1-Israel hits 130 Hezballoh Targets in Southern Lbanon. 2-Rome conference endorces Un force in Mideast. 3-China eyes stronger military force against threats. 4-More nuclear fuel missing from LIBYA. 5-The War started In lebanon but will go to Iran and Syria (I AGREE TOTALLY).
Israel Hits 130 Hezbollah Targets in Southern Lebanon ,July 28,2006
(Bloomberg) -- Israel struck as many as 130 Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, using planes and artillery, a day after ruling out an increased land offensive. The targets, including rocket launchers, were hit during the night in the city of Tyre, the eastern Bekaa Valley, and in southern Lebanon, an Israel Defense Forces spokesman said, speaking anonymously by regulation. One of the raids destroyed Hezbollah's regional command center in Tyre that directed rocket attacks on Israeli towns, he said. Israel is pursuing a policy of containment,Israeli Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres said yesterday in an interview with Bloomberg Television.
Israel will continue intensive combat to strike at Hezbollah's commander centers and infrastructure, the Security Cabinet said in a statement. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said today the U.S. will seek an early end to the crisis. The Israeli government yesterday called up reservists as the military fights Hezbollah in Lebanon and Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip, in operations that began after three Israeli soldiers were captured. A total of 405 Lebanese and 51 Israelis, including 33 soldiers, have been killed since fighting in Lebanon began July 12.
We hope to achieve an early end to this situation, Rice said at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur. The U.S. will consider conditions for an early cease-fire, she said.
U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair will press President George W. Bush to back an
immediate cease-fire between Israel and the Shiite Islamist Hezbollah movement and to work on a United Nations resolution spelling out the terms of a peace plan, a spokesman said. The two will meet later today in Washington.
Three Divisions
As many as three divisions of reserves are being put on standby, Israel's military Chief of Staff Dan Halutz said. Any decision to activate the reserve forces will be taken by the full Cabinet, ministers decided yesterday. There are about 5,000 soldiers in each reserve division, Haaretz reported. While the army doesn't release figures for manpower, the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University estimates Israel's standing army at about 186,000 personnel.
The military action has not come to an end and will continue as long as it's needed, Halutz said late yesterday. This battle may take time, and this is why we are not showing all of our cards immediately. Israel today warned residents of villages from Qlaile in the west, through Siddiqine, Sultaniye, Majdel Silim and up to a point west of the village of Houla, near the Israeli-Lebanese border, to flee their homes and move northward by 10:00 a.m. today.
Safety at Risk
Any vehicle traveling in this area after 10:00 a.m. and any person who chooses not follow this warning is putting his and his family's safety at risk, the IDF said. A majority of Israelis say they are satisfied with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the conduct of military operations in Lebanon, a poll in the Yediot Ahronot newspaper showed today.
The poll, conducted by the Dahaf Institute, found that 71 percent of 513 adults questioned late yesterday rated Olmert's performance as prime minister as either very good or pretty good.Eighty-two percent said the government was pursuing the right course in Lebanon, it said. A poll by the newspaper July 18, six days into the conflict, showed Olmert had the backing of 78 percent of Israelis. Today's survey had a margin of error of 4.2 percentage points, Yediot said.
Impasse Reached
Israel says it is targeting Hezbollah bases with air strikes while staging a limited land incursion into southern Lebanon to root out the Muslim group's strongholds near the Israeli border. The two sides are at an impasse, said Nadim Shehadi of London's
independent international affairs institute, Chatham House, which advises European governments. We are in a kind of deadlock because what's happening on the military side is not yielding any results, he said in an interview yesterday.
The more military operations go on, the more difficult it will be to justify stopping without showing any results for the Israeli army.' Israeli army officials estimate that about 200 Hezbollah fighters have been killed in operations in southern Lebanon since hostilities began, said an army spokesman. Nawwar Sahili, one of 14 Hezbollah members of the Lebanese parliament, described the tally as lies in a telephone interview. Hezbollah is not hiding the number of its martyrs, Hezbollah is proud of its martyrs and when they fall, it announces their names.Some 32 Hezbollah members have died in the conflict, according to statements issued by the organization since July 12.
Security Strip
Olmert yesterday told members of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, that Israel will try to establish a two-kilometer (1.2-mile) strip from the border into southern Lebanon that is free of Hezbollah fighters so that light arms can't be used to hit Israeli towns, said a government official who asked not to be identified. Southern Lebanon, adjacent to Israel's northern border, is controlled by Hezbollah, which is sponsored by Syria and Iran. A United Nations resolution calls for its disarmament and for the Lebanese army to take over the area. Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers in a July 12 cross- border raid, sparking the conflict. Israel hasn't
mounted a full- scale military attack on Lebanon or Hezbollah since its troops were pulled out of a swath of southern Lebanon held for 18 years until May 2000.
Scores of Attacks
Hezbollah, formed in 1982, has been linked to scores of attacks on Israelis and Americans, including rocket attacks on Israeli towns, the 1983 bombing that killed 241 U.S. soldiers in Beirut, and the 1994 attack that killed 95 at a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. The U.S. and Israel have designated Hezbollah a terrorist organization. Al-Qaeda's second in command Ayman al-Zawahiri warned in a tape broadcast yesterday by al-Jazeera television that the terrorist network won't stand idly by as Israel carries out its offensive in Lebanon. I'm not surprised people who use terrorist tactics would start speaking out, Bush told reporters
at the White House yesterday. The U.S. is working hard to solve the conflict, Bush said. As soon as we can get this resolved, the better. But it must be real, and it can't be fake. The war that started July 12 has inflicted $2 billion in damage to Lebanese airports, ports, roads and bridges. Lebanon's economic losses from the aborted summer tourism season and stalled industrial production amount to an additional $2 billion, Riad Salameh, the governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon, said in an interview yesterday.
Gaza Deaths
Two Israeli civilians were lightly wounded today when rockets landed in Zikin, south of Ashkelon, a coastal city 40 kilometers south of Tel Aviv in central Israel. The rockets were fired from northern Gaza, an Israeli Defense Forces spokesman said. Earlier, the army said ground forces left Sajaiyah in the northern Gaza Strip, an area they have been operating in for the past 48 hours in a bid to destroy terrorist infrastructure and stop the launching of rockets at Israel. Israel started its attack on Lebanon two weeks after it sent its forces into Gaza when a group led by the Islamic Hamas movement kidnapped a soldier in a cross-border raid on June 25.
A total of 154 Palestinians have died in raids since then, the Palestinian Health Ministry said yesterday. Israel said it killed 140 gunmen during the same period.
Palestinians Killed
In the Gaza Strip, 22 Palestinians were killed and more than 50 wounded yesterday in air strikes and tank attacks on northeast Gaza City, said Mo'aweya Hassanein, chief of emergency at the Health Ministry. He said that among the dead were four children
under the age of 10, eight adult civilians and 10 militants.
Hamas said yesterday there is no progress in negotiating the release of the soldier, 19-year-old Corporal Gilad Shalit. The group wants all female Palestinian prisoners under the age of 18 freed from Israeli jails in exchange for Shalit being released. Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in 2005, razing Jewish settlements it established after seizing the area from Egypt in the 1967 Six-Day War.
To contact the reporters on this story:
Caroline Alexander in London at
calexander1@bloomberg.net;
Maher Chmaytelli in Beirut through the Sydney newsroom or
mchmaytelli@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: July 28, 2006 07:54 EDT
And heres a story of the EU protecting Israel in both of the 2 waves of the 3 in WW3. The 3RD WAVE IS WHEN ALL NATIONS COME TO TAKE ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM AND BY THIS TIME THE ISRAELIS REALIZE THIS EU PROTECTOR WAS REALLY A FALSE MESSIAH, AND THEY FLEE TO PETRA AS THE EU LEADER WITH SATAN INCARNATED IN HIS BODY NOW TRYS THE GREATEST ANTI-SEMETIC PURGE IN HISTORY.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(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)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.(THIS EU POLITICIAN COMES FROM THE OCCULT)
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
DANIEL 7:7-8,23-24
7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
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.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
REVELATION 13:1-2
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
REVELATION 17:3,7,9-13
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
Rome conference endorses UN force in Middle East
26.07.2006 - 17:22 CET | By Mark Beunderman
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - A high-profile international conference on the Middle East, attended by a top-level EU delegation, has under US pressure not called for an immediate ceasefire in the region - but has endorsed the idea of a peacekeeping force under a UN mandate. The extraordinary meeting in Rome, chaired by Italian foreign minister Massimo d'Alema, addressed the ongoing bloodshed between Israel and Islamist Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon, with US foreign secretary Condoleezza Rice and UN secretary general Kofi Annan participating in the talks. Arab states such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt, as well as Lebanon itself, were also present at the talks and had lobbied for the final declaration of the text to include a call for an immediate cease-fire, according to press reports.
But the final Rome declaration only offers a watered-down version of this demand, stating Participants expressed their determination to work immediately to reach, with utmost urgency, a ceasefire that puts an end to the current violence and
hostilities. The ceasefire must be lasting, permanent and sustainable.
Ms Rice stressed after the talks that we cannot return to the status quo ante and that any ceasefire must be sustainable this time, reflecting US demands that Israel should be given security guarantees against Hezbollah before a cease-fire. The EU attended with a top delegation from both the EU institutions as well as individual member states. Finnish foreign minister Erkki Tuomioja represented the bloc's current presidency and was accompanied by EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana as well as external relations commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner.
The EU's big three, France, Germany and the UK, also had a place around the table, as well as Mediterranean member states Spain, Greece and Cyprus. The EU was itself divided at the meeting, with France joining UN chief Kofi Annan in calling for an immediate ceasefire while the UK was more in line with the US, according to press reports.
EU calls emergency meeting
The Finnish presidency has scheduled an emergency meeting of EU foreign ministers next week on Tuesday (1 August), while member states' EU ambassadors will spend most of their time on the issue at a meeting tomorrow (27 July). Member states have
been more united in supporting a UN-led peace force which should secure the Israeli Lebanese border in the near future.
The Rome meeting confirmed this plan, with the declaration saying An international force in Lebanon should urgently be authorized under a UN mandate to support a Lebanese armed force to provide a secure environment. France's president Jacques Chirac in an interview on Wednesday (26 July) opposed the idea of a NATO-led peace force, amid reports that Jerusalem favours NATO over UN involvement.
As far as France is concerned, it is not NATO's mission to put together such a force,Mr Chirac told the daily newspaper Le Monde. Whether we like it or not, NATO is perceived as the armed wing of the west in these regions, and as a result, in terms of image, NATO is not intended for this. The peacekeeping force is likely to be the one dominating topic at the EU meeting next week with EU top diplomat Solana saying I cannot imagine the force without any Europeans.It is fundamental that some European countries will participate, he said.
This Story is the 2ND wave of ww3. China and the Kings of the East as well as the 1 / 6th from the Russia, Muslim horde march to Israel.
DANIEL 11:44
44 But tidings out of the east (CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS whats left of the 1ST WAVE) shall trouble him:(THE EU LEADER PROTECTING ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.(1 / 3 of earths population)
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THATS THE TURKEY DAM)
REVELATION 9:14-16
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
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.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
China eyes stronger military against threats
Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:43am ET
BEIJING (Reuters) - China needs stronger military forces as it faces growing instability and threats to national security, the ruling Communist Party's ideological mouthpiece said according to reports in the state media on Wednesday.
An essay in the latest issue of Qiushi, or Seek Truth, says China must strengthen its military to guard a peaceful international setting for economic growth, the
official China News Service reported.Destabilizing and uncertain factors are increasing and having a major impact on China's security environment,the essay said.
History demonstrates that one cannot rely on others granting peace, and only building a strong military and firm national defense can provide a reliable security barrier,it added. Qiushi magazine is the Communist Party's ideological mouthpiece and often carries essays by senior officials and theorists.
The latest essay appears to reflect unease about China's military preparedness, even with rapidly rising defense spending over the past decade.
The essay did not specify the threats calling for stronger defense, but it said that Western foes did not want to see a strong China.Hostile Western forces do not want to see a strong socialist China emerge in the east, and they are constantly cooking up vain attempts to hold in check and contain China's development.Supporters of independence for Taiwan -- the self-governed island that China has claimed as its own since their split in 1949 amid civil war -- are also a major peril, it added.China has experienced deepening friction with Japan over Tokyo's treatment of its World War Two invasion and its increasingly assertive foreign policy.
Beijing's relations with Washington are strained by mutual mistrust, even as the two countries seek to cooperate over curtailing North Korea's nuclear weapons program and defusing other regional disputes.At present, the political and military environment on China's periphery is quite complex, and unpredictable factors are clearly rising,the essay said.China's 2.3-million-strong People's Liberation Army is the world's largest standing force and Beijing has said its defense budget will rise 14.7 percent to 283.8 billion yuan ($35.5 billion) in 2006.That is much smaller than United States' $419.3 billion defense budget for 2006, but many in Washington say China's real defense spending is higher than its official figure. © Reuters 2006.
This is the 1ST Wave of WW3. Russia and the Muslim Horde, but loose 5/6th of their Army. Ezekiel 38-39.
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines(PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
WE see In Ezekiel 38 LIBYA will be with this Russia, muslim horde.
More nuclear fuel removed from Libya, US says Wed Jul 26, 11:07 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three more kg (6.6 pounds) of weapons-capable highly enriched uranium have been removed from Libya, bringing to 20 kg (44 pounds) the total put under international control since the country abandoned its nuclear arms program in
2003, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
The recent two-day operation was carried out by Russia, the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration and the U.N. watchdog agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency.Libya's cooperation and commitment was key to this joint nonproliferation effort. It is a clear indication of Libya's continued commitment to rid itself of weapons of mass destruction and proliferation-sensitive materials,Linton Brooks, the U.S. agency's administrator, said in a written statement.
A U.S. spokesman said an initial 17 kg (37 pounds) of highly enriched uranium, or HEU, was removed from Libya in 2004 but was not previously announced.The latest shipment was part of a process to remove all Russian-origin HEU material from Libya. The U.S. agency did not say how much was left.A report on Monday by the Libyan news agency quoted leader Muammar Gaddafi as saying Libya at one stage came close to building a nuclear bomb, the first time any Libyan official had confirmed the North African country had been trying to build a nuclear bomb.One U.S. official who deals with nonproliferation issues told Reuters the claim was not credible.Libya possessed nuclear material but not enough expertise to complete the job. I don't think Gaddafi was close, the official said.At Libya's Tajoura Research Center, the HEU was loaded into three specialized transportation containers provided by Russia, while U.S. and IAEA experts monitored the process.
The containers were airlifted under guard from an airport near Tripoli, Libya, to a secure facility in Russia where the HEU will be blended into low enriched uranium, or LEU, which is less suitable for weapons production.The operation was part of the U.S. global threat reduction initiative to secure vulnerable nuclear and radiological materials around the world as quickly as possible. In all, some 189 kg (416 pounds) of HEU have been returned in 13 shipments to Russia from Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Uzbekistan, Latvia, and the Czech Republic, as well as Libya.In December 2003, Libya said it would abandon its weapons of mass destruction programs and allow international inspections. The move helped the OPEC oil producer repair relations with the West after decades of estrangement.The United States said in May it would restore formal ties and take Libya off the list of countries deemed state
sponsors of terrorism.
THIS WAR STARTED IN LEBANON, BUT WILL SOON MOVE EASTWARD, INTO SYRIA AND THEN IRAN
Excerpt:This war has two co-directors, the UNITED STATES and IRAN. We are sided with the UNITED STATES; Hezbollah with IRAN. The aim (although not publicly stated) of the UNITED STATES is to widen the war so that they will have the pretext to
attack IRAN.
That is why the White House is in no rush to implement a cease fire. Or why ISRAEL was allowed to destroy LEBANON's infrastructure without a peep from the UNITED STATES government.This war started in LEBANON but will soon move eastward into Alawite SYRIA and then Shi'ite IRAN.
That is the goal of those who are micro-managing this event (oh, I know, I learned in history class at college that wars are not planned and concocted, they just happen because world leaders are naive and do not understand threats until it is too late).The only problem is that ISRAEL is being set up to pay the price as the sub-contractor for the UNITED STATES military.
When the UNITED STATES gets its chance to attack IRAN -- the reason the White House will give is, we had no choice -- IRAN attacked ISRAEL -- our closest ally, through its proxy, Hezbollah, and we had no other choice other than to defend ISRAEL against IRAN -- the country which sponsors the terrorism that led to the kidnapping of the two Israeli solders which created the conflict in the first place.
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The Israeli public has been duped. We are not at war with Hezbullah. We are at war with IRAN.
Why do I say that?
Well for starters, both the UNITED STATES and ISRAEL say so. They claim (and rightly so) that Shi'ite Hezbollah is a proxy for Alawite SYRIA and Shi'ite IRAN.
While some Israelis take this as political justification for ISRAEL's cause the conclusions to be drawn from this are for more relevant.What if, just what if, the soldiers in the bunkers in south LEBANON are not Hezbullah fighters as we have been told. But Iranian soldiers?
Units of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard. That would certainly account for the stiff resistance ISRAEL is confronting.The Israeli public were fooled into thinking this war would end quickly because of the belief in the overwhelming superiority of the Israeli soldiers over those of Hezbullah. But what if ISRAEL is not fighting Hezbullah but in fact a very well trained unit (s) of IRAN's elite Revolutionary Guard?
Preposterous? Consider this news report filed by Aaron Klein of WorldNetDaily on Monday, July 24, 2006:
Report:Iranian soldiers join Hizbullah in fighting
Lebanese sources say Revolutionary Guard units aiding Hizbullah against the Jewish state, report bodies of dead Iranian soldiers transferred to TEHRAN via SYRIA.The bodies of Iranian Revolutionary Guard soldiers who were killed by the Israeli army in LEBANON have been transported to SYRIA and flown to TEHRAN, senior Lebanese political sources told WorldNetDaily (W.N.D.).
The information was confirmed by Israeli and Egyptian security officials. W.N.D. reported earlier this month that Israeli security officials said they have concrete information hundreds of Iranian soldiers stationed at Hizbullah positions in LEBANON have aided in efforts to fire missiles into the Jewish state. The Israeli officials said Iranian guards directed the firing two weeks ago of a radar-guided C802 missile that hit an Israeli navy vessel off the coast of LEBANON, killing four soldiers.
ISRAEL says IRAN acquired the missile from CHINA. The officials said the Iranian soldiers' duties include keeping custody of long-range missiles within Hizbullah's arsenal, including Zalzal rockets which are said to have a range of 125 miles, placing TEL AVIV within firing range.
ISRAEL has long maintained that Iranian Revolutionary Guard units have travelled regularly to south LEBANON to help train local Hizbullah fighters in terrorist tactics and to fortify Hizbullah positions along ISRAEL's northern border. At times, Revolutionary Guard soldiers could be seen operating openly at Hizbullah outposts in plain view from the Israeli side, military officials say.
Take notice that everyone in the Arab world including the Israeli military seems to agree that units of IRAN's Revolutionary Guard are aiding in this way. Is it possible that they are not just aiding the war effort on behalf of Hezbullah -- but actually running it?
If they are teaching/directing the Hezbullah soldiers how to fire the missiles -- then is there really anything more than a semantic difference in these two statements? If so, then Nasrallah is not in charge of the enemy's defences -- IRAN is. If so, that is not what the Israeli public thinks.
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Friday, July 28, 2006
EU TROOPS READY FOR MIDEAST
4 Eu countries are ready to go into the mideast with force (violence) if asked. France, Norway, Italy and Turkey. the Bible says its the EU not the US, not the UN or RUSSIA that secures Israels safety , Its the EU prophecy again coming to pass. Praise God (JESUS) for making it come to pass and prooving skeptics of the Bible wrong.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(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)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.(THIS EU POLITICIAN COMES FROM THE OCCULT)
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(THE EU DICTATOR) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
DANIEL 7:7-8,23-24
7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
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.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
REVELATION 13:1-2
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
REVELATION 17:3,7,9-13
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
EU troops on stand by as Middle East crisis deepens
EU troops could be deployed in Lebanon if violence continues to escalate in the region. Speaking after a meeting of Europe's foreign ministers on Monday, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana called on member states to be prepared to participate in operations in the Middle East.
It is important that member states are ready to consider participating in this force,Solana told a press conference. I am confident they are ready to take part if required. But at the moment this is just an idea. The comments echo those of British Prime Minister Tony Blair who said the only way to stop the fighting was to deploy UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon.
EU preparedness comes as some analysts predict a major ground invasion of southern Lebanon by Israel, which wants to remove Hizbullah's capacity to fire missiles over the border.Meanwhile EU officials are working hard to step up consular cooperation between European outposts in the region - to secure the safe exit of Europeans wishing to leave.
Our concern for the safety of EU citizens in the region is growing, Finnish foreign minister Erkki Tuonioja told reporters on Monday. We have been coordinating
intensive consular cooperation for those who wish to leave.During its six months in EU office, the Finnish presidency has been charged with implementing formal channels for consular communication.
But Helsinki insists that even with the formal mechanisms not yet in place, cooperation between embassies is proving effective.Even without the consular cooperation in place that we have been entrusted to work on, the improvisation has worked very well,Tuonioja said.On Sunday military planes evacuated 350 from Lebanon people to Cyprus. The evacuees, including Spaniards, Italians, Austrians, Czechs and Irish, were flown from Syria on Italian military craft.France has chartered a cruise ship and a ferry that were expected to arrive in Beirut on Monday to transport French and other European citizens to Cyprus.
Published: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:36:39 GMT+02,Author: Daisy Ayliffe
It is important that member states are ready to consider participating in this force. Javier Solana
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(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)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.(THIS EU POLITICIAN COMES FROM THE OCCULT)
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(THE EU DICTATOR) and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
DANIEL 7:7-8,23-24
7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
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.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
REVELATION 13:1-2
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
REVELATION 17:3,7,9-13
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
EU troops on stand by as Middle East crisis deepens
EU troops could be deployed in Lebanon if violence continues to escalate in the region. Speaking after a meeting of Europe's foreign ministers on Monday, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana called on member states to be prepared to participate in operations in the Middle East.
It is important that member states are ready to consider participating in this force,Solana told a press conference. I am confident they are ready to take part if required. But at the moment this is just an idea. The comments echo those of British Prime Minister Tony Blair who said the only way to stop the fighting was to deploy UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon.
EU preparedness comes as some analysts predict a major ground invasion of southern Lebanon by Israel, which wants to remove Hizbullah's capacity to fire missiles over the border.Meanwhile EU officials are working hard to step up consular cooperation between European outposts in the region - to secure the safe exit of Europeans wishing to leave.
Our concern for the safety of EU citizens in the region is growing, Finnish foreign minister Erkki Tuonioja told reporters on Monday. We have been coordinating
intensive consular cooperation for those who wish to leave.During its six months in EU office, the Finnish presidency has been charged with implementing formal channels for consular communication.
But Helsinki insists that even with the formal mechanisms not yet in place, cooperation between embassies is proving effective.Even without the consular cooperation in place that we have been entrusted to work on, the improvisation has worked very well,Tuonioja said.On Sunday military planes evacuated 350 from Lebanon people to Cyprus. The evacuees, including Spaniards, Italians, Austrians, Czechs and Irish, were flown from Syria on Italian military craft.France has chartered a cruise ship and a ferry that were expected to arrive in Beirut on Monday to transport French and other European citizens to Cyprus.
Published: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:36:39 GMT+02,Author: Daisy Ayliffe
It is important that member states are ready to consider participating in this force. Javier Solana
BOOK OF PSALMS FOUND ON 83
1-6.1 Quake hits Sumatra Island in Indonesia. 2-California death toll could reach 70 due to heatwave. 3-Globe feels heat of forest fires. 4-Murderer Arabs say they will get revenge against Israel. 5-Syrian Minister hopes to revive mideast Peace Process (OH ya I sure Believe this lie) 6-Bush at odds with Allies on Lebanon. 7-Methane Rain forcast for Saturn's moon. 8-Book of Psalms found on 83, accident or coming to pass.
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.
6.1 quake hits Indonesia's Sumatra island 2 hours, 29 minutes ago
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A strong earthquake rocked parts of Indonesia's North and West Sumatra provinces Wednesday. There were no immediate reports of a tsunami. The 6.1 magnitude earthquake occurred at 6:16 p.m. (7:16 a.m. EDT) and was centered under
the Indian Ocean about 60 miles northwest off Nias island, said Lukito, an official at the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency. He said the quake was felt in Gunung Sitoli, the main town on Nias island, in the North Sumatra towns of Porsea and Sibolga, and in Padang, the capital of West Sumatra.
It strongly jolted Gunung Sitoli, but so far, we have not yet received any report of damage or casualties,said Lukito, who uses one name.A tsunami caused by an undersea earthquake killed some 600 Indonesians last week.
Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire,an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.
ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
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.
California heat wave toll could top 70 Wed Jul 26, 8:54 PM ET
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - More than 70 people may have died in California's record-breaking heat wave, a state official said as temperatures appeared to ebb.A spokeswoman of the Governor's Office of Emergency Services said officials were working to confirm that the recent deaths of 71 people were due to the record-breaking heat.These are deaths that are believed to be due to the heat or related to the heat wave,Tina Walker told AFP.
However, until toxicology records and autopsies are performed, it won't be certain that that was the cause,she said.Most of the dead, counted since July 14, were elderly people living in the hot central valley between San Francisco and Los Angeles.The deaths included three illegal immigrants whose bodies were found on the US-Mexico border in southern California, apparently dead from dehydration.
However, the Mexican consulate on the border and border patrol officials have reported finding four bodies of people likely killed by the intense heat.The wave of hot weather appeared to be easing Wednesday, with California power company officials expecting to return to a normal situation after heavy air conditioner usage raised electricity consumption to record levels at the beginning of the week, forcing service cutbacks.Still, thermometers in the California capital Sacramento in the central valley reached 40 degrees C (104 degrees F) Wednesday, the eleventh day in a row topping 38 degrees C (100 degrees F).
In Los Angeles temperatures hit 38 degrees C (100 degrees F), after soaring in one area, Woodland Hills, to 48 degrees C (119 degrees F) on Monday.
But tens of thousands of power company customers remained without power from San Francisco to Los Angeles due to failures of aged transmission equipment under the heavy demand load. Power company officials have asked neighboring states to lend them personnel to help get services restored.California has avoided the blackouts that consumers and businesses suffered in 2001, when a power shortage crisis helped lead to the recall of then-governor Gray Davis and his replacement by Hollywood star turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Weather services were forecasting lower temperatures through the end of the week, and no electricity alerts were issued Wednesday.Meanwhile east of San Diego, 1,400 fire fighters continued to battle a forest blaze that started on Sunday and has been stoked by high temperatures and strong winds.Another fire Tuesday burned a 10 hectare (25 acre) swathe of hillside in a wealthy area near Beverly Hills, home to many movie stars. One home was damaged.
Globe feels heat of forest fires
Scientists cite more signs - from all points of the compass - that link global warming, rapid increase in blazes
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Scientists worldwide are watching temperatures rise, the land turn dry and vast forests go up in flames.In the Siberian taiga and Canadian Rockies, in Southern California and in Australia, researchers find growing evidence tying an upsurge in wildfires to climate change, an impact long predicted by global-warming forecasters.A team at California's Scripps Institution, in a headline-making report this month, found that warmer temperatures, causing earlier snow runoff and consequently drier summer conditions, were the key factor in an explosion of big wildfires in the western United States for three decades, including fires now rampaging east of Los Angeles.Researchers previously reach- ed similar conclusions in Canada, where fire is destroying an average 6.4 million acres a year, compared with 2.5 million in the early 1970as.
And an upcoming U.S.-Russian-Canadian scientific paper points to links between warming and wildfires in Siberia, where 2006 already qualifies as an extreme fire season, sixth in the past eight years. Far to the south in drought-stricken Australia, meanwhile, 2005 was the hottest year on record, and the dangerous brushfire season is growing longer.
Temperature increases are intimately linked with increases in area burned in Canada, and I would expect the same worldwide,said Mike Flannigan, a veteran Canadian Forest Service researcher.Nadezda M. Tchebakova, a climatologist at Russia's Sukachev
Institute of Forestry, said southern Siberia's average winter temperatures in the 1980-2000 period were 2 to 4 degrees Celsius (3.6 to 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the pre-1960 norm.Snowmelt starts much earlier in the spring,she said by telephone from the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Precipitation is decreasing.
This combination of elevated temperatures and decreased precipitation should provide conditions for greater fire occurrence.As she spoke, newly ignited blazes raced through the conifer forests of Evenkiya, a summer fishing and hunting region north of Krasnoyarsk.The Sukachev Institute's satellite data show that more than 29 million acres an area the size of Pennsylvania have been burned in Russia already this year.
Orbiting cameras see a red-and-green checkerboard in Siberia, of hot spots among endless evergreens.The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an authoritative UN-sponsored network of scientists, has long predicted that summer drying and droughts would worsen forest fires, which in many regions are primarily set by humans.Global temperatures rose an average 1 degree Fahrenheit in the 20th century, and warming will continue as long as man-made greenhouse gases, mostly carbon dioxide from fossil-fuel burning, accumulate in the atmosphere, the panel says.The change is much more rapid than initially forecast 10 or 15 years ago, Brian Stocks, a retired Canadian Forest Service scientist, said of the fires.
It seems people are finally beginning to take a look at it.The Scripps study, published in the journal Science, was unique in collating detailed data from 34 years of U.S. western wildfires with temperature, snowmelt and streamflow records. Wildfire frequency varies widely from year to year, but the California researchers found a clear trend: The average number of large fires almost quadrupled between the first and second halves of that period.
They also looked at land-use changes and forest management practices, but concluded they were secondary factors in the upsurge of fires. There were many more wildfires burning in hotter than in cooler years,they reported.Such detailed data does not exist on a global scale. Doing a similar study in Russia would be difficult because Soviet-era records are unreliable. And specialists caution wildfires remain complex phenomena. In many regions, slash-and-burn farmers, arsonists and others start most fires; fire professionals say modifying human behavior is key.But although humans are the prime cause, coupled with climate change, things are becoming worse,said Johann Goldammer, director of the Global Fire Monitoring Center at Germany's Freiburg University.
Warming in high northern latitudes is expected to generate more lightning, igniting more forest fires, notes the report by Amber J. Soja of the U.S. National Institute of Aerospace, Tchebakova and other U.S., Russian and Canadian scientists.Their paper, upcoming in the U.S. journal Global and Planetary Change, looks at how current reality compares with still other effects of climate change previously foreseen for northern, boreal regions - Siberia, Canada, Alaska.The forest in Siberia is shifting northward, and the forest-steppe [mixed forest and plain] is replacing it in the south,Tchebakova said.
Those were the predictions.In Alaska, the international team found a decline in growth of white spruce trees and a spread of forest insect infestation - also both predicted in computerized climate-change scenarios.Goldammer pointed out that boreal forests may be crucially linked to the fate of the global environment, since the forests and their peat soils hold about one-third of Earth's stored carbon.
Forest and peat fires release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, adding to climate warming, which in turn will intensify forest fires, further worsening warming in a planetary feedback loop.This is a carbon bomb,Goldammer said of the northern forest. It's sitting there waiting to be ignited, and there is already ignition going on.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(TERRORISM)
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.
TERRORISM: ZAWAHIRI WARNS AL-QAEDA WILL AVENGE ISRAEL'S OFFENSIVE
Dubai, 27 July (AKI) - Al-Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri said his organization will not stand idle as Israel continues its offensive on Lebanon and the Palestinians and called on Muslims to fight back in a tape aired by Qatar-based satellite television al-Jazeera. Zawahiri however did not indicate how al-Qaeda intended to respond to the crisis. How can we remain silent while watching bombs raining on our people,he asked. Oh Muslims everywhere, I call on you to fight and become martyrs in the war against the Zionists and the Crusaders,Zawahri said in his address, entitled The Zionist-crusader war on Lebanon and the Palestinians.
Al-Qaeda cannot remain silent while a "Zionist-Crusader war" is on, he said, adding that he saw all the world as a battlefield open in front of us.Events in Lebanon and Gaza showed the importance of the battle in Afghanistan and Iraq, he also noted. Zawahri's statement on Thursday was the first by Sunni Muslim-dominated al-Qaeda on Israel's offensive in Lebanon, sparked on 12 July by the abduction of two Israeli soldiers by Lebanon-based Shiite militant group Hezbollah.
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines(PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
Syrian Minister Hopes to Revive Mideast Peace Process (LIES)
Wednesday, July 26, 2006 - 04:05 PM
MADRID, (SANA) –SPAIN
Minister of Information Mohsen Bilal expressed hope that the Spanish role in Rome meeting today will contribute to revive the Mideast peace process in a way that leads to return all occupied Arab territories.Spain hosted Madrid Peace Conference and it is an important country on the bilateral, Euro-Mediterranean and international levels,the Minister added in a statement to the Spanish ABC newspaper published on Wednesday, underling that Spain knows directly our pints of views and share them with Syria.The Minister emphasized that there is no way to touch upon the Arab Israeli struggle partially,asserting that the core of the problem should be tackled by ending the Israeli occupation of all occupied Arab territories since 1967 in order to reach one solution as part of a package deal and offer the requirements of stability and security in the Middle East .
He stressed that point of views during his talks with the Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos were identical regarding the necessity of reaching a
comprehensive solution that leads to Israeli withdrawal from all the occupied Arab territories including the occupied Golan and Shba's farms.Thawra -Sawsan.
BUSH AT ODDS WITH ALLIES ON MIDEAST SITUATION
July 27, 2006 — President Bush is in disagreement with almost all of his allies in Europe and the Middle East when it comes to solving the crisis in the Middle East. ABC News has learned that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is expected to return to the Middle East shortly, after failing to bring about any deal for a cease-fire earlier this week. After days of meetings in Cyprus; Beirut, Lebanon; and Israel, the president's top diplomat left the Middle East without hammering out a plan to stop the bloodshed. I seek urgently to get an end to these hostilities, an end to this violence,Rice said. An emergency conference with 15 nations, the United Nations and the European Union only underscored disagreements about the best way forward.
Lasting Solutions?
Many European and Arab nations would like the United States to pressure Israel into a unilateral cease-fire, but administration officials believe that would only empower Hezbollah to attack again. Another option already under discussion is putting an international force along the border. There are massive hurdles, however. Who will send troops, under what terms, and will Hezbollah agree not to attack them? Finally, there's diplomacy. The Bush administration believes Syria is backing Hezbollah. Would the violence halt if the president reversed course, rather than isolating Syria, offering the country incentives to help stop the violence?
Some experts say it may be the best in a range of unappealing options. This could stay ugly for a long time because there's no obvious endgame, because there's no obvious military solution to this on either side, said Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution.
Murky Future
Americans are overwhelmingly pessimistic about brokering a peace deal in the region, according to a new poll.
A New York Times/CBS News poll shows that most Americans believe the conflict won't end; 64 percent say Israelis and Arabs will never live in peace.The United Nations is expected to begin discussing a possible cease-fire and an international force for the region next week.
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; 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.
Methane rain forecast for Saturn's giant moon Titan Wed Jul 26, 1:40 PM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - The weather forecast for Saturn's giant moon Titan calls for methane rain, scientists said on Wednesday. It ranges from a persistent drizzle that keeps the surface of Saturn's largest moon -- which has geological features similar to Earth damp to fierce storms that could produce huge droplets.We have found the first evidence of drizzly rain on a remote planet, in this case Titan, which consists of liquid methane and a little bit of nitrogen,said Tetsuya Tokano of Cologne University in Germany.
He and his team used data from the NASA/European Space Agency Cassini-Huygens mission to measure the atmospheric chemical composition, temperature and pressure on Titan.The Cassini craft was launched in 1997 and reached Saturn in 2004 after cruising past Venus and Jupiter.
Information from the probe showed Titan, which is larger than the planet Mercury, is cold and windy with a dense atmosphere of methane and nitrogen.According to team's the findings, reported in the journal Nature, much of the surface of Titan could experience a drizzle for the next few years.In a separate report in the journal researchers from Spain did a modeling study of Titan's atmosphere which suggested clouds over the south pole would produce fierce storms that would pound the surface and could help explain the formation of its river valleys.Ricardo Hueso and Agustin Sanchez-Lavega of the University of Pais Vasco in Bilbao said under the right conditions the storms could produce methane raindrops up to 5 millimetres (0.2 inches) across that would pound the surface similar to flash floods seen on Earth.
Tokano said although the Spanish researchers reached a different conclusion he believed both types of rainfall could occur on Titan depending on the conditions. We do not rule out the presence of such heavy rainstorms because such clouds have been observed near the south pole,he added.
The Cassini-Huygens mission to study Saturn's rings and moons is named after two 17th-century Europeans: Dutchman Christiaan Huygens, who discovered Saturn's rings and Titan, and Italian-French astronomer Jean-Dominique Cassini, who discovered the planet's other four major moons.
WE HAVE A SURE WORD OF PROPHECY (THE BIBLE)
2 PETER 1:19-21
19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
ISAIAH 46:9-10
9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
2 TIMOTHY 3:16
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
ISAIAH 28:9-11
9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
Book of Psalms found on Psalms 83,Accident or coming to pass.
Posted on Wednesday 26 July 2006,wwwjnewswire.com
Christians are not superstitious. We do not believe in fate or chance. All things are ordered by God and there are no real coincidences in this life.Many of us holding this conviction do, however, look for signs as we seek to hear the Lord speaking to and directing us. And when really amazing things do occur, it can seem to those who have eyes to see and ears to hear that the Lord Himself is shouting a message from the heavens.
This, for example, is how I view the discovery of the Isaiah manuscript of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947, and its identification in 1948.For me the timing of the find – precisely in the years when the United Nations voted to partition Palestine and David Ben Gurion declared the establishment of the State of Israel – together with the identity of the book – Isaiah perhaps being the primary prophet foretelling the restoration of the Jews to their Land – put God’s stamp of authenticity on this momentous event.
Biblical scholars have remarked that the Scroll’s discovery blew away much of the skepticism that had taken root concerning the divine Authorship of the Bible.Something similar – if not of quite the same magnitude – happened for me today, a fortnight into Israel’s two-front conflict with Hamas in the south and Hizb’allah in the north.Early this morning (Wednesday, July 26, 2006), I met
with nine other men in the new King of Kings Pavilion Prayer Tower high above downtown Jerusalem. On top of our prayer agenda, naturally enough, was the ongoing war that has been triggered by Muslim Arabs bent on destroying the Jewish state.It is not always easy to know what or how to pray in such circumstances. We know that God’s thoughts are not our thoughts nor are our ways His ways, and we do not wish to pray presumptuously. We even have to submit our understanding of what we read in God’s Word, the Bible, to His Holy Spirit. Sometimes it is perhaps best to simply pray that Word back to God and, as it were, remind Him of what He has written.
Early in the meeting today Pastor Wayne Hilsden was prompted to read Psalm 83. For those of us living in Israel, this is a well known imprecatory psalm – one of the War Psalms.Part of it reads: For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; and those who hate You have lifted up their head. They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, and consulted together against Your sheltered ones. They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more. (Psalm 83:2-4)
We prayed into it.
Upon returning home two hours later, I found that someone had emailed me a fascinating report off the CNN website. It was headlined:Medieval book of psalms unearthed – First millennium manuscript, open to Psalm 83, found in Irish mud.
(http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/07/25/ireland.psalms.ap/index.html)
According to the report, the 20-page book, which was found by a construction worker digging in the bog last week, has been expertly dated to the years AD 800 to 1000.It was the first time in more than 200 years that an early medieval Irish document had
been unearthed.CNN quotes the director of the National Museum of Ireland, Pat Wallace, who described the discovery as really a miracle find.
There’s two sets of odds that make this discovery really way out, Wallace said. First of all, it’s unlikely that something this fragile could survive buried in a bog at all, and then for it to be unearthed and spotted before it was destroyed is incalculably more amazing.What’s even more incredible to me is that this book, opened to this psalm, was discovered at this specific time in history.
For right now Israel’s enemies are again united in their desire to cut Israel off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.They purpose to take for themselves the pastures of God for a possession.And that they are in league – or in a confederacy – is clear.From Gaza, supported by most of the Arab states, the violence is being directed by the Palestinian Arab terrorist groups: the PLO, Hamas, the Palestine Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine and the popular resistance Committees.In the north, the Lebanese group Hizb’allah, supplied and enabled by Syria and the non-Arab but also Islamic Iran, is raining rockets down on Israel.This, given the current situation, makes Psalm 83 a fascinating and fitting read, the ancient find nothing short of a phenomenon.I don’t want to take it any further than I should, but time may also show that the discovery of the Irish psalm book was a warning.Many people have sensed that Damascus could be sucked into this war.
Twelve days ago the Islamic Republic of Iran warned that an Israeli strike on Syria would be considered an attack on the whole Islamic world and would elicit a fierce response.Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly spelled out his vision for Israel.Israel must be wiped off the map.(October 26, 2005) The West [must] remove what they created sixty years ago … [or] the Palestinian nation and other nations will eventually do this for them.(February 11, 2006) Like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation. The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm.(April 15, 2006) And on July 8, 2006 Ahmadinejad told the foreign ministers of Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Turkey, Bahrain and Egypt, together with the heads of the Arab League and the Islamic Conference that all the conditions for the removal of the Zionist regime are at hand…
It won’t take long before the wrath of the people turns into a terrible explosion that will wipe the Zionist entity off the map.Wrote one commentator: None of the foreign ministers present, including Jordan, Egypt or Turkey – commonly regarded as Israel’s friends in the Arab/Muslim world – objected to the call for annihilation.
Will today’s Rome Summit bring about a ceasefire, or even perhaps a new peace plan that will see the war now raging brought to an end?
Or could we be on the verge of an all out Middle East conflagration concerning which we need to pray like Asaph, regarding those bent on Israel’s destruction:O my God, make them like the whirling dust, like the chaff before the wind! As the fire burns the woods, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire, so pursue them with Your tempest, and frighten them with Your storm. Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O LORD. Let them be confounded and dismayed forever; yes, let them be put to shame and perish, that they may know that You, whose name alone is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth. (Psalm 83:13-18)
May His will be done on earth as it is in heaven. All glory to our wonderful God and His living and mighty Word!
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.
6.1 quake hits Indonesia's Sumatra island 2 hours, 29 minutes ago
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A strong earthquake rocked parts of Indonesia's North and West Sumatra provinces Wednesday. There were no immediate reports of a tsunami. The 6.1 magnitude earthquake occurred at 6:16 p.m. (7:16 a.m. EDT) and was centered under
the Indian Ocean about 60 miles northwest off Nias island, said Lukito, an official at the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency. He said the quake was felt in Gunung Sitoli, the main town on Nias island, in the North Sumatra towns of Porsea and Sibolga, and in Padang, the capital of West Sumatra.
It strongly jolted Gunung Sitoli, but so far, we have not yet received any report of damage or casualties,said Lukito, who uses one name.A tsunami caused by an undersea earthquake killed some 600 Indonesians last week.
Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire,an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.
ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
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.
California heat wave toll could top 70 Wed Jul 26, 8:54 PM ET
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - More than 70 people may have died in California's record-breaking heat wave, a state official said as temperatures appeared to ebb.A spokeswoman of the Governor's Office of Emergency Services said officials were working to confirm that the recent deaths of 71 people were due to the record-breaking heat.These are deaths that are believed to be due to the heat or related to the heat wave,Tina Walker told AFP.
However, until toxicology records and autopsies are performed, it won't be certain that that was the cause,she said.Most of the dead, counted since July 14, were elderly people living in the hot central valley between San Francisco and Los Angeles.The deaths included three illegal immigrants whose bodies were found on the US-Mexico border in southern California, apparently dead from dehydration.
However, the Mexican consulate on the border and border patrol officials have reported finding four bodies of people likely killed by the intense heat.The wave of hot weather appeared to be easing Wednesday, with California power company officials expecting to return to a normal situation after heavy air conditioner usage raised electricity consumption to record levels at the beginning of the week, forcing service cutbacks.Still, thermometers in the California capital Sacramento in the central valley reached 40 degrees C (104 degrees F) Wednesday, the eleventh day in a row topping 38 degrees C (100 degrees F).
In Los Angeles temperatures hit 38 degrees C (100 degrees F), after soaring in one area, Woodland Hills, to 48 degrees C (119 degrees F) on Monday.
But tens of thousands of power company customers remained without power from San Francisco to Los Angeles due to failures of aged transmission equipment under the heavy demand load. Power company officials have asked neighboring states to lend them personnel to help get services restored.California has avoided the blackouts that consumers and businesses suffered in 2001, when a power shortage crisis helped lead to the recall of then-governor Gray Davis and his replacement by Hollywood star turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Weather services were forecasting lower temperatures through the end of the week, and no electricity alerts were issued Wednesday.Meanwhile east of San Diego, 1,400 fire fighters continued to battle a forest blaze that started on Sunday and has been stoked by high temperatures and strong winds.Another fire Tuesday burned a 10 hectare (25 acre) swathe of hillside in a wealthy area near Beverly Hills, home to many movie stars. One home was damaged.
Globe feels heat of forest fires
Scientists cite more signs - from all points of the compass - that link global warming, rapid increase in blazes
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Scientists worldwide are watching temperatures rise, the land turn dry and vast forests go up in flames.In the Siberian taiga and Canadian Rockies, in Southern California and in Australia, researchers find growing evidence tying an upsurge in wildfires to climate change, an impact long predicted by global-warming forecasters.A team at California's Scripps Institution, in a headline-making report this month, found that warmer temperatures, causing earlier snow runoff and consequently drier summer conditions, were the key factor in an explosion of big wildfires in the western United States for three decades, including fires now rampaging east of Los Angeles.Researchers previously reach- ed similar conclusions in Canada, where fire is destroying an average 6.4 million acres a year, compared with 2.5 million in the early 1970as.
And an upcoming U.S.-Russian-Canadian scientific paper points to links between warming and wildfires in Siberia, where 2006 already qualifies as an extreme fire season, sixth in the past eight years. Far to the south in drought-stricken Australia, meanwhile, 2005 was the hottest year on record, and the dangerous brushfire season is growing longer.
Temperature increases are intimately linked with increases in area burned in Canada, and I would expect the same worldwide,said Mike Flannigan, a veteran Canadian Forest Service researcher.Nadezda M. Tchebakova, a climatologist at Russia's Sukachev
Institute of Forestry, said southern Siberia's average winter temperatures in the 1980-2000 period were 2 to 4 degrees Celsius (3.6 to 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the pre-1960 norm.Snowmelt starts much earlier in the spring,she said by telephone from the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Precipitation is decreasing.
This combination of elevated temperatures and decreased precipitation should provide conditions for greater fire occurrence.As she spoke, newly ignited blazes raced through the conifer forests of Evenkiya, a summer fishing and hunting region north of Krasnoyarsk.The Sukachev Institute's satellite data show that more than 29 million acres an area the size of Pennsylvania have been burned in Russia already this year.
Orbiting cameras see a red-and-green checkerboard in Siberia, of hot spots among endless evergreens.The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an authoritative UN-sponsored network of scientists, has long predicted that summer drying and droughts would worsen forest fires, which in many regions are primarily set by humans.Global temperatures rose an average 1 degree Fahrenheit in the 20th century, and warming will continue as long as man-made greenhouse gases, mostly carbon dioxide from fossil-fuel burning, accumulate in the atmosphere, the panel says.The change is much more rapid than initially forecast 10 or 15 years ago, Brian Stocks, a retired Canadian Forest Service scientist, said of the fires.
It seems people are finally beginning to take a look at it.The Scripps study, published in the journal Science, was unique in collating detailed data from 34 years of U.S. western wildfires with temperature, snowmelt and streamflow records. Wildfire frequency varies widely from year to year, but the California researchers found a clear trend: The average number of large fires almost quadrupled between the first and second halves of that period.
They also looked at land-use changes and forest management practices, but concluded they were secondary factors in the upsurge of fires. There were many more wildfires burning in hotter than in cooler years,they reported.Such detailed data does not exist on a global scale. Doing a similar study in Russia would be difficult because Soviet-era records are unreliable. And specialists caution wildfires remain complex phenomena. In many regions, slash-and-burn farmers, arsonists and others start most fires; fire professionals say modifying human behavior is key.But although humans are the prime cause, coupled with climate change, things are becoming worse,said Johann Goldammer, director of the Global Fire Monitoring Center at Germany's Freiburg University.
Warming in high northern latitudes is expected to generate more lightning, igniting more forest fires, notes the report by Amber J. Soja of the U.S. National Institute of Aerospace, Tchebakova and other U.S., Russian and Canadian scientists.Their paper, upcoming in the U.S. journal Global and Planetary Change, looks at how current reality compares with still other effects of climate change previously foreseen for northern, boreal regions - Siberia, Canada, Alaska.The forest in Siberia is shifting northward, and the forest-steppe [mixed forest and plain] is replacing it in the south,Tchebakova said.
Those were the predictions.In Alaska, the international team found a decline in growth of white spruce trees and a spread of forest insect infestation - also both predicted in computerized climate-change scenarios.Goldammer pointed out that boreal forests may be crucially linked to the fate of the global environment, since the forests and their peat soils hold about one-third of Earth's stored carbon.
Forest and peat fires release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, adding to climate warming, which in turn will intensify forest fires, further worsening warming in a planetary feedback loop.This is a carbon bomb,Goldammer said of the northern forest. It's sitting there waiting to be ignited, and there is already ignition going on.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(TERRORISM)
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.
TERRORISM: ZAWAHIRI WARNS AL-QAEDA WILL AVENGE ISRAEL'S OFFENSIVE
Dubai, 27 July (AKI) - Al-Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri said his organization will not stand idle as Israel continues its offensive on Lebanon and the Palestinians and called on Muslims to fight back in a tape aired by Qatar-based satellite television al-Jazeera. Zawahiri however did not indicate how al-Qaeda intended to respond to the crisis. How can we remain silent while watching bombs raining on our people,he asked. Oh Muslims everywhere, I call on you to fight and become martyrs in the war against the Zionists and the Crusaders,Zawahri said in his address, entitled The Zionist-crusader war on Lebanon and the Palestinians.
Al-Qaeda cannot remain silent while a "Zionist-Crusader war" is on, he said, adding that he saw all the world as a battlefield open in front of us.Events in Lebanon and Gaza showed the importance of the battle in Afghanistan and Iraq, he also noted. Zawahri's statement on Thursday was the first by Sunni Muslim-dominated al-Qaeda on Israel's offensive in Lebanon, sparked on 12 July by the abduction of two Israeli soldiers by Lebanon-based Shiite militant group Hezbollah.
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines(PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
Syrian Minister Hopes to Revive Mideast Peace Process (LIES)
Wednesday, July 26, 2006 - 04:05 PM
MADRID, (SANA) –SPAIN
Minister of Information Mohsen Bilal expressed hope that the Spanish role in Rome meeting today will contribute to revive the Mideast peace process in a way that leads to return all occupied Arab territories.Spain hosted Madrid Peace Conference and it is an important country on the bilateral, Euro-Mediterranean and international levels,the Minister added in a statement to the Spanish ABC newspaper published on Wednesday, underling that Spain knows directly our pints of views and share them with Syria.The Minister emphasized that there is no way to touch upon the Arab Israeli struggle partially,asserting that the core of the problem should be tackled by ending the Israeli occupation of all occupied Arab territories since 1967 in order to reach one solution as part of a package deal and offer the requirements of stability and security in the Middle East .
He stressed that point of views during his talks with the Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos were identical regarding the necessity of reaching a
comprehensive solution that leads to Israeli withdrawal from all the occupied Arab territories including the occupied Golan and Shba's farms.Thawra -Sawsan.
BUSH AT ODDS WITH ALLIES ON MIDEAST SITUATION
July 27, 2006 — President Bush is in disagreement with almost all of his allies in Europe and the Middle East when it comes to solving the crisis in the Middle East. ABC News has learned that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is expected to return to the Middle East shortly, after failing to bring about any deal for a cease-fire earlier this week. After days of meetings in Cyprus; Beirut, Lebanon; and Israel, the president's top diplomat left the Middle East without hammering out a plan to stop the bloodshed. I seek urgently to get an end to these hostilities, an end to this violence,Rice said. An emergency conference with 15 nations, the United Nations and the European Union only underscored disagreements about the best way forward.
Lasting Solutions?
Many European and Arab nations would like the United States to pressure Israel into a unilateral cease-fire, but administration officials believe that would only empower Hezbollah to attack again. Another option already under discussion is putting an international force along the border. There are massive hurdles, however. Who will send troops, under what terms, and will Hezbollah agree not to attack them? Finally, there's diplomacy. The Bush administration believes Syria is backing Hezbollah. Would the violence halt if the president reversed course, rather than isolating Syria, offering the country incentives to help stop the violence?
Some experts say it may be the best in a range of unappealing options. This could stay ugly for a long time because there's no obvious endgame, because there's no obvious military solution to this on either side, said Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution.
Murky Future
Americans are overwhelmingly pessimistic about brokering a peace deal in the region, according to a new poll.
A New York Times/CBS News poll shows that most Americans believe the conflict won't end; 64 percent say Israelis and Arabs will never live in peace.The United Nations is expected to begin discussing a possible cease-fire and an international force for the region next week.
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; 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.
Methane rain forecast for Saturn's giant moon Titan Wed Jul 26, 1:40 PM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - The weather forecast for Saturn's giant moon Titan calls for methane rain, scientists said on Wednesday. It ranges from a persistent drizzle that keeps the surface of Saturn's largest moon -- which has geological features similar to Earth damp to fierce storms that could produce huge droplets.We have found the first evidence of drizzly rain on a remote planet, in this case Titan, which consists of liquid methane and a little bit of nitrogen,said Tetsuya Tokano of Cologne University in Germany.
He and his team used data from the NASA/European Space Agency Cassini-Huygens mission to measure the atmospheric chemical composition, temperature and pressure on Titan.The Cassini craft was launched in 1997 and reached Saturn in 2004 after cruising past Venus and Jupiter.
Information from the probe showed Titan, which is larger than the planet Mercury, is cold and windy with a dense atmosphere of methane and nitrogen.According to team's the findings, reported in the journal Nature, much of the surface of Titan could experience a drizzle for the next few years.In a separate report in the journal researchers from Spain did a modeling study of Titan's atmosphere which suggested clouds over the south pole would produce fierce storms that would pound the surface and could help explain the formation of its river valleys.Ricardo Hueso and Agustin Sanchez-Lavega of the University of Pais Vasco in Bilbao said under the right conditions the storms could produce methane raindrops up to 5 millimetres (0.2 inches) across that would pound the surface similar to flash floods seen on Earth.
Tokano said although the Spanish researchers reached a different conclusion he believed both types of rainfall could occur on Titan depending on the conditions. We do not rule out the presence of such heavy rainstorms because such clouds have been observed near the south pole,he added.
The Cassini-Huygens mission to study Saturn's rings and moons is named after two 17th-century Europeans: Dutchman Christiaan Huygens, who discovered Saturn's rings and Titan, and Italian-French astronomer Jean-Dominique Cassini, who discovered the planet's other four major moons.
WE HAVE A SURE WORD OF PROPHECY (THE BIBLE)
2 PETER 1:19-21
19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
ISAIAH 46:9-10
9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
2 TIMOTHY 3:16
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
ISAIAH 28:9-11
9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
Book of Psalms found on Psalms 83,Accident or coming to pass.
Posted on Wednesday 26 July 2006,wwwjnewswire.com
Christians are not superstitious. We do not believe in fate or chance. All things are ordered by God and there are no real coincidences in this life.Many of us holding this conviction do, however, look for signs as we seek to hear the Lord speaking to and directing us. And when really amazing things do occur, it can seem to those who have eyes to see and ears to hear that the Lord Himself is shouting a message from the heavens.
This, for example, is how I view the discovery of the Isaiah manuscript of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947, and its identification in 1948.For me the timing of the find – precisely in the years when the United Nations voted to partition Palestine and David Ben Gurion declared the establishment of the State of Israel – together with the identity of the book – Isaiah perhaps being the primary prophet foretelling the restoration of the Jews to their Land – put God’s stamp of authenticity on this momentous event.
Biblical scholars have remarked that the Scroll’s discovery blew away much of the skepticism that had taken root concerning the divine Authorship of the Bible.Something similar – if not of quite the same magnitude – happened for me today, a fortnight into Israel’s two-front conflict with Hamas in the south and Hizb’allah in the north.Early this morning (Wednesday, July 26, 2006), I met
with nine other men in the new King of Kings Pavilion Prayer Tower high above downtown Jerusalem. On top of our prayer agenda, naturally enough, was the ongoing war that has been triggered by Muslim Arabs bent on destroying the Jewish state.It is not always easy to know what or how to pray in such circumstances. We know that God’s thoughts are not our thoughts nor are our ways His ways, and we do not wish to pray presumptuously. We even have to submit our understanding of what we read in God’s Word, the Bible, to His Holy Spirit. Sometimes it is perhaps best to simply pray that Word back to God and, as it were, remind Him of what He has written.
Early in the meeting today Pastor Wayne Hilsden was prompted to read Psalm 83. For those of us living in Israel, this is a well known imprecatory psalm – one of the War Psalms.Part of it reads: For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; and those who hate You have lifted up their head. They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, and consulted together against Your sheltered ones. They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more. (Psalm 83:2-4)
We prayed into it.
Upon returning home two hours later, I found that someone had emailed me a fascinating report off the CNN website. It was headlined:Medieval book of psalms unearthed – First millennium manuscript, open to Psalm 83, found in Irish mud.
(http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/07/25/ireland.psalms.ap/index.html)
According to the report, the 20-page book, which was found by a construction worker digging in the bog last week, has been expertly dated to the years AD 800 to 1000.It was the first time in more than 200 years that an early medieval Irish document had
been unearthed.CNN quotes the director of the National Museum of Ireland, Pat Wallace, who described the discovery as really a miracle find.
There’s two sets of odds that make this discovery really way out, Wallace said. First of all, it’s unlikely that something this fragile could survive buried in a bog at all, and then for it to be unearthed and spotted before it was destroyed is incalculably more amazing.What’s even more incredible to me is that this book, opened to this psalm, was discovered at this specific time in history.
For right now Israel’s enemies are again united in their desire to cut Israel off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.They purpose to take for themselves the pastures of God for a possession.And that they are in league – or in a confederacy – is clear.From Gaza, supported by most of the Arab states, the violence is being directed by the Palestinian Arab terrorist groups: the PLO, Hamas, the Palestine Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine and the popular resistance Committees.In the north, the Lebanese group Hizb’allah, supplied and enabled by Syria and the non-Arab but also Islamic Iran, is raining rockets down on Israel.This, given the current situation, makes Psalm 83 a fascinating and fitting read, the ancient find nothing short of a phenomenon.I don’t want to take it any further than I should, but time may also show that the discovery of the Irish psalm book was a warning.Many people have sensed that Damascus could be sucked into this war.
Twelve days ago the Islamic Republic of Iran warned that an Israeli strike on Syria would be considered an attack on the whole Islamic world and would elicit a fierce response.Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly spelled out his vision for Israel.Israel must be wiped off the map.(October 26, 2005) The West [must] remove what they created sixty years ago … [or] the Palestinian nation and other nations will eventually do this for them.(February 11, 2006) Like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation. The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm.(April 15, 2006) And on July 8, 2006 Ahmadinejad told the foreign ministers of Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Turkey, Bahrain and Egypt, together with the heads of the Arab League and the Islamic Conference that all the conditions for the removal of the Zionist regime are at hand…
It won’t take long before the wrath of the people turns into a terrible explosion that will wipe the Zionist entity off the map.Wrote one commentator: None of the foreign ministers present, including Jordan, Egypt or Turkey – commonly regarded as Israel’s friends in the Arab/Muslim world – objected to the call for annihilation.
Will today’s Rome Summit bring about a ceasefire, or even perhaps a new peace plan that will see the war now raging brought to an end?
Or could we be on the verge of an all out Middle East conflagration concerning which we need to pray like Asaph, regarding those bent on Israel’s destruction:O my God, make them like the whirling dust, like the chaff before the wind! As the fire burns the woods, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire, so pursue them with Your tempest, and frighten them with Your storm. Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O LORD. Let them be confounded and dismayed forever; yes, let them be put to shame and perish, that they may know that You, whose name alone is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth. (Psalm 83:13-18)
May His will be done on earth as it is in heaven. All glory to our wonderful God and His living and mighty Word!
Thursday, July 27, 2006
ISRAEL PLANS BUFFER ZONE ON BORDER
1-Storm may reach Hawaii by Friday. 2-Heavy rains from Typhoon Kaemi pounds China. 3-Europeans wait for relief from heat. 4-Putin and Aminijad discuss mideast peace (Heres trouble). 5-Israel plans buffer zone on border. 6-Eu hold talks on Lebanon. 7-letter exposes rift in Solano role in mideast. 8-Mideast peace talks fail,Condiliza Rice under fire.
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.
Storm may reach Hawaii by Friday Tue Jul 25, 10:47 PM ET
HONOLULU - A tropical storm that formed in the Pacific Ocean last week could brush through Hawaii by the weekend, but forecasters say it is losing speed and strength. Tropical Storm Daniel is on track to cross the Big Island and then pass just south of the rest of the state. It had sustained winds Tuesday of 50 mph with gusts to 65 mph.By the time it reaches Hawaii as the state's first storm of the season, it likely will have winds of about 40 mph, gusting to 50 mph, forecasters said.As much as 10 inches of rain could fall in some parts of the state starting early Friday, said National Weather Service forecaster Norman Hiu. If a rain band crosses Oahu, Honolulu could get between 4 and 6 inches.
Heavy rains from Typhoon Kaemi pound China, 11 dead by Cindy Sui 1 hour,
BEIJING (AFP) - Eleven people were killed and several others left missing when torrential rains from Typhoon Kaemi caused widespread flooding in southeastern China, as about 750,000 evacuees remained in shelters. The typhoon, which hit southeast China's Fujian province on Tuesday packing winds of 120 kilometers (74 miles) an hour, was downgraded to a tropical storm Wednesday morning, but still caused widespread chaos.Seven of the dead were killed in east China's Jiangxi province, which also had 19 people missing, the office of the national natural disaster reduction committee was quoted by the Xinhua news agency saying.Four others were killed in two landslides in southern Guangdong province and the southern province of Hainan, with another person missing, Xinhua said.
Seven others were missing in central China's Hunan province, it said.By 4:00 pm (0800 GMT) Wednesday, around 750,000 people had been relocated to safe places, including 649,000 in southeast China's Fujian province and 80,000 in east China's Zhejiang province, the committee and Xinhua said.In Fujian, a 200-meter (660
feet) long levee collapsed because of heavy rainstorms brought on by Kaemi, threatening more than 20,000 people in six villages with flooding, Xinhua said.Around 200 soldiers were immediately dispatched to the scene in Zhao'an county and by Wednesday evening they had thrown more than 5,000 sandbags into the breach, it said.
Across the south and east of China in areas still reeling from Tropical Storm Bilis, which killed more than 600 people earlier this month, authorities were implementing emergency measures to prepare for more disasters from Kaemi's relentless rain.After Kaemi made landfall, affected provinces issued an emergency order to prepare for flooding and landslides.Up to 12 centimeters (4.8 inches) of rain fell along the Fujian coast.Authorities expect heavy rain for the rest of the week in several provinces.
Local press cited Li Ronggen, vice governor of Guangdong, which was not directly hit by Kaemi, urging local officials not to be complacent and to prepare for possible flooding.
We must pay special attention to the safety of reservoirs and disasters like landslides, evacuate those in dangerous areas and prevent mishaps that can kill or injure people,Li said.Shanghai, China's economic heart on the east coast to the north of Fujian, appeared to have missed the worst of the weather with strong winds but no heavy rain on Wednesday, but authorities there were also taking precautions.They ordered residents to leave coastal areas and river banks and to inspect billboards, electricity poles, and makeshift shelters at construction sites to ensure flying debris did not cause damage.
The nation's railway system -- an important mode of transportation for millions -- was also under guard, after the key north-south Beijing-Guangzhou line was disrupted by Bilis, stranding thousands of residents in train cars.Xinhua cited the ministry of railways saying that typhoons this summer disrupted train services 78 times on 17 of China's arterial railways, stopping operations for a total of 604 hours.Traffic had resumed on most flood-damaged lines after repairs.
Bilis was similarly downgraded from a typhoon to a tropical storm before it hit China on July 14. It hovered over the south and center of the country for nearly 10 days, dumping massive rains and wreaking havoc in cities as well as mountainous areas.
The death toll in China from Bilis stood at 612 with another 208 people missing, state media had said. The Red Cross Society of China meanwhile has delivered funds and supplies, including tents and quilts, worth 2.54 million US dollars, to help people still trying to cope in the aftermath of Bilis, Xinhua cited the group as saying.
ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
Europeans wait for relief from stifling heatwave 39 minutes ago
PARIS (AFP) - Europe baked again in the grip of a deadly heatwave that has led to forest fires, forced water restrictions and damaged farmland across the continent.
Now firmly in its second week, the heatwave brought temperatures of more than 30
degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) to most of Europe with hotspots in France, Germany, Spain and northeast Italy.More than 50 people are estimated to have been killed by the heat, but so far there has been no repetition of the massive loss of life in the heatwave of 2003 when in France alone 15,000 died.
This time round, factors such as greater awareness, slightly lower temperatures and preventative action by goverments to protect the elderly are thought to have helped limit the number of deaths.Nevertheless, in Italy the heat killed a man of 87 and a woman of 89 in the northern city of Turin during the night of Tuesday, the Italian ANSA news agency reported on Wednesday.
And in Spain, the death of a woman of 83 in Barcelona in northeast Spain brought the toll in that country to nine.Towards the end of the week, weathermen predict that storms and wet weather will spread east across western Europe, dousing Britain, France and Germany and bringing relief to the millions suffering from the high humidity, sticky nights and blazing sunshine.In France on Wednesday, the mercury climbed to 38 degrees Celsius (100 F) in the south of the country while Parisians faced a sticky 36 degrees Celsius (97 F).On Wednesday, French Environment Minister Nelly Olin warned that groundwater levels in the Paris region were at their lowest level in 20 years and said that water restrictions were in place for nearly half of the country.It needs to rain without storms. That would be the ideal situation but I don't think we're there yet today,she told French television channel France 2.
In Britain, temperatures reached 33 degrees Celsius (91 F) and residents of Berlin in Germany sizzled in similar heat. The temperature in the German capital was set to hit 36 degrees in the next few days before storms on Saturday.
The level of the river Elbe which crosses Germany's main port Hamburg has dropped below 90 centimetres (three feet) upstream at Dresden near the Czech border, making navigation almost impossible. Normally the level is some 2.2 metres.In Belgium temperatures reached between 26 degrees C (79 F) on the coast and and 35 degrees (95 F) inland.In Spain, where scorching summer temperatures are more normal, the mercury hit 38 degrees C (100 F) in the northeast while the southeast was much cooler with 27 C (81 F) in Almeria.In Poland, firefighters were on maximum alert to tackle forest fires caused by the drought.
Over 8,000 fires have broken out in recent days and access has been banned to most forests.According to the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper, Warsaw has seen the hottest month of July since temperatures began to be recorded 227 years ago. The average
temperature in the Polish capital this month was 23.2 degrees Celsius, five degrees higher than the norm.In nearby Latvia, potato farmers added their voice to a chorus of anguish from Europe's agricultural sector.
Farmers in France, the Netherlands and Poland have already warned of lower harvests this year and France on Wednesday lowered its forecast for its soft wheat harvest to below 35 million tonnes. Latvia's potato growers' association said that this year's crop could shrink by 50 percent compared with last year.
Nothing good can be expected this year, and the situation will be especially sad with the late-bearing potatoes,Ilmars Immurs of the Kartupelu Audzetaji was quoted by the Baltic News Service as saying. The potato crop would be seriously damaged if Latvia sees no rain in the near future, Imurs added. In the Netherlands, there were signs that the hot weather was beginning to take its toll on workers. A leading organisation that monitors health issues for Dutch companies, De Arbo Unie, reported a rise in the number of people calling in sick. Compared to the average rate, the number of workers on sick leave normally rises by 4.0 in the summer. This year the rise has been 7.4 percent.
Most of the people calling in sick were elderly or overweight, a company spokesman told the Dutch news agency ANP. There was also an increase in the number of diabetics and pregnant women falling ill. In Denmark, undergoing one of the hottest summers on record, many local authorities have banned open air fires except at fixed barbecue sites. Electricity supplies in the Czech Republic were back to normal Wednesday after widespread blackouts caused by overload the day before.
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines(PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
Putin and Ahmadinejad discuss Mideast crises Wed Jul 26, 2:33 AM ET
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad discussed the Israeli offensive in Lebanon and Iran's nuclear program with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said on Wednesday. The crisis situation surrounding Lebanon was at the center of discussion, the Kremlin press service said of the telephone conversation late on Tuesday. Different aspects of resolving the Iranian nuclear program were also touched upon.On both topics, Vladimir Putin stated the fundamental position of the Russian side,it said.Russia has called for a ceasefire in Lebanon and criticized the Israeli attacks, saying they went beyond the anti-Hizbollah military operation the Jewish state said it was conducting.Russia is one of six powers that want Iran to respond to an offer of incentives in exchange for Tehran stopping uranium enrichment. Unlike the United States and some other Western powers, it says it is too early to talk about economic or other sanctions against Tehran.
The telephone exchange took place at Ahmadinejad's request.Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday during a visit to Tajikistan that the conflict between Lebanon and Israel could sweep through the entire Middle East like a hurricane.The United States and key European countries fear Iran's nuclear activity is a cover for bomb making. Tehran says it has a right to civilian nuclear power and that its nuclear program is aimed only at producing electricity.
Israel plans buffer zone on border
Abraham Rabinovich, Jerusalem ,July 27, 2006
ISRAEL wants to establish a 2km-wide strip in southern Lebanon free of Hezbollah guerillas, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said last night, for the first time giving the dimensions of Israel's proposed new security zone.Mr Olmert outlined the plans in a closed-door meeting of the parliament's Defence and Foreign Affairs Committee, a day after they were floated by Defence Minister Amir Peretz.
Mr Peretz said the zone would be handed over to a strong international peacekeeping force planned to take over the area. If there is no multinational force with an enforcement capability, we will continue to fire on anyone approaching the security
zone,he said. For many, Mr Peretz's statement was reminiscent of the announcements from Jerusalem in 1982, when Israeli troops were sent into Lebanon to drive back Palestinian militants from the southern border. At the time, the Israelis insisted the incursion would last no more than a few days.
But it was 18 years before Israel pulled out. Mr Peretz's aides hastened to stress the temporary nature of the planned buffer zone by saying Israel would build no outposts or other structures in it.
The Defence Minister suggested the new no-go zone for guerillas could be enforced by air and artillery strikes, without a permanent army presence. European diplomats have asked Jerusalem about how far north into Lebanon it intends to push and how long it intends to stay there.
Israeli officials have said Israel has no intention of reoccupying Lebanese territory beyond the operational requirements of the current battle. Israeli ground forces continued to push north yesterday, even though the battle for the Hezbollah stronghold of Bent Jbail was not over. Israeli officials had said the town was captured on Tuesday, after a two-day battle, except for pockets of resistance. But heavy fighting broke out at dawn as Hezbollah fighters remaining in the city took on the Israelis. Israeli officers said seven soldiers had been wounded but more than 50 Hezbollah fighters had been killed. The army said it had killed the top Hezbollah commander in the area. Brigadier General Gad Hirsch said his troops had uncovered sophisticated communications centres, Iranian-made surveillance equipment and large arms caches.
We have also gathered a great deal of intelligence,he said. Engineers blew up several multi-story buildings that provided a direct line of fire to Israeli settlements across the border. On Tuesday, 96 rockets fired by Hezbollah struck across Israel. One killed a 15-year-old girl when it hit the Israeli Arab village of Maghar. At least four Israeli Arabs have been killed by Hezbollah rockets, and
many wounded. The Lebanon Health Ministry reported that at least 422 people had been killed in the two weeks of Israeli attacks, including 20 Lebanese soldiers and at least 27 Hezbollah guerillas, but the vast majority have been civilians. Fifty-five Israelis have been killed, including 37 soldiers. The UN World Food Program yesterday sent the first convoy of food and medical supplies from Beirut to the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre, one of the hardest-hit areas and now home to thousands of refugees.
While thousands have fled Tyre, tens of thousands still remain stranded with no fuel for their cars, no money for rocketing taxi fares and dwindling supplies of food,said Amer Daoudi, the emergency co-ordinator for the WFP operation in Lebanon. In the Gaza Strip, where continuing fighting has been overshadowed by events in Lebanon, 12 Palestinians, including a toddler, were killed yesterday as Israel pounded the strip with airstrikes and spearheaded a new incursion by 50 tanks. Nearly 130 Palestinians have now been killed in Israel's offensive in Gaza, launched in an effort to recover a captured soldier and stop rocket attacks. At least six of the dead were said to be militants, including four from the armed wing of the governing Hamas movement, one of the three groups to claim responsibility for the June 25 raid in which 19-year-old Corporal Gilad Shalit was seized.
DANIEL 7:23
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,( 7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
REVELATION 17:9-10
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
EU foreign ministers to hold talks on Lebanon
26/07/2006 - 14:05:10
European Union foreign ministers will hold special talks on Tuesday to discuss efforts to end the conflict in Lebanon, diplomats said today.The announcement comes amid stepped up EU diplomatic efforts to try to end the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon.The EU is also looking at ways to improve aid to victims of the conflict there.The European Commission said today it was sending an additional €10m in humanitarian aid to Lebanon and €11m in separate aid to help cover the costs of travel home for citizens of poor countries fleeing the country.The European Commission said the total amount of humanitarian aid it has committed since fighting began in Lebanon now stands at €20m. EU spokesman Michael Mann said the European Union has set aside a provisional €50m in its budget for aid relief in Lebanon.The additional aid to pay for evacuating non-Europeans is meant to cover travel costs for around 10,000 people, mostly from Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Philippines, officials said.They said up to 200,000 workers from developing nations, mostly in Asia, were living in Lebanon.
The evacuation aid was meant to relieve pressure on EU nation Cyprus, which is overwhelmed with fleeing Europeans and other nationals from Lebanon.EU Development Commissioner Louis Michel reiterated calls for both Israel and Hezbollah militants to respect humanitarian rules and principles and allow aid workers into the worst hit areas, in southern Lebanon.Safe humanitarian corridors must be granted as a matter of urgency, Michel said in a statement.He said aid convoys were ready to roll into conflict zones, but have so far not received the green light that they can transport their goods to victims.This is not enough. I urge the warring parties to accept a humanitarian truce, Michel said.
Letters expose EU divide on Solana Middle East role
26.07.2006 - 09:57 CET | By Mark Beunderman
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The Finnish EU presidency has sent a muted response to French president Jacques Chirac's request for a stronger role for EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana in the Middle East, highlighting internal EU divisions over Mr
Solana's position.
Mr Chirac last Thursday (20 July) sent a letter to Finnish prime minister Matti Vanhanen calling for a stronger, leading role by Mr Solana in brokering a lasting ceasefire in the region amid continuing violence between Israel and islamist Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon. The letter states that the EU's top diplomat should step up efforts to find the necessary interlocutors and very swiftly contribute to proposals with the aim of gathering conditions for a broad and lasting ceasefire in the region.
Mr Solana's mission should highlight the efforts the European Union can make to achieve a de-escalation of violence as well as the conditions for a sustainable ceasefire. Our citizens would not understand it if the European Union…which has always made its original and balanced voice heard in the Middle East, does not act on the political level with regard to the drama which is taking place,Mr Chirac wrote. This is why I call upon you [the Finnish presidency] to launch this European initiative, the French leader added. But Mr Vanhanen, without answering the French president's request directly, merely wrote back on Tuesday (25 July) that The Finnish presidency fully supports the work of the high representative, Javier Solana, who is acting on the EU's behalf.
Mr Solana is doing everything in his power to promote political initiatives aimed at defusing the crisis and relaunching the Middle East peace process,the Finnish letter said adding that "the EU must remain at the forefront of efforts to find a way out of the crisis.
Muted response
A French diplomat said that Helsinki's response is encouraging as it shows everybody agrees that Mr Solana has a clear mandate. But another EU diplomat commented that the muted reaction by the presidency is an expression of the fact that not all countries are prepared to give Solana such a strong role. The British would not agree to that, the contact said, adding there is no unanimity on how to handle the Middle East issue. A UK diplomat commented that We are very happy with what he [Mr Solana] has been doing so far.French diplomats explained that Mr Chirac's letter had been designed to encourage Mr Solana to be Mister EU in the region, amid complaints by parties in the Middle East that they have had to receive a plethora of diplomats from different EU presidencies, different member states as well as the European Commission.
Plethora of EU visitors
The point is set to be highlighted on Wednesday (26 July) when Finnish foreign minister Erkki Tuomioja will travel to the region together with external relations commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner after a major Rome international conference on the dispute.
Clearly the presidency wants to be involved as well,noted one diplomat. Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for Mr Solana said the Chirac letter, also sent to the Solana office, had been received very positively.The French president asked for something about which there is agreement among all 25 EU member states: that the EU is fully engaged in the crisis,she said. French contacts said the initiative was also totally in line with French ideas on strengthening Mr Solana's role in general, as proposed in a paper on the future of Europe this spring. The quasi-EU foreign minister idea is controversial as it is seen by some member states as cherry-picking from the EU constitution which suggested a common foreign minister for the bloc. Small member states are meanwhile complaining that Mr Solana is operating beyond their control.
Mideast peace talks fail, Rice under fire
[ 26 Jul, 2006 2304hrs ISTAGENCIES ]
ROME: A 15-nation crisis conference on Wednesday failed to agree on calling for a ceasefire in the Middle East but vowed to work with utmost urgency for a truce.
In a declaration released after the five-hour Rome conference, the countries expressed determination to work immediately to reach with utmost urgency a ceasefire to put an end to the current hostilities. Almost every nation attending an international conference in Rome put pressure on US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice to call for an immediate end to the fighting on the Israeli-Lebanese border.
But Rice stood her ground in two days of diplomacy in Lebanon and Israel and the West Bank. A ceasefire to end the bloodshed in the region must be lasting, permanent and sustainable, the world powers said. They gathered here also called on Israel to exercise utmost restraint while welcoming Israel's decision to let aid into Lebanon including aid flights to Beirut airport.
But the ceasefire pledge fell far short of meeting UN secretary-general Kofi Annan's plea for an immediate cessation of hostilities to stop the killing, with nearly 400 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians, now dead. However, Rice insisted that the root causes must be addressed first. We are all agreed that we want most urgently to end the violence on a basis that this time will be sustainable.
Because unfortunately this is a region that has had too many broken ceasefires, she said. We do have a way forward, she said, referring to UN resolution 1559, which calls for the disarming and disbanding of all militias, including Hezbollah, and for the Lebanese government to assert its authority over all its territory. Much of southern Lebanon is controlled by Hezbollah. The conference set out no concrete steps for implementing the UN resolution, however.
We all committed to dedicated and urgent action to try to bring about an end to this violence that indeed would be sustainable and that would leave the Lebanese government with the prospect of full control of its country, Rice said. We cannot return to the status-quo ante. French foreign minister Philippe Douste-Blazy lamented the failure to agree on an immediate ceasefire. Meanwhile, at least 13 Israeli soldiers were killed as fighting intensified.
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.
Storm may reach Hawaii by Friday Tue Jul 25, 10:47 PM ET
HONOLULU - A tropical storm that formed in the Pacific Ocean last week could brush through Hawaii by the weekend, but forecasters say it is losing speed and strength. Tropical Storm Daniel is on track to cross the Big Island and then pass just south of the rest of the state. It had sustained winds Tuesday of 50 mph with gusts to 65 mph.By the time it reaches Hawaii as the state's first storm of the season, it likely will have winds of about 40 mph, gusting to 50 mph, forecasters said.As much as 10 inches of rain could fall in some parts of the state starting early Friday, said National Weather Service forecaster Norman Hiu. If a rain band crosses Oahu, Honolulu could get between 4 and 6 inches.
Heavy rains from Typhoon Kaemi pound China, 11 dead by Cindy Sui 1 hour,
BEIJING (AFP) - Eleven people were killed and several others left missing when torrential rains from Typhoon Kaemi caused widespread flooding in southeastern China, as about 750,000 evacuees remained in shelters. The typhoon, which hit southeast China's Fujian province on Tuesday packing winds of 120 kilometers (74 miles) an hour, was downgraded to a tropical storm Wednesday morning, but still caused widespread chaos.Seven of the dead were killed in east China's Jiangxi province, which also had 19 people missing, the office of the national natural disaster reduction committee was quoted by the Xinhua news agency saying.Four others were killed in two landslides in southern Guangdong province and the southern province of Hainan, with another person missing, Xinhua said.
Seven others were missing in central China's Hunan province, it said.By 4:00 pm (0800 GMT) Wednesday, around 750,000 people had been relocated to safe places, including 649,000 in southeast China's Fujian province and 80,000 in east China's Zhejiang province, the committee and Xinhua said.In Fujian, a 200-meter (660
feet) long levee collapsed because of heavy rainstorms brought on by Kaemi, threatening more than 20,000 people in six villages with flooding, Xinhua said.Around 200 soldiers were immediately dispatched to the scene in Zhao'an county and by Wednesday evening they had thrown more than 5,000 sandbags into the breach, it said.
Across the south and east of China in areas still reeling from Tropical Storm Bilis, which killed more than 600 people earlier this month, authorities were implementing emergency measures to prepare for more disasters from Kaemi's relentless rain.After Kaemi made landfall, affected provinces issued an emergency order to prepare for flooding and landslides.Up to 12 centimeters (4.8 inches) of rain fell along the Fujian coast.Authorities expect heavy rain for the rest of the week in several provinces.
Local press cited Li Ronggen, vice governor of Guangdong, which was not directly hit by Kaemi, urging local officials not to be complacent and to prepare for possible flooding.
We must pay special attention to the safety of reservoirs and disasters like landslides, evacuate those in dangerous areas and prevent mishaps that can kill or injure people,Li said.Shanghai, China's economic heart on the east coast to the north of Fujian, appeared to have missed the worst of the weather with strong winds but no heavy rain on Wednesday, but authorities there were also taking precautions.They ordered residents to leave coastal areas and river banks and to inspect billboards, electricity poles, and makeshift shelters at construction sites to ensure flying debris did not cause damage.
The nation's railway system -- an important mode of transportation for millions -- was also under guard, after the key north-south Beijing-Guangzhou line was disrupted by Bilis, stranding thousands of residents in train cars.Xinhua cited the ministry of railways saying that typhoons this summer disrupted train services 78 times on 17 of China's arterial railways, stopping operations for a total of 604 hours.Traffic had resumed on most flood-damaged lines after repairs.
Bilis was similarly downgraded from a typhoon to a tropical storm before it hit China on July 14. It hovered over the south and center of the country for nearly 10 days, dumping massive rains and wreaking havoc in cities as well as mountainous areas.
The death toll in China from Bilis stood at 612 with another 208 people missing, state media had said. The Red Cross Society of China meanwhile has delivered funds and supplies, including tents and quilts, worth 2.54 million US dollars, to help people still trying to cope in the aftermath of Bilis, Xinhua cited the group as saying.
ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
Europeans wait for relief from stifling heatwave 39 minutes ago
PARIS (AFP) - Europe baked again in the grip of a deadly heatwave that has led to forest fires, forced water restrictions and damaged farmland across the continent.
Now firmly in its second week, the heatwave brought temperatures of more than 30
degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) to most of Europe with hotspots in France, Germany, Spain and northeast Italy.More than 50 people are estimated to have been killed by the heat, but so far there has been no repetition of the massive loss of life in the heatwave of 2003 when in France alone 15,000 died.
This time round, factors such as greater awareness, slightly lower temperatures and preventative action by goverments to protect the elderly are thought to have helped limit the number of deaths.Nevertheless, in Italy the heat killed a man of 87 and a woman of 89 in the northern city of Turin during the night of Tuesday, the Italian ANSA news agency reported on Wednesday.
And in Spain, the death of a woman of 83 in Barcelona in northeast Spain brought the toll in that country to nine.Towards the end of the week, weathermen predict that storms and wet weather will spread east across western Europe, dousing Britain, France and Germany and bringing relief to the millions suffering from the high humidity, sticky nights and blazing sunshine.In France on Wednesday, the mercury climbed to 38 degrees Celsius (100 F) in the south of the country while Parisians faced a sticky 36 degrees Celsius (97 F).On Wednesday, French Environment Minister Nelly Olin warned that groundwater levels in the Paris region were at their lowest level in 20 years and said that water restrictions were in place for nearly half of the country.It needs to rain without storms. That would be the ideal situation but I don't think we're there yet today,she told French television channel France 2.
In Britain, temperatures reached 33 degrees Celsius (91 F) and residents of Berlin in Germany sizzled in similar heat. The temperature in the German capital was set to hit 36 degrees in the next few days before storms on Saturday.
The level of the river Elbe which crosses Germany's main port Hamburg has dropped below 90 centimetres (three feet) upstream at Dresden near the Czech border, making navigation almost impossible. Normally the level is some 2.2 metres.In Belgium temperatures reached between 26 degrees C (79 F) on the coast and and 35 degrees (95 F) inland.In Spain, where scorching summer temperatures are more normal, the mercury hit 38 degrees C (100 F) in the northeast while the southeast was much cooler with 27 C (81 F) in Almeria.In Poland, firefighters were on maximum alert to tackle forest fires caused by the drought.
Over 8,000 fires have broken out in recent days and access has been banned to most forests.According to the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper, Warsaw has seen the hottest month of July since temperatures began to be recorded 227 years ago. The average
temperature in the Polish capital this month was 23.2 degrees Celsius, five degrees higher than the norm.In nearby Latvia, potato farmers added their voice to a chorus of anguish from Europe's agricultural sector.
Farmers in France, the Netherlands and Poland have already warned of lower harvests this year and France on Wednesday lowered its forecast for its soft wheat harvest to below 35 million tonnes. Latvia's potato growers' association said that this year's crop could shrink by 50 percent compared with last year.
Nothing good can be expected this year, and the situation will be especially sad with the late-bearing potatoes,Ilmars Immurs of the Kartupelu Audzetaji was quoted by the Baltic News Service as saying. The potato crop would be seriously damaged if Latvia sees no rain in the near future, Imurs added. In the Netherlands, there were signs that the hot weather was beginning to take its toll on workers. A leading organisation that monitors health issues for Dutch companies, De Arbo Unie, reported a rise in the number of people calling in sick. Compared to the average rate, the number of workers on sick leave normally rises by 4.0 in the summer. This year the rise has been 7.4 percent.
Most of the people calling in sick were elderly or overweight, a company spokesman told the Dutch news agency ANP. There was also an increase in the number of diabetics and pregnant women falling ill. In Denmark, undergoing one of the hottest summers on record, many local authorities have banned open air fires except at fixed barbecue sites. Electricity supplies in the Czech Republic were back to normal Wednesday after widespread blackouts caused by overload the day before.
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines(PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
Putin and Ahmadinejad discuss Mideast crises Wed Jul 26, 2:33 AM ET
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad discussed the Israeli offensive in Lebanon and Iran's nuclear program with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said on Wednesday. The crisis situation surrounding Lebanon was at the center of discussion, the Kremlin press service said of the telephone conversation late on Tuesday. Different aspects of resolving the Iranian nuclear program were also touched upon.On both topics, Vladimir Putin stated the fundamental position of the Russian side,it said.Russia has called for a ceasefire in Lebanon and criticized the Israeli attacks, saying they went beyond the anti-Hizbollah military operation the Jewish state said it was conducting.Russia is one of six powers that want Iran to respond to an offer of incentives in exchange for Tehran stopping uranium enrichment. Unlike the United States and some other Western powers, it says it is too early to talk about economic or other sanctions against Tehran.
The telephone exchange took place at Ahmadinejad's request.Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday during a visit to Tajikistan that the conflict between Lebanon and Israel could sweep through the entire Middle East like a hurricane.The United States and key European countries fear Iran's nuclear activity is a cover for bomb making. Tehran says it has a right to civilian nuclear power and that its nuclear program is aimed only at producing electricity.
Israel plans buffer zone on border
Abraham Rabinovich, Jerusalem ,July 27, 2006
ISRAEL wants to establish a 2km-wide strip in southern Lebanon free of Hezbollah guerillas, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said last night, for the first time giving the dimensions of Israel's proposed new security zone.Mr Olmert outlined the plans in a closed-door meeting of the parliament's Defence and Foreign Affairs Committee, a day after they were floated by Defence Minister Amir Peretz.
Mr Peretz said the zone would be handed over to a strong international peacekeeping force planned to take over the area. If there is no multinational force with an enforcement capability, we will continue to fire on anyone approaching the security
zone,he said. For many, Mr Peretz's statement was reminiscent of the announcements from Jerusalem in 1982, when Israeli troops were sent into Lebanon to drive back Palestinian militants from the southern border. At the time, the Israelis insisted the incursion would last no more than a few days.
But it was 18 years before Israel pulled out. Mr Peretz's aides hastened to stress the temporary nature of the planned buffer zone by saying Israel would build no outposts or other structures in it.
The Defence Minister suggested the new no-go zone for guerillas could be enforced by air and artillery strikes, without a permanent army presence. European diplomats have asked Jerusalem about how far north into Lebanon it intends to push and how long it intends to stay there.
Israeli officials have said Israel has no intention of reoccupying Lebanese territory beyond the operational requirements of the current battle. Israeli ground forces continued to push north yesterday, even though the battle for the Hezbollah stronghold of Bent Jbail was not over. Israeli officials had said the town was captured on Tuesday, after a two-day battle, except for pockets of resistance. But heavy fighting broke out at dawn as Hezbollah fighters remaining in the city took on the Israelis. Israeli officers said seven soldiers had been wounded but more than 50 Hezbollah fighters had been killed. The army said it had killed the top Hezbollah commander in the area. Brigadier General Gad Hirsch said his troops had uncovered sophisticated communications centres, Iranian-made surveillance equipment and large arms caches.
We have also gathered a great deal of intelligence,he said. Engineers blew up several multi-story buildings that provided a direct line of fire to Israeli settlements across the border. On Tuesday, 96 rockets fired by Hezbollah struck across Israel. One killed a 15-year-old girl when it hit the Israeli Arab village of Maghar. At least four Israeli Arabs have been killed by Hezbollah rockets, and
many wounded. The Lebanon Health Ministry reported that at least 422 people had been killed in the two weeks of Israeli attacks, including 20 Lebanese soldiers and at least 27 Hezbollah guerillas, but the vast majority have been civilians. Fifty-five Israelis have been killed, including 37 soldiers. The UN World Food Program yesterday sent the first convoy of food and medical supplies from Beirut to the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre, one of the hardest-hit areas and now home to thousands of refugees.
While thousands have fled Tyre, tens of thousands still remain stranded with no fuel for their cars, no money for rocketing taxi fares and dwindling supplies of food,said Amer Daoudi, the emergency co-ordinator for the WFP operation in Lebanon. In the Gaza Strip, where continuing fighting has been overshadowed by events in Lebanon, 12 Palestinians, including a toddler, were killed yesterday as Israel pounded the strip with airstrikes and spearheaded a new incursion by 50 tanks. Nearly 130 Palestinians have now been killed in Israel's offensive in Gaza, launched in an effort to recover a captured soldier and stop rocket attacks. At least six of the dead were said to be militants, including four from the armed wing of the governing Hamas movement, one of the three groups to claim responsibility for the June 25 raid in which 19-year-old Corporal Gilad Shalit was seized.
DANIEL 7:23
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,( 7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
REVELATION 17:9-10
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
EU foreign ministers to hold talks on Lebanon
26/07/2006 - 14:05:10
European Union foreign ministers will hold special talks on Tuesday to discuss efforts to end the conflict in Lebanon, diplomats said today.The announcement comes amid stepped up EU diplomatic efforts to try to end the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon.The EU is also looking at ways to improve aid to victims of the conflict there.The European Commission said today it was sending an additional €10m in humanitarian aid to Lebanon and €11m in separate aid to help cover the costs of travel home for citizens of poor countries fleeing the country.The European Commission said the total amount of humanitarian aid it has committed since fighting began in Lebanon now stands at €20m. EU spokesman Michael Mann said the European Union has set aside a provisional €50m in its budget for aid relief in Lebanon.The additional aid to pay for evacuating non-Europeans is meant to cover travel costs for around 10,000 people, mostly from Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Philippines, officials said.They said up to 200,000 workers from developing nations, mostly in Asia, were living in Lebanon.
The evacuation aid was meant to relieve pressure on EU nation Cyprus, which is overwhelmed with fleeing Europeans and other nationals from Lebanon.EU Development Commissioner Louis Michel reiterated calls for both Israel and Hezbollah militants to respect humanitarian rules and principles and allow aid workers into the worst hit areas, in southern Lebanon.Safe humanitarian corridors must be granted as a matter of urgency, Michel said in a statement.He said aid convoys were ready to roll into conflict zones, but have so far not received the green light that they can transport their goods to victims.This is not enough. I urge the warring parties to accept a humanitarian truce, Michel said.
Letters expose EU divide on Solana Middle East role
26.07.2006 - 09:57 CET | By Mark Beunderman
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The Finnish EU presidency has sent a muted response to French president Jacques Chirac's request for a stronger role for EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana in the Middle East, highlighting internal EU divisions over Mr
Solana's position.
Mr Chirac last Thursday (20 July) sent a letter to Finnish prime minister Matti Vanhanen calling for a stronger, leading role by Mr Solana in brokering a lasting ceasefire in the region amid continuing violence between Israel and islamist Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon. The letter states that the EU's top diplomat should step up efforts to find the necessary interlocutors and very swiftly contribute to proposals with the aim of gathering conditions for a broad and lasting ceasefire in the region.
Mr Solana's mission should highlight the efforts the European Union can make to achieve a de-escalation of violence as well as the conditions for a sustainable ceasefire. Our citizens would not understand it if the European Union…which has always made its original and balanced voice heard in the Middle East, does not act on the political level with regard to the drama which is taking place,Mr Chirac wrote. This is why I call upon you [the Finnish presidency] to launch this European initiative, the French leader added. But Mr Vanhanen, without answering the French president's request directly, merely wrote back on Tuesday (25 July) that The Finnish presidency fully supports the work of the high representative, Javier Solana, who is acting on the EU's behalf.
Mr Solana is doing everything in his power to promote political initiatives aimed at defusing the crisis and relaunching the Middle East peace process,the Finnish letter said adding that "the EU must remain at the forefront of efforts to find a way out of the crisis.
Muted response
A French diplomat said that Helsinki's response is encouraging as it shows everybody agrees that Mr Solana has a clear mandate. But another EU diplomat commented that the muted reaction by the presidency is an expression of the fact that not all countries are prepared to give Solana such a strong role. The British would not agree to that, the contact said, adding there is no unanimity on how to handle the Middle East issue. A UK diplomat commented that We are very happy with what he [Mr Solana] has been doing so far.French diplomats explained that Mr Chirac's letter had been designed to encourage Mr Solana to be Mister EU in the region, amid complaints by parties in the Middle East that they have had to receive a plethora of diplomats from different EU presidencies, different member states as well as the European Commission.
Plethora of EU visitors
The point is set to be highlighted on Wednesday (26 July) when Finnish foreign minister Erkki Tuomioja will travel to the region together with external relations commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner after a major Rome international conference on the dispute.
Clearly the presidency wants to be involved as well,noted one diplomat. Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for Mr Solana said the Chirac letter, also sent to the Solana office, had been received very positively.The French president asked for something about which there is agreement among all 25 EU member states: that the EU is fully engaged in the crisis,she said. French contacts said the initiative was also totally in line with French ideas on strengthening Mr Solana's role in general, as proposed in a paper on the future of Europe this spring. The quasi-EU foreign minister idea is controversial as it is seen by some member states as cherry-picking from the EU constitution which suggested a common foreign minister for the bloc. Small member states are meanwhile complaining that Mr Solana is operating beyond their control.
Mideast peace talks fail, Rice under fire
[ 26 Jul, 2006 2304hrs ISTAGENCIES ]
ROME: A 15-nation crisis conference on Wednesday failed to agree on calling for a ceasefire in the Middle East but vowed to work with utmost urgency for a truce.
In a declaration released after the five-hour Rome conference, the countries expressed determination to work immediately to reach with utmost urgency a ceasefire to put an end to the current hostilities. Almost every nation attending an international conference in Rome put pressure on US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice to call for an immediate end to the fighting on the Israeli-Lebanese border.
But Rice stood her ground in two days of diplomacy in Lebanon and Israel and the West Bank. A ceasefire to end the bloodshed in the region must be lasting, permanent and sustainable, the world powers said. They gathered here also called on Israel to exercise utmost restraint while welcoming Israel's decision to let aid into Lebanon including aid flights to Beirut airport.
But the ceasefire pledge fell far short of meeting UN secretary-general Kofi Annan's plea for an immediate cessation of hostilities to stop the killing, with nearly 400 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians, now dead. However, Rice insisted that the root causes must be addressed first. We are all agreed that we want most urgently to end the violence on a basis that this time will be sustainable.
Because unfortunately this is a region that has had too many broken ceasefires, she said. We do have a way forward, she said, referring to UN resolution 1559, which calls for the disarming and disbanding of all militias, including Hezbollah, and for the Lebanese government to assert its authority over all its territory. Much of southern Lebanon is controlled by Hezbollah. The conference set out no concrete steps for implementing the UN resolution, however.
We all committed to dedicated and urgent action to try to bring about an end to this violence that indeed would be sustainable and that would leave the Lebanese government with the prospect of full control of its country, Rice said. We cannot return to the status-quo ante. French foreign minister Philippe Douste-Blazy lamented the failure to agree on an immediate ceasefire. Meanwhile, at least 13 Israeli soldiers were killed as fighting intensified.
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