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)
THE MIDEAST HEATS UP BIGTIME-ISLAMIC DEATH CULT GET READY TO BE BIRD FEED.THE MIGRATING BIRDS ARE BACK IN ISRAEL IN NOVEMBER.
At least 500 million birds of 300 different species fly across Israel twice yearly on their way to and from Africa, Europe and Asia.One of the most popular places to watch this extraordinary March and November spectacle is the Agamon Hula Lake Nature Park in the Upper Galilee.Here, tens of thousands of common cranes touch down in the fields every day for a noisy meal to fuel their long journey.
WARN THE PEOPLE-WW3
EZEKIEL 33:1-6
1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2
Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them,
When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man
of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:
3 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
4
Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not
warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon
his own head.
5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not
warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall
deliver his soul.
6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow
not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and
take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but
his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.
DANIEL 11:40-45 (WW3 BREAKDOWN)
40
And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at
him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM
HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with
chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter
into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall
enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be
overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab,
and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43
But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and
over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the
Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the
east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS
LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he
shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away
many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the
tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy
mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
ISAIAH 24:1
1
Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste,(NUKES
USED) and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants
thereof.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel
of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a
son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(ARAB/MUSLIM) because the LORD
hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild
man;(RIOTS-BURNING-MURDEROUUS RAGE) his hand will be against every
man,(ISLAM WANTS WORLD DOMINATION) and every man's hand against
him;(DEFENDING THEMSELVES) and he shall dwell in the presence of all his
brethren.(ARAB/MUSLIMS LIVE WITH ISRAELIS)
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe
to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed)
and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee!
when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be
spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal
treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19
Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than
thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not
understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the
synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think
that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF THEIR MOON GOD
ALLAH)
ISAIAH 14:12-23
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O
Lucifer, (SATAN) son of the morning! (HEBREW MEANS CRESCENT MOON
ANGEL-ISLAM OVIOUSLY)(SATAN IS THE GOD OF ISLAM) how art thou cut down
to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said
in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above
the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in
the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL EATS HUMANS FLESH FOR COMING AGAINST ISRAEL-JERUSALEM
Ecclesiastes 9:10
10
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the
realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor
planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.
EZEKIEL 31:10-17
10
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself
in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his
heart is lifted up in his height;
11 I have therefore delivered him
into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal
with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.
12 And
strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left
him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen,
and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the
people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:
14To
the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for
their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither
their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they
are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the
midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.(HELL).
15Thus
saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a
mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods
thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn
for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
16 I made
the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to
hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the
choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in
the nether parts of the earth.
17They also went down into hell with
him unto [them that be] slain with the sword; and [they that were] his
arm, [that] dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
18To
whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of
Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the
nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the
uncircumcised with [them that be] slain by the sword. This [is] Pharaoh
and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
EZEKIEL 32:17-32
17
It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth [day] of the
month, [that] the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
18 Son of
man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, [even] her,
and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the
earth, with them that go down into the pit.
19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.
20
They shall fall in the midst of [them that are] slain by the sword: she
is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.
21 The
strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with
them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain
by the sword.
22 Asshur [is] there and all her company: his graves [are] about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:
23
Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round
about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused
terror in the land of the living.
24 There [is] Elam (IRAN) and all
her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the
sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the
earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have
they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
25 They
have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her
graves [are] round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the
sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet
have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put
in the midst of [them that be] slain.
26 There [is] Meshech,
Tubal,(RUSSIA) (GERMANY, TURKEY) and all her multitude: her graves [are]
round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though
they caused their terror in the land of the living.
27And they shall
not lie with the mighty [that are] fallen of the uncircumcised, which
are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid
their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their
bones, though [they were] the terror of the mighty in the land of the
living.
28 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with [them that are] slain with the sword.
29
There [is] Edom,(JORDAN) her kings, and all her princes, which with
their might are laid by [them that were] slain by the sword: they shall
lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.
30
There [be] the princes of the north, all of them, and all the
Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they
are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with [them that
be] slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to
the pit.
31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all
his multitude, [even] Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith
the Lord GOD.
32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the
living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with
[them that are] slain with the sword, [even] Pharaoh and all his
multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
EZEKIEL 38:1-23
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2
Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA)
the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy
against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against
thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and
Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I (GOD) will turn thee back, and put hooks into
thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee
forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with
all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields,
all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6
Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of
the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with
thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and
prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto
thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be
visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is
brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against
the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is
brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of
them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a
cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with
thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall
also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy
mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt
say,(RUSSIA-ARAB-MUSLIMS) I will go up to the land of unwalled
villages;(ISRAEL) I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely,
all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12
To take a spoil,(OIL IS IN SPOIL) and to take a prey; to turn thine
hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the
people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle
and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
13 Sheba, and
Dedan,(SAUDI-ARABIA) and the merchants of Tarshish,(SPAIN) with all the
young lions thereof,(ENGLAND,AND ALL ITS ASSOCIATES-CANADA,AUSTRALIA-NEW
ZEALAND, USA, AND WESTERN ENGLISH SPEAKING NATIONS) shall say unto
thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to
take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and
goods, to take a great spoil?(OIL IS IN SPOIL-I BELIEVE THATS WHY
RUSSIA,ARAB/MUSLIMS MARCH TO ISRAEL)
14 Therefore, son of man,
prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my
people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
15 And
thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many
people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a
mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel,
as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I
will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I
shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
EZEKIEL 39:11-22
11
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog
(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of
the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of
the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall
they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and
they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300
MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13
Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it
shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified,
saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual
employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to
bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth,
to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15
And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s
bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the
buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of
Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN
THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17
And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every
feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY
SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and
come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do
sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel,
that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM
ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood
of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of
bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21
And I 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.
22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
REVELATION 19:17-18
17
And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice,
saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and
gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;(AGAINST ALL
NATIONS ARMIES THAT COME AGAINST JERUSALEM AND ISRAEL)
18 That ye
may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of
mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and
the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
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:
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.
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.
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.
1 OF 3 GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO
1-PROMISCUOUS SEX AMOUNG EACH OTHER.
ROMANS 1:24
24
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of
their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: (THE
60S FREE SEX)
2 OF 3 GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO
2-SODOMITES - MEN LUSTING MEN, AND WOMEN LUSTING AFTER WOMEN.
ROMANS 1:26-27
26
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their
women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned
in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is
unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error
which was meet.
3 OF 3 GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO
3-A DEPRAVED MIND-ANY SIN GOES.
ROMANS 1:28-31
28
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God
gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not
convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication,
wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate,
deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO THESE 3 DEPRAVED ABOMINATION SINS?
OH OH NOAHS DAY. WHAT HAPPENED IN NOAHS DAY. THE WHOLE WORLD WAS JUDGED BY WATER.
GENESIS 6:7,17
7
And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face
of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the
fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
17 And,
behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy
all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every
thing that is in the earth shall die.
GENESIS 7:4
4 For yet seven
days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty
nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from
off the face of the earth.
GENESIS 8:16
16 And the bow shall be in
the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting
covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is
upon the earth.
WELL THE SODOMITES PICKED THE RIGHT SIGN OF A RAINBOW
FOR JUDGEMENT. THE SODOMITES TRYED TO STEAL GODS SIGN THAT THE WHOLE
EARTH WILL NEVER DIE FROM FLOOD WATERS AGAIN. BUT THE JUDGEMENT THIS
TIME IS GOING TO BE BY FIRE.NOT WATER.
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the
heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in
store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of
ungodly men.
EZIKIEL 38:12-13
13 Sheba, and Dedan,(SAUDIA
ARABIA) and the merchants of Tarshish,(ENGLAND) with all the young lions
thereof,(USA,CANADA,AUSTRALIA,NEW ZEALAND,EU,ENGLAND,ENGLISH SPEAKING
shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered
thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away
cattle and goods, to take a great spoil? (AGAINST ISRAEL)
14
Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, (RUSSIA AND HER
MUSLIMS HORDES)Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of
Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
ONE JEWISH PEOPLE FOR ONE JEWISH STATE
https://1jstate.com/
New Movement to Unite One Jewish People for One Jewish State-Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz-Israel News-July 31, 2024
Since
October 7th, a wave of pro-Israel activists has emerged to defend the
Jewish people and the State of Israel from unprecedented antisemitism
and anti-Zionism. A new movement to unite Israel advocates across the
world has formed, called ‘One Jewish State,’ that seeks to strengthen
Israel and the Jewish people. One Jewish State is an outgrowth of
Israel365 Action, which has been at the forefront of Israel advocacy
since October 7th, and has partnered with Ambassador David Friedman, who
has called for a new movement that is based on peace through strength.
“I am flattered that they have chosen the name of my book for their new
party, and am flattered they have endorsed my views and the movement I
have begun to lead,” said Friedman.In addition to organizing Israel
advocates, One Jewish State will host online and local events and has
registered as a party in the World Zionist Congress. The World Zionist
Congress is the “parliament of the Jewish people” since its founding in
1897 by Theodore Herzl, and holds elections every five years. The next
World Zionist Congress election is scheduled for March 2025. “Zionism
today has become a dirty word. Antisemitism is out of control. On
October 7th, Israelis were massacred and now, Jews don’t feel safe
anywhere in the world,” said Rabbi Pesach Wolicki, director of Israel365
Action. “While the World Zionist Congress incredibly helped build the
state of Israel, we have lost the vision necessary to steer the Jewish
State into the future. One Jewish State has bold views that are very
different from the failed policies that led to October 7th.” One Jewish
State calls for working closely with Israel’s faith based allies, for
revitalizing Jewish education and for sovereignty in Judea and Samaria.
Since the World Zionist Congress elections will be held in March 2025,
One Jewish State is seeking party delegates to serve as representatives.
“We already have some of the most incredible Jewish activists as
delegates,” said Rabbi Tuly Weisz, founder of Israel365. “I am blown
away by the dedication, commitment and courage of so many young Jews who
have applied to become delegates. This is not the party for Jews with
trembling knees, but we are the home for all kinds of Jews who want to
be a part of ensuring a strong, safe and sovereign Israel.”To apply to
become a One Jewish State delegate, visit the website here.One Jewish
State delegates Anna Steinberg and Elisheva Chase from Chicago, flew to
Washington, DC to hear Prime Minister Netanyahu and were attacked by pro
Hamas mobs. “I can’t believe what is going on in our nation’s capital,”
said Steinberg, “and I feel that getting involved with One Jewish State
is the best way to have a big impact on the future of Israel and the
Jewish people.” Other delegates include Michelle Terris, founder of
JEXIT (Jews exiting the Democratic party), WABC host of “Sid and
Friends” Sid Rosenberg, social media influencer Melissa Chapman, Josh
Hammer, Newsweek’s senior editor at large, Matthew Faraci of Gideon300,
and Benji Gershon, founder of American Jewish Conservatives. Their
motto, ‘One Jewish People for One Jewish State’ encapsulates the
diversity of its delegates. Cary Kozberg is a reform rabbi, Pinchas
Taylor is a Chabad rabbi and Josh Wander is a rabbi who defies all
labels, all of whom serve as One Jewish State delegates. Rabbi Josh
Wander (who lives in Israel but didn’t vote in the previous Knesset
election and therefore is eligible to serve as a delegate) will serve as
the director of Aliyah affairs for One Jewish State and sees his
involvement as a way to raise awareness about the importance of Aliyah.
“We are at a crossroads in Jewish history where God is literally closing
down the exile on all fronts and gathering his people back home. I am
flattered to represent One Jewish State in its efforts to return the
Jewish people back to their ancestral homeland.”One Jewish State
recognizes that some of its positions might be jarring for some in the
largely liberal American Jewish community, but that is okay with its
leadership. “October 7th woke us all up to the harsh reality that we
can’t continue with the same naive ideologies and failed policies, like
the two state solution,” said Rabbi Wolicki. “We need a grassroots
movement to push the Jewish community into confronting the new reality
we are facing. If you want to be a part of the new movement that will
turn Zionism from a curse word into a beloved term that connotes
respect, then we are your One Jewish State.”
Non-Western nations slam ‘unacceptable,’ ‘shameful’ Haniyeh killing-Picture of JNS-July 31, 2024
“This
is an absolutely unacceptable political murder, and it will lead to
further escalation of tensions,” said Russia’s deputy foreign
minister.Non-Western nations are condemning the assassination in Tehran
of Hamas politburo head Ismail Haniyeh and holding Israel responsible,
though it has not taken credit for the killing.Russia, which hosted a
Hamas delegation shortly after Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre, and Turkey,
whose president recently spoke of invading Israel, both denounced the
killing.Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said, ”This is
an absolutely unacceptable political murder, and it will lead to further
escalation of tensions.”Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said, “We condemn the
assassination of the leader of Hamas’s political office, Ismail
Haniyeh, in a shameful assassination in Tehran.”Iran said the Haniyeh’s
death wouldn’t be in vain and “will strengthen the deep and inseparable
bonds between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Palestine and
resistance,” according to the country’s semi-official Tasnim News
Agency.Iran’s newly installed president, Masoud Pezeshkian, said, “We
will make the occupying terrorist regime [Israel] regret its action,”
Iranian media reported.“Iran will defend its sovereignty, dignity,
reputation and honor,” he added.Hamas said Haniyeh died “as a result of a
treacherous Zionist raid” and promised that his death would not go
unanswered.“The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas mourns the sons of our
great Palestinian people, the Arab and Islamic nation, and all the free
people of the world,” the terror group said in a statement.Palestinian
Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas, whose Fatah organization signed a unity
deal with Hamas on July 23 in China, called the assassination “a
cowardly act and a dangerous development.”Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, head
of Yemen’s Houthi Supreme Revolutionary Committee, said, “Targeting
Ismail Haniyeh is a heinous terrorist crime and a flagrant violation of
laws and ideal values.”Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said Haniyeh was
“martyred” and expressed “condolences to the heroic nation of Palestine
and the Islamic nation and the combatants of the Resistance Front and
the noble nation of Iran.”Jordan characterized the killing as a
violation of international law and humanitarian law. Jordanian Foreign
Ministry spokesperson Sufyan Qudah said Israel’s crimes would drag the
region into a wider conflict, threatening regional and international
peace and security.China also condemned the assassination, warning it
could lead to “further instability in the regional situation.”Although
the United States didn’t immediately respond to the incident, it had
already directed warships toward the Eastern Mediterranean after the
Tuesday night assassination by Israel of Fuad Shukr, described as
Hezbollah’s chief of staff, and promised to come to Israel’s aid should
it be attacked.Speaking to the press in the Philippines on Tuesday, U.S.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said, “We’ve committed to helping Israel
defend itself for whatever it takes,” speaking of the possibility of
war in Israel’s north between Israel and Hezbollah.Haniyeh, who was in
Iran for the inauguration of Iran’s new president Masoud Pezeshkian, was
killed at his Tehran guest house, according to Iranian media reports.
In
address to nation, PM makes no mention of Haniyeh's death-Netanyahu:
‘Challenging days ahead,’ Israel will exact heavy price for any
attack-Israel says ready for every scenario as it braces for reaction by
Iran and proxies to the killings of Hamas’s Haniyeh, Hezbollah’s Shukr;
Iranian adviser was also killed in Beirut-By Lazar Berman,Emanuel
Fabian-and Agencies Today, 12:05 am-AUG 1,24
Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Wednesday evening that “challenging days
are ahead” for Israel as it braces for attacks from Iran and its
regional proxies following the assassinations of Hezbollah’s top
military commander in Beirut and Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh
in Tehran.Speaking from military headquarters in Tel Aviv at the end of
a three-hour-long security cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said Israel was
facing threats from across the region following the killing of Fuad
Shukr, whom he called “Hezbollah’s chief of staff,” in Beirut on Tuesday
night.“We are ready for every scenario,” he promised, “and will stand
united and determined against every threat.” He added: “Israel will
exact a very heavy price for any aggression against us.”Israel was on
high alert Wednesday evening as it prepared to face retaliation for the
attacks. The killings and expectations of a response have fueled further
concern that the conflict in Gaza was turning into a wider Middle East
war.The United States urged its citizens to not travel to Lebanon,
citing rising tensions. The State Department raised its travel advisory
to Lebanon to level four, which says “Do Not Travel.” The State
Department advised Americans in Lebanon to depart if possible.While it
confirmed hitting Shukr, Israel has not commented on Haniyeh’s killing,
and Netanyahu avoided doing so, or even mentioning Haniyeh’s name,
during his Wednesday comments. But Iran and Hamas blamed the Jewish
state for the attack.As Netanyahu was addressing the nation, Hezbollah
formally confirmed that Shukr had been killed, more than 24 hours after
the IDF struck the eight-story apartment building in southern Beirut
that he was in. Shukr will be buried on Thursday, the Iran-backed group
said, and its leader Hassan Nasrallah will deliver an address.Netanyahu
noted that Shukr, who he also described as “Nasrallah’s deputy,” was
“one of the most wanted terrorists in the world. The US put a $5 million
bounty on his head, and for good reason: He was involved in the murder
of 241 American soldiers and 58 French soldiers in Beirut in 1983.”US
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said earlier Wednesday that the US
“certainly will help defend Israel” if regional conflict escalates,
noting that it did so in April, when the US led a coalition of forces
that, together with Israel, almost completely thwarted an Iranian attack
on Israel with hundreds of drones and missiles.The UN Security Council
said it would be holding an emergency meeting on Wednesday, at 4 p.m.
New York Time (11 p.m., in Israel) on the killing of Haniyeh. The
meeting was requested by Iran and supported by representatives of
Russia, China and Algeria.Meanwhile, Israeli President Isaac Herzog
urged the public to be “responsible and vigilant” amid the threats from
Iran and its proxies, and to follow instructions issued by the security
establishment.“We did not desire war and we will not desire war, but we
must be prepared,” the president said.The Israeli strike in Beirut was
carried out in retaliation for a deadly Hezbollah rocket attack on a
Golan Heights Druze town Saturday that killed 12 children in a soccer
field. Israel has said Shukr was responsible for the attack, and others
across northern Israel. “He was the main liaison between Iran and
Hezbollah and he was responsible for the organization’s missiles,”
Netanyahu said.Iran’s official Fars News Agency reported Wednesday night
that Iranian military adviser Milad Bedi had also been killed in the
Beirut strike that killed Shukr. Bedi was in the building where Israel
targeted Shukr and his body was identified on Wednesday, the report
said.Pointing to the Beirut assassination, the strike in Gaza on the
leader of Hamas’s military wing Muhammad Deif several weeks ago and on
the Houthi-controlled Hodeida port in Yemen, Netanyahu said Israel had
landed “crushing blows” on Iran and its main proxies.The Druze and the
Jews have a “covenant of life” that has been strengthened in recent
days, the premier said of Israel’s retaliation for the deadly Hezbollah
strike on Majdal Shams. “We settled our score with [Hajj] Mohsin,” he
said, referring to Shukr’s nom de guerre, “and we will settle our score
with anyone who harms us.“The murder of innocent children has been added
to the unending suffering of the residents in the north, our dear ones
who have been exiled from their homes, and whose communities have
suffered serious attacks — and for this we will not be silent.”“Everyone
who takes aim at our children, everyone who murders our citizens,
everyone who harms our country — their blood is on their own head,”
Netanyahu added.Like Netanyahu, Israeli Air Force chief Maj. Gen. Tomer
Bar stressed at a graduation ceremony for drone operators at the
Palmachim Airbase on Wednesday evening that the IAF was ready for “any
scenario.”The Air Force was “enveloping Israel with dozens of aircraft,
manned and remotely manned, prepared and ready in a matter of minutes
for any scenario, in any area,” Bar said. “We will act against anyone
who plans to harm the citizens of the State of Israel, there is no
location that is too far for us to attack.”Questions swirled in Israel
throughout all of Wednesday about how Iran and its proxies would react
to the assassinations of top Hamas and Hezbollah leaders.Israel’s
aviation authority said on Wednesday morning that the airspace from the
coastal city of Hadera northward would be closed for a period of 24
hours, with the exception of emergency fights by the military, police,
firefighters and medical evacuations.Ben Gurion Airport was unaffected
by the closure, as commercial flights generally do not fly north of
Hadera to reach the airport located near Tel Aviv.Still, two leading US
airlines announced Wednesday they were freezing flights to the country
for several days.Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Israel Katz sent a letter
to dozens of foreign ministers around the world, calling on them to
demand “an immediate cessation of Hezbollah’s attacks, its withdrawal to
the north of the Litani River and its disarmament in accordance with UN
Security Council Resolution 1701.”That resolution ended the 2006 Second
Lebanon War, and stipulated that Hezbollah must not be active south of
the Litani, a demand Hezbollah has flaunted over the years as it built
its robust military infrastructure along Israel’s border.“Israel is not
interested in an all-out war,” Katz said, “but the only way to prevent
it is the immediate implementation of Resolution 1701.”The strike on
Shukr “sent a clear message,” Katz added, “We will use great force to
harm whoever harms us.”Israel’s Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, sent a
letter to other Foreign Ministers stating Israel does not want all out
war, “only way to prevent it is to implement UN Resolution 1701”
pic.twitter.com/ecCxWzUxzf— Backdoor News (@BackdoorNews2) July 31,
2024-In his Wednesday address, Netanyahu asserted that he has been under
pressure, domestically and abroad, to end the war in Gaza.I did not
give in to those voices then, and I don’t give in to them now,” he
said.Had he listened to them, the premier argued, Israel would not have
taken out Hamas leaders and fighters, destroyed infrastructure, taken
the Gaza-Egypt border area, or “created the conditions that bring us
closer to terms that will not only bring our hostages back, but also
allow us to achieve all of our objectives for the war.“All of the
achievements in recent months were attained because we did not give in,”
Netanyahu said, “and because we made brave decisions in the face of
great pressure at home and abroad. And I tell you it was not
easy.“Together we will fight, and with God’s help, together we will
win,” he concluded.Times of Israel Staff contributed to this report.
It
is 'our duty to seek revenge for his blood,' leader says-Khamenei said
to order direct strike on Israel after Haniyeh killed in Tehran-Iranian
officials tell NYT that options being weighed include a coordinated
assault with Tehran’s proxies, say defense plans also being readied in
case Israel or US strike Iran-By ToI Staff Today, 1:53 am-AUG 1,24
Iranian
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has ordered a direct strike on Israel for
the killing of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, according to a report
Wednesday, as he and other top Iranian officials vowed a response to the
Palestinian terror chief’s assassination in Tehran.Citing three unnamed
Iranian officials briefed on the matter, including two Revolutionary
Guard members, the New York Times reported that Khamenei gave the
directive at an emergency meeting of the Supreme National Security
Council held shortly after Haniyeh’s killing was announced Wednesday
morning.As part of the order, the officials said Khamenei told
commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iranian Army to
ready both attack and defense plans “in the event that the war expands
and Israel or the United States strike Iran.”Israel has not commented on
the incident, which came amid its war with the Hamas terror group in
the Gaza Strip and hours after an IDF strike in Beirut killed the top
military commander of fellow Iran-backed Hezbollah. With Israel on high
alert for a possible response, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned
in an address to the nation on Wednesday evening that “challenging days
are ahead,” but vowed the country was “ready for every scenario” and
“will exact a very heavy price for any aggression against us.” He did
not mention Haniyeh.Khamenei had hosted Haniyeh, who was visiting Tehran
for the swearing-in ceremony of new Iranian President Masoud
Pezeshkian, for a meeting on Tuesday hours before he was killed.“With
this action, the criminal and terrorist Zionist regime prepared the
ground for harsh punishment for itself, and we consider it our duty to
seek revenge for his blood as he was martyred in the territory of the
Islamic Republic of Iran,” Khamenei said in a statement on the
assassination carried by state media.The Iranian officials quoted by the
New York Times said that among the options being weighed are a combined
drone and missile assault — similar to the direct attack on Israel
several months ago — on military targets around Tel Aviv and Haifa,
asserting Iran would go out of its way not to strike civilian sites.They
also said military commanders are considering launching the attack in
coordination with Iranian proxies around the region “for maximum
effect,” naming Yemen, Syria and Iraq among the countries where Iran’s
allies operate.Iran has in the past acted on threats to retaliate
against Israel, generally through its regional proxies. However, in
April, for the first time, it responded directly to the killing of a
senior army general in an alleged Israeli strike in Beirut. On that
occasion, Iran launched hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel,
nearly all of which Israel was able to intercept with the help of US
coordination with other forces in the region, including Britain, France,
and some Arab states. Very minor damage was caused to an airbase and a
young Bedouin girl was seriously injured by falling shrapnel.Noting the
joint international response to that attack, US Defense Secretary Lloyd
Austin said Wednesday the US “certainly will help defend Israel” if
regional conflict escalates following the deaths of Haniyeh and Fuad
Shukr, the Hezbollah commander.“We don’t want to see any of that
happen,” Austin told a press conference in the Philippines. “We’re going
to work hard to make sure that we’re doing things to help take the
temperature down and address issues through diplomatic
gatherings.”Austin added that he didn’t believe a wider war in the
Middle East to be “inevitable.”Later Wednesday, Austin spoke by phone
with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in a call the US and Israel said
regarded Hezbollah and Lebanon. Neither the readout from the Pentagon
nor from the Defense Ministry mentioned Haniyeh, as the US has said it
was “not aware or involved in” the targeted assassination, and the
Israeli government said it would not be commenting on the matter.The
Pentagon said, however, that the two defense officials “discussed the
threats to Israel posed by a range of Iranian-backed terrorist groups,”
and Austin “reaffirmed his unwavering commitment to Israel’s security
and right to self-defense.”Agencies contributed to this reprot.
Security
Council holds urgent meeting on Mideast tensions after terror chiefs
killed-US urges UN members with influence over Tehran ‘to increase
pressure on it to stop escalating its proxy conflict against Israel and
other actors’; Iran envoy calls to punish Israel-By Agencies and ToI
Staff-JUL 31,24
United Nations Security Council countries on
Wednesday called for stepped-up diplomatic efforts to avert a wider
Middle East conflict after the killings of two terror leaders raised
tensions.Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in the Iranian
capital Tehran early on Wednesday, sparking threats of revenge against
Israel and fueling concern the Gaza conflict was turning into a wider
Middle East war.The assassination occurred less than 24 hours after
Hezbollah’s most senior military commander was killed in an Israeli
strike on the Lebanese capital Beirut in retaliation for a rocket attack
in Golan Heights that killed 12 children.“We fear the region is at the
brink of all-out war,” Japan’s deputy UN representative, Shino Mitsuko,
said on Wednesday, urging international efforts to prevent such a
conflict.China, Russia, Algeria and others condemned Haniyeh’s
assassination, which Iran’s UN ambassador called “an aggressive act of
terrorism by the Zionist occupying regime of Israel,” while the US, UK
and France raised what they said was Iranian support for destabilizing
actors in the region.No collective message was issued after the
meeting.Fu Cong, China’s ambassador to the UN, said failure to achieve a
ceasefire in the Gaza war sparked by Hamas’s October 7 terror onslaught
was responsible for worsening tensions.“Countries with major influence
must put more pressure and work more vigorously … to put out the flames
of war in Gaza,” he said.Britain’s UN Ambassador Barbara Woodward urged
calm and restraint, reiterating a call for an immediate ceasefire in
Gaza. She called for a renewed peace process that would result in a
two-state solution with a secure Israel and a sovereign Palestinian
state.“The path to peace must be through diplomatic negotiations.
Long-term peace will not be secured by bombs and bullets.”Robert Wood,
deputy US ambassador to the UN, called for members of the Security
Council with influence over Iran “to increase pressure on it to stop
escalating its proxy conflict against Israel and other actors.”“We call
on the Security Council to send an unambiguous message to Hezbollah by
standing with Israel as it defends itself against Hezbollah’s repeated
attacks,” he said, while noting Iranian support for Yemen’s Houthi
rebels and armed groups in Syria and Iraq.Turning to Haniyeh’s killing,
Wood called “not to speculate on the impact that recent events may have
on peace and security in the Middle East.”“A broader war is neither
imminent nor inevitable, although the opportunistic attacks by Iran and
its network of terrorist proxies and partners across the region have
repeatedly brought us closer to a regional conflict,” he continued. “For
our part, the United States will continue to lead the way in diplomatic
efforts to end the war in Gaza and reduce regional tensions.”“We will
continue to work hard to prevent a broader regional war,” he added,
saying “that starts… with finalizing an agreement for an immediate
ceasefire with the release of hostages in Gaza.”Iran’s UN Ambassador
Amir Saeid Iravani said Tehran has consistently exercised maximum
restraint but reserved its right to respond decisively. He called on the
Security Council to condemn Israel and punish it with
sanctions.Israel’s deputy representative to the UN, Jonathan Miller,
called on the Security Council to condemn Iran for support of regional
terrorism and increase sanctions on Tehran, while saying those who want
peace and stability in the Middle East “should welcome the removal of
arch terrorists, not call on both sides to restrain themselves.”“We will
defend ourselves and respond with great force against those who harm
us,” Miller said, calling on the world to support Israel.
Analysis'Israel
slowly making Hamas irrelevant as a military group' Iran-led axis
likely to launch joint attack, but can’t reverse Israeli gains in
Gaza-After strikes in Beirut and Tehran — and a US attack in Iraq —
Tehran will look to retaliate. Hamas meanwhile seems unable to do much,
with hostage deal its best shot at survival-By Lazar Berman-Today, 5:09
am-JUL 31,24
After the Hezbollah rocket attack in Majdal Shams on
Saturday that left 12 children dead and dozens more injured, Israel
found itself forced to carry out a muscular response.The question was
how.Several options were on the table, some being pushed loudly by
prominent officials. Israel could have opted to finally embark on the
long-anticipated war on Hezbollah, seeking to drive the Shi’ite terror
army from southern Lebanon and degrade its military capabilities.Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could have instead opted for a limited air
campaign across Lebanon, focusing on taking out key Hezbollah targets,
both as punishment for the Golan Heights strike and to put Israel in a
better position if and when war breaks out.Or Israel could also have
struck the Lebanese state itself, trying to compel it to rein Hezbollah
in.All of those options came with significant risks. A war with
Hezbollah would result in widespread damage in Lebanon, perhaps even
hastening the slow dissolution of the state. But it would also extract a
heavy toll from Israeli troops and the home front, not to mention go
against the wishes of the United States and other Western allies.But a
limited strike might not solve the Hezbollah threat on the northern
border, leaving over 60,000 Israelis as refugees in their own country.
Moreover, such an approach still risks potential scenarios that could
lead to an escalatation into the all-out war that Israel so far has
avoided.And a campaign against Lebanon’s state institutions and
infrastructure would certainly spark condemnation in the West, while
doing little to degrade Hezbollah’s military capabilities.With the dual
overnight strikes on Hezbollah military leader Fuad Shukr and Hamas
political leader Ismail Haniyeh, Israel seemed to reject all those
options, at least for the time being. In killing Shukr, it removed an
experienced commander and major asset for Hezbollah from the playing
field. But it did not threaten any Hezbollah capabilities or harm large
numbers of civilians, projecting strength while seeking to avoid forcing
the terror group into a war.Israel has not officially commented on the
Haniyeh strike, which Iran and Hamas both blamed on the Jewish state.
But the assassination of the Hamas leader in Tehran could prevent
embarrassment to Qatar, where Haniyeh was based, and which Israel still
sees as a useful mediator in negotiations for a deal to free the
hostages seized by the Palestinian terror group during the October 7
onslaught and end the war started by that attack.“The leader of Hamas
abroad, headed by Haniyeh, plays a central role in the mobilization of
resources for Hamas, in representing the organization, in political
outreach, in building its military power,” said Meir Ben-Shabbat,
Netanyahu’s former national security adviser. “In fact, this is what
transforms Hamas from a local terrorist organization into a movement
with regional influence.”It also appeared to show the already paranoid
Iranian regime how deeply Israeli intelligence penetrates the country,
and Israel’s ability to carry out precision strikes far from its
borders.At the same time, the absence of a claim of responsibility and
lack of harm to Iranian assets could offer Iran a way to avoid a
significant escalation.No choice-Still, Iran is sure to respond.“Iran
likely believes that it has no choice other than retaliating because it,
first of all, has to deter further Israeli attacks on its soil,” said
Ali Vaez, Iran Project Director at the Crisis Group. “It has to defend
its sovereignty. It has to preserve its credibility in the eyes of its
regional partners.”Iran, like Israel, doesn’t want a regional war. But,
like Israel, it too faces the dilemma of how to respond.The Islamic
Republic and its proxies like to establish clear rules of the game, and
to craft their retaliation so that it answers or mirrors in some way the
attacks the Iran-led axis has suffered.Shortly after the strike in
Beirut on Tuesday night, US forces attacked a base south of Baghdad that
killed four members of the Iran-aligned Popular Mobilization Force
militias and wounded four others. “Because this is the culmination of
multiple high-profile assassinations and major attacks against axis of
resistance forces throughout the region, conducted both by Israel and
the US,” said Vaez. “and [as] there’s certainly a perception in Tehran
that Israel and the US have acted in coordination and conjunction with
one another, I think it is likely to prompt an axis-wide coordinated
retaliation against the US and Israel.”As part of that coordinated
attack, Hezbollah could also seek to respond in kind to the Shukr
assassination.“It could target singular high-value assets like critical
infrastructure in Haifa, an offshore gas rig, or the base from which
Israel launched its attack,” said Jonathan Ruhe, director of foreign
policy at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America. “This
would mirror how Israel just hit a high-value Hezbollah asset in Beirut
for the first time since October 8.”Ben-Shabbat said that Iran could
well be planning for an assassination as “an eye for an eye,” but such
an attack would take time to plan.“I estimate they will respond that
they will respond directly from the territory of Iran and Iraq,” he
said, “in addition to the expected response from Lebanon and the account
that the Houthis in Yemen have not yet settled.”However, Iran also has
plenty of pressing reasons to keep it from a massive response. In April,
Iran was under pressure to respond to an Israeli airstrike on its
Damascus embassy in which eight IRGC officers were killed. They
responded with a massive missile and drone attack, but it was a one-off
event that seemed designed to avoid a major escalation.Iran’s response
to the killing of a Hamas leader is likely to be even more measured,
predicted Yaakov Amidror, another of Netanyahu’s former national
security advisers. “This is not the kind of attack to which they respond
with 300 missiles,” he said.While the world now waits to see how Iran
and Hezbollah will react, there is little expectation that Hamas can
launch a major response from the Gaza Strip, even though it was the
terror group’s leader that was killed.Hamas’s seeming inability to carry
out a massive retaliatory attack is one of the most significant aspects
of this episode, said Amidror, and a sign that Israel is grinding the
terror group down in Gaza.“It will remain in Gaza,” he explained, “but
as a military organization Israel is slowly making it irrelevant.”Even
if Israel is picking off senior Hamas leaders and destroying much of its
infrastructure, Yahya Sinwar still lives, and he controls the fate of
dozens of hostages still alive in Gaza. Some slow progress was being
made toward a deal in the weeks before the Haniyeh strike, and Hamas is
unlikely to agree to anything in the near future.But Haniyeh was only a
mediator, while Sinwar made the ultimate decisions about what terms
Hamas would accept in a deal. His core interests remain, and a deal with
Israel is his best way to attain his personal survival and that of his
organization in Gaza.“Sinwar makes decisions more based on what is
happening in Gaza,” mused Amidror, “than on what happens to a leader who
spends his time in six-star hotels in Qatar.”
Khamenei to lead prayers at Haniyeh’s funeral in Tehran-By Reuters-AUG 1,24
Iran’s
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will lead funeral prayers for Hamas leader
Ismail Haniyeh on Thursday, Iran’s state-run Press TV says.The funeral
will be held in the Iranian capital Tehran, Press TV adds.
United,
Delta cancel flights to Israel amid fears of attacks-More airlines may
follow as country braces for Hezbollah, Iranian retaliation over
assassinations of top terror officials-By ToI Staff 31 July 2024, 10:35
pm
US airlines Delta and United on Wednesday announced the
cancellation of planned flights to Israel for several days amid
spiraling tensions with Hezbollah and Iran and an anticipation of
potential large-scale attacks on the Jewish state in the coming
days.Delta canceled its flights until August 2. United canceled its
flights until August 6. Hebrew media estimated that the cancellations
left tens of thousands of Israelis stranded in the United States.The
cancellations by United and Delta, respectively the second- and
third-largest airlines in the world, could spark a wave of cancellations
by other airlines.Iran has pledged to avenge the killing of Hamas
political leader Ismail Haniyeh in a missile strike on Tehran early
Thursday. Hamas and Iran both blamed the killing on Israel, which
remains mum.The assassination came hours after an Israeli airstrike in
Beirut killed Hezbollah military leader Fuad Shukr in retaliation for
the terror group’s missile strike that killed 12 children in Majdal
Shams.The region is bracing for the possibility of a major escalation
between Israel and its regional foes Hezbollah and Iran, as world
leaders have warned of the destructive potential of all-out war. Israel
has said it does not wish war but is ready to act against ongoing
attacks against it.Israel has experienced repeated cancellations by
Israeli airlines amid the war in Gaza and confrontations with Iran and
its proxies.Non-Israeli airlines canceled flights to Tel Aviv after
October 7, when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern
Israel to kill nearly 1,200 people and kidnap 251, sparking the war.
Flights began resuming in March, only to be stopped again in April after
Iran’s unprecedented missile-and-drone strike on Israel the night of
April 13. British Airways resumed flights in April, and United and Delta
resumed them in June.Wednesday’s cancellations came after the German
Lufthansa group canceled two nighttime flights to Israel from Frankfurt
and Munich on Monday, before the assassinations in Beirut and Tehran.The
group, whose carriers include Swiss International Air Lines and
Eurowings, also announced Monday that it was canceling all flights to
and from Beirut until August 5.Several Western countries, including the
United States and the United Kingdom, have warned their citizens against
travel to Lebanon. Poland on Tuesday said it stands ready to evacuate
its citizens from Lebanon.Correction: This article previously stated in
error that British Airways had canceled flights to Israel. British
Airways says flights to Tel Aviv are currently operating as planned.
Israeli
scientist proposes massive space sunshade to cut global temperatures by
1.5ºC-Prof Yoram Rozen, head of Technion’s Space Research Institute,
seeks $15 million to launch prototype; ‘If we can’t show that it can
work technologically, then nobody else will do it”By Sue Surkes-31 July
2024, 9:57 pm
An Israeli scientist is seeking $15 million to
prove the technology for a potential huge sunshade that would block two
percent of the sun’s radiation and bring global average temperatures
down by some 1.5ºC (2.7ºF) within 12 to 18 months.Throughout human
history, there has generally been a balance between the sun’s heating of
the Earth and the planet cooling by radiating heat back into space.
However, humankind’s increasing emission of greenhouse gases since the
Industrial Revolution has limited the Earth’s ability to cool
itself.Prof. Yoram Rozen and his team at the Technion’s Asher Space
Research Institute in northern Israel envision a large shade that would
slow the heating of Earth.The idea would be to launch a 2.5 million-ton
blanket, a distance of 1.5 million kilometers (932 million miles) into
space, to a specific zone where the effects of gravitational pressure
and solar winds would be minimal.The shade would move with the Earth as
it rotates around the sun, mainly above equatorial areas. The opaque
blanket would be made of a thin, reflective material already used in
solar propulsion sails in space. It resembles the blankets sometimes
seen wrapped around migrants on boats when they reach European
shores.Rozen, who also teaches physics at the Technion and performs
research at CERN, the prestigious European Laboratory for Particle
Physics near Geneva, said the shading would barely be felt on Earth. The
plan was to reduce radiation by just 2%.“It’s not like when a cloud
goes between you and the sun. It’s more like the difference in light
between noon and 2 p.m.,” Rozen said.He added that according to the
data, the effects on biology and photosynthesis would be
“negligible.”Asked what the downsides of the project were, he answered,
“The cost.”The full project is estimated at $30 trillion — more than the
US GDP but less than the $38 trillion estimated in annual damages due
to global warming by mid-century, according to a recent study in the
prestigious scientific journal Nature.In the meantime, Rozen wants to
create a prototype shade, the size of a classroom blackboard, attached
to “a brain,” to prove that the technology for the project, which he
calls Cool Earth, is workable in space.“It will need a control unit,”
Rozen explained, “a spacecraft that will rotate it and decide where it
is and when it should turn on and off.”The satellite would send pictures
to Earth of the shade’s orientation in different positions at different
times.Rozen said the prototype could be launched within three to four
years of a confirmed budget. However, the funds are not yet
available.The sunshade was “not my idea,” Rozen told The Times of
Israel. “It’s been around for about 15 years. There are some papers
about such solutions. But we’re the ones trying to turn it into reality.
If we can’t show that it can work technologically, then nobody else
will do it.”He emphasized that if the technology could be proven,
scientists would let entrepreneurs take it forward.“As an academic
institution, we’re interested in doing the first step,” he said.If the
technology is proven and $30 trillion can be found, the shade would have
to be taken to space in stages, Rozen said, possibly in 10 square
kilometer (3.85 square miles) sections. “Squares tie together better
than circles,” he noted.He noted that once the shade is deployed, it
would take up to 18 months for the Earth to cool by 1.5 degrees
Celsius.Once that goal is reached, a few shade sections would be
retained to maintain the temperature. The rest could be floated off
toward the sun.Rozen said the Asher Institute had worked with the United
Arab Emirates National Centre for Space and Science. The UAE had
planned to present the project at COP28 in Dubai, which was held in
November-December last year.But the Gulf country halted that cooperation
in October following the start of Israel’s war against Hamas in the
Gaza Strip after Hamas’s October 7 attacks.Rozen explained that while
reducing global warming emissions was essential, that would not be
enough to reverse the havoc global warming is wreaking on Earth, with
extreme weather events, droughts, flooding, and wildfires.Removing
emissions would slow the rate of temperature increase, but it would
continue to rise for a long time before starting to come down.
Abbas
declares day of mourning for Haniyeh as he blasts ‘cowardly’
killing-Mourning for political leader of terror group provides rare
occasion for Palestinian unity as leaders hail him and his ‘martyrdom’By
Gianluca Pacchiani-31 July 2024, 9:38 pm
Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas announced a national day of mourning Wednesday
over the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, as he condemned
the killing as a “cowardly act and dangerous development.”Palestinian
flags were flown at half-staff for the day, the Palestinian official
news agency Wafa reported, as Palestinian factions announced a general
strike and called for demonstrations in the West Bank after Haniyeh’s
killing in a Tehran strike widely attributed to Israel.The mourning for
the leader of the terror group marked a rare moment of Palestinian unity
amid fragmentation and uncertainty about Gaza’s future leadership
postwar. Condolences poured in from all sides of the Palestinian
political spectrum, from the Islamist bloc, represented by Hamas and the
Palestinian Islamic Jihad, to its historic secularist rival Fatah and
the communist Popular Front and Democratic Front.All hailed Haniyeh as a
national leader who had devoted and sacrificed his life for the
Palestinian cause, unanimously condemning the ostensible Israeli action
as “cowardly.”Israel has not officially acknowledged any involvement in
the killing of Haniyeh, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made no
mention of him in a speech to the nation on Wednesday night. Hamas is
avowedly committed to the destruction of Israel; the PA, under Abbas,
formally seeks a Palestinian state alongside Israel on the pre-1967
lines with its capital in Jerusalem.Abbas offered his condolences over
the phone to Khaled Mashaal, a former Hamas leader and a frontrunner to
replace Haniyeh at the head of the terror group.Abbas’s top adviser,
Hussein al-Sheikh, also offered his condolences for Haniyeh’s
“martyrdom,” emphasizing the need for unity among Palestinian
factions.Mohammed Dahlan, a former Fatah official from the Gaza Strip
who was ousted by Hamas in its 2007 coup and later expelled by Abbas,
also tweeted a message of mourning for Haniyeh and condemnation for
Israel.Dahlan, considered one of the few unifying figures in the
fragmented Palestinian political landscape, is often touted as a
potential leader in postwar Gaza, though he has repeatedly rejected the
idea.The Palestinian street expressed strong support for the slain
leader and for Hamas, which enjoys high approval ratings in the West
Bank — 41%, according to a June poll — amid growing frustration with the
corruption and mismanagement of the ruling Fatah (endorsed by only 17%
of residents) and its inability to stop the war in Gaza.A general strike
in Ramallah, the occupied West Bank, to mourn Hamas leader Ismail
Haniyeh and condemn his assassination by 'Israel'.
pic.twitter.com/afyFOJ6KOO — Chris Hutchinson (@ChrisHu34451470) July
31, 2024-Hundreds of enraged demonstrators took to the streets of
Ramallah, Nablus, and other cities Wednesday, carrying green Hamas
banners and chanting, “The people want the al-Qassam Brigades,” a
reference to the terror group’s military wing.Open support for the
Islamist group in Ramallah is rare, as the city is the power center of
the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority.Palestinian factions recently
held a reconciliation summit in Beijing under Chinese auspices, ending
with a formal declaration to work toward a unity government. However,
the final communiqué is likely to remain unfulfilled, as previous unity
deals have failed to be implemented.For Hamas officials, Palestinian
unity did not seem a priority immediately following Haniyeh’s
assassination. Their statements on Wednesday were highly belligerent,
calling for revenge and retaliation for the killing of their politburo
chief.From Tehran, Khalil al-Hayya, formally a deputy chief of the
terror group in Gaza who lives today in Qatar, vowed to make Israel pay
“a heavy price for its crime,” while the al-Qassam Brigades declared
that the assassination escalated the conflict with Israel to “new
levels.”On social media, condemnation of the attack was nearly unanimous
among Palestinian and pro-Palestinian netizens. Some, however, directed
their anger not only at Israel but also at Iran for failing to prevent
Haniyeh’s death, as historic mistrust resurfaced between Sunnis and
Shiites.In a tweet he later deleted, Muhammad Smiry, a young Gazan who
manages a popular account on X with 840,000 followers, wrote, “Never
trust Iran.”In the comments under his tweet, and elsewhere on social
media, Sunni Muslims expressed their mistrust of the Shiite Tehran
regime, noting that unlike Qatar and Turkey, Iran could not adequately
protect its guest, and speculating that it might have even been
complicit in the assassination.At the same time, others noted that the
Iranian regime has done more than any Arab country to support Hamas and
Islamist militias throughout the region fighting Israel.
Israel
said to boost security for Olympic athletes after killings of terror
leaders-Additional security personnel stationed around Israeli
delegation in Paris at Olympic Village amid fears of retaliation-By ToI
Staff 31 July 2024, 9:38 pm
Security around Israel’s athletes at
the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris was upped on Wednesday as authorities
prepared for potential reprisals for the recent killings of top Hamas
and Hezbollah officials, according to reports in Hebrew media
outlets.The decision to reinforce the Israeli delegation’s security
followed the killing of Hezbollah military leader Fuad Shukr in an
Israeli strike on Tuesday night and the assassination of Hamas political
leader Ismail Haniyeh several hours later — which Israel has not
commented on.The Shin Bet security agency, tasked with protecting
Israel’s Olympic delegation through the games, decided in a situational
assessment to bolster its security team with additional Shin Bet guards
and French security officers in light of the developments back home,
Ynet reported.The guards were stationed in multiple facilities where
members of the Israeli delegation were present, including in the Olympic
Village. At the same time, athletes were also briefed on conduct and on
possible threats that could be directed against them.The Israeli team
was placed under high security from the moment it arrived in Paris ahead
of the games. Foreign Minister Israel Katz warned of potential threats
from Iran-backed groups against Israeli athletes and tourists amid the
war with Hamas in Gaza.Last week reports emerged that many members of
the Israeli delegation had received threatening emails and phone calls
inviting them to their own funerals and telling them not to attend the
Olympics because if they did, there would be another “Munich 1972.”The
threat refers to the Munich Olympics, during which a cell of Black
September terrorists broke into the Olympic village and took Israeli
athletes hostage, eventually killing 11 and a German police officer.The
athletes were also the target of an apparent doxing cyberattack last
weekend, when data including their blood test results and login
credentials were published on Telegram by a hacker group calling itself
“Zeus.” The group also leaked personal information revealing the
athletes’ military status on social media.France’s cybercrime unit said
it was pushing to get the data removed from social media.Additionally,
French police said on Friday that they were investigating a person who
threatened on social media to attack President Isaac Herzog, who had
been in Paris for the opening ceremony.The threat was posted to X from
the Val-de-Marne region southeast of Paris, and was being investigated
by the anti-terrorism unit of the regional police, according to French
outlet L’Equipe.
Explainer-Who are the potential next leaders of
Hamas after Haniyeh’s death? The terrorist organization may struggle to
appoint a new chief amid the ongoing war in Gaza, but there are several
options-By AP and ToI Staff 31 July 2024, 6:05 pm
BEIRUT —
Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has a history of swift and smooth
replacement of fallen leaders killed in Israeli airstrikes.Ismail
Haniyeh’s assassination in Tehran early Wednesday, widely attributed to
Israel, comes at a time when Hamas is under extreme pressure since the
war in Gaza started nearly 10 months ago, following the group’s massive
Ocrtober 7 attack on southern Israel.“We are not discussing this matter
now,” a Hamas official told The Associated Press on condition of
anonymity when asked about the process to replace Haniyeh.Haniyeh headed
the group’s political bureau until his death. His deputy was Saleh
Arouri, seen as the group’s prime orchestrator of West Bank terrorism,
who was himself killed in an Israeli strike in Beirut in January and
would have been the automatic replacement. Arouri’s post has remained
empty since his death.The group’s Shura council, the main consultative
body, is now expected to meet soon, likely after Haniyeh’s funeral in
Qatar, to name a new successor. The council’s membership is kept secret
but represents regional chapters of the group in Gaza, the West Bank and
the diaspora as well as those imprisoned.One of Haniyeh’s deputies was
Zaher Jabarin, who has been described as the group’s chief executive
officer because of the important role he plays in managing the group’s
finances, and with that, his good relations with Iran.Hani al-Masri, an
expert on Palestinian organizations, said the choice is now likely
between Khaled Mashaal, a veteran Hamas official and former leader, and
Khalil al-Hayya, a powerful figure within Hamas who was close to
Haniyeh.“It will not be easy,” said al-Masri, who also heads the
Palestinian Center for Policy and Research and Strategic Studies.Hamas’s
new political leader will have to decide on whether to continue the
fight against Israel, and become essentially a guerrilla and underground
group, or choose a leader that can offer political compromises — an
unlikely option at this stage. Hamas is avowedly committed to the
destruction of Israel.Mashaal, who led the group until 2017, has
political and diplomatic experience, but his relations with Iran, Syria
and Hezbollah have soured over his support for Arab Spring protests in
2011. When he was in Lebanon in 2021, Hezbollah leaders reportedly
refused to meet with him. But Mashaal has good relations with Turkey and
Qatar and is considered a less extreme figure than others. Palestinian
leader Mahmoud Abbas called him on Saturday to offer his condolences for
the killing of Haniyeh.Yahya Sinwar, the powerful Hamas figure leading
the war in Gaza, is at the opposite end of that spectrum and is unlikely
to support Mashaal’s leadership.Al-Hayya, like Haniyeh, is a prominent
leader living in exile, originally from Gaza, with important
international connections.Hamas had long had cold relations with the
Iran-led “axis of resistance” over its backing for the opposition
against Syrian President Bashar Assad during Syria’s civil war that
began in March 2011. But in recent years Hamas began mending its
relations with Iran and reconciled with Assad.Al-Hayya headed a
delegation that went to Syria in 2022 and met Assad. Al-Hayya also has
good relations with Iran, Turkey and Hezbollah.“He is like Haniyeh, who
was balanced and flexible and both sides didn’t see his leadership as
problematic,” al-Masri said.The role of the group’s leader is important
in maintaining relations with Hamas’s allies outside the Palestinian
territories and the choice is likely to be influenced by the group’s
decisions in the coming days.Al-Masri said any choice will have to be
temporary until elections are held in the political bureau. These were
supposed to take place this year but have been derailed by the war.The
Hamas leadership meeting may also be complicated by efforts to reach
Sinwar, who remains influential and will be consulted on the choice, but
who has been in hiding since October 7.A third possible contender, said
al-Masri, is Nizar Abu Ramadan, who had challenged Sinwar for the role
of Gaza chief and is considered close to Mashaal.The war in Gaza started
on October 7 after the Hamas massacre in which terrorists murdered some
1,200 people and took 251 hostages. Israel’s retaliatory operation has
obliterated entire neighborhoods in Gaza and forced some 80% of the
population to flee their homes. Hamas is still holding 111 of the
hostages abducted on October 7; the IDF has confirmed that 39 of them
are dead.The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 39,000 people
in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so
far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate
between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 15,000
combatants in battle and some 1,000 terrorists inside Israel during the
October 7 attack.
Analysis-Haniyeh hit shows depth of Israel’s
reach in Iran: ‘Something we have all long known’Assassination is latest
in string of precise attacks deep in Islamic Republic, is ‘very
embarrassing’ for Tehran, which hosted the Hamas leader for new
president’s inauguration-By Stuart Williams and Delphine Touitou 31 July
2024, 5:00 pm
AFP — The killing in Tehran of Hamas political
leader Ismail Haniyeh, which the group has blamed on Israel, has exposed
the extent of Israeli penetration inside the Islamic Republic, analysts
say.Qatar-based Haniyeh, who the day earlier had attended the
inauguration of new Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, was killed in
the early hours of Wednesday morning at a residence in northern Tehran,
according to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.Israel, which usually neither
confirms nor denies secret operations abroad, declined to
comment.Details on how Haniyeh was killed remain sketchy, with Iran’s
Fars News Agency saying he was “martyred by a projectile from the air,”
raising speculation of a strike by a missile or a drone.Analysts see the
strike as a major intelligence failure by the Iranian services and a
deeply disturbing development for the Iranian leadership, especially at a
time when security would have been heightened due to the influx of
guests for the inauguration.Hours before he was killed, Haniyeh had held
a face-to-face meeting with Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei.“That the Iranians were not able to stop this assassination is
very embarrassing for Iran,” said Agnes Levallois, deputy president of
the Paris-based Institute of Research and Studies for the Mediterranean
and Middle East (IREMMO).‘Spies in Iran’But the killing of Haniyeh is
just the latest in a line of attacks believed to have been carried out
by Israel inside Iran.Israel is long believed to have carried out
sabotage operations through its Mossad espionage agency inside Iran —
which refuses to recognize Israel — raising questions over how it
appears able to obtain such detailed intelligence.“This is a
confirmation of something we have all long known: the deep extent of
penetration of Iranian security services by Israel,” said Arash Azizi,
senior lecturer at Clemson University in the United States.In contrast
to Hamas’s military leadership, Haniyeh was a figure relatively visible
in public, making trips abroad including to Turkey where he held talks
with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, most recently in April.“We know the
Israelis have spies and therefore intelligence in Iran,” said
Levallois.“This assassination shows the entire Israeli intelligence
system is very well developed to have all the information, and therefore
allow the launching of this type of operation,” she said.Most famously,
according to The New York Times, Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen
Fakhrizadeh was assassinated in 2020 by Mossad using a machine gun that
had been assembled close to his home by its agents and then fired
remotely after they left.According to the same newspaper, the number two
of al-Qaeda, Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, known as Abu Muhammad al-Masri,
was shot dead in Tehran by two assassins on a motorcycle in August 2020,
in an attack by Israeli operatives at the behest of the United
States.The current cycle of tensions began after Hamas’s
thousands-strong October 7 invasion and massacre in southern Israel, in
which some 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage, sparking the
war in Gaza. A hundred and fifteen of those hostages are still held by
Hamas in Gaza, 39 of them confirmed dead by the IDF.In April, after
Iran’s first-ever direct attack on Israel, an explosion destroyed a
radar system of a Russian-supplied S-300 missile defense system in
central Iran. Israel was reportedly behind the attack.The method of that
strike is not entirely clear. It included at least one missile fired
from a warplane outside Iran and small attack drones, known as
quadcopters, that could have been launched from inside Iran itself to
confuse the Islamic Republic’s air defenses, the reports said.‘Extremely
precise information’According to some outlets, including the dissident
Persian television channel Iran International, Israeli agents have even
captured and interrogated Revolutionary Guards inside Iran to obtain
intelligence.There have also been suspicions, after mysterious
explosions around sensitive sites, that Israel has already carried out
drone attacks inside Iran, but this has never been confirmed.The killing
of Haniyeh also came after Israel struck a Hezbollah stronghold in
south Beirut on Tuesday, targeting a senior commander of the Iran-backed
Lebanese group it blamed for a deadly weekend rocket strike on a Druze
village on the Golan Heights in which 12 children were killed.“This
operation shows that Iran was unable to secure the guests of the Supreme
Leader and the president,” said Hasni Abidi, director of the
Geneva-based Centre of Studies and Research on the Arab World and
Mediterranean (CERMAM).He said the nature of the attack showed that
Israel must have had “extremely precise information” about Haniyeh’s
location and movements.
Op-ed: Day 299 of the war-With two
strikes in enemy capitals, the war enters uncharted territory-As Israel
moves to break Iran’s multifront stranglehold, the path ahead requires
not only strategic wisdom and military tenacity, but also the internal
cohesion that has been so dangerously absent-By David Horovitz-31 July
2024, 3:39 pm
This Editor’s Note was sent out earlier Wednesday
in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel
Community. To receive these Editor’s Notes as they’re released, join the
ToI Community here.With the killings of two terror chiefs in the
capital cities of two enemy nations in the past few hours, the
existential war that began for Israel with Hamas’s invasion and
slaughter on October 7 has now entered uncharted territory.The
elimination of Fuad Shukr, Hezbollah’s most senior military official, in
a strike in Beirut confirmed by Israel, demonstrated Israel’s
remarkable intelligence capabilities and its capacity to carry out a
precision strike even on a target who would have known that he was in
Israel’s sights. And it constituted at least a symbolic response to the
horrific Hezbollah missile attack that killed 12 children in an Israeli
Druze village three days earlier.It was by no means unprecedented,
however. The IAF killed Hamas military chief Saleh al-Arouri in a
similarly precise strike in Beirut seven months ago, and, going back 22
years, killed the then-Hezbollah leader Abbas Mousawi in a strike on his
convoy in southern Lebanon.The killing of Ismail Haniyeh in Iran,
blamed on Israel but not acknowledged by Israel, by contrast, is a blow
of a different order.-Israel has struck key figures inside Iran in the
past, being widely regarded as responsible for the killing of Iran’s top
nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in November 2020, for instance. It
killed Hamas’s founder, Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, in Gaza in 2004. And it
has targeted the most senior figures in Hamas in foreign capitals, with
the failed Mossad assassination of Haniyeh’s predecessor Khaled Mashaal
in Amman in 1997.But now, according to the unconfirmed reports of
Israeli responsibility, it has eliminated the head of one of Iran’s
array of proxy terror groups in the heart of Iran — taking the war
directly, and humiliatingly, to the capital of the Islamic Republic,
challenging its sovereignty, even as Tehran was celebrating the
inauguration of a new president.Until now, the ayatollahs’ regime was
directing what has become a devastating multifront war against Israel
since October 7 with relative impunity. Training, arming, inspiring and
mobilizing forces dedicated to Israel’s destruction — from Hamas to the
Houthis, Hezbollah, and militias in Syria and Iraq, while quietly
advancing toward nuclear weapons — it was itself largely outside the
regional war it was fueling. With one obvious exception, that is — when
it chose to respond to Israel’s killing in Iran’s embassy compound in
Damascus four months ago of two senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
terror chiefs by launching hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel in
an almost entirely unsuccessful attack.‘Retaliation’M-Without doubt,
“retaliation” will follow; I use quotation marks around that word
because nobody should lose sight of the fact that this regional war was
initiated by Hamas, invading sovereign Israel from the adjacent
territory governed by Hamas and on which Israel had no claims, and was
then escalated by Hezbollah, the Houthis et al under Iran’s
direction.The Hamas of a few months ago, needless to say, would have
been firing barrages at Tel Aviv for the past few hours. That danger may
not have entirely passed, but Hamas’s rocket potency has immensely
receded.As was the case at the very start of the war, when US President
Joe Biden warned Iran and Israel’s other enemies against getting
involved and dispatched aircraft carriers to underline his intent — with
partial success — the stance and actions of the United States will
likely be crucial as Iran weighs its options. As things stand, Israel is
already a near-pariah.For all the tactical proof of pinpoint
capabilities, for all the readiness to act in ways that Israel’s enemies
might have regarded as improbable, for all the embarrassment Tehran is
now suffering, the events of the past few hours do not in and of
themselves necessarily represent a strategic turning point that will
ease Israel’s crisis. Indeed, the opposite could prove to be the case.
For, again, this is uncharted territory.Hezbollah has been implacably
undeterred by months of Israeli counterattacks, has been deepening its
strikes inside Israel, retains the undiminished capacity to wreak
colossal devastation throughout Israel with its vast rocket and missile
capabilities, and will not be particularly shaken even by the
elimination of so senior a figure as Shukr.Since the start of the war,
the Lebanese terror group has killed 25 civilians and 18 soldiers, and
fired more than 6,500 rockets, hundreds of drones, and hundreds of
missiles.It killed an Israeli civilian at Kibbutz HaGoshrim only on
Tuesday, reconfirming the untenability of the situation in the north,
from where tens of thousands of Israelis have been internally displaced,
and where an ever wider swath of Israelis who have not moved south are
vulnerable.In Gaza, meanwhile, 111 of the hostages abducted on October 7
remain in the hands of Hamas — 39 of them confirmed dead. The IDF is
now warning that some hostages may never be found.There is no telling
how the elimination of Haniyeh will impact efforts to finalize and
implement a hostage-ceasefire deal, but plainly the process, yet to
yield a deal in the eight months since the November truce and releases,
will be still more fraught.Ready for all eventualitiesIsrael said after
the elimination of Shukr that it is not seeking a wider war but is ready
for all eventualities. It most certainly needs to be.And what is
self-evident is that such readiness requires and depends on internal
cohesion.The far-right mob rampages into two IDF bases — at Sde Teiman
and Beit Lid — on Monday marked the most untenable incidents of internal
viciousness, irresponsibility and weaknesss we have witnessed these
past months. The sight of coalition members inciting and participating
in the illegal storming of military bases, attempting to prevent the IDF
from handling allegations against a group of reservists of serious
abuse of a terror suspect, was the culmination of a systematic attempt
to undermine the rule of law in Israel that has been a hallmark of the
governing coalition since it took office at the end of 2022.Appalling as
Monday’s rampages were, complete with masked, armed agitators in IDF
uniforms, the events could have been even worse had not the IDF forces
repelling the mob taken the greatest care to prevent the spilling of
blood.As Israel belatedly moves to break the stranglehold Iran has been
gradually building and tightening around us, the only path out of this
uncharted territory requires not only peerless strategic wisdom and
military tenacity, but also the kind of internal cohesion that has been
so dangerously absent here.“We are not looking to go to war, but we are
well prepared for it,” IDF Spokesman Daniel Hagari said late Tuesday
after confirming the elimination of Shukr. We had better be, from within
as well.
Pakistan condemns killing of Hamas chief as 'reckless act'
Islamabad,
July 31 (AFP) Jul 31, 2024-Pakistan said Wednesday the killing of
Hamas's political leader in an air strike in neighbouring Iran blamed on
Israel was a "reckless act", while hundreds of supporters of an
Islamist party held a symbolic funeral near Islamabad.
Describing
the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh as "terrorism", Islamabad's foreign
ministry said in a statement that "Pakistan views with serious concern
the growing Israeli adventurism in the region.""Its latest acts
constitute a dangerous escalation in an already volatile region and
undermine efforts for peace", it said.In the evening, more than a
thousand supporters of the country's largest Islamist party,
Jamaat-e-Islami, gathered in Rawalpindi, a large city on the outskirts
of Islamabad, hailing the "martyr Ismail Haniyeh" while booing Israel
and America."I am here to show solidarity with my brothers and sisters
in Palestine", Syed Obaid ur Rehman, a 25-year-old student, told AFP."I
cannot be there physically but at least I can demonstrate here to make
the voice of Palestine heard."Sajid Hussain, a 28-year-old civil
servant, told AFP that Haniyeh's "martyrdom is a huge loss for the
Muslim world".Haniyeh had travelled to Tehran to attend Tuesday's
swearing-in of Iran's new President Masoud Pezeshkian.Iran is a sworn
enemy of Israel and ally of Hamas and Lebanon's Hezbollah.It and Hamas
have vowed to avenge Haniyeh's death, raising fears of a flare-up in the
region amid the war in Gaza.Israel -- which Pakistan does not recognize
-- declined to comment on the death of Haniyeh, 61, who was elected
head of Hamas's political bureau in 2017.His death came just hours after
Israel attacked a Hezbollah stronghold in south Beirut on Tuesday,
killing a senior commander of the Lebanese militant group it blamed for a
deadly weekend rocket strike on the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights.
Iraq says Hamas chief killing could threaten region's stability.
Baghdad,
July 31 (AFP) Jul 31, 2024-Iraq on Wednesday condemned the killing in
Tehran of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, warning that it
threatens the region's stability.Iraq's foreign ministry in a statement
described the killing as a "flagrant violation of international law and a
threat to security and stability in the region".The powerful Kataeb
Hezbollah, part of a pro-Iran alliance of armed groups, said by killing
Haniyeh, Israel has "violated all rules of engagement".The Al-Nujaba
movement, from the same alliance, earlier said "the Zionists and
Americans have opened the doors of hell" following the killing of
Haniyeh, the targeting of a Hezbollah commander in Beirut and a US
strike on pro-Iran combatants in Iraq.These "assassinations... will not
deter us, but strengthen our determination", it added.In recent months,
the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a loose alliance of Iran-backed groups
including Kataeb Hezbollah and Al-Nujaba, has claimed to have targeted
Israel with drone and rocket strikes against targets.The Israeli army,
without naming an attacker, has confirmed several aerial attacks from
the east since April, but has said they were all intercepted before
entering its airspace.The alliance had also claimed attacks on US troops
in Syria and Iraq for more than three months, as regional tensions
soared over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, before suspending them in late
January.Hamas said Wednesday that Haniyeh was killed in an Israeli
strike in Iran, where he was attending the swearing-in of the
newly-elected President Masoud Pezeshkian, and vowed the act "will not
go unanswered".The strike came after Israel hit a Hezbollah stronghold
in south Beirut on Tuesday, targeting a senior commander of the Lebanese
militant group -- his fate remains unknown.Last night, US forces
carried out a "defensive" air strike on pro-Iran Iraqi fighters who were
attempting to launch drones that were deemed a threat to American and
allied troops, a US official said.The strike -- which Iraqi sources said
left at least four people dead -- was the first by American forces in
Iraq since February.
Canadian warship sails through Taiwan Strait.
Taipei,
Aug 1 (AFP) Aug 01, 2024-Taiwan's defence ministry said Thursday that a
Canadian warship sailed a day earlier through the Taiwan Strait, a
sensitive waterway separating the democratic island from China.China
claims self-ruled Taiwan as part of its territory and has stepped up
military and political pressure as relations have plunged in recent
years.The navies of the United States and its Western allies, meanwhile,
have increased "freedom of navigation" crossings through the strait to
reinforce its status as an international waterway, angering
Beijing.Taipei said Thursday that the Canadian ship's transit took place
Wednesday, with the warship travelling "from north to south"."The
military has monitored the situation and no anomaly was detected in our
surroundings," the defence ministry statement said.The Halifax-class
frigate "HMCS Montreal recently conducted a routine transit through the
Taiwan Strait", the Canadian Joint Operations Command confirmed on
social media platform X without providing a date"Canada supports the
rules-based international order by operating in accordance with
international law," it said."Our activities promote peace, resilience,
and security in the Indo Pacific."Though Taiwan has only a dozen
diplomatic allies, it maintains strong partnerships with various Western
democracies like the United States, which is its biggest weapons
seller.Last November, US and Canadian warships passed through the Taiwan
Strait, their second joint passage in two months -- a move that put
Beijing's armed forces on "high alert", according to China's Eastern
Theatre Command.Taiwan's military has been reporting near-daily
sightings of Chinese warships around its waters, as well as sorties by
drones and fighter jets around the island.On Thursday, the defence
ministry said 29 Chinese military aircraft and 10 naval vessels were
detected in a 24-hour window ending at 6 am (2200 GMT
Wednesday).aw/dhc/cwl
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.
Russia begins 3rd stage of nuclear weapons drills: army.
Moscow,
July 31 (AFP) Jul 31, 2024-Russia on Wednesday announced it had
launched the third stage of drills on the use of tactical nuclear
weapons, which included forces involved in the conflict in Ukraine.The
defence ministry said the exercises were taking place in the central and
southern military districts -- which includes several North Caucasus
republics and annexed Crimea -- as well as four regions of southern and
eastern Ukraine that Russia claims to have annexed despite not fully
controlling.The southern military district includes the Russian city of
Rostov-on-Don, which is home to Moscow's headquarters for the military
operation in Ukraine."The third stage of non-strategic nuclear forces
exercises have begun," said the Russian defence ministry in a
statement.This stage of drills involves training on the Iskander-M
missile systems and various aircraft, the Russian defence ministry
said.The military personnel taking part will train on receiving "special
ammunition" and on equipping missile systems and aircraft.President
Vladimir Putin in early May ordered the staging of these exercises
partly, according to the Kremlin, in response to perceived threats from
Western nations, notably after French President Emmanuel Macron broached
the possibility of sending French troops to Ukraine.The first stage of
drills began in May.Since the beginning of hostilities in February 2022,
Putin has on occasions evoked the possible use of nuclear weapons.In
the summer of 2023, Russia deployed tactical nuclear weapons to its ally
Belarus, which also borders Ukraine.Minsk in May also announced
synchronised military drills alongside Moscow to verify its tactical
nuclear weapons launchers.
GERMANY
WILL BE WITH RUSSIA SO OVIOUSLY THIS LEADER IS A LIAR.SOMETIME GERMANY
WILL GET BOOTED OUT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION.AND GO WITH RUSSIA AGAINST THE
WEST.
Germany says will not be 'intimidated' by Putin's nuclear threats.
Berlin,
July 29 (AFP) Jul 29, 2024-Germany said on Monday it was not deterred
by Russian President Vladimir Putin's threats to relaunch production of
intermediate-range nuclear weapons if the United States confirms its
intention to deploy missiles to Europe."We will not be intimidated by
such statements," foreign ministry spokesman Sebastian Fischer told a
government press conference.In early July, Washington and Berlin
announced that the "episodic deployments" of long-range US missiles,
including Tomahawk cruise missiles, to Germany would begin in 2026.Putin
on Sunday threatened to relaunch production of intermediate-range
nuclear weapons if the plans go ahead."We will consider ourselves
liberated from the unilateral moratorium previously adopted on the
deployment of medium- and short-range strike capabilities," Putin said
during a naval parade in Saint Petersburg.Putin added that now in Russia
"the development of a number of such systems is in the final
stages"."We will take mirror measures in deploying them, taking into
account the actions of the US, its satellites in Europe and in other
regions of the world," the Russian president warned.Such missiles, which
can travel between 500 and 5,500 kilometres (300-3,400 miles), were the
subject of an arms control treaty signed by the United States and the
Soviet Union in 1987.But both Washington and Moscow withdrew from the
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 2019, each accusing the
other of violations."This type of missile... had already been developed
and deployed long ago" by Russia, Fischer said."What we are now planning
is a response to deter these weapons from being used against Germany or
other targets," he added.
