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.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
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
Full text of Netanyahu’s video address to AIPAC-Prime minister denounces IS attacks in Belgium and Palestinian incitement to violence, says ready for direct peace talks with Abbas-March 22, 2016, 7:14 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Good morning, America. Good morning, AIPAC. And a special good morning to the 4,000 students who are cutting class today to be with AIPAC in Washington. Greetings to all of you from Jerusalem.I first want to send my condolences to the families of those murdered in today’s terrorist attacks in Brussels. The chain of attacks from Paris to San Bernardino to Istanbul to the Ivory Coast and now to Brussels, and the daily attacks in Israel – this is one continuous assault on all of us. In all these cases the terrorists have no resolvable grievances. It’s not as if we could offer them Brussels, or Istanbul, or California, or even the West Bank. That won’t satisfy their grievances. Because what they seek is our utter destruction and their total domination. Their basic demand is that we should simply disappear. Well, my friends, that’s not going to happen. The only way to defeat these terrorists is to join together and fight them together. That’s how we’ll defeat terrorism – with political unity and with moral clarity. I think we have that in abundance.And I want to thank today the leadership of AIPAC and each and every one of you. I thank you for the tremendous support you’ve provided Israel over so many years. I thank you for the clear and unequivocal stand you took last year during the nuclear Iran deal debate, a debate critical for Israel’s security. And that debate, though intense, did not undermine the unbreakable alliance between Israel and the United States.As part of that great alliance, America has generously provided Israel with many of the tools we need to defend ourselves. We are now working on a new agreement to help bolster Israel’s security in the years to come. I hope we can conclude that agreement soon. And I take this opportunity once again to thank President Obama for his support, including for ballistic missile defense. Israel deeply appreciates it, and we also deeply appreciate the strong bipartisan support for Israel in Congress and the strong, overwhelming support for Israel among the American people. Year after year, the overwhelming majority of Americans stand with Israel. They know something profound, that stands out for all to see today. They know that Israel is an island of liberty and democracy, that Israel must never be an issue that divides Americans, but a great cause of liberty that unites Americans.My friends, two weeks ago, I visited Yodfat in northern Israel. It was there, 2,000 years ago, that the Romans began their military campaign against the Jews. I’m holding in my hand right now an exact replica of an arrow found at Yodfat – one of thousands used by the Romans in their war to crush Jewish independence. Yet two millennia later, the Jewish people are once again free and sovereign in our ancient homeland. And in rebuilding our land, our state, our economy, our army, our science, our culture, we’ve achieved remarkable successes.But it’s true we also face great challenges. We are in fact today witnessing two contradictory trends.First, the positive trend: Every day high-level delegations land at Ben-Gurion Airport. They come from America. They come from Europe. Increasingly they come from Asia, from Africa, from Latin America. As many of them confront the rise of militant Islam and its accompanying terrorism, they come to Israel to strengthen their security. They wish to learn from Israel’s proven security and intelligence capabilities how to better protect their own people.But they also come to Israel because they want to upgrade their economies with Israel’s technology. And for good reason: Israel’s know-how is powering the world’s computers, navigating its cars, protecting its bank accounts. It’s led to breakthroughs in treating Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s. It helps farmers around the world yield more crops, produce more milk, conserve more water. So, for all these reasons, the world is coming to Israel. Today we have diplomatic relations with 161 countries – more than at any time in our history. And by the way, there are not that many countries left. There are only about 200 countries in the world.But alongside this positive trend, there is a second, negative trend. While Israel is embraced by a growing number of individual nations, there are those who seek to malign Israel among the nations, and especially in the United Nations.At the UN, Israel, the Middle East’s only true democracy, is slandered like no other country on earth. At the UN, Israel is subjected to consistent, systematic discrimination. Only Israel is permanently scheduled for condemnation at the UN Human Rights Council – not Iran, not Syria, not North Korea. Only Israel is hounded by UN bodies expressly established to delegitimize its very existence. Only Israel is condemned every year by 20 hostile resolutions in the UN General Assembly. The UN, my friends, has a shameful record of singling out Israel for castigation and condemnation. So I have a question for you. Why would anyone think that the UN could decide on a fair and secure peace for Israel? Yet amazingly, there are some who believe exactly that. They seek to impose terms on Israel in the UN Security Council. And those terms would undoubtedly be stacked against us. They always are. So such an effort in the UN would only convince the Palestinians that they can stab their way to a state. Mind you, not a state next to Israel, but a state instead of Israel. A Security Council resolution to pressure Israel would further harden Palestinian positions, and thereby it could actually kill the chances of peace for many, many years. And that is why I hope the United States will maintain its longstanding position to reject such a UN resolution.I was glad to hear the presidential candidates from both parties reaffirm this basic principle. Peace won’t come through UN Security Council resolutions, but through direct negotiations between the parties.The best formula for achieving peace remains two states for two peoples, in which a demilitarized Palestinian state finally recognizes the Jewish state. Now, I know there’s some skepticism about my views on this. So let me state unequivocally, and here’s the acid test: I am ready to begin such negotiations immediately, without preconditions, anytime, anywhere. That’s a fact. But President Abbas is not ready to do so. That’s also a fact. There is political will here in Jerusalem. There’s no political will there in Ramallah.For the last five-and-a-half years, President Abbas has refused to sit down and talk with me even for a minute. But that doesn’t mean he’s been silent. He has helped inculcate a new generation of young Palestinians with murderous hatred for Israel. And my friends, this incitement has deadly consequences. Palestinian children are taught to stab Jews. They are taught that the goal of the Palestinian people is not to establish a state on the West Bank, but in all of Israel – in Akko, Haifa, Nazareth, Jaffa.Now, what I’m about to show you is deeply disturbing. I think you have to see for yourselves what the Palestinians are teaching their children. I want you to see the daily Pledge of Allegiance of Palestinian children. Take a look.This is sick. It’s inexcusable. My friends, that little girl wasn’t born hating. She was taught to hate, as were the Palestinians who murdered the American student Taylor Force, and other American citizens in recent months. You’ve already heard what an impressive young man Taylor was, but President Abbas’s Fatah movement praised Taylor’s killer as – and I quote this – as “a hero and a martyr”. Now, that’s not from Hamas; that’s coming from Abbas. And now the Palestinians will spur even more terrorism by rewarding the families of murderers – including those who murdered Americans – with a regular monthly payment.So the message they send to Palestinians is clear: terrorism pays – literally.If the international community really wants to advance peace, it must demand that the Palestinians stop poisoning the minds of their children. If the international community wants to advance peace, it must address the true core of the conflict: the persistent Palestinian refusal to accept a Jewish state in any borders.So there’s bad news, but there’s also some good news. While the Palestinians are stuck in their refusal to make peace, others are moving forward. First, Israel’s peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan have weathered many storms. Second, increasingly our other neighbors recognize that we have common interests. They understand that we face the same threats from Iran and from ISIS. Now, I can tell you from a perspective of my lifetime: This is a historic change. I believe it offers a unique opportunity to advance peace. And we are working every day to seize that opportunity.Ladies and gentlemen,I am confident that, over time, the trend of embracing Israel will overcome the trend of maligning Israel, because, ultimately, freedom beats tyranny, and ultimately, when vigorously defended, truth beats lies. So I believe that Israel faces a future of promise. I believe that when we stand together, all of us, we can overcome all the challenges facing us.And of these challenges, none is greater than Iran’s unrelenting aggression. Iran remains fully committed to genocide – our genocide. Its leaders loudly, openly, even proudly, they say and proclaim that their goal is to destroy Israel. Iran sends deadly weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon against us. It bankrolls Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza against us. It seeks to open a new terror front on the Golan against us. And it offers thousands of dollars for each Palestinian terror attacks against us.So here’s what I believe: I believe that both those who supported the nuclear deal and those who opposed it can, at the very least, work together to stop Iran’s aggression and terror and hold Iran accountable for its transgressions.Since the nuclear deal, Iran has continued to conduct ballistic missile tests, in defiance of its international obligations. As you’ve heard, Iran recently fired a ballistic missile with a Hebrew inscription painted on it. It said, “Israel must be wiped out”. So ladies and gentlemen, the writing is not on the wall; it’s on the missile.Now my friends, an arrow just like this was shot by a Roman soldier at Yodfat. He was fighting to end Jewish independence once and for all. But imperial Rome is long gone and I am speaking to you today from our capital, Jerusalem, as the Prime Minister of the reborn Jewish state. We have restored our independence. We have restored our capacity to defend ourselves. Iran should learn this history and it should have no illusions. Israel will defend itself mightily against all those who seek to destroy us. And Iran should remember that today it’s not only the enemies of the Jewish people who have arrows. Today, the Jewish state can defend itself with powerful arrows of our own. Take a look.The Arrow missile defense system is the product of Americans and Israelis working together. So I want to say again to all of you: Thank you America. Thank you AIPAC. Thank you for helping secure our common future, and a happy Purim to all of you. Thank you.
AIPAC chief urges bipartisanship, two-state solution-At pro-Israel confab’s opening session, Howard Kohr says the lobby will ask Congress to encourage ‘direct talks’ between Israelis and Palestinians-By Eric Cortellessa March 21, 2016, 5:40 am--THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
WASHINGTON — Before a crowd of roughly 18,000 delegates, American Israel Public Affairs Committee CEO Howard Kohr launched the opening plenary session of the group’s annual conference Sunday night by stressing the lobby’s commitment to bipartisan support for the US-Israel relationship, a focus that seeks to heal the bitterness following last year’s showdown with the White House and many Congressional Democrats over the Iran nuclear deal.Acknowledging defeat on the accord signed by Iran and six world powers in July, Kohr praised AIPAC activists who sought to prevent the deal from coming to fruition, saying they “fought the good fight.” He added that despite differences on the Iran issue, Democrats and Republicans who support Israel share a common goal of protecting the Jewish state and ensuring its long-term survival.“While it’s easy to find opinions that divide us, we are united,” Kohr said, adding that “bipartisanship is the only way to create stable, sustainable policy.”That bipartisanship, he said, will be imperative for the ongoing effort to “prevent a nuclear Iran and deter Iranian aggression in the Middle East,” which he said was “far from over.”This year’s event boasts the largest attendance ever at the Policy Conference.Kohr moved on from the Iran deal to urge those in attendance not to give up on the hope of a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, calling on Israel supporters to believe in the possibility of an Israel “living with security alongside a demilitarized Palestinian state.”“We must continue to work for peace between Israel and the Palestinians,” he said. “While it might be hard to imagine a peace agreement amid the current chaos, we cannot and will not give up.”Yet progress on this front was unlikely to come from outside pressure or the involvement of international institutions, he maintained, but rather would only be achieved by the two sides in negotiations. AIPAC would begin asking Congress on Tuesday to express its support for “direct talks between the parties themselves,” he saidThe pro-Israel lobby would urge members of Congress to make clear that they would encourage the US to veto any Palestinian-led anti-Israel resolution that may come before the United Nations Security Council.And the AIPAC chief called for the successful signing of a US-Israel Memorandum of Understanding on heightened security aid for Israel in the wake of the nuclear deal, despite rumors hiccups in the talks to hammer out the details of the agreement.
ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST
1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
GENESIS 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
ISAIAH 41:11
11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee (ISRAEL) shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing;(DESTROYED) and they that strive with thee shall perish.(ISRAEL HATERS WILL BE TOTALLY DESTROYED)
ISRAELS TROUBLE
JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.
DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
After Brussels attack, world looks to Israel as model for airport security-After string of extremist incidents targeting heart of Europe over past year, leaders may have to resort to much tougher measures-By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and Vanessa Gera March 22, 2016, 7:31 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
MOSCOW (AP) — Authorities in Europe and across the world tightened security at airports, railway stations, government buildings and other key sites after deadly attacks Tuesday on the Brussels airport and its subway system.With Brussels in lockdown and the French prime minister saying that Europe is “at war,” European leaders held emergency security meetings and deployed more police, explosives experts, sniffer dogs and plainclothes officers, with some warning against travel to Belgium.The nervousness was felt far and wide. In New York City, authorities deployed additional counterterrorism units to crowded areas and transit locations.After a string of extremist attacks targeting the heart of Europe over the past year, some analysts say Europe will finally have to implement a much tougher level of security not only at airports, but also at “soft targets” like shopping malls — the kind that Israelis have been living with for years.“The threat we are facing in Europe is about the same as what Israel faces,” said Olivier Guitta, the managing director of GlobalStrat, an international security consultancy. “We have entered an era in which we are going to have to change our way of life and take security very seriously.”Strong criticism of Belgian security came on Tuesday from Pini Schiff, a former security director at Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport, which is considered among the most secure in the world. After Palestinian attacks on Israeli planes and travelers in the 1970s, Israeli officials put in place several layers of security at that airport in Tel Aviv, meaning an attacker who escapes notice at one level of security would likely be captured by another.Schiff said the attacks at the Brussels airport mark “a colossal failure” of Belgian security and that “the chances are very low” such a bombing could have happened in Israel.There are some, however, who fear that little more can realistically be done.“The public needs to understand that if we are to continue enjoy living in a free society we have to respond in a proportional way,” said Simon Bennett, director of the Civil Safety and Security Unit at the University of Leicester, England. “In my opinion, airport security is as tight as we can reasonably make it in a free society.”Philip Baum, author of “Violence in the Skies: A History of Aircraft Hijacking and Bombing,” said “putting people through more hoops,” isn’t the answer to the ever-evolving threat. He said security personnel need to start using behavioral analysis to focus on negative intent. He also said they need better training, more flexibility and should start using more animals.“It’s all about making security less predictable,” Baum said.In Moscow, Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov told Russian news agencies that authorities will “re-evaluate security” at Russian airports, although its measures are already among some of the toughest across Europe. There have been mandatory checks at the entrances to airports since a 2011 suicide bombing at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport that killed 37.Security was high at all Paris airports and at Gatwick and Heathrow in London, among many others.At Rome’s Fiumicino Airport, sniffer dogs were deployed in the check-in areas, while at Milan’s Malpensa airport police in carts were patrolling the areas before security checks.In Germany, the state rail system, Deutsche Bahn, halted its high-speed rail service from Germany to Brussels, stopping them at the border city of Aachen.Meanwhile, the international high-speed train operator Thalys suspended all of its train traffic Thursday and urged travelers to postpone trips to Belgium. Last year, an attack on a Thalys between Brussels and Paris was foiled by three Americans and a Briton traveling on the train.Egypt also said it was increasing security, with top security officials asked to personally handle security checks inside airports and in outside areas like hotels and car parks.Egypt has been working to improve its security after a Russian jet was brought down last October by extremists after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport, killing all 224 people on board. Moscow said it was brought down by an explosive device, and a local branch of the extremist Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for planting it.In Greece, police added additional security at airports, metro stations and embassies with uniformed and plain-clothed officers. But government spokeswoman Olga Gerovasili said there were no additional security measures being taken for refugees and migrants following the Brussels attacks.“We are not making any linkage between those two issues. That would be a defeat for Europe,” she said.
UPDATE-MARCH 23,2016-12:43PM
HERES
THE LATEST PROPAGANDA POLITICALLY CORRECT NONSENSE SUNNI-ARAB MUSLIM
OBAMA, THE LAME STREAM-LAME BRAIN MEDIA AND MUSLIM SUCK UPS ARE ALL
COMPLAINING ABOUT WHAT WOULD KILL OFF ALL THE ISLAMIC-MUSLIM-QURANIC
TERRORIST LUNATIC RETARDED DEMON POSsESSED MEN. I SAY CARPET BOMB WITH
ATOMIC BOMBS RAAQA-MOSUL AND WHAT EVER ELSE ISIS OR ANY WESTERN HATING
MUSLIM COUNTRIES THAT WANT WORLD ISLAMIC-SHARIA CONTROL. AND OBAMA THE
NUTJOB AND MEDIA AND ANALYSTS OF THE PUPPET ELITES. ARE ALL SAYING IF
THE WEST CARPET BOMBS ISIS OR ANY WEST HATING MUSLIM COUNTRY. THEN ISLAM
WOULD REALLY COME AGAINST US. THIS IS THE LATEST CRAZY EXCUSE TO SUCK
HOLE UP TO A BUNCH OF MURDERING CULTIST WEST HATER ISLAMIC-MUSLIM DEATH
CULTISTS. IF YOU KILL ISLAM OFF WITH ATOMIC BOMBS THEY SURE CAN NOT COME
AFTER YOU. AND ISLAM WHEN KILLED OFF GETS THEIR WISH OF DEATH FOR 72
VIRGINS. BUT THE REAL TRUTH IS - IS THESE DEATH CULTIST
ARAB-MUSLIM-ISLAMIC MURDERERS WILL BE BURNING IN HELL FOREVER FOR
KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE. SO I SAY CARPET BOMB NOT ONLY ISIS BUT ANY
MUSLIM WEST HATING COUNTRY. NUKE THESE HATERS TO HELL WERE THEY
BELONG.THIS IS THE ONLY WAY THERE WILL BE PEACE SO THESE ISLAMIC
MURDERERS STOP KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE.THANK GOD ISRAEL WILL BE NUKING
THE RUSSIAN-ARAB MUSLIMS WHEN THEY ATTACK ISRAEL THE BIBLE SAYS-GOD WILL
PROTECT ISRAEL AND ALLOW ISRAEL TO SEND THESE MURDERERS TO HELL WITH
ATOMIC-HYDROGEN BOMBS.I AGREE TOTALLY WITH TED CRUZ AND DONALD TRUMP
WHEN THEY SAY TAKE CARE AND CARPET BOMB ISLAM OUT OF COMMISSION AND OFF
THIS EARTH FOREVER.
OTHER BELGIUM TERRORIST STORIES
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/03/at-least-28-killed-in-islamic-muslim.html
Brussels airport ‘was a war scene’ with ‘total panic everywhere’-Shaken survivors of the twin attacks in Belgian capital recall bloody scenes of dead bodies and a metro train filling up with smoke-By Times of Israel staff and Agencies March 22, 2016, 2:05 pm
Twin blasts at Brussel’s airport Tuesday left the dead and wounded lying in pools of blood as the ceiling caved in and panicked passengers fled the bombed-out departure hall.At least 11 people were killed in the morning rush-hour attack, which the Belgian authorities quickly said was a suicide bombing. It was soon followed by another “enormous” blast, this time at a metro station close to the European Union buildings in the capital, which left around 10 dead.“A man shouted a few words in Arabic and then I heard a huge blast,” said airport baggage security officer Alphonse Lyoura, who still had blood on his hands following the explosion.He said there was second explosion at the airport about two minutes after the first.“I helped at least six or seven wounded people. We took out some bodies that were not moving. It was total panic everywhere,” Lyoura said.“I saw people lying on the ground covered in blood who were not moving.“At least six or seven people’s legs were totally crushed. A lot of people lost limbs. One man had lost both legs and there was a policeman with a totally mangled leg.”Jean-Pierre Lebeau, a French passenger who had just arrived from Geneva, said: “We heard the explosion and felt the blast.”He said he had seen many wounded and “blood in the elevator.”“First we were kept together by the police, then they gave us the order to evacuate,” he said, recounting the shock on people’s faces and a smell he thought was like gunpowder at the scene.Michel Mpoy, 65, who was at the airport to pick up a friend coming from Kinshasa, said it was “a total mess — it was terrible.”An employee for the Swissport airport management company described how she looked after a child following the blasts.“I heard the first explosion and I took a child in my arms and hid him under the counter. Then I gave him to a policeman,” the employee said without giving her name. “There were injured people lying everywhere and some weren’t moving.”Local resident Jean-Pierre Herman said he was relieved to have gotten out of the airport safely.Herman embraced his wife Tankrat Paui Tran, who he had just gone to pick up after her flight from Thailand.“My wife just arrived,” Herman said. “I said ‘hello,’ we took the elevator and in the elevator we heard the first bomb.“The second exploded just when we got off. We ran away to an emergency exit. I think we are very lucky.”British journalist Charlotte McDonald-Gibson, who lives in Brussels, said there had been “total confusion” at the airport, where she was having breakfast before a flight.“Suddenly staff rushed in and said we have to leave,” she said. “They rushed out and into the main terminal A departures building. Nobody knew what was going on.”“It was total confusion, people were just standing around wondering what was happening.”Zach Mouzoun, who arrived on a flight from Geneva about 10 minutes before the first blast, told France’s BFM television that the second louder explosion brought down ceilings and ruptured pipes, mixing water with blood from victims.“It was atrocious. The ceilings collapsed,” he said. “There was blood everywhere, injured people, bags everywhere.”“We were walking in the debris. It was a war scene,” he said.“I knew it was an explosion because I’ve been around explosions before,” said American tourist Denise Brandt told Sky News.“I felt the explosion, the way it feels through your body. And we just looked at each other and I said ‘Let’s go this way.’ It was over there. There was just this instinct to get away from it. Then we saw people running, crying, toward us. So I knew we were going in the right direction and away from it.”-Sirens wailing-At Maalbeek metro station, dazed and shocked morning travelers streamed from the entrances as police tried to set up a security cordon following what one official said was “an enormous explosion” that killed around 10 people.Near the entrance to the station, not far from the EU headquarters, rescue workers set up a makeshift treatment center in a local pub.AFP’s Lachlan Carmichael was on the metro and described how his train was halted in the tunnel and then evacuated as it began to fill up with smoke.A police officer told him: “There are wounded, there are dead, I do not know how many.”The officer was escorting a woman through a police cordon being put up around the Maalbeek station, with all public transport being closed down.Another AFP journalist, Cedric Simon, said the situation around the Maalbeek station was totally confused, with a cloud of smoke and dust settling over the road outside.Simon said there were about 15 people lying on the roadside, many with bloodied faces and being treated by medical staff as all Brussels hospitals were put on standby to deal with casualties.The streets were filled with police cars and emergency vehicles, sirens wailing and blue lights flashing.Metro blast survivor Alexandre Brans, 32, who was wiping blood from his face, said: “The metro was leaving Maalbeek station when there was a really loud explosion. It was panic everywhere. There were a lot of people in the metro.”Following the attacks, authorities told people in Brussels to stay where they were, bringing the city to a standstill, citizens were also urged to stay inside and keep in touch through social media rather than go out in search of loved ones.European security officials have been braced for a major attack for weeks, and warned that Islamic State was actively preparing. The arrest of Salah Abdeslam in Brussels last week heightened those fears, as investigators said many people involved in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks that killed 130 people were still on the loose.After Abdeslam was arrested, Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders said authorities learned he had created a new network around him and had access to several weapons, though there was no immediate indication that he or the Islamic State group had any involvement in Tuesday’s attacks.
Brussels, Europe’s jihadist breeding ground, now itself under attack-Poorly integrated Muslim neighborhoods have become hotbeds for terrorists who carried out a slew of deadly strikes-By Danny Kemp March 22, 2016, 7:42 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
BRUSSELS (AFP) — Brussels has become infamous as a hotbed of Islamic extremism because of links to a series of recent attacks in Europe, and now the Belgian capital itself has suffered the worst ever terror attack in its history.The attacks on the Brussels airport and metro system which killed around 35 people on Tuesday came just days after Salah Abdeslam, a key suspect in November’s Paris attacks, was captured in the city after four months on the run.A large and often poorly integrated Muslim population with high levels of unemployment and crime — especially in the gritty district of Molenbeek where Abdeslam was found near his family home — has created a breeding ground for extremism.Analysts say that has metastasized into a dedicated terror network in Belgium as many hardened jihadists return from fighting in Syria with the Islamic State and other extremist groups.“It is very likely that this attack will have been planned and prepared well in advance of last week’s arrest of Salah Abdeslam, one of the central figures in the Paris attacks from last November,” said Shiraz Maher, Senior Fellow at International Center for the Study of Radicalization (ICSR), King’s College London, told AFP.“It therefore points to the existence of a broad and sophisticated terrorist network in Belgium, that extends beyond the one which attacked France last year,” he added.He added: “Our research shows that, per capita, Belgium has the highest number of foreign fighters in Syria of any European country.“More than twice as many have gone from there as from France, and more than four times as many as from Britain.”Molenbeek has been in the eye of the storm since it emerged that it was home to core members of the Paris attack squad.Police arrested Abdeslam on Friday just a block from the family home in Molenbeek, a district where he once ran a bar with his brother Brahim — who blew himself up during the attacks in the French capital in November.The suspected Paris ringleader, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, also hailed from Molenbeek and was a friend of Salah Abdeslam.As far back as 2001, it was in Molenbeek where the assassins of Afghanistan’s anti-Taliban commander Ahmad Shah Massoud had stayed.It was also home to one of the 2004 Madrid train bombers and the main suspect in the 2014 Jewish Museum attack in Brussels, while the perpetrator of a foiled attack in August on an Amsterdam-Paris train stayed in Molenbeek with his sister before boarding in Brussels.But it is the sheer size of the network in Belgium that has emerged since the Paris attacks which has most alarmed officials.Not only was Abdeslam allegedly helped by several people after fleeing back to Brussels after the attacks, but the Paris cell had rented at least three properties around the country which were used to prepare the attacks.In the days after Abdeslam’s arrest, Belgian authorities feared that a terror plot was afoot.“He was ready to restart something in Brussels, and it may be the reality because we have found a lot of weapons, heavy weapons, in the first investigations and we have found a new network around him in Brussels,” Foreign Minister Didier Reynders said on Sunday.Alarmingly, prosecutors said on Monday that two bomb detonators were also found in a Brussels apartment raided last week.A grim-faced Prime Minister Charles Michel said on Tuesday: “We feared a terror attack and it happened.”
Police hunt for suspected third bomber in Brussels attacks-Authorities release photo of escaped suspect in airport attack; uncover bomb, ‘chemical products’ and IS flag in apartment-By Agencies and Times of Israel staff March 22, 2016, 8:47 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Belgian police issued a wanted notice for a suspect in the bomb attack on Brussels airport on Tuesday, in which at least 14 people were killed, as officers conducted multiple raids across the country.At least 34 people were killed and dozens were wounded in twin attacks Tuesday morning, 14 in the departure terminal of Brussels’s airport and 20 more at the Maalbeek metro station a short while later, authorities said.A CCTV screen shot of the suspect showed a bespectacled man with a goatee, wearing a white jacket and black hat, and pushing a trolley with a large black bag.Authorities earlier released a grainy picture of the same man alongside two men with dark hair who were also pushing trolleys with similar bags.Both of those men wore black gloves on their left hands.Belgian officials said there were two bomb blasts in the main airport hall on Tuesday morning, at least one of which was a suicide bombing.A third bomb that failed to explode was found later, a regional governor said.“Three bombs were brought into the building, of which one failed to explode,” Lodewijk De Witte, the governor of Flemish Brabant province, told a press conference at the airport.He said it was later destroyed in a controlled explosion.Police launched a series of operations in various locations in Belgium, and prosecutors said that one counter-terrorism raid in the Brussels suburb of Schaerbeek yielded a nail bomb, “chemical products” and an Islamic State flag.The Islamic State group had claimed responsibility for the attacks several hours earlier. “Soldiers of the caliphate… carried out an attack targeting the crusader state of Belgium, which is fighting Islam and its people,” the group said in a statement posted online.Britain updated its travel advice to warn against all but essential travel to Brussels, and sent a team of police to assist investigators in the Belgian capital.“The Belgian authorities are currently advising against travel to Brussels; you are advised to follow the instructions of the Belgian security authorities,” read a statement from the government.The Foreign Ministry’s previous travel advice had been for British citizens to “remain alert and vigilant” and “stay away from crowded places.”Prime Minister David Cameron’s spokeswoman said Tuesday that specialist police officers were also being sent to Brussels to help with the investigation.“They will be gathering together as much material as possible that can help them with the investigation,” she said. “It is working on the investigation, trying to work out what happened, who is responsible.”Britain has already announced increased security at international transport hubs.Authorities defined the explosions as terror attacks and the public transport system in the city was shut down in the wake of the blasts.According to the Belgian VTM TV channel, police discovered an unexploded suicide vest at the Brussels airport. The report said a Kalashnikov assault rifle had also been located at the site.Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, speaking on national television, described the attacks as “blind, violent and cowardly.”Interior Minister Jan Jambon announced that Belgium’s terror threat had been raised from three to a maximum of four, and the country’s national security council was due to meet.Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders said authorities feared that suspects involved in the deadly attacks could still be at large.“The inquiry is still ongoing… because we fear that people are still at large,” Reynders told RTBF television after a news briefing in the Belgian capital.Brussels residents were told to “stay where you are,” while Deputy Prime Minister Alexander De Croo urged people to avoid making calls to stop the city’s mobile networks getting saturated, and to communicate with online messages instead.The blasts come four days after the dramatic arrest in Brussels on Friday of Saleh Abdeslam, prime suspect in the Paris terror attacks that killed 130 people in November.After being on the run for four months, Abdeslam, 26, was shot in the leg and captured Friday along with a suspected accomplice in a massive Belgian police raid in Brussels. Three others were also detained, but two were released on Saturday.
Islamic State claims Brussels terror attacks-After bombings kill at least 34 in Belgian capital, group threatens ‘dark days’ ahead for countries participating in US-led coalition fighting in Syria and Iraq-By Times of Israel staff March 22, 2016, 6:25 pm
The Islamic State-linked Amaq news agency said Tuesday the terror group was claiming responsibility for the twin attacks on Brussels’s airport and metro in which at least 34 people were killed and dozens were wounded.The statement said the attacks were carried out against Belgium for its participation in the US-led coalition fighting the group in Iraq and Syria.“Islamic State fighters carried out a series of bombings with explosive belts and devices on Tuesday, targeting an airport and a central metro station in the center of the Belgian capital Brussels, a country participating in the international coalition against the Islamic State,” the Aamaq news agency said, according to a translation provided by AFP.Later, the group itself issued a statement claiming responsibility for the attacks, and threatened “dark days ahead” for member countries of the coalition against IS.“Soldiers of the caliphate… carried out an attack targeting the crusader state of Belgium, which is fighting Islam and its people,” the group said in a statement posted online. “We promise the nations of crusaders that are allied against the Islamic State that dark days lie ahead, in response to their aggression against our State… what awaits you will be harder and more bitter, with Allah’s permission.”Local media was reporting a total of 34 dead, 14 in two bomb blasts in the departure terminal of the airport and 20 more in another explosion a short while later at the Maalbeek metro station. Dozens were injured in both incidents.The public transport system in the city was shut down in the wake of the blasts, which authorities quickly categorized as terror attacks.According to the Belgian VTM TV channel, police discovered an unexploded suicide vest at the Brussels airport. The report said a Kalashnikov assault rifle had also been located at the site.Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, speaking on national television, described the attacks as “blind, violent and cowardly.”Interior Minister Jan Jambon announced that Belgium’s terror threat had been raised from three to a maximum of four, and the country’s national security council was due to meet.Belgium’s Foreign Minister Didier Reynders said authorities feared that suspects involved in the deadly attacks could still be at large.“The inquiry is still ongoing… because we fear that people are still at large,” Reynders told RTBF television after a news briefing in the Belgian capital.Brussels residents were told to “stay where you are,” while Deputy Prime Minister Alexander De Croo urged people to avoid making calls to stop the city’s mobile networks getting saturated, and to communicate with online messages instead.At Maalbeek, black smoke and clouds of dust billowed from the station entrance, about a hundred meters (yards) from the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm.More than a dozen people were seen lying on the pavement outside with bloodied faces and were being treated by emergency services.Footage from the airport showed smoke billowing from the site with hundreds of passengers fleeing damaged buildings. The interior of the building appeared to be severely damaged, with ceiling tiles littering the floor.Initial reports suggested the explosions took place at the American Airlines check-in desk.A Sky News reporter who was at the airport at the time of the blasts said that passengers had been evacuated to the tarmac.Police instructed passengers to leave their hand luggage in the airport and leave the building immediately. Passengers were led onto the tarmac and the crisis center urged people not to come to the airport.All flights to and from the airport were canceled following the attack. The Hebrew media said an El Al flight en route to Brussels was diverted midair.The Sky News journalist at the airport said there had been a “very big explosion.”“We felt the walls of the building rock… dust came down from the ceiling,” he said.The blasts come four days after the dramatic arrest in Brussels on Friday of Saleh Abdeslam, prime suspect in the Paris terror attacks that killed 130 people in November.After being on the run for four months, Abdeslam, 26, was shot in the leg and captured Friday along with a suspected accomplice in a massive Belgian police raid in Brussels. Three others were also detained, but two were released on Saturday.
PA bans imports from 5 Israeli companies-Tnuva, Strauss, Tara, Soglowek and Tapuzina products will not be allowed into West Bank-By Adiv Sterman March 22, 2016, 9:46 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Imports from five top Israeli food companies into West Bank areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority were banned by the Palestinian governing body Tuesday.The PA said the decision on the ban came in response to an Israeli halt on imports of products from five Palestinian companies earlier this month, according to the Palestinian Ma’an News Agency.Products from the Tnuva, Strauss, Tara, Soglowek and Tapuzina will not be allowed to enter Palestinian-controlled territory, according to the statement.In early March, Israeli authorities told several Palestinian firms that their products would not be allowed to pass through the commercial Beitunia Crossing, the Palestinian Ma’an News Agency reported. The five companies are Hamoda, al-Juneidi Dairy and Food Products, al-Rayyan Dairies, Salwa Foods, and Siniora Food Industries.At the time, Israeli authorities did not respond to a Times of Israel request to comment on the decision.The move appeared to be the first time since 2010 that Israel has prohibited West Bank goods from entering East Jerusalem, which it considers sovereign Israeli territory. In that year, Israeli authorities attempted a similar prohibition of West Bank food products, saying they did not meet Israeli standards. The ban was rescinded shortly afterwards, following international pressure, including from the Mideast Quartet and the US administration.Dov Lieber contributed to this report.
Turkey arrests 10 IS members entering from Syria-Security forces nab group trying to cross border, including one wearing explosive device-By AFP March 22, 2016, 9:09 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Turkish security forces on Tuesday arrested 10 suspected Islamic State members at the Syrian border, one of whom was wearing an explosives vest, three days after a suicide attack in Istanbul, local media reported.The suspects were arrested in southern Gaziantep province while trying to illegally cross into Turkey, Dogan agency cited the army as saying.One of the group was wearing an explosive device that was ready to be detonated, according to Dogan, which published pictures of the suspects on their knees with their hands behind their heads, along with what appeared to be an explosives belt.The arrests come as the police hunt three Turkish suspected members of an IS cell believed to be planning further attacks in public places after Saturday’s attack in Istanbul, which killed four foreigners.Three Israelis and an Iranian were killed and 39 people injured when a man identified by authorities as Mehmet Ozturk from Gaziantep blew himself on Istiklal Caddesi, a famous shopping street in the heart of Turkey’s biggest city.No group has claimed responsibility for the attack but Turkey’s government said Ozturk had links to IS.IS has been blamed for four of six bombings that have rocked Turkey in the past eight months, including a massacre at a peace rally in the capital Ankara in October that left 103 people dead.A radical offshoot of the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), with which the state is at war in southeast Turkey, claimed the other two attacks.
Israel arrests 1,200 unauthorized Palestinians workers-Detentions come following Knesset’s approval of tough new law to keep out illegals amid ongoing terror wave-By AFP and Times of Israel staff March 22, 2016, 10:51 pm
Israeli police said Tuesday that they had arrested 1,200 Palestinian workers without permits, under a crackdown aimed at helping to quell a five-month wave of violence.The unauthorized workers were detained along with 150 employers over the past two weeks, a police statement said.On March 14 the Knesset approved a tough new law to keep out illegal Palestinian workers, as part of measures aimed at tackling a surge in attacks against Israelis.The legislation means that the Israeli employer of a Palestinian who has entered the Jewish state without the hard-to-obtain permit could face several years in prison.In the nearly six months of the ongoing wave of terrorism and violence, 29 Israelis and four foreign nationals have been killed in Palestinian attacks. Nearly 190 Palestinians have also been killed, some two-thirds of them while attacking Israelis, and the rest during clashes with troops, according to the Israeli army.An Israeli government adviser said this month that of the attacks in Israel, 44 percent were carried out by Palestinians who were in the Jewish state illegally.
