KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
MARK 13:28
28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:
DANIEL 9:24
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
ISRAEL WILL BE IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM, THE SIGN OF THE START OF THE LAST GENERATION.
NEHEMIAH 2:17
17 Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we (ISRAELIS) are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste,(AD 70) and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem,(DAN 9:24-27) that we be no more a reproach.
LUKE 21:24
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.(ISRAEL RECAPTURES JERUSALEM)(THE BEGGINING OF THE LAST GENERATION AND THE LAST END OF THE AGE OF GRACE.NOT THE END OF THE WORLD ,THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER)
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
By Matt Spetalnick-DEC 13,14-yahoonews
SHANNON, Ireland (Reuters) - Vice President Joe
Biden will hold talks with Israeli leaders during a visit to the Jewish
state as head of a U.S. delegation to former Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon's funeral on Monday, Biden's office said.Biden's meeting
with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be a chance for the
vice president to try to further Middle East peace efforts and ease
Israeli concerns about nuclear talks with Iran, according to leading
U.S. lawmakers flying with him to Tel Aviv on Sunday.Sharon died
at age 85 on Saturday after eight years in a coma caused by a stroke he
suffered at the pinnacle of his power. He was one of Israel's finest
military strategists and top political figures, spearheading military
invasion, Jewish settlement-building on land the Palestinians want for a
state, and making the decision to withdraw from one of those
territories, the Gaza Strip.Biden's visit comes at a time when
the Obama administration is struggling to broker an Israel-Palestinian
peace agreement and is at odds with close ally Israel over efforts by
world powers to reach a final nuclear deal with Iran, Israel's arch-foe.
Biden, long seen as one of Israel's strongest friends in Washington,
will also see Israeli President Shimon Peres.The vice president
is also due to speak at Monday's funeral for Sharon in Jerusalem and
attend the former prime minister's burial service.It will be
Biden's first trip to Israel since March 2010, when the surprise Israeli
announcement of a major settlement-expansion project in a disputed area
of East Jerusalem embarrassed him and caused a diplomatic rift with the
Obama administration.Traveling on Biden's plane from
Washington, U.S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Florida
lawmaker, made clear she saw the vice president's visit not only as a
moment to pay his last respects to Sharon but a chance to tackle
critical regional issues."Anytime that you have a leader from
the United States as significant as Vice President Biden sitting down
with the prime minister of Israel ... there's an opportunity for
progress," Wasserman Schultz, chair of the Democratic National
Committee, told reporters, suggesting Biden's visit could build on the
shuttle diplomacy U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has pursued.
"And every time there is an opportunity for progress, for the United
States to be in a position to help Israel in the cause of crafting and
finalizing a two-state solution, we take that opportunity. This is no
exception," she said.
GLOOMY ASSESSMENTS FOR PEACE DEAL
Kerry has made frequent trips to the region since long-dormant
negotiations on Palestinian statehood resumed in July, with a nine-month
target set for a permanent peace agreement. But the two sides have
recently offered gloomy assessments of prospects for achieving an end to
the generations-old conflict.
Another member of Biden's delegation, U.S. Representative Eliot Engel,
praised Netanyahu for agreeing to direct talks with the Palestinians and
for recent releases of Palestinian prisoners. The New York Democrat put
the onus on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas "to show that he is
willing to make painful concessions as well for peace."Palestinians blame stalled peace moves on continued Israeli settlement
construction on occupied land, something the Obama administration has
also criticized.President Barack Obama has had a strained
relationship with Netanyahu on issues including Israel's settlement
policies - championed by Sharon - and the current U.S. diplomatic drive
to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons capability.Engel, who met Sharon several times, likened the warrior-statesman's
decision to pull out of Gaza in 2005 and form a centrist party to U.S.
President Richard Nixon's historic opening to China.
"Like Nixon, it was a move that you would never have imagined several years before," Engel told reporters on Biden's plane.Obama, who took office in 2009 and made his first presidential visit to
Israel last year, will not attend Sharon's funeral and instead sent
Biden. The vice president met Sharon several times over the years.(Reporting by Matt Spetalnick; Editing by Peter Cooney and Phil Berlowitz)
By The Associated Press
January 12, 2014 2:48 PM___
"When it was necessary to fight, he stood
at the forefront of the divisions in the most sensitive and painful
places, but he was a smart and realistic person and understood well that
there is a limit in our ability to conduct wars." — Former Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert, Sharon's former deputy who took office after the
2006 stroke.
___
President Barack Obama expressed his
condolences to Sharon's family and to Israelis "on the loss of a leader
who dedicated his life to the state of Israel ... We join with the
Israeli people in honoring his commitment to his country."
___
"He
wanted to erase the Palestinian people from the map ... He wanted to
kill us, but at the end of the day, Sharon is dead and the Palestinian
people are alive." — Tawfik Tirawi, who served as Palestinian
intelligence chief when Sharon was prime minister.
___
"After
eight years, he is going in the same direction as other tyrants and
criminals whose hands were covered with Palestinian blood." — Khalil
al-Haya, a leader in the Islamic militant group Hamas.
___
"During
his years in politics, it is no secret that there were times the United
States had differences with him. But ... you admired the man who was
determined to ensure the security and survival of the Jewish State." —
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
___
Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu expressed "deep sorrow" over Sharon's passing hailing
him as a "brave fighter" who continued to act for Israel as a
politician and prime minister.
___
Sharon was "a brave
soldier and a daring leader who loved his nation and his nation loved
him." — President Shimon Peres, a longtime friend and rival.
___
"He
was the most present and influential person in the country in the past
two generations. — Yossi Sarid, a former opposition leader and rival of
Sharon.
___
Sharon "realized the reality and went for a very
brave move that recognizes the fact that there is no choice but to
separate from the Palestinians." — Israeli opposition leader Isaac
Herzog.
___
"Ariel Sharon is one of the most significant
figures in Israeli history and as prime minister he took brave and
controversial decisions in pursuit of peace ... Israel has today lost an
important leader." — British Prime Minister David Cameron.
___
"What
he did at the end of his path was extraordinary. ... He took action in a
way that is crucial to the future of the state of Israel, I mean the
disengagement from Gaza." — Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who lost a
2001 election to Sharon.
___
"I was honored to know this
man of courage and call him friend. He was a warrior for the ages and a
partner in seeking security for the Holy Land and a better, peaceful
Middle East."— Former President George W. Bush, who was president while
Sharon was prime minister.
___
"I look forward to leading
the U.S. delegation to his memorial service, to pay respects to the man
and to pay tribute to the unshakeable partnership between the United
States and Israel." — Vice President Joe Biden
___
"Sharon
will be remembered for his political courage and determination to carry
through with the painful and historic decision to withdraw Israeli
settlers and troops from the Gaza Strip." — Spokesperson for U.N.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
___
Before Sharon, the Likud
and parties on the right would never have dreamed of land swapping. ...
That is a hugely important part of his legacy as it is still valid and
active now in today's negotiations." — David Landau, author of "ARIK:
The life of Ariel Sharon."
___
Russian President Vladimir
Putin "highly praised Ariel Sharon's personal qualities and his
activities to protect Israel's interests." — The Kremlin.
___
German
Chancellor Angela Merkel "is mourning with the Israeli people" for
Sharon, who "took a historic step on the path to a deal with the
Palestinians and a two-state solution." — Steffen Seibert, Merkel's
spokesman.
___
"He was a man of strong conviction who had a
clear idea of what the future of his country should be and who fought
for it with determination." — EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.
___
"For
those who believe in the ideal, he did a wonderful thing. ... It is
difficult to have peace without war." — Gene Simmons, Israeli-born Kiss
bassist.
REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man:
and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
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.
WE KNOW BY THE BIBLE IN THE FUTURE ALL WATERS WILL BE POISONED AND POLLUTED ON EARTH.SO THESE CHEMICAL SPILLS AND RADIATION NUCLEAR LEAKS ARE JUST THE BEGGININGS OF ALL THE WATERS BEING POISONED AND POLLUTED ON EARTH.
SOUTH CAROLINA NUKE LEAK
http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines/urgent-nuclear-plant-leaks-radioactive-plume-in-south-carolina#sthash.YaLzB3kS.dpbs
By Ann Moore -DEC 13,14 -yahoonews
CHARLESTON,
West Virginia (Reuters) - Restaurants and shops were reopening on
Sunday in parts of West Virginia where the water supply was poisoned by a
chemical spill, although up to 300,000 people spent a fourth day unable
to use tap water for anything besides flushing toilets.State
government officials, the utility company West Virginia American Water
and the National Guard were continuing to test the water supply on
Sunday after as much as 7,500 gallons (28,000 liters) of an industrial
chemical leaked into the Elk River on Thursday.It could still be
several days before people in nine counties and Charleston, the state
capital and largest city, can once again use the water from their
faucets for drinking, cooking and bathing.
A dozen restaurants in
Charleston had been allowed to reopen by Sunday afternoon by the
Kanawha-Charleston Health Department after assuring officials that they
have secured a source of potable water.
"It feels very expensive,"
said Keeley Steele, who bought hundreds of bottles of water in order to
reopen her comfort-food restaurant, the Bluegrass Kitchen, in
Charleston on Sunday. "This is all coming at such a huge cost."Nearly
200 groceries, supermarkets and drugstores also have been allowed to
reopen across the affected area. Hotels were allowed to continue
operating as long as they steer clear of using tap water, although
several hotel owners said they were only honoring existing reservations
to reduce the expense of shipping out linens for cleaning.Officials have so far declined to estimate the economic cost of the spill.
Frustrations,
however, continue to mount, with West Virginians lamenting the toll the
outage has taken on their health and personal hygiene."It feels
like we've all been living on junk food these past couple days,"
Josephine Ritter, a 40-year-old hairstylist, said outside a recently
reopened 7-Eleven convenience store in Charleston. "You can't cook or
clean or anything. It's just bottled water and potato chips every day."
The
emergency began last week after a spillage from a tank belonging to
Freedom Industries, a Charleston company that makes chemicals for the
mining, steel and cement industries, authorities said.The spill
happened about a mile upriver from a West Virginia American Water
treatment plant. President Barack Obama declared it an emergency, and
the Federal Emergency Management Agency has sent dozens of tractor
trailers loaded with clean water.Water tainted by the spilled
4-methylcyclohexane methanol, or Crude MCHM, smells faintly of licorice.
Contact with the water can cause nausea, vomiting, dizziness, diarrhea,
rashes and reddened skin. More than 70 people had visited emergency
rooms with these symptoms by Saturday, according to the state's health
department.Nearly 1,000 people have called the West Virginia
Poison Center since the spill to say they or someone in their household
had been exposed, Elizabeth Scharman, the center's director, said on
Sunday.The "vast majority" of those people reported symptoms of
some kind, she said. While there is little data on the chemical's effect
on humans, she said most symptoms were easily treated and that rashes
and feelings of nausea would soon fade."It's not a highly toxic
chemical, it's an irritant chemical," she said, adding that less than 10
people had required being admitted to a hospital. More than 60 people
had also called to say their livestock or pets had been exposed.Earl
Ray Tomblin, the governor of West Virginia, and other officials said at
a press conference on Saturday evening that efforts to flush the
chemical from the water supply were showing some progress.Most of
the water samples tested on Saturday were found to be within safety
limits. But officials say they need to see all samples register within
safety limits over at least a 24-hour period before they can consider
lifting the tap water ban.The governor and other officials said they would hold another press conference at 4:30 p.m. EST (2130 GMT) on Sunday.
Meanwhile, some West Virginians are anticipating a disheveled start to the new work week."I'm
not looking forward to going back to work on Monday without a shave or
shower," said Clark Mills, a 51-year-old contractor in Charleston. He
has sent his family to stay with relatives in an unaffected part of the
state while he waits out the problem."I have a 6-month-old baby," he said. "We can't live like this."(Reporting by Ann Moore; Writing by Jonathan Allen; Editing by Barbara Goldberg)
COLUMBIA, SC (INTELLIHUB) —
This week the east coast has been hit with a number of chemical and
radioactive disasters that contaminated local communities. A chemical
spill in West Virginia this week left hundreds of thousands of people
without water, and thousands sick. Now it has been reported that a
radioactive plume is leaking from a site in South Carolina.
The
Barnell Nuclear site occupies about 235 acres of land originally owned
by Chem-Nuclear Systems (CNS). Disposal of waste began at the facility
in 1971 and Chem-Nuclear Systems (CNS), currently owned by Energy
Solutions, has been the sole operator since that time.
According
to WLTX, the plume is moving off the Barnwell Nuclear site southwest
toward the Savannah River Site. Traces of Tritium have also been found
in Mary’s Branch Creek.
“DHEC
has documented there is a plume leaking from the site but the problem
with Tritium is it’s hard to remediate, it’s hard to clean it up,” said
Tom Clements, Southeast Nuclear Campaign Coordinator for Friends of the
Earth. “So we have to look at ways to stop it from leaking from the
dump.”
The site receives toxic waste from South Carolina, New Jersey, and Connecticut and have enough land to stay open through 2038.
“The
problem is in their annual updates, there’s no plan to address the
leaks,” Clements said. “We need to make sure the facility is capped off
in a better way and better managed so there is less nuclear material
leaking.”
“It
combines with oxygen to form basically radioactive water. So, it gets
everywhere in the environment,” Clements said. “The level was far above
the drinking water standard but fortunately it doesn’t look like anyone
is drinking the water.”
- See more at:
http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines/urgent-nuclear-plant-leaks-radioactive-plume-in-south-carolina#sthash.YaLzB3kS.dpuf
COLUMBIA, SC (INTELLIHUB) —
This week the east coast has been hit with a number of chemical and
radioactive disasters that contaminated local communities. A chemical
spill in West Virginia this week left hundreds of thousands of people
without water, and thousands sick. Now it has been reported that a
radioactive plume is leaking from a site in South Carolina.
The
Barnell Nuclear site occupies about 235 acres of land originally owned
by Chem-Nuclear Systems (CNS). Disposal of waste began at the facility
in 1971 and Chem-Nuclear Systems (CNS), currently owned by Energy
Solutions, has been the sole operator since that time.
According
to WLTX, the plume is moving off the Barnwell Nuclear site southwest
toward the Savannah River Site. Traces of Tritium have also been found
in Mary’s Branch Creek.
“DHEC
has documented there is a plume leaking from the site but the problem
with Tritium is it’s hard to remediate, it’s hard to clean it up,” said
Tom Clements, Southeast Nuclear Campaign Coordinator for Friends of the
Earth. “So we have to look at ways to stop it from leaking from the
dump.”
The site receives toxic waste from South Carolina, New Jersey, and Connecticut and have enough land to stay open through 2038.
“The
problem is in their annual updates, there’s no plan to address the
leaks,” Clements said. “We need to make sure the facility is capped off
in a better way and better managed so there is less nuclear material
leaking.”
“It
combines with oxygen to form basically radioactive water. So, it gets
everywhere in the environment,” Clements said. “The level was far above
the drinking water standard but fortunately it doesn’t look like anyone
is drinking the water.”
- See more at:
http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines/urgent-nuclear-plant-leaks-radioactive-plume-in-south-carolina#sthash.YaLzB3kS.dpuf
SINS OF OCCULT WORSHIP
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.
January 13, 2014 10:30 PM-yahoonews
SYDNEY (Reuters) - World-renowned hypnotist
Dr Scott Lewis who was performing in a show at the Sydney Opera House
died on Saturday after apparently falling from an inner-city apartment
balcony.
Lewis was found on a fourth-floor balcony after falling from his 11th story apartment, reported local media.
The Sydney Opera House canceled a matinee performance of "The
Illusionists 2:0" and dedicated the evening performance to Dr Lewis."Dr Lewis was a wonderful performer and he will be greatly missed," the venue said in a statement.Tim Lawson, co-producer of the show said the company was "deeply saddened by the sudden loss".Sydney police said that the body of a man found on the balcony of the
inner-city apartment block was yet to be formally identified and that
specialist forensic officers and detectives were investigating the
death.Dr Lewis was in Sydney
for a joint act with other performers for an eight-day run at the
iconic Opera House. He is well-known for his television performances and
for his solo hypnosis show which ran for a record-breaking nine years
at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.(Reporting by Morag MacKinnon; Editing by Michael Perry) nL3N0KM01P
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK 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)
EZEKIEL 35:3-6,11-15
3 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir,(ARABS) I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred,(AGAINST ISRAEL) and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
6 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
11 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
12 And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
13 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
14 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.(ARAB,MUSLIMS)
15 As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir,(ARABS) and all Idumea,(ARAB,MUSLIMS) even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
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 KILLED IN OVERNIGHT RAID) 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.
By Parisa Hafezi and Justyna Pawlak
6 hours ago-DEC 13,14-yahoonews
ANKARA/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A deal between Iran
and six major powers intended to pave the way to a solution to a long
standoff over Tehran's nuclear ambitions will come into force on January
20, the Iranian Foreign Ministry and the European Union said on Sunday.Shortly after the interim accord takes effect, an Iranian official
added, Tehran and world powers will start negotiating a final settlement
of their differences about activity the West suspects is aimed at
obtaining a nuclear weapons capability.Iran says its atomic
energy program is aimed purely at electricity generation and other
civilian purposes, although past Iranian attempts to hide sensitive
nuclear activity from U.N. non-proliferation inspectors raised concerns.The November 24 agreement appeared to halt a slide towards another,
wider Middle East war over Iran's nuclear aspirations, but diplomats
warn it will not be easy to carry out because of long-standing mutual
mistrust.The Iranian official, Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas
Araqchi, said the deal would allow Iran to stop complying if it saw its
partners not living up to their own commitments."We don't trust
them," he told state television, reflecting ingrained suspicions between
Iran and the West that underlie what have been protracted negotiations.In Washington, President Barack Obama said Sunday the United States and
other nations would begin to give Iran "modest relief" on economic
sanctions as long as the Islamic Republic lived up to its end of the
agreement.Obama said he would veto any new sanctions passed by
the U.S. Congress during talks on a long-term deal with Iran, but added
Washington would be prepared to increase its sanctions if Iran fails to
abide by the agreement."The Geneva deal will be implemented from
January 20," Marzieh Afkham of the Iranian Foreign Ministry told
reporters in Tehran, the semi-official Mehr news agency said.European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton also confirmed the
date, and said the sides would now ask the U.N. nuclear watchdog to
verify the deal's implementation."We will ask the IAEA to
undertake the necessary nuclear-related monitoring and verification
activities," she said in a statement, referring to the International
Atomic Energy Agency.Ashton represents the six powers - the United States, Russia,
China, France, Britain and Germany - in contacts with Iran related to
its contested nuclear program.
SANCTIONS RELIEF TIMETABLE
Senior U.S. officials offered details for the first time on how the
estimated $7 billion in sanctions relief envisaged in the November 24
agreement will be distributed.The officials, who spoke to
reporters on condition that they not be identified, said some sanctions
relief would start on the first day of the six-month agreement's
implementation - January 20 - and some will be withheld until its final
day.Among the total sanctions relief over the six months, $4.2
billion is in the form of access to currently blocked Iranian revenues
held abroad.One official said access to some of those funds
depended on Iran keeping its commitment to dilute half of its 20 percent
enriched uranium to no more than 5 percent enriched uranium.Another official said the first $550 tranche would be paid on or about
February 1, and the final payment, of the same amount, on or about July
20 A total of $900 million would depend on Iran diluting the enriched
uranium, this official said. (ID:nL2N0KM0AY]-Senior officials
from the European Union and Iran met in Geneva on Thursday and Friday to
iron out remaining practical questions related to the implementation of
the November 24 deal, under which Iran agreed to curb its most
proliferation-sensitive nuclear activity - higher-level uranium
enrichment - in return for some relief from Western economic sanctions.Such relief would include suspension of some restrictions on trade in
gold, precious metals and petrochemicals, and in the auto industry. The
deal allows third-country purchases of Iranian oil to remain at current
levels. Some $4.2 billion in oil revenues would be allowed to be
transferred to Iran.EU spokesman Michael Mann said on Friday
that any agreements would need to be validated by the governments of
Iran and the six powers.The accord is designed to last six
months and the parties hope to use the time to negotiate a final, broad
settlement governing the scope of Iran's nuclear program.Giving
details about the deal, Deputy Foreign Minister Araqchi told state
television that each party's commitments would be implemented "in one
day"."After the first step is taken, then in a short period of
time we will again start our contacts for resumption of negotiations for
the implementation of the final step."He added: "We don't trust
them. ... Each step has been designed in a way that allows us to stop
carrying out our commitments if we see the other party is not fulfilling
its commitments."
HIGHER-GRADE ENRICHMENT
Under the terms
of the interim deal, Iran must limit its enrichment of uranium to 20
percent fissile purity for a period of six months as the price for
relaxation of some sanctions.Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's
atomic energy organization, said on Saturday it would have no choice but
to step up enrichment to the 60 percent threshold if a bill now moving
through parliament is approved - even though it has no current need for
such highly enriched uranium.The bill's supporters say uranium
refined to 60 percent concentration would be used to fuel
nuclear-powered submarines. That would put Iran on the technical verge
of 90 percent fissile purity, which is enough for the core of an atom
bomb.The measure has received expressions of support from at
least 218 of parliament's 290 members and, if passed, could threaten
progress toward a resolution of the nuclear dispute.The parliament is much more hawkish than moderate President Hassan Rouhani on the nuclear issue.But some see the proposal, put forward last month, as a response to a
bill introduced in the U.S. Senate that would impose stiffer sanctions
on Iran, which Western diplomats fear would shatter the nuclear
diplomacy.Sanctions
supporters in the U.S. Congress say the economic penalties have brought
Iran to the negotiating table and that keeping up the pressure with more
sanctions is the way to ensure that Iran keeps to the November 24
accord and negotiates a comprehensive deal.(Reporting by Parisa
Hafezi in Ankara, Justyna Pawlak in Brussels, and Arshad Mohammed in
Washington; Editing by William Maclean, Mark Heinrich, Peter Cooney and
Meredith Mazzilli)
By Jo Biddle, Nicolas Revise
January 11, 2014 10:32 PM
But as chaos engulfs the Middle East, the two are cautiously eyeing ways to work together.
An
ideological chasm separates the Shiite Islamic republic from its
long-time enemy in the West, yet overlapping concerns from Afghanistan
to Syria and even Iraq are sowing the seeds of a hesitant rapprochement.Restoring
full diplomatic ties, severed some 35 years ago amid the 1979 storming
of the US Embassy in Tehran and the painful 444-day hostage-taking,
remains far off on a distant horizon.But the willingness of the
Obama administration to engage in secret negotiations in Oman last year
and the new leadership of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani have already
borne fruit, facilitating an interim deal in November on reining in
Iran's nuclear program."There is a high degree of pragmatism in
the way the two countries are approaching each other, and it partly
arises from a lack of other options," said John Bradshaw, executive
director of the National Security Network."The US has strong allies, like Israel, but is looking to find other pragmatic ways to help us achieve our goals," he told AFP.Afghanistan is one place where the concerns of both countries converge, with neither wanting to see the Taliban regain power.And
there is historic precedent, highlighted Alireza Nader, senior
international policy analyst with the RAND Corporation, pointing to
their cooperation in setting up a post-Taliban government in 2001 and
2002.Both countries are also "concerned about narcotics emanating from Afghanistan. That is a huge problem for Iran, " he said.
"If the nuclear issue is resolved, I see that possibly as the best case for cooperation."Syria
is another theater where, despite being on opposite ends of the
conflict, both want to see an end to the fighting and thwart any rise by
extremist Sunni Al-Qaeda militants.Top US diplomat John Kerry
has hinted that despite Iran's fully-fledged support for Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad, which has included plying him with arms, cash
and military advisers, Tehran might be able to play a role on the
sidelines of Syria peace talks later this month.
Using its sway
over Damascus to halt the bombardments of civilians and open up
humanitarian corridors would be a way for Tehran to show that it aims to
be a constructive player, US officials have said.
But while
Washington is motivated by ending the fighting and ousting long-time foe
Assad, Iran wants to retain its hold over a country that has long been a
conduit to funnel weapons to Lebanon-based Hezbollah militants, seen as
a front against America's staunch ally, Israel.Mutual opposition to the rise of Al-Qaeda extremists could also lead to a paradoxical cooperation in Iraq.Iran's
deputy chief of staff General Mohammad Hejazi said last weekend that
his country was prepared to provide military equipment and advice to
Iraq to help it flush Al-Qaeda out of Anbar province."As a
country that is trying to develop economically and becoming more of a
pragmatic player, regionally and globally, they (Iranians) have a strong
interest in seeing that Sunni extremism, Al-Qaeda and other groups, are
not a destabilizing factor for them and the region," explained
Bradshaw.It's clear though that driving both the US and Iranian
agendas is a singular desire to shore up their own influence in a region
convulsed by recent political upheavals."Both countries are
still in competition for the Middle East," stressed Nader, and while
they might be able to cooperate, that "does not mean that the US and
Iran become allies, rather it is just a potential process of engaging
each other to resolve some regional issues."The warming ties have
been angrily received in Israel, and by other US allies such as Saudi
Arabia, while Republicans are also wary of approaches to a country they
consider hostile and untrustworthy.Indeed, Iran is still viewed by the United States as the world's number one sponsor of state terrorism.Getting
Iran to help fight Al-Qaeda is like "the arsonist offering to put out
the fire," wrote Raymond Tanter, who served on the National Security
Council staff in Ronald Reagan's administration, in Foreign Policy
magazine."The idea that Tehran and Washington face common enemies
and hence should be friends overlooks Iran's facilitation of those
adversaries."And White House Iran adviser Puneet Talwar, who took
part in the secret Oman talks, told lawmakers last month that "it's
tricky business to try to see into the internal workings of Iran at any
given moment."He added, however, that he did see Rouhani's
election as a "cry for change" from the Iranian people that could put
pressure on the government.
Analysts in Washington are already trying to envisage a future in which Iran and the US restore diplomatic ties."It would be a long process toward full normalization," said Bradshaw."But
we've done it with other countries, and it's something that's possible
even after long years of hostility. But it's not something that happens
very quickly."
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis
5 hours ago-DEC 13,14-yahoonews
AMMAN (Reuters) - The al Qaeda-linked Islamist
State of Iraq and the Levant executed dozens of rival Islamists over the
last two days as the group recaptured most territory it had lost in the
northeastern Syrian province of Raqqa, activists said on Sunday.One of the activists, who spoke from the province on condition of
anonymity, said up to 100 fighters from the Nusra Front, another al
Qaeda affiliate, and the Ahrar al-Sham brigade, captured by ISIL in the
town of Tel Abyad on the border with Turkey, the nearby area of Qantari
and the provincial capital city of Raqqa, were shot dead.There was no independent confirmation of the report."About 70 bodies, most shot in the head, were collected and sent to the Raqqa National hospital," the activist said."Many of those executed had been wounded in the fighting. The fact that
Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham are ideologically similar to the ISIL did
not matter," he added.ISIL's growth has alarmed Western
nations, who are pushing the opposition to attend peace talks in
Switzerland in 10 days' time, and has helped President Bashar al-Assad
to portray himself as the only secular alternative to Islamist
extremism.Fighting between the ISIL and rival Islamists and more
moderate rebels have killed hundreds of people over the last 10 days
and shaken the hardline militant group led by foreign jihadists.But the ISIL regrouped and recaptured much of its stronghold in Raqqa
city on Sunday, activists said, dealing a blow to rival rebel groups
backed by Gulf Arab and Western states.Among those reportedly
executed on the weekend was Abu Saad al-Hadram, Nusra Front's commander
for Raqqa province who was captured several months ago as tension
mounted between the foreign-led ISIL and the more home-grown Nusra,
opposition sources said.In Raqqa, the only provincial capital
under rebel control, activists said ISIL fighters battled remnants of
rival Islamist units including the Nusra Front in several
neighbourhoods.To the north, ISIL recaptured the town of Tel
Abyad on the border with Turkey over the weekend. As a result, Turkish
authorities closed a border crossing near the town and pulled out the
facility's staff, according to the Syrian Revolution Coordinating Union,
an opposition monitoring group.There was no immediate comment from Turkish officials.Abdallah Farraj, a member of the opposition Syrian National Coalition
from Raqqa, said rebels had been able to expel ISIL from parts of the
neighbouring Aleppo province, but it would be hard to shake ISIL's hold
on Raqqa and rural areas along key supply lines across the north."The rebels lack the organisation and the firepower to win. It will be
difficult to defeat ISIL without military strikes from someone like
Turkey," he said.Abu Khaled al-Walid, an activist speaking from
the border area, said many fighters from Ahrar al-Sham, one of the most
powerful Islamist groups, chose not to confront ISIL because the
combatants were local people with little enmity for each other."Many did not see a point in fighting their own relatives. ISIL is now
in control of 95 percent of Raqqa and its rural environs. Tel Abyad is
also back with it," he said.
"NUCLEUS OF THE CALIPHATE"
Raqqa, on the Euphrates River 385 km (240 miles) northeast of Damascus,
is the most significant city to have fallen completely to Assad's
opponents since the revolt against his family's four-decade rule broke
out in March 2011.An ISIL statement called on Raqqa tribes to
pull out their members from anti-ISIL rebel units and said the attacks
against the group were designed to "destroy the nucleus of the
caliphate" and promote a "heathen" alternative.ISIL pulled out
of Raqqa and other towns in northern Syria this month after an Islamist
rebel alliance attacked its strongholds, taking advantage of growing
popular resentment of the group's foreign commanders, their killing of
other rebels and a drive to impose a strict interpretation of Islamic
law.
But ISIL has regrouped in the last few days, using snipers, truck-mounted commando units and suicide bombers.Opposition sources said the expertise of its foreign commanders,
including a senior figure known as Omar al-Shishani, had been crucial to
its advance.In the province of Aleppo west of Raqqa, activists
said ISIL had regained several rural towns, including Hreitan and
Basraton, where ISIL killed a senior commander in the Nour al-Din Zanki
brigades, a key unit in the newly-formed Mujahideen Army, which has been
fighting ISIL in Aleppo.Fighting also raged on Sunday between
Western-backed Free Syrian Army units around the town of Retayan near
Aleppo and in Urum to the east, as rebel infighting made the city
vulnerable to advances by Assad's forces, the sources said.Abdallah al-Sheikh, an activist in northern Syria, said Assad's forces
had began bombarding areas from which ISIL had withdrawn, such as the
town of Maarat Misreen and parts of Aleppo city."ISIL have been doing Assad a huge favour by killing many of the
formidable rebel commanders and the regime has chosen to help it by not
touching many of the areas it had taken. As soon as it withdrew, the
bombing resumed," he said.(Additional reporting by Alexander Dziadosz; Editing by Andrew Roche and Eric Walsh)
