1-Globecomm,EMS team up for NATO deal. 2-Apocalyptic signals from Iran worry U.S intelligence. 3-Belgium considers criminalizing Proselytizing. 4-LIberal Christian Churches paying for their sins.
We see NATO will track all Army personal around the World with Ems, and all the other people will be tracked by Ems and microchip implants, As we read in Revelation 13.
REVELATION 13:15-18
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(a Microchip Implant,Strongs says it will be a breaking or etching in the Skin).
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Globecomm, EMS team up for NATO deal
By David Reich-Hale,Wednesday, July 12, 2006 02:31 PM EDT
HAUPPAUGE – Globecomm Systems Inc. announced this week a $7.8 million contract from NATO to provide a global positioning satellite-based “friendly force” tracking system.The Hauppauge-based firm will team up with space communications equipment
maker EMS Technologies to fill NATO’s order, according to the contract.The “friendly force” system helps NATO track personnel around the globe at all times.
MATTHEW 24:4-5
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
Apocalyptic signals from Iran worry U.S. intelligence
The U.S. intelligence community has not been surprised by Iran's refusal to respond to a Western incentive package to suspend its uranium enrichment. Intelligence sources said Iran, following North Korea's model, intends to delay any response or negotiations for as long as possible. The European Union and the United States demanded that Iran reply to the Western incentive package of nuclear technology, fuel and aircraft by June 29. But Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said Teheran would submit an answer by Aug. 22.
The U.S. intelligence community has been trying to figure out why Ahmadinejad chose that date. Sources said the community was stumped until some Islam experts translated the Gregorian date to that of the Muslim calendar. Then came the surprise that has the intelligence community worried. Aug. 22 corresponds to Rajab 27 on the Muslim calendar. The date is called Lailat Al Israa, when Mohammed ascended to heaven from the Al Aqsa mosque to receive the five daily prayers. Later, Al Aqsa came to represent Jerusalem. The Muslim commemoration is meant to be a night of struggle, accompanied by thunder and lightening, resembling the story of Moses ascending Mount Sinai to receive the Old Testament.
Ahmadinejad could be hinting to the West that he is preparing a major attack on Israel. Or, the Iranian president could be warning that unless the West caves in, he would escalate tension in the region. The lightening in Mohammed's story could represent Iranian missiles. What is clear is that Ahmadinejad does not see himself as an Iranian leader, but a Muslim prophet, using imagery to portray himself as a messiah for both Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims.
REVELATION 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Belgian Parliament Considers Criminalizing Proselytizing
By Mark Adams ,MichNews.com
(NEW YORK — C-FAM) Some members of small religious groups in Belgium are worried that a controversial legislative proposal could threaten religious freedom. The law in question would punish persons found guilty of abusing the ignorance or weakness of minors and other vulnerable people, but the wording is so vague that some international observers fear that the law would be used to repress and discriminate against minority faiths.
The bill passed Belgium's Council of Ministers and is awaiting constitutional approval before being debated by the full Parliament. It would impose a three month to five year jail sentence on anyone abusing the ignorance or weakness of a minor or a very vulnerable individual, either due to his/her age, sickness, disability, physical or mental deficiency, illegal resident status or precarious living
condition or pregnancy, so as to get that person to do an act or refrain from doing an act that would seriously endanger his/her physical or mental integrity or assets.
The Institute on Religion and Public Policy has taken a special interest in the legislation and has authored a letter to two key Belgium officials condemning it. The letter, which has been signed onto by other organizations, states that the law allows for too broad of an interpretation that will inevitably result in arbitrary and discriminatory application of the law by permitting almost unfettered discretion by government officials to use the criminal laws as a weapon to repress minority faiths. Passage of such legislation — based on the widely discredited notion of 'mental manipulation' — would represent a serious setback for religious freedom in Belgium.
According to the letter the law is based on recommendations made in a 1997 report from the Belgian Parliamentary Commission that called for a law punishing those who abuse a person's weakness as a result of an indoctrination by sects. The letter says the same commission drafted a list that labeled 189 religious groups as sects including, Hasidic Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, Zen Buddhists, Seventh-day Adventists, Mormons, Pentecostals, Amish, Quakers, five Catholic groups and others.
The Dutch Catholic news site, RKNieuws.net reported that although the list was rejected by Parliament "Belgian media consider the 'sect list' still as authoritative.The letter claims that organizations on the list still face repercussions today. [I]t received widespread publicity when it was made public by the Commission . . . stigmatizing all the religions included in the list and effectively operating as a blacklist for these religions and their adherents to this very day.Copyright by www.c-fam.org
These lukewarm churches will pay, God won't put up with his Church obeying Sin instead of Him.
REVELATION 3:15-19
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Liberal Christianity is paying for its sins
Out-of-the-mainstream beliefs about gay marriage and supposedly sexist doctrines are gutting old-line faiths.By Charlotte Allen, CHARLOTTE ALLEN is Catholicism editor for Beliefnet and the author of "The Human Christ: The Search for the Historical Jesus.
The accelerating fragmentation of the strife-torn Episcopal Church USA, in which several parishes and even a few dioceses are opting out of the church, isn't simply about gay bishops, the blessing of same-sex unions or the election of a woman as presiding bishop. It also is about the meltdown of liberal Christianity.Embraced by the leadership of all the mainline Protestant denominations, as well as large segments of American Catholicism, liberal Christianity has been hailed by its boosters for 40 years as the future of the Christian church.
It is not entirely coincidental that at about the same time that Episcopalians, at their general convention in Columbus, Ohio, were thumbing their noses at a directive from the worldwide Anglican Communion that they "repent" of confirming the openly gay Bishop V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire three years ago, the Presbyterian Church USA, at its general assembly in Birmingham, Ala., was turning itself into the laughingstock of the blogosphere by tacitly approving alternative designations for the supposedly sexist Christian Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Among the suggested names were Mother, Child and Womb and "Rock, Redeemer and Friend. Moved by the spirit of the Presbyterian revisionists, Beliefnet blogger Rod Dreher held a Name That Trinity contest.
Entries included Rock, Scissors and Paper and Larry, Curly and Moe.Following the Episcopalian lead, the Presbyterians also voted to give local congregations the freedom to ordain openly cohabiting gay and lesbian ministers and endorsed the legalization of medical marijuana. (The latter may be a good idea, but it is hard to see how it falls under the theological purview of a Christian denomination.) The Presbyterian Church USA is famous for its 1993 conference, cosponsored with the United Methodist Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and other mainline churches, in which participants reimagined God as Our Maker Sophia and held a feminist-inspired milk and honey ritual designed to replace traditional bread and wine Communion.
As if to one-up the Presbyterians in jettisoning age-old elements of Christian belief, the Episcopalians at Columbus overwhelmingly refused even to consider a resolution affirming that Jesus Christ is Lord. When a Christian church cannot bring itself to endorse a bedrock Christian theological statement repeatedly found in the New Testament, it is not a serious Christian church. It's a Church of What's Happening Now, conferring a feel-good imprimatur on whatever the liberal elements of secular society deem permissible or politically correct.You want to have gay sex? Be a female bishop? Change God's name to Sophia? Go ahead. The just-elected Episcopal presiding bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori, is a one-woman combination of all these things, having voted for Robinson, blessed same-sex couples in her Nevada diocese, prayed to a female Jesus at the Columbus convention and invited former Newark, N.J., bishop John Shelby Spong, famous for denying Christ's divinity, to address her priests.
When a church doesn't take itself seriously, neither do its members. It is hard to believe that as recently as 1960, members of mainline churches — Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists, Lutherans and the like — accounted for 40% of all American Protestants. Today, it's more like 12% (17 million out of 135 million). Some of the precipitous decline is due to lower birthrates among the generally blue-state mainliners, but it also is clear that millions of mainline adherents (and especially their children) have simply walked out of the pews never to return. According to the Hartford Institute for Religious Research, in 1965, there were 3.4
million Episcopalians; now, there are 2.3 million. The number of Presbyterians fell from 4.3 million in 1965 to 2.5 million today.
Compare that with 16 million members reported by the Southern Baptists.When your religion says whatever on doctrinal matters, regards Jesus as just another wise teacher, refuses on principle to evangelize and lets you do pretty much what you want, it's a short step to deciding that one of the things you don't want to do is get up on Sunday morning and go to church.
It doesn't help matters that the mainline churches were pioneers in ordaining women to the clergy, to the point that 25% of all Episcopal priests these days are female, as are 29% of all Presbyterian pastors, according to the two churches. A causal
connection between a critical mass of female clergy and a mass exodus from the churches, especially among men, would be difficult to establish, but is it entirely a coincidence? Sociologist Rodney Stark (The Rise of Christianity) and historian Philip Jenkins (The Next Christendom) contend that the more demands, ethical and doctrinal, that a faith places upon its adherents, the deeper the adherents' commitment to that faith. Evangelical and Pentecostal churches, which preach biblical morality, have no trouble saying that Jesus is Lord, and they generally eschew women's ordination. The churches are growing robustly, both in the United States and around the world.Despite the fact that median Sunday attendance at Episcopal churches is 80 worshipers, the Episcopal Church, as a whole, is financially equipped to carry on for some time, thanks to its inventory of vintage real estate and huge endowments left over from the days (no more!) when it was the Republican Party at prayer. Furthermore, it has offset some of its demographic losses by attracting disaffected liberal Catholics and gays and lesbians. The less endowed Presbyterian Church USA is in deeper trouble.
Just before its general assembly in Birmingham, it announced that it would eliminate 75 jobs to meet a $9.15-million budget cut at its headquarters, the third such round of job cuts in four years.The Episcopalians have smells, bells, needlework cushions and colorfully garbed, Catholic-looking bishops as draws, but who, under the present circumstances, wants to become a Presbyterian? Still, it must be galling to Episcopal liberals that many of the parishes and dioceses (including that of San Joaquin, Calif.) that want to pull out of the Episcopal Church USA are growing instead of shrinking, have live people in the pews who pay for the upkeep of their churches and don't have to rely on dead rich people. The 21-year-old Christ Church Episcopal in Plano, Texas, for example, is one of the largest Episcopal churches in the country. Its 2,200 worshipers on any given Sunday are about equal to the number of active Episcopalians in Jefferts Schori's entire Nevada diocese.
It's no surprise that Christ Church, like the other dissident parishes, preaches a very conservative theology. Its break from the national church came after Rowan Williams, archbishop of Canterbury and head of the Anglican Communion, proposed a two-tier membership in which the Episcopal Church USA and other churches that decline to adhere to traditional biblical standards would have associate status in the communion. The dissidents hope to retain full communication with Canterbury by establishing oversight by non-U.S. Anglican bishops.
As for the rest of the Episcopalians, the phrase deck chairs on the Titanic comes to mind. A number of liberal Episcopal websites are devoted these days to dissing Peter Akinola, outspoken primate of the Anglican diocese of Nigeria, who, like the vast majority of the world's 77 million Anglicans reported by the Anglican Communion, believes that homosexual practice is incompatible with Scripture (those words are from the communion's 1998 resolution at the Lambeth conference of bishops). Akinola might have the numbers on his side, but he is now the Voldemort — no, make that the Karl Rove — of the U.S. Episcopal world. Other liberals fume over a feeble last-minute resolution in Columbus calling for restraint in consecrating bishops whose lifestyle might offend the wider church — a resolution immediately ignored when a second openly cohabitating gay man was nominated for bishop of Newark.
So this is the liberal Christianity that was supposed to be the Christianity of the future: disarray, schism, rapidly falling numbers of adherents, a collapse of Christology and national meetings that rival those of the Modern Language Assn. for their potential for cheap laughs. And they keep telling the Catholic Church that it had better get with the liberal program — ordain women, bless gay unions and so forth — or die. Sure.
Thursday, July 13, 2006
IRAN WORLD GOES TO SECURITY COUNCIL
1-U.S back to security council about Iran. 2-2 dead as Philippines storms cause landslides. 3-Moderate quake in Cayman Islands. 4-Indonesia battles 300 fires. 5-Guinea's cholera death toll at 133.
First the update on yesterdays Mumbai Bomings. Its up to 200 dead and 700 Injured. Also yesterday A Chicago subway train jumped its tracks and caused fires. 8 cars went off track. 2 people are still in the hospital in serious condition out of the 150 people that were checked out.
And in Yucca Valley California 26,000 Acres have been burned in wild fires.
Now after yesterday the Attack on Mumbai, and Israel blaming Iran and Syria for the capture and killing of Israeli soldiers. I think Iran will be the one behind the Mumbai bombing, The U.S and Israel will then Bomb Irans nuclear facilities and might just bomb Syria while there at it. We will see how this plays out if my hunch is right on this, only time will tell. Or God is giving the Israelis some of the land promised them to Abraham through these mini wars.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels
land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.
ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
World powers to send Iran to Security Council: official by Sylvie Lanteaume 2 hours, 36 minutes ago
PARIS (AFP) - World powers meeting in Paris upped the stakes over Iran's nuclear program, agreeing to send Tehran back to the UN Security Council and raising the threat of sanctions over its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment. The Iranians have given no indication at all that they are ready to engage seriously on the substance of our proposals, French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said in a statement agreed with his colleagues from the United States, Britain, Germany, Russia and China.
Iran has failed to take the steps needed to allow negotiations to begin.... We express profound disappointment over this situation, he said, according to an official English translation of his remarks.
We have no choice but to return to the United Nations Security Council and take forward the process that was suspended two months ago,he said.We have agreed to seek a United Nations Security Council resolution, which would make the IAEA-required suspension mandatory. Should Iran refuse to comply then we will work for the adoption of measures under Article 41 of Chapter Seven of the United Nations charter, the statement said.
The article in question opens the way for economic and diplomatic sanctions, but not for the use of military force.The agreement appeared to mark an important escalation of the pressure on Iran, because until now Russia and China have refused to countenance sanctions on the grounds that they are counter-productive.
The ministers from the Security Council permanent members plus Germany had met to hear a progress report from the EU's foreign policy chief Javier Solana, who the day before held talks in Brussels with Tehran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani.The six are pushing for a positive Iranian response to a package of economic and political incentives offered on June 6, but EU officials described Tuesday's meeting as disappointing.Iran insists on the right to continue uranium enrichment, arguing that it is needed for a civilian nuclear energy program, but the outside powers suspect Tehran is trying to make nuclear weapons and the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency has ordered a suspension.In their statement the ministers said that,Should Iran implement the decisions of the IAEA and the United Nations Security Council, and enter into negotiations, we would be ready to hold back from further action in the UN Security Council.
We urge Iran once again to respond positively to the substantive proposals we made last month.The Paris talks brought together Douste-Blazy, his US counterpart Condoleezza Rice, Britain's Margaret Beckett, Russia's Sergei Lavrov, Germany's Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the Chinese deputy foreign minister Zhang Yesui. We are very pleased by today's strong action,Rice's deputy Nicholas Burns said afterwards. This is a significant decision that reflects the disappointment and the frustrations of our countries.
A senior US official said top foreign ministry officials of the six countries would meet next week to decide how long to give Tehran before resorting to sanctions.It would be a certain number of days,he said. It will be a short period.China has agreed, Russia has agreed on the steps to be taken, the official added, while admitting that the specific sanctions to be adopted had not yet been decided. We are banking on Iran giving a bit of slack, given the obligatory nature of the suspension of enrichment activities.
We hope that some in the Iranian leadership will understand the signal,said Steinmeier after the meeting. If we do go to the Security Council, we will take our time to work out the best responses ... in order to get the Iranians to reconsider their position,he said. Iran's Larijani warned Tuesday of a long road ahead, saying the offer of incentives -- which reportedly include aid for a civilian energy program and an end to some US sanctions -- was broadly suitable but that suspending enrichment remained a central problem. In Tehran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeated Wednesday that Iran would not negotiate on its undeniable right to have a nuclear program. We are for negotiations, we are for dialogue. But of course we will not negotiate our undeniable rights with anyone,he told a public rally.
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Two feared dead as storm causes landslides in Philippines 2 hours, 26 minutes ago
MANILA (AFP) - Two children were missing and feared dead amid strong winds, landslides and floods triggered by tropical storm Bilis, which brushed past the Philippines' extreme north, the civil defense office has said. A seven-year-old girl holding an umbrella was blown by strong winds into a river in the mountain city of Baguio, and is feared to have drowned, the government agency said in a statement Wednesday.Elsewhere in the city, a landslide triggered by rain buried a house and a four-year-old boy was reported missing, while four other family members were injured.
Up to four motor vehicles were also buried by avalanches in Baguio but it is unclear if anyone was inside them.Bilis, a Filipino word which means speed, lashed the country's north with maximum sustained winds of 100 kilometers (62 miles) an hour, forcing aviation officials to cancel some domestic flights involving smaller aircraft.The eye of the storm was about 480 kilometers (298 miles) east of the Batan island group near Taiwan early Wednesday and moving northwest towards Taiwan, the government weather station said.Taiwan's central weather bureau has issued a warning over Bilis which is expected to bring strong winds and torrential rains to the island in the next few days.
MATTHEW 24:8-9
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Moderate earthquake jolts Cayman Islands Tue Jul 11, 10:49 PM ET
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands - A moderate earthquake jolted the Cayman Islands on Tuesday. No injuries or damage were reported.The magnitude 4.5 quake was centered roughly 30 miles east of George Town roughly 6 miles beneath the earth's surface,
officials said.
The quake, which lasted for about 10 seconds, hit at about 8:30 a.m.Kurt Tibbetts, the top elected official in the Caymans, said the government was developing a seismic monitoring program and had authorized the installation of four seismic sensors in the island chain.
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Indonesia battles some 300 forest fires
Indonesia says it has deployed around 1,500 firefighters to battle hundreds of forest fires in Sumatra and Indonesian Borneo.The Forestry Ministry says satellite images show there are some 300 fires in Riau province, more than 200 in Jambi province, and at least 48 others in West Kalimantan.Malaysian officials last week blamed fires in Sumatra for blanketing the country's northern state of Penang in a thick haze.
Indonesia's forestry ministry says about 400 fires are inside logging concessions and timber estates, while 34 are in conservation areas.It says the rest of the fires are on small plantations and community-owned land.In May, Indonesia's agriculture minister pledged that authorities would enforce a 2004 law that imposes stiff penalties on plantations that burn land, a practice largely blamed for contributing to the haze.ABC Asia Pacific TV / Radio Australia.
REVELATION 6:7-8
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: 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, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Guinea's cholera death toll at 133
July 12, 2006, 12 hours, 26 minutes and 48 seconds ago.
By ANDnetwork .com
At least 133 people have already died of cholera in Guinea, and more people are suspected to be infected and more infections are expected as the rain season is approaching. Even before the start of the disease-charged annual rainy season, at least 133 people have died of cholera in Guinea, or almost 10% of those infected, health authorities said this weekend.Mahy Barry, a health ministry director, said a total 1 530 cases had been officially registered since the start of the six-month epidemic.Cholera, an acute intestinal infection spread by contaminated water and food, often strikes in west Africa after the onset of the annual rains, as latrines overflow and wells become polluted in rural and under-developed areas.
Highly contagious and causing acute diarrhoea and vomiting, cholera can kill within days if left untreated. Yet lives can be saved with simple re-hydration salts and fluids, and the disease kept at bay with simple hygiene measures.
Barry said most victims had contracted the disease through drinking water from locally drilled wells. Most of these wells are dug close to latrines in towns and villages, hence the fatal combination that kills people, he said.According to the health ministry, most of the fatalities have occurred in the country's forest region, with the towns of Gueckedou, Kissidougou, Nzerekore and Lola all affected. Fatalities have been highest in Kissidougou, where at least 80 people have died. Barry said this year’s epidemic started at the beginning of February and worsened between April and May when it claimed most of its victims. Last month there was a dramatic drop in reported cases, he said, with no deaths reported so far in July.
Although the health ministry has been heavily engaged in awareness campaigns year in year out, the disease continues to claim increasing numbers of lives and it is feared that the rainy season, which this year is late, could revive the epidemic.Guinea, listed as one of the world’s 20 poorest countries by the UN, has the kind of urban poverty and squalor that breed disease.IRIN
First the update on yesterdays Mumbai Bomings. Its up to 200 dead and 700 Injured. Also yesterday A Chicago subway train jumped its tracks and caused fires. 8 cars went off track. 2 people are still in the hospital in serious condition out of the 150 people that were checked out.
And in Yucca Valley California 26,000 Acres have been burned in wild fires.
Now after yesterday the Attack on Mumbai, and Israel blaming Iran and Syria for the capture and killing of Israeli soldiers. I think Iran will be the one behind the Mumbai bombing, The U.S and Israel will then Bomb Irans nuclear facilities and might just bomb Syria while there at it. We will see how this plays out if my hunch is right on this, only time will tell. Or God is giving the Israelis some of the land promised them to Abraham through these mini wars.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels
land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.
ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
World powers to send Iran to Security Council: official by Sylvie Lanteaume 2 hours, 36 minutes ago
PARIS (AFP) - World powers meeting in Paris upped the stakes over Iran's nuclear program, agreeing to send Tehran back to the UN Security Council and raising the threat of sanctions over its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment. The Iranians have given no indication at all that they are ready to engage seriously on the substance of our proposals, French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said in a statement agreed with his colleagues from the United States, Britain, Germany, Russia and China.
Iran has failed to take the steps needed to allow negotiations to begin.... We express profound disappointment over this situation, he said, according to an official English translation of his remarks.
We have no choice but to return to the United Nations Security Council and take forward the process that was suspended two months ago,he said.We have agreed to seek a United Nations Security Council resolution, which would make the IAEA-required suspension mandatory. Should Iran refuse to comply then we will work for the adoption of measures under Article 41 of Chapter Seven of the United Nations charter, the statement said.
The article in question opens the way for economic and diplomatic sanctions, but not for the use of military force.The agreement appeared to mark an important escalation of the pressure on Iran, because until now Russia and China have refused to countenance sanctions on the grounds that they are counter-productive.
The ministers from the Security Council permanent members plus Germany had met to hear a progress report from the EU's foreign policy chief Javier Solana, who the day before held talks in Brussels with Tehran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani.The six are pushing for a positive Iranian response to a package of economic and political incentives offered on June 6, but EU officials described Tuesday's meeting as disappointing.Iran insists on the right to continue uranium enrichment, arguing that it is needed for a civilian nuclear energy program, but the outside powers suspect Tehran is trying to make nuclear weapons and the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency has ordered a suspension.In their statement the ministers said that,Should Iran implement the decisions of the IAEA and the United Nations Security Council, and enter into negotiations, we would be ready to hold back from further action in the UN Security Council.
We urge Iran once again to respond positively to the substantive proposals we made last month.The Paris talks brought together Douste-Blazy, his US counterpart Condoleezza Rice, Britain's Margaret Beckett, Russia's Sergei Lavrov, Germany's Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the Chinese deputy foreign minister Zhang Yesui. We are very pleased by today's strong action,Rice's deputy Nicholas Burns said afterwards. This is a significant decision that reflects the disappointment and the frustrations of our countries.
A senior US official said top foreign ministry officials of the six countries would meet next week to decide how long to give Tehran before resorting to sanctions.It would be a certain number of days,he said. It will be a short period.China has agreed, Russia has agreed on the steps to be taken, the official added, while admitting that the specific sanctions to be adopted had not yet been decided. We are banking on Iran giving a bit of slack, given the obligatory nature of the suspension of enrichment activities.
We hope that some in the Iranian leadership will understand the signal,said Steinmeier after the meeting. If we do go to the Security Council, we will take our time to work out the best responses ... in order to get the Iranians to reconsider their position,he said. Iran's Larijani warned Tuesday of a long road ahead, saying the offer of incentives -- which reportedly include aid for a civilian energy program and an end to some US sanctions -- was broadly suitable but that suspending enrichment remained a central problem. In Tehran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeated Wednesday that Iran would not negotiate on its undeniable right to have a nuclear program. We are for negotiations, we are for dialogue. But of course we will not negotiate our undeniable rights with anyone,he told a public rally.
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Two feared dead as storm causes landslides in Philippines 2 hours, 26 minutes ago
MANILA (AFP) - Two children were missing and feared dead amid strong winds, landslides and floods triggered by tropical storm Bilis, which brushed past the Philippines' extreme north, the civil defense office has said. A seven-year-old girl holding an umbrella was blown by strong winds into a river in the mountain city of Baguio, and is feared to have drowned, the government agency said in a statement Wednesday.Elsewhere in the city, a landslide triggered by rain buried a house and a four-year-old boy was reported missing, while four other family members were injured.
Up to four motor vehicles were also buried by avalanches in Baguio but it is unclear if anyone was inside them.Bilis, a Filipino word which means speed, lashed the country's north with maximum sustained winds of 100 kilometers (62 miles) an hour, forcing aviation officials to cancel some domestic flights involving smaller aircraft.The eye of the storm was about 480 kilometers (298 miles) east of the Batan island group near Taiwan early Wednesday and moving northwest towards Taiwan, the government weather station said.Taiwan's central weather bureau has issued a warning over Bilis which is expected to bring strong winds and torrential rains to the island in the next few days.
MATTHEW 24:8-9
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Moderate earthquake jolts Cayman Islands Tue Jul 11, 10:49 PM ET
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands - A moderate earthquake jolted the Cayman Islands on Tuesday. No injuries or damage were reported.The magnitude 4.5 quake was centered roughly 30 miles east of George Town roughly 6 miles beneath the earth's surface,
officials said.
The quake, which lasted for about 10 seconds, hit at about 8:30 a.m.Kurt Tibbetts, the top elected official in the Caymans, said the government was developing a seismic monitoring program and had authorized the installation of four seismic sensors in the island chain.
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Indonesia battles some 300 forest fires
Indonesia says it has deployed around 1,500 firefighters to battle hundreds of forest fires in Sumatra and Indonesian Borneo.The Forestry Ministry says satellite images show there are some 300 fires in Riau province, more than 200 in Jambi province, and at least 48 others in West Kalimantan.Malaysian officials last week blamed fires in Sumatra for blanketing the country's northern state of Penang in a thick haze.
Indonesia's forestry ministry says about 400 fires are inside logging concessions and timber estates, while 34 are in conservation areas.It says the rest of the fires are on small plantations and community-owned land.In May, Indonesia's agriculture minister pledged that authorities would enforce a 2004 law that imposes stiff penalties on plantations that burn land, a practice largely blamed for contributing to the haze.ABC Asia Pacific TV / Radio Australia.
REVELATION 6:7-8
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: 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, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Guinea's cholera death toll at 133
July 12, 2006, 12 hours, 26 minutes and 48 seconds ago.
By ANDnetwork .com
At least 133 people have already died of cholera in Guinea, and more people are suspected to be infected and more infections are expected as the rain season is approaching. Even before the start of the disease-charged annual rainy season, at least 133 people have died of cholera in Guinea, or almost 10% of those infected, health authorities said this weekend.Mahy Barry, a health ministry director, said a total 1 530 cases had been officially registered since the start of the six-month epidemic.Cholera, an acute intestinal infection spread by contaminated water and food, often strikes in west Africa after the onset of the annual rains, as latrines overflow and wells become polluted in rural and under-developed areas.
Highly contagious and causing acute diarrhoea and vomiting, cholera can kill within days if left untreated. Yet lives can be saved with simple re-hydration salts and fluids, and the disease kept at bay with simple hygiene measures.
Barry said most victims had contracted the disease through drinking water from locally drilled wells. Most of these wells are dug close to latrines in towns and villages, hence the fatal combination that kills people, he said.According to the health ministry, most of the fatalities have occurred in the country's forest region, with the towns of Gueckedou, Kissidougou, Nzerekore and Lola all affected. Fatalities have been highest in Kissidougou, where at least 80 people have died. Barry said this year’s epidemic started at the beginning of February and worsened between April and May when it claimed most of its victims. Last month there was a dramatic drop in reported cases, he said, with no deaths reported so far in July.
Although the health ministry has been heavily engaged in awareness campaigns year in year out, the disease continues to claim increasing numbers of lives and it is feared that the rainy season, which this year is late, could revive the epidemic.Guinea, listed as one of the world’s 20 poorest countries by the UN, has the kind of urban poverty and squalor that breed disease.IRIN
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
MUMBAI TERRORIST BOMBS KILL 175
Terrorist have set off 7 bombs at a train station sites in mumbai India. 175 dead and at least 450 injured, reports. The bombs were set off in 11minutes between 6:34AM and 7:35AM
Also the New York subway station has beefed up its security in wake of the India bombings. Story and futhur details later.
1-Eu can't wait for constitution. 2-Amchitka Island quake.3-Syria intends to switch all to Euros at end of year.4-175 dead in India 7 Bombs,chronology of India bombings since 2001.
DANIEL 7:23
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
EU 'can not wait' for constitution
Europe can not wait for a constitution before pushing ahead with increased EU decision-making on justice and foreign policy, Finnish leader Matti Vanhanen has told MEPs. The Finnish prime minister on Wednesday set out his priorities for Helsinki’s EU presidency to the European parliament.Finland takes the EU helm from Austria for a six month stint at the tiller before Germany takes over in the first half of 2007.Finland must keep the EU’s constitution on ice but will prepare the ground for a German roadmap to a new treaty by pushing current decision-making powers to the limit.
Vanhanen told MEPs that EU leaders must use existing European treaties to boost streamlined decision making by reducing national vetoes in key areas such as justice.Europe cannot afford to wait for new decision-making rules. It must start to increase the effectiveness of the way it functions now,he said Increasing the union’s effectiveness will require some bold decisions from Europe’s leaders and decision-makers. We cannot just think of the here and now, and the next elections.That means taking painful decisions now to help create a better future. We must also be prepared to give some ground when defending national positions and think about Europe’s interests as a whole.
Vanhanen also insisted that the EU can not wait for greater foreign policy in the protracted period of reflection” that has followed French and Dutch referendum rejections of the constitution.One big setback are stalled plans to make Javier Solana an EU “foreign minister and European commission vice-president.In June, Europe's leaders agreed to fast track crisis response coordination and maintain a January 2007 deadline for an EU rapid reaction military force.The EU can not allow a period of refection in external action, said Vanhanen.The union’s voice in the world will be heard only if it is coherent. We will make further improvements to the union’s crisis management and the rapid reaction troops should be fully ready by 2007.
The coordination of civil and military crisis management must be further coordinated. Left-wing Finnish MEP Esko Seppänen accused Vanhanen of implementing the constitution by the back door and militarising the EU. In 1999, the Finnish government betrayed its own people and pushed ahead with the setting up of EU military institutions, he said.Again, it is going against the will of citizens by agreeing to make combat troops available without a UN mandate.Vanhenen has asked the Finnish parliament to ratify the EU constitution, despite, claims Seppänen, This government neither has the confidence of citizens in Finland nor across Europe. It pressed ahead with ratification of the European Constitution despite the fact that a mere 22 per cent of Finns support the ratification, he said.This shows a lack of respect for democracy and the decisions of the French and Dutch people.Martin Schulz, leader of the parliament’s socialist group, registered a protest over claims Finland was undemocratic.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
Dozens of earthquakes shake chain
By JULIA O'MALLEY
Anchorage Daily News ,Published: July 11, 2006
A strong earthquake, measuring magnitude 5.1, struck at 8:04 p.m. Monday 80 miles off Amchitka Island, according to the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer. The quake was among dozens powerful enough to feel that have been jostling the waters outside Amchitka over recent weeks, including one Saturday that measured magnitude 6.7 and was felt in Adak around 12:40 p.m., said Paul Whitmore, director of warning center.Three other quakes followed the large quake Saturday night, all measuring above magnitude 5.It’s definitely a swarm of earthquakes, Whitmore said. We see this from time to time in different areas of the Aleutian arc. Contact Julia O'Malley at jomalley@adn.com or (907) 257-4325.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
Syria Plans to End Dollar Peg, Moves Half of Reserves to Euros
July 11 (Bloomberg) -- Syria, under fire from the U.S. for the alleged support of terrorism, plans to end its currency peg to the dollar by year-end to reflect closer trade ties with Europe, central bank Governor Adib Mayaleh said. The Central Bank of Syria has already converted half its foreign-exchange reserves to euros, Mayalmi said in a telephone interview from Damascus, without being more specific. Syria's reserves, including gold, totaled $4.1 billion at the end of 2005, according to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
We want to have a currency peg that will reflect our external trade, Mayaleh said yesterday. The European Union is Syria's largest trading partner, taking half of its exports, he said. The country may instead link the Syrian pound to a weighted group of currencies including the euro or loans from the International Monetary Fund that are known as Special Drawing Rights, Mayaleh said. SDRs comprise the euro, dollar, yen and British pound.
Most Middle East countries, including the six oil-producing Persian Gulf monarchies and Jordan, peg their currencies to the dollar. Egypt and Iraq manage floated currencies. The Syrian pound is pegged at 52.2 versus the dollar, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Central bankers from Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Sweden and Finland have this year indicated they aim to diversify their reserves away from the dollar. The euro is appreciating this year after its first annual decline since 2001. It traded at $1.2750 at 12:27 p.m. in London today, from $1.1849 at the start of the year.
Increased Trade
The Syrian government is ``studying options'' with regard to ending the dollar peg, Abdullah Dardari, the country's deputy prime minister for economic affairs, told reporters on the sidelines of a conference in Damascus on June 10. Syria last year sold $2.9 billion of goods, including crude oil and textiles, to the European Union, according to data from the European Commission. Imports from the EU totaled $2.7 billion. That compares with $155 million from the U.S., based on figures from the U.S. Census Bureau.
The U.S. imposed sanctions on Syria in May 2004, including a ban on trade transactions with the Commercial Bank of Syria, in an effort to halt exports to the country that stands accused by President George W. Bush's administration of aiding militants in Iraq and pursuing weapons of mass destruction. After the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Jordan used the Egyptian pound as their official currency while under British and French control.
In 1924, France, which controlled Syria and Lebanon, introduced a franc-based currency for the two countries that lasted until the outbreak of the Second World War. In the 1960s, Syria's major trading partners were communist- controlled Eastern European states such as Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, reflecting its political ties with the Soviet Union. In the 1970s, that shifted toward Western Europe, which accounted for 49 percent of Syrian imports in 1975 and 56 percent in 1976, according to the U.S. Library of Congress. By 1984, West Germany, France, Italy and Japan were Syria's biggest suppliers of goods including machinery, transport equipment, and iron and steel. In 2004, Turkey, followed by the Ukraine, China and Russia were its biggest sources of imports, according to the CIA. To contact the reporter on this story:,Dania Saadi in Cairo at at dsaadi2@bloomberg.net.,Last Updated: July 11, 2006 07:43 EDT
JUDGEMENT SIGNS IN DAYS OF LOT. NO BODY LISTENED TO WARNING SIGNS
LUKE 17:28-32
28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
32 Remember Lot's wife.
JUDGEMENT SIGNS IN DAYS OF NOAH. WORLDWIDE FLOODING,CURRUPTION,VIOLENCE (TERRORISM).
MATTHEW 24:37-39
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.
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with 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 through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
LUKE 17:25-27
25 But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
CHRONOLOGY - Major attacks in India since 2001
Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:29 PM IST
REUTERS - At least 135 people were killed and hundreds injured in a series of bomb blasts on the suburban rail network in Mumbai, India's financial capital, on Tuesday, police said.
At least 250 people died in a string of bomb explosions in Mumbai in 1993, which authorities blamed on the city's underworld criminal gangs.
Following is a chronology of some major attacks in India in the past five years:
Oct. 1, 2001 - Militants storm the Jammu and Kashmir state assembly complex, killing about 35.
Dec. 13 - More than a dozen people, including five gunmen, die in an attack on the national parliament complex in New Delhi.
Sep. 24, 2002 - Militants with guns and explosives attack the Akshardham Hindu temple in Gujarat, killing 31 people and wounding more than 80.
May 14 - Militants attack an army camp near Jammu, killing more than 30, including several wives and children of soldiers.
Mar. 13, 2003 - A bomb attack on a commuter train in Mumbai kills 11.
Aug. 25 - Two almost simultaneous car bombs kill about 60 in Mumbai.
Aug. 15, 2004 - Bomb explodes in Assam, killing 16 people, mostly school children, and wounding dozens.
Oct. 29, 2005 - Sixty-six people are killed when three blasts tear through markets in New Delhi.
Mar. 7, 2006 - At least 15 people were killed and 60 wounded in three explosions in Varanasi.
July 11 - More than 175 people are killed 450 injured in seven bomb explosions at rail stations and on trains in Mumbai.
Also the New York subway station has beefed up its security in wake of the India bombings. Story and futhur details later.
1-Eu can't wait for constitution. 2-Amchitka Island quake.3-Syria intends to switch all to Euros at end of year.4-175 dead in India 7 Bombs,chronology of India bombings since 2001.
DANIEL 7:23
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
EU 'can not wait' for constitution
Europe can not wait for a constitution before pushing ahead with increased EU decision-making on justice and foreign policy, Finnish leader Matti Vanhanen has told MEPs. The Finnish prime minister on Wednesday set out his priorities for Helsinki’s EU presidency to the European parliament.Finland takes the EU helm from Austria for a six month stint at the tiller before Germany takes over in the first half of 2007.Finland must keep the EU’s constitution on ice but will prepare the ground for a German roadmap to a new treaty by pushing current decision-making powers to the limit.
Vanhanen told MEPs that EU leaders must use existing European treaties to boost streamlined decision making by reducing national vetoes in key areas such as justice.Europe cannot afford to wait for new decision-making rules. It must start to increase the effectiveness of the way it functions now,he said Increasing the union’s effectiveness will require some bold decisions from Europe’s leaders and decision-makers. We cannot just think of the here and now, and the next elections.That means taking painful decisions now to help create a better future. We must also be prepared to give some ground when defending national positions and think about Europe’s interests as a whole.
Vanhanen also insisted that the EU can not wait for greater foreign policy in the protracted period of reflection” that has followed French and Dutch referendum rejections of the constitution.One big setback are stalled plans to make Javier Solana an EU “foreign minister and European commission vice-president.In June, Europe's leaders agreed to fast track crisis response coordination and maintain a January 2007 deadline for an EU rapid reaction military force.The EU can not allow a period of refection in external action, said Vanhanen.The union’s voice in the world will be heard only if it is coherent. We will make further improvements to the union’s crisis management and the rapid reaction troops should be fully ready by 2007.
The coordination of civil and military crisis management must be further coordinated. Left-wing Finnish MEP Esko Seppänen accused Vanhanen of implementing the constitution by the back door and militarising the EU. In 1999, the Finnish government betrayed its own people and pushed ahead with the setting up of EU military institutions, he said.Again, it is going against the will of citizens by agreeing to make combat troops available without a UN mandate.Vanhenen has asked the Finnish parliament to ratify the EU constitution, despite, claims Seppänen, This government neither has the confidence of citizens in Finland nor across Europe. It pressed ahead with ratification of the European Constitution despite the fact that a mere 22 per cent of Finns support the ratification, he said.This shows a lack of respect for democracy and the decisions of the French and Dutch people.Martin Schulz, leader of the parliament’s socialist group, registered a protest over claims Finland was undemocratic.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
Dozens of earthquakes shake chain
By JULIA O'MALLEY
Anchorage Daily News ,Published: July 11, 2006
A strong earthquake, measuring magnitude 5.1, struck at 8:04 p.m. Monday 80 miles off Amchitka Island, according to the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer. The quake was among dozens powerful enough to feel that have been jostling the waters outside Amchitka over recent weeks, including one Saturday that measured magnitude 6.7 and was felt in Adak around 12:40 p.m., said Paul Whitmore, director of warning center.Three other quakes followed the large quake Saturday night, all measuring above magnitude 5.It’s definitely a swarm of earthquakes, Whitmore said. We see this from time to time in different areas of the Aleutian arc. Contact Julia O'Malley at jomalley@adn.com or (907) 257-4325.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
Syria Plans to End Dollar Peg, Moves Half of Reserves to Euros
July 11 (Bloomberg) -- Syria, under fire from the U.S. for the alleged support of terrorism, plans to end its currency peg to the dollar by year-end to reflect closer trade ties with Europe, central bank Governor Adib Mayaleh said. The Central Bank of Syria has already converted half its foreign-exchange reserves to euros, Mayalmi said in a telephone interview from Damascus, without being more specific. Syria's reserves, including gold, totaled $4.1 billion at the end of 2005, according to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
We want to have a currency peg that will reflect our external trade, Mayaleh said yesterday. The European Union is Syria's largest trading partner, taking half of its exports, he said. The country may instead link the Syrian pound to a weighted group of currencies including the euro or loans from the International Monetary Fund that are known as Special Drawing Rights, Mayaleh said. SDRs comprise the euro, dollar, yen and British pound.
Most Middle East countries, including the six oil-producing Persian Gulf monarchies and Jordan, peg their currencies to the dollar. Egypt and Iraq manage floated currencies. The Syrian pound is pegged at 52.2 versus the dollar, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Central bankers from Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Sweden and Finland have this year indicated they aim to diversify their reserves away from the dollar. The euro is appreciating this year after its first annual decline since 2001. It traded at $1.2750 at 12:27 p.m. in London today, from $1.1849 at the start of the year.
Increased Trade
The Syrian government is ``studying options'' with regard to ending the dollar peg, Abdullah Dardari, the country's deputy prime minister for economic affairs, told reporters on the sidelines of a conference in Damascus on June 10. Syria last year sold $2.9 billion of goods, including crude oil and textiles, to the European Union, according to data from the European Commission. Imports from the EU totaled $2.7 billion. That compares with $155 million from the U.S., based on figures from the U.S. Census Bureau.
The U.S. imposed sanctions on Syria in May 2004, including a ban on trade transactions with the Commercial Bank of Syria, in an effort to halt exports to the country that stands accused by President George W. Bush's administration of aiding militants in Iraq and pursuing weapons of mass destruction. After the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Jordan used the Egyptian pound as their official currency while under British and French control.
In 1924, France, which controlled Syria and Lebanon, introduced a franc-based currency for the two countries that lasted until the outbreak of the Second World War. In the 1960s, Syria's major trading partners were communist- controlled Eastern European states such as Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, reflecting its political ties with the Soviet Union. In the 1970s, that shifted toward Western Europe, which accounted for 49 percent of Syrian imports in 1975 and 56 percent in 1976, according to the U.S. Library of Congress. By 1984, West Germany, France, Italy and Japan were Syria's biggest suppliers of goods including machinery, transport equipment, and iron and steel. In 2004, Turkey, followed by the Ukraine, China and Russia were its biggest sources of imports, according to the CIA. To contact the reporter on this story:,Dania Saadi in Cairo at at dsaadi2@bloomberg.net.,Last Updated: July 11, 2006 07:43 EDT
JUDGEMENT SIGNS IN DAYS OF LOT. NO BODY LISTENED TO WARNING SIGNS
LUKE 17:28-32
28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
32 Remember Lot's wife.
JUDGEMENT SIGNS IN DAYS OF NOAH. WORLDWIDE FLOODING,CURRUPTION,VIOLENCE (TERRORISM).
MATTHEW 24:37-39
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.
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with 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 through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
LUKE 17:25-27
25 But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
CHRONOLOGY - Major attacks in India since 2001
Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:29 PM IST
REUTERS - At least 135 people were killed and hundreds injured in a series of bomb blasts on the suburban rail network in Mumbai, India's financial capital, on Tuesday, police said.
At least 250 people died in a string of bomb explosions in Mumbai in 1993, which authorities blamed on the city's underworld criminal gangs.
Following is a chronology of some major attacks in India in the past five years:
Oct. 1, 2001 - Militants storm the Jammu and Kashmir state assembly complex, killing about 35.
Dec. 13 - More than a dozen people, including five gunmen, die in an attack on the national parliament complex in New Delhi.
Sep. 24, 2002 - Militants with guns and explosives attack the Akshardham Hindu temple in Gujarat, killing 31 people and wounding more than 80.
May 14 - Militants attack an army camp near Jammu, killing more than 30, including several wives and children of soldiers.
Mar. 13, 2003 - A bomb attack on a commuter train in Mumbai kills 11.
Aug. 25 - Two almost simultaneous car bombs kill about 60 in Mumbai.
Aug. 15, 2004 - Bomb explodes in Assam, killing 16 people, mostly school children, and wounding dozens.
Oct. 29, 2005 - Sixty-six people are killed when three blasts tear through markets in New Delhi.
Mar. 7, 2006 - At least 15 people were killed and 60 wounded in three explosions in Varanasi.
July 11 - More than 175 people are killed 450 injured in seven bomb explosions at rail stations and on trains in Mumbai.
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
OLMERT REJECTS EU CRITICISM
1-Tornado in Colorado. 2-Monsoon floods in South Asia. 3-Blue clouds from space.. 4-Small quake near Vancouver. 5-Olmert rejects eu Criticism.
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Tornado touches down in Colorado Mon Jul 10, 1:28 AM ET
PUEBLO, Colo. - A storm packing rain and a tornado moved into southeast Colorado on Sunday as downpours north of Pueblo briefly closed an eight-mile section of Interstate 25. The highway was closed around 5:30 p.m. and reopened about 90 minutes later. Colorado Department of Transportation officials did not immediately have an estimate of how much water was on the road.
Meteorologist Makoto Moore said there were reports of 3 to 4 inches of rain across the northern part of Pueblo County, where a tornado touched down. Several buildings were damaged, but Shorter said it wasn't immediately clear if it was due to the tornado or strong winds.The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings. Meteorologists reported 4 to 6 inches of rain in southeast Cheyenne County near the Kansas line.In New Mexico, a 15-year-old boy fell into a flooded diversion channel in Albuquerque on Saturday evening, and the turbulent current carried him on a 5-mile ride, said Albuquerque fire inspector Gabe Serna. The boy had dropped his keys and slipped into the arroyo when he tried to retrieve them.It took three attempts before rescue crews could pull him from the swift current, Serna said. He was treated for hypothermia and abrasions at a hospital.
I don't know how many times we tell people, Do not play in the arroyo. We always manage to get one that falls in, Serna said.Thunderstorms dropped an estimated 3 inches of rain in an hour Saturday over Truth or Consequences and the surrounding area, south of Albuquerque, the weather service said.Flooding washed out roads in Rio Rancho, just north of Albuquerque, and 4 feet of water covered an Interstate 25 exit in Socorro.Colorado Gov. Bill Owens issued a disaster emergency order Saturday for Douglas County, southwest of Denver, where rain had washed out roads and flooded homes in areas stripped of vegetation by a 138,000-acre wildfire in 2002.
Monsoon rains trigger floods, death in S. Asia Mon Jul 10, 4:12 AM ET
LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) - Monsoon rains have inundated large parts of Uttar Pradesh state in India, and 21 people were killed in drownings, house collapses and lightning strikes over the weekend, officials said on Monday. In neighboring Bangladesh, at least 12 people have died in landslides or after being hit by lighting over the past two days in heavy rainstorms in the nation's east.Across
India, at least 250 people have been killed since the start of the monsoon season in June.The heavy rains have caused power outages for several hours across Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state with 170,000 million people, including in the state capital, Lucknow.Last week, more than 80 people died in extreme monsoon weather in western and eastern India and normal life in large parts of Mumbai ground to a halt for two days as downpours hit India's financial hub.
In Uttar Pradesh, people slammed the government for not undertaking measures to prevent waterlogging and flooding.It seems officials are only interested in releasing funds every year so they can pilfer while we have to suffer year after year on account of nature's fury, said Ram Chander, a laborer living on the outskirts of Lucknow.Uttar Pradesh Relief Commissioner Renuka Kumar said though the state had an annual budget of 3 billion rupees ($65 million) to deal with natural disasters, it had only spent 800 million rupees.($1=46 rupees)(Additional reporting by Nizam Ahmed in DHAKA)
LUKE 21:11,25
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars;
CLOUDS FROM SPACE
By Kevin Turner
THE heavens turn blue as rare clouds light up a city skyline. The strange, electric blue clouds formed over Glasgow last week - appearing as glowing bands high in the sky. But the noctilucent or night shining clouds still baffle the world's best scientific brains. They lie at the very edge of space - about 60 miles above the Earth's surface - and can only be seen when conditions are perfect. Scots sky watchers often see these clouds two to three times every summer. Global warming may account for the increasing number of sightings. NASA are to launch a probe to investigate the mysterious phenomenon later this year.
Duncan Lunan, a curator at Airdrie's Public Observatory, said: The clouds are beautiful but remain a mystery. They were first reported by astronomers in the latter half of the 19th century. You need to be quite far north to see them, so it's a fairly Scottish thing for that reason. They can be seen for a few weeks either side of midsummer. He added: They always appear electric blue and often take the observer's breath away. By Rebecca Whitney,The Pictorial
A minor earthquake on Tuesday had some people in the Cowichan Valley rumbling in their boots.
Pacific Geoscience Centre reported the quake, with a magnitude of 3.7, was centred in the Strait of Juan de Fuca 20 kilometres off the coast of Victoria. Earthquakes on the scale of Tuesday’s shake do not generally cause damage — and in this instance there was no damage reported although some Victoria residence reported incidences of things falling from shelves. You don’t start to get damage until you get to a 5 or 5.5 and even then only in poorly built structures, said Natural Resources Canada earthquake seismologist Taimi Mulder.
A 3.7 would feel like a truck slamming into your house a real short, sharp jerk, said Mulder. As you move further from the epicenter of the quake, the frequency of the waves lengthen and therefore the quake is felt as more of a swaying of the ground. People as far up Island as Shawnigan Lake and Cobble Hill reported feeling the earth move under their feet, but only very slightly. According to Mulder there were three reports written in from the south Cowichan region stating the quake felt like a strong gust of wind hitting the house and an audible vibration that didn’t cause any movement. Earthquakes of this magnitude occur a couple of times a year in southwestern British Columbia, and Mulder says every couple of months an earthquake will occur that is strong enough to be felt. Mulder asks Vancouver Island residents to report to Natural Resources Canada if they feel an earthquake because people’s experiences are valuable tools in measuring and analyzing earthquakes. People’s experiences provide us with really valuable local information, said Mulder. If you get shaken by a quake log onto www.earthquakescanada.ca and click on Did You Feel it.© Copyright 2006 Duncan News Leader and Pictorial
Olmert rejects EU criticism of Israel's Gaza raids
Mon 10 Jul 2006 3:36 AM ET
JERUSALEM, July 10 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday rejected European Union criticism of Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip, saying the EU should focus instead on Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel.When was the last time that the European Union condemned this shooting and suggested effective measures to stop it? Olmert said in remarks to the foreign press.At some point, Israel had no point but to take some measures in order to stop this thing.The European Union accused Israel on Friday of a disproportionate use of force against Palestinians in Gaza and of making a humanitarian crisis there worse.
Olmert said the Gaza operation Israel launched on June 28, three days after Palestinian militants abducted an Israeli soldier in a cross-border raid, would continue indefinitely.We haven't set a particular timetable for this operation. It will continue in places, in times, in different measures that will suit the purposes that were outlined, he said, repeating remarks he made on Sunday at the weekly meeting of his cabinet.Olmert reiterated he would not negotiate with the governing Hamas movement for the release of Corporal Gilad Shalit. Militants from the group, along with gunmen from two other factions, kidnapped the 19-year-old tank gunner.I
will not release prisoners for the trade of Corporal Gilad Shalit to Hamas,Olmert said.Palestinian factions have called on Israel to free more than a thousand Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the soldier.© Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Tornado touches down in Colorado Mon Jul 10, 1:28 AM ET
PUEBLO, Colo. - A storm packing rain and a tornado moved into southeast Colorado on Sunday as downpours north of Pueblo briefly closed an eight-mile section of Interstate 25. The highway was closed around 5:30 p.m. and reopened about 90 minutes later. Colorado Department of Transportation officials did not immediately have an estimate of how much water was on the road.
Meteorologist Makoto Moore said there were reports of 3 to 4 inches of rain across the northern part of Pueblo County, where a tornado touched down. Several buildings were damaged, but Shorter said it wasn't immediately clear if it was due to the tornado or strong winds.The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings. Meteorologists reported 4 to 6 inches of rain in southeast Cheyenne County near the Kansas line.In New Mexico, a 15-year-old boy fell into a flooded diversion channel in Albuquerque on Saturday evening, and the turbulent current carried him on a 5-mile ride, said Albuquerque fire inspector Gabe Serna. The boy had dropped his keys and slipped into the arroyo when he tried to retrieve them.It took three attempts before rescue crews could pull him from the swift current, Serna said. He was treated for hypothermia and abrasions at a hospital.
I don't know how many times we tell people, Do not play in the arroyo. We always manage to get one that falls in, Serna said.Thunderstorms dropped an estimated 3 inches of rain in an hour Saturday over Truth or Consequences and the surrounding area, south of Albuquerque, the weather service said.Flooding washed out roads in Rio Rancho, just north of Albuquerque, and 4 feet of water covered an Interstate 25 exit in Socorro.Colorado Gov. Bill Owens issued a disaster emergency order Saturday for Douglas County, southwest of Denver, where rain had washed out roads and flooded homes in areas stripped of vegetation by a 138,000-acre wildfire in 2002.
Monsoon rains trigger floods, death in S. Asia Mon Jul 10, 4:12 AM ET
LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) - Monsoon rains have inundated large parts of Uttar Pradesh state in India, and 21 people were killed in drownings, house collapses and lightning strikes over the weekend, officials said on Monday. In neighboring Bangladesh, at least 12 people have died in landslides or after being hit by lighting over the past two days in heavy rainstorms in the nation's east.Across
India, at least 250 people have been killed since the start of the monsoon season in June.The heavy rains have caused power outages for several hours across Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state with 170,000 million people, including in the state capital, Lucknow.Last week, more than 80 people died in extreme monsoon weather in western and eastern India and normal life in large parts of Mumbai ground to a halt for two days as downpours hit India's financial hub.
In Uttar Pradesh, people slammed the government for not undertaking measures to prevent waterlogging and flooding.It seems officials are only interested in releasing funds every year so they can pilfer while we have to suffer year after year on account of nature's fury, said Ram Chander, a laborer living on the outskirts of Lucknow.Uttar Pradesh Relief Commissioner Renuka Kumar said though the state had an annual budget of 3 billion rupees ($65 million) to deal with natural disasters, it had only spent 800 million rupees.($1=46 rupees)(Additional reporting by Nizam Ahmed in DHAKA)
LUKE 21:11,25
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars;
CLOUDS FROM SPACE
By Kevin Turner
THE heavens turn blue as rare clouds light up a city skyline. The strange, electric blue clouds formed over Glasgow last week - appearing as glowing bands high in the sky. But the noctilucent or night shining clouds still baffle the world's best scientific brains. They lie at the very edge of space - about 60 miles above the Earth's surface - and can only be seen when conditions are perfect. Scots sky watchers often see these clouds two to three times every summer. Global warming may account for the increasing number of sightings. NASA are to launch a probe to investigate the mysterious phenomenon later this year.
Duncan Lunan, a curator at Airdrie's Public Observatory, said: The clouds are beautiful but remain a mystery. They were first reported by astronomers in the latter half of the 19th century. You need to be quite far north to see them, so it's a fairly Scottish thing for that reason. They can be seen for a few weeks either side of midsummer. He added: They always appear electric blue and often take the observer's breath away. By Rebecca Whitney,The Pictorial
A minor earthquake on Tuesday had some people in the Cowichan Valley rumbling in their boots.
Pacific Geoscience Centre reported the quake, with a magnitude of 3.7, was centred in the Strait of Juan de Fuca 20 kilometres off the coast of Victoria. Earthquakes on the scale of Tuesday’s shake do not generally cause damage — and in this instance there was no damage reported although some Victoria residence reported incidences of things falling from shelves. You don’t start to get damage until you get to a 5 or 5.5 and even then only in poorly built structures, said Natural Resources Canada earthquake seismologist Taimi Mulder.
A 3.7 would feel like a truck slamming into your house a real short, sharp jerk, said Mulder. As you move further from the epicenter of the quake, the frequency of the waves lengthen and therefore the quake is felt as more of a swaying of the ground. People as far up Island as Shawnigan Lake and Cobble Hill reported feeling the earth move under their feet, but only very slightly. According to Mulder there were three reports written in from the south Cowichan region stating the quake felt like a strong gust of wind hitting the house and an audible vibration that didn’t cause any movement. Earthquakes of this magnitude occur a couple of times a year in southwestern British Columbia, and Mulder says every couple of months an earthquake will occur that is strong enough to be felt. Mulder asks Vancouver Island residents to report to Natural Resources Canada if they feel an earthquake because people’s experiences are valuable tools in measuring and analyzing earthquakes. People’s experiences provide us with really valuable local information, said Mulder. If you get shaken by a quake log onto www.earthquakescanada.ca and click on Did You Feel it.© Copyright 2006 Duncan News Leader and Pictorial
Olmert rejects EU criticism of Israel's Gaza raids
Mon 10 Jul 2006 3:36 AM ET
JERUSALEM, July 10 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday rejected European Union criticism of Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip, saying the EU should focus instead on Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel.When was the last time that the European Union condemned this shooting and suggested effective measures to stop it? Olmert said in remarks to the foreign press.At some point, Israel had no point but to take some measures in order to stop this thing.The European Union accused Israel on Friday of a disproportionate use of force against Palestinians in Gaza and of making a humanitarian crisis there worse.
Olmert said the Gaza operation Israel launched on June 28, three days after Palestinian militants abducted an Israeli soldier in a cross-border raid, would continue indefinitely.We haven't set a particular timetable for this operation. It will continue in places, in times, in different measures that will suit the purposes that were outlined, he said, repeating remarks he made on Sunday at the weekly meeting of his cabinet.Olmert reiterated he would not negotiate with the governing Hamas movement for the release of Corporal Gilad Shalit. Militants from the group, along with gunmen from two other factions, kidnapped the 19-year-old tank gunner.I
will not release prisoners for the trade of Corporal Gilad Shalit to Hamas,Olmert said.Palestinian factions have called on Israel to free more than a thousand Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the soldier.© Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.
Monday, July 10, 2006
INDIA TESTFIRES MISSLE
1-India tests long range MISSLE. 2-EU-SAARC DEAL. 3-Tokyo Quake.
INVENTION OF THE ATOMIC BOMB.
2 PETER 3:10-11
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
BUT HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION WILL LIVE.
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, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
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.
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
India Tests Long-Range Nuclear-Capable Missile
http://enews.voanews.com
Agni-3 can carry nuclear warhead, has range of 3,000 kilometers and will be able to hit targets deep inside China, Pakistan Indian army soldiers watch the display of an Agni-2 missile during the Army Day parade in New Delhi India has tested a sophisticated,long-range nuclear-capable missile that dramatically boosts the range of targets it could hit. Defense officials say the new Agni-3 missile was test-fired Sunday from an island in the eastern state of Orissa. The word Agni means fire in Hindi.
The missile, which can carry a nuclear warhead, has a range of three-thousand kilometers. Officials, who did not want to be named,said the test was successful. Uday Bhaskar, deputy head of the government-funded Institute of Defense Studies, says the Agni-3 will boost India's strategic capability.
The Agni test of today would serve to establish India's credibility,in terms of its missile systems, he said. So, to the extent that India is working toward a credible, minimum deterrent… I would interpret today's test as enhancing the credibility of India's delivery systems.India conducted nuclear tests in 1998, and has since carried out a series of missile tests to fine-tune its delivery systems for nuclear weapons.Its existing arsenal includes several short-range and medium-range missiles, capable of carrying both nuclear and conventional warheads.Many of the existing missiles can target Pakistani cities, while the Agni-3 will be able to hit targets deep inside China.
Since becoming independent in 1947, India has fought wars with Pakistan and China. But India's relations have warmed with Beijing in recent years, and tensions with Pakistan have abated, since they began a peace process two years ago.Defense analysts say the Angi-Three tests should not be seen as country-specific, but as part of India's overall defense capability.The Agni-3 missile test comes just days after North Korea sparked an international outcry by test-firing seven missiles.Bhaskar says he does not expect India's tests will provoke similar concern.It is important to see the characteristics we associate with countries, both in terms of the regional context and the global grid,so I would like to think that India's missile test would not be seen through the same filter as any other country,he noted.Analysts say New Delhi has established itself as what they call a responsible nuclear power that has no track record of proliferating nuclear technology.North Korea is considered a so-called rogue nation by the United States, and its nuclear and missile proliferation postures have been a source of concern for the wider international community.
DANIEL 7:23
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(or 7TH WORLD EMPIRE, EU) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(Trading blocks 10 I believe).
EU close to applying for observer status in SAARC New Delhi, July 9,
IRNA India-SAARC-EU Observer
The European Union (EU) will soon apply to the SAARC Secretariat for getting the observer status in the South Asian regional grouping. We are close to submitting our application for getting the observer status in SAARC, a UNI report said here quoting a senior EU official. He said the EU supported the SAARC process and was also monitoring developments with regard to the implementation of the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) Agreement in the region.
The official said there was immense scope for cooperation between SAARC and EU and steps would be initiated to deepen relations among member states of the two groupings once the EU was accorded the observer status. SAARC brings together the South Asian countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives. The grouping, in its 20 years of existence, has not made much progress because of the suspicion and bilateral disputes among member nations, especially India and Pakistan. At its last summit in Dhaka in November 2005, SAARC had decided to make Afghanistan the eighth member of the grouping. China and Japan have been accorded the observer status in the association and the United States and South Korea have also expressed their desire to be associated with it. The next SAARC Summit is scheduled to be held in New Delhi in January 2007.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Moderate quake jolts island chain south of Tokyo Sun Jul 9, 11:42 AM ET
TOKYO (AFP) - A moderate quake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale shook the Izu island chain south of Tokyo, the Meteorological Agency said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
The tremor occurred at 5:48 pm (0848 GMT) Sunday with its epicenter 150 kilometers (93 miles) south of Tokyo and 20 kilometers under the Pacific. No tsunami was expected, the agency said.Japan lies at the junction of four tectonic plates and has about 20 percent of the world's powerful earthquakes, frequently jolting Tokyo and other major cities.
INVENTION OF THE ATOMIC BOMB.
2 PETER 3:10-11
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
BUT HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION WILL LIVE.
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, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
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.
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
India Tests Long-Range Nuclear-Capable Missile
http://enews.voanews.com
Agni-3 can carry nuclear warhead, has range of 3,000 kilometers and will be able to hit targets deep inside China, Pakistan Indian army soldiers watch the display of an Agni-2 missile during the Army Day parade in New Delhi India has tested a sophisticated,long-range nuclear-capable missile that dramatically boosts the range of targets it could hit. Defense officials say the new Agni-3 missile was test-fired Sunday from an island in the eastern state of Orissa. The word Agni means fire in Hindi.
The missile, which can carry a nuclear warhead, has a range of three-thousand kilometers. Officials, who did not want to be named,said the test was successful. Uday Bhaskar, deputy head of the government-funded Institute of Defense Studies, says the Agni-3 will boost India's strategic capability.
The Agni test of today would serve to establish India's credibility,in terms of its missile systems, he said. So, to the extent that India is working toward a credible, minimum deterrent… I would interpret today's test as enhancing the credibility of India's delivery systems.India conducted nuclear tests in 1998, and has since carried out a series of missile tests to fine-tune its delivery systems for nuclear weapons.Its existing arsenal includes several short-range and medium-range missiles, capable of carrying both nuclear and conventional warheads.Many of the existing missiles can target Pakistani cities, while the Agni-3 will be able to hit targets deep inside China.
Since becoming independent in 1947, India has fought wars with Pakistan and China. But India's relations have warmed with Beijing in recent years, and tensions with Pakistan have abated, since they began a peace process two years ago.Defense analysts say the Angi-Three tests should not be seen as country-specific, but as part of India's overall defense capability.The Agni-3 missile test comes just days after North Korea sparked an international outcry by test-firing seven missiles.Bhaskar says he does not expect India's tests will provoke similar concern.It is important to see the characteristics we associate with countries, both in terms of the regional context and the global grid,so I would like to think that India's missile test would not be seen through the same filter as any other country,he noted.Analysts say New Delhi has established itself as what they call a responsible nuclear power that has no track record of proliferating nuclear technology.North Korea is considered a so-called rogue nation by the United States, and its nuclear and missile proliferation postures have been a source of concern for the wider international community.
DANIEL 7:23
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(or 7TH WORLD EMPIRE, EU) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(Trading blocks 10 I believe).
EU close to applying for observer status in SAARC New Delhi, July 9,
IRNA India-SAARC-EU Observer
The European Union (EU) will soon apply to the SAARC Secretariat for getting the observer status in the South Asian regional grouping. We are close to submitting our application for getting the observer status in SAARC, a UNI report said here quoting a senior EU official. He said the EU supported the SAARC process and was also monitoring developments with regard to the implementation of the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) Agreement in the region.
The official said there was immense scope for cooperation between SAARC and EU and steps would be initiated to deepen relations among member states of the two groupings once the EU was accorded the observer status. SAARC brings together the South Asian countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives. The grouping, in its 20 years of existence, has not made much progress because of the suspicion and bilateral disputes among member nations, especially India and Pakistan. At its last summit in Dhaka in November 2005, SAARC had decided to make Afghanistan the eighth member of the grouping. China and Japan have been accorded the observer status in the association and the United States and South Korea have also expressed their desire to be associated with it. The next SAARC Summit is scheduled to be held in New Delhi in January 2007.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Moderate quake jolts island chain south of Tokyo Sun Jul 9, 11:42 AM ET
TOKYO (AFP) - A moderate quake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale shook the Izu island chain south of Tokyo, the Meteorological Agency said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
The tremor occurred at 5:48 pm (0848 GMT) Sunday with its epicenter 150 kilometers (93 miles) south of Tokyo and 20 kilometers under the Pacific. No tsunami was expected, the agency said.Japan lies at the junction of four tectonic plates and has about 20 percent of the world's powerful earthquakes, frequently jolting Tokyo and other major cities.
IRAN AGAIN ISRAEL ELIMINATED
IRAN AGAIN WANTS ISRAEL DESTROYED, BIBLE PROPHECY FULFILLED IN THAT AS YOU CAN READ BELOW.
PSALMS 83:3-5
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city,(SYRIA) and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:6-7
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(PALESTIANS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines(ARABS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
EZEKIEL 38:1-2,5-7
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,(TUBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
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,(SUDAN,AFRICA) and all his bands: and many people with thee.(OTHER ARAB,MUSLIM COUNTRIES AS WELL)
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.
Israel Must Be Removed-Says Iran’s President
By Safa Haeri,Posted Saturday, July 8, 2006
Paris, 8 Jul. (IPS) In one of his yet strongest strident, Iran’s fundamentalist President Mahmoud Ahmadi Nezhad again repeated that Israel must be removed” from the region and called on all Arab and Muslim nations to help isolating the artificial product of Islam’s enemies.All the conditions for the removal of the Zionist regime are at hand, a usurper that our enemies made it and imposed it on the Muslim world, a regime that prevented the progress of the region’s nations, a regime that all Muslim must join hands in isolating it worldwide, Mr. Ahmadi Nezhad told the gathering of Iraq’s neighbours, employing for the first time the Arabic word (ezaleh) which means removing body hairs as well as women’s virginity.
it won’t take longtime before the wrath of the people turns into a terrible explosion that would wipe the Zionist entity off the map. Foreign ministers from Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Turkey plus the Persian Gulf Island nation of Bahrain and Egypt are meeting on the invitation of Iran to discuss Iraq’s alarming security problems, as a secret report from the American Defence says in the last month of June, there has been over 1.300 terrorist operations and explosions throughout the country.General Secretaries of the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Conference and a special representative of the United Nations General Secretary are also present.Using the podium to unleash his fury over Israel in particular and its Western producers in general, with the United States at their helm, Mr. Ahmadi Nezhad also warned all nations that support this artificial regime before it is too late, as, in his messianic view, it won’t take longtime before the wrath of the people in the region and the world turn into a terrible explosion that would wipe the Zionist entity off the map.
They should realize that their support for the illegitimate, usurper Zionist regime is a mistake. I tell them to dissociate themselves or face the terrible consequences, he added, referring indirectly to Turkey, Egypt and Jordan, three a Muslim and two Arab nations that have official diplomatic relations with Israel. While Ankara and Amman’s relations with Tehran are lukewarm, Cairo has no ties with
Iran. Notwithstanding, all the participants have strongly condemned Israel’s military operations “Spring Rain” against the Palestinians.To get the release of one of its soldiers captured by the Palestinians, Israel has unleashed its forces against Gaza, killing hundreds of Palestinians, arresting tens of people, including eight ministers of the Hamas-led Palestinian government, destroying houses,
official buildings, and factories.
The foreign ministers of Arab nations attending the conference also condemned Israel for its increasing aggression against the Palestinian people and attacked the silence of the international community.The Arab foreign ministers participating in today's Tehran meeting expressed their strong condemnation of this continuing and increasing aggression against the Palestinian people, Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa said in a statement on behalf of officials from Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Syria.On Friday, Iran organized mass rallies in support of the Palestinians, condemning Israel’s crimes.According to the former Revolutionary Guards officer who fought against Iraq immediately after the former Iraq dictator attacked Iran in 1980, it is a vital necessity for all neighbours, Arabs and Muslims to help and support the present Iraqi government overcoming the immense problems it faces, as Iraq’s problems are rooted in the presence of enemies that are trying to divide the Iraqi people and pit them against each other.
However, all the participants welcomed the Iraqi Premier’s plan for national reconciliation and pledged support. “This is a good decision and will no doubt help bring stability to the country, stated Prince Saud Al Faysal, Saudi Arabia’s Minister.Calling on all friends and neighbours to help Iraqi Government’s efforts to fight terrorism and back the national reconciliation, Mr. Hoshyar Zibari, the Iraqi Foreign Affairs Minister, who, like the country’s president is a Kurd, hoped that all foreign troops would leave Iraq as soon as the army, police and security system are reconstructed and operative.Contrary to Iranian delegates, other speakers refrained from attacking American-British military presence, hoping instead for the quick restoration of peace and security in the terrorist-riddled nation engulfed in religious infighting.
The proposal for a national reconciliation calls on all political parties, major ethnic and all the country’s religious forces to come together, join hands fighting terrorists and restoring peace and security, Mr. Zibari said, stressing the importance of tightly controlled borders and preserving Iraq’s territorial integrity.
Iraq’s situation is very delicate and sensitive, everyone, specially neighbours must help Iraq's Government.Iraq’s situation is very delicate and sensitive. As neighbours, we all have a historic responsibility and duty to help the country to overcome its problems peacefully, the Saudi Minister stressed.It is necessary to stop the crossing of terrorist groups into Iraq who aim at creating insecurity, hatred and differences, and pave the way for the presence of foreign forces in Iraq, Ahmadinejad told the foreign ministers in Tehran.He did not say from where or how the groups were entering Iraq.Washington accuses Tehran of backing anti-U.S.
insurgents in Iraq, a charge Tehran denies saying the U.S. occupation is to blame for the instability.
Stability, security and progress of Iraq strengthens stability, security and progress in the whole Islamic world, Ahmadinejad said. We are all committed to try to restore stability, security and progress in Iraq, he told the gathering.Syria, which sent its foreign minister to Tehran, has also been accused by Washington of not doing enough to stop militants crossing into Iraq. Damascus insists it is doing its best.The last meeting of Iraq’s neighbours was held in Istanbul, Turkey, a year ago. ENDS IRAQ NEIGHBOURS 8706
PSALMS 83:3-5
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city,(SYRIA) and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:6-7
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(PALESTIANS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines(ARABS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
EZEKIEL 38:1-2,5-7
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,(TUBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
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,(SUDAN,AFRICA) and all his bands: and many people with thee.(OTHER ARAB,MUSLIM COUNTRIES AS WELL)
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.
Israel Must Be Removed-Says Iran’s President
By Safa Haeri,Posted Saturday, July 8, 2006
Paris, 8 Jul. (IPS) In one of his yet strongest strident, Iran’s fundamentalist President Mahmoud Ahmadi Nezhad again repeated that Israel must be removed” from the region and called on all Arab and Muslim nations to help isolating the artificial product of Islam’s enemies.All the conditions for the removal of the Zionist regime are at hand, a usurper that our enemies made it and imposed it on the Muslim world, a regime that prevented the progress of the region’s nations, a regime that all Muslim must join hands in isolating it worldwide, Mr. Ahmadi Nezhad told the gathering of Iraq’s neighbours, employing for the first time the Arabic word (ezaleh) which means removing body hairs as well as women’s virginity.
it won’t take longtime before the wrath of the people turns into a terrible explosion that would wipe the Zionist entity off the map. Foreign ministers from Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Turkey plus the Persian Gulf Island nation of Bahrain and Egypt are meeting on the invitation of Iran to discuss Iraq’s alarming security problems, as a secret report from the American Defence says in the last month of June, there has been over 1.300 terrorist operations and explosions throughout the country.General Secretaries of the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Conference and a special representative of the United Nations General Secretary are also present.Using the podium to unleash his fury over Israel in particular and its Western producers in general, with the United States at their helm, Mr. Ahmadi Nezhad also warned all nations that support this artificial regime before it is too late, as, in his messianic view, it won’t take longtime before the wrath of the people in the region and the world turn into a terrible explosion that would wipe the Zionist entity off the map.
They should realize that their support for the illegitimate, usurper Zionist regime is a mistake. I tell them to dissociate themselves or face the terrible consequences, he added, referring indirectly to Turkey, Egypt and Jordan, three a Muslim and two Arab nations that have official diplomatic relations with Israel. While Ankara and Amman’s relations with Tehran are lukewarm, Cairo has no ties with
Iran. Notwithstanding, all the participants have strongly condemned Israel’s military operations “Spring Rain” against the Palestinians.To get the release of one of its soldiers captured by the Palestinians, Israel has unleashed its forces against Gaza, killing hundreds of Palestinians, arresting tens of people, including eight ministers of the Hamas-led Palestinian government, destroying houses,
official buildings, and factories.
The foreign ministers of Arab nations attending the conference also condemned Israel for its increasing aggression against the Palestinian people and attacked the silence of the international community.The Arab foreign ministers participating in today's Tehran meeting expressed their strong condemnation of this continuing and increasing aggression against the Palestinian people, Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa said in a statement on behalf of officials from Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Syria.On Friday, Iran organized mass rallies in support of the Palestinians, condemning Israel’s crimes.According to the former Revolutionary Guards officer who fought against Iraq immediately after the former Iraq dictator attacked Iran in 1980, it is a vital necessity for all neighbours, Arabs and Muslims to help and support the present Iraqi government overcoming the immense problems it faces, as Iraq’s problems are rooted in the presence of enemies that are trying to divide the Iraqi people and pit them against each other.
However, all the participants welcomed the Iraqi Premier’s plan for national reconciliation and pledged support. “This is a good decision and will no doubt help bring stability to the country, stated Prince Saud Al Faysal, Saudi Arabia’s Minister.Calling on all friends and neighbours to help Iraqi Government’s efforts to fight terrorism and back the national reconciliation, Mr. Hoshyar Zibari, the Iraqi Foreign Affairs Minister, who, like the country’s president is a Kurd, hoped that all foreign troops would leave Iraq as soon as the army, police and security system are reconstructed and operative.Contrary to Iranian delegates, other speakers refrained from attacking American-British military presence, hoping instead for the quick restoration of peace and security in the terrorist-riddled nation engulfed in religious infighting.
The proposal for a national reconciliation calls on all political parties, major ethnic and all the country’s religious forces to come together, join hands fighting terrorists and restoring peace and security, Mr. Zibari said, stressing the importance of tightly controlled borders and preserving Iraq’s territorial integrity.
Iraq’s situation is very delicate and sensitive, everyone, specially neighbours must help Iraq's Government.Iraq’s situation is very delicate and sensitive. As neighbours, we all have a historic responsibility and duty to help the country to overcome its problems peacefully, the Saudi Minister stressed.It is necessary to stop the crossing of terrorist groups into Iraq who aim at creating insecurity, hatred and differences, and pave the way for the presence of foreign forces in Iraq, Ahmadinejad told the foreign ministers in Tehran.He did not say from where or how the groups were entering Iraq.Washington accuses Tehran of backing anti-U.S.
insurgents in Iraq, a charge Tehran denies saying the U.S. occupation is to blame for the instability.
Stability, security and progress of Iraq strengthens stability, security and progress in the whole Islamic world, Ahmadinejad said. We are all committed to try to restore stability, security and progress in Iraq, he told the gathering.Syria, which sent its foreign minister to Tehran, has also been accused by Washington of not doing enough to stop militants crossing into Iraq. Damascus insists it is doing its best.The last meeting of Iraq’s neighbours was held in Istanbul, Turkey, a year ago. ENDS IRAQ NEIGHBOURS 8706
Sunday, July 09, 2006
SIGNS OF THE SECOND COMING
1-Droughts in parts of USA. 2-Annan-Security council take stance on Gaza. 3-SIGNS of the second coming.
REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
Drought Conditions Worsen in Parts of U.S. LiveScience Staff
LiveScience.com ,21 minutes ago
Expansion of drought conditions across the upper Midwest caused NOAA's Climate Prediction Center to issue an unscheduled update Friday to its U.S. Seasonal Drought Outlook.Drought conditions that have worsened recently, affecting parts of the northern Plains and the Upper Mississippi Valley, should continue and may expand across eastern Montana, Minnesota, the Dakotas and parts of Iowa, forecasters said in a statement.Drought is expected to persist over much of the central and southern Plains and in parts of the Southwest.
Meanwhile, recent heavy rains due to the onset of the U.S. monsoon season should ease drought conditions and reduce wildfires in Colorado and parts of the Southwest, although long-term drought is likely to continue.Higher-than-normal temperatures, which have exacerbated drought conditions in part of the West and contributed to a busy wildfire season, are expected to persist this summer, NOAA officials said last month.
Annan: Security Council take stance on Gaza
BERLIN, July 8 (UPI) -- Facing continuing violence in the Gaza Strip, the U.N. Secretary-General called on the Security Council to adopt a clear position on the issue. In a statement issued Friday, Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who is in Berlin, also called on Israelis and Palestinians to cease provocations against one another. As the situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate, I appeal again to both sides to pull back from the brink for the sake of all civilians in the region, Annan said.
The secretary-general urged Israel to halt its disproportionate use of force and Palestinians to release the kidnapped Israeli soldier and to stop the firing of
rockets into Israeli-controlled territories. Meanwhile, with 70 percent of Gazans, or 900,000 people, relying on food aid, the main U.N. humanitarian agency for Palestinian refugees called on donors to fund its emergency appeal, which it has almost doubled to over $170 million. For someone not living in the Gaza Strip, daily life today is hard to imagine, the U.N. Relief and Work Agency said in its latest update on the situation in Gaza, released Friday.The agency increased its 2006 emergency appeal earlier this year after Israel stopped the transfer of Palestinian value added taxes and other countries suspended contributions to the Palestinian Authority following the Hamas election victory in January.
Israel and international donors are insisting that Hamas must commit itself to principles of non-violence, recognize Israel's right to exist, and accept previous agreements and obligations, including the U.N.-backed road map plan providing for two states living side by side in peace. Overall, U.N. agencies, including UNRWA, have raised the 2006 Consolidated Appeal for the occupied Palestinian territories by 80 percent, from the originally budgeted $215 million to $385 million.
SIGNS OF THE SECOND COMING CAN BE READ IN MATTEW 24,MARK 13, LUKE 17,21,DANIEL CHAPTERS 2,7,8,11,12,REVELATION CHAPTERS 6 TO 19, THESE ARE THE MAIN ONES.AND THERE ARE LOTS MORE.GO TO LINKS AND LOOK UNDER LAST DAYS SIGNS TO READ THEM ALL.
Signs of the Second Coming
By Glendora Goodwin, Times-Mail Religion Editor
Friday, July 7, 2006 10:59 AM CDT
Tuesday's launching of the Discovery spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., was exhilarating, exciting and perfectly timed.Liftoffs stimulate our emotions as we remember previous victories and failures. I greatly admire the seven astronauts who have embarked on a trip of their lives, and pray for their safe return.This incident sparked my recall of passages concerning the Second Coming and a conversation between the angel and Daniel.The angel told Daniel:“Keep this prophecy a secret; seal it up so that it will not be understood until the end times, when travel and education shall be vastly increased.Daniel 12:4
Well, we definitely live in a time when travel and education have greatly increased and the use of computers is the norm.As I pondered this thought, I recalled another conversation, which occurred between Jesus and his disciples.As they discussed the end times, they asked When will this be?
Jesus replied: There will be strange events in the skies - warnings, evil omens and portents in the sun, moon and stars; and down here on earth the nations will be in turmoil, perplexed by the roaring seas and strange tides. The courage of many people will falter because of the fearful fate they see coming upon the earth, for the stability of the very heavens will be broken up.” - Luke 21:25-26 TLB
Some of the other signs Jesus cited were:
In fact, unless those days are shortened, all mankind will perish. but they will be shortened for the sake of God's chosen people. Matthew 24:22 TLB.Sin will be rampant everywhere and will cool the love of many. But those enduring to the end shall be saved.Matthew 24:12-13 TLB.The world will be at ease - banquets and parties and weddings - just as it was in Noah's time before the sudden coming of the flood; people wouldn't believe what was going to happen until the flood actually arrived and took them all away.
So shall my coming be.” - Matthew 24:37-39 TLB
Jesus cautioned: “Don't let anyone mislead you. For many will come announcing themselves as the Messiah, and saying, The time has come.But don't believe them! and when you hear of wars and insurrections beginning, don't panic. True, wars must come, but the end won't follow immediately - for nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be great earthquakes and famines in many lands, and epidemics, and terrifying things happening in the heavens.-Luke 21:8-10 TLB
Referring to the Second Coming, Paul said:
In the last days it is going to be very difficult to be a Christian. For people will love only themselves and their money; they will be proud and boastful, sneering at God, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful to them, and thoroughly bad. They will be hard-headed and never give in to others; they will be constant liars and troublemakers and will think nothing of immorality. They will be rough and cruel, and sneer at those who try to be good. They will betray their friends; they will be hotheaded, puffed up with pride, and prefer good times to worshipping God. They will go to church, but they won't really believe anything they hear.- II Timothy 3:1-5 TLB
To the Thessalonians, Paul wrote: But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.- I Thessalonians 5:1-3
Paul concluded: We who are still living when the Lord returns will not rise to meet him ahead of those who are in their graves. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a mighty shout and with the soul-stirring cry of the archangel and the great trumpet call of God. And the believers who are dead will be the first to rise to meet the Lord.Then we who are still alive and remain on the earth will be caught up with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and remain with him forever.
So comfort and encourage each other with this news - I Thessalonians 4:15-18 TLB
Times-Mail Religion Editor Glendora Goodwin welcomes comments at 277-7256 or by e-mail at glendora@tmnews.com.
REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
Drought Conditions Worsen in Parts of U.S. LiveScience Staff
LiveScience.com ,21 minutes ago
Expansion of drought conditions across the upper Midwest caused NOAA's Climate Prediction Center to issue an unscheduled update Friday to its U.S. Seasonal Drought Outlook.Drought conditions that have worsened recently, affecting parts of the northern Plains and the Upper Mississippi Valley, should continue and may expand across eastern Montana, Minnesota, the Dakotas and parts of Iowa, forecasters said in a statement.Drought is expected to persist over much of the central and southern Plains and in parts of the Southwest.
Meanwhile, recent heavy rains due to the onset of the U.S. monsoon season should ease drought conditions and reduce wildfires in Colorado and parts of the Southwest, although long-term drought is likely to continue.Higher-than-normal temperatures, which have exacerbated drought conditions in part of the West and contributed to a busy wildfire season, are expected to persist this summer, NOAA officials said last month.
Annan: Security Council take stance on Gaza
BERLIN, July 8 (UPI) -- Facing continuing violence in the Gaza Strip, the U.N. Secretary-General called on the Security Council to adopt a clear position on the issue. In a statement issued Friday, Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who is in Berlin, also called on Israelis and Palestinians to cease provocations against one another. As the situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate, I appeal again to both sides to pull back from the brink for the sake of all civilians in the region, Annan said.
The secretary-general urged Israel to halt its disproportionate use of force and Palestinians to release the kidnapped Israeli soldier and to stop the firing of
rockets into Israeli-controlled territories. Meanwhile, with 70 percent of Gazans, or 900,000 people, relying on food aid, the main U.N. humanitarian agency for Palestinian refugees called on donors to fund its emergency appeal, which it has almost doubled to over $170 million. For someone not living in the Gaza Strip, daily life today is hard to imagine, the U.N. Relief and Work Agency said in its latest update on the situation in Gaza, released Friday.The agency increased its 2006 emergency appeal earlier this year after Israel stopped the transfer of Palestinian value added taxes and other countries suspended contributions to the Palestinian Authority following the Hamas election victory in January.
Israel and international donors are insisting that Hamas must commit itself to principles of non-violence, recognize Israel's right to exist, and accept previous agreements and obligations, including the U.N.-backed road map plan providing for two states living side by side in peace. Overall, U.N. agencies, including UNRWA, have raised the 2006 Consolidated Appeal for the occupied Palestinian territories by 80 percent, from the originally budgeted $215 million to $385 million.
SIGNS OF THE SECOND COMING CAN BE READ IN MATTEW 24,MARK 13, LUKE 17,21,DANIEL CHAPTERS 2,7,8,11,12,REVELATION CHAPTERS 6 TO 19, THESE ARE THE MAIN ONES.AND THERE ARE LOTS MORE.GO TO LINKS AND LOOK UNDER LAST DAYS SIGNS TO READ THEM ALL.
Signs of the Second Coming
By Glendora Goodwin, Times-Mail Religion Editor
Friday, July 7, 2006 10:59 AM CDT
Tuesday's launching of the Discovery spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., was exhilarating, exciting and perfectly timed.Liftoffs stimulate our emotions as we remember previous victories and failures. I greatly admire the seven astronauts who have embarked on a trip of their lives, and pray for their safe return.This incident sparked my recall of passages concerning the Second Coming and a conversation between the angel and Daniel.The angel told Daniel:“Keep this prophecy a secret; seal it up so that it will not be understood until the end times, when travel and education shall be vastly increased.Daniel 12:4
Well, we definitely live in a time when travel and education have greatly increased and the use of computers is the norm.As I pondered this thought, I recalled another conversation, which occurred between Jesus and his disciples.As they discussed the end times, they asked When will this be?
Jesus replied: There will be strange events in the skies - warnings, evil omens and portents in the sun, moon and stars; and down here on earth the nations will be in turmoil, perplexed by the roaring seas and strange tides. The courage of many people will falter because of the fearful fate they see coming upon the earth, for the stability of the very heavens will be broken up.” - Luke 21:25-26 TLB
Some of the other signs Jesus cited were:
In fact, unless those days are shortened, all mankind will perish. but they will be shortened for the sake of God's chosen people. Matthew 24:22 TLB.Sin will be rampant everywhere and will cool the love of many. But those enduring to the end shall be saved.Matthew 24:12-13 TLB.The world will be at ease - banquets and parties and weddings - just as it was in Noah's time before the sudden coming of the flood; people wouldn't believe what was going to happen until the flood actually arrived and took them all away.
So shall my coming be.” - Matthew 24:37-39 TLB
Jesus cautioned: “Don't let anyone mislead you. For many will come announcing themselves as the Messiah, and saying, The time has come.But don't believe them! and when you hear of wars and insurrections beginning, don't panic. True, wars must come, but the end won't follow immediately - for nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be great earthquakes and famines in many lands, and epidemics, and terrifying things happening in the heavens.-Luke 21:8-10 TLB
Referring to the Second Coming, Paul said:
In the last days it is going to be very difficult to be a Christian. For people will love only themselves and their money; they will be proud and boastful, sneering at God, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful to them, and thoroughly bad. They will be hard-headed and never give in to others; they will be constant liars and troublemakers and will think nothing of immorality. They will be rough and cruel, and sneer at those who try to be good. They will betray their friends; they will be hotheaded, puffed up with pride, and prefer good times to worshipping God. They will go to church, but they won't really believe anything they hear.- II Timothy 3:1-5 TLB
To the Thessalonians, Paul wrote: But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.- I Thessalonians 5:1-3
Paul concluded: We who are still living when the Lord returns will not rise to meet him ahead of those who are in their graves. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a mighty shout and with the soul-stirring cry of the archangel and the great trumpet call of God. And the believers who are dead will be the first to rise to meet the Lord.Then we who are still alive and remain on the earth will be caught up with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and remain with him forever.
So comfort and encourage each other with this news - I Thessalonians 4:15-18 TLB
Times-Mail Religion Editor Glendora Goodwin welcomes comments at 277-7256 or by e-mail at glendora@tmnews.com.
Saturday, July 08, 2006
TAIWAN TO TESTFIRE MISSLE
1-2 Quakes in Aeolian Islands.2-HAMAS declares War.3-Stormy weather kills 30 in China. 4-Taiwan to testfire missle.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
TWO EARTHQUAKES REGISTERED AT AEOLIAN ISLANDS, NO DAMAGE
(AGI) - Lipari, July 7 - Two earthquakes in the waters of the Aeolian Islands were registered by the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology. The phenomena took place at 10:33pm yesterday and at 9:32am today, and they were not felt by the population.
The first event had a magnitude of 3.1 on the Richter scale with epicentre off the coast of the Alicudi Island and at a depth of three kilometres. The second tremor occurred off the coast of the Stromboli Island, with a magnitude of 3.4. According to an announcement by Rome's civil protection, there were no damages.
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PSALMS 83:3-5
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
Hamas Authority declares war Orders security forces to repel IDF incursion,Ryan Jones,July 07, 2006
Israeli officials were hesitant to admit it, but the Hamas rulers of the Palestinian Authority openly declared war on Israel Thursday when they ordered their own security forces to engage IDF soldiers operating against terrorist groups in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip.PA Interior Minister Sayid Siam announced a high state of alert among forces in Gaza, and called on his troops to prepare to repel the Israeli attack in Gaza, reported Ynet.Palestinian interior and national security spokesman Abu Hilal followed up by confirming PA security forces had been given clear orders to open fire on Israeli soldiers.
The statements marked the first time senior PA officials had openly ordered their forces, who were armed by Israel and the West under the Oslo peace agreements, to turn their weapons on Israel.Moderate PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas reportedly refused to respond to the orders issued by the Hamas regime.Israeli cabinet minister Eitan Cabel told Ynet the Olmert government was taking the threat seriously, and was confident the IDF will be prepared and capable of defending itself.There's no doubt that this declaration is an escalation of the situation. IDF forces will respond correctly to anyone who opens fire at them.
Another senior diplomatic source said no one should be surprised by this latest development.The Palestinian government is a terrorist government and we do not expect a terrorist government to act differently. For the sake of logic, it's worth saying that Hamas as remained Hamas, a murderous terrorist organization. This does not surprise us.Likud Knesset Member and former foreign minister Silvan Shalom said Siam "must be marked for targeted assassination as a first class terrorist.
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Stormy weather kills at least 30 in China By ELAINE KURTENBACH, Associated Press Writer Thu Jul 6, 3:36 PM ET
SHANGHAI, China - Torrential rains and a tornado killed at least 30 people as storms battered eastern China this week, with millions more affected by flooding and other storm damage, state media and officials said Thursday. Twenty-seven people were
reported dead in Jiangsu province west of Shanghai, and about 40,000 were evacuated, said Li Qiubao, an official of the Jiangsu Civil Affairs Bureau. Newspapers showed residents using makeshift rafts to ferry through flooded streets.A tornado also smashed through the town of Dafeng in Jiangsu, killing three people, the official newspaper China Daily reported.
In neighboring Anhui province, another three people were killed, the China Daily cited Wang Haili, a local Civil Affairs Ministry official, as saying. It gave no details on the deaths.Wang said at least 44,400 people were displaced along the flood-prone Huai River.In total, more than 13 million people were affected by the storms, the reports said.At least 349 people died in China last month due to
flooding, landslides and other weather-related disaster, the government said. The official Xinhua News Agency said that another 99 people were still missing, while damage was estimated at $2.5 billion.China suffers hundreds of rain deaths every summer.
The impact of flooding has been worsened by heavy farming and tree-cutting that has left cleared hillsides unable to trap rain. Major cities are shielded by flood dikes but small towns, especially in mountainous areas, are vulnerable to deadly flash floods.China is expected to suffer from more typhoons than usual this year due to an unusually warm current off its Pacific and high temperatures over the Tibetan plateau.
INVENTION OF THE ATOMIC BOMB.
2 PETER 3:10-11
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
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, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
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.
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Taiwan to test-fire missile: report
Jul 6, 5:08 AM (ET)
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan plans to test-fire a missile capable of hitting China, alarming the island's main ally, the United States, a cable news network said on Thursday.The Hsiung Feng III, developed by Taiwan's Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology, has a range of 600 km (360 miles) and is accurate to within half a meter, the online edition of cable news network ETTV
(http://www.ettoday.com) said, quoting unnamed military sources.
That range would put areas along China's coast from Fuzhou in Fujian Province to Nan'ao in Guangdong within striking distance of the missile, the Web site said.A defense ministry spokesman declined to comment on the report when reached by telephone. A spokeswoman for China's Foreign Ministry also declined to comment.China, which has claimed sovereignty over Taiwan since their split in 1949 at the end of the Chinese civil war, has deployed nearly 800 short-range ballistic missiles aimed at the self-ruled island in case it formally declares independence. Taiwan successfully test-fired the missile last year, local media have reported, and the Web site said the next test was planned for September.
The United States, which recognizes Beijing's one China policy but is Taiwan's major supplier of arms, had expressed its concern to the Taiwan government, the Web site said.North Korea acknowledged for the first time on Thursday that it had launched several missiles, vowed to carry out more tests and threatened to use force if the international community tried to stop it.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
TWO EARTHQUAKES REGISTERED AT AEOLIAN ISLANDS, NO DAMAGE
(AGI) - Lipari, July 7 - Two earthquakes in the waters of the Aeolian Islands were registered by the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology. The phenomena took place at 10:33pm yesterday and at 9:32am today, and they were not felt by the population.
The first event had a magnitude of 3.1 on the Richter scale with epicentre off the coast of the Alicudi Island and at a depth of three kilometres. The second tremor occurred off the coast of the Stromboli Island, with a magnitude of 3.4. According to an announcement by Rome's civil protection, there were no damages.
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PSALMS 83:3-5
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
Hamas Authority declares war Orders security forces to repel IDF incursion,Ryan Jones,July 07, 2006
Israeli officials were hesitant to admit it, but the Hamas rulers of the Palestinian Authority openly declared war on Israel Thursday when they ordered their own security forces to engage IDF soldiers operating against terrorist groups in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip.PA Interior Minister Sayid Siam announced a high state of alert among forces in Gaza, and called on his troops to prepare to repel the Israeli attack in Gaza, reported Ynet.Palestinian interior and national security spokesman Abu Hilal followed up by confirming PA security forces had been given clear orders to open fire on Israeli soldiers.
The statements marked the first time senior PA officials had openly ordered their forces, who were armed by Israel and the West under the Oslo peace agreements, to turn their weapons on Israel.Moderate PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas reportedly refused to respond to the orders issued by the Hamas regime.Israeli cabinet minister Eitan Cabel told Ynet the Olmert government was taking the threat seriously, and was confident the IDF will be prepared and capable of defending itself.There's no doubt that this declaration is an escalation of the situation. IDF forces will respond correctly to anyone who opens fire at them.
Another senior diplomatic source said no one should be surprised by this latest development.The Palestinian government is a terrorist government and we do not expect a terrorist government to act differently. For the sake of logic, it's worth saying that Hamas as remained Hamas, a murderous terrorist organization. This does not surprise us.Likud Knesset Member and former foreign minister Silvan Shalom said Siam "must be marked for targeted assassination as a first class terrorist.
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Stormy weather kills at least 30 in China By ELAINE KURTENBACH, Associated Press Writer Thu Jul 6, 3:36 PM ET
SHANGHAI, China - Torrential rains and a tornado killed at least 30 people as storms battered eastern China this week, with millions more affected by flooding and other storm damage, state media and officials said Thursday. Twenty-seven people were
reported dead in Jiangsu province west of Shanghai, and about 40,000 were evacuated, said Li Qiubao, an official of the Jiangsu Civil Affairs Bureau. Newspapers showed residents using makeshift rafts to ferry through flooded streets.A tornado also smashed through the town of Dafeng in Jiangsu, killing three people, the official newspaper China Daily reported.
In neighboring Anhui province, another three people were killed, the China Daily cited Wang Haili, a local Civil Affairs Ministry official, as saying. It gave no details on the deaths.Wang said at least 44,400 people were displaced along the flood-prone Huai River.In total, more than 13 million people were affected by the storms, the reports said.At least 349 people died in China last month due to
flooding, landslides and other weather-related disaster, the government said. The official Xinhua News Agency said that another 99 people were still missing, while damage was estimated at $2.5 billion.China suffers hundreds of rain deaths every summer.
The impact of flooding has been worsened by heavy farming and tree-cutting that has left cleared hillsides unable to trap rain. Major cities are shielded by flood dikes but small towns, especially in mountainous areas, are vulnerable to deadly flash floods.China is expected to suffer from more typhoons than usual this year due to an unusually warm current off its Pacific and high temperatures over the Tibetan plateau.
INVENTION OF THE ATOMIC BOMB.
2 PETER 3:10-11
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
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, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
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.
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Taiwan to test-fire missile: report
Jul 6, 5:08 AM (ET)
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan plans to test-fire a missile capable of hitting China, alarming the island's main ally, the United States, a cable news network said on Thursday.The Hsiung Feng III, developed by Taiwan's Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology, has a range of 600 km (360 miles) and is accurate to within half a meter, the online edition of cable news network ETTV
(http://www.ettoday.com) said, quoting unnamed military sources.
That range would put areas along China's coast from Fuzhou in Fujian Province to Nan'ao in Guangdong within striking distance of the missile, the Web site said.A defense ministry spokesman declined to comment on the report when reached by telephone. A spokeswoman for China's Foreign Ministry also declined to comment.China, which has claimed sovereignty over Taiwan since their split in 1949 at the end of the Chinese civil war, has deployed nearly 800 short-range ballistic missiles aimed at the self-ruled island in case it formally declares independence. Taiwan successfully test-fired the missile last year, local media have reported, and the Web site said the next test was planned for September.
The United States, which recognizes Beijing's one China policy but is Taiwan's major supplier of arms, had expressed its concern to the Taiwan government, the Web site said.North Korea acknowledged for the first time on Thursday that it had launched several missiles, vowed to carry out more tests and threatened to use force if the international community tried to stop it.
Friday, July 07, 2006
SUMMER RAIN THE REAL TRUTH
1-The world media and UN are hypocrites.2-Eu tones down Criticism. 3-Summer Rain, the real truth
The World better watch out World War 3 will be a curse and not a blessing, so the Media and the World better start respecting Israel, before the nukes start flying. REPENT WORLD.
GENESIS 28:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:(ISRAEL TODAY,AND THE LAND AROUND IT IS ALL ISRAELS INHERITANCE IN THE FUTURE)
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
UN hypocrites at it again
United Nations officials in the Gaza Strip are complaining that Arab children living there are wetting their beds due to the tense and frightening situation created by Israel’s current military operations.As if Israel’s decisions and actions are taken in a vacuum, in the total absence of influence by outside factors. There is a very simple solution to this problem: Tell the Palestinians to stop firing rockets at Israeli towns.
As soon as that happens, it is a certainty that Israel will stop striking targets in Gaza. Of course, the Palestinians don’t want everyone to know that about Israel, so they will continue firing rockets, assured that the UN and other “human rights groups will play right into their hands by ignoring the Arab provocation and condemning the Israeli response.By the way, when was the last time Damien Personnaz and his UNICEF teams visited and assisted the traumatized children of Sderot?
The EU has to start sticking up for Israel if like the Bible says they (EU) will Guarantee Israels security for land in the future.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(THE ROMANS) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he(FUTURE EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(7 YRS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
EU tones down criticism of Israel By SLOBODAN LEKIC, Associated Press Writer
Thu Jul 6, 6:13 AM ET
BRUSSELS, Belgium - The shift is subtle but unmistakable. European governments — long accused of being pro-Arab — have toned down criticism of Israel, left in shock by the rise to power of Islamic Hamas which they consider a terrorist outfit. The rise of Hamas and the subsequent deterioration of peace prospects have left the European Union in a quandary. The election of the Hamas government has pulled the rug from under its $626.5-million-a-year aid package that feeds, clothes and educates many Palestinians and distanced the EU from them.After the Hamas government was sworn in, the EU strongly condemned it on April 10 for refusing to recognize Israel in a one-page statement whose brevity contrasted with the bloc's usually long Mideast declarations that take pains to show balance.
The EU's tilt toward the Jewish state was highlighted after Israel's attacks last week on infrastructure targets in the Gaza Strip. Normally such strikes elicit stinging rebukes, but this time they brought only limp appeals to both sides to resolve the crisis through diplomacy.
The EU formally denies any policy shift.
Yet analysts see a more nuanced approach to the Mideast conflict caused mainly by the unexpected Hamas victory in January. They also believe the Europeans are seeking to move closer to the U.S. position to maintain some say in the region, and that
means not being automatically critical of Israel's actions.Last week, after Israeli tanks and troops mounted their offensive in a bid to free a soldier captured by Palestinian militants, EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner simply urged the two sides to consider their responsibilities extremelycarefully.
She demanded the militants release the soldier but stayed silent on the destruction of bridges and the Gaza Strip's only power plant, as well as the unprecedented arrest of 64 top Hamas officials, including eight Cabinet members and 26 lawmakers.The United States, Russia and other countries also have appealed to the militants to release the soldier.In the past, the EU has demanded that Israel repay the EU for damage caused to infrastructure that is often financed with European
money, but there was no mention of that this time.
The European Union's lukewarm reaction is shocking when even infrastructure built through the EU's own investments is being destroyed, said Marwan Bishara, a lecturer in international affairs in France. It is also contrary to the very foundations of the EU in terms of the civil and humanitarian principles.Bishara attributed the EU's attitude to Hamas' victory and a growing conviction in European capitals that the trans-Atlantic rift over the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 can only be bridged by coordinating Mideast policy more closely with Washington.Europe is now following the U.S. policy of being passive toward Israeli actions,said Bishara.
Others echoed his comments.
The election of Hamas has obviously changed the dynamics of the problem and ended the almost automatic solidarity with the Palestinians, said Mark Leonard, a foreign policy analyst at London's Centre for European Reform.Declining support for the Palestinian cause in Europe was another factor, said Dominique Moisi of the French Institute for International Relations.
They have disappointed Europeans by their divisions, their lack of organization, the spectacle of violence in Gaza between various Palestinian factions, he said. By refusing to recognize Israel's right to exist, Hamas has weakened the Palestinians' position considerably.
This has meshed with Israel's efforts to persuade the international community that Hamas is too radical to negotiate with and should be isolated despite the fact that it came to power in a legitimate fashion. Moisi also sees Europe trying to mend fences with Washington and agreeing with Washington on stifling Iran's nuclear ambitions. We don't want to jeopardize this agreement by being divided over the Palestinians,said Moisi. Yossi Alpher, an adviser to Israel's former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, noted that a few years ago the Europeans would have criticized Israel much more explicitly for an attack like the one in Gaza. What has changed is the advent of a radical Palestinian Islamist terrorist movement and government (and) a greater sense of realism in the EU on what can and what can't be done in the Middle East. Alpher warned this may change quickly if Israel's heavy-handed actions result in civilian casualties or a humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
The EU is not alone in toning down its criticisms of Israel.
Most non-Muslim members of the 105-member Nonaligned Movement — loyal supporters of the Arabs in their wars with Israel in past decades — have gone softer on the Jewish state. Also, Russia — long a key source of support for Arab countries — has
cultivated economic, political and other ties with Israel, as has China. Individual European countries have been more critical of Israel, although they, too, have shied away from publicly denouncing the latest offensive.
It was only neutral Switzerland not an EU member — that issued a strongly worded condemnation of the Gaza action, including the destruction of the local power plant and arrest of dozens of Hamas officials. A number of actions by the Israeli defense forces in their offensive against the Gaza Strip have violated the principle of proportionality and are to be seen as forms of collective punishment, which is forbidden, the Swiss Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The Purposes of Operation “Summer Rain,”
By Prof Eugene Narrett.JULY 6,2006
The Israeli army has been inching its way into the Gaza Strip for about eight days, ostensibly in response to the kidnapping of Corporal Gilad Shalit. Kidnapping is a misnomer and the tip-toe incursion is not mainly about rescuing him, as will be explained below. But the name of the Operation, “Summer Rains” is pure pr genius: soft, gentle, it sounds like a fabric softener which is basically its relation to the harsh reality of the war waged by global jihad. It’s named to please western spinners and consumers of news by conjuring up images of a moisturizing soap or other emollient.
Alas, the clever, only-too-apt name will not save Corporal Shalit, Sderot, Ashkelon or neighboring towns; it will not bring justice to Eliahu Asheri or the thousands of others like him. Rather, it will teach the jihadists even more contempt for Israel and Israelis thus resulting in more frequent and more horrible attacks. And then………
Summer Rains is meant to be an open-ended series of graduated phases because it is not meant to end or succeed in its ostensible mission.
No; it is yet another part of the endless war of attrition which the American-Israeli diplomatic elites have long been deploying, through various means, against the Jewish people in their Land. Barring regime change, by or before a catastrophic terror strike, this is the future in store: more and more places in Israel (and throughout the world) are going to look and live like Sderot.
It’s not a pretty picture.
Here are the true purposes of Operation Summer Rains:
1): To save by saving the face of the elites that cripple Jewish settlement, viability, identity and pride; to save the Barak – Peres – Olmert regime that rules in accordance with the global vision of Foggy Bottom, Brussels and the Vatican.
This is the most immediate but not the main reason for the incursion into Gaza, so notable for the bombing of empty fields and empty offices. The main reason is, 2) to save the Road Map that the Israeli regime exists to execute. They are helped and held in place by the overt and covert maneuvers of the State Department and CIA and by various forms of economic blackmail and bribery.
Repeat: the main reason for the incursion in Gaza in to save the Road Map toward the expulsion of Jews from Judea and Samaria, for starters. We will come back to this main goal.
The third reason, 3) is to save the client regimes in Cairo and Amman, the regimes of President-for-life Mubarak and Prince Abdullah of trans-Jordan who are buttressed and programmed mainly by Washington (with assistance from the client regime in Jerusalem and from Europe) in order to keep the Road Map in place by insuring that jihadist pressure is channeled toward Israel and the Jews.
If the forces of global jihad become too powerful too soon it could lead to the fall of these client regimes and complicate the clearly laid rails of the Road Map to ghettoizing and decimating Jews. We will come back to this too; its feasibility is intricately linked to that of the preceding two purposes…
4) The least important purpose by far, the ‘for public consumption’ pretext for the entire charade is to retrieve Corporal Shalit. If he is not retrieved the client regime in Jerusalem will lose a lot of face and, with it, its ability to maintain its chokehold on the Jewish people in Israel (and elsewhere). So they’d like to get him out although their slavish adherence to the Camp David – Oslo – Road Map to Israel’s constriction is what put him and all other Jews in Israel in daily risk of their lives in the first place.
Here’s one of those junctures where the internal contradictions and de facto impossibility of the Road Map and the new world order become apparent.If the regime truly gave a hoot about Jewish life the Road Map (and Oslo) would have been rejected out of hand as the suicidal and treasonous games that they are. Eliahu Asheri and thousands of other Jews like him were murdered or maimed because of what Oslo did to Israel, fragmenting it into a congeries of terrorist havens and small terror states. Those who did it and still defend its full implementation are fully responsible for everything that has ensued.
The good and bad news is that these goals of Summer Rains, of the Barak –Peres clique and of the global grand-gamers in Foggy Bottom, White Hall and Brussels are mutually contradictory. The Operation is a paper tiger emollient because the terrorists must not be dispirited by a major counter blow. They must not be dispirited or decimated because their relentless murderous pressure is needed to provide the rationale for Israel’s ruling elite to continue expelling Jews from ever larger portions of the Promised Land per the Road Map.
Also, not dealing them a crushing blow in Gaza keeps them and the hostile population that harbors and largely supports them from fleeing to Egypt. This they in fact had begun to do when Israel’s tanks arrived, but they were halted in their flight by reassurances of the Israeli government and the familiar limpness of its ‘military response’ to terror.After all, Washington’s puppet regime does not want the Jews of Gush Katif to go back and rebuild their beautiful communities; Washington and its clients do not want a flourishing and sovereign Jewish Israel established in its land. They can’t manage the crisis without a crisis to manage. Thus the bloody game continues.
However, by failing to significantly decimate the jihadists, the Israeli regime and its string-pullers in Washington have led the former to become more defiant and aggressive, increasing their threat not only to Jews in Israel but to the stability of the client regimes in Cairo and Amman. Mubarak and Abdullah are looking at the abyss and they know it, but the contradictions in Washington’s policy have created an irresolvable dilemma for all concerned.
As a result, as bitter a failure and a joke as Operation Summer Rains has been to date, the agenda of Washington and its main puppet has locked it into a context where unintended consequences will force Israel closer to regime change and, dare we say it, victory. The terrorists that are the West’s weapon of choice for bludgeoning Israel into abject servility (Olmert is the poster boy for this condition) grow ever more emboldened and increasingly a threat to the client states in Cairo, Jerusalem and Amman. The puppet governments in all places are in great jeopardy and a major change in Israel’ governance and orientation toward the world and its birthright grows closer with the catastrophic terror attack that successive administrations have all but insured.
The end game being played by the globalists is untenable and self-negating, and the above is an empirical explanation of how their scheme is doomed for attempting to trump the Divine plan for Israel. Their impressive and bloody magic trick, imposed by enormous and varied pressures is coming apart. Soon the emperor’s raw nakedness will be exposed so even most leftists will see it. What a bitter shame that it will take a tragedy of immense proportions to reveal the obvious and malicious facts.
Two potential bright spots: 1) recognition that Corporal Shalit is a P.O.W. and must be treated according to the Geneva Convention stipulations. If he is harmed in anyway the entire enemy apparatus, — jihadist leaders, cadres and hostile population becomes responsible and must pay the physical price. Applying this legal and moral standard would help expose what Islamic jihad means and seeks. 2) For reasons of personal and professional pride the General Staff of the IDF, increasingly disgusted by the indecision and limpness of the current government, and the danger into which it has put the IDF may decide it’s had enough of being a dishrag for the politicians and judges. With power comes responsibility and it is in this Israeli institution where a major change is possible and needed.
Perhaps the humiliated pride, if not a sense of brotherhood at the top echelons in the IDF will prompt them to act to save their honor and, thus, indirectly the Jewish people before a disaster strikes. To achieve this salvation, the enemy must be named, destroyed and victory achieved. Then Israel will settle in its place, proud and beyond doubts and critics. There is no peace without integrity and wholeness (shleimyut) and no wholeness without victory. It is in sight. Where is the will to choose honor and sovereignty?
By Prof. Eugene Narrett.
The World better watch out World War 3 will be a curse and not a blessing, so the Media and the World better start respecting Israel, before the nukes start flying. REPENT WORLD.
GENESIS 28:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:(ISRAEL TODAY,AND THE LAND AROUND IT IS ALL ISRAELS INHERITANCE IN THE FUTURE)
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
UN hypocrites at it again
United Nations officials in the Gaza Strip are complaining that Arab children living there are wetting their beds due to the tense and frightening situation created by Israel’s current military operations.As if Israel’s decisions and actions are taken in a vacuum, in the total absence of influence by outside factors. There is a very simple solution to this problem: Tell the Palestinians to stop firing rockets at Israeli towns.
As soon as that happens, it is a certainty that Israel will stop striking targets in Gaza. Of course, the Palestinians don’t want everyone to know that about Israel, so they will continue firing rockets, assured that the UN and other “human rights groups will play right into their hands by ignoring the Arab provocation and condemning the Israeli response.By the way, when was the last time Damien Personnaz and his UNICEF teams visited and assisted the traumatized children of Sderot?
The EU has to start sticking up for Israel if like the Bible says they (EU) will Guarantee Israels security for land in the future.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(THE ROMANS) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he(FUTURE EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(7 YRS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
EU tones down criticism of Israel By SLOBODAN LEKIC, Associated Press Writer
Thu Jul 6, 6:13 AM ET
BRUSSELS, Belgium - The shift is subtle but unmistakable. European governments — long accused of being pro-Arab — have toned down criticism of Israel, left in shock by the rise to power of Islamic Hamas which they consider a terrorist outfit. The rise of Hamas and the subsequent deterioration of peace prospects have left the European Union in a quandary. The election of the Hamas government has pulled the rug from under its $626.5-million-a-year aid package that feeds, clothes and educates many Palestinians and distanced the EU from them.After the Hamas government was sworn in, the EU strongly condemned it on April 10 for refusing to recognize Israel in a one-page statement whose brevity contrasted with the bloc's usually long Mideast declarations that take pains to show balance.
The EU's tilt toward the Jewish state was highlighted after Israel's attacks last week on infrastructure targets in the Gaza Strip. Normally such strikes elicit stinging rebukes, but this time they brought only limp appeals to both sides to resolve the crisis through diplomacy.
The EU formally denies any policy shift.
Yet analysts see a more nuanced approach to the Mideast conflict caused mainly by the unexpected Hamas victory in January. They also believe the Europeans are seeking to move closer to the U.S. position to maintain some say in the region, and that
means not being automatically critical of Israel's actions.Last week, after Israeli tanks and troops mounted their offensive in a bid to free a soldier captured by Palestinian militants, EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner simply urged the two sides to consider their responsibilities extremelycarefully.
She demanded the militants release the soldier but stayed silent on the destruction of bridges and the Gaza Strip's only power plant, as well as the unprecedented arrest of 64 top Hamas officials, including eight Cabinet members and 26 lawmakers.The United States, Russia and other countries also have appealed to the militants to release the soldier.In the past, the EU has demanded that Israel repay the EU for damage caused to infrastructure that is often financed with European
money, but there was no mention of that this time.
The European Union's lukewarm reaction is shocking when even infrastructure built through the EU's own investments is being destroyed, said Marwan Bishara, a lecturer in international affairs in France. It is also contrary to the very foundations of the EU in terms of the civil and humanitarian principles.Bishara attributed the EU's attitude to Hamas' victory and a growing conviction in European capitals that the trans-Atlantic rift over the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 can only be bridged by coordinating Mideast policy more closely with Washington.Europe is now following the U.S. policy of being passive toward Israeli actions,said Bishara.
Others echoed his comments.
The election of Hamas has obviously changed the dynamics of the problem and ended the almost automatic solidarity with the Palestinians, said Mark Leonard, a foreign policy analyst at London's Centre for European Reform.Declining support for the Palestinian cause in Europe was another factor, said Dominique Moisi of the French Institute for International Relations.
They have disappointed Europeans by their divisions, their lack of organization, the spectacle of violence in Gaza between various Palestinian factions, he said. By refusing to recognize Israel's right to exist, Hamas has weakened the Palestinians' position considerably.
This has meshed with Israel's efforts to persuade the international community that Hamas is too radical to negotiate with and should be isolated despite the fact that it came to power in a legitimate fashion. Moisi also sees Europe trying to mend fences with Washington and agreeing with Washington on stifling Iran's nuclear ambitions. We don't want to jeopardize this agreement by being divided over the Palestinians,said Moisi. Yossi Alpher, an adviser to Israel's former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, noted that a few years ago the Europeans would have criticized Israel much more explicitly for an attack like the one in Gaza. What has changed is the advent of a radical Palestinian Islamist terrorist movement and government (and) a greater sense of realism in the EU on what can and what can't be done in the Middle East. Alpher warned this may change quickly if Israel's heavy-handed actions result in civilian casualties or a humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
The EU is not alone in toning down its criticisms of Israel.
Most non-Muslim members of the 105-member Nonaligned Movement — loyal supporters of the Arabs in their wars with Israel in past decades — have gone softer on the Jewish state. Also, Russia — long a key source of support for Arab countries — has
cultivated economic, political and other ties with Israel, as has China. Individual European countries have been more critical of Israel, although they, too, have shied away from publicly denouncing the latest offensive.
It was only neutral Switzerland not an EU member — that issued a strongly worded condemnation of the Gaza action, including the destruction of the local power plant and arrest of dozens of Hamas officials. A number of actions by the Israeli defense forces in their offensive against the Gaza Strip have violated the principle of proportionality and are to be seen as forms of collective punishment, which is forbidden, the Swiss Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The Purposes of Operation “Summer Rain,”
By Prof Eugene Narrett.JULY 6,2006
The Israeli army has been inching its way into the Gaza Strip for about eight days, ostensibly in response to the kidnapping of Corporal Gilad Shalit. Kidnapping is a misnomer and the tip-toe incursion is not mainly about rescuing him, as will be explained below. But the name of the Operation, “Summer Rains” is pure pr genius: soft, gentle, it sounds like a fabric softener which is basically its relation to the harsh reality of the war waged by global jihad. It’s named to please western spinners and consumers of news by conjuring up images of a moisturizing soap or other emollient.
Alas, the clever, only-too-apt name will not save Corporal Shalit, Sderot, Ashkelon or neighboring towns; it will not bring justice to Eliahu Asheri or the thousands of others like him. Rather, it will teach the jihadists even more contempt for Israel and Israelis thus resulting in more frequent and more horrible attacks. And then………
Summer Rains is meant to be an open-ended series of graduated phases because it is not meant to end or succeed in its ostensible mission.
No; it is yet another part of the endless war of attrition which the American-Israeli diplomatic elites have long been deploying, through various means, against the Jewish people in their Land. Barring regime change, by or before a catastrophic terror strike, this is the future in store: more and more places in Israel (and throughout the world) are going to look and live like Sderot.
It’s not a pretty picture.
Here are the true purposes of Operation Summer Rains:
1): To save by saving the face of the elites that cripple Jewish settlement, viability, identity and pride; to save the Barak – Peres – Olmert regime that rules in accordance with the global vision of Foggy Bottom, Brussels and the Vatican.
This is the most immediate but not the main reason for the incursion into Gaza, so notable for the bombing of empty fields and empty offices. The main reason is, 2) to save the Road Map that the Israeli regime exists to execute. They are helped and held in place by the overt and covert maneuvers of the State Department and CIA and by various forms of economic blackmail and bribery.
Repeat: the main reason for the incursion in Gaza in to save the Road Map toward the expulsion of Jews from Judea and Samaria, for starters. We will come back to this main goal.
The third reason, 3) is to save the client regimes in Cairo and Amman, the regimes of President-for-life Mubarak and Prince Abdullah of trans-Jordan who are buttressed and programmed mainly by Washington (with assistance from the client regime in Jerusalem and from Europe) in order to keep the Road Map in place by insuring that jihadist pressure is channeled toward Israel and the Jews.
If the forces of global jihad become too powerful too soon it could lead to the fall of these client regimes and complicate the clearly laid rails of the Road Map to ghettoizing and decimating Jews. We will come back to this too; its feasibility is intricately linked to that of the preceding two purposes…
4) The least important purpose by far, the ‘for public consumption’ pretext for the entire charade is to retrieve Corporal Shalit. If he is not retrieved the client regime in Jerusalem will lose a lot of face and, with it, its ability to maintain its chokehold on the Jewish people in Israel (and elsewhere). So they’d like to get him out although their slavish adherence to the Camp David – Oslo – Road Map to Israel’s constriction is what put him and all other Jews in Israel in daily risk of their lives in the first place.
Here’s one of those junctures where the internal contradictions and de facto impossibility of the Road Map and the new world order become apparent.If the regime truly gave a hoot about Jewish life the Road Map (and Oslo) would have been rejected out of hand as the suicidal and treasonous games that they are. Eliahu Asheri and thousands of other Jews like him were murdered or maimed because of what Oslo did to Israel, fragmenting it into a congeries of terrorist havens and small terror states. Those who did it and still defend its full implementation are fully responsible for everything that has ensued.
The good and bad news is that these goals of Summer Rains, of the Barak –Peres clique and of the global grand-gamers in Foggy Bottom, White Hall and Brussels are mutually contradictory. The Operation is a paper tiger emollient because the terrorists must not be dispirited by a major counter blow. They must not be dispirited or decimated because their relentless murderous pressure is needed to provide the rationale for Israel’s ruling elite to continue expelling Jews from ever larger portions of the Promised Land per the Road Map.
Also, not dealing them a crushing blow in Gaza keeps them and the hostile population that harbors and largely supports them from fleeing to Egypt. This they in fact had begun to do when Israel’s tanks arrived, but they were halted in their flight by reassurances of the Israeli government and the familiar limpness of its ‘military response’ to terror.After all, Washington’s puppet regime does not want the Jews of Gush Katif to go back and rebuild their beautiful communities; Washington and its clients do not want a flourishing and sovereign Jewish Israel established in its land. They can’t manage the crisis without a crisis to manage. Thus the bloody game continues.
However, by failing to significantly decimate the jihadists, the Israeli regime and its string-pullers in Washington have led the former to become more defiant and aggressive, increasing their threat not only to Jews in Israel but to the stability of the client regimes in Cairo and Amman. Mubarak and Abdullah are looking at the abyss and they know it, but the contradictions in Washington’s policy have created an irresolvable dilemma for all concerned.
As a result, as bitter a failure and a joke as Operation Summer Rains has been to date, the agenda of Washington and its main puppet has locked it into a context where unintended consequences will force Israel closer to regime change and, dare we say it, victory. The terrorists that are the West’s weapon of choice for bludgeoning Israel into abject servility (Olmert is the poster boy for this condition) grow ever more emboldened and increasingly a threat to the client states in Cairo, Jerusalem and Amman. The puppet governments in all places are in great jeopardy and a major change in Israel’ governance and orientation toward the world and its birthright grows closer with the catastrophic terror attack that successive administrations have all but insured.
The end game being played by the globalists is untenable and self-negating, and the above is an empirical explanation of how their scheme is doomed for attempting to trump the Divine plan for Israel. Their impressive and bloody magic trick, imposed by enormous and varied pressures is coming apart. Soon the emperor’s raw nakedness will be exposed so even most leftists will see it. What a bitter shame that it will take a tragedy of immense proportions to reveal the obvious and malicious facts.
Two potential bright spots: 1) recognition that Corporal Shalit is a P.O.W. and must be treated according to the Geneva Convention stipulations. If he is harmed in anyway the entire enemy apparatus, — jihadist leaders, cadres and hostile population becomes responsible and must pay the physical price. Applying this legal and moral standard would help expose what Islamic jihad means and seeks. 2) For reasons of personal and professional pride the General Staff of the IDF, increasingly disgusted by the indecision and limpness of the current government, and the danger into which it has put the IDF may decide it’s had enough of being a dishrag for the politicians and judges. With power comes responsibility and it is in this Israeli institution where a major change is possible and needed.
Perhaps the humiliated pride, if not a sense of brotherhood at the top echelons in the IDF will prompt them to act to save their honor and, thus, indirectly the Jewish people before a disaster strikes. To achieve this salvation, the enemy must be named, destroyed and victory achieved. Then Israel will settle in its place, proud and beyond doubts and critics. There is no peace without integrity and wholeness (shleimyut) and no wholeness without victory. It is in sight. Where is the will to choose honor and sovereignty?
By Prof. Eugene Narrett.
Thursday, July 06, 2006
NORTH KOREA MISSLE PROGRAM
1-Chronology of North Korea's missle program.2-4-Freak storm brings flooding.3-Dengue Fever plagues Mekong.5-96 fires burning in Manitoba.
YES NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED IN THE FUTURE WW3.
INVENTION OF THE ATOMIC BOMB.
2 PETER 3:10-11
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
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, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
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.
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
Chronology of N. Korea‘s missile program
Staff and agencies,05 July, 2006
By The Associated Press 3 minutes ago
A timeline on missile development in North Korea .
_Sept. 13, 1999: North Korea pledges to freeze long-range missile tests.
_May 2004: North Korea reaffirms its missile moratorium in summit talks with Japan.
_March 2006: North Korea fires two short-range missiles.
_June 7: South Korea expresses deep concern over signs North Korea may be preparing to test fire a ballistic missile.
_June 16: The U.S. says a test of a Taepodong-2 long-range missile may be imminent.
_June 20: A North Korean official is quoted as saying the country is not bound by 2002 Pyongyang Declaration moratorium on missile tests.
_June 21: U.S. President George W. Bush President George W. Bush warns North Korea faces further isolation if it test fires a long-range missile.
_June 28: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao says North Korea should refrain from aggravating regional tensions with missile launch.
_July 3: North Korea says it would respond to a pre-emptive U.S. military attack with an "annihilating strike and a nuclear war."
_July 5: North Korea launches a series of 6 missiles.
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(chaos,mass cofusion) the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Freak storms bring floods
Jul 6, 2006
Towns and villages across the West Midlands were plunged into chaos last night after thunderstorms brought flash floods. Cars were left stranded in Albrighton, Brewood and Cosford as the water reached more than a foot deep in places and at least one person was made homeless by the flooding.
Tropical storms caused torrential rain and flooding in Donnington Lane, Albrighton The main A41 Wolverhampton to Cosford road was turned into a river within minutes. The Met Office today warned people to brace themselves for more rain with thunderstorms expected again tonight.Torrential rain was set to move across southern areas of England this morning, with rains expected to hit the West Midlands in the late afternoon.Shropshire Fire Brigade dispatched officers to Albrighton, Brewood and Wheaton Aston but said the flooding meant there was little they could do.
REVELATION 6:7-8
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:(Chlorus green,Sickly) 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, to kill with sword,(WAR) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(MURDERS,DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(DISEASES CAUSED BY ANIMALS)
LEVITICUS 26:16
15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you (sudden) terror,(TERRORISM) consumption,and the burning ague,(FEVER) that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
Dengue fever plagues Mekong
11:55' 06/07/2006 (GMT+7)
VietNamNet – A Dengue fever epidemic has become more widespread in the Mekong River Delta as the number of affected rises throughout the area. Last week, Soc Trang Province had 144 new cases of dengue fever, pushing case numbers over the 2,000
mark.Currently throughout the Mekong Delta there are 13,000 instances of dengue infections, an increase of 2,000 in comparison to the number of cases reported in mid June.So far 14 people from nine provinces in the Delta have died of the disease, with Hau Giang recording a death toll of three people, while Ca Mau and Tien Giang had two deaths each.
Of greatest concern is that this is the rainy season for the region, when mosquito populations are at the highest. In addition, many people still don’t have the knowledge to protect themselves or to identify symptoms of the disease. This is very dangerous for patients as in many cases patients are taken to hospital too late for treatment to be of much benefit.,(Source: SGGP).
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
96 forest fires burning in Manitoba
JUL 05 2006 03:10 PM
Dry, hot weather continues to fuel the forest fire situation across Manitoba.Tom Mirus of Manitoba Conservation says right now, there are 96 fires burning across the province, 13 of which are out of control. He adds they had a busy day yesterday (tues) with 14 new fires, and they are expecting more starts this afternoon...Mirus says hot temperatures, low relative humidity, and unexpected lightning cells are working against them right now. (CJOB's Brenton Driedger reporting.)
YES NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED IN THE FUTURE WW3.
INVENTION OF THE ATOMIC BOMB.
2 PETER 3:10-11
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.
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, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
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.
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
Chronology of N. Korea‘s missile program
Staff and agencies,05 July, 2006
By The Associated Press 3 minutes ago
A timeline on missile development in North Korea .
_Sept. 13, 1999: North Korea pledges to freeze long-range missile tests.
_May 2004: North Korea reaffirms its missile moratorium in summit talks with Japan.
_March 2006: North Korea fires two short-range missiles.
_June 7: South Korea expresses deep concern over signs North Korea may be preparing to test fire a ballistic missile.
_June 16: The U.S. says a test of a Taepodong-2 long-range missile may be imminent.
_June 20: A North Korean official is quoted as saying the country is not bound by 2002 Pyongyang Declaration moratorium on missile tests.
_June 21: U.S. President George W. Bush President George W. Bush warns North Korea faces further isolation if it test fires a long-range missile.
_June 28: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao says North Korea should refrain from aggravating regional tensions with missile launch.
_July 3: North Korea says it would respond to a pre-emptive U.S. military attack with an "annihilating strike and a nuclear war."
_July 5: North Korea launches a series of 6 missiles.
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(chaos,mass cofusion) the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Freak storms bring floods
Jul 6, 2006
Towns and villages across the West Midlands were plunged into chaos last night after thunderstorms brought flash floods. Cars were left stranded in Albrighton, Brewood and Cosford as the water reached more than a foot deep in places and at least one person was made homeless by the flooding.
Tropical storms caused torrential rain and flooding in Donnington Lane, Albrighton The main A41 Wolverhampton to Cosford road was turned into a river within minutes. The Met Office today warned people to brace themselves for more rain with thunderstorms expected again tonight.Torrential rain was set to move across southern areas of England this morning, with rains expected to hit the West Midlands in the late afternoon.Shropshire Fire Brigade dispatched officers to Albrighton, Brewood and Wheaton Aston but said the flooding meant there was little they could do.
REVELATION 6:7-8
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:(Chlorus green,Sickly) 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, to kill with sword,(WAR) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(MURDERS,DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(DISEASES CAUSED BY ANIMALS)
LEVITICUS 26:16
15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you (sudden) terror,(TERRORISM) consumption,and the burning ague,(FEVER) that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
Dengue fever plagues Mekong
11:55' 06/07/2006 (GMT+7)
VietNamNet – A Dengue fever epidemic has become more widespread in the Mekong River Delta as the number of affected rises throughout the area. Last week, Soc Trang Province had 144 new cases of dengue fever, pushing case numbers over the 2,000
mark.Currently throughout the Mekong Delta there are 13,000 instances of dengue infections, an increase of 2,000 in comparison to the number of cases reported in mid June.So far 14 people from nine provinces in the Delta have died of the disease, with Hau Giang recording a death toll of three people, while Ca Mau and Tien Giang had two deaths each.
Of greatest concern is that this is the rainy season for the region, when mosquito populations are at the highest. In addition, many people still don’t have the knowledge to protect themselves or to identify symptoms of the disease. This is very dangerous for patients as in many cases patients are taken to hospital too late for treatment to be of much benefit.,(Source: SGGP).
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
96 forest fires burning in Manitoba
JUL 05 2006 03:10 PM
Dry, hot weather continues to fuel the forest fire situation across Manitoba.Tom Mirus of Manitoba Conservation says right now, there are 96 fires burning across the province, 13 of which are out of control. He adds they had a busy day yesterday (tues) with 14 new fires, and they are expecting more starts this afternoon...Mirus says hot temperatures, low relative humidity, and unexpected lightning cells are working against them right now. (CJOB's Brenton Driedger reporting.)
ISRAELS ANSWER TOUGH
1-Tropical storm could form around Florida. 2-Israels answer TOUGH.
Tropical storm could form around Florida: NHC Wed Jul 5, 8:20 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A tropical storm could form around Florida over the next day or two, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Wednesday in an Atlantic tropical weather outlook at 5:30 a.m. EDT. The NHC said showers and thunderstorms were currently located over the Bahamas, central and eastern Cuba and southeastern Florida.Over the next couple of days, the system could drift slowly westward over the Florida Peninsula and into the Gulf of Mexico where several of the key U.S. oil and natural gas fields and refineries are located.
The NHC said environmental conditions were unfavorable for tropical cyclone formation at this time but may become somewhat more conducive for some slow development during the next day or two.The Center will call the next storm Beryl.Elsewhere, the NHC did not expect any tropical storms to form through Thursday.
The Only Answer Israel Needs To Give: 'Tough!'
By: Steven Plaut ,Wednesday, July 5, 2006
Quick, take a fast current events quiz:
1. Since the start of the Palestinian intifadas (Intifada I in 1987 and Intifada II in 2000), how many Palestinian civilians were intentionally murdered by Israel?
2. Since the start of the Palestinian intifadas, how many of the Israeli fatalities were civilians intentionally murdered by the PLO, Hamas, and their affiliates?
Now, if you’ve been relying on the mainstream media, you will be forgiven for not knowing the correct answers to those two questions. The correct answer to the first is “zero” and the correct answer to the second is all of them. That’s right. Not a single innocent Palestinian has been intentionally killed by Israel during the past two decades of “intifada” violence. But every single one of the hundreds of Jewish civilians killed was an intentional act of Palestinian murder.
Sure, plenty of guilty Palestinians have been killed, and these include murderers, leaders in terror organizations, rank and file terrorists, and people setting up rocket launchers to fire at Jewish civilians. And sure, there have also been innocent Palestinian civilians who were killed or injured when Jews shot back. These are people who were killed in anti-terror operations necessitated by Palestinian terrorist aggression and atrocities. There is a fundamental difference, however, between Palestinian civilians getting killed in anti-terror operations and reprisals by Israel and Israeli civilians, who are killed by Palestinian Islamofascists. The Palestinian dead are unintended collateral damage from operations aimed at stopping rocket attacks and other terrorist endeavors against Israeli civilians.True, Israeli anti-terror operations are not so surgically exact that only guilty terrorists are dispatched to Allah. I am quite sure that if and when military technology is invented for killing only guilty terrorists when they hide among innocent civilians, Israel will be the first country to adopt it. Until then, however, when Palestinians intentionally target and murder Jewish civilians, innocent Palestinian civilians will suffer the consequences of Arab terror.
Israel suffers from a fundamental strategic problem, one which hinders its ability to defend itself – namely, the fact that modern Hebrew does not have a linguistic equivalent of the American slang expression “Tough!” As a result, Israeli politicians generally fail to answer the world’s whining about Palestinian civilians getting hurt in counter-terror operations with that most succinct of one-word responses.International law recognizes the rights of countries at war to attack terrorists and soldiers when they are hiding among civilians, even when such attacks produce civilian deaths. International law assigns blame for those deaths on the belligerents who use the civilians as their “human shields. As well it should.When German civilians were killed in the massive allied bombings of Germany in World War II, when schools with German children were blown to bits, the American command did not send out forensics crews to examine whether the shell or bomb had really come from an American plane or perhaps from something else. The Allied command just said Tough!
Ditto for Japanese civilians killed in World War II. Bombing Tokyo was necessary to end the war. (Actually, so was bombing Hiroshima.) Civilians died as a result? Tough! When Palestinians on a Gaza beach are killed by an Israeli shell (if that is what really happened, and there are reasons to doubt it), then the moral responsibility for those deaths rests squarely on the shoulders of the Palestinian terrorists who necessitate Israeli return fire. These are the same terrorists who have fired thousands of rockets and mortar shells into Israeli civilian areas, even afterIsrael completely withdrew from Gaza.Don’t want Palestinian civilians killed when Israel shoots back? Simple. Stop the rocket attacks on Israel. Don’t like Israeli reprisals? Simple. Stop the terror atrocities committed by Palestinians against Jews.
When Palestinians stop murdering Jews, no one will have to check their cars. When Palestinian ambulances no longer carry explosives and murderers, no one will stop them for inspection.Want Palestinians to earn decent wages and have a comfortable life? Simple. Suppress Palestinian terrorism. Stop Palestinian rocket aggression.But as long as the terror continues, don’t expect Israel to respond by turning the other cheek and abandoning self-defense. Don’t like it? TOUGH!
Steven Plaut, a frequent contributor to The Jewish Press, is a professor at Haifa University. His book “The Scout” is available at Amazon.com. He can be contacted at www.stevenplaut@yahoo.com.
Tropical storm could form around Florida: NHC Wed Jul 5, 8:20 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A tropical storm could form around Florida over the next day or two, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Wednesday in an Atlantic tropical weather outlook at 5:30 a.m. EDT. The NHC said showers and thunderstorms were currently located over the Bahamas, central and eastern Cuba and southeastern Florida.Over the next couple of days, the system could drift slowly westward over the Florida Peninsula and into the Gulf of Mexico where several of the key U.S. oil and natural gas fields and refineries are located.
The NHC said environmental conditions were unfavorable for tropical cyclone formation at this time but may become somewhat more conducive for some slow development during the next day or two.The Center will call the next storm Beryl.Elsewhere, the NHC did not expect any tropical storms to form through Thursday.
The Only Answer Israel Needs To Give: 'Tough!'
By: Steven Plaut ,Wednesday, July 5, 2006
Quick, take a fast current events quiz:
1. Since the start of the Palestinian intifadas (Intifada I in 1987 and Intifada II in 2000), how many Palestinian civilians were intentionally murdered by Israel?
2. Since the start of the Palestinian intifadas, how many of the Israeli fatalities were civilians intentionally murdered by the PLO, Hamas, and their affiliates?
Now, if you’ve been relying on the mainstream media, you will be forgiven for not knowing the correct answers to those two questions. The correct answer to the first is “zero” and the correct answer to the second is all of them. That’s right. Not a single innocent Palestinian has been intentionally killed by Israel during the past two decades of “intifada” violence. But every single one of the hundreds of Jewish civilians killed was an intentional act of Palestinian murder.
Sure, plenty of guilty Palestinians have been killed, and these include murderers, leaders in terror organizations, rank and file terrorists, and people setting up rocket launchers to fire at Jewish civilians. And sure, there have also been innocent Palestinian civilians who were killed or injured when Jews shot back. These are people who were killed in anti-terror operations necessitated by Palestinian terrorist aggression and atrocities. There is a fundamental difference, however, between Palestinian civilians getting killed in anti-terror operations and reprisals by Israel and Israeli civilians, who are killed by Palestinian Islamofascists. The Palestinian dead are unintended collateral damage from operations aimed at stopping rocket attacks and other terrorist endeavors against Israeli civilians.True, Israeli anti-terror operations are not so surgically exact that only guilty terrorists are dispatched to Allah. I am quite sure that if and when military technology is invented for killing only guilty terrorists when they hide among innocent civilians, Israel will be the first country to adopt it. Until then, however, when Palestinians intentionally target and murder Jewish civilians, innocent Palestinian civilians will suffer the consequences of Arab terror.
Israel suffers from a fundamental strategic problem, one which hinders its ability to defend itself – namely, the fact that modern Hebrew does not have a linguistic equivalent of the American slang expression “Tough!” As a result, Israeli politicians generally fail to answer the world’s whining about Palestinian civilians getting hurt in counter-terror operations with that most succinct of one-word responses.International law recognizes the rights of countries at war to attack terrorists and soldiers when they are hiding among civilians, even when such attacks produce civilian deaths. International law assigns blame for those deaths on the belligerents who use the civilians as their “human shields. As well it should.When German civilians were killed in the massive allied bombings of Germany in World War II, when schools with German children were blown to bits, the American command did not send out forensics crews to examine whether the shell or bomb had really come from an American plane or perhaps from something else. The Allied command just said Tough!
Ditto for Japanese civilians killed in World War II. Bombing Tokyo was necessary to end the war. (Actually, so was bombing Hiroshima.) Civilians died as a result? Tough! When Palestinians on a Gaza beach are killed by an Israeli shell (if that is what really happened, and there are reasons to doubt it), then the moral responsibility for those deaths rests squarely on the shoulders of the Palestinian terrorists who necessitate Israeli return fire. These are the same terrorists who have fired thousands of rockets and mortar shells into Israeli civilian areas, even afterIsrael completely withdrew from Gaza.Don’t want Palestinian civilians killed when Israel shoots back? Simple. Stop the rocket attacks on Israel. Don’t like Israeli reprisals? Simple. Stop the terror atrocities committed by Palestinians against Jews.
When Palestinians stop murdering Jews, no one will have to check their cars. When Palestinian ambulances no longer carry explosives and murderers, no one will stop them for inspection.Want Palestinians to earn decent wages and have a comfortable life? Simple. Suppress Palestinian terrorism. Stop Palestinian rocket aggression.But as long as the terror continues, don’t expect Israel to respond by turning the other cheek and abandoning self-defense. Don’t like it? TOUGH!
Steven Plaut, a frequent contributor to The Jewish Press, is a professor at Haifa University. His book “The Scout” is available at Amazon.com. He can be contacted at www.stevenplaut@yahoo.com.
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