIENTLY FOR THE PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE TO OCCUR.SO WE CAN GO TO JESUS AND GET OUR NEVER DYING BODIES.SO WE CAN RULE OVER CITIES OURSELVES.WHILE JESUS RULES FROM DAVIDS THRONE FOREVER IN JERUSALEM.

Friday, October 25, 2013

FOGMAGEDDON IN SEATTLE

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

A 7.5 QUAKE HAS JUST OCCURED IN JAPAN.LOOK DOWN UNDER QUAKES TODAY.

POWER OUTAGE

REVELATION 16:10-11
10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

Power outages sweep across Israel

Brief malfunction at power plant results in trapped elevator riders, traffic snarls; power restored shortly thereafter

By Times of Israel staff October 25, 2013, 12:24 pm 2-The Times of Israel

The Ashkelon power plant in 2009. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Blackouts rolled across the country Friday morning after a production malfunction at an Israel Electric Corporation power plant in Ashkelon.Power losses were reported in approximately 10% of the homes in Israel, Israel Radio reported. The electric company said the problem was fixed and that full power was returned shortly thereafter.Outages were reported in Ashdod, Ashkelon, Beersheba, Rehovot, Netanya, Petah Tikva, Rosh Ha’ayin and Yehud.Firefighters were summoned to buildings across the country to help people escape from trapped elevators. Knocked-out traffic lights in Beersheba and Netanya caused massive backups across the cities.The Electric Corporation reported that the outages were the result of a production problem at the Rutenberg power plant in the coastal city of Ashkelon.

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

New report says Iran can have nuclear bomb in a month

Study by Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security claims new and advanced centrifuges have reduced possible ‘breakout’ time frame

By Joshua Davidovich October 25, 2013, 2:52 am 21-The Times of Israel

“The shortening breakout times have implications for any negotiation with Iran. An essential finding is that they are currently too short and shortening further, based on the current trend of centrifuge deployments,” the report reads.The news comes amid intensifying talks between Iran and six world powers over curbing Tehran’s nuclear program in return for sanctions relief. A new round of talks is planned for early November, when the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany will reportedly discuss accepting a proposal to let Iran continue enrichment to 20 percent, with safeguards in place.Israel has called for the international community to continue sanctioning the regime in Tehran until it gives up all enrichment, saying even a small amount would allow Iran to break out to the bomb.Iran claims its nuclear program is peaceful.Senator Mark Kirk, who sits on a Banking Committee considering hiking sanctions on Iran, told USA Today the US needs to tighten penalties on Iran in light of the report.“The Senate should move forward immediately with a new round of sanctions to prevent Iran from acquiring an undetectable breakout capability,” he said.

The ISIS report cautions that times for weaponizing the uranium could vary significantly depending on how far along Iran is in building a delivery system for a bomb.“If Iran successfully produced enough [weapons-grade uranium] for a nuclear weapon, the ensuing weaponization process might not be detectable until Iran tested its nuclear device underground or otherwise revealed its acquisition of nuclear weapons,” it reads.The report calls for negotiators to push for increased transparency; halting enrichment to 20% and shipping out or degrading existing stocks; and a series of measures meant to lengthen the potential breakout to six months or longer, enough time for the International Atomic Energy Association to detect the move.

On Wednesday, an Iranian lawmaker said Iran had no more need for 20% enriched uranium and had stopped upgrading to that level. Hossein Naqvi Hosseini, who serves as a spokesman for the Iranian parliament’s national security and foreign policy committee, also said the country is prepared to relieve concerns over its stockpile of enriched uranium.“Tehran is ready to convert its stockpile of 20% enriched uranium to fuel rods and remove concerns over its non-peaceful use,” he was quoted as saying. He offered no other details about what steps Iran would take.Iran is also in the midst of negotiations with the IAEA over expanding access to nuclear watchdogs. Though talks over the matter have failed to advance in two years, the UN agency on Wednesday confirmed that Tehran would send Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, its top nuclear negotiator, to an upcoming meeting.In October 2012 ISIS — which often advises Congress and other branches of US government on Iran’s nuclear program — estimated that Iran could make enough uranium for a bomb in two to four months.The Associated Press contributed to this report.Follow Joshua Davidovich on Twitter

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.

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

12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE

New settlement building on the way, official says

Unnamed senior source says Americans and Palestinians already aware of plans, to be announced soon

By AP October 25, 2013, 2:06 am 4-The Times of Israel

By Mike Krumboltz, Yahoo News 6 hours ago -OCT 24,13-yahoonews

Those weird lights in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean — what are they? Are they an unstoppable force of electric underwater creatures swimming, slowly but steadily, toward the shore where they will flood our cities and force us all to watch "Finding Nemo" from now until the end of time? Fortunately, no (for now). The lights, which were spotted using Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi NPP satellite, are actually a large collection of fishermen.NASA explains, "There are no human settlements there, nor fires or gas wells. But there are an awful lot of fishing boats." Yep, that's right, those lights that could easily be mistaken for a series of heavily populated islands are actually powerful lights on boats. What exactly are the fishermen looking for? And why are they out blasting their high beams?

From NASA:

The night fishermen are hunting for Illex argentinus, a species of short-finned squid that forms the second largest squid fishery on the planet. The squid are found tens to hundreds of kilometers offshore from roughly Rio de Janeiro to Tierra del Fuego (22 to 54 degrees South latitude). They live 80 to 600 meters (250 to 2,000 feet) below the surface, feeding on shrimp, crabs, and fish. In turn, Illex are consumed by larger finfish, whales, seals, sea birds, penguins ... and humans.

Fishermen use the powerful lights, "generating as much as 300 kilowatts of light per boat," to draw the plankton and fish that the squid eat toward the surface. The squid then follow the food. Alas, it's the last meal for many.

Fogmageddon" grips Seattle, spurs amazing photos

By Kevin Chupka 2 hours ago =OCT 24,13-yahoonews

Seattle is known for it’s gray skies and rainy weather, but experts say the dense fog and temperatures in the 40s or 50s that have blanketed the city over the past several days is out of the ordinary.Cliff Mass, a University of Washington Meteorologist writes on his blog, “I have forecast here for many decades and I can not remember a situation that is even close.”The cause, according to Mass, is an odd combination of long-lasting high pressure, drought, and dense low clouds. In short, the high pressure on either side of the city is trapping colder air in the middle, close to the ground. The result? Fog, and lots of it.The current foggy streak is standing at seven days. According to Seattle’s KomoNews.com that puts the current stretch in a seven-way tie for the fifth longest run in the city. The No. 1 spot goes to a 13-day streak from December of 1985. But according to local reports the current weather pattern could make a run at the record with the sun not in the forecast at least for the next several days.Ironically the only thing that will wipe out the dreary conditions is a low pressure system; in other words a storm.Such a system is on the way but is not guaranteed to hit the city. The earliest it will get there, if at all, is sometime next week. Until then Seattle will continue to see the same gray skies and dense low clouds.Those in and around Seattle are making the best of the extraordinary conditions and sharing on Twitter:For those who just can't take it anymore the sun isn’t that far away, at least geographically. Mass notes in his blog that while Seattle may be under a gray blanket the sun is shining and the air is warm just an hour outside the city.

DISEASES

REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).

DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS

1 PET 5:8
8 Be sober,(NOT DRUGED UP OR ALCOHOLICED) be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.

REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders,(KILLING) nor of their sorceries (DRUG ADDICTS AND DRUG PUSHERS), nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE OR PROSTITUTION FOR MONEY) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)

By Kate Kelland 50 minutes ago-OCT 24,13-yahoonews

By Kate Kelland
LONDON (Reuters) - Fresh human cases in eastern China of a deadly new strain of bird flu signal the potential for "a new epidemic wave" of the disease in coming winter months, scientists said on Thursday.
The strain, known as H7N9, emerged for the first time in humans earlier this year and killed around 45 of the some 135 people it infected before appearing to peter out in China During the summer.But a new case in October in a 35-year-old man from China's eastern Zhejiang province shows that the virus "has re-emerged in winter 2013" and "indicates a possible risk of a larger outbreak of H7N9 this winter," according to Chinese researchers writing in the online journal Euro surveillance.Flu experts around the world have been warning that despite the marked drop off in cases during the summer months, the threat posed by H7N9 bird flu has not passed.
Ab Osterhaus, a leading virologist based at the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands who has been tracking the virus, told Reuters earlier this month: "We're bracing for what's going to happen next."The first scientific analysis of probable transmission of the new flu from person to person, published in the British Medical Journal in August, gave the strongest proof yet that it can jump between people and so could potentially cause a human pandemic.And another study published in August identified several other H7 flu viruses circulating in birds that "may pose threats beyond the current outbreak".In a detailed analysis of the 35-year-old man's case, scientists from the Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention said it differed from previous ones in that it was a severe case in a younger patient "with no obvious underlying diseases and no obvious recent direct contact with live poultry".Most laboratory-confirmed cases in the past had been people over the age of 60, many of whom said they'd had recent exposure to poultry, generally at live bird markets.
The case of the 35-year-old man, plus another H7N9 infection confirmed just a day ago, suggest the virus "has apparently continued to circulate in an animal reservoir during the summer", the researchers said.
The second October case is a 67-year-old man with no underlying disease whose work included transporting and selling poultry.The researchers said that based on China's experience in the spring, when there were 30 cases in March and 88 in April, the best approach now would be to maintain enhanced and expanded surveillance in human and animal populations to make sure any new cases of H7N9 are picked up and diagnosed swiftly."In particular, enhanced surveillance in poultry would be helpful if it can identify the H7N9 virus and inform early control measures before human infections occur," the Chinese scientists said.
"Hygiene campaigns and closure of live poultry markets can reduce the risk of severe cases and deaths."
(Editing by Philip Barbara)

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.

NASA’s SDO Captures Image Of Mid-level Solar Flare

October 24, 2013

Image Caption: NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory or SDO, captured this image on the sun of an M9.4-class solar flare, which peaked at 8:30 pm EDT on Oct. 23, 2013. The image displays light in the wavelength of 131 Angstroms, which is good for viewing the intense heat of a solar flare and typically colored teal. Credit: NASA/SDO

NASA
The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare that peaked at 8:30 pm EDT on Oct. 23, 2013. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth’s atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however — when intense enough — they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel. Such radiation can disrupt radio signals for as long as the flare is ongoing, anywhere from minutes to hours.To see how this event may impact Earth, please visit NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center at http://spaceweather.gov, the U.S. government’s official source for space weather forecasts, alerts, watches and warnings.This flare is classified as an M9.4 flare, on a scale from M1 to M9.9. This rating puts it at the very top of the scale for M class flares, which are the weakest flares that can cause some space weather effects near Earth. In the past, they have caused brief radio blackouts at the poles. The next highest level is X-class, which denotes the most intense flares.Increased numbers of flares are quite common at the moment, since the sun is near solar maximum. Humans have tracked solar cycles continuously since they were discovered in 1843, and it is normal for there to be many flares a day during the sun’s peak activity.—On The Net: NASA

EARTHQUAKES

ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

REVELATION 11:11-14
11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
12 And they(ELIJSH-MOSES) heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither.(REV 4:1 WE KNOW IS THE RAPTURE FOR SURE) And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.(RAPTURED)
13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.

REVELATION 16:18-20
18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
19 And the great city (JERUSALEM) was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide

20 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2013-10-25 13:23:14 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)20 earthquakes in map area

7.5 Off the east coast of Honshu, Japan 2013-10-25 13:10:21 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
4.6 172km ENE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia 2013-10-25 09:30:25 UTC-04:00
4.5 36km NNW of Yonakuni, Japan 2013-10-25 07:50:05 UTC-04:00 16.3 km

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide

24 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2013-10-25 08:59:54 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)24 earthquakes in map area

4.5 36km NNW of Yonakuni, Japan 2013-10-25 07:50:05 UTC-04:00 16.3 km
4.8 266km NNE of Amsterdam Island, 2013-10-25 07:32:02 UTC-04:00 15.1 km
3.1 61km ENE of Beatty, Nevada 2013-10-25 07:29:18 UTC-04:00 6.6 km
4.5 60km NW of Labuhankananga, Indonesia 2013-10-25 06:44:14 UTC-04:00 292.5 km
4.2 11km N of Estebania, Dominican Republic 2013-10-25 06:34:56 UTC-04:00 9.5 km
3.0 87km NNW of Talkeetna, Alaska 2013-10-25 06:11:02 UTC-04:00 100.0 km
4.5 19km NE of Orcopampa, Peru 2013-10-25 03:02:29 UTC-04:00 109.9 km
2.6 39km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2013-10-25 02:14:03 UTC-04:00 14.0 km
2.8 88km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2013-10-25 00:34:50 UTC-04:00 54.0 km
4.5 65km N of Vanimo, Papua New Guinea 2013-10-24 23:49:44 UTC-04:00 32.2 km
4.6 116km NW of Anatahan, Northern Mariana Islands 2013-10-24 23:35:41 UTC-04:00 km
4.7 195km SW of Vaini, Tonga 2013-10-24 23:29:54 UTC-04:00 76.1 km
5.0 81km S of Hihifo, Tonga 2013-10-24 23:21:19 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
4.6 78km NE of Bunobogu, Indonesia 2013-10-24 19:59:19 UTC-04:00 55.6 km
4.6 Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge 2013-10-24 18:38:56 UTC-04:00 9.9 km
5.4 197km SW of Vaini, Tonga 2013-10-24 16:32:41 UTC-04:00

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide

30 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2013-10-24 18:11:00 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)30 earthquakes in map area

5.4 197km SW of Vaini, Tonga 2013-10-24 16:32:41 UTC-04:00 89.0 km
6.7 East of the South Sandwich Islands 2013-10-24 15:25:12 UTC-04:00 26.1 km
5.5 295km N of Bamboo Flat, India 2013-10-24 13:57:39 UTC-04:00 35.7 km
2.9 15km N of Anchor Point, Alaska 2013-10-24 13:18:23 UTC-04:00 21.8 km
2.7 56km NNW of Cape Yakataga, Alaska 2013-10-24 13:03:14 UTC-04:00 3.1 km
2.7 12km E of Coalinga, California 2013-10-24 12:45:31 UTC-04:00 10.9 km
4.3 113km E of Copiapo, Chile 2013-10-24 12:08:12 UTC-04:00 147.3 km
4.0 West of Vancouver Island 2013-10-24 12:02:27 UTC-04:00 15.8 km
5.0 85km W of Pizarro, Colombia 2013-10-24 10:44:34 UTC-04:00 34.2 km
3.3 90km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2013-10-24 07:29:04 UTC-04:00 23.0 km
4.4 7km NNE of Azua de Compostela, Dominican Republic 2013-10-24 07:01:53 UTC-04:00
2.8 79km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 2013-10-24 06:48:17 UTC-04:00 55.0 km
2.9 22km NNE of Arecibo, Puerto Rico 2013-10-24 06:28:08 UTC-04:00 26.0 km
4.9 263km E of Kuril'sk, Russia 2013-10-24 04:36:45 UTC-04:00 52.9 km
4.7 4km SSW of La Paz, Philippines 2013-10-24 02:36:31 UTC-04:00 35.2 km
3.0 85km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico 2013-10-24 01:10:18 UTC-04:00 5.0 km
4.8 27km SSW of Jalapa, Mexico 2013-10-24 01:00:20 UTC-04:00 43.3 km
3.7 0km WNW of Tobosi, Costa Rica 2013-10-24 00:10:32 UTC-04:00 13.5 km
4.7 15km N of Mutsu, Japan 2013-10-24 00:04:19 UTC-04:00 120.7 km
4.4 24km NW of Londres, Argentina 2013-10-23 22:19:43 UTC-04:00 116.0 km
4.7 117km WNW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands 2013-10-23 22:12:25 UTC-04:00 27.5 km
5.0 32km SSE of Ozernovskiy, Russia 2013-10-23 21:37:37 UTC-04:00 149.5 km
2.9 47km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 2013-10-23 21:31:34 UTC-04:00 64.0 km
2.5 2km NE of Auberry, California 2013-10-23 21:22:22 UTC-04:00 6.4 km
2.5 11km NNE of Coalinga, California 2013-10-23 21:00:46 UTC-04:00 27.7 km
4.5 13km E of Yaguachi, Ecuador 2013-10-23 20:37:19 UTC-04:00 96.3 km
5.6 76km NE of L'Esperance Rock, New Zealand 2013-10-23 20:25:45 UTC-04:00 35.0 km
4.7 56km SW of Ocos, Guatemala 2013-10-23 19:26:42 UTC-04:00 35.9 km
3.2 88km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico 2013-10-23 18:55:03 UTC-04:00 8.0 km
4.6 Southern East Pacific Rise 2013-10-23 18:35:55 UTC-04:00 10.0 km

Thursday, October 24, 2013

SHELDON ADELSON SHOULD CALL ON ISRAEL TO ATOMIC BOMB IRAN INSTEAD OF AMERICA

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

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

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oSAPMYTuss

Sheldon Adelson calls on US to nuke Iranian desert

Washington should then threaten to drop nuclear bomb on Tehran if it fails to comply with Western demands, powerful casino magnate says

By Rachel Delia Benaim and Lazar Berman October 24, 2013, 12:35 pm 15-The times of Israel

Sheldon Adelson (right) and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach participate in a New York panel about Israel and Iran, Tuesday, October 24, 2013 (photo credit: courtesy)

NEW YORK — American Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson said the United States should detonate a nuclear bomb in the Iranian desert to display toughness, though without hurting a soul, before the next stage of negotiations with Tehran. It should then threaten that the next bomb would fall on Tehran, he said.“What are we going to negotiate about?” Adelson told a crowd at New York’s Yeshiva University on Tuesday night.

As filmed by blogger Philip Weiss, a fierce critic of Israeli policy, Adelson said, “What I would say is, ‘Listen. You see that desert out there, I want to show you something.’ …You pick up your cellphone and you call somewhere in Nebraska and you say, ‘OK let it go.’ And so there’s an atomic weapon, goes over ballistic missiles, the middle of the desert, that doesn’t hurt a soul. Maybe a couple of rattlesnakes, and scorpions, or whatever. And then you say, ‘See? The next one is in the middle of Tehran.’ So, we mean business.”Adelson made his comments at a forum on “Iran, Assimilation and the Threat to Israel and Jewish Survival” moderated by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the flamboyant Orthodox leader, nicknamed “America’s Rabbi,” who’s famous for promoting Judaism and Jewish values through mainstream American media.

“You want to be wiped out?” the mogul continued, directing his comments at the Iranians. “Go ahead and take a tough position and continue with your nuclear development. You want to be peaceful? Just reverse it all, and we will guarantee you that you can have a nuclear power plant for electricity purposes, energy purposes.”Over 400 professionals and students packed Yeshiva University’s Lamport Auditorium to hear the panelists: Pulitzer Prize-winner Bret Stephens of The Wall Street Journal, Adelson, and Yeshiva University president Richard Joel.The panelists agreed Iran should not be allowed nuclear weapons, with Stephens hitting the main points eloquently.“Think about this: a regime that is capable of taking a stone in one hand and stoning a woman to death, a regime that hangs gay people from cranes in the streets of Tehran, should not under any circumstances get anywhere near a nuclear bomb,” Stephens said.The room erupted in applause — not for the first or last time.

US billionaire businessman Sheldon Adelson (file photo credit: Flash90/File)

Like Adelson, a staunchly conservative Republican, Stephens also denigrated liberals in the context of Iran. He addressed himself to liberals who proclaim, “We need to find peace with Iran,” even in the wake of the regime’s oppressive practices. “If you call yourself a liberal under those circumstances, you need to reexamine what your liberalism is all about,” he said.Stephens also professed bafflement over the world’s preoccupation with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and other Iranian figurehead politicians, when, he said, the real problem was still Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.“They don’t call you supreme leader if you’re a semi-supreme leader,” Stephens quipped.Adelson also said negotiations with Iran were unquestionably a demonstration of weakness on the part of the United States.Adelson, a casino magnate worth $26.5 billion according to Forbes, is a veteran political player in both Israeli and US politics.A long-time supporter of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he also threw his considerable financial weight behind Republican Mitt Romney’s campaign to become president and reportedly said he was willing to spend up to $100 million to prevent President Barack Obama’s reelection.Adelson is also the publisher of Israel’s widest-read newspaper, the free Israel Hayom daily, which critics say takes a blatantly pro-Netanyahu line.When it came to Israel, Adelson, a personal friend of the prime minister, and Stephens deviated slightly. While Adelson said Netanyahu “would not live without taking some kind of action under the threat of harm to the Jewish people or the State of Israel,” Stephens claimed he is “all hat and no cattle.”Negotiators from Iran and six world powers, known as the P5+1, are due to meet in Geneva for a round of talks on November 7-8, the second round of talks in as many months.Western powers fear Iran’s nuclear program could be used to build an atomic bomb. Iran says its program is peaceful and its purpose is to advance medical research and power generation.Last week, Iranian diplomats met in Geneva with negotiators from the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany. Iran hopes to ease the crippling economic and oil sanctions placed on its government over its contested nuclear program.Among key concessions being demanded by the West, according to two diplomats who spoke with the Associated Press, is that Iran stop enriching uranium to 20 percent. The diplomats say Iran offered to halt 20% enrichment at last week’s Geneva talks. However, the Iranian government hasn’t publicly commented on the issue.The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Adelson says Obama should fire ‘atomic weapon’ at Iran, not negotiate

Philip Weiss on October 23, 2013 94

Last night in New York, Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire supporter of Israel, said that the U.S. should fire a nuclear weapon at Iran rather than negotiate. He said that if Obama fires a weapon into the desert, killing no one, and then threatens to send the next one to Tehran so that Iran is “wiped out,” Iran will cease its nuclear program.What are we going to negotiate about? I would say ‘Listen, you see that desert out there, I want to show you something.’ …You pick up your cell phone and you call somewhere in Nebraska and you say, ‘OK let it go.’ And so there’s an atomic weapon, goes over ballistic missiles, the middle of the desert, that doesn’t hurt a soul. Maybe a couple of rattlesnakes, and scorpions, or whatever. Then you say, ‘See! The next one is in the middle of Tehran. So, we mean business. You want to be wiped out? Go ahead and take a tough position and continue with your nuclear development. You want to be peaceful? Just reverse it all, and we will guarantee you that you can have a nuclear power plant for electricity purposes, energy purposes.’
The recommendations were met with applause by a Yeshiva University audience.Adelson, an 80-year-old casino mogul and major supporter of Mitt Romney and other Republican political candidates, made the comments in a dialogue with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach during a conversation called “Will Jews Exist? Iran, Assimilation and the Threat to Israel and Jewish Survival.”My video above records the exchange. Adelson is in the foreground with his back to the camera. Boteach, a rightwing political figure close to US ambassador Samantha Power and NJ Senator-elect Cory Booker, is on his right. Neither Boteach nor the others on the panel– Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens and Yeshiva University president Richard Joel — objected to Adelson’s idea.Adelson owns homes in the U.S. and Israel, where he is also a newspaper publisher. The dialogue began when Boteach, who calls himself “America’s rabbi,” says that Adelson believes that Franklin Roosevelt could have prevented the Holocaust. Adelson says:“He could have prevented the Holocaust… Yes– if not prevented the Holocaust, he could have at least significantly reduced the severity of it.”Adelson said that Roosevelt could have convinced the British that it was “more important to them and to their future” not to sign the White Paper on Palestine in 1939 that limited Jewish immigration to Palestine. FDR had “unlimited leverage” because he could promise the British that the U.S. would enter World War II once the country ceased to be isolationist.“He really had the leverage, he really had the upper hand,” Adelson said– something he realizes from being in business 68 years.“Given your strong feelings about what the U.S. did not do to prevent the Holocaust,” Boteach asks, what are your feelings about “Obama speaking to Iran right now” and having diplomatic relations with Iran, given its threats against Israel? Not as a political person, the rabbi says, but as a prominent American.
Adelson:

The worst negotiating tactic I could ever imagine, my entire life.
[Boteach: Why is that?]
Because you can’t get anything. He’s not saying to them, Roll back your entire program and show that you’re willing to be peaceful. So, roll it all back… and we’ll roll back the sanctions…. What is that, a game of chicken, who’s going to blink first?

“It’s very simple, it’s the same thing with the Palestinians,” Adelson continues. “Sixty-five years, they haven’t taken one millimeter step toward the Israelis, to accommodate the needs of the Israelis but more importantly, to show that they truly want peace.”
Adelson moves from Palestine to Iran:

If they truly want peace, it’s very simple to say to all their henchmen, lay off the terrorism for five years. And they’ll come to the Jews and say, for five or ten years there will be no terrorism, there will be no violence or no incitement against– We’ll throw out the books that teach the three-year-old children that Jews are descended from swine and apes, and that we’re not going to teach anymore in the curriculum to kill the Jews, that the Jews are very bad people.
So if you really want peace, it’s very simple to send a message to your opposition. Just be peaceful. Open up all the things.Or– ‘We’ll give you this if you give us something.’ I think it’s the worst negotiating ploy, tactic anybody can imagine.[Boteach: So you would support negotiations with Iran so long as they first cease all enrichment].No. What do you mean support negotiations? What are we going to negotiate about? What I would say is, ‘Listen, you see that desert out there, I want to show you something.’ You pick up your cell phone, even at traveling rates. You pick up your cell phone, and– what are they called– [Boteach: roaming charges] Roaming charges. You pick up your cell phone and you call somewhere in Nebraska and you say, ‘OK let it go.’ So there’s an atomic weapon, goes over ballistic missiles, the middle of the desert, that doesn’t hurt a soul. Maybe a couple of rattlesnakes, and scorpions, or whatever.
And then you say, ‘See! The next one is in the middle of Tehran. So, we mean business. You want to be wiped out? Go ahead and take a tough position and continue with your nuclear development. [Applause] You want to be peaceful? Just reverse it all, and we will guarantee you that you can have a nuclear power plant for electricity purposes, energy purposes.’

A tremendous demonstration of American strength? Boteach asks.

The only thing they understand.

So you see the current negotiations as a demonstration of weakness?

US could accept Israeli strike on Iran soon, says former IDF intel chief

Amos Yadlin predicts Washington will be more tolerant of an Israeli attack late this year or early next if nuclear talks don’t yield results

By Times of Israel staff October 24, 2013, 2:49 am 8-The times of Israel

Amos Yadlin, former director of military intelligence, and current head of the Institute of National Security Studies (photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

In a probing interview with the New Republic published on Wednesday, former IDF intelligence chief Amos Yadlin made his assessment clear: the coming year would be the year of decision for Israel on Iran. The next several months, he said, would provide the last opportunity for Israel to confidently and effectively strike the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, if that’s what it chooses to do.Yadlin, now the director of the Tel Aviv-based Institute of National Security Studies, was careful not to advocate for an attack in the interview entitled “Israel Doesn’t Need America on D-Day,” and he made clear that Israel also has the option in the coming months to decide to leave the Iranian issue to the Obama administration, or, alternatively, Jerusalem could decide to live with a nuclear-capable Iran.According to Yadlin, the timetable for an American decision is different, as US capabilities leave the option of a military strike available for longer. “For the US, because of their capabilities, it is at least a year post-Israel and will depend on many operational parameters that should not be public knowledge,” he told the magazine’s Ben Birnbaum.He assessed, however, that US opposition to an Israeli strike on Iran may lessen depending on the success of ongoing negotiations between the West and the Iranian regime.“I think in late 2013 or early 2014, especially if America sees that Iran is not serious about reaching an acceptable agreement and only continues to buy time, the US will accept an Israeli attack because a nuclear Iran is absolutely against American vital national security interests,” Yadlin said.

The negotiations over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, which resumed last week in Geneva and left P5+1 representatives upbeat about conditions for a possible deal, are a win-win for Israel, the former military intelligence chief reasoned.If a deal is reached “which is reliable and contains intrusive inspections and turns the nuclear clock backwards, it’s better than the dangerous options of the ‘bomb or the bombing.’ And if negotiations fail, then there will be legitimacy to take preventive action to stop Iran,” he said.

Yadlin, who helped persuade then-defense minister Ehud Barak and Netanyahu back in 2010 not to strike Iran, said that the probability for a successful Israeli attack against Tehran’s nuclear program would soon diminish. “It can be the last quarter of 2013 or the first, second or even third quarter of 2014. There is not a certain deadline, but the probability of success will eventually decrease to a level that may change the decision to launch the attack.”Both Israel and Iran were working on improving their respective options, Yadlin said.“Israel is acquiring capabilities as time passes. It’s not only losing… But the Iranians are also gaining. They are hardening their facilities and adding more centrifuges.”Nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 are scheduled to fully resume on November 7. The sides are expected to hold lower-level technical talks in the interim.

ABBAS NO ISRAELI TROOPS IN JORDAN VALLEY

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Abbas: No to Israeli Presence in the Jordan Valley

PA Chairman: Israel will be to blame if peace talks fail over its demand to keep military forces in the Jordan Valley.-By Elad Benari-First Publish: 10/23/2013, 6:16 AM-Israelnationalnews

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas-AFP photo

In his latest attack of Israel, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas warned on Tuesday that Israel would be to blame if ongoing peace talks collapsed over its demand to keep military forces in the Jordan Valley."We will not accept it, and if they (the talks) collapse, they (Israelis) will be the reason for the collapse, not us," Abbas was quoted by AFP as having told the Baltic News Service during a visit to Lithuania.

The Israeli daily newspaper Maariv reported last week that the renewed negotiations almost collapsed in September due to conflicting positions on future borders.Israel has long stated that it seeks to retain a long-term military presence along the Jordan Valley in order to ensure its continued security. The PA, on the other hand, flatly objects to any Israeli military on land that could become the eastern front of a future Palestinian state."They don't have the right to stay in our territories after we signed a peace treaty," Abbas said Tuesday, while stressing that he accepts a future demilitarized Palestinian state."We want, according to the Oslo Agreement, a strong police force. This is exactly what we want, how we understand, how they understand, how the Americans understand it," he added, according to AFP.Over the years, PA security forces have proven they cannot be trusted and have been behind numerous murderous terror attacks, thus making the presence of Israeli security forces along the Jordan Valley a necessity.Just recently, the PA's Ambassador to Libya, Mutawakkil Taha, boasted that most terrorist attacks during the early days of the Second Intifada, also known as the Oslo War, were carried out by members of the PA's own security forces.

Abbas previously said that he would accept an international presence like in the Sinai and in Lebanon as part of a future Palestinian state - so long as “Palestine” is free of Jews, civilians or soldiers.In the interview Tuesday, Abbas also hailed the European Union's demand on Monday that Israel stop building Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.The president of Lithuania, the rotating president of the European Union, on Monday called on Israel "to end the expansion of settlements in the occupied territories.” She then insisted that that "the European Union does not recognize settlements as part of Israel."

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RUSSIAN -ARAB-MUSLIMS-EATIIN BY ISRAELS MIGRATING BIRDS AND BURIED IN THE JORDAN VALLEY.EAST OF THE DEAD SEA.
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CHRISTIAN JEWISH TEXTS IN NEW MUSEUM

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

In first, museum melds two millenia of Jewish and Christian texts

Bible Lands Museum launches display of scores of rare manuscripts — from the Greek Septuagint to Gutenberg

By Ilan Ben Zion October 23, 2013, 10:57 pm 0-The Times of Israel

Martin Luther's translation of the Old Testament (German). Print, woodcut and pigment on paper, leather binding, brass clasps. Wittenberg, Germany, 1525. (photo credit: Hanna Rhymes, Green Collection)

Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum on Wednesday inaugurated a new traveling exhibition of rare Biblical texts and artifacts spanning two millennia, from lands as disparate and distant as Germany and Iraq, and written in at least a half a dozen languages.The exhibit, entitled “The Book of Books,” compiles over 200 texts with the ambitious aim of presenting the history of the Judeo-Christian document over the course of Western history through its textual heritage. Among the documents on display are fragments of the earliest Greek translation of the Bible — the Septuagint — early New Testament scriptures, vibrant illuminated manuscripts, rare fragments from the Cairo Geniza and pages from the Gutenberg Bible, the first set to print.Curators said instead of sticking to illegible, dusty, leather-bound tomes, they combined curious artifacts and exotic documents — such as prayer amulets engraved on silver rolls, 1,500-year-old Iraqi incantation bowls and elaborately illustrated prayer books — to animate the exhibit.Among the gems of the exhibition is the Green Collection’s Codex Climaci Rescriptus, a 6th to 8th century CE palimpsest whose Greek and Palestinian Aramaic Gospels were overwritten with Syriac.The gallery also has a working reproduction of a Gutenberg-era printing press, replete with period-dress printer.The project was “unlike anything we’ve done before,” said Bible Lands Museum Director Amanda Weiss at the gala kickoff of the exhibition. “It’s a marriage of two cultures, two faiths” which incorporates cutting edge technology to present ancient manuscripts with “a courageous design concept.”

The varied assemblage of scrolls, codices, papyri and parchment comes from several different sources — a vast number of which are on loan from the Green Collection, the world’s largest private collection of biblical texts and artifacts.Steve Green, president of Hobby Lobby and benefactor of the collection, said that although the 40,000 biblical antiquities are based far from Jerusalem in Oklahoma, “we hope this exhibit will bring us together and unite us under a book we all love, the scriptures.”“It is exciting to be right here in Jerusalem where many of these items come from,” he said.Green, an evangelical Christian, recently revealed he would house what he calls “the world’s oldest Jewish prayer book,” said to date from 840, which he purchased a year ago, in a museum being built to house the collection in Washington D.C.The 400,000 square foot museum, situated two blocks from the US Capitol building in Washington DC, will also house the exhibit on display in Jerusalem. It is set to open to the public in 2017.“We’ll be able to tell three different stories,” Green said, “the history of the Bible, the impact of the Bible, and the Bible’s story — what does the Bible say.”The Green family was accused of anti-Semitism last month after the Hobby Lobby chain of stores said it would not stock Hanukkah-themed products. The store later agreed to put Jewish holiday bric-a-brac on its shelves.For Green, the Book of Books exhibit is only the tip of the iceberg. He said his foundation’s long term ambition is not only the advancement of biblical education through the museum, but “developing a curriculum that we are looking at going into public schools in the US as well as places all across the world.”

The Green family’s Christian bent could potentially have caused friction in Jerusalem, and Weiss said the four years to conceive, assemble, and curate the project were not without difficulties.“It’s not an easy thing for a museum in Jerusalem to take on and exhibition that is a knowingly Christian initiative and to do it in a way that is appropriate to our entire audience,” she said, referring to the Green Collection and Scholars Initiative. “And so we embarked on a journey of learning to understand each other, to respect each other, and the important issues that had to be handled in an appropriate way.”“There’s no other museum dedicated to the history of the Bible, which is why this exhibition in this museum and at this time is so wonderfully important,” Weiss said.The exhibition at the Bible Lands Museum runs through May 2014, at which point it travels to the Vatican and then Seoul, South Korea.

EU SHOULD CHANGE TONE WHEN TALKING WITH THE WORLD

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

WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS
CHINA MILITARY PARADE(KING OF THE EAST)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqSmLOdRE4c
RUSSIA ARMY PARADE(KING OF THE NORTH)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReGqS3TDYRM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWn3T5XIbNk&feature=related
EGYPT ARMY PARADE(KING OF THE SOUTH)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt_KT4irRTM&feature=related
EUROPEAN UNION MILITARY PARADE(KING OF THE WEST)(NOT THE USA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3NEyheTDyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzLjhsRrZYw&feature=fvw
ISRAEL MILITARY-GUARENTEED BY EU TO SECURE THEM THE BIBLE SAYS(2 MAIN ENDTIME PLAYERS)(NEXT TO GOD HIMSELF FULFILLING THE PROPHECIES ON EARTH)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04TDlvIRIMY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhdalQdtzfY&feature=related
http://euradcom.org/

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

EU leaders should change tone when talking to rest of the world

22.10.13 @ 18:05-EUOBSERVER

BRUSSELS - European Commission President José Manuel Barroso was right. Had the European Union instead of the United States fallen into partial government shutdown, the world would not have hesitated to use this as an opportunity to berate Europe and its influence as a global leader.The trade in caricatures about the EU is a favourite past time. World leaders stand ready to offer free advice to European governments and institutions that they see as having no capacity to lead.Chinese pundits boast publicly that Beijing has a system of selecting rather than electing capable leaders that is far superior to Western democracy. Even the likes of President Cristina Kirchner from Argentina have joined the ranks of those offering lessons in leadership.More than ever, the time is ripe for Europe to take its external image more seriously. This can be done through a greater emphasis on public diplomacy and a more positive leadership style in Europe. Damage to Europe’s reputation in other parts of the world goes beyond critical images of European leaders with no capacity to lead, and over-burdened bureaucracies suffering from in-group stereotypes. Emerging powers are starting to challenge Europe in areas of its traditional soft power, where the EU is still going strong.The ultramodern African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, funded and built by China, gives a powerful diplomatic signal about a changing world. Russia’s role in talking down the US over Syria is another example. Europeans realize that Brazilians, Indonesians, Indians and others often know too little about what the EU is all about, but they erroneously think this is merely about a lack of information.They should worry more that ‘Europe’ is still largely lecturing previous colonies rather than listening to them as rising powers with their eyes set on the future.No week goes by without European think tanks debating the impact of the ‘rise of the rest’, but this has not translated into an understanding on the part of governments that there is an urgent job to be done when it comes to Europe’s public diplomacy.While the world tries to make sense of Europe’s struggles during times of crisis, 90 percent of the EU communication budget is still being spent on outreach to the EU’s own 28 member states. There are good reasons to ‘sell’ Europe at home, but are the overall priorities right? Worse than foreign misperception, though, is how Europeans judge themselves.

Self-defeating and myopic

There is a strong tendency for political leaders to be too critical of what they are trying to achieve through European integration. They publically create a prevailing image of self-doubt. People in other parts of the world with different political systems are often perplexed by such self-deprecation. They are not used to this kind of self-defeating, myopic leadership style.When faced with a crisis – such as disagreement over Iraq in 2003, the failure of the Constitutional Treaty in 2005, or more recently, the Eurozone crisis – European leaders often project a lack of resilience and self-confidence.Sometimes circumstances are exceptional. But European leaders need to understand the importance of perception, especially during crises. If this is not understood not only does the EU’s image suffer, but also the reputation of its component parts. States, regions, and cities may see their global business interests harmed.One irony of the EU’s early 21st century predicament is that the international peace associated with integration - Europe’s greatest source of soft power - is losing its previous appeal, even while political leaders around the world discretely admire it.
The economic crisis has complicated matters by spawning a cultural rivalry between leading EU members Germany, Britain, France. ‘Beggar thy neighbour’ economic competition between the states of Europe is undermining more enlightened practices of communication with foreign publics in favour of more simplistic promotional practices meant to target trade and investment.Rightly or wrongly, this even creates an impression that Europe lacks progress when it comes to its communication with the rest of the world.

Not everything is bleak

Not everything is bleak. Europe can still pull itself together. With its highly-active populations, assertive regions, diverse member states, activist town halls, and attractive cities, Europe remains a mosaic of collective projection capacity without equal in the world.Future public diplomacy should build on Europe’s evident strengths at the sub-national level, closer to civil society. European policy-makers must also wake up to the fact that maintaining the traditional separation of domestic and external communication spheres is completely out of touch with the reality of vast information flows that simply ignore borders.Recurring criticism of EU foreign policy chief Lady Ashton has compounded difficulties for Europe’s diplomatic service to fight Europe’s negative image in the world. It is time to start trusting EU diplomats to develop new public diplomacy traditions that are also in the interests of states.The EU External Action Service could be instrumental in moving away from the EU’s greatest shortcoming in public diplomacy: its tendency towards talking at others. Beyond such one-way ‘infopolitik’, internal image and external image are of course related.
When others start talking about Europe in a more positive light, Europeans themselves may even start believing that there is some truth to what they say.Mai’a Cross and Jan Melissen are senior research fellows at ARENA Centre for European Studies in Oslo and the Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’ in The Hague. They co-authored the Clingendael Policy Brief ‘Communicating Europe: At Home in the World’, and they co-edited the forthcoming 'European Public Diplomacy: Soft Power at Work' (Palgrave Macmillan).

Germany budging on banking union

Today @ 17:47-OCT 23,13-EUOBSERVER

Berlin - After having opposed for months a so-called resolution mechanism for failing eurozone banks, Germany is budging on the issue and wants a deal by the end of the year.The European Commission proposal for an authority having the power to tell banks to shut down or to draw money from shareholders, creditors and ultimately taxpayers had been flatly rejected by the German government earlier this year.
But at an EU summit on Thursday-Friday (24-25 October) in Brussels, Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to have a "constructive" stance on the matter and seek a deal among member states by the end of the year, a senior German official said on the eve of the meeting.The German chancellery and the finance ministry are already "working on solutions" on the most controversial points of the proposal, the official said.Under a possible compromise, the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM) would only extend over the 130 largest banks in the eurozone and national parliaments would have to approve any use of public money in helping out troubled banks - a constitutional requirement in Germany.Also key to German approval is a clear pecking order of shareholders and creditors who have to step in when a bank is wound down."The commission has proposed a fund to be set up from the banks' own contributions, but it will take 10-15 years until it will be available, the official said.This means that in the next 3-5 years we will not have a sufficiently funded pot. Instead, we will have again and again the question of using public money. And the European Commission has not included an answer to this question in its proposal."Limiting the SRM to the 130 largest banks would be the preferred German option because it would create a "certain symmetry" to the single banking supervisor being currently set up within the European Central Bank (ECB), whose remit is also on these big banks only.On Wednesday, the ECB published its plan on how it will assess the balance sheets of these banks - a precondition for it to take on the supervisory role.Key to this exercise is for banks to have eight percent capital - a higher-than expected requirement.If capital shortfalls are identified, banks will be required to make up for them, the ECB said. Draghi has said a "public backstop" must also be available for this exercise.A provisional list of banks to be reviewed includes 24 German lenders - including six of the Landesbanken that were bailed out in 2008. French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Irish, Portuguese, Cypriot and Greek banks are also on the list.Shares in eurozone banks fell by 2.5 percent on Wednesday, reflecting investors' concerns that these tests will pressure banks to tighten their lending. Spain's Bankia falling by five percent on the markets and Germany's Commerzbank by three percent.The German financial supervisor Bafin said the country's banks were "already intensively preparing for the comprehensive assessment."

EU to relaunch membership talks with Turkey

Today @ 09:21-OCT 23,13-EUOBSERVER

BRUSSELS - The stalled EU membership talks with Turkey are set for relaunch after member states agreed accession negotiations would recommence on 5 November.“After more than a three-year break, negotiations are regaining momentum, and I hope to see steady and speedy progress,” Linas Antanas Linkevicius, Lithuania’s minister of foreign affairs, said Tuesday (22 October).Linkevicius said the three-year hiatus was due to a lack of agreement among member states.Talks were initially scheduled for June but were postponed following a violent police crackdown on anti-government protests that kicked off in Istanbul’s Gezi Park in summer before rapidly spreading to other cities.Over 3,000 were arrested. Six people died, including one police officer, while thousands of others were injured, some severely.Turkey’s accession negotiations started in 2005, although its EU candidate status was granted back in 1999.Some 35 individual chapters covering different policy aspects must be finalised before full membership.So far, 13 have been opened, but progress has been slowed by member state objections, largely due to Turkey’s frozen conflict with EU member state Cyprus.Only one chapter, on science and research, has been provisionally closed.
The stand-off was further complicated when Turkey temporarily froze relations with the Presidency of the Council of the EU in the second half of 2012 because Cyprus took the presidency helm.The new thaw in relations means ministers in November will focus on a chapter dealing with regional policy and structural instruments with Turkey.A European Commission progress report, released last week, noted that Turkey has moved forward on regional policy.It noted that the government said it wants to step up democratic and political reforms.But major challenges remain when it comes to human rights.The report says outstanding issues remain over “gender equality, including access to education and the labour market, political representation, combatting violence against women and early and forced marriages.”The EU earmarked over €900 million in funds for 2013 alone to help Turkey in its reforms.The two sides exchanged some €123 billion in bilateral trade in 2012.

Minor earthquakes strike near Eilat

After series of northern temblors, two 3.3-magnitude tremors hit, but are barely felt, near southern Israel’s Red Sea tourism city

By Times of Israel staff October 23, 2013, 6:41 pm 00The Times of Israel

A minor earthquake hit the Eilat port area Wednesday afternoon, causing no damage or casualties.Tremors were felt in the Egyptian border city of Taba, but weren’t felt as strongly in the neighboring Israeli city.

The earthquake, measuring 3.3 on the Richter scale, was preceded by another similar-sized quake in the Red Sea, according to Israel Radio.The quakes were the first to be felt in the south of Israel, following a series of five minor quakes in six days — the last of them on Tuesday — felt in the north.In the midst of that succession of minor earthquakes, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday convened a consultation with key ministers to discuss national preparedness, and ordered a “refreshing” of procedures for coping with a major quake. The IDF’s Home Front Command then reissued instructions for dealing with a major temblor.“Don’t think of an earthquake as unbeatable — experience accumulated throughout the world proves that appropriate preparation and proper action in time of earthquake can save lives,” read the Home Front Command guide. Though it is impossible to predict when, “there is no question that an earthquake will hit Israel,” the guide stated.Israel’s last major earthquake shook the region in 1927 — a 6.2-magnitude quake that killed 500 and injured another 700. An earthquake in 1837 left as many as 5,000 people dead. Major earthquakes strike Israel once every 80 years or so, meaning the country may be due for a serious natural disaster.

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide

24 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2013-10-23 17:03:20 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)24 earthquakes in map area

2.5 23km SE of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-10-23 14:38:30 UTC-04:00 8.2 km
3.2 23km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-10-23 13:40:03 UTC-04:00 8.5 km
2.8 2km NE of Levittown, Puerto Rico 2013-10-23 13:39:49 UTC-04:00 95.0 km
3.1 23km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-10-23 13:24:41 UTC-04:00 7.5 km
3.3 23km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-10-23 13:19:32 UTC-04:00 7.7 km
5.0 297km SW of Ndoi Island, Fiji 2013-10-23 12:32:38 UTC-04:00 564.0 km
4.3 24km SSE of Fengcheng, China 2013-10-23 12:17:13 UTC-04:00 15.0 km
4.5 5km SSE of Kardamas, Greece 2013-10-23 11:38:33 UTC-04:00 45.0 km
4.4 209km SSW of Sagres, Portugal 2013-10-23 09:57:27 UTC-04:00 38.5 km
4.4 49km SE of Silifke, Turkey 2013-10-23 08:24:24 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
4.4 141km ESE of Iquique, Chile 2013-10-23 05:32:38 UTC-04:00 100.0 km
5.5 285km SW of Vaini, Tonga 2013-10-23 04:23:29 UTC-04:00 155.4 km
3.9 60km S of Cantwell, Alaska 2013-10-23 03:38:21 UTC-04:00 65.1 km
2.9 16km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico 2013-10-23 02:40:06 UTC-04:00 77.0 km
2.7 71km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico 2013-10-23 02:15:50 UTC-04:00 12.0 km
4.6 137km NE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia 2013-10-23 00:19:34 UTC-04:00
3.1 8km WSW of Alberto Oviedo Mota, Mexico 2013-10-23 00:17:09 UTC-04:00 15.0 km
2.5 6km NW of Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico 2013-10-22 22:41:45 UTC-04:00 58.0 km
3.0 187km SE of Akutan, Alaska 2013-10-22 21:43:09 UTC-04:00 46.7 km
3.0 45km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 2013-10-22 20:08:20 UTC-04:00 28.0
2.9 14km NE of Willow, Alaska 2013-10-22 19:45:55 UTC-04:00 18.1 km
3.8 33km WNW of Healy, Alaska 2013-10-22 18:47:14 UTC-04:00 142.4 km
2.8 24km ENE of Soledad, California 2013-10-22 17:48:49 UTC-04:00 8.7 km
5.4 56km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2013-10-22 17:15:51 UTC-04:00 50.0 km

10/22/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

Müller rejects remarriage permitted in the Orthodox Church

Gerhard Ludwig Muller

The guardian of Catholic orthodoxy talks about an issue that will be discussed at the next Synod, stating that "marriages nowadays are probably invalid more often than they were previously"

andrea tornielli rome The Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller, has written an article on remarried divorcees and whether they should be allowed to take communion. The lengthy and thoroughly researched article was published by Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano. It is a summary of various documents and the Church’s stance regarding the issue, starting with the Bible.The article deals with one of the issues that will be discussed at the extraordinary Synod on October 2014 and sends out two key messages: The first is a confirmed intention to look more closely at marriage annulment: Benedict XVI and Francis have said on many occasions that a lack of faith can also make a marriage null.Regarding this, Müller said: “Today’s mentality is largely opposed to the Christian understanding of marriage, with regard to its indissolubility and its openness to children. Because many Christians are influenced by this, marriages nowadays are probably invalid more often than they were previously, because there is a lack of desire for marriage in accordance with Catholic teaching, and there is too little socialization within an environment of faith. Therefore assessment of the validity of marriage is important and can help to solve problems.”The second message the article sends out is to do with the Eastern tradition of blessing second marriages after a period of penitence. On the flight back from Rio, Francis said: "With reference to the problem of Communion for people in a second marriage - because the divorced can take Communion, that's not a problem - but when they're in a second marriage, they can't. I believe that it's necessary to look at it within the totality of the pastoral care of marriage. And that's why it's a problem. But also - in parentheses - the Orthodox have a different practice. They follow the theology of economy, as they call it, and give a second chance, they allow it. But I think this problem - close parentheses - must be studied within the framework of the pastoral care of marriage … We are on the path towards a deeper pastoral care for marriage.”Here Pope Francis only refers to the practices of the Orthodox Church briefly in brackets, as Cardinal Roger Etchegaray had spoken in detail about this during a Consistory.But Müller’s tone appears negative in the article published in L’Osservatore Romano: “In the Orthodox Churches today, there are a great many grounds for divorce, which are mostly justified in terms of oikonomia, or pastoral leniency in difficult individual cases, and they open the path to a second or third marriage marked by a penitential character. This practice cannot be reconciled with God’s will, as expressed unambiguously in Jesus’ sayings about the indissolubility of marriage. But it represents an ecumenical problem that is not to be underestimated.”“In the West, the Gregorian reform countered these liberalizing tendencies and gave fresh impetus to the original understanding of Scripture and the Fathers. The Catholic Church defended the absolute indissolubility of marriage even at the cost of great sacrifice and suffering. The schism of a “Church of England” detached from the Successor of Peter came about not because of doctrinal differences, but because the Pope, out of obedience to the sayings of Jesus, could not accommodate the demands of King Henry VIII for the dissolution of his marriage,” The Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith went on to say.

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Cardinal Dolan passes on the baton

Timothy Dolan

Between 11 and 14 November the US Catholic Bishops’ Conference will elect its next president from a list of ten candidates

Roberta Leone Rome The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has announced that its members will be voting for their new president and vice president at their annual autumn General Assembly, which will run from 11 to 14 November. The USCCB has published a list of the ten candidates nominated by the bishops. Two of these ten candidates will be elected president and vice president respectively, replacing the Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan and the Archbishop of Louisville, Joseph E. Kurtz.The candidates are: Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond of New Orleans, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap., of Philadelphia, Bishop Blase J. Cupich of Spokane, of Washington, Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles , Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr of Cincinnati, Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron of Detroit and Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami.“USCCB by-laws provide that the election of the president will take place first from among the list of 10 candidates,” the USCCB press release reads. “Following the election of the president by a simple majority vote, the vice president is elected from the remaining nine candidates” The president and vice president are elected to three-year terms, which will begin at the conclusion of the Assembly, when Cardinal Dolan and Mgr. Kurtz’s tenures will come to an end.
“In either election, if a candidate does not receive more than half of the votes cast on the first ballot, a second vote is taken. If a third round of voting is necessary, that ballot is a run-off between the top two vote getters from the second ballot,” the USCCB press release explains.“At the meeting, the bishops will also vote for the chairman of the USCCB Committee on Catholic Education, the chairmen-elect of five other USCCB committees and new board members of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc. (CLINIC) and Catholic Relief Services (CRS).”

Report: IAF Bombs Syrian Missiles

IAF warplanes attacked a shipment of advanced missiles from Syria to Hezbollah, says Kuwaiti newspaper

By Gil Ronen-First Publish: 10/23/2013, 11:20 AM-Israelnationalnews

IAF F-16-IAF Website

IAF warplanes attacked a shipment of advanced missiles that Syria was transferring to Hezbollah, according to Kuwaiti newspaper Al Jareeda. The attack took place on Monday.An official source in Jerusalem reportedly confirmed the attack took place but did not say where. The missiles were reportedly "long range and accurate" ones.In late July, IAF jets bombed trucks carrying Syrian missiles bound for Hezbollah's warehouses in Lebanon, according to Syrian opposition sources.The bombing reportedly targeted a Syrian military base near the town of Quneitra, not far from the Golan Heights cease-fire line.That was the fifth known Israeli attack this year on Syrian weapons bound for Hezbollah. Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad reportedly wants to send the weapons to Hezbollah for safekeeping, out of fears they will fall into the hands of the rebels forces fighting him inside Syria, whilst the Iranian-backed terrorist group seeks "game changing weapons" – such as anti-aircraft missiles – in exchange for its costly intervention in the Syrian civil war on behalf of the Syrian regime.

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

NIR BARAKAT WINS 2ND TERM AS JERUSALEMS MAYOR

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

ISRAEL YOU BETTER PROTECT JERUSALEM FOR JESUS WHEN HE COMES TO LITERALLY RULE IN JERUSALEM FOREVER-VERY SHORTLY NOW.

ISAIAH 9:6-7
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:(JESUS 1ST COMING) and the government shall be upon his shoulder:(JESUS 2ND COMING AS RULING KING FROM JERUSALEM FOREVER AT THE END OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION) and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his (JESUS) government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David,( IN JERUSALEM) and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

PSALMS 48:1-3

1 A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.(JERUSALEM)
2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion,(JERUSALEM) on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.(JESUS-MESSIAH-KING-GOD OF ALL ON EARTH)
3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

PSALMS 46:4-5

4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God,(JERUSALEM) the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.(JERUSALEM)
5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.

HEBREWS 11:10

10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations,(JERUSALEM) whose builder and maker is God.

Jerusalem mayor faces a council as fragmented as his city

Nir Barkat may have won a second term in office, but his party holds only four seats out of 31 at City Hall

By Stuart Winer October 23, 2013, 2:46 pm 0-The Times of Israel

Jerusalem's City Hall (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90)

The reelected mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, was looking Wednesday at a city council in which his own party controlled only a small portion of the 31 seats around the big wooden table at City Hall.Following Tuesday’s municipal elections, the biggest faction in the capital’s new council is the Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party, which maintained the eight seats it held in the previous five-year term. Another ultra-Orthodox party, the Sephardic Union (Shas), won five seats, one more than it held before.Barkat’s own party, Jerusalem Will Succeed, dropped from six to four seats. The Hitorerut Yerushalayim (Wake Up Jerusalem) faction quadrupled its representation, winning four seats. Meanwhile, the Yerushalmim party, led by council member Rachel Azaria, scooped up two seats, double its previous number.Alongside its failed campaign to unseat incumbent Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat and replace him with its own candidate Moshe Lion, the Likud-Beytenu party only managed to preserve its single seat on the council.Barkat said in his victory address early Wednesday that he intended to leave “no sector” and “no tribe” behind in running the city. Recalling that he had led a near wall-to-wall coalition over the past five years, he urged all parties to work together with him for the development of the capital.Later Wednesday, Barkat said he would “naturally” reach out first to those parties that had backed him for mayor, and then “expand from there” in building his coalition.Lion said he intended to stay in Jerusalem, at least for the time being, Walla news reported overnight. However, the defeated mayoral candidate, who hails from Givatayim, declined to comment on his long-term plans or if he intended to take up that council seat.The remaining seven seats were grabbed by a number of smaller parties, including two seats for the left-leaning Meretz-Labor party, led by veteran city councilman Pepe Alalu, which lost one of its previous three. The new right-wing Yerushalayim Meuhedet (United Jerusalem) party secured two seats, which it may have gained from the national religious faction, currently known as Jewish Home, which fell from three seats to one.The Bnei Torah ultra-Orthodox party and a representative from the Pisgat Ze’ev neighborhood earned one seat apiece.Israelis voted nationwide in local elections on Tuesday with a turnout of only 42.6 percent. Turnout in Jerusalem was 35.9%.

Israelis vote to keep big-party politics out of the local mix

In city after city, the electorate firmly rejected efforts by challengers from national parties to enter the municipal fray

By Haviv Rettig Gur October 23, 2013, 11:28 am 2-The Times of Israel

Even in towns such as Ramat Hasharon and Bat Yam, where incumbents faced serious charges of corruption or other malfeasance, voters preferred incumbency to change.For sitting mayors in Israel’s two major cities, the elections are a vindication. Tel Aviv’s Ron Huldai, now entering his fourth term in City Hall, is considered a successful chief executive of Israel’s iconic modern city. And Tel Aviv’s immense wealth gaps, which formed the bulk of the Horowitz campaign’s challenge to Huldai’s long-standing rule, were not to be laid at the mayor’s doorstep, voters seemed to say.

Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat celebrates with supporters after winning a hard-fought reelection race, Wednesday, October 23, 2013 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In Jerusalem, the satisfaction in Kikar Safra, Jerusalem’s city hall, is even greater. Incumbent Nir Barkat is entering his second term as Jerusalem’s “secular alternative” to Haredi rule of the city, secure in the knowledge that there are also many Haredim who want him to continue running their city. Despite fierce efforts to unseat him on the part of Shas chairman Aryeh Deri and, reportedly, the party’s late spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (whose “last decree,” we are told, was a call to vote for Barkat’s challenger Moshe Lion), the ultra-Orthodox campaign against him failed even to mobilize the Haredi street. Barkat could not have won with the meager 36 percent turnout if at least some Haredi residents had not decided to either stay home or actively vote for him.Jerusalem is also a city where ethnic extraction matters. Large neighborhoods of Mizrahi, or “eastern,” Jews whose parents and grandparents came to Israel from the Muslim world, are supposed to feel an instinctive opposition to an elitist Ashkenazi, or European, candidate. Barkat is as elitist — a multimillionaire investor — and, culturally, as Ashkenazi as they come. But he’ll be starting a second term in Kikar Safra with the satisfying knowledge that even many Mizrahi Jews are happy, or at least not overly unhappy, with his stewardship of their city.As always, it is important to note that Jerusalem’s Arab residents, comprising as much as one-third of the city’s population, once again refused to vote in the municipal elections in protest over Israel’s control of the city.The losses sustained by the challengers in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem are also indicative of another trend seen widely in these elections: the rejection of “parachute” national candidates. Cities are not stepping-stones in a political career focused elsewhere, voters seemed to say.Thus, perhaps with the exception of Ze’ev Bielski, who returned from a failed Knesset bid to win his former seat as Ra’anana mayor, candidates from national politics were largely rejected by voters: Lion, who moved to Jerusalem just months before the municipal elections; Horowitz, who refused during his campaign to say whether he would leave the Knesset to serve on Tel Aviv’s city council even if he failed to win the top job; Carmel Shama Hacohen, who sought to win Ramat Gan after failing to return to the Knesset in January on the Likud list; former Yisrael Beytenu MK Lia Shemtov in Upper Nazareth; and even MK Hanin Zoabi in Nazareth, one of the most high-profile of Israeli Arab leaders.

Meanwhile, in Beit Shemesh

Beit Shemesh residents arguing over politics in the lead-up to elections (Photo credit: Yaakov Lederman/ Flash 90)

It is worth remembering this nationwide rejection of the nationalization of local politics before turning to Beit Shemesh.On Wednesday morning, when it was clear he had lost to incumbent mayor — and Haredi rabbi — Moshe Abutbul, Beit Shemesh mayoral challenger Eli Cohen lamented that the race had taken on religious overtones, telling Army Radio that he, too, was a “traditional” Jew.Of course, his own campaign worked hard to warn Beit Shemesh voters (or at least reporters) of the threat of continued Haredi rule of the city. But faced with the loss, he did not lament the victory of a Haredi Beit Shemesh over a secular one. Rather, his about-face suggested that his own assessment of the results saw Beit Shemesh voters rejecting first and foremost the transformation of their municipal race into an arena for Israel’s national identity battles.

Bad information

No accounting of these elections would be complete without a word about the dismal handling of information, from voting instructions to elections results, by the Interior Ministry. The website offering Israelis instructions on voting rules and ballot stations was not translated into Arabic, Russian, English, French, Amharic or any other language spoken by large numbers of Israelis.The ministry failed to publish the lists of candidates until just a few short days before the elections — and then did so in a bizarre downloadable Excel spreadsheet that ran into thousands of dense entries. The voting results were published hours after figures had already appeared on municipal websites, and in the same unreadable format — even as many municipalities (for example, Jerusalem and Modiin) managed to publish more accessible figures.The ministry also repeatedly lamented the low turnout and repeatedly called on Israelis to go vote, but did not feel election day should be made a national holiday, as is done for elections to the Knesset.Local elections are profoundly important to Israeli public life. Key services, including education, welfare and public health, are handled largely in local government. If voters can be said to have sent any message on Tuesday, it was that they wanted their local governments to remain local and concerned with these administrative functions, rather than becoming embroiled in the divisive ideological and identity politics of the Knesset.With the Interior Ministry’s handling of the elections, it might be fair to complain that the national government seems, in its turn, less than committed to the flourishing of local politics.

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Müller rejects remarriage permitted in the Orthodox Church

The guardian of Catholic orthodoxy talks about an issue that will be discussed at the next Synod, stating that "marriages nowadays are probably invalid more often than they were previously"

Cardinal Dolan passes on the baton

Between 11 and 14 November the US Catholic Bishops’ Conference will elect its next president from a list of ten candidates

Report: IAF Bombs Syrian Missiles

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Israelis vote to keep big-party politics out of the local mix

In city after city, the electorate firmly rejected efforts by challengers from national parties to enter the municipal fray

Meanwhile, in Beit Shemesh

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