IRAN TALKS TO CONTINUE MARCH 17,14

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.

LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).

THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

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

DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

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

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

ISAIAH 33:8
8  The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)

JERUSALEM DIVIDED

GENESIS 25:20-26
20  And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21  And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22  And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23  And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24  And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25  And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26  And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

US framework draft is too vague, says top PLO official

Former PM Ahmed Qurei warns that Palestinian negotiators won’t accept ambiguous wording on borders, Jerusalem and settlements

By Elhanan Miller February 19, 2014, 11:56 pm 8-The Times of Israel

Ambiguous language in the text of an American framework agreement to be presented to Israel and the Palestinians may lead to the collapse of peace talks, a senior Palestinian official warned on Wednesday.

Ahmed Qurei, a member of the PLO’s Executive Committee and a former prime minister, said that current American positions on a number of core negotiating issues including borders, Jerusalem and the settlements do not satisfy the Palestinian need for clarity.“Trying to put ambiguity in the text will not help the parties. I don’t want to continue discussing what this or that [phrase] means … this would be a waste of time, and the Israelis on the other side will continue their projects on the ground to change the status of the West Bank and maintain the separation of Gaza from the West Bank,” Qurei, known more commonly by the nom de guerre Abu Alaa, told journalists at his office in Abu Dis, east of Jerusalem.An American document outlining the Obama administration’s outlook on all core issues is expected within two weeks. PA President Mahmoud Abbas met US Secretary of State John Kerry in Paris on Wednesday to discuss peace talks amid a suspension of direct Israeli-Palestinian contact since November 5.Qurei, who headed the Palestinian negotiating team to the Annapolis negotiations with Israel in 2008, said that in his talks with the sides, John Kerry has preferred to propose formulas that are palatable to the Israeli side rather than refer to previous international resolutions.The American formula voiced by Kerry speaks of “a Palestinian right to a capital in Jerusalem.”“This we cannot accept,” Qurei said. “We want [explicit mention of] East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine.” He said that reference to Jerusalem with no distinction between east and west tacitly acknowledges Israel’s annexation of the eastern part of the city occupied in 1967.While Qurei reiterated the Palestinian refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state voiced by Mahmoud Abbas in his speech to Israeli students on Sunday, PLO Executive Committee member Nabil Amro told the Palestinian Watan news channel Tuesday that Abbas would be willing to “positively deal” with the issue of the Jewish state, perhaps by using the formula adopted by the 2003 Road Map which speaks of “Israel’s right to exist in peace and security.” Amr added that Mahmoud Abbas is counting on an American “creative solution” to the issue.

With regards to the borders, Kerry proposed a Palestinian state “on the basis of the 1967 borders,” with modifications based on “changes on the ground,” a reference to Israeli settlements, Qurei said.The phrase “changes on the ground” is also too vague for Palestinians, Qurei said. “What changes? This is occupied territory. All changes should be unacceptable, but the parties can discuss [land] swaps. They should be minimal and not affect Palestinians’ lives and territorial contiguity.”With regards to settlements, the US should insert a clause specifically acknowledging their illegality under international law. The United States itself, Qurei noted, has voted in the UN against settlement construction.“If this is not recognized, I think it will be difficult to reach any kind of agreement,” Qurei said.Another discrepancy between the American and Palestinian positions concerns the “right of return” for Palestinian refugees and their descendants. The Americans reject the notion of a Palestinian right of return, while the Palestinians insist on the Arab Peace Initiative’s formula of a “just and agreed upon” solution, based on UN Resolution 194.On the issue of security, Qurei said the Israelis were “exaggerating” their security needs to exact more territorial concessions from the Palestinians. The Israeli demand to maintain a military presence in the Jordan Valley, he added, is unreasonable given previous Israeli concessions on the issue.During back-channel talks he held in Stockholm in the year 2000 with Israeli foreign minister Shlomo Ben Ami, Israeli negotiators agreed in principle to recognize the Jordan Valley as the eastern border of “Palestine.” That unwritten agreement was praised by US envoy to the talks Dennis Ross, Qurei said.“We are willing to compromise for the sake of security, but not at the expense of Palestinian sovereignty,” he added.

After Soda Stream Factory Visit, Church Leaders Reject Boycotts

Delegates from Presbyterian Church, which formally endorsed boycotts, change their minds after seeing Soda Stream factory.-By Maayana Miskin-First Publish: 2/20/2014, 11:45 AM-Israelnationalnews

Presbyterian delegates

Courtesy of AIFL

A delegation of 14 leaders from the Presbyterian clergy, a church that in the past supported boycotting Israeli products manufactured in Judea and Samaria (Shomron), arrived last week to visit Israel.The visit was organized by the America-Israel Friendship League (AIFL); the delegates' goal was to discover Israel personally and to better understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Representatives from the Presbyterian Church, which has an estimated six million followers, visited the Soda Stream factory which is located in Maaleh Adumim, east of Jerusalem. They spoke to representatives from the management and several employees.While some United States-based religious groups, such as Evangelicals and Mormons, are known for their support of Israel, the Presbyterian Church has historically been critical of Israel, and has even supported boycotts of Israeli products such as “Ahava” and “Dkalim”.In 2012, over 100 mainstream American Jewish organizations accused the Presbyterian Church's Israel Palestine Mission Network (IPMN) of promoting anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist propaganda. Among other things, the IPMN had published a cartoon suggesting Jewish control of American policy.In early 2014, the IPMN released a congregational study guide, titled "Zionism Unsettled," claiming that the Israel-Palestinian Arab conflict is fueled by a "pathology inherent in Zionism." The controversial guide prompted church leaders to release a statement saying that IPMN "speaks to the church and not for the church."
Delegates: Soda Stream good for peace
Soda Stream factory, located in Maale Adumim, employs 1300 employees; 500 are Palestinian Arabs from Judea and Samaria, 450 are Israeli Arabs and Jews. The company sees its factory as an oasis of peace.

The company recently found itself the focus of controversy as actress Scarlett Johansson came under fire for signing on to advertise Soda Stream products.The Presbyterian delegates told representatives from Soda Stream that the visit to the factory strengthened their belief that the location of the factory enhances the business as well as the interpersonal relations between the Israelis and Palestinians and that they will express their support of Israel to the church administration and followers.Ruby Shamir, Executive Director of AIFL Israel, stated, "These days when there are many voices calling to boycott Israel both in the business and academia regions, it is crucial to bring leaders and influential figures to change these ideas and to help form a positive and supportive opinion about Israel. This is yet another step towards the mission of the AIFL which is to strengthen the relationships between the American and Israeli people."AIFL is dedicated to promoting and strengthening the relationship between the people of the United States and Israel. It frequently sends delegations to Israel to meet Israelis and visit religious, cultural and archeological sites.Past delegations have included State Attorney’s General, business leaders, scholars, third year law school students, school superintendents, professors of law and Middle Eastern studies.

On Haredi draft, politics trump pragmatism

By imposing criminal sanctions on draft dodgers but delaying implementation till 2017, Knesset panel starts a culture war without rooting out the problem

By Haviv Rettig Gur February 20, 2014, 6:37 am 3-The Times of Israel

The Shaked Committee formally decided on Wednesday to include criminal sanctions for Haredi draft dodgers as part of new legislation to address the issue of equality in service.There were other paths the committee could have taken, such as financial sanctions or reductions in government benefits. But Finance Minister Yair Lapid insisted, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu consented, and so a majority on the committee of MKs voted to treat as criminals Haredi yeshiva students who refuse to do national service.

The die has been cast. A culture war has likely been ignited. Many Haredi leaders have railed against the idea that their yeshiva students might serve the state, saying that forced mass service would destroy their way of life.Other Haredi leaders, including most of the MKs from the two Haredi Knesset factions, Shas and United Torah Judaism, were more willing to compromise, agreeing to measures that would require military or civil service, but only for yeshiva students who were not fully engaged in their studies.Now, the decision to impose criminal penalties on Haredim who don’t serve, a stipulation that could theoretically lead to the jailing of thousands of yeshiva students, has fatally undermined the moderates, according to some keen observers.

The Haredi leadership is framing the situation as “a coalition of extremists,” explained Channel 2 journalist and respected commentator on Israeli Orthodoxy Sivan Rahav-Meir. “Extremist Haredim and the extremist Lapid. The extremist Haredim won big time,” Rahav-Meir added in a report on Channel 2 Wednesday night.

“Haredi MKs sought a path of political compromise, dialogue. They told [Jewish Home MK and Shaked Committee chair] Ayelet Shaked in countless secret meetings, ‘go with us. Those who really aren’t studying [in yeshiva] will go out to the army and work, but not with criminal sanctions, not by force — in a healthy process.’ From tonight, there’s no more reason for [Haredi moderates] to be there. Now the moderates will be part of the extremist branch,” Rahav-Meir said.Lapid’s insistence on criminal sanctions makes any compromise unpalatable to even the most compromising Haredi leaders, and in fact it may have collapsed the internal Haredi debate over the issue into a united wall of opposition.That may pose a fundamental problem when it comes time to implement the new proposed law. As Rahav-Meir noted, unless Lapid envisions the government forcibly incarcerating thousands of pious young men year after year, then, at the end of the day, “these people must agree to what he wants to do to them.”There is much in the new bill to entice young Haredim. As Lapid is fond of noting, under the previous provisions of the so-called Tal Law (which exempted tens of thousands of yeshiva students from service and which remains unofficially in force today until a new bill is passed), Haredi students could avoid service only on condition that they were actively attending yeshivas. Thus, many were consequently “trapped” in yeshivas and unable to leave to find jobs or careers, lest they find themselves in violation of the terms that allowed them to avoid military service.

“In a few months, tens of thousands of Haredim will receive notices that they can leave the yeshivas and integrate into the workforce,” Lapid enthused on his favorite public relations outlet, his Facebook page, on Wednesday night.But he failed to note on Facebook a more fundamental issue: Can a law instituting criminal sanctions on thousands of people each year be implemented? Even a group such as Hiddush, headed by a Reform rabbi and advocating the separation of religion and state in Israel, has come to reject the idea that such criminal penalties are either practical or wise.“Establishing criminal sanctions is a classic example of [politicians] cheating the public and placing the coalition’s survival over the good of the country,” Hiddush director Rabbi Uri Regev and deputy director Shahar Ilan said in a statement late Wednesday.The criminalization “promises that we won’t get equal service, but we will get a painful and unnecessary social fracture… Everyone knows it won’t be possible to throw thousands of yeshiva students in jail, making this a bill that can’t be implemented, but which is actually intended to get headlines and Facebook statuses,” they accused.And, they note, the bill only sees the sanctions start to be implemented in mid-2017.It is that last point that suggests that the bill is as much a product of political wrangling as it is of thoughtful policymaking. While thousands of young Haredi men will be released from their obligations to serve or to study within the next few months, no sanctions will be leveled until… just after the next election.“[Lapid] knows that it’s not possible to implement [the criminal sanctions], so he’s pushing implementation to 2017. The troubles will come after the next election,” said a coalition politician who asked not to be named.While opposition to criminal sanctions crosses the political divide, from Haredi MKs to Hiddush, from Jewish Home on the right to Arab MKs on the left concerned that their own young men may soon find themselves in a similar position, Lapid managed to push the sanctions through because he could rely on Netanyahu. And Netanyahu, say insiders, offered his support in order to keep Lapid in the coalition.“The last thing [Netanyahu] needs is for Lapid,” who has dropped precipitously in the polls over the past year, “to rehabilitate himself in the opposition,” said the same coalition member. The two parties compete for many of the same voters, Netanyahu knows. Lapid’s stunning 19-seat sweep in the last elections in January of 2013 had a lot to do with the Likud’s own fall to just 20 seats, the lowest number for a ruling party in Israel’s history. So a rehabilitation for Lapid (he now polls at 13 seats and lower) is likely to come at the direct expense of Likud.

At the same time, the delayed implementation is convenient for Lapid. It allows him to go to the next elections, slated for January 2017 at the latest, telling his voters that if he does not return with a strong showing to the cabinet table, the hard-won victory of the “equality in service law” won’t be implemented.

One Jewish Home MK uncharitably suggested to reporters on Wednesday that if Haredi leaders had agreed to criminal sanctions in the new bill, Lapid would have sought some other measure he could fight over.

Lapid was spoiling for a fight he could win, and Netanyahu sought to prevent a coalition partner from becoming a political counterweight. Both men have realized their short-term political objectives, and Israeli society may have to pick up the pieces.

MUSLIM NATIONS (SLAUGHTERED BY NUKES FOR COMING AGAINST ISRAEL)

EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages;(ISRAEL) I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil,(OIL IS IN SPOIL) and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

EZEKIEL 39:1-8,11-21
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)

JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR 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.

EGYPT

ISAIAH 19:1-5
1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south ( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS-MUSLIMS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them,(BEFORE THE NUKE GOES OFF) and behind them a desolate wilderness;(AFTER THE ATOMIC BOMB GOES OFF) yea, and nothing shall escape them.(EVERYTHING NUKED)
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,ARAB,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate,(SIBERIAN DESERT) with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(FOR COMING AGAINST ISRAEL)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

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

Iran talks adjourn to March 17, after ‘framework’ agreed

Tehran’s deputy FM says the sides have agreed on ‘agenda’ for next round of nuclear negotiations

By Spencer Ho February 20, 2014, 11:25 am 3-The Times of Israel

After two days of intensive talks in Vienna, Iran and six world powers have agreed on an “agenda and a framework” for the next round of negotiations on Iran’s rogue nuclear program.Officials of both sides described their plans as “very productive.” In a joint statement, they said the next round of negotiations would begin in Vienna on March 17.“We’ve identified the issues we need to address for a comprehensive and final agreement,” said Catherine Ashton, the EU’s top diplomat who convened the talks between Iran and the six powers — the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany.Ashton will be in Tehran March 9-10, a week before the next round of talks, Reuters reported.“It won’t be easy, but we’ve gotten off to a good start,” she said in a statement later read in Farsi by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.“The involved parties have agreed on an agenda and a framework and the next round of talks will be in the second half of March in Vienna,” Abbas Araqchi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister told official Iranian state news agency IRNA.On Wednesday the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had previously predicted that the talks would fall short, ordered his government to take precautionary steps in case the talks fail. Meanwhile, the head of the Revolutionary Guards warned the Iranian negotiators against concessions that could tarnish the nation’s pride.The Iranian ISNA news agency had previously reported that the sides had agreed to a draft agenda for talks, but had not finalized it, and a Western official told Reuters that talks were going “surprisingly well.”“The focus was on the parameters and the process of negotiations, the timetable of what is going to be a medium- to long-term process,” a European diplomat told the news service. “We don’t expect instant results.”The talks are designed to build on a first-step deal that came into effect last month and commits Iran to initial curbs on its nuclear program in return for some easing of sanctions. The deal can be extended, if both sides agree to do so after six months.The United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany seek an agreement that will leave Iran with little capacity to quickly ramp up its nuclear program into weapons-making mode with enriched uranium or plutonium, which can be used for the fissile core of a missile.For that, they say Iran needs to dismantle or store most of its 20,000 uranium enriching centrifuges, including some of those not yet working. The six powers also demand that an Iranian reactor being built be either scrapped or converted from a heavy-water setup to a light-water facility that makes less plutonium.The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Hezbollah flinches in the face of its Sunni counterpart

Suffering suicide bombings and rocket attacks by al-Qaeda linked group, the Shiite militia is targeted with its own tactics

By Avi Issacharoff February 20, 2014, 1:07 pm 0-The Times of Israel

The double suicide bombing that rocked Beirut’s Shiite neighborhood, al-Dahiyah, on Wednesday — killing at least six and injuring dozens near an Iranian cultural institute — illustrated Hezbollah’s near-helplessness in the face of radical Sunni terrorism.Time and again, Sunni terrorists have succeeded in striking at Hezbollah and carrying out serious attacks in the Shiite group’s most sensitive site, despite unprecedented security arrangements taken by Hezbollah to prevent attacks of this sort. Hezbollah and the Lebanese Army deployed dozens of checkpoints across the southern Beirut Shiite stronghold in recent weeks, checking suspicious cars and people. And yet, Wednesday’s attack claimed by the Abdullah Azzam Brigades — the Lebanese branch of al-Qaeda — succeeded in overcoming these obstacles.This attack was reminiscent of the attack near the Iranian embassy in Beirut last month: two suicide bombers exploded almost simultaneously in the Shiite neighborhood of Bir Hassan. Then, as now, the primary target was a building affiliated with the Islamic Republic.The Abdullah Azzam Brigades’ method — suicide bombing — is not especially original. Hezbollah was among the first militant groups to introduce the tactic to the Middle East, and now it finds itself the target of an ongoing wave of suicide attacks. The appointment of a new Lebanese prime minister, Tammam Salam, and the establishment of a national unity government, won’t dent the motivation of Sunni groups to continue their attacks. The Abdullah Azzam Brigades already announced that the attacks on Hezbollah will only stop when the Shiite group withdraws its forces from Syria.In the meanwhile, Hezbollah tries not to appear as if it is flinching in the face of threats. Just this week, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah vowed that his organization would continue to fight on Syrian soil, apparently at the Iranians’ request. Its Shiite fighters have suffered major blows in the battles there. On Tuesday, Lebanese media reported that 27 Hezbollah fighters were killed in an ambush near the Lebanon-Syria border. A few hours after Wednesday’s suicide bombings, rockets exploded in a Shiite village in the Bekaa Valley.To date, Hezbollah has lost some 300 fighters in Syria and another 1,000 have been wounded. For the sake of comparison, Hezbollah lost 700 combatants during the Second Lebanon War with Israel in the summer of 2006. What’s more frustrating for the Lebanese militant group, however, may be its lack of alternatives. So long as the Iranians keep up pressure to persist in fighting in Syria, Hezbollah will have no choice but to do so. It will be forced to continue to take blows, whether it be suicide bombings or rocket attacks falling on population centers.Hezbollah has no real enemy in Lebanon it can fight or defeat, in part because the al-Qaeda operatives embed themselves among the civilian population — just like Hezbollah.

EU TO SUSPEND BANK ACCOUNT-TRAVEL VISAS TO DEMONSTRATORS IN UKRAINE

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.

THE UKRAINE UPROAR PART 2 TODAY FEB 19,14 4:00PM

TODAY I HEARD THE EUROPEAN UNION IS GOING TO SUSPEND BANK ACCOUNTS AND TRAVEL VISAS TO THE ONES INVOLVED IN THE DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST THE UKRAINE GOVERNMENT LEADER.NOW WE ARE TALKING DICTATORSHIP. LOOK OUT.LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS THE EUROPEAN UNION WILL PRODUCE THE WORLD DICTATOR.

WOW THE EU IS ACTUALLY GOING TO SUSPEND THESE PEOPLES BANK ACCOUNTS AND THEIR NOT ALLOWED OUT OF THE COUNTRY.AND IT WILL NOT BE TOLD IN ADVANCE OF IT OCCURING.SO ITS AN EU SECRET DICTATOR ATTACK ON THE UKRAINE CITIZENS RIGHTS FOR DEMONSTRATING AGAINST THE UKRAINE LEADER.THINGS WILL REALLY GET ANGRY BY THE CITIZENS OF THE UKRAINE WHEN THE EU DOES THIS.

LOOK OUT UKRAINE WILL REALLY BE BURNING-NOT JUST KIEV.WHEN THE DICTATORS TAKE CONTROL OF EVERY AREA OF THESE CITIZENS RIGHTS.AND LIVES.AND THE EU WILL PROBABLY END UP KILLING MOST OF THEM.NOW WE KNOW WERE LIVING IN THE LAST DAYS AND THE WORLD DICTATOR CAN COME ON THE SCENE ANY TIME NOW.WITH HAPPENING LIKE THIS.

I THINK THE EU MEETING IS FRIDAY.SO THIS WILL HAPPEN SOMETIME AFTER THE EU MEETING.PROBABLY MONDAY IS MY GUESS.TO TAKE THESE PEOPLE OFF GUARD. 

I HOPE I HEARD THIS CORRECT OFF CBC.I DO NOT WANT TO START A FLURRY OF REDICULAS CONSPIRACY THEORIES-END OF THE WORLD-DETENTION CAMP THEORIES. BECAUSE WE KNOW HOW THE END OF THE WORLDERS WILL REACT TO THIS.THEY WILL BE IN THEIR BUNKER HOARDED WITH GUNS AND FOOD FOR THE WORLD TO END OR FOR THEIR BUNKER TO GET NUKED-SO THEY CAN CLAIME THEIR A MARTYR FOR THE CAUSE.

EU calls Ukraine meeting, as paratroopers deployed to Kiev

Today @ 12:18-By EUOBSERVER-FEB 19,14

EU foreign affairs chief Ashton has called a snap meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels Thursday, to discuss "all possible options ... including restrictive measures" on Ukraine. She also asked Polish FM Sikorski to go to Kiev as her envoy on Wednesday, as Ukraine ordered 500 paratroopers to Kiev.

Pressure mounts for EU sanctions on Ukraine

Today @ 18:56-FEB 19,14--EUOBSERVER

By Nikolaj Nielsen

BRUSSELS - A consensus is emerging among member states to impose targeted sanctions on Ukraine following violent clashes in Kiev, which left over two dozen people dead.“Member states are moving towards the decision that we should take these steps,” an EU official close to the issue told this website on Wednesday (19 February).Ministers in Brussels are thrashing out possible scenarios, with a political agreement set to be announced following a foreign affairs council tomorrow.“They are not discussing names at this point because there is no list of names to discuss, they are still under preparation,” said the EU official.
Aside from travel bans and asset freezes, an export ban on items that could be used for repression from the EU to Ukraine could also be imposed.“It is very likely there will also be an export ban on equipment that be used for internal repression,” said the contact.EU-targeted sanctions require unanimity among member states and enter into law once they are published in the bloc’s Official Journal.A EU foreign affairs spokesperson told reporters in Brussels all the decisions can be taken rapidly, but stopped short of giving a firm deadline.
She noted that in principle sanctions could be decided on Thursday and then published on Friday.Meanwhile, France and Poland have joined Germany’s call to go ahead.At a Franco-German summit in Paris, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters that sanctions alone are not enough and said a political dialogue needs to be launched to restore peace.“Due to the new nature of the situation, the sanctions are important, but it is not a means to end and will not resolve the problems by itself,” she said.French President Francois Hollande also said the EU has to act.The priority, he said, is to end violence and then up dialogue in Ukraine along with “all the countries concerned by the Ukrainian question.”“We cannot remain passive at what is happening in Ukraine,” said the French president.Polish Prime minister Donald Tusk said: “I will today hold talks with the leaders of the biggest EU countries and European institutions, and persuade them to impose sanctions - personal and financial”.For his part, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt noted President Yanukovych had “blood on his hands.”Yanukovych in a statement said the protestors crossed the line when they asked people to take up arms against the police.Some 600 people have been injured in the clashes, around half of them police officers. Twenty-six are confirmed dead, including a Russian journalist who was pulled from his car by masked men and shot in the chest.EU institutions have all issued statements calling for member states to impose the targets on individuals who perpetrated the violence.European Commission president Jose Barroso said the EU would respond to any deterioration on the ground. “We therefore expect that targeted measures against those responsible for violence and use of excessive force,” he said.Barroso told Yanukovych in a phone call on Wednesday to end the violence.EU chief Herman Van Rompuy and European Parliament president Martin Schulz have also called for punitive measures.“The Ukrainian authorities are about to lose all legitimacy,” said Schulz.He said Ukraine needs to make space for a transitional government and call early elections.The European Commission, for its part, said “all possible actions will be explored” but would not name Yanukovych, officials in his entourage, or fringe groups in the protest camp as possible targets for the sanctions.Meanwhile, a landmark EU trade and association deal, which Ukraine authorities rejected in November in favour of a Russian bailout, is still open to signature should Yanukovych calm things down and change his mind.“It is an offer that still stands, the door is open, when the Ukraine is ready but I don’t think there will be any renegotiation on this,” said an EU official. 

HOW VALUES DRIVE US TRADE

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.

Fact Sheet on How Values Drive U.S. Trade Policy

18 February 2014

UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE-Washington, D.C.-February 18, 2014
Fact Sheet: Values Driving U.S. Trade Policy
The Obama Administration is committed to a trade policy that provides new opportunities for workers and that supports economic growth by opening markets, enforcing our agreements, and leveling the playing field for our workers. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP), and other negotiations offer new opportunities to advance this agenda, consistent with American interests and American values, including putting labor and environmental protections at the core of trade policy and protecting and promoting innovation.

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TRADE POLICY AND THE ECONOMIC RECORD
Rising Exports Support Recovery. Since 2009, U.S. exports have risen by $694 billion, providing a third of America’s economic growth. Private-sector employment is up by 8.5 million since February 2011, with manufacturing employment up for four straight years and R&D jobs at an all-time high; the number of exporting companies has risen from 276,000 to 302,000; and the count of jobs supported by exports, which pay wages 13-18 percent above average, has grown by 1.3 million. The export share of GDP (13.5 percent) is at the highest level ever measured.
Obama Trade Agenda Boosts Growth and Jobs. President Obama’s agenda includes concluding negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement, elimination of tariffs on information technology products and environmental goods, and liberalization of trade in services. These will help American workers, farmers, artists, and businesses gain more open access to two-thirds of the world economy. Our TPP and T-TIP partners make up a market likely to grow by $6.7 trillion by 2018; they are the source of 84 percent of FDI in the United States, employing nearly 5 million Americans; they already buy 60 percent of U.S. exports. Trade policy can and should help make America the global production platform of choice.

STANDING UP FOR WORKERS
Enforceable Fundamental Labor Standards. The President has always made clear that he will only support trade agreements that include fully enforceable labor standards, which we are pursuing in TPP.
Groundbreaking Protections for Children and Stronger Labor Rights. TPP will offer new tools to fight exploitative child labor and forced labor, deter employment discrimination, and will embed fundamental labor standards in our trade agreement with Mexico and Canada. Respect for ILO standards and enforcement of domestic labor laws will be cornerstones of TPP, including through commitments to protect the freedom to form unions and bargain collectively, as well as new commitments regarding acceptable working conditions, such as maximum hours of work and safe workplaces.

PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT
Enforceable Environmental Protections. The Administration will insist on a robust environment chapter in the TPP agreement that is as fully enforceable as the commercial aspects of the agreement. This includes commitments centered around the enforcement of environmental laws, including those implementing multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs), such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), in TPP countries.
New Protections for Oceans, Forests, and Species. Through TPP, the Administration is taking on environmental challenges such as illegal logging and wildlife trafficking (estimated at $17 billion and $2.5 billion respectively in the Asia-Pacific), shark finning, fishery subsidies and others.
Promoting Clean Technologies: President Obama’s policies are lowering the cost of environmental protection and spurring new innovation in clean technologies. The United States led an agreement in APEC to lower tariffs on exports of environmental goods, and has launched new negotiations on environmental goods at the WTO, potentially covering nearly $1 trillion in environmental goods trade.

INNOVATION AND DIGITAL FREEDOM
21st Century Digital Policies: The Obama administration sees a free and open Internet at the center of America’s economic future. The United States is the world’s leader in services trade with nearly $700 billion in exports and a $230 billion trade surplus. TPP and T-TIP will seek to address barriers to cross-border data flows to ensure the free flow of information across borders to the benefit of consumers around the world.
Promoting and Protecting Innovation and Creativity Through Intellectual Property (IP). Nearly 30 million Americans work in IP-intensive industries. We are promoting balanced IP protection including copyright limitations and exceptions and safe harbors for internet providers. Nothing in TPP will go beyond existing U.S. law. We are also working to address new issues like cyber-theft of trade secrets and threats to consumer health and safety, like counterfeit medicines.
Providing Access to Medicines for the World’s Poor While Promoting the Development of New Life-Saving Drugs. In TPP, we are proposing a “differentiated approach” for pharmaceutical IP protections taking into account countries’ individual levels of development while ensuring that the incentives remain in place for pharmaceutical innovation.

TRANSPARENCY AND COLLABORATION
More Seats at the Table, More Voices in the Process. The Obama Administration has increased diversity in USTR’s advisory system and conducted unprecedented outreach through public sessions at negotiations. We invite representatives of all constituencies to apply. In addition, we are creating a new Public Interest Trade Advisory Committee (PITAC) to join the Labor Advisory Committee and the Environment Advisory Committee to provide a cross-cutting platform for input into negotiations.
Strong Consultation and New Transparency Measures. The Obama Administration has briefed Congress on TPP negotiations more than 1,150 times. This will continue with increased engagement with stakeholders and a new commitment to provide status updates on negotiations. As always, any Member of Congress can view negotiating text.

TRADE PROMOTION AUTHORITY (TPA)
Time for Congress to Update Its Instructions to the Executive Branch on Trade. Congress has not updated its trade guidance since 2002. TPA as it stands today does not include the May 10 agreement on labor, the environment and access to medicines or new issues like e-commerce and state-owned enterprises.
Securing the Best Possible Deal for American Workers. No agreement can go into effect without Congress’s approval, and the Obama Administration is eager for Congress to provide a blueprint for consultations, outcomes, and processes. Passage of TPA will ensure the Administration’s ability to secure the best possible deal for the American worker, and fulfil Congress’s obligation to guide trade policy.

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Kerry on Ukraine Events, with French FM Fabius

19 February 2014

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE-Office of the Spokesperson-February 19, 2014-REMARKS
Secretary of State John Kerry-And French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius-Before Their Meeting
February 19, 2014-Quai d’Orsay-Paris, France

SECRETARY KERRY: Hello, everybody. First of all, let me say I’m very happy to be back visiting with Foreign Minister Fabius so soon after his visit to Washington. And we all appreciated the state visit, and we’re still feeling positive results of that meeting, which was very, very productive for all of us.I wanted to say a word about the situation in Ukraine. All of us are deeply disturbed by the scenes of the violence, by the level of abuse that the citizens in the streets have felt over the course of the last days. And our hearts go out to the people of Ukraine for what has been happening.President Yanukovych has the opportunity to make a choice. The choice is between protecting the people that he serves, all of the people, and a choice for a compromise and dialogue versus violence and mayhem. We believe the choice is clear, and we are talking about the possibility of sanctions or other steps with our friends in Europe and elsewhere in order to try to create the environment for compromise.Our desire is for Mr. Yanukovych to bring people together, dialogue with the opposition, find the measure of compromise, and put the broad interests of the people of Ukraine out front. We are convinced there is still space for that to happen. The violence can be avoided, and in the end, the aspirations of the people of Ukraine can be met through that kind of dialogue. That is our hope. Vice President Biden talked yesterday, I believe even today again, with President Yanukovych. But really it’s in his hands to decide what the future of Ukraine and the future hopes of his people will be. And we hope very, very much that violence will be avoided and compromise will be found.

FOREIGN MINISTER FABIUS: (In French.)
SECRETARY KERRY: (Inaudible.) Tomorrow the foreign minister will be leaving to join with the German foreign minister and the Polish foreign minister in Kyiv, where they will gather the latest information regarding the situation on the ground. And then they will go to Brussels, where they will have a meeting in order to discuss the possibility of sanctions or whatever steps might be appropriate.FOREIGN MINISTER FABIUS: We shall meet tomorrow morning, the different element, the different actors, in Kyiv. And stemming from that, we shall encourage them to find a way of dialogue. And stemming from that, we should be back in Brussels to take the decisions which are necessary.SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you all very much. Thank you.Read more: http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/texttrans/2014/02/20140219293642.html#ixzz2tognngcm

 

OBAMA-ISLAM AND THE ARAB WINTER IN UKRAINE

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.

THE UKRAINE UPROAR

SO WORLD LEADERS ARE CALLING FOR STOPPING THE UKRAINE DEMONSTRATORS. WILL THE UKRAINE BE THE NEXT ARAB WINTER COUNTRY. SURE LEADERS ARE CALLING FOR A STOP.BUT WHAT ABOUT SYRIA. 180,000 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED IN SYRIA.AND YES THE WORLD LEADERS HAVE BEEN SAYING TO ASSAD THE MURDERER. YOU MUST STOP KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE.BUT THE SYRIA MURDERS HAVE BEEN GOING ON TO 3 YEARS NOW.BUT THE WORLD LEADERS ARE SAYING.LETS GET ASSAD TO TALK PEACE INSTEAD OF NUKING HIS PALACES.IF THESE USELESS DOUBLE MOUTH TALKING HYPOCRITE LEADERS REALLY WANTED ASSAD STOPPED.THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A NUKE USED ON HIS PALACES AND DAMASCUS YEARS AGO.INSTEAD OF JUST MOUTHING-WE MUST NEGOTIATE IT OUT INSTEAD.

HOW MANY MILLIONS OF SYRIANS HAVE FLEED THE COUNTRY BECAUSE OF ASSAD AND OBAMAS ARMIES FIGHTING EACH OTHER.ASSAD THE SHIITE FIGHTER AND OBAMA THE SUNNI.SINCE SUNNIS AND SHIITES HATE EACH OTHER SO MUCH.BUT I FORGOT ISLAM IS SUCH A PEACEFUL SEX FOR MURDER CULT.

AND IT SEEMS PUTIN WHO STICKS UP FOR SYRIA HAS  GOT HIS NOSE IN THE UKRAINE SITUATION ALSO.SO ACTUALLY ITS PUTIN AND THE SHIITES AGAINST OBAMA AND THE SUNNIS IN THE WAR FOR THE MIDEAST AND THE WORLD CONTROL UNDER ISLAM AND THAT SEX FOR MURDER CULT BELIEF SHARIA LAW.WERE WOMEN,CHRISTIANS AND JEWS GET BEHEADED AT WILL.AND THE WOMEN UNDER THE GUISE OF HONOR KILLINGS CAN BE KILLED AT WILL BY THERE FAMILY FOR TALKING TO ANOTHER MAN ON THE STREET BY HER SELF.OR ANY SITUATION WERE A MALE FAMILY MEMBER IS NOT WITH HER.THE MUSLIM WOMEN ARE FORCED TO WERE TOWELS AND BLANKETS ON THEIR BODY.SO NO MAN CAN SEE THEIR BODIES.BUT THE MALES CAN MURDER - RAPE-SODOMIZE AND RIOT AND KILL ANYBODY THEY WANT AT WILL UNDER THE GUISE OF THAT PEACEFUL SHARIA LAW.

CAN YOU SAY HYPOCRITES.NO WONDER OBAMA AND ISLAM MAKE SUCH A PERFECT LOVING GAY COUPLE.FOR THE GOOD OF THE EARTH.OBAMA AND ISLAM SAY. CHRISTIANS AND JEWS AND ISLAMIC WOMEN MUST BE MUDERED IN THE NAME OF A MOON GOD ALLAH AND HIS FAKE MOON PROPHET PEDOPHILE MUHAMMID.

ISRAELS UN ENVOY TO CHAIR HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ELECTIONS

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.

LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).

THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

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

DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

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

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

ISAIAH 33:8
8  The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)

JERUSALEM DIVIDED

GENESIS 25:20-26
20  And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21  And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22  And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23  And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24  And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25  And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26  And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

Abbas calls for ‘just solution’ for Palestinian refugees

After meeting with Peruvian leader, PA president says settlements have ‘destructive consequences’

By AFP February 18, 2014, 11:27 pm 2-The Times of Israel

RAMALLAH — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday that all issues in the US-led peace negotiations with Israel, notably the refugee question, must be solved in line with international law.

Speaking on the eve of a meeting in Paris with US Secretary of State John Kerry, who is shepherding the talks, Abbas said any peace deal would have to comply with international resolutions.“We have shown the Peruvian president the destructive consequences of the settlement enterprise and the need for a just solution of the refugee question in line with UN resolution 194,” Abbas told reporters at a press conference with his Peruvian counterpart, Ollanta Humala.Palestinians insist that the question of those who fled or were forced out of their homes when Israel was created in 1948 be resolved on the basis of UN General Assembly Resolution 194, which defines principles for their “right of return.”“We also affirm the need to resolve all questions in line with international resolutions and law and to pursue all efforts to find a peaceful political solution to this conflict which has gone on for 65 years,” he said.Humala said it was a “great honor for a Peruvian president to be making a first official visit” since Lima recognized an independent Palestinian state in January 2011, nearly two years before the Palestinians won upgraded status as a UN nonmember observer state.The refugees question is one of several key issues that have come up during negotiations to end the conflict, which are due to end in April, although Kerry is working on a framework that would allow the talks to be extended until the end of the year.Speaking to 250 Israeli students in Ramallah on Sunday, Abbas insisted he did not want “to flood Israel” with returning refugees, and Palestinian negotiators have said the right of return would “not create an existential crisis for Israel.”But Israel fears such an acknowledgement would open the floodgates to millions of refugees, which would pose a demographic threat to the “Jewish and democratic character” of the state.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to meet US President Barack Obama at the White House on March 3 at a key meeting expected to focus on the peace talks and the question of a nuclear Iran.

Peres: Obama accepted all our requests on defending land

In meeting with Congressional Black Caucus, president praises US peace efforts

By JTA February 18, 2014, 9:59 pm 0-The Times of Israel

President Shimon Peres at a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus in Jerusalem praised the US peace-brokering efforts.Peres also expressed his appreciation for Israel’s special relationship with the United States at Tuesday’s diplomatic work meeting.“We’re fortunate to have our special relations with America, we’re alone, isolated and often attacked, and you support us not because of oil but because of values,” Peres said. “When it comes to defending our land, there was no request which President [Barack] Obama did not accept.”US Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) is leading the Congressional Black Caucus delegation visiting Israel.Peres answered questions from the delegation on the current US-brokered Israeli-Palestinian peace process led by Secretary of State John Kerry and the nuclear threat from Iran.“President Obama and Secretary Kerry are trying to bring peace to this region. Secretary Kerry’s contribution has been incredible,” he said. “This is a small country with a long history and while it is not simple, it can be done.”Kerry has come under fire recently from some Israeli government officials for statements he made.On Iran, Peres said, “Iran is not only building a nuclear weapon but is also funding and spreading terrorism across the world.”

Israel’s UN envoy to chair Human Rights Council elections

Ron Prosor unanimously elected after Israeli delegation rejoins monitoring body

By Lazar Berman February 18, 2014, 11:00 pm 2-The Times of Israel

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations was unanimously nominated Tuesday by 170 countries to chair the elections for the UN Human Rights Committee.Ron Prosor’s nomination came days after Israel was admitted into the UN’s core coordinating group on human rights, and after it rejoined the Human Rights Council in late November. Israel left the council more than a year and a half ago to protest its alleged anti-Israel bias.The HRC is the UN body tasked with monitoring human rights around the globe.Representatives from Israel’s UN mission said that the nomination showed the respect Prosor commands among his colleagues in Turtle Bay.“It is a great honor to chair the elections for the Human Rights Committee,” said Prosor, according to a statement released Tuesday by the Foreign Ministry. “The central role Israel plays to advance human rights around the world is the real answer to anyone calling for boycotts against Israel.”HRC elections take place every two years.Prosor previously served as Israel’s ambassador to the UK and director-general of the Foreign Ministry. He became Israel’s UN envoy in June 2011, and was elected as a vice president of the UN General Assembly a year later.

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Netanyahu: Iran remains ‘brutal’ and ‘aggressive’

PM says field hospital treating Syrians shows ‘true face of Israel’ while casualties are proof of ‘true face’ of Tehran

By Lazar Berman and Aron Dónzis February 18, 2014, 6:36 pm 5-The Times of Israel

As nuclear talks resumed between Iran and the world powers known as the P5+1, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Islamic Republic remains aggressive and brutal, and is complicit in the Syrian regime’s murder of its citizens.“I would like to tell the world, today,” Netanyahu said Tuesday morning during a tour of the Golan Heights, “as the talks between the major powers and Iran are being resumed, that Iran has changed neither its aggressive policy nor its brutal character. Iran is continuing to support the Assad regime which is slaughtering its own people. This is the true face of Iran. The world cannot forget this.”

Netanyahu made his comments at an IDF base where injured Syrians are receiving medical care. Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon and IDF Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Benny Gantz were on hand as well.“On the day when talks between the major powers and Iran are being opened in Vienna, it is important that the world sees the pictures from this place, which divides the good that is in the world from the bad,” Netanyahu was quoted in a press release as saying. “The good part is that Israel is saving the lives of those who have been wounded in the daily slaughter that is being perpetrated in Syria. This is the true face of Israel.“The bad part is that Iran is arming those who are carrying out the slaughter,” he continued. “This is the true face of Iran. All of the children who have been injured, to say nothing of those who have been killed, were injured as a result of Iran’s arming, financing and training the Assad regime in the massacres that it is perpetrating.”In Early February, Channel 2 News aired footage of a secret Israeli field hospital in the Golan Heights that has treated over 700 Syrians since the war began.

Israeli soldiers escort a wounded Syrian patient into a secret military field hospital in the Golan Heights. (photo credit: screen capture, Channel 2)

The army hospital, staffed by soldiers in uniform, includes an emergency room, an intensive care unit, an operating room, a mobile laboratory, a pharmacy and an x-ray facility. It treats Syrian patients who cross the border regardless of creed, ethnicity – or with which faction their loyalties lie.The once-sporadic treatment of Syrian nationals in Israel has, by now, become routine, the report made clear: The wounded cross the border and IDF medical teams deployed in the Golan Heights give them preliminary treatment. Those who are well enough are sent back across the border, and those who require further treatment are evacuated to the military hospital, a field commander at the facility told Channel 2. In this way, the hospital treats about a hundred Syrians per month.

13 killed in Ukraine riots

Government forces move on protest camp after 6 policemen and 7 demonstrators die in unrest

By Maria Danilova February 18, 2014, 9:21 pm Updated: February 18, 2014, 11:31 pm 1-The Times of Israel

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Defiant protesters shouted “Glory to Ukraine” as burning tents lit up the night sky after thousands of riot police moved against the sprawling protest camp in the center of Kiev on Tuesday.

The police, armed with stun grenades and water cannons, attacked the camp after at least 13 people — including six officers — died and hundreds were injured in street clashes. The violence was the deadliest in nearly three months of anti-government protests that have paralyzed Ukraine’s capital in a struggle over the nation’s identity.Opposition leader Vitali Klitschko urged the 20,000 protesters to defend the camp on Independence Square.“We will not go anywhere from here,” Klitschko told the crowd, speaking from a stage in the square as fires burned around him, releasing huge plumes of smoke into the night sky. “This is an island of freedom and we will defend it,” he said.Many heeded his call.“This looks like a war against one’s own people,” said Dmytro Shulko, 35, who was heading toward the camp armed with a fire bomb. “But we will defend ourselves.”As police dismantled some of the barricades on the perimeter of the square and tried to push away the protesters, they fought back with rocks, bats and fire bombs. Many of the protesters were bleeding.Speaking over loudspeakers, police urged women and children to leave the square because an “anti-terrorist” operation was underway.The protesters appeared to sense that Ukraine’s political standoff was reaching a critical turning point. As the tents and also some tires went up in flames, defiant protesters shouted “Glory to Ukraine!” and sang the Ukrainian national anthem.Shortly before midnight, Klitschko headed to President Viktor Yanukovych’s office to try to resolve the crisis, his spokeswoman said.

Anti-government protesters lob stones during clashes with riot police outside Ukraine’s parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Earlier in the day, protesters attacked police lines and set fires outside parliament, accusing Yanukovych of once again ignoring their demands and dragging his feet on a constitutional reform to limit presidential powers.Tensions had soared after Russia said Monday that it was ready to resume providing the loans that Yanukovych’s government needs to keep Ukraine’s ailing economy afloat. This raised fears among the opposition that Yanukovych had made a deal with Moscow to stand firm against the protesters and would choose a Russian-leaning loyalist to be his new prime minister.The protests began in late November after Yanukovych turned away from a long-anticipated deal with the European Union in exchange for a $15 billion bailout from Russia. The political maneuvering continued, however, with both Moscow and the West eager to gain influence over this former Soviet republic.Until Monday, the government and the opposition had appeared to be making some progress toward resolving the political crisis peacefully. In exchange for the release of scores of jailed activists, protesters on Sunday vacated a government building that they had occupied since Dec. 1.Russia also may have wanted to see Kiev remain calm through the Winter Olympics in Sochi, so as not to distract from President Vladimir Putin’s games. But after the outburst of violence against riot police, Yanukovych’s government may have felt it had no choice but to try to restore order.While Kiev and western Ukraine have risen up against Yanukovych, he remains popular in the Russian-speaking eastern and southern regions, where economic and cultural ties with Russia are strong.As darkness fell, law enforcement agencies vowed to bring order to the streets and they shut down subway stations in the center of the capital. In Independence Square, Orthodox priests prayed for peace.“We see that this regime again has begun shooting people; they want to sink Ukraine in blood. We will not give in to a single provocation,” opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk told the protesters. “We will not take one step back from this square. We have nowhere to retreat to. Ukraine is behind us, Ukraine’s future is behind us.”Tuesday’s clashes were the first to lead to deaths since Jan. 22, when two protesters were hit with live ammunition and a third fell.

Angry protesters had hurled stones at police and set trucks blocking their way on fire. Riot police retaliated with stun grenades and fired what appeared to be small metal balls, as smoke from burning tires and vehicles billowed over Kiev.Olha Bilyk, spokeswoman for the Kiev city police, told The Associated Press that six policemen died from gunshot wounds and 159 were wounded, including 39 who were shot. She also said seven civilians died, including three who were shot.The coordinator for the opposition’s medical response team, Oleh Musiy, said more than 400 protesters were injured. He also claimed that about 20 had died, but this could not independently be confirmed.One of the civilians was found dead after protesters stormed the office of the president’s Party of Regions. Police pushed them away, but when firefighters arrived to put out a fire, they discovered the body of an office employee, Kiev’s emergency services said.Justice Minister Olena Lukash, a close Yanukovych aide, accused the opposition of violating earlier agreements with the government and blamed protest leaders for the violence.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged both sides to end the violence, halt their ultimatums and hold high-level talks.U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey R. Payatt also threatened both sides with sanctions. “We believe Ukraine’s crisis can still be solved via dialogue, but those on both sides who fuel violence will open themselves to sanctions,” Payatt said on Twitter.Germany has refused to back Washington’s calls for sanctions against Ukraine’s government to pressure it into accepting opposition demands for reforms.But when central Kiev exploded in violence Tuesday, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Ukrainian security forces have a “particular responsibility” to de-escalate the situation, adding that the EU might resort to unspecified sanctions against individuals. “Whoever is responsible for decisions that lead to bloodshed in the center of Kiev or elsewhere in Ukraine will need to consider that Europe’s previous reluctance for personal sanctions must be rethought,” he said.

The Russian Foreign Ministry blamed the West for the escalation of the violence and called on the opposition to work with the government to find a way out of the crisis.“What is happening is a direct result of the conniving politics of Western politicians and European bodies,” the ministry said in a statement.