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1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS. 2-Forecaster predicts busy 2007 U.S. hurricane season. 3-Severe tornado hits London, 6 injured. 4-Nearly 100 Vietnamese dead or missing in typhoon. 5-El Nino forecast to peak in winter and fade by spring. 6-Biting cold. but relief ahead. 7-The Temple Institute. 8-This Week with Rabbi Eckstein. 9-Important Mideast declaration signed at Tampere EU conference. 10-UN General Assembly: Israel must withdraw from East Jerusalem, Golan. 11-Storm of Protest Against Tamir Changes in Textbook Maps. 12-Call for lifting borders separating Islamic states. 13-Israel Unable to Rely on U.S. to Thwart Iranian Nukes. 14-Thursday December 07, 2006 EU says Iran free to sell oil in any currency. 15-European Union Proposes Bilateral Free Trade Talks; Seeks Improved Anti-Dumping Measure. 16-EU makes new push for trade deals with Asia, Latin America. 17-Intercede and Partners Secure Key NATO Summit with Smart Card-based Identities. 18-Radioactive spy Islamic convert?

EARTHQUAKES

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.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)

Update time = Fri Dec 8 12:04 AM EDT

DEC 08,2006
MAP 4.3 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 4.9 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.6 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

DEC 07,2006
MAP 2.7 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.1 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 6.3 EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.7 UTAH
MAP 2.7 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 3.1 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.2 BOUGAINVILLE REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 3.6 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 2.7 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 2.5 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 5.7 EAST TIMOR REGION
MAP 5.0 RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN
MAP 4.8 NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
MAP 4.2 ONTARIO, CANADA
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.5 ALASKA PENINSULA

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

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;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
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.

Forecaster predicts busy 2007 U.S. hurricane season Thu Dec 7, 12:10 PM ET

LONDON (Reuters) The United States, which has emerged from this year's hurricane season largely unscathed, should brace itself for a potentially devastating hurricane season in 2007, a leading windstorm forecaster warned. A long-range forecast for next year issued by Tropical Storm Risk, a London-based forecaster, on Thursday predicted an above-normal Atlantic hurricane season with a strong probability that more hurricanes will slam into the United States than usual, based on average figures for the period 1950 to 2006.It said that 16 tropical storms were likely to occur in the Atlantic basin, nine of which would be hurricanes and four likely to be so-called intense hurricanes.Five tropical storms are likely to hit America, of which two will be hurricanes, TSR said.

It anticipated a combination of conditions that would indicate a higher-than-average hurricane season.In 2007 the trade winds, which blow westwards from the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean Sea, will be weaker than normal, while the sea temperatures between west Africa and the Caribbean, where many hurricanes form, will be warmer than normal, TSR said.For those who may be inclined to disregard such ominous warnings following this year's widely inaccurate predictions of another string of major storms similar to those that ravaged the U.S. coast in 2004 and 2005, TSR said an unusual mix of conditions led to fewer windstorms than were predicted.The below-average 2006 hurricane season was due to the presence of considerable African dry air and Saharan dust during August and September, which inhibited thunderstorm occurrence and therefore tropical storm development, and to the unexpected onset of El Nino conditions from mid-September, TSR said.There is no precedent for these factors together having been so influential before, it added.

Severe tornado hits London, 6 injured By Tahani Karrar
Thu Dec 7, 11:57 AM ET

LONDON (Reuters) A severe tornado ripped roofs off homes and tore down walls in a residential area of northwest London on Thursday, injuring six people.Television footage showed a trail of destruction in Kensal Rise, with trees uprooted and cars damaged by falling debris. Tornadoes in Britain are normally weak and rarely cause damage.Local resident Daniel Bidgood was in his house when the tornado, which he said was about 20 meters (yards) across, smashed his windows.It was very large and certainly very powerful, he told BBC television. You could see it ripping up heavy chunks of mortar and smashing it into cars.One man in his 50's was taken to hospital with head injuries. Five other adults were treated for shock and minor injuries after the tornado struck at around 1100 GMT.Around 100 houses were damaged, a Fire Brigade spokesman said, so I would imagine several hundred people may be displaced. Some of those evacuated were being housed in local churches.More than 20 fire engines were sent to the scene and the area was cordoned off.

SEVERE

The London tornado was rated at T4 on a scale of 0 to 10. This means winds were moving at between 115 and 136 mph (185-219 kph), rating the tornado as severe, said a spokesman for the Meteorological Office.Britain experiences between 30 and 40 tornadoes in an average year, he said, but they rarely hit built-up areas. In July 2005, a tornado in Birmingham, central England, damaged dozens of homes.The cost in London could run into millions of pounds. Houses in the area cost an average 550,000 pounds ($1.08 million), a local estate agent said. The Association of British Insurers said most home insurance policies would cover the costs.

You're not likely to find the word tornado in a UK insurance policy, a spokesman said. But it would be covered under storm damage.Tornadoes are a vortex of swirling air caused by a build-up of heavy thunder clouds. The Met Office spokesman said it was impossible to tell if global warming had a role to play in the London tornado.The Met Office issued severe weather warnings for southern England, with heavy rains and winds gusting up to 70 miles per hour, after the warmest autumn in the last 347 years.(Additional reporting by Jeremy Lovell, Tim Castle and Jon Hemming)

Nearly 100 Vietnamese dead or missing in typhoon Thu Dec 7, 10:14 AM ET

HANOI (Reuters) Nearly 100 people were killed or are missing after a typhoon hit the southern coast of Vietnam this week, damaging hundreds of thousands of flimsy homes, a government report said on Thursday.

The national flood and storm control center said 67 people were confirmed dead and 31 were missing in the aftermath of Typhoon Durian, which killed hundreds in the Philippines after hitting the archipelago last Thursday.Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, who toured damaged areas of Ba Ria-Vung Tau province on Wednesday, postponed trips to Singapore and Malaysia, a government spokesman said. He said Dung would still attend a weekend summit of 10 ASEAN members plus India, Australia and New Zealand in the Philippines.

Durian was Vietnam's ninth storm of the year and it damaged or destroyed more than 212,000 homes and sank 808 fishing vessels, Thursday's government report said.Every year, hundreds or even thousands of people are killed in tropical storms and typhoons that batter flimsy dwellings and fishing boats or cause flooding and mudslides in the mostly rural Southeast Asian country of 84 million people.In May, hundreds of Vietnamese fishermen were lost in a typhoon named Chanchu. In October, another typhoon, Xangsane, killed at least 70 and destroyed or submerged hundreds of thousands of homes when it struck the central coastal city of Danang, despite early warnings and preparations.

El Nino forecast to peak in winter and fade by spring Thu Dec 7, 9:15 AM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) El Nino, a weather anomaly which typically wreaks havoc but was a key factor for a mild 2006 hurricane season, will peak this winter and gradually vanish by spring, a U.S. government agency predicted Thursday. The Climate Prediction Center, which tracks El Nino and is part of the U.S. National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, said the weather pattern will peak during the northern hemisphere winter followed by weakening during March to May 2007.

El Nino is an abnormal warming of waters in the equatorial Pacific Ocean that disrupts weather patterns from the Pacific all the way to Africa.It normally causes drought in such countries as Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines while spawning rampant flooding in Latin American nations like Ecuador and Chile, the world's top producer of copper.This year's El Nino was widely credited with drastically curtailing the formation of hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean, giving a respite to the U.S. Gulf Coast and Central American countries hit hard during the record setting hurricane season of 2005.

There were only nine tropical storms and hurricanes this year, well down from the 28 named storms of 2005 including Katrina and Rita which flooded New Orleans and devastated the coasts of Louisiana and Mississippi.El Nino means little boy in Spanish, but the pattern was named after the Christ child after it was first noticed by Latin American anchovy fishermen in the 19th century, mostly because this anomaly would peak during Christmastime.

The Center said typical El Nino effects over North America during January to March 2007 would see warmer-than-average temperatures over western and central Canada, and over the northwestern and northern United States.There would also be wetter-than-average conditions over portions of the U.S. Gulf Coast and Florida, and drier-than-average conditions in the Ohio Valley and in portions of the Pacific Northwest, it projected.From December to March, the weather will be drier than normal over most of Malaysia, Indonesia, northern and eastern Australia, some of the U.S.-affiliated islands in the tropical North Pacific (and) northern South America and southeastern Africa, the Center forecast.And it will be wetter-than-average in equatorial East Africa, the central South American countries of Uruguay, northeastern Argentina, southeastern Paraguay and southern Brazil, as well as along the coasts of Ecuador and northern Peru, according to the Center's forecast.The last severe El Nino took place in 1997/98, killing more than 2,000 people and causing damage that topped $33 billion.The Center's monthly update is available on its Web site: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis monitoring/ensoa dvisory/index.html

Biting cold...but relief ahead J. Erdman, Sr. Meteorologist, The Weather Channel DEC 07,07

Midwest

Is the cold of the past week already making you long for warmer climates?Fortunately, relief is on the way this weekend. Persistent bands of lake-manufactured snow buried parts of Michigan and far northern Wisconsin. Twenty inches was estimated in Grand Junction, Mich. Up to 10 inches blanketed Thompson, Ohio. With the passage of a strong Arctic cold front, measurable snow was witnessed into northern Kentucky, including Louisville and Frankfort. Numerous lake-effect snow warnings continue for the snowbelts of Michigan, northern Indiana, and northeast Ohio tonight. Hardest hit tonight into early Friday appears to be the Lake Erie snowbelt northeast of Cleveland, where a persistent band or bands coming off both Lakes Huron and Erie may dump over 6" additional snowfall. The lake-effect machine should slow to a crawl as Friday wears on, as warmer air aloft begins its intrusion on the region. In the meantime, Thursday was another raw one over much of the Ohio Valley, Great Lakes and Upper Midwest. Wind chills as cold as -30 were measured in parts of North Dakota and Minnesota. Williston, N.D. bottomed out at -21 this morning.

Minneapolis/St. Paul dipped below zero for the first time since February. Mid-afternoon temperatures in the teens kept many still without power in Missouri and Illinois shivering. Lows tonight will plummet again into the single digits over areas still with snowpack from southeast Kansas to southeast Wisconsin. In fact, this should be Chicagoland's coldest night of the season, with mid-single digits at O'Hare and some outer suburbs dipping below zero.

The first signs of a warming trend may appear tonight, although it may not feel so in the Twin Cities. Southwest winds may keep the mercury above zero tonight. A major shift in the polar jet stream will give the beleaguered region a break from the cold. This polar jet will retreat into Canada, trapping the coldest air north of the border.

With high pressure migrating into the Southeast, Friday, warmer southwest winds will spread from the Plains states into the Great Lakes. Forties should return to Kansas City and Omaha. Thirties should feel much less cold in St. Louis. Fifties will spread up the High Plains. Twenties should feel a tad more tolerable in the Windy City. This weekend will bring even warmer news. Saturday, thirties will return to Cleveland and Chicago. Forties revisit St. Louis. Sunday, a weak weather system may keep some in the Missouri Valley and Great Lakes under clouds and perhaps light precipitation, holding temperatures in the 30s (Great Lakes) or 40s (Ohio & mid-Mississippi Valleys).

Northeast

Cold winds and heavy lake-manufactured snow will be the rule in the Northeast tonight through early Friday. Cold north to northwest winds behind an Arctic cold front have already churned out locally heavy snow in the snowbelts of Lake Erie. Eight inches of snow had blanketed Cassadaga, N.Y. by midday Thursday. Lake-effect snow warnings continue from northwest Pennsylvania to southwest New York, and also to the leeward side of Lake Ontario, including Syracuse. A particularly persistent band of snow generated by northwest winds off both Lakes Huron and Erie and aided by ascent over up hilly terrain, should dump storm totals of over 10" by Friday morning in northwest Pennsylvania and far southwest New York State. Accumulating snow should also extend from the Allagash of Maine to the mountains of West Virginia. Generally 1" to as much as 5" of snow is possible through Friday from northern New England to New York's Hudson Valley (not NYC metro). A secondary tongue of 6" or more is expected from the Lake Ontario's snowbelts to the mountains of southwest Pennsylvania, perhaps even the highest elevations of West Virginia. By late Friday, lake-effect should be on the wane, except for the Tug Hill Plateau. The rest of the Northeast will be shivering on Friday. With cold northwest winds reinforcing the intrusion of Arctic air, highs in the I-95 corridor will be in the low-mid 30s, at best. Wind chills in the teens or 20s will be the rule. Twenties, and a few teens, will feel more like January in the Northeast's interior. Fortunately, a fundamental shift in the polar jet stream will bring milder air into the region into next week. The warm-up begins Saturday, as westerly winds around southeast U.S. high pressure import warmer air. Forties should return to the Northeast Megalopolis Saturday, and fifties for highs could be the rule from New York City to the Nation's Capital next week. The next major frontal system doesn't look to impact the region until the middle of next week.

South

The coldest night of the season, for some in almost 2 years, is in store in parts of the South. An Arctic front will surge southward into the Gulf of Mexico overnight tonight. Lows Friday morning will be in the 20s as far south as New Orleans, Mobile, and Ocala, Fla. Dallas-Ft. Worth and Atlanta will shiver in the low 20s. Teens will plunge deep into Mississippi, Alabama, and north Georgia.

These readings will threaten daily record lows in Birmingham and Mobile, among other locations. Additionally, with high pressure over the Southern Plains tonight, strong north winds will persist through the night and early morning Friday over the Tennessee Valley, Carolinas, and the Gulf Coast.

Wind chills in the 20s are possible in central and even coastal Texas, including Houston and San Antonio. Twenties for wind chills will also feel raw in northern Florida. Low teens or even single-digit wind chills are possible in the Tennessee Valley early Friday. In fact, a wind chill advisory has been posted for the southern Appalachians, where readings from 5 to 10 below zero are possible. A couple inches of snow is possible, as well, in the Smokies tonight, before ending early Friday morning. Highs Friday will be stuck in the 40s from the coastal Carolinas to Deep South Texas. Fifties will be the warmest readings of the day in northern and central Florida, including Orlando and Tampa. Fortunately, warmer times are ahead. The sting of the cold dome of high pressure will mellow with time this weekend as the high slowly shifts onto the Southeast seaboard. Southerly winds around the west side of this high will slowly moderate temperatures in the Southern Plains. Highs Saturday should return to the 50s in much of the South. Sixties and a few seventies should reappear along the Gulf Coast and Deep South. The only fly in this ointment will be the southern branch of the jet stream, the subtropical jet, keeping skies cloudy in south Texas. Light rain is possible Friday in the Rio Grande Valley, with some snow or ice possible in the Big Bend region. Stubborn showers could persist in South Texas, including South Padre Island Saturday, possibly spreading up the Texas Coast Sunday.

West

A shift in the upper-level wind pattern will have implications for parts of the West this weekend and next week. Following a week of virtually dry weather, the door to frequent Pacific fronts will be opened again in the Pacific Northwest. The first of these fronts will arrive Friday afternoon, spreading rain down the coast from Washington's Olympic peninsula to central California, including the San Francisco Bay area.

Some light showers may spread as far south as Point Conception, however, most of the L.A. Basin should be simply cloudy and dry from this first system. This weak weather-maker will then spread light mountain snow into the northern Rockies and Wasatch. A second system should arrive Saturday night into Sunday, and may spread a few showers as far south as Los Angeles. Neither of these systems look particularly menacing, with widespread heavy rain and/or snow unlikely anywhere from Washington to California. A more typical, powerful storm may take aim on the Pacific Northwest Monday, and again the middle of next week.

The Temple Institute
Breaking News Bulletin
Kislev 17, 5767/ December 7, 2006

Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, founder and head of The Temple Institute was arrested by police this morning (December 7) and taken into custody for investigation on the background of the outspoken stand the rabbi has taken against the government actions in regards to the disengagement of two summers ago, and those who actively participated in it. This outrageous abuse of Rabbi Ariel's basic right to express himself in accordance with his beliefs is no more than the fruit of relentless political harassment against all citizens of the State of Israel who speak forthrightly against government policies directed toward the uprooting of Jews in the land of Israel.

As of this writing, Rabbi Ariel is currently being questioned by police.

We encourage all our friends and supporters, and all to whom the future of the Jewish nation in the land of Israel is dear to their hearts, to express your outrage. Please send a fax of protest to Public Security Minister Avi Dichter: 972-(0)2-530-8039

Rabbi Chaim Richman
The Temple Institute
www.templeinstitute.org

FOR MY 10% TO GOD IN 2007 EACH MONTH, I AM GIVING 50.00 TO JACK VAN IMPE AND 50.00 TO INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS. THESE ARE 2 IMPORTANT MINISTRIES, I SUGGEST YOU GIVE TO THESE MINISTRIES ALSO. REMEMBER WE GET ARE REWARDS AT THE RAPTURE AND THROUGH ETERNITY ON EARTH WITH JESUS. GIVE TO GODS KINGDOM NOW THANKS.

ONE OTHER 1 I SUGGEST IS THE TEMPLE INSTITUTE IN JERUSALEM TO REBUILD THE 3RD TEMPLE AS WELL.

This Week with Rabbi Eckstein
December 7, 2006

Dear Friend of The Fellowship,

On January 28, 2007, The Fellowship's International Day of Prayer and Solidarity with Israel will again unite millions of Christians and churches around the world to pray for God's blessing on the people and land of Israel, in fulfillment of God's command in Psalm 122:6-9:

Pray for peace in Jerusalem. May all who love this city prosper.
O Jerusalem, may there be peace within your walls and prosperity in your palaces.
For the sake of my family and friends, I will say, May you have peace.
For the sake of the house of the Lord our God,
I will seek what is best for you, O Jerusalem. (New Living Translation)

Clearly, Israel is greatly in need of our prayers and support. This year alone, we have seen a number of events that have threatened her stability and security, and could have the gravest implications for her future—among them the election of the terrorist Hamas government in the Palestinian territories, Hezbollah's kidnapping of Israeli soldiers and subsequent launching of a devastating war against Israel, and the continued pursuit of nuclear weapons by Iran, a country dedicated to destruction of the Jewish state.

Even today, Israel's enemies continue to threaten her people with terrorist violence and spread lies about her that are often taken as truth by the news media. If ever there is a time for us to stand up and take our positions as watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem, who will never be silent day or night (Isaiah 62:6), this is it.Today I hope you'll heed this call by joining millions of Christians around the world signing our Day of Prayer Covenant and committing to pray for Israel on Sunday, January 28, 2007. We have a special Day of Prayer Action Kit we would like to send you free of charge that will make it easy for you or your church to do so. I ask you to join us in prayer, trusting God's promise to bless those who bless the Jewish people.With your help, our 2007 Day of Prayer will bring together an even larger group of people to offer prayers to God on Israel's behalf—and Israel will again know that Christians are strong allies in her ongoing struggle for peace and security.

With prayers for shalom, peace,

Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President International Fellowship of Christians and Jews

LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS 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;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.

DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) 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,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) 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:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) 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 (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships;
and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).

ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

Important Mideast declaration signed at Tampere EU conference
EU states, as well as Arabs and Israel approve text DEC 07,06,Erkki Tuomioja

The European Union and Mediterranean countries reached agreement in Tampere on Tuesday on a joint declaration on a number of issues, including the Middle East peace process.The statement confirms that the partners are committed to a just, comprehensive, and sustainable solution in the conflict between Israel and the Arabs.The text was accepted unanimously, although Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja said that lengthy discussion was needed first.

In addition to the EU countries, signatories included Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt. Signing on behalf of the Palestinians was former cabinet minister Nabil Shaath, who is a close advisor of President Mahmoud Abbas. The declaration was approved at the end of the two-day Euro-Mediterranean Conference of Ministers of Foreign Affairs (EUROMED).

The text on the Middle East was fairly general in its language. Foreign Minister Tuomioja said that it is not intended to substitute any other initiatives and actions that have been taken on behalf of peace. It nevertheless offers us important political framework for 35 states, Tuomioja noted at the end of the meeting on Tuesday.He praised the discussions held on the Middle East, which began at Monday evening’s working dinner, as very good and constructive, although they were also time-consuming. Israel and the Palestinians began a cease fire in Gaza on Sunday. In the statements issued in Tampere, the ministers called for revitalised efforts to promote the peace process in the whole Middle East.Both Arab League Secretary-General Amr Mussa and Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem of Israel’s arch-enemy Syria, expressed their support for recent developments. We hope that the cease fire will be achieved also for the West Bank, Moualem said. HS International Edition:

UN General Assembly: Israel must withdraw from East Jerusalem, Golan
Prophecy news watch Dec 06,06

The General Assembly approved six pro-Palestinian resolutions over United States and Israeli objections, culminating the annual United Nations debate aimed at showing the world body's solidarity with Palestinian demands for an independent homeland. At the end of three days of speeches, the 192-member world body reaffirmed the UN's responsibility regarding the Palestinian question and stressed the Palestinian peoples' right to self-determination and an independent state. In the key resolution on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine, the General Assembly welcomed the cease-fire in Gaza and urged both sides to maintain the truce which it said could pave the way for negotiations towards a solution to the conflict. The Palestinian UN Observer, Riyad Mansour, said the vote - 157 to 7 with 10 abstentions - showed massive support in the international community for moving forward on the peace process.

Advancing peace?

The only way to reverse all the ills that we are witnessing in the Middle East is to accept the fact that there can only be a negotiated solution to the question of Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict, Mansour told the assembly. It is unfortunate to say, at the least, that each time the Arabs have extended their hand, it was violently rejected by Israel. The resolutions are not legally binding - as
Security Council resolutions are - but they are a reflection of world opinion. Each of the six resolution received more than 100 yes votes. The United States, Israel, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau voted against all six resolutions. The only other resolution to top 150 yes votes declared any attempt to impose Israel's laws, jurisdiction and administration on Jerusalem illegal, and therefore null and void. It was approved by a vote of 157-6 with 10 abstentions. The other resolutions demanded that Israel withdraw from the Golan Heights and supported the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, the UN Secretariat's Division for Palestinian Rights, and the UN's special information program on the question of Palestine.

US opposition

US Diplomat Ned Siegel opposed the Golan Heights resolution, saying it prejudged the outcome of negotiations between Israel and Syria. He accused Syria of using the General Assembly to direct accusations at Israel even as it flaunts a number of Security Council resolutions ... With its refusal to treat Lebanon as a genuinely sovereign country. We would like to reiterate our alarm at indications that Syria is working with Hizbullah and other Lebanese allies to destabilize the democratically elected Government of Lebanon, Siegel said. Syria's UN Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari accused the US Of using its veto in the Security Council to protect its Israeli friends and prevent them from complying with UN Resolutions. After the vote in favor of the Golan Heights resoution - 107-6 with 60 abstentions - Ja'afari thanked members for their support for Syria's right to retrieve its land occupied by Israel in 1967. He appealed for a just peace and for the liberation of the Golan Heights. It should be noted that these resolutions are not binding since they were decided in the General Assembly.

Resolutions don't promote peace

The Foreign Ministry said in response to the resolutions: Unfortunately, for a number of decades, the UN General Assembly tends to automatically pass a series of one-sided, unbalanced, anti-Israel resolutions from year to year. These resolutions don't promote peace and don't contribute anything to the Israelis or the Palestinians. The resolutions damage the status of the UN and its capacity to be involved in the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Foreign Ministry said in response. Vice Premier Shimon Peres, who is visiting New York, met with incoming UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and discussed the situation in the Middle East with him. After the meeting, Peres said, The Muslims and the Palestinians in the UN are presenting a one-sided and distorted picture. If the situation continues, UN forces in the region will weaken. Peres gave the example of the commission of inquiry into the Israeli shelling of Beit Hanoun, saying that whoever wants to investigate needs to start with the Palestinian aggression, and not the Israeli response to it.

Storm of Protest Against Tamir Changes in Textbook Maps
By Hana Levi Julian (INN)

Education Minister Yuli Tamir's order to return the Green Line to maps of Israel in new textbooks was met with a firestorm of protest. Tamir, a former member of the Peace Now group, ordered her staff to ensure that textbook maps show the pre-1967 borders that separate Judea, Samaria and Gaza from the rest of Israel. How can we demand that the Arab world recognize our borders if we don’t recognize the June 1967 borders, she asked.The Education Minister claimed that any decision made on this issue is a political one, but also insisted that she had made the changes in the interest of improving Israeli education. We teach, for instance, about United Nations Resolution 242, but we don't show students the Green Line. We cannot deny that there used to be a border that is still being debated today, she said.Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he spoke with Tamir about the order, but he stopped short of criticizing her decision. There is nothing wrong with marking the Green Line. But there is an obligation to emphasize that the government's position and public consensus rule out returning to 1967 lines, he said.

Two former Director-Generals of the Education Ministry, from two different political parties, each had harsh criticism for Tami, however -- Zevulun Orlev and Ronit Tirosh.Orlev, who is chairman of the National Union – National Religious Party, said the Education Minister was imposing her Peace Now ideology on the Ministry. Orlev, a former Director-General of the Education Ministry, called upon Prime Minister Olmert to put the brakes on the Peace Now policy in the Education Ministry blatantly dictated by Minister Tamir.Kadima Knesset member Tirosh criticized Tamir’s declaration as well. She has overstepped her authority, she said. The Education Minister is not permitted to interfere with the content of textbooks and should have consulted with the other members of the Knesset before making such changes, she said. The Likud faction charged Tamir with changing the national curriculum to fit her own political agenda, adding that she had ignored both the Jerusalem Law and the Golan Heights Law in order to make the changes. The faction also introduced a no-confidence motion over the proposal.Two former Education Ministers also weighed in with comments about the new plan.

Former Meretz Party head Yossi Sarid said, Israeli students must know that Israel's borders both in the north and the east are not final, and will be determined by negotiations. National Union Knesset member Rabbi Yitzchak Levy, who served as Education Minister from 1998 to1999 added his voice to the chorus of dissent, saying he did not approve of Tamir's stance on placing all of Judea and Samaria up for grabs in keeping with Arab and Palestinian Authority demands to turn the entire area into an independent Arab state.

Tamir is trying to force her political opinions upon the students of Israel, Levy said. Previous Education Ministers kept the Ministry free of political decisions of this nature.The most important political test, however, will ultimately appear in the budget, according to Professor Yoram Ben-Gal of Haifa University’s Geography and Environmental Studies Department. Ben-Gal told Haaretz on Tuesday that most textbooks are published by private firms -- who are not likely to want to donate the expensive change to the government.

MUSLIM NATIONS

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(MOSCOW) 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 (ARABS,MUSLIMS) 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:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

Call for lifting borders separating Islamic states
Sunday, December 03, 2006 - IranMania.com

LONDON, December 3 (IranMania) Head of Iran's Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Mines, Alinaqi Khamoushi said that just as borders are lifted in Europe, the same move should be considered by Islamic states, IRNA reported.

He made the remark at the fourth conference and exhibition on the strategy of Iraqi market and its executive strategies in Kermanshah. Khamoushi noted that the people of Islamic states are a single Ummah and therefore no borders should separate them. Given the current shortages in Iraq, we should provide the Iraqi people with the facilities available in Iran. We are duty-bound to do our best to help our neighbor under the most critical conditions. We should act in such a way as to build up mutual confidence. We believe that to have healthy trade relations, neither side should export goods to the other country without issuing the required documents, he said. The official said that Iranians can participate in establishment of new factories in Iraq or help reconstruct the damaged industrial units.

There is no need for Iraqi partners to invest in such joint projects. Iran's government will make investment and once the projects become operational, in the long-run the due amount will be repaid through turnover. If this is materialized, a major part of Iraq's problems will be solved, he added. He noted that according to the plans made at Iran-Iraq Chamber of Commerce in Tehran, every Iranian border province will be active on Iraqi market. The fourth conference and exhibition on the strategy of Iraqi market and its executive strategies opened in the border city of Kermanshah today and will continue up to December 6.

Israel Unable to Rely on U.S. to Thwart Iranian Nukes
By Ezra HaLevi (INN) DEC 06,06

Incoming American Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the Iranian threat is clear and present but that the U.S. is not guaranteeing protection to Israel. Gates will replace Donald Rumsfeld. Asked at his U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee nomination hearing whether he believed that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons capability, he answered: Yes, sir, I do. He also answered in the affirmative that he believes Iran’s leadership to be lying.Gates said that there were more powerful forces in Iran than just its president and they are determined to achieve nuclear weapons, as a deterrent against nuclear countries surrounding them – Pakistan in the east, Russia in the north, Israel in the west and the United States in the Persian Gulf.He said he is not certain that Iran would attack the Jewish state, since the risks for them (Iran) are enormously high. He added, though, I don't think anybody can provide that assurance [to Israel that an attack won’t occur. Gates summed up his position saying he would not advise a U.S. attack on Iran except as an absolute last resort if critical U.S. interests are threatened.

Ahmadinejad Warns Europe

Meanwhile, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened European nations Tuesday that Iran would consider any decision to join sanctions against Iran due to its nuclear project an act of hostility. The statement came as representatives from the United Nations Security Council’s permanent member nations met in Paris to discuss steps to be taken against Iran.

I'm telling you in plain language that from now on, if you try, whether in your propaganda or at international organizations, to take steps against the rights of the Iranian nation, the Iranian nation will consider it an act of hostility, Ahmadinejad said, addressing European nations during a speech in northern Iran. Our path to reach the nuclear summit is in the final phase, and no more than one more step is needed, he added. Iran possesses the nuclear fuel cycle completely and by God's will it will undertake necessary measures to produce nuclear fuel for all of its nuclear power stations.Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani told the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency Tuesday that Iran is intent on materializing all its nuclear Research and Development projects by the end of the Islamic year, which falls out on March 19.

Iran’s Other Project

Iran's Foreign Ministry is making preparations for a two-day conference that will take place next week and examine the evidence of there having been a Holocaust. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mohammadi said the December 10-11 conference will be attended by 67 foreign researchers from 30 countries.

The conference was the initiative of Ahmadinejad, who has called the genocide perpetrated by the Nazi regime during World War II exaggerated and a myth.Mohammadi said that the conference would be a truly scientific event to determine whether the Holocaust took place. If Iran is indeed convinced that the Holocaust took place,
the next question will be how many Jews were murdered and why the Palestinians need to suffer because of an event that took place in Europe 60 years ago, he added.

Israel and Iran Meeting – About Old Debts

Israeli and Iranian representatives have been meeting in secret in Switzerland, according to Army Radio.The meetings are with regard to an Israeli debt to Iran for oil purchased during the years prior to the 1979 Islamic revolution there. A smaller amount was owed to Israeli construction companies for projects undertaken in Iran. The two countries were diplomatically friendly from the 50s to the 70s, under the pro-West Shah of Iran.

Thursday December 07, 2006 EU says Iran free to sell oil in any currency
Brussels, Dec 6, IRNA ,EU-Iran-oil

A spokesperson for the European Commission declined Wednesday to comment on media reports that Iran has started replacing dollar with euro in majority of its crude oil exchanges in the last several months. I have no comment. This would be a free decision for a government or company to use a particular currency than its own for invoicing the products that it sells, said EU spokesperson for economic affairs Amelia Torres. She was replying to a question on the issue by a reporter during the daily Commission news conference in Brussels. It is not something we encourage or discourage. We leave it to the markets and the forces in the market, added Torres.

DANIEL 7:23-24
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.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).

AP Europe Widens Trade Talks
Wednesday December 6, 2:26 pm ET By Raf Casert, Associated Press Writer
European Union Proposes Bilateral Free Trade Talks; Seeks Improved Anti-Dumping Measures

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) European Union trade chief Peter Mandelson said Wednesday he wants to negotiate bilateral trade deals with emerging nations like India to offset the slow pace of world trade talks.

At the same time, he opened consultations to make EU trade defenses against unfairly priced imports from booming Asian economies and other trade-distorting practices much more effective.Both initiatives were meant to keep EU policy nimble while global trade negotiations remain in a quagmire with no breakthrough insight.Attempts to revive global trade talks are still stuck at the level of private discussions among a few governments. Mandelson did not expect progress until next year at the earliest, despite the EU's willingness the reinvigorate the talks.It takes two to tango, and ideally one or two more, he said.The Doha round of trade liberalization talks came to a halt in July over differences between members, especially the United States and the 25-nation EU, about how and by how much to cut farm subsidies and tariffs, as well as reducing barriers to the import of manufactured goods.

Now, Mandelson is seeking progress with individual nations.Mandelson proposed opening free trade talks with Central American and Andean trading blocs and negotiations for trade agreements with India, South Korea and the ASEAN nations.With the Asian nations, he clearly wants to cover ground still out of reach of world trade talks.The EU trade office said it wants agreements that go further and faster in promoting openness and integration and tackle issues which are not yet ready for multilateral discussion.With India, South Korea and the ASEAN bloc, Mandelson is targeting emerging nations with surging economies and high levels of protections against EU goods.His trade negotiation proposals still need to be approved by the 25 member states but Mandelson was optimistic talks could start early next year.To make progress with the talks with the Andean nations of South America, Mandelson warned that Ecuador had to end its challenge on banana exports to Europe.

Ecuador, the world's largest banana producer, filed a protest against the European Union's banana import rules system three weeks ago, arguing that it unfairly restricts its access to the European market.It is not possible to litigate and negotiate at the same time, he said.Mandelson also said it was necessary for the EU to review its antidumping practices since international trade had changed dramatically since the last review a decade ago.Even if trade defense measures like antidumping duties affect less than 0.5 percent of EU trade, it is instrumental in containing unfair trade.Effective action against dumping has helped safeguard tens of thousands of European workers and helps maintain the public's belief in free trade, he said.

EU makes new push for trade deals with Asia, Latin America by Leigh Thomas Wed Dec 6, 12:40 PM ET

BRUSSELS (AFP) The European Commission made a big push to launch free-trade agreements with Latin American and Asian nations in the absence of progress in WTO multilateral talks.Amid accusations of hypocrisy, Brussels also opened a broad review of the effectiveness of its measures to protect Europe against unfair trading, some of which have recently targeted the very countries with which the EU now wants free-trade agreements.

The European Commission sought backing from EU member states to start negotiations next year with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as well as with India and South Korea on free-trade agreements.The three key partners identified for new agreements combine large markets, rapid growth and high levels of protection against EU export interests, the commission said in a statement.It said the agreements should be far reaching but in particular target services and investment, two areas that have fallen by the wayside in WTO free-trade negotiations.

Brussels also sought mandates from member states to start negotiations on closer ties with Central American and Andean nations, which would be aimed in part at eventually setting up a free-trade area between the EU and the two regions.

With the 2001 launch of WTO trade liberalization negotiations in the Qatari capital Doha, the EU chose to focus on a multilateral approach to trade at the expense of efforts to strike bilateral deals.But since the Doha talks, held under the auspices of the World Trade Organization, ground to a halt in July in disputes over farm trade, Brussels has tried to give a new push to bilateral deals, a strategy already being pursued by the United States and Japan.Officially, concluding the Doha round remains the EU's main priority, but some of its main trade interests have been dropped from the negotiations, particularly the so-called Singapore issues of investment, competition policy, and public procurement.The EU is attempting a bilateral approach after its multilateral trade strategy failed in nearly all areas key to EU interests, NGO Friends of the Earth said in a statement.

The EU failed to introduce a multilateral investment agreement at the WTO, it failed to start negotiations on public procurement, it failed to substantially open up foreign services markets for EU companies and, recently, it even failed to reach an agreement in the Doha Development Agenda, it added.

While seeking to boost bilateral deals, the commission is also eager to make its so-called trade defence mechanism more effective, which EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson described as a balanced response to globalization.Effective action against dumping has helped safeguard tens of thousands of European workers and helps maintain the public's belief in free trade, the British commissioner told journalists.Trade defence is the flip-side of the coin of openness -- open to free trade, open to defending against unfair trade, he added.In its campaign against perceived unfair trade, the commission recently took WTO action against India for its duties on European wines and spirits and last year slapped anti-dumping duties on shoes made in ASEAN member Vietnam.However, pro-development pressure group Oxfam heaped criticism on the commission for seeking market access while trying improve policies designed to protect European businesses from foreign competition.It is astoundingly hypocritical for the EU to call on trade partners to pursue a strategy for market opening while at the same time announcing a range of measures to enhance Europe's ability to protect its own already heavily protected agricultural, manufacturing, and services markets, said the head Oxfam's EU office, Luis Morago.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

Intercede and Partners Secure Key NATO Summit with Smart Card-based Identities DEC 06,06

Lutterworth, Leicestershire (PRWeb) December 6, 2006 Intercede are pleased to announce that Intercede's MyID system was used to manage the identities of 8,000 diplomats, conference delegation members, Latvian and NATO supporting units, security personnel and volunteers at the NATO Summit in Riga, 27-29 November, 2006. This solution was primed by Oberthur Card Systems and delivered to the Ministry of Defence of Latvia in partnership with Intercede and Fargo. Intercede provided a complete system to personalise, issue and verify Oberthur smart card-based identity cards at this major international event.

Each Oberthur smart card was colour-coded according to role and security clearance, printed with a photograph of the card holder, secured with holograms and other security printing features to prevent forgery, and the electronic chip was personalized to enable secure cardholder verification.A compelling aspect of the solution was the ability to both request batches of smart cards from Oberthur's centralized card production service and to also securely produce locally personalized cards on Fargo desktop printers. This enabled the bulk production of cards ordered in advance and an on-demand issuance capability for late registrations from the same system.

Key features of the system include:

* The MyID registration workstations were smart card protected to prevent the issuance of cards by unauthorized people
* Bulk data import of card requests into the MyID from other systems
* Immediate face-to-face issuance of emergency replacement cards
* Instant identity card verification at up to 20 NATO Summit buildings and checkpoints using MyID card validation stations. Each verification station was securely connected to the MyID verification server using secure channels over the public internet.

In a press conference held on 29 November 2006, NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, praised the Latvian Government for their flawless organization of the Riga Summit. Intercede is proud to be associated with this success.With 26 Heads of State in

attendance, conference security was of paramount concern. I am therefore delighted that the Latvian Government chose Intercede and our partners to provide a critical piece of the security infrastructure for this event, said Richard Parris, Chairman and Chief Executive, Intercede. Following our recently announced successes in the US Federal market, this demanding project further demonstrates that Intercede's MyID smart card and identity management system has the flexibility and scalability to meet the most critical government security requirements.

About the 2006 NATO Summit

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WORLD TERRORISM

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men

LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

Radioactive spy Islamic convert?
Fears raised Litvinenko helped al-Qaida with dirty bomb plot
Posted: December 3, 2006,7:47 p.m. Eastern,WorldNetDaily.com

Alexander Litvinenko before he was poisoned

LONDON Reports that KGB defector Alexander Litvinenko converted to Islam before his mysterious poisoning with radioactive polonium 210 is raising suspicions that he may have been involved in a plot to smuggle the deadly substance to terrorist groups
willing to pay millions even for a gram, Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin is reporting today. Scotland Yard detectives are now trying to discover if Litvinenko had any secret links with Islamic extremist terror groups, the London Sunday Express is reporting. Their biggest fear, the paper reports, is that Litvinenko, who died of polonium-210 poisoning in a London hospital, may have been helping al-Qaida or other extremist groups get hold of radioactive material to be used in a devastating dirty atom bomb. Britain's secret intelligence service MI6 had earlier learned that al-Qaida was prepared to pay $3 million a gram for polonium 210, G2 Bulletin reported last week. Litvinenko's friend Mario Scaramella now says the late spy helped smuggleradioactive material from Russia to Switzerland in 2000. Litvinenko was also known to have sympathies with Chechen rebels, seeking to break away from Moscow and create an independent Muslim state. Litvinenko's conversion to Islam was announced by his next-door neighbor, moderate Muslim and Chechen dissident Akhmed Zakayev, who revealed: He was read to from the Koran the day before he died and told his wife that he wanted to be buried in accordance with Muslim tradition.

Litvinenko's body is still so radiologically hot that an autopsy cannot yet be conducted. It is stored in a lead-lined vault in a London morgue.Polonium 210 has been identified in five separate locations around London. One is the luxury Millennium Hotel, near the U.S. Embassy. Another is a building in Mayfair that houses the office of Boris Berezovsky, a close friend of Litvinenko, and now an
avowed enemy of Russian President Vladimir Putin. While the government has insisted there is no cause for panic, MI6 and Britain's internal security service, MI5, have jointly launched a top-priority hunt on how further quantities of Polonium 210 could be smuggled by al-Qaida. The hunt began a week ago in Peshawar. The ancient Pakistan city hosts a joint MI6/CIA surveillance operation supported by America's National Security Agency satellite surveillance. Using the latest cyber-technology, the intelligence officers in Peshawar picked up a short-burst transmission from somewhere in Peshawar's Old Town. It was in response to a call that appeared to have come from beyond the towering Khyber Pass, possibly from Afghanistan.

The call was automatically recorded on one of the computers in the offices the MI6/CIA team share. Just as automatically, it was dispatched down the line through cyberspace to GCHQ, the British Government Headquarters in the Cotswold town of Cheltenham.

Simultaneously it reached America's NSA at Fort Meade, Md.The words from Peshawar were part of the trillions of words in 500 languages that the GCHQ/NSA super computers are programmed to listen to, shift, reject or retain so they can be analyzed by the thousands of experts both GCHQ and NSA employ.By late last week, MI6 knew of al-Qaida's offer to purchase Polonium 210.

For more details on how polonium 210 could be smuggled into Great Britain and America, see the complete report in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

US BASE ON THE MOON

1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS. 2-Cold air invasion east of Rockies Senior Meteorologist. 3-Vietnam clears Durian storm rubble, tolls hits 66. 4-Mudslides impede relief work in Pakistan. 5-Haiti floods kill 3, wash away roads. 6-Israel minister wants pre-1967 borders shown in textbooks. 7-Israeli-Arabs Demand National Recognition. 8-Hamas Chief Promises War Even if PA State is Established. 9-Finland ratifies EU constitution. 10-E.U. group sparks anti-Semitism concerns. 11-Newest EU States to Join Border-Free Zone in a Year. 12-US base on the moon.

EARTHQUAKES

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.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)

Update time = Thu Dec 7 12:15 AM EDT

DEC 07,2006
MAP 2.9 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.5 ALASKA PENINSULA

DEC 06,2006
MAP 3.0 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.5 GULF OF CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.1 HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION
MAP 3.6 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP 3.1 MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON
MAP 4.0 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP 5.1 NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
MAP 4.5 KEPULAUAN BABAR, INDONESIA
MAP 3.7 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP 3.4 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 5.4 NEAR SOUTH COAST OF NEW GUINEA, P.N.G.
MAP 5.1 NEGROS, PHILIPPINES

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

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;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
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.

Cold air invasion east of Rockies Senior Meteorologist, The Weather Channel DEC 06,06

Midwest

Bitterly cold air with subzero wind chills will grip most of the Plains and Midwest tomorrow. The subzero chills are expected to reach as far south as Nebraska, northern Missouri and the northern two-thirds of Illinois. Along with the biting cold, lake-effect snow squalls and flurries will fill the air from Michigan southward through Indiana and Ohio into eastern Kentucky. The heaviest snowfalls
are forecast along the shores of Lake Michigan in western lower Michigan and northern Indiana, and in northeastern Ohio. High temperatures will range from the teens and 20s in the Midwest and most of the northern Plains to the 40s in far western Nebraska and southwest Kansas.

Northeast

Icy winds will bluster into the Northeast tomorrow in the wake of a strong cold front. Over interior locations, snow showers and flurries will herald the arrival of the coldness. Closer to the eastern Great Lakes, heavy lake-effect snow squalls will prevail. And the squalls could reach as far south as the West Virginia mountains where several inches of fresh powder may pile up. High temperatures, meanwhile, are expected to range from the 20s in southwest New York state and western Pennsylvania to the 50s in far southeast New England, southern New Jersey, the Delmarva Peninsula and eastern Virginia. In many areas, readings are likely to be backsliding as the day goes on, however.

South

Cold winds will sweep into the South tomorrow. Marking the advent of this cold turn, snow showers are expected in the southern Appalachians, and maybe a few flurries in eastern Tennessee. As the leading edge of the cold air slides down the Florida Peninsula, a few showers could pop up here and there. Meanwhile, a vigorous easterly flow over the Gulf of Mexico will deliver rain and showers into south Texas. The heaviest amounts, maybe near an inch, are expected near the coast. High temperatures over most of the region are forecast to range from the 30s to the 60s, north to south. The 70s will prevail in central Florida, the 80s in south Florida (ahead of the front).

West

Generally sunny skies and dry weather will regale most of the western U. S. tomorrow. The exceptions may be found in the Pacific Northwest where low clouds and fog may persist in some valleys and basins underneath a stagnant air mass. Temperatures, meanwhile, will be at or above seasonal norms with highs ranging from the 20s at a few spots in the northern Rockies to the 70s in Southern California and southwest Arizona. Readings in most of the Northwest will top out in the 30s and 40s.

Vietnam clears Durian storm rubble, tolls hits 66 DEC 06,06

HANOI (AFP) Vietnamese rescue workers scrambled to clear the rubble left by severe tropical storm Durian, which ravaged the country's south, killing at least 66 people.Coastal communities were clearing the debris of thousands of homes destroyed the previous day, while hospitals treated hundreds of wounded and troops cleared trees and downed power lines from roads.Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung delayed overseas travel to tour the worst-hit Ba Ria Vung Tau province, where 47 people were killed when the storm tore into Vietnam from the South China Sea.The prime minister decided to cancel his trip to Malaysia and Singapore because of the typhoon Durian and its consequences, foreign ministry spokesman Le Dung told AFP. He stayed in Vietnam to coordinate the rescue operation.

The storm downgraded from a typhoon that left more than 1,200 people dead or missing in the Philippines changed direction and made landfall Monday in southern Vietnam, surprising a region usually spared such severe weather.People were shocked. We are not used to such storms here, said a flood and storm control committee official in the badly hit Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre, where the death toll was revised to 13.It will take us a long time to recover, he said. It is a mess everywhere. There are fallen trees, damaged houses, schools and office buildings.The national flood and storm control centre said the storm which packed winds of up to 120 kilometres (70 miles) per hour sank nearly 700 moored fishing boats and damaged or destroyed more than 120,000 buildings.The weakened storm was Wednesday moving towards the Gulf of Thailand.

The storm is over. It has changed into a tropical depression, said Duong Phuoc Nguyen of the Vinh Long provincial flood and storm control committee.Local people have started coming home to clear the mess.Vessels carrying relief goods and construction materials headed to Phu Quy island, 250 kilometres (150 miles) east of Ho Chi Minh City, which was hit directly by the storm, sinking hundreds of boats in its harbour.The government also announced every family who lost their house would receive 300 dollars and those who lost their roof would get 120 dollars.The death toll from the storm stood at 66 on Wednesday afternoon, officials said, with 47 people killed in Ba Ria Vung Tau, 13 dead in Ben Tre and the others in Phu Yen, Binh Thuan, Binh Dinh and Vinh Long provinces.The toll is far higher than expected in our province because many fishermen, despite the warnings, went to sea to protect their fish baskets, said Nguyen Ngoc Loc from the Ba Ria Vung Tau flood and storm control department.Vietnam's largest urban centre, Ho Chi Minh City, was spared the worst of the storm but local authorities said four people were missing in the former Saigon, with at least six more people missing in other provinces.

Mudslides impede relief work in Pakistan By ROSHAN MUGHAL, Associated Press Writer Tue Dec 5, 11:56 AM ET

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan Several days of heavy rain and snow have triggered mudslides, obstructing relief efforts in Pakistan's earthquake-hit portion of Kashmir, officials said Tuesday.

The closure of two key roads into the Neelum and Jehlum valleys came a day after the U.N. World Food Program warned that harsh winter weather threatens to cut off more than 300,000 survivors of last year's deadly quake.Six children have already died of pneumonia and diarrhea in a village near the regional capital, Muzaffarabad, a district health official said.For three days, heavy rains have lashed Pakistan, including Pakistani Kashmir and the mountainous northwestern region where the 7.6-magnitude earthquake killed more than 80,000 people and left 3.5 million homeless on Oct. 8, 2005.

The two roads linking Muzaffarabad and the valleys are blocked at several points, and it will take several days to clear them, said Mohammed Hussain Pervez, chief engineer at Pakistani Kashmir's highway department.Transportation of relief goods into the valleys has been suspended, said Syed Sarfaraz Naqvi, an official with the Red Crescent Society, which is helping rebuild schools and provide medical relief to quake survivors.But WFP spokesman Amjad Jamal said almost 10,000 tons of emergency food is already at base camps in vulnerable areas, enabling distributions to continue. There is no food crisis, Jamal said.According to the WFP, about 250,000 people in the North West Frontier Province are at risk of being cut off this winter and between 50,000 and 70,000 are vulnerable in Pakistani Kashmir.Most quake survivors have at least temporary shelter, but only a small proportion has been able to rebuild their homes since the disaster. This year's early onset of winter has increased concerns for their welfare.Last winter, relatively mild weather and a massive relief effort staved off the feared mass casualties among those made homeless by the quake.More rain and snow is expected in the quake zone in the next two days, Pakistan's state-run Meteorological Department said. Subzero nighttime temperatures are expected, while about 2 feet of snow has already fallen on high mountains.Associated Press Writer Sadaqat Jan in Islamabad contributed to this report.

Haiti floods kill 3, wash away roads Tue Dec 5, 1:20 PM ET

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Floods triggered by nearly two weeks of heavy rain have washed away roads and bridges, wiped out crops and killed at least three people in western Haiti, the International Red Cross said Tuesday.

The destruction has been most severe in the rural departments of Grande Anse and Nippes, along the impoverished Caribbean nation's vulnerable southwestern peninsula. Flooding has also affected the northwestern town of Port-de-Paix.Haitian Red Cross workers have been providing first aid to injured residents and moving flood-stricken villagers to temporary shelters, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said.The Geneva-based group said it has asked donors for $522,800 to buy hygiene kits, water, blankets and mosquito nets for 17,500 people affected by flooding.The rain began Nov. 22, unleashing flash floods that killed livestock, damaged two hospitals and isolated many remote villages in the heavily deforested country.In August, Hurricane Ernesto washed away wooden shacks and killed at least two people along Haiti's peninsula.

ISRAELS TROUBLE

JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.

DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same
time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)

SIGNS OF THE END OF THE AGE (NOT THE WORLD) THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER.

GENESIS 1:14
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:(ISRAELS HOLY DAYS AND SABBATH STARTS AT 6PM) And for SIGNS (PROPHECY SIGNS TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, OUR DAY)

Israel minister wants pre-1967 borders shown in textbooks Tue Dec 5, 6:08 AM ET

JERUSALEM (AFP)Israel's dovish Education Minister Yuli Tamir has said she wants school textbooks to show the country's borders from before the 1967 Middle East war, stirring a storm of controversy.You can not teach history without knowing the borders Israel used to have, Tamir told army radio Tuesday. We can't teach children what happened in 1967 if they are not aware where the border runs.During the Six Day War in June 1967, Israel conquered Egypt's Sinai, Syria's Golan Heights, east Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Strip.It returned the Sinai under a peace treaty with Egypt in 1979 and annexed the Golan and east Jerusalem. The Jewish state withdrew settlers and soldiers from Gaza last year and continues to occupy the West Bank.Currently, maps in Israeli school textbooks do not show the pre-1967 borders, including the so-called Green Line between Israel and the West Bank.

I want to show the students the reality we live in today and before 1967. Children who do not understand where the Green Line runs can not understand the conflict in recent decades, said Tamir, a former Peace Now movement member.Her move encountered fierce criticism, with right-wing MP Yitzhak Levy accusing Tamir of politicising the education system.The education minister, it seems, wants to dictate the next peace agreement, or bring children to forget about Judea and Samaria, he said, referring to the Jewish names the West Bank.A former secretary general of the education ministry, MP Ronit Tirosh, said: Tamir exceeded her authority.

She shouldn't meddle in school curriculum. Education should not be touched by politics.But Tamir countered that ignoring the Green Line is also a political decision.The Yesha movement of Jewish settlers on Palestinian land blasted the decision, which it said forced on Israeli society the map of Israel according to the extreme-left.

Israeli-Arabs Demand National Recognition
By Hillel Fendel (INN)

The Israeli-Arab sector insists on recognition as a national minority, including the right to return to places they quit 58 years ago, changes to the flag and anthem, immigration quotas, and more. The Israeli-Arab Mossawa organization, billed as the Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens in Israel, released a position paper report to this effect on Friday. Mossawa explains that in addition to equal rights to which every citizen is entitled by virtue of his citizenship, the Arab minority also demands group-differentiated rights.

The organization lists ten such rights that it insists Israel must grant. Among them are the following, as listed and explained by Mossawa:Official recognition of the Palestinian Arabs in Israel as a national, native minority, including its special connection to its homeland and its historic rights to it.

Arabic, already recognized as an official language, must be granted equal status to Hebrew in every aspect of public life, just as English and French are recognized in Canada. As a truly bilingual country, Israel must grant appropriate expression to the Arab-Palestinian culture in the public sphere, including noting the Arabic names of various places and giving Arabic names to public buildings, streets, etc.Total autonomy in the spheres of education, religion and culture. At the root of this right lies the recognition of the nativity of the Arab population in Israel and its right to self-definition in these areas.

Proportionate representation in decision-making and policy-setting bodies, including all government offices and ministries, planning and construction authorities, government companies, public councils, the Civil Service, ad-hoc committees, and the like.Extra allotments of resources such as budget allocations, land and housing, to compensate for past discrimination.

Changes to national symbols, including the flag and anthem, as emotionally-charged public resources that have a special impact on minority sectors. The State must grant appropriate expression to the presence of Israeli-Arab citizens and to their historic ties to the land. Israel's array of symbols must reflect an equal approach to both its Jewish and Arab citizens.Equality in immigration and citizenship rights. The allocation of quotas in these areas is an expression of the country's strength, and the country must apportion them fairly, justly and equally.

Protection of the special ties of the Palestinian people with the greater Arab nation. The Palestinian population in Israel must be enabled to freely maintain and develop special ties - family, cultural, economic and the like - with the other members of the Palestinian people and the Arab nation. Historic rights. Corrective justice demands that Israel must officially apologize and recognize the Nakba - national Arab-Palestinian catastrophe - of 1948 when the Arabs were removed from their lands.

Among the issues addressed in this point are the uprooted Palestinians - 25% of the current Arab population in Israel - and their return to their original villages, such as Ikrit, Al-Ghabasaya, Al-Lajun, and others, as well as assets of the Moslem Waqf that must be administered by the Moslems.

Israeli-Arabs claim that hundreds of destroyed villages, in various parts of the country, as theirs. Many of the villages were hostile locations serving the Arab enemy during the War of Independence, and the land on which some of them stood has since become Jewish-populated, such as in Ashkelon and Be'er Sheva. The Meggido Prison, for instance, is built atop what was once Al-Lajun, and the north Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat Aviv stands on what was once called Sheikh Munis. Though the return to these villages is unrealistic, it is felt that persisting in raising this demand can only help the nationalist Arab cause in Israel.One of the participants at the official presentation of the paper, Dr. Raef Zreik, said that it does not go far enough. He said that the Israeli-Arabs can officially recognize the right of the Jews to a state only as part of an overall peace agreement with the Palestinian people.In the news this week are vandalism and destruction wrought upon a Talmud Torah (Jewish religious school) by Arabs in the city of Acco, an initiative to increase Arab rights in the city of Ramle, and an attempted murder of a Jewish cow-farmer by Arabs in the Jezreel Valley, not far from Afula.

MUSLIM NATIONS

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(MOSCOW) 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 (ARABS,MUSLIMS) 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:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

Hamas Chief Promises War Even if PA State is Established
By Hillel Fendel( INN)

Khaled Meshaal, the Damascus-based leader of the Hamas terrorist organization, makes no bones: Either Israel leaves all of Judea, Samaria and Gaza and agrees to the right of return or war. Meshaal is officially the head of the diplomatic desk of Hamas, but is recognized as the #1 man in the terrorist organization. The target of a failed Israeli assassination attempt a decade ago, Meshaal told a Lebanese newspaper this week that Hamas will not hesitate to resume its armed warfare against Israel.Specifically, he threatened, If within six months, the international community does not come up with a plan for the establishment of a Palestinian state in the 1967 borders [i.e., on all the land liberated by Israel in the Six Day War - ed.] and for the return of the refugees, the Palestinians will turn to an armed struggle against Israel.

We can have an intifada even when running the Palestinian Authority, Meshaal said, explaining that the ceasefire was not designed to bring peace, but is rather another stage in the war with Israel.

The current calm [cease-fire in Gaza - ed.], just like the escalation [before that], is part of the way we manage the conflict with Israel.Many Israeli military men and analysts have said that Hamas is using the current truce in Gaza to rearm and regroup towards the next round of fighting.Hamas Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniye, visiting in Syria, echoed Meshaal's position in a speech at a refugee camp. He said the Palestinians will not give up on even one grain of sand of Palestine, and that Syrian President Assad promised him that all the Palestinian [terrorist] prisoners incarcerated in Israel would be freed.Meshaal admitted that the Hamas-Fatah talks for a unity PA government have encountered difficulties, but said they have not yet hit a dead end. This clashes with announcements by Hamas leaders Haniye and Mahmoud A-Zahar, who said on Monday that the negotiations had failed and were beyond recovery. Hamas and Fatah elements traded blame and accusations for the failed talks. Fatah leader Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) is expected to announce - possibly today - whether he plans to dissolve the Parliament, thus leading to a clash with Hamas.

DANIEL 7:23-24
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.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).

Finland ratifies EU constitution Tue Dec 5, 8:07 AM ET

HELSINKI (AFP) - Finland, current holder of the European Union presidency, has become the 16th member of the bloc to ratify the EU constitution which was thrown into doubt after referenda in France and the Netherlands last year put the document's implementation on hold.The Finnish parliament approved the treaty by an overwhelming majority of 125 votes to 39 on Tuesday.

The result was however largely symbolic as the constitution needs to be ratified by all EU members to enter into force.To date seven countries -- Britain, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Ireland, Poland, Portugal and Sweden -- have not ratified the treaty, having suspended their ratification processes after the French and Dutch rejections.Finland, which holds the six-month rotating EU presidency until December 31, wanted to send a clear signal prior to the relaunch of talks on EU institutional reform scheduled for the German presidency in 2007.

The constitutional treaty was balanced overall. (It is) a reform Europe needs, Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen said in Brussels, unable to take part in the vote.The document is intended to streamline decision-making for the bloc's 2004 enlargement to 25 members and for future accessions.

In June this year EU members agreed to begin a period of reflection from the start of 2007 until the end of France's six-month EU presidency in December 2008, to reach agreement on a new draft.Germany has vowed to inject renewed vigour into constitutional talks.Finnish officials held informal consultations in the past six months on the treaty.Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen is set to make a brief announcement on the constitution during an EU summit meeting in Brussels on December 14 and 15.

E.U. group sparks anti-Semitism concerns

A new European Union agency has raised concern among Jewish groups about the fight against anti-Semitism. At the start of 2007 Vienna will become the headquarters of the European Union’s Agency for Basic Rights, taking over from the Office against Racism and Xenophobia, or EUMC. The new agency will examine freedom of movement within E.U. member states along with general human-rights issues, potentially spending less time on combating anti-Semitism. Several surveys this year reveal that
anti-Semitism is on the rise in Europe.

In recent years the EUMC has taken on the problem of anti-Semitism, with a comprehensive report in 2004 and last year by issuing to its monitors a working definition of anti-Semitism that describes its new manifestations, said Andrew Baker, director of international Jewish affairs for the American Jewish Committee. We don’t know if this focus will be maintained when it is subsumed under a larger agency.

European Union | 05.12.2006
Newest EU States to Join Border-Free Zone in a Year

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Eastern Europeans will now have passport-free access Citizens and goods from the 10 new, mostly Eastern European members of the EU will be allowed greater freedom of movement as borders checkpoints are dismantled across the bloc.

The European Union's newest member states are set to join the Schengen Agreement, which did away with passport checkpoints between members, by December 2007 or March 2008, depending on the country, according to a timetable adopted by EU interior and justice ministers Tuesday.The agreement would lift land and maritime borders from Dec. 31, 2007 while those at airports must be lifted by March 30, 2008 at the latest.Currently, 15 countries are signatories to the Schengen Agreement, including the oldest EU members except Britain and Ireland, plus non-EU nations, Norway and Iceland.

Political motivations?

The Schengen zone was established by treaty in 1985 and removes border posts and checks between EU member states and a common Schengen visa, which allows access to all the signatory countries.

The treaty, however, does not cover residency or work permits for non-EU nationals.Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Non-EU countries such as Switzerland also get access.The 10 new, mainly eastern European nations in the 25-member bloc were told last year that their Schengen entry, originally planned for 2007, was in doubt due to technical delays with an update for the EU's central visa information system.Some newcomers, however, had said that the reasons were political rather than technical, charging old EU members of trying to block the eastern expansion of the border control-free zone.The new countries to join will include nine of the 10 countries that entered the EU in 2004 -- Cyprus will continue checking passports plus Switzerland, which is surrounded by EU countries but is not a member.

Secure borders necessary

The 10 countries that joined the EU in 2004 have all ratified the treaty, but have not yet implemented it. They are Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Malta and Cyprus.Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Questions remain over incoming Bulgaria and Romania. The move will only take place, however, if the countries
external borders to the world outside the EU prove up to existing standards and when Europe's Schengen database can be expanded to accommodate them. Germany and France had insisted that the new member states also prove their non-Schengen frontiers are secure.Under Tuesday's decision, the Schengen hopefuls will temporarily be allowed to link into the old visa database until the new version is launched in June 2008.Costs for this interim solution are estimated at some 3.6 million euros ($4.8 million).

EU members will also have to take the formal decision to lift the borders, a move expected in the third quarter of 2007.Have you ever traveled inside the Schengen states? What was your experience like? Send us your comments and please include your full name and country in your reply.DW staff (jb)

Tuesday, 5 December 2006, 01:17 GMT
US base on the moon

US space agency Nasa has said it plans to start work on a permanently-occupied base on the Moon after astronauts begin flying back there in 2020.

The base is likely to be built on one of the Moon's poles and will serve as a science centre and possible stepping stone for manned missions to Mars. The US has already said it plans to build a new lunar spacecraft to succeed the last Apollo mission in 1972. Funds will be moved from space shuttle flights, due to be scrapped in 2010. The structure of the base and the exact duties of the astronauts stationed there have not been decided. Nor is it clear when the base will begin functioning.

Lunar outpost

We're going for a base on the moon, Scott Doc Horowitz, Nasa's associate administrator for exploration, said. The agency's deputy head, Shana Dale, is quoted by the Associated Press news agency as saying that the fundamental lunar approach will be very different to earlier Moon missions.A lunar spacecraft has already been commissioned by Nasa Nasa has elected to build a lunar outpost rather than operate brief trips to the satellite as it did in the 1960s.Nasa is also expected to ask other countries and businesses to help it build the base.The permanent base will be built near one of the two poles, as these are felt to have a moderate climate and more sunlight - essential if the base is to use solar energy. It's exciting, Shana Dale told the Reuters news agency. We don't know as much about the polar regions. According to Reuters, funds for building the lunar base will be diverted from the space shuttle programme, which is to be phased out by 2010. After the Columbia space shuttle accident, US President George W Bush announced plans to send astronauts back to the moon by 2020. Nasa announced in August that the Lockheed Martin Corporation will build the next US spaceship to take humans to the Moon.

(1) The heavy-lift Ares 5 rocket blasts off from Earth carrying a lunar lander and a departure stage
(2) Several days later, astronauts launch on an Ares 1 rocket inside their Orion vehicle (CEV)
(3) The Orion docks with the lander and departure stage in Earth orbit and then heads to the Moon
(4) Having done its job of boosting the Orion and lunar lander on their way, the departure stage is jettisoned
(5) At the Moon, the astronauts leave the Orion and enter the lander for the trip to the lunar surface
(6) After exploring the lunar landscape for seven days, the crew blasts off in a portion of the lander
(7) In Moon orbit, they re-join the waiting robot-minded Orion and begin the journey back to Earth
(8) On the way, the service component of the Orion is jettisoned. This leaves just the crew capsule to enter the atmosphere
(9) A heatshield protects the capsule; parachutes bring it down on dry land, probably in California