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)
POPE GOES TO G-7 EVENT ABOUT AI.THAT HOW THE POPE WILL DECIEVE THE WORLD BY MIRACLES IN REV 13:11-18.
LONG
EXPLANATION OF AMERICAS DESTRUCTION (NEW YORK POLITICAL BABYLON OF
REVELATION CHAPTER 18)(REVELATION CHAPTER 17 IS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE
RELIOUS BABYLON THE VATICAN IN ROME)
JEREMIAH 51:29-32
29 And
the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall
be performed against Babylon,(AMERICA-NEW YORK) to make the land of
Babylon (NEW YORK) a desolation without an inhabitant.
30 The mighty
men of Babylon (AMERICA) have forborn to fight, they have remained in
their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have
burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
31 One post shall
run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king
of Babylon (NEW YORK) that his city is taken at one end,
32 And
that the passages are stopped,(THE WAR COMPUTERS HACKED OR EMP'D) and
the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are
affrighted.(DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO)
LEVITICUS 26:30-34 (NY IS BUILT ON A GARBAGE DUMP)
30
And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast
your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my (GODS) soul shall
abhor you.
31 And I will make your cities waste,(GARBAGE-DESTROYED)
and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the
savour of your sweet odours.
32 And I will bring the land into desolation:(RUIN) and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
33
And I will scatter you among the heathen,(ENEMY NATIONS) and will draw
out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities
waste.
34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it
lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the
land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
2 KINGS 19:25
25 Hast thou
not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have
formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay
waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
ISAIAH 34:10
10 It
(NEW YORK-POLITICAL BABYLON) shall not be quenched night nor day; the
smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it
shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
EZEKIEL 39:21
21
And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall
see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon
them.
ISAIAH 18:1-2
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon
the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and
peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation
meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!(AMERICA)
JEREMIAH 50:11,37,12
11
Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine
heritage,(ISRAEL) because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and
bellow as bulls;(BACKSLIDERS)
37 A sword is upon their horses, and
upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the
midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her
treasures; and they shall be robbed.(A NATION OF MINGLED PEOPLE)
12
Your mother (england) shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall
be ashamed:(MOTHER ENGLAND) behold, the hindermost of the nations shall
be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
JEREMIAH 51:13,7,53
13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
7
Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the
earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the
nations are mad.
53 Though Babylon (NEW YORK) should mount up to
heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet
from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.
REVELATION 18:3,5,7
3
For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication,
and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the
merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her
delicacies.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
7
How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much
torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen,
and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3
For out of the north (RUSSIA) there cometh up a nation against her,
which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they
shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a
snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon,(NEW YORK) and thou
wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast
striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK ATTACK ON NEW YORK)
REVELATION 18:9-11,15-21
9
And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived
deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they
shall see the smoke of her burning,(NUKE ATTACK I BELIEVE FROM RUSSIA)
10
Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that
great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment
come.
11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
15
The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand
afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
16 And
saying, Alas, alas that great city, (NEW YORK) that was clothed in fine
linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious
stones, and pearls!
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to
nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors,
and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! (NEW YORK)
19
And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing,
saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had
ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she
made desolate.(1 HOUR NEW YORK IS GONE)
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
21
And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it
into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon
(NEW YORK) be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
THE
CRAZY WORLD IS STILL TRYING TO POKE GOD IN THE EYE WITH THIS USELESS
WASTE OF TIME ISRAEL HATE CEASEFIRE.he continued.“When the locals
realized that the elephant population was dwindling, they gradually
shifted their focus to fallow deer. Identifying the deer’s plentiful
source, they began to develop the unique scrapers in the same place.
This is the earliest instance of a phenomenon that later spread
throughout the world,” Litov said.The Mount Gerizim location, near
Nablus, is especially important because numerous fallow deer bones were
found there at an ancient altar site. As Gerizim is associated with the
Israelite’s entry into the Land of Israel and is considered a sacred
site by the local Samaritan community, “apparently, the Mountains of
Samaria gained a prominent, or even sacred status as early as the
Paleolithic period, and retained their unique cultural position for
hundreds of thousands of years,” the researchers said.
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.
Netanyahu's estranged brother-in-law slated to
speak-Fringe far-right conference to advocate occupation and settlement
of south Lebanon-Uri Tzafon organization sends eviction notices to
residents of Israel’s northern neighbor by balloons and drone, says
Jewish settlement is ‘only solution to conflict in north’By Sam Sokol-16
June 2024, 2:48 am
Members of a small far-right group advocating
the annexation and settlement of southern Lebanon are set to hold a
video conference on Monday, claiming their approach is the “only
solution” to the ongoing clashes with Hezbollah amid increasingly vocal
calls for Israel to invade its northern neighbor.“More assassinations in
Lebanon, more firing of missiles, more alarms in the northern
settlements, and no real change is visible on the horizon,” the Uri
Tzafon organization said in a statement last week decrying the current
escalation in the north. As an alternative, it invited the public to
participate in what it is calling “the first Lebanon conference” focused
on “occupation of the territory and settlement.”According to Uri
Tzafon, among those set to address the conference, which will take place
on Zoom, are Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s estranged
brother-in-law Hagi Ben Artzi and Amiad Cohen, the head of Herut: Israel
Liberty Center, the now-independent Israeli branch of the conservative
Tikvah Fund.Tens of thousands of residents of towns and villages along
Israel’s northern border have been forced from their homes for the past
eight months due to the near-daily cross-border attacks by Hezbollah,
which has been striking Israel since immediately after Hamas’s brutal
October 7 terror onslaught.The attacks have persisted despite constant
warnings by Israel that it could launch a war to push Hezbollah away
from the border in order to restore calm, with most evacuees facing the
prospect of remaining displaced for the foreseeable future.So far, the
skirmishes on the border have resulted in 10 civilian deaths on the
Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 17 IDF soldiers and reservists.
There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any
injuries.Hezbollah has named 342 members who have been killed by Israel
during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria.
In Lebanon, another 63 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese
soldier, and dozens of civilians have been killed.Accusing the
government of “procrastinating” on its response to the crisis, members
of Uri Tzafon last week said it flew drones and balloons carrying
eviction notices to residents of southern Lebanon.“The announcements
make it clear to the residents that they are in the Land of Israel,
which belongs to the Jewish people, and that they are required to
evacuate immediately. A detailed explanatory map was attached to the
announcements,” the group said in a post on its Telegram channel, which
has slightly over 300 followers.Explaining its ideology in another post
earlier this month, the group stated that following the 1967 Six-Day
War, “many settlements were built in all the extensive areas that were
added” to the country but that “out of the neighboring Arab countries:
Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, Lebanon is the only one that did not
pay in Jewish land and settlement.” (While Lebanon joined those other
countries in attacking Israel during the War of Independence in 1948, it
did not take part in the Six-Day War.)“The time has come to collect the
price of aggression through occupation and settlement,” the group
stated.Writing in the national-religious Makor Rishon newspaper earlier
this year, Doron Nir-Zvi, one of the conferences’s slated speakers,
insisted that settling southern Lebanon is a national security necessity
“because we have learned that where there is no settlement — sooner or
later there is no army either.”“And we learned this right there, in the
security zone in Lebanon, from which the IDF withdrew after about 18
years of holding it,” he wrote.This approach has been repudiated by the
more mainstream right, with the Makor Rishon newspaper recently running
an opinion piece arguing that “history gives us legitimacy for
settlement in Judea and Samaria, but not in south Lebanon.”Responding to
PLO rocket fire and other attacks, Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, only
fully withdrawing to the international border from its security zone in
the south of the country in 2000. A Second Lebanon War was triggered in
2006 when Hezbollah conducted a cross-border raid, killing three IDF
soldiers and taking two hostage.If the current escalation led to all-out
war, analysts believe, Israel would probably bomb targets in southern
Lebanon before soldiers tried to push at least 10 kilometers (6.2 miles)
across the border. Hezbollah would likely use its estimated arsenal of
over 150,000 rockets to target Israeli cities. In 2006, the group fired
about 4,000 missiles at Israel.Israeli politicians on the right have
increasingly called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to invade
Lebanon, but even the most militant have so far refrained from
advocating the settlement of any territories captured in a war.In
January, hawkish politician Avigdor Liberman, head of the opposition
Yisrael Beytenu party, called on Israel to reoccupy southern Lebanon,
saying the country must “pay in territory” for damage caused by
Hezbollah strikes on Israel’s northern towns.The IDF must “close off” a
swath of southern Lebanon and push the terror group north of the Litani
river, even if it means 50 years of occupation, Liberman said at the
time, insisting that “we will not annex anything, and we will not build
settlements, but we will release the territory only when there is a
government in Beirut that knows how to exercise its sovereignty.”Both
far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance
Minister Bezalel Smotrich have also called for an invasion of
Lebanon.Speaking at a faction meeting of his far-right Religious Zionism
party in northern Israel last month, Smotrich demanded that Netanyahu
issue a “public ultimatum” that Hezbollah “completely stop firing and
withdraw all forces to beyond the Litani River.”“If the ultimatum is not
fully met, the IDF will launch an assault deep in Lebanese territory to
defend the northern communities, including ground entry and Israeli
military takeover of the southern Lebanese area,” said Smotrich.“The way
to bring the [evacuated] residents home to the north is through a
military decision with a devastating assault on Hezbollah and its
infrastructure, and the destruction of its power.”While neither Smotrich
nor Ben Gvir have advocated settling Israeli Jews in Lebanon, both have
come out in favor of reestablishing Jewish settlement in Gaza, with Ben
Gvir stating that he would be “very happy to live in Gaza” following
the war.Ben Gvir was one of 11 government ministers and 15 coalition
lawmakers who attended a mass conference in January advocating the
rebuilding of Jewish Israeli settlements in the heart of the Gaza
Strip.Reuters and Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
GENESIS 6:11-13
11
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with
violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the
earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and,
behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
JESUS
SHED HIS BLOOD FOR US THAT WE CAN BE SAVED FOREVER.AND DURING WW3
PEOPLES BLOOD WILL BE SHED AS A JUDGEMENT FOR HATING HIM AND ISRAEL.GOD
IS NOT MOCKED.
ZEPHANIAH 1:2-3
2 I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.
3
I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven,
and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I
will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.
PSALMS 97:3
3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
EZEKIEL 5:15-17
15
So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an
astonishment unto the (ARAB/MUSLIM) nations that are round about
thee,(ISRAEL) when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in
fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
16 When I
shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their
destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase
the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
17 So will I
send upon you famine and evil beasts,(WHEN RUSSIA/MUSLIMS GET DEFEATED
THIER BODIES GET EATEN BY BIRDS,ANIMALS IN ISRAEL MIGRATION SEASON) and
they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through
thee;(NUKES) and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have
spoken it.
REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out
from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to
him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and
gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully
ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and
gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of
the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the
city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the
horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200
MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)
ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold,
the LORD will come with fire,(NUKES) and with his chariots like a
whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of
fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17
They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens
behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination,
and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I
know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather
all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
ISAIAH 26:21
21
For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants
of the earth for their iniquity:(GOD/ISRAEL HATE AND BRAKING OF HIS
COMMANDMENTS) the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more
cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die - 3 BILLION).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8
And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them;
they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed
one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of
the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land
desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For
the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their
light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall
not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for
their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the
arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the
terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13
Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of
her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his
fierce anger.
ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18
And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the
fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of
the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are
open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20
The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed
like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it;
and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass
in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that
are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they
shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and
shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be
visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed,
when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and
before his ancients gloriously.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
JOEL 2:3,30
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.
REVELATION 8:7
7
The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with
blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees
was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
REVELATION 9:18
18
By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the
fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their
mouths.(ATOMIC BOMBS)(RUSSIA CHINA DESTROYED BY ISRAELS ATOMIC BOMBS)
REVELATION 16:12-16
12
And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river
Euphrates;(WERE WW3 STARTS IN IRAQ OR SYRIA OR TURKEY) and the water
thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be
prepared.
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of
the mouth of the dragon,(SATAN) and out of the mouth of the beast,(WORLD
DICTATOR) and out of the mouth of the false prophet.(FALSE POPE)
14
For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth
unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to
the battle of that great day of God Almighty.(WERE 2 BILLION DIE FROM
NUKE WAR)
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
17
And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a
great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is
done.
PROOF HALF ON EARTH DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD (8 BILLION ON EARTH)
REVELATION 6:7-8 (8 BILLION- 2 BILLION = 6 BILLION)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8
And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that
sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given
unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 BILLION) to kill with
sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE
DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
REVELATION 9:15,18 (6 BILLION - 2 BILLION = 4 BILLION)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,
18
By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the
fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their
mouths.(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS)
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE
17:34-37 (8 TOTAL BILLION - 4 BILLION DEAD IN TRIB = 4 BILLION TO JESUS
KINGDOM) (HALF DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD JUST LIKE THE
BIBLE SAYS)(GOD DOES NOT LIE)(AND NOTICE MOST DIE IN WAR AND
DISEASES-NOT COMETS-ASTEROIDS-QUAKES OR TSUNAMIS)
34 I tell you, in
that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN
WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.(half earths population 4
billion die in the 7 yr trib)
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37
And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto
them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered
together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against
Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten
by the birds).THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-NOT RAPTURE
SCRIPTURES.BECAUSE NOT HALF OF PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.AND THE
CONTEXT IN LUKE 17 IS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION OR 7 YR TREATY PERIOD.WHICH
IS JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH.NOT 50% RAPTURED TO HEAVEN.
MATTHEW 24:37-42 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)(50% OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE)
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe
entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
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 32:18-29 (NOTICE ALL THE COUNTRIES LAND PROMISED ISRAEL BY GOD ARE IN THE JORDAN VALLEY BURIED)
18
“Son of man, wail for the multitudes of Egypt, and consign her and the
daughters of the mighty nations to the depths of the earth with those
who descend to the Pit:
19 Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be placed with the uncircumcised! (IN HELL FIRES)
20 They will fall among those slain by the sword. The sword is appointed! Let them drag her away along with all her multitudes.
21
Mighty chiefs will speak from the midst of Sheol about Egypt and her
allies: ‘They have come down and lie with the uncircumcised, with those
slain by the sword.’
22 Assyria (SYRIA) is there with her whole company; her graves are all around her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword.
23
Her graves are set in the depths of the Pit, and her company is all
around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword—those who
once spread terror in the land of the living.
24 Elam (IRAN) is there
with all her multitudes around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen
by the sword—those who went down uncircumcised to the earth below, who
once spread their terror in the land of the living. They bear their
disgrace with those who descend to the Pit.
25 Among the slain they
prepare a resting place for Elam with all her hordes, with her graves
all around her. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword,
although their terror was once spread in the land of the living. They
bear their disgrace with those who descend to the Pit. They are placed
among the slain.
26 Meshech and Tubal (RUSSIA) are there with all
their multitudes, with their graves all around them. All of them are
uncircumcised, slain by the sword, because they spread their terror in
the land of the living.
27 They do not lie down with the fallen
warriors of old, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose
swords were placed under their heads, whose shields rested on their
bones, although the terror of the mighty was once in the land of the
living.
28 But you too will be shattered and lie down among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword.
29
Edom (JORDAN) is there, and all her kings and princes, who despite
their might are laid among those slain by the sword. They lie down with
the uncircumcised, with those who descend to the Pit.THIS IS RIGHT FROM
93:
PSALMS 83:1-8 (GODS LAND PROMISED TO ISRAEL)
1 O God, do not remain silent;do not turn a deaf ear,do not stand aloof, O God.
2 See how your enemies growl, how your foes rear their heads.
3 With cunning they (ARAB,MUSLIMS) conspire against your people;they plot against those you cherish.(ISRAELIS)
4 “Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.”
5 With one mind they plot together;(TREATIES) they form an alliance against you—
6
the tents of Edom (JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites, (EGYPTIAN ARABS SO
CALLED PALESTIANS) of Moab (JORDAN) and the Hagrites,(EGYPT)
7 Byblos,(HEZBOLLOH) Ammon (JORDAN) and Amalek,(SYRIAN ARABS IN THE SINAI) Philistia,(ARABS) with the people of Tyre (LEBANON).
8 Even Assyria (SYRIA) has joined them to reinforce Lot’s descendants.
DR SAMUEL DOCTORIANS VISION - SECOND ANGEL: MIDDLE EAST
Then
I saw that the second angel had a sickle in his hand, such as is used
in harvesting.The second angel said: "Harvest time has come in Israel
and the countries all the way to Iran."I saw those countries in a few
split seconds."All of Turkey and those [inaudible] countries that have
refused me and refused my message of love shall hate each other and kill
one another."I saw the angel raise the sickle and come down on all the
Middle East countries. I saw Iran, Persia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, all of
Georgia - Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, all of Asia Minor - full
of blood. I saw blood all over these countries. And I saw fire; Nuclear
weapons used in many of those countries. Smoke rising from everywhere.
Sudden destruction – men destroying one another. I heard these
words:"Israel, Oh Israel, the great judgment has come." The angel said,
"The chosen, the church, the remnant, shall be purified. The Spirit of
God shall prepare the children of God."I saw fires rising to heaven.The
angel said: "This is the final judgment. My church shall be purified,
protected and ready for the final day. Men will die from thirst. Water
shall be scarce all over the Middle East. Rivers shall dry up, and men
will fight for water in those countries."The angel showed me that the
United Nations shall be broken in pieces because of the crisis in the
Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The angel with the
sickle shall reap the harvest.
I
JUST HEARD ON FOX NEWS A FEW MINUTES AGO THAT SOMEBODY IN BATIMORE USED
CHEMICAL WEAPONS ON GAYS AT EITHER A PARTY OR A PARADE.GUESS WHO ELSE
SHOULD BE CHEMICAL WEAPONED BY MUSTARD GAS. ALL THESE PUSS HEAD ARAB
COCKROACH PROTESTERS.AT THESE SCHOOLS IN CANADA AND AMERICA AND AROUND
THE WORLD.TEACH THESE PUSS HEAD ARAB SUPPORTERS A LESSON.
Several
injured after 'chemical agent,' fireworks caused mass exodus at
Baltimore Pride event-DAVONE MORALES-Sun, June 16, 2024 at 2:43 p.m. EDT
Several
people were injured as they attempted to flee a Baltimore pride event
after a "chemical agent" was released and fireworks were set off in a
crowd Saturday evening, according to Baltimore Police.Shortly after 8:30
p.m., officers stationed for Pride Parade festivities were informed
that a possible chemical agent, potentially mace, hair spray, or another
agent was released into the crowd gathered in front of the main music
stage, according to police.Fireworks were also set off at the same
location, causing a mass exodus that left several people injured as they
attempted to flee the area.Fire officials treated those individuals and
the event was subsequently shut down.Police did not share how many
people were injured in the mass exodus.Authorities are still working to
confirm what type of chemical agent was used and are "diligently
reviewing" surveillance video to piece together the series of events.
Police say they do not believe this was a targeted attack.The
investigation is ongoing, according to police.Several injured after
'chemical agent,' fireworks caused mass exodus at Baltimore Pride event
originally appeared on abcnews.go.com
A tragic day for the people
of Israel'-11 funerals for IDF commanders, soldiers held across Israel
as nation mourns-Troops killed in three separate incidents in Gaza laid
to rest at funerals from north to south; Druze village of Beit Jann
delays Eid al-Adha celebrations for day of mourning-By ToI Staff 16 June
2024, 11:41 pm
Eleven funerals were held across Israel on Sunday
for Israel Defense Forces troops who died over the weekend in three
separate incidents in fighting in the Gaza Strip.Most of the fallen
soldiers laid to rest on Sunday were killed in a blast in southern
Gaza’s Rafah on Saturday morning, in what marked the deadliest incident
for the IDF in the Strip since January. The troops all served in the
Combat Engineering Corps’ 601st Battalion. Seven of their funerals were
held Sunday, and the eighth will be held on Monday.Separately, two
reservists were killed Saturday fighting in northern Gaza, while another
soldier succumbed to his wounds sustained in battle five days earlier,
and a soldier was also killed in Rafah on Sunday.Cpt. Wassem Mahmoud,
23, a deputy commander, was laid to rest in Beit Jann, where the village
delayed celebrations for the Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday to pay their
respects to the fallen soldier.“It is a tragic day for the people of
Israel, for the State of Israel, a great loss,” his uncle Sharif said on
Sunday. “Wassem was meant to go and study, that was the last
conversation I had with him. He was chosen as a representative from the
battalion to go and study.”Druze leader Sheikh Muakfak Tarif eulogized
Mahmoud at his funeral as a dedicated soldier who fought for his country
ever since war erupted with Hamas’s October 7 massacre in southern
Israel.“Wassem led his soldiers in the Combat Engineering Corps’ since
the outbreak of the war, he didn’t give up, he kept his head held high,
he pushed on and continued to fight even after he was wounded,” the
spiritual leader said.Mahmoud was injured fighting on October 7 but
returned to the battlefield without telling his family that he had been
hospitalized. Instead, he chose to “stay at the front, out of complete
faith and identification with the goals of the war, to protect the
southern border and prevent terrible massacres like what happened in the
Gaza border communities on October 7,” Tarif said.He added that the
Druze community “carries the burden of service, and everything that
comes with it, including the painful parts.”Sgt. Eliyahu Moshe
Zimbalist, also killed in the blast in Rafah on Saturday, was laid to
rest in the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem.Zimbalist, 21,
moved to Israel from the United States with his family in 2005 as a
toddler, and grew up in Beit Shemesh. Community members lined the
streets, waving Israeli flags, to support the mourning family as they
made their way to the cemetery in Jerusalem.“Eliyahu Moshe, the gibor
(hero). You were supposed to be speaking at my funeral, not me speaking
at yours,” his father Simmy said in English at his graveside. “You were
supposed to say kaddish (the Jewish prayer for the dead), not me. This
is one of the most difficult days for me and our family. There are no
words to express our feelings.”According to an initial IDF probe, the
troops were all killed inside a Namer armored combat engineering vehicle
(CEV). There were no survivors. The soldiers had been driving in a
convoy that was heading to buildings captured by the army, for the
troops to rest following the overnight operation. The Namer CEV was the
fifth or sixth vehicle in the convoy, and at some point, it was hit by a
major explosion.It was not immediately clear from the investigation if
it was a bomb planted ahead of time or if Hamas operatives had
approached the vehicle with an explosive device and directly placed it
on the CEV.Staff Sgt. Stanislav Kostarev, 21, also from the 601st
Battalion, was laid to rest on Sunday in Ashdod.The principal of the Eva
Tevet school where Kostarev studied remembered him as “quiet and
introverted, always respectful of humanity, a wise and humble boy,
pleasant and kind-hearted,” according to the Ynet news site.Also killed
in the explosion in Rafah, Sgt. Itay Amar, 19, was laid to rest in
Kochav Yair on Sunday.“Itay was a boy who would make everyone smile,”
his close friend Ohad told the Walla news site. “You couldn’t be sad
next to him. He’d cling to you and not let you go until he made you
smile. He was really a stellar person.”A video of Amar circulated on
social media on Sunday showing him dancing at an elderly care home with
Liri Albag, who was kidnapped on October 7 from her IDF base and is
still held by terrorists in Gaza.“Itay told us he had a friend who was
kidnapped, Liri Albag, that was difficult for him. He had the honor of
dying to defend the people of Israel,” his brother Ofir told the Kan
broadcaster.Staff Sgt. Oz Yeshaya Gruber, 20, from Tal Menashe, was
buried in the northern West Bank settlement of Shaked on Sunday. He is
survived by his parents and five siblings.Tal Menashe chairman Yuval
Butzer remembered Gruber as “a hero on the battlefield who was always
smiling, always with good vibes. Always happy to lend a hand.”Staff Sgt.
Orr Blumovitz, 20, was laid to rest on Sunday in Pardes Hanna-Karkur.
His siblings remembered him at his funeral as “a bookworm,” who read
over a thousand books on Israeli history, according to the Ynet news
site.“My brother, the fallen soldier was a great scholar of history, a
kind of ‘bookworm’. He was a hero, I can’t comprehend that he won’t come
home again,” Orr’s younger brother, Tal, was quoted as saying.Sgt.
Yakir Ya’akov Levi, 21, from Hafetz Haim, was buried at the Mount Herzl
military cemetery in Jerusalem. He is survived by his parents and four
brothers and sisters.One of Levi’s teachers in the hesder yeshiva
program, in which religious soldiers are permitted to shorten their
military service and combine it with Torah studies, Rabbi Zachariah
Rabinovitch, eulogized him as “a very enlightening, sociable and
pleasant person. Yakir was very bright, razor sharp. The last time he
came to visit the yeshiva, Yakir sat with me to study with a light in
his eyes… He was very determined to win and not to see blackness, to
have his head held high and to give his all.”The eighth soldier killed
in the blast, Sgt. Shalom Menachem, 21, from Beit El, will be laid to
rest in Jerusalem late Sunday evening. He studied in the hesder yeshiva
program along with Levi and Zimbalist, and is survived by his parents
and seven siblings.“The grief is unfathomable. He fell as a hero in the
war for our existence. Our hearts are with his family’s heavy loss,”
Beit El council head Shay Alon eulogized the fallen soldier.Cpt. (res.)
Eitan Koplovich and Warrant Officer (res.) Elon Weiss, both from the
IDF’s 8th Reserve Armored Brigade’s 129th Battalion, were killed by an
explosive device detonated against their tank in northern Gaza over the
weekend. Two other soldiers in the tank were seriously wounded by the
blast.Koplovich, 28, was laid to rest on Sunday in Hoshaya, in the north
of Israel. He leaves behind him his wife and baby.“Eitan was a captain
in the Reserve Armored Brigade, and commanded the troops as part of the
operation in which he fell,” his uncle Golan was quoted as saying by the
Maariv newspaper. “He entered Gaza about a week and a half ago — after
four months of fighting in the north since the outbreak of the war.”“He
entered Gaza at short notice, so he didn’t time to tell us much about
what he experienced. He graduated with honors from law at the Hebrew
University, and was about to start interviewing for internships,” Golan
said.Weiss, 49, was also laid to rest on Sunday, in the Mount Herzl
military cemetery in Jerusalem. He leaves behind him seven children and
one granddaughter.His commander, Lt. Col. Ariel Ben Baruch, remembered
him as a “veteran and dedicated fighter… an educator in both routine
times and during emergencies. You always acted patiently.”“Thank you for
your bravery. I salute you on your final journey,” he added.Weiss’s
brother, Asaf, eulogized him at the funeral in Jerusalem: “My brother
the hero. My brother, Elon, in four months you would have been 50 years
old, with seven sweet children and a sweet granddaughter. You didn’t
hesitate to report for reserves duty.”Sgt. Yair Roitman, an IDF soldier
who was seriously wounded last week in southern Gaza, succumbed to his
wounds on Saturday and was buried in Karnei Shomron on Sunday.Roitman,
19, of the Givati Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, was wounded in a blast
in a booby-trapped building on June 10, in an incident that killed four
other soldiers and wounded six, including four seriously.At his funeral,
his mother, Ricki, said Yair “was a perfect child — but I always felt
like you were too good for this world. You were a child who never gave
up, did what he wanted, and dragged everyone else toward your dreams…
you were larger than life.”Staff Sgt. Tzur Abraham, 22, of the Nahal
Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, from Modiin, was killed fighting in Rafah
on Sunday, and was slated to be buried late Sunday night in Modiin.His
parents, Shamir and Yifat, said that “the light in his eyes, the
gentleness of his soul and his joy for life will accompany us forever.”A
total of 311 Israeli troops have been killed during the ground
offensive against Hamas and amid operations along the Gaza border. The
toll includes a police officer killed in a hostage rescue mission. A
civilian Defense Ministry contractor has also been killed in the
Strip.Emanuel Fabian contributed to this report.
Knesset revives
bill expanding Chief Rabbinate’s influence over local
authorities-Previously torpedoed by Benny Gantz, legislation could cost
taxpayers tens of millions of shekels annually in salaries for hundreds
of new neighborhood rabbis-By Sam Sokol-16 June 2024, 9:38 pm
The
Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on Sunday announced the
revival of a controversial bill that would greatly expand the influence
of the Chief Rabbinate and the Religious Services Ministry in the
appointment of municipal rabbis at the expense of local authorities —
while at the same time also eroding the role of women in the process.If
passed into law, the bill, which will be brought up for discussion in
the committee on Tuesday, could cost taxpayers tens of millions of
shekels annually in salaries for hundreds of new neighborhood rabbis
employed by local municipalities.Following pushback by National Unity
leader Benny Gantz and New Hope leader Gideon Sa’ar, the bill — which
would have paved the way for hundreds of new government-funded
rabbinical posts — was indefinitely put on ice by lawmakers earlier this
year.Both parties objected to the bill on the grounds that it violated
the terms of an agreement requiring that all coalition parties agree on
any legislation advanced during wartime. However, Sa’ar left the
coalition shortly after the bill was shelved, followed by Gantz last
Sunday, paving the way for its reintroduction.“Netanyahu and his
coalition prove once again that for them politics is above all else; the
main thing is to survive,” the National Unity party said in a statement
on Sunday.“Precisely now, when the north is on fire and the south is at
war, the coalition decides to promote a twisted law, inflame the rift
in the nation and break new records of disconnection. We prevented the
promotion of the law three months ago, and we will do everything to
thwart it now as well,” the statement added.According to a revised draft
sent to members of the press, it appears that some efforts have been
made to address critics’ concerns, including requiring the Religious
Services Minister to consult with the head of local authorities before
appointing representatives to election committees.Critics of the bill
allege that it would benefit the Shas party by providing jobs for its
apparatchiks and increasing the Orthodox Chief Rabbinate’s say both in
appointing rabbis and in how they operate.It would create hundreds of
publicly funded jobs for Orthodox rabbis, while giving the Chief
Rabbinate of Israel considerable say in the appointment of all new
municipal rabbis, reversing changes instituted in 2022 by former
religious services minister Matan Kahana, a National Unity lawmaker.It
would also remove restrictions on holding a vote for a municipal rabbi
in the immediate lead-up to municipal or parliamentary elections – a
stipulation meant to ensure that rabbinical appointments do not become
currency in political trading — and lower the minimum number of women on
the rabbinical appointment boards from 40 percent to one-third.In
addition, the legislation would do away with a requirement for cities to
renew municipal rabbis’ terms every 10 years or give them the option of
convening election assemblies to appoint a new rabbi. Instead, city
rabbis would essentially hold their jobs until they turn 75, after which
they would need to have the city that employs them extend their
terms.Israel has about 470 municipal rabbis in total. Their monthly
salaries range from NIS 9,000 ($2,400) to NIS 43,000 ($11,200). Some 30
cities without a rabbi would be forced to hire one under the bill, and
Tel Aviv and Haifa, which do not currently have any rabbis, would need
to hire a minimum of two.In an analysis of the bill over the summer, the
Israel Democracy Institute found that it would allow for the hiring of
1,070 new rabbis, though there were only plans for 514, at a cost of NIS
120 million ($33 million).“The situation is absurd. Rather than seeing
how fractured our nation is right now, how threatened we are
existentially and how dangerous our internal situation, [committee
chairman MK Simcha] Rothman and co. are taking advantage of the war to
pass a bill that will spend tens of millions of shekels to deprive
citizens of their basic Jewish rights and provide more jobs for the
Haredim,” Rabbi Seth Farber, the director of the ITIM nonprofit, an
advocacy group that helps Israelis navigate their country’s religious
bureaucracy, told the Times of Israel.After the bill was shelved earlier
this year, the Religious Services Ministry introduced a set of proposed
regulations that would accomplish the same goal while sidestepping
intense public and legislative opposition.Currently, local governments
have a majority on the election committees, with 50% of the votes going
to city councilmen and the municipality director-general and the rest
evenly split between public representatives chosen by the municipality
and the religious services minister.Under the new regulations,
municipality director-generals would have been replaced by the heads of
local religious councils (who are often appointed by the minister) while
the municipality’s public representatives would be cut out of the
process entirely.However, the regulations were never implemented and now
appear irrelevant as the matter has returned to the Knesset in
legislative form.Following the announcement of the bill’s revival, Likud
lawmakers took to the Constitution Committee’s WhatsApp group to voice
their opposition, Army Radio reported.“Why… are we bringing up a law
that is controversial and causes controversy during a time of war,”
asked MK Tally Gotliv. “There are enough laws to prepare that are
connected to the war. Leave the disputes and this law for better days
and take it off the agenda.”“It was agreed by everyone that it is wrong
to promote the law during a war, so it’s unclear why it has now been
decided to renew the debate on the law,” chimed in MK Moshe Saada.“They
thought we wouldn’t notice. Enough already,” Gotliv responded.Canaan
Lidor contributed to this report.
Government backs new extension
to IDF reservists’ service despite backlash-Ministerial Committee
supports bill extending emergency measure by three months, endorses
Basic Law giving reservists preferential treatment in housing, academia
and civil service-By Sam Sokol-16 June 2024, 7:45 pm
The
government on Sunday gave its backing to a draft bill delaying
retirement for IDF reservists, amid widespread criticism of its
recruitment policies, which many Israelis believe place unequal burdens
on different segments of the population.The proposal, a Defense
Ministry-backed “draft Security Service Law,” calls to extend a
temporary measure raising the exemption age for reserve military service
from 40 to 41 for soldiers and from 45 to 46 for officers for several
additional months due to an ongoing manpower shortage.Specialists such
as doctors and air crewmen will be required to continue serving until
50, instead of 49.The current increase in the exemption age, which was
initially passed by the Knesset late last year, is set to expire at the
end of the month.After canceling a scheduled cabinet discussion on the
measure on Sunday morning following harsh public criticism, the
government referred the matter to the Ministerial Committee for
Legislation. The committee approved sending the legislation to the
Knesset, where it must pass three readings to become law.If eventually
approved by the Knesset, the draft bill would mark the second extension
of the measure, which was intended as a stopgap solution to prevent a
mass release from the reserves of those soldiers reaching the exemption
age amid ongoing combat operations in Gaza.It was first extended for
four months by 44-33 a Knesset vote in late February.Despite the Defense
Ministry calling to extend the measure until the end of the year, the
committee only supported a three-month extension, following objections
by Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara.Baharav-Miara told the government
on Sunday that the bill was legally unacceptable unless an immediate
effort is made to draft extra military power “from the entire
population,” a reference to the tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox
yeshiva students who receive blanket exemptions from military
service.The government has faced harsh public backlash over extending
reservists’ service while appearing to take little action to draft the
ultra-Orthodox. The Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee is
set on Tuesday to debate a bill lowering the age of exemption from
mandatory service for Haredi yeshiva students.The bill aims to exempt
yeshiva students from service at age 21 while at the same time “very
slowly” increasing the rate of ultra-Orthodox conscription.Following the
committee’s announcement to back the bill, Opposition Leader Yair Lapid
accused the government of discriminating “between blood and blood,”
declaring that the extension means additional service for those already
in the army “while the government promotes a mass evasion law for
ultra-Orthodox youth.”While being careful not to comment on any current
legislation or wade into politics, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi
Halevi also endorsed integrating the ultra-Orthodox into the army during
comments released on Sunday.Speaking to soldiers during a visit to Gaza
over the weekend, Halevi said that there “is now a clear need” for
Haredi soldiers and that every “ultra-Orthodox battalion [the army
establishes] decreases the need for the deployment of many thousands of
reservists.”Over the past eight months, reservists have complained of
economic and familial problems brought about by their long, repeated
stints in the army. In many cases, spouses were left alone to care for
children — sometimes with schools and kindergartens closed due to the
war, depending on the area — and were unable to work for months.At the
same time as the committee voted to support the increase in the
exemption age, it also endorsed a proposed Basic Law drafted by the
Religious Zionism party and backed by both coalition and opposition
lawmakers.The bill would give enshrine reserve duty as a “fundamental
value” of the state and give preferential treatment to reservists in
land purchases, academic admissions and civil service employment.The
bill’s intention was to provide reservists “a special status, to give
them recognition,” its author, Religious Zionism MK Ohad Tal, told the
Times of Israel — adding that equalizing the burden between
ultra-Orthodox Israelis and their peers in the service requires
“changing the structure of incentives,” both positive and negative.Asked
how he squared his support for the reservists with his vote in favor of
the Haredi enlistment bill, Tal called to amend the controversial
legislation to increase enforcement in order to draft those only
pretending to learn in yeshiva — but said that there was no immediate
path to drafting all of the ultra-Orthodox and that he was thinking long
term.Allowing yeshiva students to leave yeshiva and enter the workforce
at age 21 would foster greater integration into Israeli society and the
economy, leading to more Haredim serving down the road, Tal argued.“I
want them to be part of the Israel economy, to contribute, to pay taxes,
because I think that’s the only way. Also, for their children, if
they’ll be part of society, I have no doubt that also their children,
when they’ll be examining the question of if they need to join the army,
they’ll be in a different place,” he said.“You cannot change 76 years
of mentality in any bill,” Tal added. “There’s no bill that can actually
make it happen tomorrow. You can initiate the process. In 20 years, in a
generation, we’ll see a whole change.”Jeremy Sharon contributed to this
report.
Far-right ministers blast ‘delusional’ daily pauses in
fighting to secure Gaza aid-Netanyahu criticizes move, but IDF says it’s
in line with his instructions; Ben Gvir claims decision contrary to
cabinet policy; Smotrich says aid mostly ends up in Hamas’s hands-By Sam
Sokol-16 June 2024, 2:50 pm
Far-right ministers on Sunday
decried a decision by the military to implement a daily pause in
military activity along a road in the southern Gaza Strip to enable aid
deliveries, describing the measure as foolish and “delusional.”Although
the Israel Defense Forces has frequently announced “tactical pauses”
since October 7 for several hours in various neighborhoods across the
Strip for Palestinians to receive and distribute aid, the latest move
marked a more significant daily halt in military activity, for more
hours than usual and across a wider area.National Security Minister
Itamar Ben Gvir said in a statement that whoever decided on such a
policy is a “fool who should not remain in his position.”“Unfortunately,
this move was not brought before the cabinet and is contrary to its
decisions. It’s time to get out of the [outdated pre-October 7 security]
concept and stop the crazy and delusional approach that only brings us
more dead and fallen,” the statement read.Finance Minister Bezalel
Smotrich attacked the IDF’s “delusional announcement,” complaining that
“the ‘humanitarian aid’ that continues to reach Hamas keeps it in power
and may pour the achievements of the war down the drain.“The manner in
which the humanitarian effort in the Gaza Strip is being managed, in the
framework of which aid goes largely to Hamas and helps it to retain
civilian control of the Strip in direct contradiction to the goals of
the war, has been bad throughout the last few months,” he claimed,
adding that he had repeatedly warned that “this is one of the reasons
for the continuation of the war and the resounding strategic failure” of
the war effort.“The [IDF] chief of staff and the defense minister have
for six months been firmly refusing the only path to victory, which is
the occupation of the Strip and the establishment of a temporary
military government there until the complete destruction of Hamas, and
unfortunately Prime Minister Netanyahu is either unwilling or unable to
force this on them,” he said.“The problem is that the General Staff is
completely disconnected from the existence of the forces in the field
[if] it is able to issue such a message on a day when we are burying 11
of our best soldiers,” he added.The ministers’ comments came after the
IDF stated that “a local, tactical pause of military activity for
humanitarian purposes will take place from 8 a.m. until 7 p.m. every day
until further notice along the road that leads from the Kerem Shalom
Crossing to the Salah al-Din Road and then further north.”The military
said in a separate, follow-up statement that it “clarifies that there is
no suspension of fighting in the southern Gaza Strip and the fighting
in Rafah continues.”Ben Gvir, a member of the security cabinet but not
the smaller war cabinet, has grumbled throughout the war about being
left out of decision-making forums by the prime minister. Smotrich, who
likewise is a member of the security cabinet but not the smaller forum,
has been involved in an ongoing feud with the defense establishment,
clashing over budgets and arguing against the wartime appointment of
senior officers.Far-right ministers and activists have repeatedly
slammed and attempted to interrupt the delivery of humanitarian aid to
the Strip for as long as Hamas continues to hold hostages it took during
the October 7 massacre.Upon hearing the military’s initial announcement
on the measure, Netanyahu contacted his military secretary and “made it
clear that this is not acceptable to him,” a diplomatic source
said.“After an inquiry, the prime minister was informed that there was
no change in IDF policy and that the fighting in Rafah continues as
planned,” the source added.The IDF said later in the day that its
decision was in line with instructions by Netanyahu to increase the flow
of aid into the Strip by allowing safe passage for convoys.After
Hamas’s shock October 7 assault on the Gaza border communities, in which
some 1,200 people were killed and 251 abducted, Israel halted the
transfer of almost all aid shipments into the Gaza Strip, easing the
blockade gradually over the following months.As the humanitarian
situation in the Strip deteriorated, Israel faced mounting international
pressure to accelerate the transfer of supplies into the embattled
enclave, where according to the United Nations, hunger conditions have
reached famine levels. Aid organizations said that the northern Gaza
Strip, where Israel’s ground offensive began, is especially difficult to
reach.Emanuel Fabian and Times of Israel staff contributed to this
report.
IDF warns Hezbollah is bringing Israel to the brink of a
‘wider escalation’-As cross-border attacks escalate, spokesman Daniel
Hagari says ‘one way or another we will ensure the safe return of
Israelis to their homes — that is not up for negotiation’
By Emanuel Fabian-and ToI Staff Today, 1:40 am-JUN 16,24
Intensified
cross-border fire from Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group into Israel
could trigger serious escalation, the Israeli military said on
Sunday.“Hezbollah’s increasing aggression is bringing us to the brink of
what could be a wider escalation, one that could have devastating
consequences for Lebanon and the entire region,” IDF Spokesman Rear Adm.
Daniel Hagari said in an English-language video statement.Hezbollah and
Israel have been escalating cross-border strikes. After rocket attacks
caused massive fires in the north, Israel last week killed commander
Taleb Abdullah, the most senior official killed in the fighting.
Hezbollah responded with unprecedented rocket barrages on northern
Israel.Two UN officials in Lebanon warned Sunday there was a “very real”
risk that a miscalculation along Lebanon’s southern border could
trigger a wider conflict.The United Nations special coordinator for
Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, and the head of UN peacekeeping
forces in Lebanon, Aroldo Lazaro, said in a statement that they were
“deeply concerned” about the escalation along Lebanon’s border.CBS News
reported that US officials were also increasingly concerned that an
all-out war could break out after eight months of skirmishes, since
Hezbollah began attacking Israel in October in support of Hamas in
Gaza.In light of the US concerns, the Axios news site reported Friday
that Amos Hochstein, a senior adviser to US President Joe Biden, will
arrive in Israel on Monday to try to put a lid on the escalation.Hagari
said Hezbollah “has been escalating its attacks against Israel. Since
deciding to join the war that Hamas started on October 7th, Hezbollah
has fired over 5,000 rockets; anti-tank missiles, and explosive UAVs
from Lebanon at Israeli families, homes, and communities.”He said it was
“jeopardizing the future of Lebanon so that it can be a shield for
Hamas. A shield for the Hamas terrorists who murdered the elderly, raped
women, burned children, and kidnapped Jews, Muslims, and Christians,
during their massacre on October 7th.”“When we say that we will not let
October 7th happen again on any one of our borders, we mean it,” Hagari
added.Noting Hezbollah’s “refusal to comply with UN Security Council
Resolution 1701,” which ended the Second Lebanon War and mandated the
terror group withdraw north of the Litani River, Hagari said that
“because of Hezbollah’s military infrastructure; weapons and fire at
Israel from the area south of the Litani River in southern Lebanon, and
because of Lebanon’s failure to enforce 1701 on Hezbollah, Israel will
take the necessary measures to protect its civilians, until security
along our border with Lebanon is restored.”Hagari warned that “one way
or another we will ensure the safe and secure return of Israelis to
their homes in northern Israel. That is not up for negotiation.”“Iran’s
terror proxies continue to drag the region to destruction. Israel will
continue fighting against Iran’s axis of evil on all fronts — in Gaza,
in Lebanon — as we work towards a more secure future for the Middle
East,” Hagari said.“October 7th cannot happen again, on any one of
Israel’s borders. Israel has a duty to defend the people of Israel. We
will fulfill that duty, at all costs.”Two missiles launched from Lebanon
on Saturday struck the Israeli military’s sensitive Mount Meron air
traffic control base. The Israel Defense Forces said there were no
injuries and “no harm to the unit’s capabilities” in the
attack.Hezbollah took responsibility for the incident, claiming to have
targeted equipment at the base with guided missiles.The terror group has
attacked Mount Meron, located some eight kilometers (five miles) from
the Lebanon border, several times throughout the ongoing war. It has
launched large barrages of rockets at the mountain, as well as guided
missiles at the air traffic control base that sits atop it.In another
attack on Saturday, several explosive-laden drones launched by Hezbollah
from Lebanon impacted near the northern community of Goren, sparking a
fire. The IDF said it was investigating why it failed to down the
drones.As part of the diplomatic efforts to defuse the tensions, French
President Emmanuel Macron announced that Paris, Washington and Jerusalem
would form a contract group to work on doing so, though Defense
Minister Yoav Gallant on Friday ruled out Israeli involvement, in
comments that prompted a public spat with the Foreign Ministry.Hezbollah
has been attacking Israeli communities and military posts along the
border on a near-daily basis since October 8, which it says it’s doing
in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, amid the war started by ally
Hamas’s terror onslaught.So far, the skirmishes on the border have
resulted in 10 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the
deaths of 15 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several
attacks from Syria, without any injuries.Hezbollah has named 342 members
who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in
Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 63 operatives from
other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have
been killed.
Fighting will continue in Rafah until Hamas is
defeated there, says IDF general-Soldier killed Sunday in Gaza’s
southernmost city; first day of IDF’s ‘strategic pauses’ in Strip comes
as Palestinians mark Eid al-Adha and fighting appears to abate
By Emanuel Fabian-and AFP Today, 12:01 am-JUN 17,24
Meeting
with commanders serving in Rafah on Sunday, IDF Southern Command chief
Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman said that fighting in the southernmost city in
Gaza would continue until Hamas was defeated there.During his meeting
in the city, to discuss operational achievements and developments,
Finkelman referred to the deadly explosion in Rafah a day earlier in
which eight troops were killed inside a Namer armored combat engineering
vehicle.“We are here after a painful incident that occurred yesterday,”
Finkelman said, “we lost fighters and we lost commanders during the
attack. These are our best sons.”Despite the heavy losses, he added,
“our imperative is to continue moving forward. You are attacking
[Hamas’s] Rafah Brigade, and we will continue until we defeat
it.”Finkelman concluded that now, the most important thing for the IDF
to do is press on with the fighting while thoroughly investigating the
incident and learning for the future.Earlier Sunday, the IDF announced
the death of another soldier killed in Rafah that day. He was named as
Staff Sgt. Tzur Abraham, 22, of the Nahal Brigade’s reconnaissance unit,
from Modiin. He was slated to be buried in his hometown late Sunday
evening.In the same incident, a reservist officer serving as a field
interrogator with the Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504 was seriously
wounded, and another two soldiers were moderately hurt, the military
said.Abraham’s death brings the toll of slain troops in the ground
offensive against Hamas and in operations on the Gaza border to 312. The
toll includes a police officer killed in a hostage rescue mission. A
civilian Defense Ministry contractor was also killed in the
Strip.Despite the ongoing battles, Gaza saw its first day of relative
calm in months on Sunday, after the IDF said it would “pause” fighting
daily around a southern route to facilitate aid flows.The pause “for
humanitarian purposes will take place from 8:00 am (0500 GMT) until 7:00
pm (1600 GMT) every day until further notice along the road that leads
from the Kerem Shalom crossing to the Salah al-Din road and then
northwards,” a military statement said.A map released by the army showed
the declared humanitarian route extending until Rafah’s European
Hospital, about 10 kilometers (six miles) from Kerem Shalom. The IDF
stressed in a statement that there was “no cessation of hostilities in
the southern Gaza Strip.”AFP correspondents in Gaza’s north and center
reported no fighting on Sunday morning, though they reported some
shelling and at least one strike in Rafah and an air strike in central
Gaza during the early evening.“Since this morning, we’ve felt a sudden
calm with no gunfire or bombings… It’s strange,” said 30-year-old
Haitham al-Ghura from Gaza City.The announcement came as Muslims the
world over mark Eid al-Adha, or the feast of the sacrifice.“This Eid is
completely different,” said Umm Muhammad al-Katri in northern Gaza’s
Jabaliya refugee camp.“We’ve lost many people. There’s a lot of
destruction. We don’t have the joy we usually have,” she told AFP.
Instead of a cheerful holiday spirit, “I came to the Eid prayers
mourning. I’ve lost my son.”The military said the pause was already in
effect as part of efforts to “increase the volumes of humanitarian aid”
following discussions with the United Nations and other
organizations.COGAT, the Defense Ministry body which coordinates
activity in the West Bank and Gaza, said in a report on Sunday that more
than 1,000 aid trucks are waiting to be collected from the Gazan side
of the Kerem Shalom crossing, and that only 92 were collected by UN aid
agencies throughout the day.The war in Gaza broke out on October 7 with
Hamas’s unprecedented attack on Israel in which terrorists murdered some
1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 251 hostages. In response,
Israel launched a military offensive with the declared objectives of
dismantling Hamas and bringing the hostages home.The Hamas-run Gaza
health ministry says more than 37,000 people in the Strip have been
killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far. The toll, which
cannot be verified and does not differentiate between terrorists and
civilians, includes some 15,000 terror operatives Israel says it has
killed in battle.
Israeli Navy receives second of new US-built
landing craft-2,500-ton INS Komemiyut docks at Haifa Naval Base
following lengthy voyage, months after first vessel delivered-By Emanuel
Fabian-16 June 2024, 5:39 pm
The Israeli Navy on Sunday received
the second of two new landing craft from a shipyard in the United
States, with the vessel mooring at the Haifa Naval Base after making a
lengthy voyage to the country.The US-built INS Komemiyut was the Navy’s
second landing craft, after the INS Nahshon, which was received in early
October last year.As the INS Komemiyut arrived in Israel’s territorial
waters, it was escorted by a flotilla of other Navy ships, with one
vessel symbolically leaving the formation as a salute to the slain
soldiers of the war, the military said.The Israel Defense Forces has
previously said that the vessels, which weigh 2,500 tons each and are
approximately 95 meters (311 feet) in length and 20 meters (65 feet)
wide, will “act as a central pillar in adapting the Israeli Navy to the
modern and multi-arena battlefield.”The vessels were procured using
funds from US military aid to Israel.“Today, at the same time as IDF
soldiers are engaged in intense fighting in the various arenas, the Navy
received a vessel of strategic significance for the State of Israel.
During these historic moments, we salute our brothers in arms who fell
during their mission to maintain the security of the State of Israel,”
the chief of the Navy, Vice Adm. David Sa’ar Salama, said in remarks
released by the military on Sunday.“Sailors of the INS Komemiyut, today
you have completed a voyage of thousands of miles. The end of the voyage
is the beginning of the journey for you. Your future actions will
strengthen the cooperation between the IDF branches, expand the range of
military operations, and maintain the security of the State of Israel,”
he added.The Navy expects to declare the INS Nahshon operational during
2024. No timeline was given for INS Komemiyut.Each landing craft team
consists of dozens of combat sailors, a quarter of them female soldiers
and officers, the IDF said previously. The ship will be commanded by a
Navy officer with the rank of lieutenant commander — the Ground Forces
equivalent of a major.Landing craft are primarily used to transport
troops and equipment across the sea and deploy them on the shore during
an amphibious assault.The Israeli Navy used such vessels since its
inception in 1948 and until 1993, when the last of the aging landing
crafts were decommissioned, with the military assessing at the time that
it had no use for newer models.The new procurement of the landing
crafts for the Israeli Navy began some four years ago.
Russian
security forces storm prison, kill Islamic State hostage takers-Inmates
killed after allegedly taking captive two prison guards, who were said
to be unharmed-By Agencies and ToI Staff 16 June 2024, 2:47 pm
Russian
authorities said Sunday that they had brought a siege at a prison in
the southern Rostov region to a swift end, killing the Islamic State
hostage takers and freeing their two prison guard captives unharmed.The
prison service had earlier reported that the two guards had been taken
hostage by an unspecified number of Islamic State detainees and that it
had entered negotiations for their release.But a short time later it
issued a statement saying the siege had ended: “During a special
operation…the criminals were liquidated and the employees who were taken
hostage were released and were not injured.”No further details were
released in the immediate aftermath of the drama at Detention Center 1
in the Rostov region.Intense automatic gunfire could be heard in footage
published on Russian Telegram channels.The hostage takers, some of them
already convicted of terrorism offenses, had knocked out the bars of a
window in their cell and entered a guard room where they took at least
two prison officers hostage, Russian media said.????????????☠️⚡ A video
has appeared where terrorists took hostage employees of the Rostov
pre-trial detention center.The employees of pre-trial detention
center-1, who were held hostage, have been released. The terrorists were
shot dead. pic.twitter.com/K8Ilb96ErH — War Watch (@WarWatchs) June 16,
2024-A police source told state news agency TASS that ISIS members who
were due to appear in court on terrorism charges were among the hostage
takers.They were reported to be holed up in the prison courtyard, armed
with a pocketknife, a baton, and an axe, the source said.Before special
forces stormed the detention center, one of the hostage takers was shown
by the 112 Telegram channel brandishing a knife beside one of the bound
guards.The hostage taker wore a headband with the flag used by the
Islamic State that bears an Arabic inscription.The Interfax news agency
said there were six hostage takers who demanded to be provided with a
car and to be allowed to leave the prison in exchange for the release of
the hostages.An unverified video shared on social media, purporting to
be from the aftermath of the scene, showed six dead men lying on the
ground.The incident comes nearly three months after gunmen killed at
least 144 people when they opened fire inside a concert hall near Moscow
in an attack claimed by the jihadist group. Hundreds more were injured
in the March 22 attack at the Crocus City Hall, the deadliest on Russian
soil in two decades.More than 20 people have since been arrested,
including the four suspected gunmen, all from the former Soviet republic
of Tajikistan, an impoverished country on Afghanistan’s northern
border.Russia has been repeatedly targeted by attacks claimed by ISIS
terrorists, though the jihadist group’s influence in the country remains
limited.Russian media reports speculated that the attackers at the
Rostov detention center could be among those arrested in 2022 for
allegedly planning an attack on the Supreme Court of
Karachay-Cherkessia, a Muslim-majority Russian republic in the
Caucasus.Nearly 4,500 Russians, mainly from the Caucasus, traveled to
Iraq and Syria to fight together with the Islamic State group, according
to official figures.In April, two armed men who authorities said were
members of “an international terrorist organization” were shot dead by
Russian forces near Nalchik in the Caucasus.
Regime has installed
advanced new centrifuges, plans more-Iran rebukes G7 for ‘destructive
policies of the past’ after nuclear program warning-Tehran says it will
continue to cooperate with IAEA, accuses G7 of ‘resorting to false
claims to continue sanctions’ after vow to act if Iran sends ballistic
missiles to Moscow-By Reuters and ToI Staff 16 June 2024, 9:47 am
Iran
called upon the Group of Seven on Sunday to distance itself from
“destructive policies of the past,” Iranian Foreign Ministry
spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said, referring to a G7 statement condemning
Iran’s recent nuclear program escalation.On Friday, the G7 warned Iran
against advancing its nuclear enrichment program and said it would be
ready to enforce new measures if Tehran were to transfer ballistic
missiles to Russia.“Any attempt to link the war in Ukraine to the
bilateral cooperation between Iran and Russia is an act with only biased
political goals,” Kanaani said, adding that some countries are
“resorting to false claims to continue sanctions” against Iran.Last
week, the UN nuclear watchdog’s 35-nation Board of Governors passed a
resolution calling on Iran to step up cooperation with the watchdog and
reverse its recent barring of inspectors.Iran responded by rapidly
installing additional advanced uranium-enriching centrifuges at its
Fordo site and begun setting up others, according to an International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report.Kanaani added Tehran would continue
its “constructive interaction and technical cooperation” with the IAEA,
but called its resolution “politically biased.”Iran is now enriching
uranium to up to 60 percent purity — close to the 90% of weapons-grade —
and has enough material enriched to that level for three nuclear
weapons, according to an IAEA yardstick.Since the collapse of Iran’s
2015 nuclear deal with world powers following the US’s unilateral
withdrawal from the accord in 2018, it has pursued nuclear enrichment
just below weapons-grade levels. Western powers say there is no credible
civilian reason for that. Iran says its aims are entirely peaceful but
officials have recently said it could change its “nuclear doctrine” if
it is attacked or its existence threatened by arch-foe Israel. That has
prompted alarm at the IAEA and in Western capitals.Iran, as a signatory
to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, has pledged
to allow the IAEA to visit its atomic sites to ensure its program is
peaceful. Tehran also agreed to additional oversight from the IAEA as
part of the 2015 nuclear deal. However, for years it has curtailed
inspectors’ access to sites while also not fully answering questions
about other sites where nuclear material has been found in the past.The
IAEA’s director-general, Rafael Mariano Grossi, visited Iran in May in
an effort to boost inspections, but there hasn’t been any major public
change in Iran’s stance.All this comes as the Islamic Republic also
appears to be trying to contain the risk it faces from the US after
launching an unprecedented attack on Israel. The assault — a response to
a suspected Israeli strike on April 1 that killed two Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps generals and others in Damascus, Syria —
further pushed a years-long shadow war between Israel and Iran out into
the open.
UN officials warn miscalculation could lead to wider
conflict-Hezbollah strikes north in latest revenge attacks for commander
killed by Israel-Missiles launched by terror group hit Mount Meron air
traffic control base but IDF says ‘no harm to the unit’s capabilities’;
Israeli strike targets terror operative in Lebanon-By Emanuel Fabian-15
June 2024, 7:04 pmUpdated at 2:54 am
Two missiles launched from
Lebanon on Saturday struck the Israeli military’s sensitive Mount Meron
air traffic control base, amid growing international concern the
cross-border fighting between Israel and Hezbollah could descend into a
full-scale conflict.The Israel Defense Forces said there were no
injuries and “no harm to the unit’s capabilities” in the
attack.Hezbollah took responsibility for the incident, claiming to have
targeted equipment at the base with guided missiles.The terror group has
attacked Mount Meron, located some eight kilometers (five miles) from
the Lebanon border, several times throughout the ongoing war. It has
launched large barrages of rockets at the mountain, as well as guided
missiles at the air traffic control base that sits atop it.In another
attack on Saturday, several explosive-laden drones launched by Hezbollah
from Lebanon impacted near the northern community of Goren, sparking a
fire. The IDF said it was investigating why it failed to down the
drones.Hezbollah in a statement claimed to have targeted a military base
in the area. Like the missile attack on Mount Meron, the Iran-backed
terror organization said the strike was carried out in response to
Israel’s targeting this week of Taleb Sami Abdullah, the most senior
Hezbollah commander killed so far in the fighting.Meanwhile, the IDF
confirmed carrying out a strike against a Hezbollah operative in
southern Lebanon’s Aitaroun on Saturday morning. Video released by the
military showed the strike against the operative riding a
motorcycle.Palestinian Islamic Jihad later announced the death of a
member in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon, though it was unclear
if it was the same attack.He was named as Zuhair Jalbout, 45. No further
details were given on the circumstances of his death.Numerous Islamic
Jihad operatives have been killed in Israeli strikes on Hezbollah
positions in southern Lebanon during the ongoing fighting.Islamic Jihad
says one of its fighters killed in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon
pic.twitter.com/fLTS6IBvGw— Guy Elster (@guyelster) June 15, 2024-On
Saturday night, the IDF said fighter jets struck a Hezbollah weapons
depot in southern Lebanon’s Aitaroun. The IDF said jets hit several more
Hezbollah targets in the town, including a building used by the terror
group. Additional Hezbollah infrastructure was struck in Chihine, and
another building used by the terror group was hit in Ayta ash-Shab, the
military added.In a strike on Friday night, the IDF said fighter jets
targeted a building in southern Lebanon’s Kafr Kila that was allegedly
used by Hezbollah and was adjacent to an area from which the terror
group fired rockets at Metula on Friday.The latest skirmishes came as
CBS News reported that US officials are increasingly concerned that an
all-out war could break out between Israel and Hezbollah due to
increasingly deeper attacks by the two sides.Some US officials told the
American network they believe recent Israeli strikes deeper in Lebanese
territory were setting the stage for a broader operation, which they
expressed concern would spark a war that Israel cannot complete without
Washington’s support.Other US officials quoted in the report said they
were worried by a scenario in which intensifying Hezbollah rocket
attacks could result in “unintended consequences” that give Israel cause
to launch a major offensive.On Saturday, two senior United Nations
officials said they were “deeply concerned” about the escalation on the
border. “The danger of miscalculation leading to a sudden and wider
conflict is very real,” said UN special coordinator for Lebanon Jeanine
Hennis-Plasschaert, and head of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon
(UNIFIL), Aroldo Lazaro.In a joint statement, they urged “all actors to
cease their fire and commit to working toward a political and diplomatic
solution”.In light of the US concerns, the Axios news site reported
Friday that Amos Hochstein, a senior adviser to US President Joe Biden,
will arrive in Israel on Monday to try to put a lid on the escalation.As
part of the diplomatic efforts to defuse the tensions, French President
Emmanuel Macron announced that Paris, Washington and Jerusalem would
form a contract group to work on doing so, though Defense Minister Yoav
Gallant on Friday ruled out Israeli involvement in comments that
prompted a public spat with the Foreign Ministry.Hezbollah has been
attacking Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a
near-daily basis since October 8, which it says it’s doing in solidarity
with Palestinians in Gaza, amid the war started by ally Hamas’s terror
onslaught.So far, the skirmishes on the border have resulted in 10
civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 15 IDF
soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from
Syria, without any injuries.Hezbollah has named 342 members who have
been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon
but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 63 operatives from other
terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have been
killed.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
UK,
France, Germany slam Iran for expanding nuclear program, ‘hollowing out’
deal-E3 states warn Iran’s new operation of advanced centrifuges, plan
for thousands more, pose major proliferation risk; stress ‘especially
concerning’ activity at underground facility-By Agencies 15 June 2024,
6:00 pm
France, Germany and Britain on Saturday condemned Iran’s
latest steps, as reported by the International Atomic Energy Agency, to
further expand its nuclear program.“Iran has taken further steps in
hollowing out the JCPOA, by operating dozens of additional advanced
centrifuges at the Natanz enrichment site as well as announcing it will
install thousands more centrifuges at both its Fordow and Natanz sites,”
the joint statement said, referring to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of
Action signed with Iran in 2015.“This decision is a further escalation
of Iran’s nuclear program, which carries significant proliferation
risks,” it added.The joint statement stressed that “Iran’s decision to
substantially increase its production capacity at the underground Fordow
facility is especially concerning.”“Iran is legally obliged under the
Non-Proliferation Treaty to fully implement its safeguards agreement,
which is separate to the JCPOA.”The condemnation came a day after the
International Atomic Energy Agency reported that Iran has started new
cascades of advanced centrifuges and plans to install more in the coming
weeks. Spinning up new centrifuges further advances Iran’s nuclear
program, which already enriches uranium at near-weapons-grade levels and
boasts a stockpile enough for several nuclear bombs if it chose to
pursue them.“Iran aims to continue expanding its nuclear program in ways
that have no credible peaceful purpose,” US State Department spokesman
Matthew Miller said in a statement denouncing Tehran. “These planned
actions further undermine Iran’s claims to the contrary. If Iran
implements these plans, we will respond accordingly.”Miller did not
elaborate on what steps the US and its allies might take. However, Iran
already faces grinding economic sanctions from Washington and others
that have deeply cut into its economy and sent its rial currency
tumbling over recent years.Since the collapse of Iran’s 2015 nuclear
deal with world powers following the US’s unilateral withdrawal from the
accord in 2018, it has pursued nuclear enrichment just below
weapons-grade levels. Western powers say there is no credible civilian
reason for that. Iran says its aims are entirely peaceful but officials
have recently said it could change its “nuclear doctrine” if it is
attacked or its existence threatened by arch-foe Israel. That has
prompted alarm at the IAEA and in Western capitals.Iran, as a signatory
to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, has pledged
to allow the IAEA to visit its atomic sites to ensure its program is
peaceful. Tehran also agreed to additional oversight from the IAEA as
part of the 2015 nuclear deal. However, for years it has curtailed
inspectors’ access to sites while also not fully answering questions
about other sites where nuclear material has been found in the past.The
IAEA’s director-general, Rafael Mariano Grossi, visited Iran in May in
an effort to boost inspections, but there hasn’t been any major public
change in Iran’s stance.Times of Israel staff contributed to this
report.
Sweden says Russian bomber violated its airspace-by AFP Staff Writers-Stockholm (AFP) June 15, 2024
A
Russian SU-24 bomber violated Swedish airspace near the strategic
Baltic Sea island of Gotland, leaving only after Sweden scrambled two
JAS-39 fighter jets, Sweden's military said on Saturday.The incident on
Friday occurred three months after the Scandinavian country became a
full member of NATO, dropping two centuries of military non-alliance."On
Friday afternoon, a Russian SU-24 jet fighter violated Swedish airspace
east of Gotland's southern tip. The Swedish air combat command warned
the Russian aircraft with a verbal call," the Swedish armed forces
said."When this was not heeded and the aircraft did not deviate from its
route, it was dismissed from Swedish airspace by two JAS-39 Gripens,"
it said.The violation was "brief", the military said."The Russian
actions are not acceptable and demonstrate a lack of respect for our
territorial integrity," the head of Sweden's air force, Jonas Wikman,
said.Gotland is located fewer than 350 kilometres (217 miles) from the
Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.Swedish military doctrine holds that
whoever controls Gotland is able to broadly control air and naval
movements in the Baltic Sea.Sweden reopened its garrison on Gotland in
2018 after years of slashed military spending saw it close in
2004.Russia's unilateral annexation of the Crimean peninsula in 2014 had
prompted Sweden to start beefing up its military again.Moscow's
full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 then led to Sweden's historic
decision to join the NATO military alliance.The last time Russia
violated Swedish airspace was in March 2022, when Swedish fighters
intercepted two Su-24 and two Su-27 fighter jets over Gotland.
Nuclear arms spending soars as global tensions swell: studies-Geneva, June 17 (AFP) Jun 17, 2024
Nuclear-armed
countries hiked spending on atomic weapons arsenals by a third in the
past five years as they modernised their stockpiles amid growing
geopolitical tensions, two reports showed on Monday.The world's nine
nuclear-armed states jointly spent $91 billion on their arsenals last
year, according to a new report from the International Campaign to
Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).That report, and a separate one from the
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), indicated that
nuclear weapons states are dramatically scaling up spending as they
modernise and even deploy new nuclear-armed weapons."I think it is fair
to say there is a nuclear arms race under way," ICAN chief Melissa Parke
told AFP.Wilfred Wan, head of SIPRI's weapons of mass destruction
programme, meanwhile warned in a statement that "we have not seen
nuclear weapons playing such a prominent role in international relations
since the Cold War".SIPRI's report showed that the total estimated
number of nuclear warheads in the world actually declined somewhat to
12,121 at the start of this year, from 12,512 a year earlier.But while
some of that included older warheads scheduled to be dismantled, it said
9,585 were in stockpiles for potential use -- nine more than a year
earlier.And 2,100 were kept in a state of "high operational alert" on
ballistic missiles.Nearly all of those were held by the United States
and Russia, but China was for the first time believed to also have some
warheads on high operational alert, SIPRI said."While the global total
of nuclear warheads continues to fall as Cold War-era weapons are
gradually dismantled, regrettably we continue to see year-on-year
increases in the number of operational nuclear warheads," SIPRI director
Dan Smith said.- Nuclear weapons spending jump -The spending surge
reported by ICAN appeared to back that up.The report showed that in 2023
alone, nuclear weapons spending worldwide jumped by $10.8 billion from a
year earlier, with the United States accounting for 80 percent of that
increase.The US share of total spending, $51.5 billion, "is more than
all the other nuclear-armed countries put together", said ICAN.The next
biggest spender was China, at $11.8 billion, followed by Russia,
spending $8.3 billion.Britain's spending meanwhile rose significantly
for the second year in a row, swelling 17 percent to $8.1
billion.Spending for 2023 by the nuclear-armed states -- which also
include France, India, Israel, Pakistan and North Korea -- jumped more
than 33 percent from the $68.2 billion spent in 2018, when ICAN first
began collecting this data, it said.Since then, the nuclear armed states
have spent an estimated total of $387 billion on the deadly weapons,
the report showed.- 'Investing in Armageddon' -Parke slammed "the
billions of dollars being squandered on nuclear weapons" as "a profound
and unacceptable misallocation of public funds".She highlighted that
that money was more than what the World Food Programme estimates is
needed to end world hunger."And you could plant a million trees for
every minute of nuclear weapons spending," she said."These numbers are
obscene, and it is money that the state says is going towards weapons
that... will never be used," she said, pointing to the nuclear
deterrence doctrine.The investments are not only wasteful but also
extremely dangerous, she warned."What happens when deterrence
fails?"Geneva-based ICAN won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for its key role
in drafting the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which
took effect in 2021.Seventy countries have ratified it to date and more
have signed it, although none of the nuclear weapons states have come on
board."Instead of investing in Armageddon, the nine nuclear-armed
states should follow the example of almost half the world's countries
and join the treaty... and make a real contribution to global security,"
said Alicia Sanders-Zakre, a co-author of Monday's ICAN report.
Iran expands nuclear capacities further: IAEA-Vienna, June 13 (AFP) Jun 13, 2024
Iran
is further expanding its nuclear capacities, the International Atomic
Energy Agency said Thursday, one week after the agency's board of
governors passed a resolution criticising Tehran's lack of cooperation
with the UN nuclear watchdog.The IAEA informed its members that Tehran
told the agency it was installing more cascades at the enrichment
facilities in Natanz and Fordow, according to a statement sent to AFP.A
cascade is a series of centrifuges, machines used in the process of
enriching uranium. A diplomatic source deemed this development as
"moderate".The motion brought by Britain, France and Germany -- but
opposed by China and Russia -- at the IAEA's 35-nation board last week
was the first of its kind since November 2022.The resolution -- which
Tehran slammed as "hasty and unwise" -- came amid an impasse over Iran's
escalating nuclear activities and as Western powers fear Tehran may be
seeking to develop a nuclear weapon, a claim Iran denies.Although
symbolic in nature at this stage, the censure motion aims to raise
diplomatic pressure on Iran, with the option to potentially refer the
issue to the UN Security Council.In the past, similar resolutions have
prompted Tehran to retaliate by removing surveillance cameras and other
equipment from its nuclear facilities and ratcheting up its uranium
enrichment activities."The report issued today by the IAEA makes clear
that Iran aims to continue expanding its nuclear programme in ways that
have no credible peaceful purpose," US State Department spokesman
Matthew Miller said in a statement."Iran must cooperate with the IAEA
without further delay to fully implement its legally binding safeguards
obligations."According to the IAEA, Iran is the only non-nuclear weapon
state to enrich uranium to the high level of 60 percent -- just short of
weapons-grade -- while it keeps accumulating large uranium
stockpiles.The IAEA has said that Tehran has significantly ramped up its
nuclear programme and now has enough material to build several atomic
bombs.The Islamic republic has gradually broken away from its
commitments under the nuclear deal it struck with world powers in
2015.The landmark deal provided Iran with relief from Western sanctions
in exchange for curbs on its atomic programme, but it fell apart after
the unilateral withdrawal of the United States under then-president
Donald Trump in 2018.Efforts to revive the deal have so far failed.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25
And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in
the moon,(MAN ON MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS ETC)
and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION)
the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing
them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those
things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of
heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST
JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST
GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING (BUT WILL NOT KILL EVERY BODY WITH
WATER)(BUT 50% OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE (4 BILLION PEOPLE) FROM NUCLEAR
WAR)(THE BIBLE SAYS BY FIRE OR ATOMIC BOMBS THIS TIME)
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the
seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the
great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
OZONE DEPLETION JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH DUE TO SIN
ISAIAH 30:26-27
26
Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and
the light of the sun shall be sevenfold,(7X OR 7-DEGREES HOTTER) as the
light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of
his people,(ISRAEL) and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold,
the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the
burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his
tongue as a devouring fire:
MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22
And except those days should be shortened,(DAY LIGHT HOURS SHORTENED)
there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake (ISRAELS SAKE)
those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)(THE ASTEROID
HITS EARTH HERE)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days
shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and
the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be
shaken:
REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9
And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God,
which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him
glory.
EZEKIEL 32:6-9
6 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.
7
And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the
stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon
shall not give her light.
8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
9
I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy
destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not
known.
REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his
vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every
living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5
And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord,
which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6
For they(False World Church and Dictator and baby murderers by abortion)
have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them
blood to drink; for they are worthy.
2 Peter 3:6-7 Amplified Bible (AMP)
through
which the world at that time was destroyed by being flooded with water.
But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for
fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly
people.
THESE COCROACH
PUSS BRAIN MUSLIMS ARE DYING FROM THE HEAT GOING AROUND A ROCK.JUST WAIT
TILL ISRAEL PUTS A NUTRON BOMB IN FRONT OF THESE PUSS BRAINS. MILLIONS
OF THESE NUTCASE DEATH CULT PEDOPHILES WILL BE BONES FALLING TO THE
GROUND AFTER THE N-BOMB DISOLVES THEIR FLESH INSTANTLY. NOW THATS FRIED
COCKROACH PUSS BRAIN DEATH CULTISTS.
Deaths reported
in Mecca as Muslims complete last hajj ritual in extreme heat-Some
pilgrims say once in a lifetime experience marred by ongoing
Israel-Hamas war, defying Saudi warning against political comments
during pilgrimage-By Sahar Al Attar 16 June 2024, 6:28 pm
MINA,
Saudi Arabia (AFP) — Pilgrims on Sunday performed the last major ritual
of the hajj, the “stoning of the devil,” in western Saudi Arabia, as
Muslims the world over celebrated the Eid al-Adha holiday.Beginning at
dawn, the 1.8 million Muslims undertaking the pilgrimage this year threw
seven stones at each of three concrete walls symbolizing the devil in
the Mina valley, located outside Islam’s holiest city of Mecca.The
ritual commemorates Abraham’s stoning of the devil at the three spots
where it is said Satan tried to dissuade him from obeying God’s order to
sacrifice his son.The stoning ritual has been witness to multiple
stampedes over the years, most recently in 2015 when up to 2,300
worshipers were killed in the worst hajj disaster.Roads leading to the
concrete walls were nevertheless packed early Sunday, with some pilgrims
visibly struggling under the morning sun, and a number of deaths
reported that are believed to be related to the heat.Those who arrived
on foot later in the day, among them a number of elderly pilgrims, were
especially vulnerable to heat as temperatures again soared well past 40
degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit).Deaths reported-At least two
pilgrims were seen lying on the side of the road, sheltered by buildings
and cars, a few hundred meters from the concrete walls.“It’s very
difficult, we can’t find transport. I can’t get up anymore,” said Ahmed
Alsayed Omran, a 70-year-old Egyptian retiree, as he sat on the
sidewalk.Amman announced on Sunday that 14 Jordanian pilgrims had died
and 17 were missing, while Iran reported five deaths, though neither
country specified the cause.Saudi Arabia has not provided any
information on fatalities.During last year’s hajj, at least 240 people —
many from Indonesia — died, according to figures announced by various
countries which also did not specify causes of death.On Saturday,
temperatures reached 46 degrees Celsius (114.8 degrees Fahrenheit) in
Arafat, where pilgrims performed hours of outdoor prayers.One treatment
center in the area recorded 225 cases of heat stress and fatigue, the
official Saudi Press Agency reported. That figure was not
comprehensive.Last year, more than 10,000 cases of heat-related
illnesses were documented during the hajj, 10 percent of which were heat
stroke, a health ministry spokesman told AFP.“It was very, very hot,”
Rohy Daiseca, a 60-year-old Gambian living in the United States, told
AFP on Saturday night as pilgrims collected stones to throw.
“Alhamdulillah [praise be to God], I put a lot of water on my head and
it was OK.”Feast of the sacrifice-Worshipers have tried to take the
grueling conditions in stride, seizing what for many is a
once-in-a-lifetime chance to pray at Islam’s holiest shrines.“I am so
happy that I can’t describe my feelings,” said Amal Mahrouss, a
55-year-old woman from Egypt. “This place shows us that we are all
equal, that there are no differences between Muslims around the
world.”One of the five pillars of Islam, the hajj must be performed at
least once by all Muslims with the means.This year’s figure of 1.8
million pilgrims is similar to last year’s, and Saudi authorities said
on Saturday that 1.6 million of them came from abroad.The stoning ritual
coincides with Eid al-Adha, or the feast of the sacrifice, which honors
Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son before God offered a sheep
instead.Worshipers typically slaughter a sheep and offer part of the
meat to the needy.This year’s hajj and Eid al-Adha holiday have been
clouded by the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.“We don’t feel the
Eid holiday because our brothers in Gaza are oppressed under the
occupation,” said Najem Nawwar, a 43-year-old Egyptian pilgrim.King
Salman invited 2,000 Palestinians to the hajj at his own expense
including relatives of Gazans who have sought refuge elsewhere.But Saudi
authorities have warned that no political slogans would be tolerated
during the pilgrimage.That has not stopped many worshippers from voicing
solidarity with Palestinians.“We pray for them… and for the liberation
of Palestine, so that we have two holidays instead of one,” said Wadih
Ali Khalifah, a 32-year-old Saudi pilgrim.In a message to hajj pilgrims
on Saturday, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said “the
ironclad resistance of Palestine and the patient, oppressed people of
Gaza… must be fully supported in every way.”
US to temporarily
remove aid pier from Gaza coast again due to bad weather-UN, aid
agencies say transfer of goods from pier to Gazans remains suspended due
to perception Israeli military used area during last week’s hostage
rescue-By Agencies and ToI Staff 15 June 2024, 11:08 am
WASHINGTON
— The United States military is preparing to temporarily remove its
humanitarian pier off the coast of Gaza because of anticipated sea
conditions, a US official said on Friday, the latest challenge to the
effort that has been hampered by bad weather since it was put into place
in May.The floating US military pier off Gaza had just resumed bringing
humanitarian aid into the enclave after being suspended over the
weekend.The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that
the pier would likely be moved to the Israeli port of Ashdod until sea
conditions improve.Aid began arriving via the pier on May 17, and the
United Nations said it transported 137 trucks of aid to warehouses, some
900 metric tons, before the US announced on May 28 that it had
suspended operations so repairs could be made.The UN said on Friday it
had still not resumed transportation of aid from the pier to UN World
Food Program warehouses.“Our security colleagues are still working to
ensure that secure conditions for humanitarian work can be
re-established,” said deputy UN spokesperson Farhan Haq.UN officials
also said they were reassessing the use of the pier, claiming that
Israeli military activity nearby had jeopardized the perceived
neutrality of the aid route.Rushing out a mortally wounded Israeli
commando after last week’s hostage rescue raid, Israeli rescuers opted
against returning the way they came, across a land border, Israel
Defense Forces Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari told reporters.
Instead, they sped toward the beach and the site of the US aid hub on
Gaza’s coast, he said. An Israeli helicopter touched down near the
US-built pier and helped whisk away hostages and the commando, according
to the US and Israeli militaries.Israel and the US deny that any aspect
of the month-old US pier was used in the Israeli raid. They say an area
near it was used to fly home the hostages.However, the UN World Food
Program, which works with the US to transfer aid from the pier to
warehouses and local aid teams for distribution within Gaza, suspended
cooperation as it conducts a security review. Aid has been piling up on
the beach since.The UN has to look at the facts as well as what the
Palestinian public and armed groups believe about any US, pier or aid
worker involvement in the raid, Haq said.“Humanitarian aid must not be
used and must not be perceived as taking any side in a conflict,” Haq
said. “The safety of our humanitarian workers depends on all sides and
the communities on the ground trusting their impartiality.”Rumors have
swirled on social media, deepening the danger to aid workers,
humanitarian groups say.“Whether or not we’ve seen the pier used for
military purposes is almost irrelevant. Because the perception of people
in Gaza, civilians and armed groups, is that humanitarian aid has been
instrumentalized” by parties in the conflict, said Suze van Meegen, head
of operations in Gaza for the Norwegian Refugee Council.Oxfam
International and some other aid organizations said they are waiting for
answers from the US government because it’s responsible for the
agreements with the UN and other humanitarian groups on how the pier and
aid deliveries function.Questions include whether the Israeli
helicopters and security forces used what the US had promised aid groups
would be a no-go area for the Israeli military around the pier, said
Scott Paul, an associate director at Oxfam.US President Joe Biden
announced in March the plan to put the pier in place for aid deliveries
during the war between Israel and the Palestinian terror group.The pier
is estimated to cost hundreds of millions of dollars for the first 90
days and involves about 1,000 US service members.The ongoing war in the
enclave was started by the Hamas-led October 7 massacre in which
Palestinian terrorists killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and
kidnapped 251.The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 37,000
people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the
fighting, an unverified figure that does not differentiate between
civilians and combatants. The toll is believed to include some 15,000
terror operatives Israel says it has killed in battle. Israel also says
it killed some 1,000 terrorists inside Israel on October 7.
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a
witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have
heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10
Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that
great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment
come.(IN 1 HR THE STOCK MARKETS WORLDWIDE WILL CRASH)
17 For in one
hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all
the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood
afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping
and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich
all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one
hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast
their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be
removed:(CONFISCATED) their silver and their gold shall not be able to
deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy
their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the
stumblingblock of their iniquity.
MARK OF THE BEAST (engraved microchip in your hand or forehead)
REVELATION 13:16-18
16
And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor,
free and bond, (SLAVE) to receive a mark in their right hand, or in
their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the
beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred
threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
REVELATION 16:1-2
1
And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels,
Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the
earth.
2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth;
and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the
mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
I
KNOW THIS MARK WILL BE A MICROCHIP IMPLANT UNDER THE SKIN. LETS LOOK UP
WHAT THE WORD MARK SAYS IN REVELATION 13:16-18, 14:9,11, 15:2, 16:2,
19:20, 20:4-ALL THESE VERSES FROM THE BOOK OF REVELATION SPEAK OF THIS
DICTATORS MARK. NOW LETS SEE WHAT IT MEANS FROM STRONGS EXAUSTIVE
CONCORDANCE OF THE BIBLE. UNDER MARK PAGE 684.MARK UNDER MARK. THE OLD
TESTAMENT IS UNDER HEBREW AND THE NEW TESTAMENT IS UNDER GREEK. SO WHEN
WE LOOK UNDER REVELATION 13:16-17 WE SEE IT IS UNDER GREEK, SO WE GO TO
GREEK IN THE BACK SECTION AND GO TO 5480 TO SEE WHAT IT SAYS THIS MARK
WOULD BE. SO LETS GET TO IT.MARK IN STRONGS GREEK 5480 XAPAYUA CHARAGMA,
KHAR-AG-MAH: FROM THE SAME AS 5482: A SCRATCH OR ETCHING, I.E STAMP (AS
A BADGE OF SERVITUDE), OR SCULPTURED FIGURE-(STATUE):-GRAVEN, MARK FROM
5482 XAPAE CHARAX, KHAR-AX; FROM XAPAOOW CHARASSO (TO SHARPEN TO A
POINT; AKIN TO 1125 THROUGH THE IDEA OF SCRATCHING); A STAKE, I.E
(BYIMPL.) A PALISADE OR RAMPART (MILITARY MOUND FOR CIRCUMVALLATION IN A
SIEGE): - TRENCH FROM 1125 YPAPOE GRAPHO, GRAF-0; A PRIM. VERB; TO
"GRAVE", ESPEC. TO WRITE; FIG. TO DESCRIBE:-DESCRIBE, WRITE (-ING,
-TEN).G5516-GO TO G4742-666 - STRONGS NT 4742: στίγμα - στίγμα,
στιγματος, τό (from στίζω to prick; (cf. Latinstimulus, etc.; German
stechen, English stick, sting, etc.; Curtius, § 226)), a mark pricked in
or branded upon the body. According to ancient oriental usage, slaves
and soldiers bore the name or stamp of their master or commander branded
or pricked (cut) into their bodies to indicate what master or general
they belonged to, and there were even some devotees who stamped
themselves in this way with the token of their gods (cf. Deyling,
Observations, iii., p. 423ff); hence, τά στίγματα τοῦ (κυρίου so Rec.)
Ἰησοῦ, the marks of (the Lord) Jesus, which Paul in Galatians 6:17 says
he bears branded on his body, are the traces left there by the perils,
hardships, imprisonments, scourgings, endured by him for the cause of
Christ, and which mark him as Christ's faithful and approved votary,
servant, soldier (see Lightfoots Commentary on Galatians, the passage
cited). (Herodotus 7, 233; Aristotle, Aelian, Plutarch, Lcian, others.)
THE INVENTOR OF THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT-CARL SANDERS MICROCHIP ENGINEER LEADER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgH9D6n4ZWo
THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT IN YOUR RIGHT HAND OR FOREHEAD.
LEVETICUS 19.28
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Archaeology-Ancient
Lod coin hoard reveals details of little-known 4th-century Jewish
uprising-94 coins found in a destroyed Jewish public building were
buried during the short-lived Gallus Revolt, undertaken by the Jews
during a time of Roman civil war-By Gavriel Fiske-16 June 2024, 4:31 pm
Archaeologists
have uncovered a hoard of silver and bronze coins dating from the 4th
century CE buried in the foundations of an ancient, destroyed Jewish
public building in the central Israel city of Lod, the Israel
Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced on Sunday.The 94 coins were
probably buried for safekeeping during the events of the Gallus Revolt
(351-354 CE), a lesser-known Jewish uprising against Roman rule in the
land of Israel, but the building was destroyed and the coins were never
recovered, the IAA said.The Gallus Revolt was named by historians after
the Roman Emperor Constantius Gallus (326–354), who at the time was
presiding over a fractured, weakened empire, but specifics about the
events “are not clear,” explained IAA archaeologist Mor Viezel,
co-director of the Lod excavations, to The Times of Israel.“We have so
little information about it. There nearly aren’t historical records,
just three Roman historians who wrote a few lines, and a bit of writing
by Chazal about a revolt in Lod,” Viezel said, using the Hebrew term for
the ancient Jewish sages of the post-Second Temple period.The Roman
Empire at the time was experiencing the turmoil of a civil war, as
Gallus strove against the usurper general Magnus Magnentius. “Caesar
wasn’t a big power, not very strong, and maybe [the Jews] felt there was
a window of opportunity to take control again, but it didn’t work,”
Viezel said.There could have been other factors in the short-lived
Jewish rebellion, as the Jewish community was suffering under steep
taxes, and it was also a time when Christianity was growing in the Roman
Empire and taking a more belligerent tone vis-à-vis the Jewish
communities, Viezel noted.“According to the Roman historians, Roman
forces came to Tiberias, Sepphoris and Lod and destroyed buildings down
to their foundations. And this is the building we found in Lod, with
this treasure of 94 coins buried underground,” Viezel said.There is some
archaeological evidence of the Gallus Revolt in the Galilee, where much
of the Jewish community lived at the time, but the Lod excavation is
“the first time we have found a building and connected it to the revolt
in the south of Israel, so it’s very exciting,” Viezel said.The
unearthed building was probably “a magnificent Jewish building that
housed the city’s elders. From Talmudic writings, we know that Lod was a
most significant Jewish center in the aftermath of the Second Temple’s
destruction in Jerusalem,” the IAA said in its statement announcing the
finding.“This building, destroyed down to its very foundation, is a
clear indication that the revolt was forcefully put down with violence
and cruelty, and was not simply a local uprising event, as some earlier
studies contended,” the IAA added.Although the building was destroyed,
archaeologists found “impressive stone and marble artifacts” along with
“Greek, Hebrew and Latin inscriptions” including one “bearing the name
of a Jewish man from a priestly family, which is still being studied,”
the IAA said. The building could have been used as “a synagogue, study
hall, meeting hall of the elders, or all three of these functions as
one.”From the time of the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE and
through the subsequent Jewish revolts against Roman hegemony, the most
famous being the Bar Kochba Revolt of 132–136 CE, Lod was “a leading
community” and “a center of Torah-true Jewish life,” the IAA said.After
the Gallus Revolt, “Lod didn’t return to its former self. It was a very
important city and the Gallus Revolt, it seems, destroyed it for the
Jews,” though Christians and others continued to live in the city,
Viezel said.The archaeologists actually discovered “hundreds” of coins
in the excavation, but the specific hoard of 94 coins, found together,
was dated from the time of the Gallus Revolt or just before, and a
significant number of them “hadn’t been used very much,” Viezel said,
indicated that they were newly minted and then set aside.“We see them as
emergency coins. There was instability, and they buried the coins to
protect them. They did it in a public building. We find a lot of these
hoards in synagogues, as people felt those buildings would survive and
they could return later,” Viezel said.Lod is one of the oldest cities in
Israel, and has been continually populated since the Neolithic period,
making excavations challenging because of the dense layers of history
found underneath the modern city. The destroyed ancient building,
located in the northern part of the city near Tel Lod, was discovered as
a result of construction work, and the excavation was funded by the Lod
Municipality in conjunction with the IAA.“They want to build a new
public building, and then we found an ancient one. Certainly, more finds
are waiting. We have to work little by little. In Lod, you throw a
stone and find antiquities. I think that Lod, as an archaeological site,
doesn’t receive enough respect,” Viezel said.More information about the
Lod coin hoard, and other recent archaeological finds, is to be
presented at the annual Central Israel Region Archaeological Conference,
to be held on Thursday, June 20 at the Eretz Yisrael Museum in Tel
Aviv. The conference, free and open to the public, is hosted by Tel Aviv
University, Bar Ilan University and the Israel Antiquities Authority.
Economically
battered West Bank fears punitive steps by Smotrich-Finance minister
has said he will sever key artery enabling transactions between
Palestinian Authority and Israeli banking systems-By AFP and ToI Staff
16 June 2024, 8:27 am
Palestinian teenagers bounced on
trampolines and jumped through hoops inside a towering tent on the
outskirts of Ramallah, the financial hub of the West Bank.But the circus
students weren’t the only ones bending over backward in the pavilion:
the school’s director faced financial hurdles to buy the tent from
Europe and trampolines from Asia.“We are suffering with international
payments,” said Mohamad Rabah, head of the Palestinian Circus School,
describing a bureaucratic process that could delay equipment delivery by
up to a month.Banking in the Palestinian territories is challenging,
with the Palestinian Authority (PA) under scrutiny for potential terror
financing, hindering transactions.Israel has controlled the West Bank
since 1967, with strong economic ties allowing two Israeli lenders to
serve as correspondent banks in the Palestinian territory.But this may
change if far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich carries out
threats to sever a vital banking route next month.Since the Palestinian
terror group Hamas’s devastating October 7 attack on Israel that started
the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, Israel has imposed economic curbs on
the PA, withholding tax revenues it collects on its behalf.Protesting
the PA’s policy of making payments to terrorists and the families of
terrorists, Smotrich said last week that he had redirected $35 million
in PA tax revenues to families of terror victims, a move condemned by
the United States.“The Palestinian Authority encourages and favors
terrorism by paying the families of terrorists, prisoners and released
prisoners. In accordance with the judgments that awarded compensation to
the victims of terrorism, we offset the same amounts from the PA’s
funds and are transferring the awarded money to the families of the
victims of terrorism,” Smotrich said. “I signed an order that transfers
about NIS 130 million from the PA’s frozen funds to victims of
terrorism.”Smotrich has also accused the PA of “support” for Hamas’s
October 7 terror onslaught.After three European countries recognized
Palestinian statehood in May, Smotrich told Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu he would not extend indemnity to banks that transfer the funds
from the end of June.Israel’s Bank Hapoalim and Israel Discount Bank
need protection, expiring on July 1, to avoid sanctions for dealing with
Palestinian lenders.If the waiver is canceled, Israeli firms will not
be able to receive money from Palestinian banks or deposit Palestinian
checks, impacting business ties.The Bank of Israel and Finance Ministry
declined to comment when contacted by AFP.‘Humanitarian crisis’The
banking channel used to pay for West Bank imports — including essential
goods like water, fuel, and food — handles $8 billion yearly.Palestinian
businesses receive nearly $1.7 billion annually for exports, according
to the Palestine Monetary Authority.“For us, because our economy is
dependent on the Israeli economy because Israel is controlling the
border, the impact will be high,” said PMA governor Feras Milhem.The
Palestinian economy is largely governed by the 1994 Paris Protocol,
which granted sole control over the territories’ borders to Israel,
including the right to collect import duties and value-added tax for the
PA.Palestinian livelihoods have also been hurt by bans on laborers
crossing into Israel in the wake of the Hamas onslaught, which killed
some 1,200 people in southern Israel, and by a sharp downturn in tourism
in the territory, including a quiet Christmas season in Bethlehem.The
United States has urged Israel to improve conditions, warning that
severing the banking route would have a dire impact on the West Bank
economy.“I believe it would create a humanitarian crisis in due course
if Palestinian banks are cut off from Israeli correspondence,” US
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said last month.Western governments fear
Israel’s economic policies could destabilize the West Bank.“The banking
system may collapse and therefore the PA may collapse as well,” a
European diplomatic source in Jerusalem told AFP on condition of
anonymity. “The PA is in a financial crisis and it could collapse before
August.”Digital currency-Palestinian businessmen say their bottom lines
have been hit since October 7.Imad Rabah, who owns a plastics company,
said his net income had fallen 50 percent in one year.Arak producer
Nakhleh Jubran said his liquor business had fallen 30% over the same
period.“We have a traditional war in Gaza and we have an economic war in
the West Bank,” said Jubran.Musa Shamieh, who owns a womenswear
company, said the Israeli policies were designed to push Palestinians to
leave the West Bank.“They want us to leave our land and they know it
will be hard for us to stay if we can’t do business,” Shamieh
said.Israel’s punishing economic policies could eventually drive
Palestinian policymakers to pursue sweeping changes to the monetary
system.“We need to work on a plan B when it comes to the trade
relations,” said Milhem, governor of the PMA, which uses an image of the
Palestine pound, the currency used during Britain’s colonial rule, as
its logo.Yousef Daoud, a professor at the West Bank’s Birzeit
University, said the territory could scrap the shekel as its de facto
currency in favor of a digital alternative.“We can make our e-currency,
just collect all the shekels, issue an equivalent amount of Palestinian
pounds, one-to-one fixed exchange rate, and have the Palestinians deal
with e-currency,” he said. “Somehow, eventually, we’ll get rid of the
shekel.”
Biometric cards adapt with national digital identity systems-Jun 14, 2024, 12:01 pm EDT| Ghulam Shabir Arain
Governments
in various countries are adopting and adapting digital identity systems
with or based on cards.The Nepal government is mandating National
Identity Cards for all government services, integrating biometric
verification to streamline social security and pensions. Malaysia’s
UNHCR is bolstering refugee protection with secure biometric identity
cards. Japan plans to utilize My Number cards for disaster response. At
the same time, West New Britain in Papua New Guinea is investing in a
comprehensive NID rollout to improve service delivery and prepare for
biometric voting.In a bid for this growing market, STMicroelectronics
has announced the launch of the STeID Java Card platform to enhance the
security and efficiency of digital identity and online government
applications with biometric authentication.STMicroelectronics launches
digital ID card platform-STMicroelectronics has introduced STeID Java
Card, which constitutes a significant dive into the field of digital
identity and Government online portals.The new biometric card platform
meets the requirements for secure identity documents, according to a
company announcement, and is certified by Common Criteria to EAL 6+,
meaning it attains a high level of security and confidence. The card
runs the open STeID JC operating system, compliant with Java Card 3.0.5
specification and Global Platform 2.3.1 security architecture on
microcontrollers like the ST31.It supports machine-readable travel
documents (eMRTD) to the ICAO 9303 standard, driving licenses to the
ISO/IEC 18013 standard, and complies with eIDAS QSCD as a qualified
digital signature creation device.The STeID Java Card provides
fingerprint match-on-card functionality for secure offline biometric
authentication of digital identities on mobile devices using near Field
Communication (NFC) specifications.Nepal to require national ID card for
social security in July-The Nepali government has mandated the use of
the National Identity Card (NID) for all government services, Kantipur
news reports.Starting next July, citizens will need their NID for social
security allowance and pension renewals through biometric verification.
This initiative aims to streamline services, prevent fraud, and save
time for senior citizens who no longer need to visit municipal offices
for renewals. According to the National Identity Card and Registration
Department, the system currently facilitates social security benefits
for about 3.8 million senior citizens around the country.The Department
is integrating the NID details across various sectors, including
banking, health insurance, and vehicle registration, enhancing the
card’s utility and reducing costs associated with printing multiple ID
cards. Officials say measures are in place to prevent people from
obtaining cards under multiple identities, likely referring to biometric
deduplication.Director General Yuvraj Kattel says that a proposal is
being developed for all state entities that use Nepalese citizenship
certificates to switch to the national ID card number.Improving
refugeeprotection with biometric cards in Malaysia-UNHCR Malaysia
reports its use of biometrics in refugee identity cards has helped
protect refugees and increased the credentials’ credibility in the eyes
of law enforcement and government authorities.The refugee agency
captures fingerprints, iris biometrics, and facial photographs to curb
identity theft and ensure better safety for refugees. The UNHCR card is
the only identification most refugees have, hence they use it to access
services and avoid apprehension under the country’s immigration laws.
About 188,210 refugees and asylum-seekers registered with UNHCR in
Malaysia, as of the end of April 2024. The majority are from Myanmar,
fleeing conflict-affected areas or persecution.Japan’s my number card
plan for disaster management-Japan plans to use My Number identification
cards beyond social security and taxation to track disaster victims’
evacuation status, the Japan Times reports.“We want to facilitate the
response of local governments and residents in the event of a disaster,”
said Digital Transformation Minister Taro Kono at a news conference.The
report further highlights that this initiative aims to streamline the
management of evacuation centers and the distribution of relief
supplies. By encouraging residents to carry their digital identity My
Number cards and preparing spare cards for emergencies, the Japanese
government seeks to improve disaster response efficiency. This system
also eliminates the need for victims to repeatedly provide personal
information, facilitating smoother operations during crises, officials
say.NID rollout planning in West New Britain-West New Britain in Papua
New Guinea has allocated 1 million Papua New Guinean Kina (roughly
US$257,000) to support the National Identification (NID) card project.
The provincial government says the funding will allow it to register all
citizens by 2027, ensuring comprehensive data collection for effective
planning and service delivery, The National reports.The province intends
to use mobile registration kits that will take the NID to remote areas,
to make it compulsory for identity processes. Additionally, this move
seeks to combine NID registration into the biometric voting system in
future elections which would heighten the credibility and security of
the electoral process. Governor Sasindran Muthuvel presented a K900,000
($231,000) cheque to the national civil and identity registry (PNGCIR),
in part to fund the procurement of 20 mobile registration kits, after
signing an (MoU) in Port Moresby. Muthuvel states that complete NID
registration is critical for effective planning and service delivery.
Digital identity leaders shepherd wallets into the mainstream-Jun 16, 2024, 11:59 am EDT-| Chris Burt
Discussion
and debate at the European Identity and Cloud (EIC 2024) conference
focused largely on how to achieve trust among stakeholders with
decentralized digital identity, and the progress towards putting
transformative theories about how transactions should work into
practical use. The event, held by KuppingerCole last week, brought
together many of the most influential voices in biometrics and digital
ID. Read all our coverage here.
Biometric Update coverage of EIC
2024-What makes a good digital wallet? EIC 2024 answers-Europe has been
forging ahead with its plan to give each European Union citizen a
digital wallet that can be…CTO of Digidentity introduces the hybrid
wallet at EIC 2024Decentralized identity has had EIC 2024 buzzing – but
Marcel Wendt, CTO of Dutch firm Digidentity, says let’s not get…Bringing
ethics into the discussion on digital identity-A panel at EIC 2024
addresses head-on a topic that lurks around the edges of many
discussions of digital ID….Kantara Initiative launches group devoted to
deepfake injection attack threats“It’s probably not as bad as this makes
it seem,” says Andrew Hughes, VP of global standards for FaceTec
and…Decentralized identity takes center stage at EICSignificant time at
EIC 2024 has been devoted to cracking open the language of digital
identity, and decentralized identity (DID)…
Effective digital
identity requires strong foundations: a call for collaborators-Several
of the most influential non-profit organizations in digital identity
took the stage at Kuppinger-Cole’s EIC 2024 (European Identity and…EIC
session explores the future of travel with digital travel
credentialsTravel is already one of the more visible touchpoints for
biometrics in many people’s lives. But facial recognition systems
for…Digital identity industry needs to communicate better with relying
parties-One of the more existentially pressing questions being discussed
at EIC 2024 is the digital identity sector’s version of
the…Wallet-to-wallet coverage: digital identity opportunity arrives with
eIDAS 2.0The European Identity and Cloud Conference (EIC) took over
Berlin this week, bringing together experts from a wide range of…
Biometrics entering everyday activities via rising technologies-Jun 15, 2024, 12:49 pm ED| Chris Burt
Biometrics
underpin the new technologies that people will soon use on a daily
basis for everything from payments to age checks to public services, as
seen in the most-read articles of the week on Biometric Update.
Mastercard is moving to passkeys for online transactions, New York is
launching mDLs with Idemia technology, Yoti is rolling out on Facebook
for age estimation and digital wallets are shifting consumer
interactions towards a decentralized architecture. Meanwhile Incode has
struck the industry’s latest acquisition deal.Mastercard is planning to
tokenize all online transactions in Europe by 2030, eliminating the
need for consumers to enter payment card numbers when they make
ecommerce purchases. Instead, people will use passkeys, and merchants
Click to Pay, the checkout system Mastercard says it is making easier to
integrate. The result, the payments giant says, will be seamless,
accessible and secure interactions across digital channels.Aviation
stakeholders shared their vision for and experiences with biometrics and
AI at IATA’s big industry event last week, while deployments expand
around the world. TSA has added another PreCheck application point and
CAT-2 biometric scanners have reached two more airports. Curacao is
implementing biometric pre-verification, and self-bag drop is live at
Kempegowda International in India, but airlines are concerned the EU is
moving too fast with its EES.Canada’s privacy regulator has asked for
public input on age assurance guidelines. Meanwhile across the Southern
border, laws are drawing legal challenges (in Indiana) and criticism on
constitutional and free speech grounds (Mississippi, Tennessee), but
still being passed (New York). The market is already moving, with Meta
introducing Yoti’s biometric facial age estimation for Facebook users in
Australia last week as the first step in a global rollout.Testing and
assessments of biometric technologies are proliferating, in a sign of
the industry’s maturity. But as Idemia’s Terresa Wu explained in a
webinar, buyers of the technology still face a challenge in
understanding how to evaluate characteristics like accuracy and
demographic differentials relative to each other. Ultimately, Idemia
recommends a procurement framework with six criteria.Mobile driver’s
licenses are launching in New York with a dedicated app from Idemia. New
York’s mDL is based on the ISO standard and expected to be accepted by a
range of government agencies and businesses, beginning with all TSA
checkpoints at airports with CAT-2 biometric scanners.A pair of bills to
restrict the use of biometrics in New York City were discussed in a
public hearing on Monday, with Robert Tappan of the IBIA and Jake Parker
of the SIA representing the biometrics industry. They were outnumbered
by people supporting the bills, which would set strict limits on the use
of biometrics in public spaces and apartment buildings.Kaspersky has
found a range of serious cybersecurity vulnerabilities in white-label
face biometric access control terminals from ZKTeco. The five bundles of
vulnerabilities could allow SQL injection attacks, biometric data
theft, backdoors to adjacent networks and other security breakdowns.
Kaspersky offers advice for organizations awaiting fixes from ZKTeco.The
Philippines has introduced new biometric authentication services as it
officially launched the country’s national digital identity this week.
Online portals for relying parties to register, and checks of selfie
biometrics or ID document authenticity have been introduced, and four
banks and a fintech company have already agreed to accept the national
digital ID.KuppingerCole’s EIC 2024 served notice of the arrival of
decentralized digital identity in the everyday lives of regular people,
in the form of verifiable credentials and digital wallets. Ping Identity
outlined the applications of decentralized IDs in government and
financial services and discussed the challenges of explaining the
technical concept clearly, and ConnectID discussed reusable digital
identity.Nat Sakimura shares his theory on the role that data subjects’
control over connections between points of data about them in their
empowerment by reference to Hugo’s Les Miserables, in a post on X. His
comparison was discussed with Markus Sabadello in a keynote session at
EIC.Incode has acquired MetaMap to build up a comprehensive suite of
tools for digital identity verification, including selfie biometrics,
liveness detection, risk management and orchestration tools. MetaMap’s
COO moves over into the CEO role, suggesting that both companies will
continue to function in some capacity, at least for now.Palm biometrics
are now available on Anonybit’s infrastructure platform through a
strategic partnership with Armatura, giving Anonybit decentralized
multi-modal biometric capabilities. CEO Frances Zelazny talks about the
new partnership and improved capabilities in an interview with Biometric
Update.If you spot any interviews, editorials or other content we
should share with the people in biometrics the digital identity
community, please let us know in the comments below or through social
media.
Inverid and Cybernetica team up to secure digital ID,
signatures with biometric MFA-Partnership targets governments and
financial institutions-Jun 14, 2024, 4:54 pm EDT| Chris Burt
A
new partnership has been formed by Inverid and Cybernetica to combine
the NFC ID document-scanning capabilities of the former with the digital
identity technologies demonstrated in the latter’s experience as part
of Estonia’s national system. The partners plan to bring biometric
multi-factor authentication to digital identities for government and
financial services organizations.Combined services from Inverid and
Cybernetica will enable individuals to perform digital signing and
authentication from any smartphone to the highest regulatory standard
and cybersecurity certifications in the European Union, according to the
announcement. The solution is easy for organizations to integrate, and
protects individual’s digital identities from the threat of generative
AI attacks, the partners say.Inverid’s ReadID provides a high level of
assurance for identity binding to a biometric digital identity document
with an NFC chip, verifying the document’s authenticity with secure,
cryptographic methods which are deterministic rather than probabilistic.
Inverid says ReadID is the most secure identity verification solution
available in the market, protecting against fraud, identity theft and
other cybercrimes. The secured digital identity can then be used for
authentication and digital signatures through Cybernetica’s
technology.The partners are targeting organizations in the EMEA, LATAM
and APAC regions with their joint solutions.“We are very excited about
our partnership with Inverid and a have already integrated Inverid’s
ReadID solution into our SplitKey+ product, along with iProov, to
provide a best-in-class digital identity mobile application that covers
remote enrollment, multi factor authentication across inherence,
knowledge & possession factors whilst providing a qualified
electronic signature,” Michael Buckland, head of digital identity
technologies at Cybernetica told Biometric Update in an email.
“Inverid’s solution, coupled with our and other partners technology
brings to the market a robust solution with the highest levels of trust
and assurance.”Like Cybernetica, which is building the interface of
Estonia’s digital wallet, Inverid’s software is integrated with iProov’s
biometric liveness detection.
Mastercard commits to passkeys for payment, full tokenization in EU by 2030-Jun 12, 2024, 6:31 pm EDT | Joel R. McConvey
As
the EU gallops into the digital wallet era, Mastercard is going
full-token, as it announces a plan to achieve 100 percent e-commerce
tokenization in Europe by the end of the decade. A company release says
the move supports a global commitment to phase out manual card entry and
make online checkout more accessible and secure.Payment passkeys and
secure tokens are driving the change. Tokenization replaces the
16-19-digit number on payment cards with a secure token. Passkeys
leverage mobile device-based biometric authentication to avoid passwords
in favor of cryptographic technology. The idea is to create a seamless
customer payment experience across devices, browsers and operating
systems.Mastercard’s tokenization service secures a quarter of all
e-commerce transactions globally, as users discover the benefits of
turning everyday technology, such as phones and cars, into biometric
payment platforms.“In Europe we have seen tokenization gaining momentum
across the ecosystem, the convenience and reduced rates of fraud sell
themselves,” says Valerie Nowak, executive vice president of product and
innovation for Mastercard Europe. “We are confident that reaching this
vision by 2030 is a win-win-win for shoppers, retailers and the card
issuers alike.”Mastercard is also improving integration of its Click to
Pay system into merchant sites, to expedite faster and safer checkouts,
increase sales and protect against fraud.
A FALSE PROPHET COMES FROM THE VATICAN ALSO AT THIS TIME.
ISAIAH 23:15-17
15
And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten
seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of
seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
16 Take an harp, go
about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody,
sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
17 And it shall
come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit
Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with
all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.(COULD THIS BE
70 YEARS AFTER ISRAEL BECAME A NATION IN 1948)(IF SO THIS SATANIC ONE
WORLD WHORE CHURCH WILL MINGLE TOGETHER BY 2018)(AND NOW ISLAM AND
CHRISTIANITY AND ALL RELIGIONS ARE MINGLING AS ONE PEACE-LOVE-JOY-GET
ALONG RELIGION LEAD BY THE VATICAN RIGHT NOW 4 YEARS FROM THE 70 YEAR
TIME WHEN ISRAEL BECAME A NATION).AND IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM.
REVELATION 13:11-18
11
And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;(FALSE VATICAN
POPE) and he had two horns like a lamb,(JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD) and he
spake as a dragon.(HES SATANICALLY INSPIRED,HES A CHRISTIAN DEFECTOR
FROM THE FAITH)
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast
before him,(WORLD DICTATOR) and causeth the earth and them which dwell
therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.(THE
WORLD DICTATOR CREATES A FALSE RESURRECTION AND IS CROWNED LEADER OF THE
NEW WORLD ORDER).
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
14
And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those
miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to
them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the
beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15 And he had
power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the
beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the
image of the beast should be killed.
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth
all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a
mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the
beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred
threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
REVELATION 17:1-18
1
And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and
talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the
judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With
whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,(VATICAN IN
POLITICS) and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the
wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into
the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast,
full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And
the woman (FALSE CHURCH) was arrayed in purple and scarlet
colour,(VATICAN COLOURS)(ANOTHER REASON WE KNOW THE FALSE POPE COMES
FROM THE VATICAN) and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls,
having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of
her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
6
And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the
blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great
admiration.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou
marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that
carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
8 The beast
that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless
pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall
wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the
foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is
not, and yet is.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven
heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.(THE VATICAN IS
BUILT ON 7 HILLS OR MOUNTAINS)
10 And there are seven kings: five are
fallen,(1-ASSYRIA,2-EGYPT,3-BABYLON,4-MEDO-PERSIA,5-GREECE) and one
is,(IN POWER IN JOHNS AND JESUS DAY-6-ROME) and the other is not yet
come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.(7TH-REVIVED
ROMAN EMPIRE OR THE EUROPEAN UNION TODAY AND THE SHORT SPACE IS-THE
EUROPEAN UNION WILL HAVE WORLD CONTROL FOR THE LAST 3 1/2 YEARS.BUT WILL
HAVE ITS MIGHTY WORLD POWER FOR THE FULL 7 YEARS OF THE 7 YEAR
TRIBULATION PERIOD.AND THE WORLD DICTATOR WILL BE THE BEAST FROM THE
EU.AND THE VATICAN POPE WILL BE THE WHORE THAT RIDES THE EUROPEAN UNION
TO POWER.AND THE 2 EUROPEAN UNION POWER FREAKS WILL CONTROL AND DECIEVE
THE WHOLE EARTH INTO THEIR DESTRUCTION.IF YOU ARE NOT SAVED BY THE BLOOD
OF JESUS.YOU WILL BE DECIEVED BY THESE TWO.THE WORLD POLITICIAN-THE
EUROPEAN UNION DICTATOR.AND THE FALSE PROPHET THAT DEFECTS
CHRISTIANITY-THE FALSE VATICAN POPE.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
12
And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received
no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
14
These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them:
for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him
are called, and chosen, and faithful.
15 And he saith unto me, The
waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and
multitudes, and nations, and tongues.(VATICAN-CATHOLICS ALL AROUND THE
WORLD OVER 1 BILLION)
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the
beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) these shall hate the whore, and shall make her
desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
17
For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and
give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be
fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
IN
REV 13 :11-18 WE SEE POPE FRANCIS NOT ONLY IS THE BEST FRIEND OF THE
EUROPEAN UNION DICTATOR. BUT YOU CAN SAY POPE FRANCIS WORSHIPS THIS
EUROPEAN UNION DICTATOR HIMSELF. AFTER THE EUROPEAN WORLD LEADER HAS A
FALSE RESSURECTION AND COMES BACK TO LIFE. AND SITS IN THE 3RD TEMPLE
CALLING HIMSELF GOD.AND POPE FRANCIS WILL USE AI TO DELUDE EVERY BODY ON
EARTH WITH MIRACLES TO MAKE THEM PUT A MIROCHIP IN THEIR RIGHT HAND.
Heavenly
humor-Pope Francis tells visiting comedians it’s okay to ‘laugh at
God’Pontiff hosts group of comic actors, including many prominent names,
for reception at Vatican hailing the importance of humor: ‘You also
make God smile’By Giada Zampano 14 June 2024, 8:54 pm
VATICAN
CITY (AP) — Before flying to Italy’s southern Puglia region to meet
world leaders at the Group of Seven summit, Pope Francis hosted a very
different audience at the Vatican on Friday celebrating the importance
of humor.The pontiff welcomed more than 100 comedians from 15 nations,
including American celebrities Whoopi Goldberg, Jimmy Fallon, Chris
Rock, Stephen Colbert and Conan O’Brien.“In the midst of so much gloomy
news, immersed as we are in many social and even personal emergencies,
you have the power to spread peace and smiles,” Francis told the
comedians.“You unite people, because laughter is contagious,” he
continued, asking jokingly, “Please pray for me: for, not
against!”Francis pointed out that in the creation, “Divine wisdom
practiced your art for the benefit of none other than God himself, the
first spectator in history,” with God delighting in the works that he
had made.“Remember this,” he added. “When you manage to bring
intelligent smiles to the lips of even a single spectator, you also make
God smile.”Francis also said it was okay to “laugh at God” in the same
way that “we play and joke with the people we love.”After delivering his
speech, Francis greeted all the comedians individually, sharing laughs
and jokes with some of them.“It was great, it was very fast and really
loving, and made me happy,” Goldberg said afterward.O’Brien noted that
the pope “spoke in Italian, so I’m not quite sure what was said.”“To be
in that room and to be with all my fellow comedians, some of whom I’ve
been good friends with for many years, in that environment, was quite
strange,” the TV host added. “All of us were thinking, how did this
happen? Why are we here, and when are they going to throw us
out?”Colbert admitted his Italian “is really bad, I would like to speak
it better.” But he managed to remind the pope that he had done the
audiobook for his memoir.“It was wonderful, he’ll never forget me,” he
joked.
Pope to G7: AI is ‘neither objective nor neutral’In an
address to the G7 summit, Pope Francis discusses the threat and promise
of artificial intelligence, the ‘techno-human condition’, human vs
algorithmic decision-making, AI-written essays, and the necessity of
political collaboration on technology.By Joseph Tulloch-On Friday
afternoon, Pope Francis addressed the G7 leaders’ summit in Puglia,
Italy.He is the first Pope to ever address the forum, which brings
together the leaders of the US, UK, Italy, France, Canada, Germany, and
Japan.AI: Dangers and promises
The Pope dedicated his address to
the G7 to the subject of artificial intelligence.He began by saying that
the birth of AI represents “a true cognitive-industrial revolution”
which will lead to “complex epochal transformations”.These
transformations, the Pope said, have the potential to be both positive –
for example, the “democratization of access to knowledge”, the
“exponential advancement of scientific research”, and a reduction in
“demanding and arduous work” – and negative – for instance, “greater
injustice between advanced and developing nations or between dominant
and oppressed social classes.”The ’techno-human condition’Noting that AI
is “above all a tool”, the Pope spoke of what he called the
“techno-human condition”.He explained that he was referring to the fact
that humans’ relationship with the environment has always been mediated
by the tools that they have produced.Some, the Pope said, see this as a
weakness, or a deficiency; however, he argued, it is in fact something
positive. It stems, he said, from the fact that we are beings “inclined
to what lies outside of us”, beings “radically open to the beyond.”This
openness, Pope Francis said, is both the root of our “techno-human
condition” and the root of our openness to others and to God, as well as
the root of our artistic and intellectual creativity.Decision-making:
humans v machines-The Pope then moved on to the subject of
decision-making.He said that AI is capable of making “algorithmic
choices” – that is, “technical” choices “among several possibilities
based either on well-defined criteria or on statistical
inferences”.Human beings, however, “not only choose, but in their hearts
are capable of deciding.”This is because, the Pope explained, they are
capable of wisdom, of what the Ancient Greeks called phronesis (a type
of intelligence concerned with practical action), and of listening to
Sacred Scripture.It is thus very important, the Pope stressed, that
important decisions must “always be left to the human person.”As an
example of this principle, the Pope pointed to the development of lethal
autonomous weapons – which can take human life with no human input –
and said that they must ultimately be banned.Algorithms 'neither
objective nor neutral'The Pope also stressed that the algorithms used by
artificial intelligence to arrive at choices are “neither objective nor
neutral.”He pointed to the algorithms designed to help judges in
deciding whether to grant home-confinement to prison inmates. These
programmes, he said, make a choice based on data such as the type of
offence, behaviour in prison, psychological assessment, and the
prisoner’s ethnic origin, educational attainment, and credit
rating.However, the Pope stressed, this is reductive: “human beings are
always developing, and are capable of surprising us by their actions.
This is something that a machine cannot take into account.”A further
problem, the Pope emphasised, is that algorithms “can only examine
realities formalised in numerical terms:”The Pope then turned to
consider the fact that many students are increasingly relying on AI to
help them with their studies, and in particular, with writing essays.It
is easy to forget, the Pope said, that “strictly speaking, so-called
generative artificial intelligence is not really ‘generative’” – it does
not “develop new analyses or concepts” but rather “repeats those that
it finds, giving them an appealing form.”This, the Pope said, risks
“undermining the educational process itself”.Education, he emphasised,
should offer the chance for “authentic reflection”, but instead “runs
the risk of being reduced to a repetition of notions, which will
increasingly be evaluated as unobjectionable, simply because of their
constant repetition.”Towards an “algor-ethics”Bringing his speech to a
close, the Pope emphasised that AI is always shaped by “the worldview of
those who invented and developed it.”A particular concern in this
regard, he said, is that today it is “increasingly difficult to find
agreement on the major issues concerning social life” - there is less
and less consensus, that is, regarding the philosophy that should be
shaping artificial intelligence.What is necessary, therefore, the Pope
said, is the development of an “algor-ethics”, a series of “global and
pluralistic” principles which are “capable of finding support from
cultures, religions, international organizations and major
corporations.”“If we struggle to define a single set of global values,”
the Pope said, we can at least “find shared principles with which to
address and resolve dilemmas or conflicts regarding how to live.”A
necessary politics-Faced with this challenge, the Pope said, “political
action is urgently needed.”“Only a healthy politics, involving the most
diverse sectors and skills”, the Pope stressed, is capable of dealing
with the challenges and promises of artificial intelligence.The goal,
Pope Francis concluded, is not “stifling human creativity and its ideals
of progress” but rather “directing that energy along new channels.”
