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.
Tropical depression forms in Atlantic OCT 11,07
MIAMI - The 15th tropical depression of the Atlantic hurricane season formed Thursday in the open ocean, forecasters said. At 11 p.m., the storm was about 905 miles east of Bermuda, according to the National Hurricane Center. It was moving east at near 9 mph. Maximum sustained winds were near 35 mph.It was not expected to increase much in strength or speed over the next 24 hours, forecasters said.
US says illegal weapons exports growing By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer OCT 11,07
WASHINGTON - Missile technology, fighter jet parts, night vision goggles and other U.S. wartime equipment increasingly are being illegally smuggled to potential adversaries, such as China and Iran, the federal government said Thursday. Last week, two Utah men were arrested for allegedly trying to sell parts over the Internet for F-4 and F-14 fighter jets — which are only flown by Iran. The week before, two engineers were indicted in San Jose, Calif., on charges of stealing computer chip designs intended for the Chinese military.Government lawyers and investigators Thursday described a growing number of unauthorized exports that could be dangerous if the parts and supplies end up in the hands of terrorists or hostile nations.The concept of terrorists, criminals or rogue nations obtaining weapons and other restricted technology is chilling, said Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Julie Myers, who oversees illegal export investigations as head of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Assistant Attorney General Ken Wainstein called new government efforts to crack down on illegal exports the Justice Department's top counterintelligence priority.A Pentagon report noted a 43 percent increase in 2005 in what it described as suspicious foreign contacts with U.S-based defense companies. Another report last year by U.S. intelligence officials found that a record 108 nations were trying to buy or otherwise obtain U.S. technology that is restricted for sale. It did not list which nations or specify whether some of them were U.S. allies.Night vision goggles, body armor and equipment used in improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, have been in particular demand since the 2001 terror attacks that prompted the U.S.-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, officials said. But some prosecutors have been reluctant to pursue the smugglers because illegal export cases can be very complicated and time-consuming to chase.These are incredibly complicated cases, Wainstein said, adding that training and assistance will be given to prosecutors and investigators working on a new task force under the departments of State, Justice, Homeland Security, Defense, Commerce and the FBI. The task force largely will focus on U.S.-based exporters who sell or ship equipment overseas without proper authorization.
Other recent smuggling cases of concern to national security officials include:An Indonesian man was indicted in Madison, Wis., Thursday on charges of conspiring to export rifle scopes to Indonesia.Pittsburgh company SparesGlobal, Inc., was sentenced last week for lying about exporting equipment used in nuclear reactors and ballistic missiles in 2003 that ended up in Pakistan.
A man in California pleaded guilty in August to trying to smuggle 100,000 Uzi submachine guns and night vision goggles to Iranian government officials.Two men pleaded guilty in California on the same day, Aug. 1, to exporting military-use technology to China, including, in one case, computer code to help train fighter pilots.
7YR TREATY BY PROOF
GENESIS 2:2-3 GOD RESTED THE 7TH DAY
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
LEVITICUS 25:1-9 THE 7 YEAR SABBATICAL
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.
3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.
6 And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,
7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
God has always dealt with Israel in 7's, it just makes sense the last dealing with Israel and the World will be a 7 yr treaty. God rested from creation on the 7TH DAY. Every 7TH YEAR Israel is suppose to rest the land. And the 7X7=49 YRS and the jubilee is the 50TH YEAR.
Now the scriptures that a week in Israel history is 7YEARS.
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
Isn"t this interesting it comes from the same Person whos name was changed to Israel,(JACOB) and Israel and Jerusalem is the places dealt with in Daniel 9:24-27.
GENESIS 32:27-28
27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
1 CHRONICLES 17:6-14
6 Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?
7 Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:
8 And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.
9 Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,
10 And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that the LORD will build thee an house.
11 And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
12 He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.
13 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee:
14 But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore.
Syria unlikely to join peace conference By SAMAR KASSABLI, Associated Press Writer OCT 11,07
DAMASCUS, Syria - Syrian President Bashar Assad all but ruled out his country's participation in a U.S.-sponsored international peace conference on the Middle East, suggesting in an interview published Thursday that the meeting has no chance for success. His comments come amid growing skepticism of the conference among some Arab governments, which have expressed doubts the planned gathering in November will tackle the main issues of the conflict with Israel.Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia have not said whether they will attend.Syria has not received an invitation to the conference, and even if it did, it will not take part in a conference that lacks the chances of success, Assad said in an interview with two Tunisian newspapers.The Bush administration has said it will invite adversary Syria to the conference. But Assad had said earlier that his country would not attend the meeting if it did not address Israel's occupation of the Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria during the 1967 Mideast war.In Thursday's interview with the Ach-Chourouk and Le Quotidien newspapers, Assad said the conference should have serious and clear goals and should include all peace tracks including the Golan issue.
The United States has kept quiet on the most basic details about the meeting, including precise dates, the guest list and the location — though it is expected to be in Annapolis, Maryland.
Arab League chief Amr Moussa warned of a likely failure of the conference during an international economic forum Wednesday night in Cairo. He said the United States was only hoping for a photo-op between Saudi and Israeli officials rather than real progress.In the Saudi capital Riyadh, the head of the six-country Gulf Cooperation Council Abdul-Rahman Attiyah called Thursday for joint Arab-Palestinian action to set the conditions for the success the conference. He also expressed skepticism that the meeting would be successful because Israel does not want peace.Assad also referred to a reported Israel jet raid on a target in northeastern Syria on Sept. 6. Syria has described the site as an unused military building. Israeli officials have maintained an unprecedented wall of silence over the affair, though there have been reports — denied by Syria — that the target was a nascent nuclear facility being built with North Korean help.Assad, in the interview, said Israel's silence reflected the failure of Israeli or U.S. intelligence.They are trying to cover up their failure by shrouding it with mystery, he said.
Accord needed before Mideast conference By MARK LAVIE, Associated Press Writer Thu Oct 11, 6:50 PM ET
JERUSALEM - President Bush should not convene his planned Mideast peace conference next month if Israel and the Palestinians have not achieved an agreement in advance, a Palestinian negotiator said Thursday. Israel has been pressing for a vaguely worded document that would gloss over the toughest issues still outstanding — borders, Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees. Palestinians prefer a detailed preliminary agreement with a timetable for creating a Palestinian state, though it is not clear if they would refuse to agree to less.Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said in an interview with Israel's Channel 10 TV, that when then-President Bill Clinton convened an Israeli-Palestinian summit in July 2000, it broke up without agreement and violence erupted three months later. Lack of proper preparation for the summit is often blamed.Do you think President Bush will do what President Clinton did? Erekat said. I really doubt the Americans will issue the invitation if decisions are not made by (Palestinian) President (Mahmoud) Abbas and (Israeli Prime Minister Ehud) Olmert.
The conference is tentatively set for Annapolis, Maryland, at the end of November, but Erekat noted that no invitations have been sent.He said the Israeli-Palestinian agreement before the conference could be two-three pages. Olmert and Abbas have met six times in recent weeks to discuss the issues. Erekat said they have come to some agreements, but he would not elaborate.Erekat, a member of the five-person Palestinian team negotiating with Israel over the document, said overall agreement is near. I don't think we need negotiations anymore, he said. Negotiations are over. It's time for decisions. We have never been closer to achieving the end game than we are now.He said peace is vital for the Palestinians. I don't want my son to be a suicide bomber, he said.Erekat dismissed the notion that neither Olmert nor Abbas is strong enough politically to make the concessions necessary for an agreement or get the backing of their people.If Mr. Olmert and Mr. Abbas reach the agreement on the end game, they'll be the most important persons in this holy land since Jesus walked the streets of Jerusalem, he said. Erekat said a peace accord would be put before the Palestinian people in a referendum.He discounted the ability of the militant Islamic Hamas to sabotage such an accord. He acknowledged that Abbas' Fatah is not strong enough to retake Gaza by force after the Hamas takeover in June, but once you produce an end game agreement, Hamas is down without firing a shot.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that she asked the Israeli ambassador for clarifications about an Israeli plan to build a road near Jerusalem, partly on confiscated Palestinian land. Palestinians charge the construction will cut them off from Jerusalem.
Rice told reporters on the way to Moscow that she had not received a reply. Rice is due in Israel and the Palestinian areas over the weekend.Also Thursday, a top architect of Israeli military policy in the Gaza Strip was quoted as saying that the army will have to conduct a lengthy ground operation to halt rocket fire, the clearest sign yet that Israel is preparing an offensive against Hamas.In an interview with the Yediot Ahronot daily, Maj. Gen. Moshe Kaplinsky said a Gaza operation appears inevitable.We cannot over time stand idly by as Hamas rearms in the strip and as the rocket fire continues incessantly, Kaplinsky, who stepped down this month as the army's deputy chief of staff, told the newspaper. In order to dismantle the terror infrastructure, systematic treatment is necessary. A ground operation is a question of timing.He did not elaborate.Since Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip two years ago, the rocket fire has persisted, despite frequent Israeli airstrikes and incursions targeting rocket squads. Thousands of the crude rockets have landed in southern Israel, killing 12 people over the past seven years and disrupting the lives of thousands of residents. In violence Thursday, Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian policeman who was driving with a wanted militant in his car, Palestinian officials said. They said the shooting took place after a brief chase.
The undercover soldiers dressed in civilian clothes shot the policeman, but the Islamic Jihad militant in the car with him escaped unharmed, they said. The army said troops shot a man who drew a pistol when they approached.
Rice seeks Israeli clarification on land grab Thu Oct 11, 5:40 PM ET
SHANNON, Ireland (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday she had requested clarification from Israel over its decision to confiscate Arab land near Jerusalem. I called their ambassador to the US yesterday and asked for clarification. I am waiting for one, Rice told reporters on her plane prior to making a stopover in Shannon, Ireland, en route to Moscow.Israel on Tuesday ordered the confiscation of Arab land outside east Jerusalem, officials said, reviving fears that the occupied West Bank could be split in two and challenging peace overtures.The appropriation orders came as Israelis and Palestinians prepare for a major US-sponsored international peace summit widely expected in Maryland next month, and were immediately criticized by Arab authorities.Until now, the United States has refused to comment on the Israeli move, with State Department spokesman Sean McCormack saying that he wanted to understand better the facts on the ground.
Washington's silence contrasted with the reaction of France, Egypt and Jordan, all of which swiftly denounced the land grab.
The situation is likely to complicate matters for Rice when she travels to the Middle East on Sunday following a two-day visit in Russia. The trip had been aimed at laying some of the groundwork for the peace summit.Her five-day stint in the region is scheduled to take her to Ramallah and Jerusalem, as well as short trips to Amman and Egypt, and is expected to include talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas.
US quiet on pending Middle East meeting By ANNE GEARAN, AP Diplomatic Writer Thu Oct 11, 4:13 PM ET
WASHINGTON - Just weeks before a peace conference marking President Bush's most direct intervention in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, U.S. officials are trying to say as little as possible about what is on the table. The November session will be a serious run at problems that have proved insoluble in the past, U.S. officials say, yet Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and others have avoided talking specifics or using the lexicon of past, failed peace talks.Rice calls the U.S.-sponsored session an international meeting, instead of the loftier summit or conference, as a way to keep expectations low. She talks about establishing a Palestinian state, the practical goal of peace talks, but almost never uses the word peace.The United States is still mum on the most basic details about the meeting, including precise dates, location — it's expected to be in Annapolis, Md. — and the guest list. Rice will be on the spot to fill in the blanks during a preparatory trip to the Middle East that begins Sunday.The intentional understatement masks the high stakes for a conference that could christen a historic agreement on some of the most difficult issues in the six-decade conflict, and the political and diplomatic risk Bush is taking late in his presidency.
Former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft, a Rice mentor, and other well-known Washington advisers warned Bush and Rice in a letter Wednesday that the session must tackle the substance of a permanent peace.Arab states say they welcome Bush's engagement but are wary of being mere window-dressing for a too-little, too-late attempt to revive peace talks after a seven-year freeze.The Bush administration's closest friends in the Arab world have said they want no part of a feel-good session, or have put conditions on their participation.We haven't issued any invitations yet, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said this week, cautioning there will be posturing on all sides ahead of the meeting. We're going to focus on making this meeting the most efficient and effective use of all the participants' time to try to move the process forward.U.S. officials say they are encouraged by meaty discussions between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and new negotiating teams named this week. Those talks have not derailed despite political opposition and uncertainty on both sides.The best-case scenario has Olmert and Abbas fashioning a fairly detailed framework for an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.That document would be ready ahead of the November meeting. Arab neighbors, including some that do not recognize Israel, would then sign off on the plan during the conference. More formal peace talks to finish the details would follow, a process that would probably take months if not years.We've done a lot of dialogue between the two men, and they are making progress, Bush told an interviewer from the Arabic-language television news channel Al Arabiya last week.
The two leaders' work means the average Palestinian and average Israeli will begin to see what a vision looks like, Bush said. In other words, something to work for; something that's more tangible than just a Rose Garden speech by the president or hopeful comments by others — something real.Abbas on Wednesday laid out his most specific demands for the borders of a future independent state, calling for a full Israeli withdrawal from all territories captured in the 1967 Mideast war.With Israel seeking to retain parts of the West Bank and east Jerusalem, Abbas' comments appeared to set the stage for tough negotiations, which are expected to include complicated arrangements such as land swaps and shared control over holy sites.Olmert told his parliament Monday he won't be deterred from seeking a peace deal despite the need for painful concessions, warning that failure would mean a demographic struggle steeped in blood and tears.Olmert's closest political ally, Vice Premier Haim Ramon, spoke publicly about a future division of Jerusalem — long taboo in Israeli politics.
The future of Jerusalem is one of the three core problems that have shipwrecked past negotiations. The others are the borders of an eventual Palestinian state and the rights of Palestinians and their descendants who left homes in what is now Israel. Rice has said that the United States isn't ignoring those issues, but she says there are other practical questions to consider. The conference's success will be judged largely on whether regional power-broker Saudi Arabia attends and throws support to future peace talks, and on whether both sides and their U.S. host squarely address those three potential deal-breaking issues.
Whatever the outcome, merely holding the session marks a turning point for Bush and advisers who had steered clear of active Mideast peacemaking for most of Bush's tenure. That changed this year, largely at the urging of Arab allies Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan. Rice and her aides say they see an opportunity now that did not exist a few years ago. The administration is gambling that it can capitalize on a bitter internal Palestinian split, strengthening the moderate Abbas at the expense of his militant Hamas rivals, and challenge Arab states to come off the sidelines to endorse a deal they say they want. The administration has said it will invite adversary Syria to the conference, but plans no olive branch to Hamas. The Scowcroft letter urged eventual engagement with Hamas, perhaps through intermediaries, to lessen its power as a spoiler for any deal that Abbas might reach.
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)
NOTICE IN VERSE 38:6 TURKEY IS AGAINST THE WEST.
Turkey threatens repercussions for U.S. By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press Writer OCT 11,07
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey, which is a key supply route to U.S. troops in Iraq, recalled its ambassador to Washington on Thursday and warned of serious repercussions if Congress labels the killing of Armenians by Turks a century ago as genocide. Ordered after a House committee endorsed the genocide measure, the summons of the ambassador for consultations was a further sign of the deteriorating relations between two longtime allies and the potential for new turmoil in an already troubled region.Egeman Bagis, an aide to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, told Turkish media that Turkey — a conduit for many of the supplies shipped to American bases in both Iraq and Afghanistan — might have to cut logistical support to the U.S.Analysts also have speculated the resolution could make Turkey more inclined to send troops into northern Iraq to hunt Turkish Kurd rebels, a move opposed by the U.S. because it would disrupt one of the few relatively stable and peaceful Iraqi areas.
There are steps that we will take, Turkey's prime minister told reporters, but without elaboration. It also wasn't clear if he meant his government would act immediately or wait to see what happens to the resolution in Congress.He declined to answer questions about whether Turkey might shut down Incirlik air base in southern Turkey, a major cargo hub for U.S. and allied military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Turkey's Mediterranean port of Iskenderun is also used to ferry goods to American troops.You don't talk about such things, you just do them, Erdogan said.The measure before Congress is just a nonbinding resolution without the force of law, but the debate has incensed Turkey's government.
The relationship between the two NATO allies, whose troops fought together in the Korean War in 1950-53, have stumbled in the past. They hit a low in 2003, when Turkey's parliament refused to allow U.S. forces use their country as a staging ground for the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.But while the threat of repercussions against the U.S. is appealing for many Turks, the country's leaders know such a move could hurt Turkey's standing as a reliable ally of the West and its ambitions to be a mediator on the international stage.The Turks did suspend military ties with France last year after parliament's lower house approved a bill that would have made it a crime to deny the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey amounted to genocide. But Turkey has much more to lose from cutting ties to the U.S.The United States is one of its major business partners, with $11 billion in trade last year, and the U.S. defense industry provides much of the Turkish military's equipment.Turkey's ambassador in Washington, Nabi Sensoy, was ordered home for discussions with the Turkish leadership about what is happening in Congress, Foreign Minister spokesman Levent Bilman said. He said Sensoy would go back after seven to 10 days.
We are not withdrawing our ambassador. We have asked him to come to Turkey for some consultations, Bilman said. "The ambassador was given instructions to return and will come at his earliest convenience.The Bush administration, which is lobbying strongly in hopes of persuading Congress to reject the resolution, stressed the need for good relations with Turkey.We look forward to his quick return and will continue to work to maintain strong U.S.-Turkish relations, said Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council. We remain opposed to House Resolution 106 because of the grave harm it could bring to the national security of the United States.Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the measure is damaging relations at a time when U.S. forces in Iraq rely heavily on Turkish permission to use their airspace for cargo flights.About 70 percent of U.S. air cargo headed for Iraq goes through Turkey as does about one-third of the fuel used by the U.S. military there. U.S. bases also get water and other supplies carried in overland by Turkish truckers who cross into Iraq's northern Kurdish region.
In addition, C-17 cargo planes fly military supplies to U.S. soldiers in remote areas of Iraq from Incirlik, avoiding the use of Iraqi roads vulnerable to bomb attacks. U.S. officials say the arrangement helps reduce American casualties. U.S.-Turkish ties already had been strained by Turkey's complaint the U.S. hasn't done enough to stop Turkish Kurd rebels from using bases in northern Iraq to stage attacks in southeastern Turkey, a predominantly Kurdish region where tens of thousands have died in fighting since 1984. Turkish warplanes and helicopter gunships attacked suspected positions of Kurdish rebels on the border this week and Turkey's parliament was expected to vote next week on a proposal to allow the military to pursue a large-scale offensive in northern Iraq. The U.S. ambassador to Turkey, Ross Wilson, was invited to the Foreign Ministry, where officials conveyed their unease over the resolution in Congress and asked the Bush administration do all in its power to stop passage by the full House, a Foreign Ministry official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to make press statements.
Historians estimate up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I. Turkey denies the deaths constituted genocide, saying the killings didn't come from a coordinated campaign but rather during unrest accompanying the Ottoman Empire's collapse. The House Foreign Affairs Committee passed the resolution Wednesday despite intense lobbying by Turkish officials and the opposition from President Bush. The vote was a triumph for well-organized Armenian-American interest groups that have lobbied Congress for decades to pass a resolution. The administration will now try to pressure Democratic leaders in Congress not to schedule a vote, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi indicated they were committed to going forward. Why do it now? Because there's never a good time and all of us in the Democratic leadership have supported it, she said. Turkish officials said the House had no business to get involved in writing history. It is not possible to accept such an accusation of a crime which was never committed by the Turkish nation, Turkey's government said after the committee adopted the measure. Associated Press writers C. Onur Ant in Istanbul and Suzan Fraser in Ankara contributed to this report.
Friday, October 12, 2007
Thursday, October 11, 2007
HAMAS MIGHT GIVE UP GAZA
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.
No tsunami warning after quake near Indonesia's Sumatra Tue Oct 9, 9:14 PM ET
JAKARTA (Reuters) - An undersea earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale hit southwestern Sumatra on Wednesday morning, Indonesia's meteorology agency said.The agency did not issue a tsunami warning following the quake, which the U.S. Geological Survey measured at magnitude 6.2.
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.
Lekima's Vietnam death toll rises to 86 Wed Oct 10, 7:56 PM ET
HANOI, Vietnam - The death toll from Vietnam's Typhoon Lekima rose to 86 as rescue workers rushed to get aid to thousands of people still stuck in flooded areas, officials said Wednesday. Eleven more bodies were recovered in the worst-hit province of Nghe An, and one more body was discovered in Son La province. Nine people were still missing and feared dead.The flood waters that inundated central Vietnam continued receding Wednesday, but large sections of Nghe An and neighboring Thanh Hoa province remained unreachable by car.The waters are receding, but very slowly, said Do Minh Chinh a disaster official in Thanh Hoa province, where 15 people died.
The International Federation of the Red Cross and the Vietnamese government estimated that about 10 million Vietnamese had been affected by Typhoon Lekima, said Joe Lowry, a Red Cross official said from Ninh Binh.The typhoon washed away 6,000 houses, damaged 52,000 houses and destroyed about 200,000 acres of crops, Lowry said.Vietnam's Department of Floods and Storms Control said earlier the initial damage estimate from the typhoon was $131 million.Vietnam is prone to floods and storms that kill hundreds of people each year.
Mixed Atlantic hurricane season puzzles experts By Michael Christie Wed Oct 10, 4:38 PM ET
MIAMI (Reuters) - Judge the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season by the 13 storms so far, and it looks like a relatively busy year. But look at the number of days a hurricane has swirled in the Atlantic, or use other measures of a storm season's ferocity, and 2007 has been surprisingly benign. Hurricane experts had predicted the season to be above-average because of warm Atlantic sea surface temperatures, the continuance of a decades-long natural period of increased storm activity, and the development of La Nina weather conditions in the Pacific.Many tropical waves, often a precursor of a tropical storm, developed in the Atlantic over the busiest weeks of the season between September and early October, and eight named tropical storms formed in September -- matching a record for the month.But apart from maximum-strength Hurricane Felix, which slammed into Central America on September 4, most were exceedingly brief or weak, meaning September only registered 3.5 days with a hurricane.One noted hurricane forecasting team at Colorado State University had predicted 20 hurricane days that month.
This year's storms caused relatively little damage and casualties especially compared to the havoc inflicted in 2005, when Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, Wilma pummeled the Mexican resort of Cancun and Florida, and Rita hit the Texas-Louisiana border area.
The main reason for the low number of hurricane days this year has been high vertical wind shear -- the difference in windspeeds at different altitudes -- which tears storms apart while they try to form, hurricane experts said.Scientists are puzzled. A periodic cooling in sea temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific, known as La Nina, is supposed to reduce shear over the Atlantic.
It's like everything else with hurricanes; every now and then the scientists just have to scratch their heads, said Jeff Masters, co-founder of the Weather Underground Web site.
END OF SEASON SURPRISE?
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Tuesday the La Nina phenomenon had definitely kicked in and would be weak to moderate this winter.That could make the end of the six-month hurricane season, which began on June 1, a little busier than one might otherwise expect because a normal increase in late-season wind shear might be suppressed by La Nina, experts said.
Gerry Bell of NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, which issues the U.S. government's hurricane season forecasts and had called for between 13 and 16 named storms this year, said there was no anomaly in the total number of storms.We've had 13 named storms, so that's certainly above normal, Bell said. Where we've been a bit low is on the hurricanes.There have officially only been four hurricanes this season but many experts expect Tropical Storm Karen to be upgraded to a hurricane in a post-season analysis, pushing the number to five. The long-term average is for 10 to 11 named storms and six hurricanes per season.Bell said that in addition to the shear, this year had seen a lot of northwesterly flow in the upper atmosphere that had brought dry air over the tropical Atlantic where many storms form. Storms don't like dry air as they need moisture to grow.But the season isn't over, Bell cautioned.
But James Elsner, a Florida State University professor of geography who analyzes hurricane forecasting, said: We are getting to the end. If something doesn't happen in the next two weeks it's basically over.I think what we have to question is why there was so much enthusiasm for this season (in terms of the activity predicted),he said.
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
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
PREMEDITATED MERGER
Ex-Mexican prez: Amero on the way
Vicente Fox confirms long-term deal worked out with President BushOctober 9, 2007 1:15 p.m. Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi - 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Ex-Mexican President Vicente Fox last night on CNN
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox confirmed the existence of a plan conceived with President Bush to create a new regional currency in the Americas, in an interview last night on CNN's Larry King Live.It possibly was the first time a leader of Mexico, Canada or the U.S. openly confirmed a plan for a regional currency. Fox explained the current regional trade agreement that encompasses the Western Hemisphere is intended to evolve into other previously hidden aspects of integration. According to a transcript published by CNN, King, near the end of the broadcast, asked Fox a question e-mailed from a listener, a Ms. Gonzalez from Elizabeth, N.J.: Mr. Fox, I would like to know how you feel about the possibility of having a Latin America united with one currency? Fox answered in the affirmative, indicating it was a long-term plan. He admitted he and President Bush had agreed to pursue the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas – a free-trade zone extending throughout the Western Hemisphere, suggesting part of the plan was to institute eventually a regional currency.
Long term, very long term, he said. What we proposed together, President Bush and myself, it's ALCA, which is a trade union for all the Americas.ALCA is the acronym for the Area de Libre Comercio de las Américas, the name of the FTAA in Spanish. King, evidently startled by Fox's revelation of the currency, asked pointedly, It's going to be like the euro dollar (sic), you mean?
Well, that would be long, long term, Fox repeated. Fox noted the FTAA plan had been thwarted by Hugo Chavez, the radical socialist president of Venezuela. Everything was running fluently until Hugo Chavez came, Fox commented. He decided to combat the idea and destroy the idea.
Fox explained that he and Bush intended to proceed incrementally, establishing FTAA as an economic agreement first and waiting to create an amero-type currency later – a plan he also suggested was in place for NAFTA itself. I think the process to go, first step is trading agreement, Fox said. And then further on, a new vision, like we are trying to do with NAFTA.Fox's reply to the CNN viewer was captured in a clip posted on YouTube.com. CNN posted video of the interview but did not include the segment with questions from viewers. Last week, WND reported BankIntroductions.com, a Canadian company that specializes in global banking strategies and currency consulting, is advising clients the amero may be the currency of North America within 10 years. Coin designer Daniel Carr has issued for sale a series of private-issue fantasy pattern amero coins that have drawn attention on the Internet. WND also reported the African Union is moving down the path of regional economic integration, with the African Central Bank planning to create the Gold Mandela as a single African continental currency by 2010.
The Council on Foreign Relations has supported regional and global currencies designed to replace nationally issued currencies. In an article in the May/June issue of Foreign Affairs, entitled The End of National Currency, CFR economist Benn Steil asserts the dollar is a temporary currency. Steil concluded countries should abandon monetary nationalism, moving to adopt regional currencies, on the road to a global one world currency.WND previously reported Steve Previs, a vice president at Jeffries International Ltd. in London, said the amero is the proposed new currency for the North American Community which is being developed right now between Canada, the U.S., and Mexico.A video clip of the CNBC interview in November with Jeffries is now available at YouTube.com. WND also has reported a continued slide in the value of the dollar on world currency markets could set up conditions in which the adoption of the amero as a North American currency gains momentum.
Barroso worried commission could take a hit in new EU treaty 09.10.2007 - 17:52 CET | By Honor Mahony
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso is worried that his institution will be sidelined under the new EU treaty which potentially introduces a new power hierarchy into the European Union.In a frank interview with Belgian newspaper de Standaard, Mr Barroso admits that he is eyeing the new treaty with some concern as it risks seeing member states circumvent both the commission and European Parliament and take decisions among themselves.If the new treaty is ratified, which I strongly hope, we will have to make sure that its changes are not abused to reduce the de facto power of the European institutions.Member states are currently putting the final touches on the EU treaty which is hoped will be in force by 2009.Amongst its most noticeable changes is the introduction of a possible five-year term president of the EU council - the 27 member states' decision making body - and an EU foreign minister.
Depending on the personalities of the people who occupy the posts, they have the potential to thoroughly shake-up the way the union currently runs its day-to-day business. The treaty also sets the stage for a power struggle between the commission president, council president and foreign minister who all to a certain extent represent the bloc towards the outside world. With Mr Barroso eyeing a second term as commission president from 2009, he could be in the thick of the changes.He suggests that the new longterm council president, which replaces the current system of rotation between countries every six months, could lead to a new circuit being created outside the Commission and the Parliament. The danger exists that the governments will handle problems among themselves, without taking into account the European institutions, said the Portuguese politician.Some member states do not accept that there is an European interest, which is different from a compromise between member states. I constantly explain to the British that the common market, in which they are the champions, is impossible without strong European institutions, such as the Commission, the European Parliament and the European Court [of Justice].
At the moment, the commission's main duty is as guardian of the EU treaty. It keeps an eye on member states to see if they are upholding law, referring to the court if it suspects they are in breach of it. Its other main duty is to propose EU law, the sole institution that may do so. More generally it acts as broker between countries and should represent a European view point.
Rice pushes 3 Latin America trade pacts By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer Tue Oct 9, 3:15 PM ET
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Congress to pass three Latin American free trade agreements, saying defeat of the deals would be a tremendous blow to America's standing in the region. Rice said Tuesday that such a defeat would be a serious setback for the leaders of Peru, Panama and Colombia and their efforts to strengthen democracy in their countries.It would send a signal loud and clear across the region that the United States cannot be trusted to keep its promises, she said in a speech at the headquarters of the Organization of American States in Washington.Rice's speech was part of a concerted administration effort to jump-start its stalled trade agenda in the face of rising unhappiness as America's trade deficits have soared to record highs.
In the past two weeks, key House and Senate panels have approved a deal with Peru, putting it on track to be the first free trade deal passed by Congress since Democrats took control of the House and Senate at the beginning of the year.The deal with Peru and a separate free trade agreement with Panama are given good chances of passage by Congress this year, but approval of an agreement with Colombia is seen as less likely because of concerns about human rights there.The administration also has a free trade agreement pending before Congress with South Korea but that agreement is also given less of a chance of winning approval this year because of unhappiness with Korea's barriers to U.S. auto and beef shipments.Rice said increased economic ties with the United States would help support the spreading movement toward democracy and free markets in Latin America.The exceptions to this rule may be noisy but they are heading in the opposite direction of the hemisphere, Rice said, not naming any particular country, although she later said that the United States was preparing for a transition to a democratic government in Cuba.
ISRAELI GOVERNMENT THREATENS TO DIVIDE JERUSALEM
By Joel C. Rosenberg
(Washington, D.C., October 9, 2007) -- As the U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace summit approaches next month, a senior aide to Israeli Prime Minister Olmert is actually suggesting his government is now open to the previously unthinkable prospect of dividing their capital city of Jerusalem. Wouldn't it be the right deal today for the Palestinians, the Western world and the international community to recognize (Israel's) annexation of...(Jewish) neighborhoods as part of Jerusalem, and for us to quit the Arab neighborhoods? Vice Premier Haim Ramon told Israel Radio.
Reuters reported that Ramon made the comments as Israeli and Palestinian negotiators opened talks at a secret location in Israel over a joint document they hoped to present at a U.S.-sponsored conference on Palestinian statehood. A spokesman for Olmert later called speculation that the government would divide Jerusalem baseless and untrue, but Ramon's comments were public and on-the-record which is what is fueling the enormous concern and speculation.
Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu quickly and strongly denounced the government's talk of giving up control of Judea and Samaria (commonly known as the West Bank) as well as East Jerusalem as dangerous and destabilizing, especially in light of the rising Hamas and Iranian threats to the Jewish State...."The unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon created an Iranian outpost -= from which Israel is being attacked -- in the North, and the unilateral pullout from Gaza created a second Iranian base in Gaza, Hamastan,Netanyahu said on the floor of the Knesset. And now the government is planning a third withdrawal -- from Judea and Samaria -- that will lead to a third Iranian outpost....Giving Hamas half of Jerusalem will make the rest of Jerusalem unlivable. Giving up Judea and Samaria will transfer the areas controlling the coastal plain into the hands of Hamas, leading to Kassams…on Tel Aviv....according to the government's plans, Israel will pull back to the 67 borders. Obviously, this is the plan and any attempts to disguise it are futile. We are facing an exact replica of the government's plan at the Camp David summit in 2000....This is no way to make peace.Netanyahu is right. This would be a stunning and misguided move, and one that would further divide the Israeli public at a time unity is desperately needed. A recent poll found 63% of Israelis are opposed to dividing the Holy City. Even Olmert's cabinet is sharply divided on the issue.
The issue of the division of Jerusalem is an inalienable asset of the state of Israel. Palestinian refugees will not be returned to Israel and Jerusalem will not be divided, said Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz, a former chief of staff and a member of the Prime Minister's own Kadima party. Now is the time to pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Psalm 122:6), not carve it up and serve it to the radical Islamic jihadists now in charge of the Palestinian Authority.
JOSHUA FUND UPDATE:
* Please keep praying for our Palestinian Christian brothers and sisters, especially those who live in Gaza. Pray that the would be strong and courageous and especially bold in loving their neighbors and their enemies, as Jesus commanded us to do. Remember that earlier this summer, radical Islamic jihadists blew up the Bible book store in Gaza, run by the Palestinian Bible Society. There is a concerted effort to intimidate and silence evangelical believers in the West Bank and Gaza. Let us, therefore, not cease to pray.
* Here are excerpts from an email I received yesterday from a dear friend who works closely with our brothers and sisters in Gaza: Rami was targeted because of his heart for lost Muslims and was told that he was being watched. Rami was one of the most gifted of the young leaders at the Bible Society. Saturday night he finished his work and then locked the doors of the Bible Society. One young woman from Gaza put it this way: He locked the doors and headed home. His earthly home was about 15 minutes away, but instead he was taken to his Heavenly home. Rami was kidnapped and finally killed Saturday night. He was stabbed repeatedly and then shot. The Islamic terrorists threw his body from a car at 2 AM on Sunday morning. No terrorist group has claimed responsibility yet and Pastor Hanna says the details are still sketchy. One thing is clear, this dear brother would not be intimidated by threats, harassment, persecution, and even death. He stayed strong until the end and will be given a martyrs crown in Heaven. His funeral was today. He is with Jesus right now. Pastor Jack Sara in Jerusalem says that this is the first Palestinian martyr that they know of. The believers in Gaza have been experiencing all out persecution since Hamas took over the Strip. It looks like Islamic Sharia law is just around the corner in Gaza. Please pray for his sweet wife Pauline. Obviously, she is devastated. Pastor Hanna and the believers in Gaza have rallied together and are at her side. This is difficult since the Christian community in Gaza is laying low because of continual threats....Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life. Revelation 2:10. Rami has now received his eternal crown.
* An estimated 100 students staged a rare demonstration Monday against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, calling him a dictator and scuffling with hard-line students at Tehran University, reports the New York Times. Ahmadinejad, who was giving a speech to a select group at the university to mark the beginning of the academic year, ignored the chants of death to the dictator and continued with his speech on the merits of science and the pitfalls of Western-style democracy, witnesses said. Please pray for the pro-democracy forces to gain strength in Iran and for regime change that will remove Ahmadinejad and his allies from power.
* Pray, too, for the rapidly growing Christian awakening in Iran. In 1979, there were only 500 known Muslim converts to Christianity in all of Iran. Today, there are more than 1 million. What's more, Persian evangelical leaders tell me that an estimated 10,000 new house churches are expected to be formed in Iran over the next twelve months.
* We are in talks with several wonderful organizations in Israel and the surrounding region on ways to help them expand their humanitarian relief efforts. This is all part of OPERATION EPICENTER, our three-year initiative to get more than $120 million worth of aid into the Mideast to care for the poor and needy and to pre-position supplies ahead of coming wars. Please pray that these talks go well and that the Lord would provide the financial and human resources we need to bless Israel and her neighbors in the name of Jesus. Thanks so much.
Hamas seeks Fatah talks, hints at giving up Gaza By Nidal al-Mughrabi Wed Oct 10, 6:51 PM ET
GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas said on Wednesday it would hold reconciliation talks with the Fatah faction of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and hinted it might be ready to cede control of the Gaza Strip, which it seized in June. Abbas, who is pursuing a peace deal with Israel, has ruled out dialogue with Islamist Hamas unless it submits anew to his authority and gives up Gaza. Israel and the West want Hamas shunned until it accepts coexistence with the Jewish state.There is a serious movement in the realm of Palestinian dialogue and we have agreed to hold a dialogue with Fatah in one of the Arab capitals, said Ismail Haniyeh, who was Hamas prime minister in the former government that Abbas declared void.Our administration in Gaza is temporary, Haniyeh said in an urgent bulletin posted on a pro-Hamas Web site. He said the talks would be held after Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim festival that ends the holy month of Ramadan and falls on Friday or Saturday.
Foreign sanctions and an Israeli blockade have driven Gaza ever deeper into poverty and isolation, and put pressure on Hamas to find a breakthrough without compromising its doctrines.An official involved in Hamas-Fatah mediation but affiliated with neither group confirmed there would be a meeting as early as next week, and said Cairo was the likely venue.But a senior Abbas aide, Ahmed Abdel-Rahman, denied talks had been set and accused Hamas, which has been vying with Fatah for Palestinian support since the factions fought a brief civil war in June, of trying to mislead the public.We have not heard about such a dialogue, Abdel-Rahman, who is also a Fatah spokesman, told Reuters. Hamas, he said, wanted to create a false positive atmosphere in Gaza so they can say they are the advocates of dialogue and Fatah rejects it.Abbas has made a precondition of factional talks that Hamas relinquishes the Fatah-linked security compound its forces overran. A senior Hamas official, Sami Abu Zuhri, said such a gesture could come only as a result of dialogue being under way.Israel, whose prime minister, Ehud Olmert, will attend a U.S.-sponsored conference on Palestinian statehood with Abbas next month, opposes reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas.
ABBAS OUTLINES PALESTINE VISION
Israel believes that Hamas should be kept out of the game as it is a consistent detriment to any chance for progress between Israel and the Palestinians, Olmert spokesman David Baker said in Jerusalem.Haniyeh's statement came hours after Abbas, apparently staking out a position ahead of the November conference, said a future Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza must cover the same amount of land as Israel seized there 40 years ago.Abbas also raised the possibility of amending the pre-1967 lines as long as Palestinians ended up controlling territory equal to what Israeli forces captured in a war that year.All Israeli governments since the 1967 conflict have ruled out a complete pullback to pre-war boundaries, citing security concerns and the Jewish state's claim to all of Jerusalem as its capital. Palestinians want the eastern part of the holy city, which Israel annexed, as capital of their future state.
The U.S. government has backed the idea of a small territorial exchange between Israel and a future Palestine so that Palestinians would be compensated for Jewish settlement blocs that would remain under Israeli control in any peace deal.Negotiations on core issues such as the borders of a Palestinian state and the future of Jerusalem and millions of Palestinian refugees broke down in 2001 amid surging violence.(Additional reporting by Mohammed Assadi in Ramallah and Dan Williams in Jerusalem)
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.
No tsunami warning after quake near Indonesia's Sumatra Tue Oct 9, 9:14 PM ET
JAKARTA (Reuters) - An undersea earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale hit southwestern Sumatra on Wednesday morning, Indonesia's meteorology agency said.The agency did not issue a tsunami warning following the quake, which the U.S. Geological Survey measured at magnitude 6.2.
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.
Lekima's Vietnam death toll rises to 86 Wed Oct 10, 7:56 PM ET
HANOI, Vietnam - The death toll from Vietnam's Typhoon Lekima rose to 86 as rescue workers rushed to get aid to thousands of people still stuck in flooded areas, officials said Wednesday. Eleven more bodies were recovered in the worst-hit province of Nghe An, and one more body was discovered in Son La province. Nine people were still missing and feared dead.The flood waters that inundated central Vietnam continued receding Wednesday, but large sections of Nghe An and neighboring Thanh Hoa province remained unreachable by car.The waters are receding, but very slowly, said Do Minh Chinh a disaster official in Thanh Hoa province, where 15 people died.
The International Federation of the Red Cross and the Vietnamese government estimated that about 10 million Vietnamese had been affected by Typhoon Lekima, said Joe Lowry, a Red Cross official said from Ninh Binh.The typhoon washed away 6,000 houses, damaged 52,000 houses and destroyed about 200,000 acres of crops, Lowry said.Vietnam's Department of Floods and Storms Control said earlier the initial damage estimate from the typhoon was $131 million.Vietnam is prone to floods and storms that kill hundreds of people each year.
Mixed Atlantic hurricane season puzzles experts By Michael Christie Wed Oct 10, 4:38 PM ET
MIAMI (Reuters) - Judge the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season by the 13 storms so far, and it looks like a relatively busy year. But look at the number of days a hurricane has swirled in the Atlantic, or use other measures of a storm season's ferocity, and 2007 has been surprisingly benign. Hurricane experts had predicted the season to be above-average because of warm Atlantic sea surface temperatures, the continuance of a decades-long natural period of increased storm activity, and the development of La Nina weather conditions in the Pacific.Many tropical waves, often a precursor of a tropical storm, developed in the Atlantic over the busiest weeks of the season between September and early October, and eight named tropical storms formed in September -- matching a record for the month.But apart from maximum-strength Hurricane Felix, which slammed into Central America on September 4, most were exceedingly brief or weak, meaning September only registered 3.5 days with a hurricane.One noted hurricane forecasting team at Colorado State University had predicted 20 hurricane days that month.
This year's storms caused relatively little damage and casualties especially compared to the havoc inflicted in 2005, when Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, Wilma pummeled the Mexican resort of Cancun and Florida, and Rita hit the Texas-Louisiana border area.
The main reason for the low number of hurricane days this year has been high vertical wind shear -- the difference in windspeeds at different altitudes -- which tears storms apart while they try to form, hurricane experts said.Scientists are puzzled. A periodic cooling in sea temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific, known as La Nina, is supposed to reduce shear over the Atlantic.
It's like everything else with hurricanes; every now and then the scientists just have to scratch their heads, said Jeff Masters, co-founder of the Weather Underground Web site.
END OF SEASON SURPRISE?
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Tuesday the La Nina phenomenon had definitely kicked in and would be weak to moderate this winter.That could make the end of the six-month hurricane season, which began on June 1, a little busier than one might otherwise expect because a normal increase in late-season wind shear might be suppressed by La Nina, experts said.
Gerry Bell of NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, which issues the U.S. government's hurricane season forecasts and had called for between 13 and 16 named storms this year, said there was no anomaly in the total number of storms.We've had 13 named storms, so that's certainly above normal, Bell said. Where we've been a bit low is on the hurricanes.There have officially only been four hurricanes this season but many experts expect Tropical Storm Karen to be upgraded to a hurricane in a post-season analysis, pushing the number to five. The long-term average is for 10 to 11 named storms and six hurricanes per season.Bell said that in addition to the shear, this year had seen a lot of northwesterly flow in the upper atmosphere that had brought dry air over the tropical Atlantic where many storms form. Storms don't like dry air as they need moisture to grow.But the season isn't over, Bell cautioned.
But James Elsner, a Florida State University professor of geography who analyzes hurricane forecasting, said: We are getting to the end. If something doesn't happen in the next two weeks it's basically over.I think what we have to question is why there was so much enthusiasm for this season (in terms of the activity predicted),he said.
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
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
PREMEDITATED MERGER
Ex-Mexican prez: Amero on the way
Vicente Fox confirms long-term deal worked out with President BushOctober 9, 2007 1:15 p.m. Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi - 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Ex-Mexican President Vicente Fox last night on CNN
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox confirmed the existence of a plan conceived with President Bush to create a new regional currency in the Americas, in an interview last night on CNN's Larry King Live.It possibly was the first time a leader of Mexico, Canada or the U.S. openly confirmed a plan for a regional currency. Fox explained the current regional trade agreement that encompasses the Western Hemisphere is intended to evolve into other previously hidden aspects of integration. According to a transcript published by CNN, King, near the end of the broadcast, asked Fox a question e-mailed from a listener, a Ms. Gonzalez from Elizabeth, N.J.: Mr. Fox, I would like to know how you feel about the possibility of having a Latin America united with one currency? Fox answered in the affirmative, indicating it was a long-term plan. He admitted he and President Bush had agreed to pursue the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas – a free-trade zone extending throughout the Western Hemisphere, suggesting part of the plan was to institute eventually a regional currency.
Long term, very long term, he said. What we proposed together, President Bush and myself, it's ALCA, which is a trade union for all the Americas.ALCA is the acronym for the Area de Libre Comercio de las Américas, the name of the FTAA in Spanish. King, evidently startled by Fox's revelation of the currency, asked pointedly, It's going to be like the euro dollar (sic), you mean?
Well, that would be long, long term, Fox repeated. Fox noted the FTAA plan had been thwarted by Hugo Chavez, the radical socialist president of Venezuela. Everything was running fluently until Hugo Chavez came, Fox commented. He decided to combat the idea and destroy the idea.
Fox explained that he and Bush intended to proceed incrementally, establishing FTAA as an economic agreement first and waiting to create an amero-type currency later – a plan he also suggested was in place for NAFTA itself. I think the process to go, first step is trading agreement, Fox said. And then further on, a new vision, like we are trying to do with NAFTA.Fox's reply to the CNN viewer was captured in a clip posted on YouTube.com. CNN posted video of the interview but did not include the segment with questions from viewers. Last week, WND reported BankIntroductions.com, a Canadian company that specializes in global banking strategies and currency consulting, is advising clients the amero may be the currency of North America within 10 years. Coin designer Daniel Carr has issued for sale a series of private-issue fantasy pattern amero coins that have drawn attention on the Internet. WND also reported the African Union is moving down the path of regional economic integration, with the African Central Bank planning to create the Gold Mandela as a single African continental currency by 2010.
The Council on Foreign Relations has supported regional and global currencies designed to replace nationally issued currencies. In an article in the May/June issue of Foreign Affairs, entitled The End of National Currency, CFR economist Benn Steil asserts the dollar is a temporary currency. Steil concluded countries should abandon monetary nationalism, moving to adopt regional currencies, on the road to a global one world currency.WND previously reported Steve Previs, a vice president at Jeffries International Ltd. in London, said the amero is the proposed new currency for the North American Community which is being developed right now between Canada, the U.S., and Mexico.A video clip of the CNBC interview in November with Jeffries is now available at YouTube.com. WND also has reported a continued slide in the value of the dollar on world currency markets could set up conditions in which the adoption of the amero as a North American currency gains momentum.
Barroso worried commission could take a hit in new EU treaty 09.10.2007 - 17:52 CET | By Honor Mahony
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso is worried that his institution will be sidelined under the new EU treaty which potentially introduces a new power hierarchy into the European Union.In a frank interview with Belgian newspaper de Standaard, Mr Barroso admits that he is eyeing the new treaty with some concern as it risks seeing member states circumvent both the commission and European Parliament and take decisions among themselves.If the new treaty is ratified, which I strongly hope, we will have to make sure that its changes are not abused to reduce the de facto power of the European institutions.Member states are currently putting the final touches on the EU treaty which is hoped will be in force by 2009.Amongst its most noticeable changes is the introduction of a possible five-year term president of the EU council - the 27 member states' decision making body - and an EU foreign minister.
Depending on the personalities of the people who occupy the posts, they have the potential to thoroughly shake-up the way the union currently runs its day-to-day business. The treaty also sets the stage for a power struggle between the commission president, council president and foreign minister who all to a certain extent represent the bloc towards the outside world. With Mr Barroso eyeing a second term as commission president from 2009, he could be in the thick of the changes.He suggests that the new longterm council president, which replaces the current system of rotation between countries every six months, could lead to a new circuit being created outside the Commission and the Parliament. The danger exists that the governments will handle problems among themselves, without taking into account the European institutions, said the Portuguese politician.Some member states do not accept that there is an European interest, which is different from a compromise between member states. I constantly explain to the British that the common market, in which they are the champions, is impossible without strong European institutions, such as the Commission, the European Parliament and the European Court [of Justice].
At the moment, the commission's main duty is as guardian of the EU treaty. It keeps an eye on member states to see if they are upholding law, referring to the court if it suspects they are in breach of it. Its other main duty is to propose EU law, the sole institution that may do so. More generally it acts as broker between countries and should represent a European view point.
Rice pushes 3 Latin America trade pacts By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer Tue Oct 9, 3:15 PM ET
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Congress to pass three Latin American free trade agreements, saying defeat of the deals would be a tremendous blow to America's standing in the region. Rice said Tuesday that such a defeat would be a serious setback for the leaders of Peru, Panama and Colombia and their efforts to strengthen democracy in their countries.It would send a signal loud and clear across the region that the United States cannot be trusted to keep its promises, she said in a speech at the headquarters of the Organization of American States in Washington.Rice's speech was part of a concerted administration effort to jump-start its stalled trade agenda in the face of rising unhappiness as America's trade deficits have soared to record highs.
In the past two weeks, key House and Senate panels have approved a deal with Peru, putting it on track to be the first free trade deal passed by Congress since Democrats took control of the House and Senate at the beginning of the year.The deal with Peru and a separate free trade agreement with Panama are given good chances of passage by Congress this year, but approval of an agreement with Colombia is seen as less likely because of concerns about human rights there.The administration also has a free trade agreement pending before Congress with South Korea but that agreement is also given less of a chance of winning approval this year because of unhappiness with Korea's barriers to U.S. auto and beef shipments.Rice said increased economic ties with the United States would help support the spreading movement toward democracy and free markets in Latin America.The exceptions to this rule may be noisy but they are heading in the opposite direction of the hemisphere, Rice said, not naming any particular country, although she later said that the United States was preparing for a transition to a democratic government in Cuba.
ISRAELI GOVERNMENT THREATENS TO DIVIDE JERUSALEM
By Joel C. Rosenberg
(Washington, D.C., October 9, 2007) -- As the U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace summit approaches next month, a senior aide to Israeli Prime Minister Olmert is actually suggesting his government is now open to the previously unthinkable prospect of dividing their capital city of Jerusalem. Wouldn't it be the right deal today for the Palestinians, the Western world and the international community to recognize (Israel's) annexation of...(Jewish) neighborhoods as part of Jerusalem, and for us to quit the Arab neighborhoods? Vice Premier Haim Ramon told Israel Radio.
Reuters reported that Ramon made the comments as Israeli and Palestinian negotiators opened talks at a secret location in Israel over a joint document they hoped to present at a U.S.-sponsored conference on Palestinian statehood. A spokesman for Olmert later called speculation that the government would divide Jerusalem baseless and untrue, but Ramon's comments were public and on-the-record which is what is fueling the enormous concern and speculation.
Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu quickly and strongly denounced the government's talk of giving up control of Judea and Samaria (commonly known as the West Bank) as well as East Jerusalem as dangerous and destabilizing, especially in light of the rising Hamas and Iranian threats to the Jewish State...."The unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon created an Iranian outpost -= from which Israel is being attacked -- in the North, and the unilateral pullout from Gaza created a second Iranian base in Gaza, Hamastan,Netanyahu said on the floor of the Knesset. And now the government is planning a third withdrawal -- from Judea and Samaria -- that will lead to a third Iranian outpost....Giving Hamas half of Jerusalem will make the rest of Jerusalem unlivable. Giving up Judea and Samaria will transfer the areas controlling the coastal plain into the hands of Hamas, leading to Kassams…on Tel Aviv....according to the government's plans, Israel will pull back to the 67 borders. Obviously, this is the plan and any attempts to disguise it are futile. We are facing an exact replica of the government's plan at the Camp David summit in 2000....This is no way to make peace.Netanyahu is right. This would be a stunning and misguided move, and one that would further divide the Israeli public at a time unity is desperately needed. A recent poll found 63% of Israelis are opposed to dividing the Holy City. Even Olmert's cabinet is sharply divided on the issue.
The issue of the division of Jerusalem is an inalienable asset of the state of Israel. Palestinian refugees will not be returned to Israel and Jerusalem will not be divided, said Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz, a former chief of staff and a member of the Prime Minister's own Kadima party. Now is the time to pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Psalm 122:6), not carve it up and serve it to the radical Islamic jihadists now in charge of the Palestinian Authority.
JOSHUA FUND UPDATE:
* Please keep praying for our Palestinian Christian brothers and sisters, especially those who live in Gaza. Pray that the would be strong and courageous and especially bold in loving their neighbors and their enemies, as Jesus commanded us to do. Remember that earlier this summer, radical Islamic jihadists blew up the Bible book store in Gaza, run by the Palestinian Bible Society. There is a concerted effort to intimidate and silence evangelical believers in the West Bank and Gaza. Let us, therefore, not cease to pray.
* Here are excerpts from an email I received yesterday from a dear friend who works closely with our brothers and sisters in Gaza: Rami was targeted because of his heart for lost Muslims and was told that he was being watched. Rami was one of the most gifted of the young leaders at the Bible Society. Saturday night he finished his work and then locked the doors of the Bible Society. One young woman from Gaza put it this way: He locked the doors and headed home. His earthly home was about 15 minutes away, but instead he was taken to his Heavenly home. Rami was kidnapped and finally killed Saturday night. He was stabbed repeatedly and then shot. The Islamic terrorists threw his body from a car at 2 AM on Sunday morning. No terrorist group has claimed responsibility yet and Pastor Hanna says the details are still sketchy. One thing is clear, this dear brother would not be intimidated by threats, harassment, persecution, and even death. He stayed strong until the end and will be given a martyrs crown in Heaven. His funeral was today. He is with Jesus right now. Pastor Jack Sara in Jerusalem says that this is the first Palestinian martyr that they know of. The believers in Gaza have been experiencing all out persecution since Hamas took over the Strip. It looks like Islamic Sharia law is just around the corner in Gaza. Please pray for his sweet wife Pauline. Obviously, she is devastated. Pastor Hanna and the believers in Gaza have rallied together and are at her side. This is difficult since the Christian community in Gaza is laying low because of continual threats....Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life. Revelation 2:10. Rami has now received his eternal crown.
* An estimated 100 students staged a rare demonstration Monday against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, calling him a dictator and scuffling with hard-line students at Tehran University, reports the New York Times. Ahmadinejad, who was giving a speech to a select group at the university to mark the beginning of the academic year, ignored the chants of death to the dictator and continued with his speech on the merits of science and the pitfalls of Western-style democracy, witnesses said. Please pray for the pro-democracy forces to gain strength in Iran and for regime change that will remove Ahmadinejad and his allies from power.
* Pray, too, for the rapidly growing Christian awakening in Iran. In 1979, there were only 500 known Muslim converts to Christianity in all of Iran. Today, there are more than 1 million. What's more, Persian evangelical leaders tell me that an estimated 10,000 new house churches are expected to be formed in Iran over the next twelve months.
* We are in talks with several wonderful organizations in Israel and the surrounding region on ways to help them expand their humanitarian relief efforts. This is all part of OPERATION EPICENTER, our three-year initiative to get more than $120 million worth of aid into the Mideast to care for the poor and needy and to pre-position supplies ahead of coming wars. Please pray that these talks go well and that the Lord would provide the financial and human resources we need to bless Israel and her neighbors in the name of Jesus. Thanks so much.
Hamas seeks Fatah talks, hints at giving up Gaza By Nidal al-Mughrabi Wed Oct 10, 6:51 PM ET
GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas said on Wednesday it would hold reconciliation talks with the Fatah faction of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and hinted it might be ready to cede control of the Gaza Strip, which it seized in June. Abbas, who is pursuing a peace deal with Israel, has ruled out dialogue with Islamist Hamas unless it submits anew to his authority and gives up Gaza. Israel and the West want Hamas shunned until it accepts coexistence with the Jewish state.There is a serious movement in the realm of Palestinian dialogue and we have agreed to hold a dialogue with Fatah in one of the Arab capitals, said Ismail Haniyeh, who was Hamas prime minister in the former government that Abbas declared void.Our administration in Gaza is temporary, Haniyeh said in an urgent bulletin posted on a pro-Hamas Web site. He said the talks would be held after Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim festival that ends the holy month of Ramadan and falls on Friday or Saturday.
Foreign sanctions and an Israeli blockade have driven Gaza ever deeper into poverty and isolation, and put pressure on Hamas to find a breakthrough without compromising its doctrines.An official involved in Hamas-Fatah mediation but affiliated with neither group confirmed there would be a meeting as early as next week, and said Cairo was the likely venue.But a senior Abbas aide, Ahmed Abdel-Rahman, denied talks had been set and accused Hamas, which has been vying with Fatah for Palestinian support since the factions fought a brief civil war in June, of trying to mislead the public.We have not heard about such a dialogue, Abdel-Rahman, who is also a Fatah spokesman, told Reuters. Hamas, he said, wanted to create a false positive atmosphere in Gaza so they can say they are the advocates of dialogue and Fatah rejects it.Abbas has made a precondition of factional talks that Hamas relinquishes the Fatah-linked security compound its forces overran. A senior Hamas official, Sami Abu Zuhri, said such a gesture could come only as a result of dialogue being under way.Israel, whose prime minister, Ehud Olmert, will attend a U.S.-sponsored conference on Palestinian statehood with Abbas next month, opposes reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas.
ABBAS OUTLINES PALESTINE VISION
Israel believes that Hamas should be kept out of the game as it is a consistent detriment to any chance for progress between Israel and the Palestinians, Olmert spokesman David Baker said in Jerusalem.Haniyeh's statement came hours after Abbas, apparently staking out a position ahead of the November conference, said a future Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza must cover the same amount of land as Israel seized there 40 years ago.Abbas also raised the possibility of amending the pre-1967 lines as long as Palestinians ended up controlling territory equal to what Israeli forces captured in a war that year.All Israeli governments since the 1967 conflict have ruled out a complete pullback to pre-war boundaries, citing security concerns and the Jewish state's claim to all of Jerusalem as its capital. Palestinians want the eastern part of the holy city, which Israel annexed, as capital of their future state.
The U.S. government has backed the idea of a small territorial exchange between Israel and a future Palestine so that Palestinians would be compensated for Jewish settlement blocs that would remain under Israeli control in any peace deal.Negotiations on core issues such as the borders of a Palestinian state and the future of Jerusalem and millions of Palestinian refugees broke down in 2001 amid surging violence.(Additional reporting by Mohammed Assadi in Ramallah and Dan Williams in Jerusalem)
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
JERUSALEM TALK HEATS UP IN ISRAEL
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).
THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATION CAME TO LIFE ON TUES OCT 2,07
By Martti Ahtisaari, Joschka Fischer, Mark Leonard and Mabel van Oranje.
November 9 will be a seminal date for the European Union – 18 years since east Berliners tore down the wall and began Europe’s unification. Though the EU is often presented as suffering from a mid-life crisis, this anniversary will be a chance to celebrate Europe’s coming of age. Over the last two decades the EU has shown more of the energy of youth than listless decline. Having built up the world’s biggest single market, most generous aid budget and largest army of peacekeepers, the Union has accumulated the wherewithal to become a transformative power: it has the means to tilt the world towards its formula of democracy, human rights, multilateralism and the principles of open society.
Unlike other great powers in history, it does not project itself by threatening to invade other countries. Instead, it dangles benefits – from the common market to the possibility of EU membership – that are withheld until these countries adopt European norms. European leadership has led to global legal regimes such as the World Trade Organisation. It has persuaded others to sign up to the Kyoto agreement and the International Criminal Court. European troop deployments in Macedonia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as the Aceh monitoring mission, have safeguarded peace processes. But, despite these successes, the EU continues to underperform on the world stage. Since the Iraq war and the French and Dutch No votes on the constitutional treaty, the EU has shown the faltering confidence of adolescence. European leaders, who struggle to adapt to a new global environment characterised by a weakened US, a resurgent Russia and a rising China, have too often turned inwards.
The most dramatic signal has been the foot-dragging over Europe’s most stunning foreign policy success: enlargement. Political leaders and journalists tally up the potential costs of enlargement and the havoc that new member states could wreak in EU institutions. But there is little thought about the costs of non-enlargement: the damage that our wavering commitment is doing to the momentum for reform in Turkey and the Balkans. This nervousness can also be seen in the EU’s attitude towards a newly belligerent Russia. While Russia makes visible use of the threat of a few big sticks (such as control over energy supplies or vetoes at the United Nations), the EU fails to leverage the hundreds of smaller sticks and carrots that it potentially wields – the fact that it accounts for 60 per cent of Russia’s trade, 50 per cent of its investment and that European countries provide a second home to many wealthy Russians. In conflicts of the greater Middle East – from Israel-Palestine to Afghanistan – Europeans are held back by the lack of an effective common strategy. During the Lebanon crisis in August 2005, no fewer than 25 European ministers – each from a different country – travelled to Beirut, delivering mixed messages. In bodies such as the UN, the EU is better at talking about effective multilateralism than at mobilising incentives of trade and aid behind common European positions. Currently, the EU spends more on cleaners for Brussels buildings than it does on supporting the foreign policy team of Javier Solana, EU high representative.
Eurobarometer opinion polls show the public supports an outward-looking EU: more than two-thirds favour a common European foreign policy. With Angela Merkel’s leadership on climate change, Romano Prodi’s efforts to stabilise Lebanon, Gordon Brown’s debt cancellation initiatives and Nicolas Sarkozy’s robust noises on Iran, there are early signs of political leaders who could support a more assertive EU. As part of a group of 50 Europeans from around the Union we are launching a new, independent institution designed to counter EU introversion: the European Council on Foreign Relations. It will promote a more muscular and united European approach to the world. It will encourage European co-operation at the UN, stand by the commitment to eventual EU membership for Turkey and propose increased incentives – from visa regimes to trade – that will draw the EU’s immediate neighbours into its sphere of influence. We believe a common foreign policy will allow individual countries to increase their global influence. A strong European voice in favour of human rights, democracy and international law will not just benefit Europeans; it will be good for the world. Financial Times, 2 October 2007.
EU paper suggests protecting common market
09.10.2007 - 09:23 CET | By Renata Goldirova
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Just weeks after the European Commission revealed its plans to prevent foreign companies from uncontrolled access to the EU's energy sector, Brussels is set to reiterate that in a global economy openness is not a one-way street.The EU has a key stake in using its clout in global negotiations to ensure that openness is not a one-way street: the political case for openness can only be sustained if others reciprocate in a positive manner, a paper on globalisation drafted by the EU's executive body says. The paper argues that the 27-nation bloc needs to ensure that third countries offer comparable levels of openness to EU exporters and investors. At the same time, it underlines that foreign companies wishing to do business in EU territory will not be allowed to by-pass the rules applied in the [union's] internal market. The 9-page document is the commission's contribution to an EU leader's informal summit on 18-19 October - a meeting primarily designed to put a full stop behind the union's years-long journey towards a new treaty.
Energy – just the beginning?
Non-Europeans got a first taste of Brussels' tougher line on foreign trade and investment in September, when it unveiled a sweeping reform of the EU energy sector, including a series of restrictive measures to be imposed on foreign energy bidders. The proposed rules say, among other things, that third countries and their companies should not be able to acquire control over an EU transmission network unless there is an agreement between the EU bloc and the third country. But Brussels has refused to label its call for reciprocity as protectionism. Protectionism cannot make Europe wealthier. Protectionism would impoverish, not protect our citizens, commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said after the Brussels executive adopted the globalisation paper last week (3 October). But he added that we [the EU] are not naïve. We are not soft touch. We can and will require a level playing field. We want others to open more. The globalisation paper does not specify whether the approach suggested for the energy sector will be expanded to other areas. It only suggests that the way in which the EU applies its rules also needs to reflect the changes brought by globalisation in the patterns of ownership and interest in all sectors.According to a commission official, speaking to EUobserver, it is not clear whether the energy sector will remain alone in this regard.
He said that the current discussion centres around the concern that a third country could exercise power in the political sphere via different investments. On the other hand, some EU capitals are not in the mood for such a debate and argue the Union is in need of investors and cash inflow. The energy sector is more vulnerable to monopolisation and external dependency and runs a bigger risk of price-setting, one EU diplomat added, also underlining the somewhat unique position of the energy sector compared to others.
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
EU Calls on China to Let Yuan Appreciate Against Euro (Update3) By John Fraher
Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- European finance ministers, after failing to find a common position on the euro's rally to a record against the dollar, urged China to allow the yuan to appreciate against their currency. China and other emerging-nation economies should introduce more flexibility in their exchange-rate management, European Union Monetary Affairs Commissioner Joaquin Almunia told reporters in Luxembourg today as he arrived for a second day of talks with ministers and policy makers. European officials, who are preparing for next week's meeting of the Group of Seven nations in Washington, are becoming irked with China after a July 2005 revaluation of its currency failed to stem trade imbalances between the two economies. While the yuan has gained almost 10 percent versus the dollar in the past two years, it has fallen more than 5 percent against the euro in the period. Almunia will travel to China later this year with European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet and Luxembourg Prime and Finance Minister Jean-Claude Juncker to discuss the matter with their Chinese counterparts.
China's yuan has appreciated more than 9 percent in the past two years and I can assure you China will continue to adopt a reform oriented policy on its exchange-rate mechanism, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said today in a regular briefing in Beijing. But these adjustments have to be done gradually and in line with the market. In the meantime, we are willing to hold dialogue with other nations.
Rate Move Desirable
Europe's trade deficit with China jumped 22 percent to a record in the first half of this year. Euro-region officials published a statement late yesterday saying that it is desirable that effective exchange rates move in China and other emerging economies. European opinion is pretty split on the issue of the dollar but there is an agreement on the need for emerging Asian currencies like China's to appreciate against the euro, said Michael Woolfolk, senior currency strategist at Bank of New York Mellon, the world's largest custodian bank. On China, there is a consensus.Officials can't agree on how to respond to the European currency's advance against the dollar, which French President Nicolas Sarkozy says threatens to hurt a euro-area economy already confronted by a rise in credit costs. While French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said last week she would push at the Luxembourg meeting for the central bank to sell euros to stem the currency's rise, the ministers' statement repeated rhetoric recently used by the ECB's Trichet.
Great Attention
We have noted with great attention that the U.S. authorities have reaffirmed that a strong dollar is in the interest of the U.S. economy, ministers said in a statement published late yesterday.
The euro has risen almost 5 percent against the dollar since mid-August and reached a record $1.4283 on Oct. 1. It traded at $1.4044 at 9:45 a.m. in Luxembourg, almost unchanged from yesterday. EU finance ministers will today also consider new disclosure rules for banks following losses caused by the sudden increase in credit costs, which led to a run on the deposits of Northern Rock Plc last month, according to a confidential document. Northern Rock, the U.K. mortgage lender bailed out by the Bank of England, said today that the government will now guarantee all customer deposits until financial markets become less volatile.
Japan's Recovery
Regarding the yen, the euro-region ministers said investors should recognize that Japan's economy is on a sustainable recovery path and markets should be aware of one-way bets. That repeated language used by G-7 officials at a meeting in Essen, Germany, earlier this year. Ministers also said European governments and companies have done enough to help address so-called global imbalances, suggesting emerging Asian economies need to take up the slack. The euro area is playing its role for an orderly reduction of the imbalances by implementing structural reforms and contributing to a rebalancing of growth, the ministers said in the statement. The U.S. government is showing little inclination to encourage an appreciation of the dollar. While Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson may tell his G-7 counterparts that he continues to back a strong dollar, he may resist an explicit criticism of the currency's weakness because it is helping to support the U.S. economy. As far as the dollar is concerned, you'll see more of the same, with Paulson reiterating support for a strong dollar but that not being followed by any action, said Adam Boyton, a senior currency strategist in New York at Deutsche Bank AG. To contact the reporter on this story: John Fraher in Luxembourg at jfraher@bloomberg.net.
EU Warns Nations on Using Euro Currency
Monday October 8, 12:00 pm ET
EU Warns Other Nations Over Using the Euro As Its Currency
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- European Union officials repeated a warning Monday that countries outside the EU should not use the euro currency as their own.The euro is officially shared by 13 EU nations, but it is also used by Montenegro -- which split from the former Yugoslav republic of Serbia last year -- and Kosovo, which is threatening to declare independence from Serbia later this year.
EU spokeswoman Amelia Torres said the bloc opposed euro-ization and countries should only adopt the currency if they join the European Union.The conditions for the adoption of the euro are clear, she told reporters. That means, first and foremost, to be a member of the EU.European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet told reporters earlier Monday that he could not see non-EU members that share a free-trade zone with other European nations --Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein -- using the currency.
Participation without being a member of the European Union is totally excluded, he said in a public debate, answering an Icelandic official who wanted to know if he saw any way for Iceland to step up links with the euro zone.As regards Iceland, I will say join the European Union, I think it's the best, he said.
Iceland had stayed out of the 27-nation EU largely to avoid sharing its national waters with fishermen from other parts of Europe.
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.
WHAT IS IRAN PLANNING FOR OCTOBER 12?
And Putin's alarming announcement.
By Joel C. Rosenberg
(Washington, D.C., October 8, 2007) -- Lynn and the boys and I just got back from a week out of the country to find some big headlines. President Bush says he is very optimistic about forging peace in the Middle East at next month's summit in the U.S. We pray he's right, but the latest stories out of the epicenter suggest leaders there are steadfastly preparing for war. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is vowing to liberate all of Palestine and vows some sort of final response to Iran's enemies on October 12th, Qods (Jerusalem) Day. Here is the official story from the Iranian news service's website: Supporters of the Zionist regime will receive their response during the world Qods Day's rallies, government spokesman, Gholam-Hossein Elham, said Wednesday. The spokesman made the remarks during his weekly press conference while commenting on the current visit to the occupied Palestine of the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Qods Day is held each year on the last Friday of Muslims fasting month of Ramadan after it was nominated by the late Founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, as a day to voice the protest of the Islamic Ummah against the Zionists. The day falls on October 12 this year. The US loses all opportunities to cooperate with regional and other world states by trying to support a regime (the Zionist regime) which is now at its weakest political and social position, Elham said. He warned that Washington's insistence on its wrong policies and arrogant approaches would have no result but further political disgrace for itself. Referring to the approaching World Qods Day, the spokesman stressed,'Supporters of the Zionist regime will definitely receive the final response for their support on that day.
What does this mean? No one knows for certain. Will it be another false alarm like Iran's vow to issue some sort of definitive response to the West regarding its nuclear program last August 22nd? We shall have to wait and see. But it must be seen in light of Ahmadinejad's recent speeches suggesting the arrival of the Islamic Messiah is imminent, rather than several years away. Syria's leaders, meanwhile, say they will retake the Golan Heights using any means necessary. Lebanon is on the verge of a civil war and Hezbollah continues to buy massive amounts of weapons from Iran and Syria to prepare for a future war with Israel. And all the while the U.S. and Israel are reportedly stepping up their war gaming efforts to prepare for war with Iran and possibly Syria as well. If all these rumors of war in the Mideast weren't troubling enough, Russian President Vladimir Putin said this past week that he plans to stay in office beyond 2008, when he is constitutionally mandated to step down. He won't serve as president. Instead, he plans to slide over one chair and become Russia's prime minister. So the cat is finally out of the bag. Putin now admits he plans to stay put. He wants to change the hat, but keep the power. It's a very worrisome development, especially in light of Putin's planned $200 billion increase in defense spending and his recent arms deals with Iran, Syria, Algeria and other Islamic enemies of the West. Putin is no democrat. He's recasting himself as a classic Russian Czar. His ambitions run far beyond maintaining control of the Kremlin.
We'll look at his long-term goals in future posts. For now, consider this FLASH TRAFFIC message from November 1, 2005: I simply don't believe Vladimir Putin's repeated refusals to seek a third term in 2008. I think he's staying. The big question is, 'Under what pretext would Putin stay?' The answer: to maintain stability. Stability is Putin's mantra. My sense is that he intends to maintain it at all costs. That would -- by definition --means he plans to stay in the Kremlin as he believes only he has provided Russia something Gorbachev and Yeltsin didn't. What will be the crisis, real or perceived, that requires Putin to change his mind and stay in office? It could be the possibility of an ultranationalist fascist like Vladimir Zhirinovsky or a Communist like Gennady Zyuganov rising in the polls and suddenly being in a position to win the presidency and thus seize control of Russia. It could be a terrorist attack, or the threat of one, or a stock market collapse, or the threat of one. It's too early to say what the 'crisis' will be, but I submit that come 2007 or 2008, Putin will declare one so serious the he has no choice but stay at the helm.
JOSHUA FUND UPDATE:
* A Palestinian evangelical Christian leader was assassinated in Gaza over the weekend. Only 31, Rami Ayyad was the father of two children and his wife is expecting. Please pray for Rami's wife and children -- for God's comfort and courage. Please pray for the Christians in Gaza and the West Bank to be bold in loving their neighbors and their enemies in the name of Jesus amidst this terrible tragedy.
* The Joshua Fund is in contact with local evangelical leaders in Gaza. We have posted the latest information on this assassination on TJF's weblog (http://joshuafund.blogspot.com/). We will update it regularly as we receive more details. We are also looking for ways to help these believers -- and the Ayyad family -- financially. More on that soon, too. Please pray that Christians around the world will step up and bless their Palestinian brothers and sisters in real and practical ways.
* 7,000 evangelical Christians marched in a Jerusalem parade over the weekend to bless Israel and to pray for peace in the region. Several prominent Israeli rabbis joined the march and prayer rally, despite warnings from the chief rabbinate not to do so. Details on TJF's weblog. Please pray that evangelical Christians can build better and stronger bridges of true and unconditional friendship with Israel, and particularly with the chief rabbinate.
* The latest headlines from the epicenter make us even more determined to do everything we can with our Joshua Fund team to implement Operation Epicenter -- build a global alliance of evangelical Christians, Messianic Jews and Arab and Iranian believers to bless Israel and her neighbors, recruit 100,000 people to pray regularly for the peace of Jerusalem, acquire warehouse facilities and trucks for relief operations in the region, and ship more than $120 million worth of humanitarian relief supplies to Israel and her neighbors to care for those who are poor and needy now and to pre-position supplies ahead of the next war. Please pray that this vision spreads rapidly and that believers around the world are mobilized to get involved. We would love to get you involved. For more information on The Joshua Fund generally and Operation Epicenter specifically, please go to www.joshuafund.net.
* Finally, The Joshua Fund is currently seeking to raise $1 million by December 1st to help finance the first stages of Operation Epicenter. TJF is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, recognized by the IRS. All donations are tax-deductible for federal tax purposes. You can give securely on-line on our website, or send a check to: The Joshua Fund, 18950 Base Camp Road, Monument, Colorado, 80132-8009. Thanks so much and may the Lord bless you.
Ahmadinejad Calls Again to Destroy Israel OCT 9,07
Iran's President and Top Leaders Threaten Zionists and Their Supporters.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday vowed once again to destroy Israel and called for a referendum to transfer Israel's Jews to Canada, Alaska or Europe. Canada and Alaska have vast lands, why don't you relocate them over there and keep helping them over there with (aid of) 30 to 40 billion dollars per year for building a new existence over there, [1] Ahmadinejad said during a rally in Tehran to mark Al Quds Day, a political holiday Iran created to protest the enemies of Islam.[2]
Ahmadinejad, who presides over the most active state sponsor of terror in the world, [3] also cautioned that the world's powers should not think that the Iranian nation and other nations in the region will take off [sic] their hands off the throat of the Zionists and their supporters.[4].According to Iran's official national news outlet, The Islamic Republic News Agency, Ahmadinejad stated that the creation of the Zionist regime, [and the] continuation of its existence... are an insult to human dignity. [5] Millions of Iranians attended Al Quds Day rallies throughout Iran [6] and the Muslim world, including in Syria, [7] Bahrain, [8] Lebanon, Pakistan, Turkey and Indonesia. [9]
According to Iran's Fars News Agency, in a speech at the Tehran rally, former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said the planned November peace meeting between Israel and the Palestinians is a wasted opportunity and that Palestinians should continue their resistance against Israel. [10] Ayatollah Mahould Hashemi Shahroudi, Iran's judiciary chief, said Friday's rallies were a good start for the destruction of the Zionist regime. [11] Al Quds Day was established following Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979. The founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, declared the last Friday of the fasting month of Ramadan the International Quds Day,[12] intended to protest the enemies of Islam, at the head America and Israel.[13] Ahmadinejad's belligerence towards Israel, as well as his regime's leading role in sponsoring terrorist organizations and pursuit of a nuclear program in defiance of the United Nations, have defined his leadership. Ahmadinejad has said Israel should be wiped off the map [14] and has repeatedly referred to the Holocaust as a myth. [15] Ahmadinejad's threats extend well beyond Israel. On July 11, 2006, for example, he said, The rage of the Muslim peoples will not be restricted to the boundaries of our region... The waves of the explosion... will reach the corrupt forces [i.e. the Western countries] which support this fake regime.[16] Ahmadinejad has previously said Israel should be relocated to Alaska and that Jews should return to the European countries they fled during the Holocaust. [17]
Iran's nuclear program, which has been described by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner as a real danger for the whole world, [18] is now reportedly comprised of close to 3,000 centrifuge machines, which would be enough to start refining usable amounts of nuclear fuel. [19] Ahmadinejad stated Friday that no power can stop this nation from making more and more achievements in its pursuit of its nuclear program and continued to announce to the whole world that the Iranian nation has passed the difficult points on its nuclear path. [20] On Sept. 25, Ahmadinejad told countries gathered for the U.N. General Assembly that his country's nuclear program is closed as a political issue. [21] International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed ElBaradei said in May 2007 that Iran could acquire nuclear weapons within three years. [22] Iran, the world's most active state sponsor of terror, provides funding, weapons, training and sanctuary to numerous terrorist groups. [23] Iran is Hezbollah's main arms supplier and has replenished Hezbollah's cache of Katyusha and longer-range rockets that were depleted during the defensive war Israel fought against Hezbollah in the summer of 2006. Iran also supplies Hezbollah advanced anti-tank weapons and surface-to-air rockets. [24] Iran gives Hamas $20 million a year [25] and provided an additional $50 million after Hamas won control of the Palestinian Authority in 2006. [26] Iran also provided Hamas members intensive military training in the weeks and months leading up to the group's takeover of the Gaza Strip. [27]
Furthermore, prominent military analysts believe that Iran is responsible for the majority of U.S. casualties sustained in Iraq. Iran manufactures explosively formed penetrators that have killed and wounded a large majority of U.S. troops. [28] In order to stoke civil unrest in Iraq, Iran provides funding and arms both to Shi'ite and to Sunni groups. [29] Ahmadinejad recently spoke at Columbia University in New York and the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. via videoconference.For sources and additional information about Iran and President Ahmadinejad, please see:
Iran Press Kit.
For information about U.S. efforts to divest from Iran, please see: Terror-Free Investing Resources.
Footnotes
[1] Anti-Israeli Demonstrations Start in Iran, Fars News Agency, Oct. 5, 2007, http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8607130398
[2] Imam's message announcing Quds Day from Sahifa-yi Nur , Vol. 8, p. 229, dated 7 August 1979, Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, accessed Oct. 5, 2007, http://www.irib.ir/worldservice/imam/palestin_E/10.htm
[3] Country Reports on Terrorism, U.S. Department of State, April 28, 2006, http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/2005/64337.htm
[4] Iran marks Jerusalem Day, Aljazeera, Oct. 5, 2007, http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/877E8E21-01A0-4498-B67F-7FD645096470.htm
[5] Iranian officials support Palestine on Qods Day, IRNA, Oct. 5, 2007, http://www2.irna.com/en/news/view/line-24/0710054137164336.htm
[6] Millions of Iranians hold rallies to mark Jerusalem Day, The Associated Press, Oct. 5, 2007, http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/05/africa/ME-GEN-Iran-Jerusalem.php
[7] Millions of Iranians Attend Anti-Israel Rallies Called 'Al Quds Day, The Associated Press via Foxnews.com, Oct. 5, 2007, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,299603,00.html
[8] Bahraini Muslims mark World Quds Day, Press TV, Oct. 5, 2007, http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=25908§ionid=351020202
[9] Al-Quds Day, Foxnews.com, Oct. 5, 2007, http://www.foxnews.com/photoessay/0,4644,2433,00.html http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8607130432
[10] Rafsanjani Dismisses Palestinian-Israeli Peace Conference in US, Fars News Agency, Oct. 5, 2007, http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8607130432
[11] Millions of Iranians hold rallies to mark Jerusalem Day, The Associated Press, Oct. 5, 2007, http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/05/africa/ME-GEN-Iran-Jerusalem.php
[12] Qods Day Rallies a Global Referendum Showing Israel's Illegitimacy, Fars News Agency, Oct. 5, 2007, http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8607130416
[13] Ibid.
[14] Penketh, Anne, Iran's leader says Jewish state 'should be wiped from map, The Independent, Oct. 27, 2005, http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article322539.ece
[15] President: Real holocaust to be sought in Palestine, Iraq, IRNA, Feb. 11, 2006
[16] Iran and the Recent Escalation on Israel's Borders, Middle East Media Research Institute, Special Dispatch No. 1204, July 13, 2006, http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP120406
[17] Iranian leader: Holocaust a myth, CNN, Dec. 14, 2005, http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/12/14/iran.israel/index.html
[18] France warning of war with Iran, BBC News, Sept. 17, 2007,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6997935.stm
[19] Hafezi, Parisa. Iran says clears hurdles to nuclear industry, Reuters, Oct. 4, 2007, http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL0457325120071004
[20] Ahmadinejad Rules out Talks on Iran's N. Rights, Fars News Agency, Oct. 5, 2007, http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8607130396
[21] Jahn, George, DiLorenzo, Sarah and Bergman, Justin, Ahmadinejad: Nuclear Issue Closed, Time.com, Sept. 26, 2007, http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1665616,00.html
[22] Iran could make nuclear bomb in three years: UN, ABC News, May 25, 2007, http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1932715.htm
[23] State Sponsors: Iran, Council on Foreign Relations Web site, Aug. 2007, http://www.cfr.org/publication/9362/
[24] Hughes, Robin, Iran Replenishes Hizbullah's Arms Inventory, Jane's Defence Weekly, Jan. 3, 2007
[25] Hamas, Council on Foreign Relations Web site, accessed July 2, 2007, http://www.cfr.org/publication/8968/
[26] Iran pledges $50m Palestinian aid, BBC News, April 16, 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4914334.stm
[27] Rabinovich, Abraham, Hamas digs in for war in Gaza, The Australian, March 16, 2007
[28] Jacobs, Jack. Is the U.S. planning to strike Iran? MSNBC, Oct. 2, 2007, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21107443/
[29] Rubin, Alissa J., U.S. Suspects That Iran Aids Both Sunni and Shiite Militias, The New York TImes, A12, April 12, 2007
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
Sarkozy talks tough on Iran before Putin meeting Tue Oct 9, 4:05 AM ET
MOSCOW (Reuters) - France will not compromise on the need for tougher sanctions on Iran, President Nicolas Sarkozy said in an interview published on Tuesday, hours before he meets Russian President Vladimir Putin near Moscow. Sarkozy praised Putin as a man with whom he could do business, but his comments on Iran are likely to put him at odds with Moscow, which has said it does not believe further sanctions against Tehran will be helpful.Between resignation (to Iran's nuclear ambitions) and war -- and these two words are not in my lexicon -- there is a responsible stance: toughening sanctions with the aim of bringing Iran to its senses, Sarkozy said.No one should put in doubt France's seriousness and resoluteness on this issue, he said in the interview in Russia's state-run Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily.We are talking about protecting our collective security from the danger of nuclear proliferation. I will not give ground on an issue which is of such great importance.
Western powers believe Iran is using its civilian nuclear program as a cover for a bomb-making project. Tehran denies this. Russia has used its veto in the United Nations Security Council to water down previous sanctions.Sarkozy, on his first trip to Russia as president, is to fly in to Moscow late on Tuesday. He is to have a working dinner with Putin at his residence near Moscow.The French leader, in the interview, criticized Russia for disruptions in the past to oil and gas supplies to European customers.I will not hide from you that when Russia, without warning, halts energy deliveries to a part of Europe, that damages trust, Sarkozy said.
But he described Putin as a pragmatist. This should help us find a common language on these important international issues, he said in the interview.A Kremlin official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Sarkozy and Putin would focus on economic ties, in particular joint aerospace projects.(The talks will) continue the constructive and frank dialogue that the presidents started during their first personal meeting (at the Group of Eight summit) in Heiligendamm on June 7 2007, said the official.
REVELATION 17:2
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.(VATICAN IN POLITICS)
Pope, Jewish leaders, discuss resurgent anti-Semitism By Philip Pullella Mon Oct 8, 11:15 AM ET
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - World Jewish leaders on Monday expressed concern to Pope Benedict about resurgent anti-Semitism and asked Vatican officials to take steps against a radical Polish priest accused of making anti-Jewish comments. A World Jewish Congress delegation headed by the group's president, Ronald S. Lauder, held talks with the Pope in the pontiff's private study and also discussed ways that Christians, Muslims and Jews could work to improve dialogue.WJC Secretary-General Michael Schneider told Reuters among the topics discussed was the problem of resurgent anti-Semitism, particularly in some European countries.
A WJC statement said the group called on the Pontiff to take action against those in the Church who wanted to do damage to the close and positive relationship between Christians and Jews.Lauder told Vatican officials during two days of meetings that statements by Father Tadeusz Rydzyk, a controversial broadcaster, should not be tolerated anymore, the statement said.Jewish and other groups have accused Rydzyk of spreading anti-Semitism and meddling in politics.Rydzyk is the head of a powerful Catholic media empire, which includes Radio Maryja and television Trwam, watched and listened to by millions of Poles.The Vatican has rebuked the priest for openly backing ruling conservative politicians in Poland. But Jewish groups complained in August when the Pope met Rydzyk, saying the encounter appeared to lend the priest legitimacy.Human rights groups and Jewish groups have repeatedly called on Poland's authorities and the Polish Church to remove Rydzyk from his position because of anti-Semitic and xenophobic remarks that often appear in his media.
The Polish Church has so far failed to take a common stance on Rydzyk, fearing many elderly and poor Poles for whom Rydzyk is a moral guide would turn away from the Church.But earlier this month Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, who was the late Pope John Paul's secretary for decades, publicly accused Rydzyk of trying to split the Church and smear the legacy of the late Pope, who greatly improved relations with Jews during his 27-year reign.Rydzyk has strong support from Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski and his twin brother, President Lech Kaczynski.The priest's strong backing and appeals on the radio and television to vote for the conservatives in 2005 elections helped the brothers rise to power.The issue is sensitive in the campaign for an early parliamentary election this month.
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
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.
ZECHARIAH 14:1-9 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
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)
Manhigut Yehudit Opposes Any Division of Jerusalem
October 9, 2007.
Manhigut Yehudit opposes the upcoming November summit in Maryland in which the United States and Israel will seek to divide Jerusalem and relinquish Israeli sovereignty from Judaism's holiest site - The Temple Mount - while at the same time bringing Israel back to what Abba Eban called it's Auschwitz Borders.This summit is solely a tool for two desperate men - US President George Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert - to attempt to make political gains on the backs of the Jewish People. Bush supports this plan (which will bring rockets raining down on all of Israel) as he desperately wants to focus attention away from Iraq, and if he can come up with a newfangled Mid-East Peace then he and the Republicans will walk away smelling like roses. Olmert is willing and eager to make Israel spiritually bankrupt and militarily defenseless by creating another Arab tyranny in its very backyard whose sole aim will be to destroy the Jewish State. Olmert's first objective is solely the opportunity to stay in office just a little while longer, and he thinks that by producing another false peace ala Oslo then he'll be able to do just that.
Neither of them care about Israel's identity, security or viability more than they care about their own political ambitions.
All recent polls in Israel show approximately 75% of Israeli Jews are opposed to dividing Jerusalem and giving up the Temple Mount. Olmert has NO MANDATE to make the concessions that he is rushing to make.
Olmert's declaration that he is willing to divide Jerusalem and risk countless Jewish lives is a betrayal of the Jewish People and new elections should be called immediately. The Olmert regime will go to any lengths to achieve its ultimate goal of stripping the Jewish Nation of all vestiges of it's Jewish character. Whether that means expelling one hundred thousand Jews (predominantly religious Jews) from their homes in Judea and Samaria or DIVIDING JERUSALEM, G-D forbid, Jews must wake up to the reality that a band of anti-Jewish corrupt individuals are leading the Jewish people to national suicide.Manhigut Yehudit is the authentic Jewish leadership that Israel needs and must have. We will continue to speak out with all of our might against the division of Jerusalem, the wholesale giveaway of Eretz Yisrael, and the risking of Jewish lives as sacrifices for peace.The Manhigut Yehudit website is www.jewishisrael.org
Israel minister draws fire over Jerusalem division call by Ron Bousso Mon Oct 8, 7:57 AM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - A close ally of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sparked controversy on Monday after saying that Israel should share sovereignty of Jerusalem with the Palestinians as part of a peace deal. It is in Israel's interest to tackle the issue of Jerusalem in the negotiations, deputy prime minister Haim Ramon said, reiterating his stance over the holy city, which Israel calls its eternal, indivisible capital.If we reach a deal with the Palestinians, the Arab world and the international community according to which the Jewish neighbourhoods of Jerusalem will be recognised as the capital of Israel and the Arab neighbourhoods as part of the Arab capital, will that be a bad deal?
Ramon also urged Israel not to miss the opportunity presented by a US-sponsored Midde East conference expected to take place in Annapolis, Maryland in November to try to advance the dormant peace talks.Israel captured Arab east Jerusalem, including the Old City with its sites holy to Christianity, Islam and Judaism -- during the 1967 Six Day war and later annexed it.In 1980, the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, passed a law proclaiming it the reunified and eternal capital of Israel, a claim not recognised by the international community.Ramon's comments as Israeli and Palestinian officials met for the first time to draw a joint statement outlining understandings ahead of the renewal of bilateral talks which are planned following the international meeting.But senior members of Olmert's coalition government were swift to criticise Ramon for breaking of one of Israel's strongest taboos.Of course, Jerusalem is not on the negotiations agenda, Trade and Industry Minister and chairman of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party Eli Yishai told AFP.
Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz of Olmert's centrist Kadima party warned that Ramon's proposal causes damage on the security level and also on the national level.The issue of the division of Jerusalem is an inalienable asset of the state of Israel. Palestinian refugees will not be returned to Israel and Jerusalem will not be divided, the former chief of staff told public radio.
The issue of Jerusalem -- which the Palestinians demand be the capital of their promised state -- is one of the most sensitive and intractable issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict along with the question of refugees.Referring to the planned peace conference, the deputy prime minister told army radio: The meeting is an important occasion to reach an agreement on the political horizon with the Palestinian partners and we cannot miss this opportunity.The alternative in case of failure is that we will be left to face Hamas and fight it he said, referring to the Islamist movement that seized power in Gaza in June by routing forces loyal to moderate Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.Olmert is due to address the talks with the Palestinians issue during a speech at the opening of parliament's winter session on Monday, telling the chamber that he is absolutely determined.... to give momentum and a chance to a substantive peace process, the mass-selling Yediot Aharonot daily said.
Jordanian NGOs to take part in Jerusalem forum
www.chinaview.cn 2007-10-07 17:24:32
AMMAN, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- Jordanian non-governmental organizations will partake in the Jerusalem International Forum slated for next month in Turkey, which marks the 40th anniversary of the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem during the Six-Day War in 1967, the Jordan Times reported on Sunday. Around 3,000 intellectuals from Turkey and around the world will take part in the Nov. 15-17 forum, which aims to highlight the historical rights of the Palestinians as well as denying Israel's claims on East Jerusalem, the report said. Jordan Engineers Association (JEA) President Wael Saqqa was quoted as saying that the JEA will send 150 of its members to the forum, noting that the participants are keen to do their part in support of the Palestinians in the occupied territories. There are several committees formed by the JEA that work side-by-side with other concerned parties to fight against Jewish attempts to Judaise the holy city, said Saqqa.
Razan Zueiter, who will represent Jordan's civil sector at the forum, said she hoped the forum would offer an opportunity to work together with Palestinian institutions in the occupied territories, said the newspaper. She also called for reactivating the Arab boycott of Israeli products and increasing Arab investments in Jerusalem. On the sidelines of the forum, several folklore, cultural and art exhibitions will be held by the participating delegations, according to the report. Israel seized East Jerusalem, Gaza, the West Bank, Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and Syria's Golan Heights during the Six-Day War in 1967,which ended with Israel's stunning victory over the Arab armies. The United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 242unanimously in November 1967, demanding the Jewish state withdraw from the occupied lands in return for peaceful actions from Arab states.
Editor: Wang Hongjiang
Report: Israel, PA agree Jordanian control of Temple Mount
London-based Palestinian daily quotes Abbas aide as saying, Israel and Palestinians have agreed to transfer control of parts of Old City in Jerusalem to Jordan as part of future peace agreement
Roee Nahmias 10.08.07, 10:14 / Israel News
Israel and the Palestinians have agreed that the Temple Mount as well as other parts of the Old City in Jerusalem will be under Jordanian control as part of a future peace deal, a Palestinian daily reported on Monday.The London-based al-Quds al-Arabi reported that President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reached the agreement during recent talks in Jerusalem. Under the arrangement, the Old City's Arab residents will be granted Jordanian citizenship. The newspaper did not say whether Israel would keep control of Jewish holy sites and neighborhoods in the Old City. The arrangement will make the Jordanian monarchy a guardian of holy Muslim shrines in Jerusalem. The plan's details and implementation will be supervised by Jordan, Israel, Egypt, the Palestinian Authority and the United Nations, the newspaper said.
The report comes a day after remarks by Vice Premier Haim Ramon that Abbas and Olmert will discuss the status of Jerusalem during the US-sponsored talks in November. Ramon said it was in Israel's interest to hand over control of Jerusalem's Arab neighborhoods to the Palestinian Authority.A Palestinian official told Ynet it was agreed in principle that the neighborhoods of Shuafat, Wadi Jos, Beit Hanina, Ras el-Amoud and Jabal Mukaber would be transferred to PA control.He added that progress was also made regarding the excavations at the Temple Mount. The Palestinians have recently claimed that Israel is attempting to build a synagogue under the complex. The official said that under a future deal Israel would be responsible for security at the Temple Mount while the Palestinians would have sovereignty over the area. In addition, Israel agreed not to conduct any archeological digs at the complex.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office denied al-Quds al-Arabi's report, saying no agreement has been reached.Ali Waked contributed to the report.
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).
THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATION CAME TO LIFE ON TUES OCT 2,07
By Martti Ahtisaari, Joschka Fischer, Mark Leonard and Mabel van Oranje.
November 9 will be a seminal date for the European Union – 18 years since east Berliners tore down the wall and began Europe’s unification. Though the EU is often presented as suffering from a mid-life crisis, this anniversary will be a chance to celebrate Europe’s coming of age. Over the last two decades the EU has shown more of the energy of youth than listless decline. Having built up the world’s biggest single market, most generous aid budget and largest army of peacekeepers, the Union has accumulated the wherewithal to become a transformative power: it has the means to tilt the world towards its formula of democracy, human rights, multilateralism and the principles of open society.
Unlike other great powers in history, it does not project itself by threatening to invade other countries. Instead, it dangles benefits – from the common market to the possibility of EU membership – that are withheld until these countries adopt European norms. European leadership has led to global legal regimes such as the World Trade Organisation. It has persuaded others to sign up to the Kyoto agreement and the International Criminal Court. European troop deployments in Macedonia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as the Aceh monitoring mission, have safeguarded peace processes. But, despite these successes, the EU continues to underperform on the world stage. Since the Iraq war and the French and Dutch No votes on the constitutional treaty, the EU has shown the faltering confidence of adolescence. European leaders, who struggle to adapt to a new global environment characterised by a weakened US, a resurgent Russia and a rising China, have too often turned inwards.
The most dramatic signal has been the foot-dragging over Europe’s most stunning foreign policy success: enlargement. Political leaders and journalists tally up the potential costs of enlargement and the havoc that new member states could wreak in EU institutions. But there is little thought about the costs of non-enlargement: the damage that our wavering commitment is doing to the momentum for reform in Turkey and the Balkans. This nervousness can also be seen in the EU’s attitude towards a newly belligerent Russia. While Russia makes visible use of the threat of a few big sticks (such as control over energy supplies or vetoes at the United Nations), the EU fails to leverage the hundreds of smaller sticks and carrots that it potentially wields – the fact that it accounts for 60 per cent of Russia’s trade, 50 per cent of its investment and that European countries provide a second home to many wealthy Russians. In conflicts of the greater Middle East – from Israel-Palestine to Afghanistan – Europeans are held back by the lack of an effective common strategy. During the Lebanon crisis in August 2005, no fewer than 25 European ministers – each from a different country – travelled to Beirut, delivering mixed messages. In bodies such as the UN, the EU is better at talking about effective multilateralism than at mobilising incentives of trade and aid behind common European positions. Currently, the EU spends more on cleaners for Brussels buildings than it does on supporting the foreign policy team of Javier Solana, EU high representative.
Eurobarometer opinion polls show the public supports an outward-looking EU: more than two-thirds favour a common European foreign policy. With Angela Merkel’s leadership on climate change, Romano Prodi’s efforts to stabilise Lebanon, Gordon Brown’s debt cancellation initiatives and Nicolas Sarkozy’s robust noises on Iran, there are early signs of political leaders who could support a more assertive EU. As part of a group of 50 Europeans from around the Union we are launching a new, independent institution designed to counter EU introversion: the European Council on Foreign Relations. It will promote a more muscular and united European approach to the world. It will encourage European co-operation at the UN, stand by the commitment to eventual EU membership for Turkey and propose increased incentives – from visa regimes to trade – that will draw the EU’s immediate neighbours into its sphere of influence. We believe a common foreign policy will allow individual countries to increase their global influence. A strong European voice in favour of human rights, democracy and international law will not just benefit Europeans; it will be good for the world. Financial Times, 2 October 2007.
EU paper suggests protecting common market
09.10.2007 - 09:23 CET | By Renata Goldirova
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Just weeks after the European Commission revealed its plans to prevent foreign companies from uncontrolled access to the EU's energy sector, Brussels is set to reiterate that in a global economy openness is not a one-way street.The EU has a key stake in using its clout in global negotiations to ensure that openness is not a one-way street: the political case for openness can only be sustained if others reciprocate in a positive manner, a paper on globalisation drafted by the EU's executive body says. The paper argues that the 27-nation bloc needs to ensure that third countries offer comparable levels of openness to EU exporters and investors. At the same time, it underlines that foreign companies wishing to do business in EU territory will not be allowed to by-pass the rules applied in the [union's] internal market. The 9-page document is the commission's contribution to an EU leader's informal summit on 18-19 October - a meeting primarily designed to put a full stop behind the union's years-long journey towards a new treaty.
Energy – just the beginning?
Non-Europeans got a first taste of Brussels' tougher line on foreign trade and investment in September, when it unveiled a sweeping reform of the EU energy sector, including a series of restrictive measures to be imposed on foreign energy bidders. The proposed rules say, among other things, that third countries and their companies should not be able to acquire control over an EU transmission network unless there is an agreement between the EU bloc and the third country. But Brussels has refused to label its call for reciprocity as protectionism. Protectionism cannot make Europe wealthier. Protectionism would impoverish, not protect our citizens, commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said after the Brussels executive adopted the globalisation paper last week (3 October). But he added that we [the EU] are not naïve. We are not soft touch. We can and will require a level playing field. We want others to open more. The globalisation paper does not specify whether the approach suggested for the energy sector will be expanded to other areas. It only suggests that the way in which the EU applies its rules also needs to reflect the changes brought by globalisation in the patterns of ownership and interest in all sectors.According to a commission official, speaking to EUobserver, it is not clear whether the energy sector will remain alone in this regard.
He said that the current discussion centres around the concern that a third country could exercise power in the political sphere via different investments. On the other hand, some EU capitals are not in the mood for such a debate and argue the Union is in need of investors and cash inflow. The energy sector is more vulnerable to monopolisation and external dependency and runs a bigger risk of price-setting, one EU diplomat added, also underlining the somewhat unique position of the energy sector compared to others.
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
EU Calls on China to Let Yuan Appreciate Against Euro (Update3) By John Fraher
Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- European finance ministers, after failing to find a common position on the euro's rally to a record against the dollar, urged China to allow the yuan to appreciate against their currency. China and other emerging-nation economies should introduce more flexibility in their exchange-rate management, European Union Monetary Affairs Commissioner Joaquin Almunia told reporters in Luxembourg today as he arrived for a second day of talks with ministers and policy makers. European officials, who are preparing for next week's meeting of the Group of Seven nations in Washington, are becoming irked with China after a July 2005 revaluation of its currency failed to stem trade imbalances between the two economies. While the yuan has gained almost 10 percent versus the dollar in the past two years, it has fallen more than 5 percent against the euro in the period. Almunia will travel to China later this year with European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet and Luxembourg Prime and Finance Minister Jean-Claude Juncker to discuss the matter with their Chinese counterparts.
China's yuan has appreciated more than 9 percent in the past two years and I can assure you China will continue to adopt a reform oriented policy on its exchange-rate mechanism, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said today in a regular briefing in Beijing. But these adjustments have to be done gradually and in line with the market. In the meantime, we are willing to hold dialogue with other nations.
Rate Move Desirable
Europe's trade deficit with China jumped 22 percent to a record in the first half of this year. Euro-region officials published a statement late yesterday saying that it is desirable that effective exchange rates move in China and other emerging economies. European opinion is pretty split on the issue of the dollar but there is an agreement on the need for emerging Asian currencies like China's to appreciate against the euro, said Michael Woolfolk, senior currency strategist at Bank of New York Mellon, the world's largest custodian bank. On China, there is a consensus.Officials can't agree on how to respond to the European currency's advance against the dollar, which French President Nicolas Sarkozy says threatens to hurt a euro-area economy already confronted by a rise in credit costs. While French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said last week she would push at the Luxembourg meeting for the central bank to sell euros to stem the currency's rise, the ministers' statement repeated rhetoric recently used by the ECB's Trichet.
Great Attention
We have noted with great attention that the U.S. authorities have reaffirmed that a strong dollar is in the interest of the U.S. economy, ministers said in a statement published late yesterday.
The euro has risen almost 5 percent against the dollar since mid-August and reached a record $1.4283 on Oct. 1. It traded at $1.4044 at 9:45 a.m. in Luxembourg, almost unchanged from yesterday. EU finance ministers will today also consider new disclosure rules for banks following losses caused by the sudden increase in credit costs, which led to a run on the deposits of Northern Rock Plc last month, according to a confidential document. Northern Rock, the U.K. mortgage lender bailed out by the Bank of England, said today that the government will now guarantee all customer deposits until financial markets become less volatile.
Japan's Recovery
Regarding the yen, the euro-region ministers said investors should recognize that Japan's economy is on a sustainable recovery path and markets should be aware of one-way bets. That repeated language used by G-7 officials at a meeting in Essen, Germany, earlier this year. Ministers also said European governments and companies have done enough to help address so-called global imbalances, suggesting emerging Asian economies need to take up the slack. The euro area is playing its role for an orderly reduction of the imbalances by implementing structural reforms and contributing to a rebalancing of growth, the ministers said in the statement. The U.S. government is showing little inclination to encourage an appreciation of the dollar. While Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson may tell his G-7 counterparts that he continues to back a strong dollar, he may resist an explicit criticism of the currency's weakness because it is helping to support the U.S. economy. As far as the dollar is concerned, you'll see more of the same, with Paulson reiterating support for a strong dollar but that not being followed by any action, said Adam Boyton, a senior currency strategist in New York at Deutsche Bank AG. To contact the reporter on this story: John Fraher in Luxembourg at jfraher@bloomberg.net.
EU Warns Nations on Using Euro Currency
Monday October 8, 12:00 pm ET
EU Warns Other Nations Over Using the Euro As Its Currency
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- European Union officials repeated a warning Monday that countries outside the EU should not use the euro currency as their own.The euro is officially shared by 13 EU nations, but it is also used by Montenegro -- which split from the former Yugoslav republic of Serbia last year -- and Kosovo, which is threatening to declare independence from Serbia later this year.
EU spokeswoman Amelia Torres said the bloc opposed euro-ization and countries should only adopt the currency if they join the European Union.The conditions for the adoption of the euro are clear, she told reporters. That means, first and foremost, to be a member of the EU.European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet told reporters earlier Monday that he could not see non-EU members that share a free-trade zone with other European nations --Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein -- using the currency.
Participation without being a member of the European Union is totally excluded, he said in a public debate, answering an Icelandic official who wanted to know if he saw any way for Iceland to step up links with the euro zone.As regards Iceland, I will say join the European Union, I think it's the best, he said.
Iceland had stayed out of the 27-nation EU largely to avoid sharing its national waters with fishermen from other parts of Europe.
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.
WHAT IS IRAN PLANNING FOR OCTOBER 12?
And Putin's alarming announcement.
By Joel C. Rosenberg
(Washington, D.C., October 8, 2007) -- Lynn and the boys and I just got back from a week out of the country to find some big headlines. President Bush says he is very optimistic about forging peace in the Middle East at next month's summit in the U.S. We pray he's right, but the latest stories out of the epicenter suggest leaders there are steadfastly preparing for war. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is vowing to liberate all of Palestine and vows some sort of final response to Iran's enemies on October 12th, Qods (Jerusalem) Day. Here is the official story from the Iranian news service's website: Supporters of the Zionist regime will receive their response during the world Qods Day's rallies, government spokesman, Gholam-Hossein Elham, said Wednesday. The spokesman made the remarks during his weekly press conference while commenting on the current visit to the occupied Palestine of the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Qods Day is held each year on the last Friday of Muslims fasting month of Ramadan after it was nominated by the late Founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, as a day to voice the protest of the Islamic Ummah against the Zionists. The day falls on October 12 this year. The US loses all opportunities to cooperate with regional and other world states by trying to support a regime (the Zionist regime) which is now at its weakest political and social position, Elham said. He warned that Washington's insistence on its wrong policies and arrogant approaches would have no result but further political disgrace for itself. Referring to the approaching World Qods Day, the spokesman stressed,'Supporters of the Zionist regime will definitely receive the final response for their support on that day.
What does this mean? No one knows for certain. Will it be another false alarm like Iran's vow to issue some sort of definitive response to the West regarding its nuclear program last August 22nd? We shall have to wait and see. But it must be seen in light of Ahmadinejad's recent speeches suggesting the arrival of the Islamic Messiah is imminent, rather than several years away. Syria's leaders, meanwhile, say they will retake the Golan Heights using any means necessary. Lebanon is on the verge of a civil war and Hezbollah continues to buy massive amounts of weapons from Iran and Syria to prepare for a future war with Israel. And all the while the U.S. and Israel are reportedly stepping up their war gaming efforts to prepare for war with Iran and possibly Syria as well. If all these rumors of war in the Mideast weren't troubling enough, Russian President Vladimir Putin said this past week that he plans to stay in office beyond 2008, when he is constitutionally mandated to step down. He won't serve as president. Instead, he plans to slide over one chair and become Russia's prime minister. So the cat is finally out of the bag. Putin now admits he plans to stay put. He wants to change the hat, but keep the power. It's a very worrisome development, especially in light of Putin's planned $200 billion increase in defense spending and his recent arms deals with Iran, Syria, Algeria and other Islamic enemies of the West. Putin is no democrat. He's recasting himself as a classic Russian Czar. His ambitions run far beyond maintaining control of the Kremlin.
We'll look at his long-term goals in future posts. For now, consider this FLASH TRAFFIC message from November 1, 2005: I simply don't believe Vladimir Putin's repeated refusals to seek a third term in 2008. I think he's staying. The big question is, 'Under what pretext would Putin stay?' The answer: to maintain stability. Stability is Putin's mantra. My sense is that he intends to maintain it at all costs. That would -- by definition --means he plans to stay in the Kremlin as he believes only he has provided Russia something Gorbachev and Yeltsin didn't. What will be the crisis, real or perceived, that requires Putin to change his mind and stay in office? It could be the possibility of an ultranationalist fascist like Vladimir Zhirinovsky or a Communist like Gennady Zyuganov rising in the polls and suddenly being in a position to win the presidency and thus seize control of Russia. It could be a terrorist attack, or the threat of one, or a stock market collapse, or the threat of one. It's too early to say what the 'crisis' will be, but I submit that come 2007 or 2008, Putin will declare one so serious the he has no choice but stay at the helm.
JOSHUA FUND UPDATE:
* A Palestinian evangelical Christian leader was assassinated in Gaza over the weekend. Only 31, Rami Ayyad was the father of two children and his wife is expecting. Please pray for Rami's wife and children -- for God's comfort and courage. Please pray for the Christians in Gaza and the West Bank to be bold in loving their neighbors and their enemies in the name of Jesus amidst this terrible tragedy.
* The Joshua Fund is in contact with local evangelical leaders in Gaza. We have posted the latest information on this assassination on TJF's weblog (http://joshuafund.blogspot.com/). We will update it regularly as we receive more details. We are also looking for ways to help these believers -- and the Ayyad family -- financially. More on that soon, too. Please pray that Christians around the world will step up and bless their Palestinian brothers and sisters in real and practical ways.
* 7,000 evangelical Christians marched in a Jerusalem parade over the weekend to bless Israel and to pray for peace in the region. Several prominent Israeli rabbis joined the march and prayer rally, despite warnings from the chief rabbinate not to do so. Details on TJF's weblog. Please pray that evangelical Christians can build better and stronger bridges of true and unconditional friendship with Israel, and particularly with the chief rabbinate.
* The latest headlines from the epicenter make us even more determined to do everything we can with our Joshua Fund team to implement Operation Epicenter -- build a global alliance of evangelical Christians, Messianic Jews and Arab and Iranian believers to bless Israel and her neighbors, recruit 100,000 people to pray regularly for the peace of Jerusalem, acquire warehouse facilities and trucks for relief operations in the region, and ship more than $120 million worth of humanitarian relief supplies to Israel and her neighbors to care for those who are poor and needy now and to pre-position supplies ahead of the next war. Please pray that this vision spreads rapidly and that believers around the world are mobilized to get involved. We would love to get you involved. For more information on The Joshua Fund generally and Operation Epicenter specifically, please go to www.joshuafund.net.
* Finally, The Joshua Fund is currently seeking to raise $1 million by December 1st to help finance the first stages of Operation Epicenter. TJF is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, recognized by the IRS. All donations are tax-deductible for federal tax purposes. You can give securely on-line on our website, or send a check to: The Joshua Fund, 18950 Base Camp Road, Monument, Colorado, 80132-8009. Thanks so much and may the Lord bless you.
Ahmadinejad Calls Again to Destroy Israel OCT 9,07
Iran's President and Top Leaders Threaten Zionists and Their Supporters.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday vowed once again to destroy Israel and called for a referendum to transfer Israel's Jews to Canada, Alaska or Europe. Canada and Alaska have vast lands, why don't you relocate them over there and keep helping them over there with (aid of) 30 to 40 billion dollars per year for building a new existence over there, [1] Ahmadinejad said during a rally in Tehran to mark Al Quds Day, a political holiday Iran created to protest the enemies of Islam.[2]
Ahmadinejad, who presides over the most active state sponsor of terror in the world, [3] also cautioned that the world's powers should not think that the Iranian nation and other nations in the region will take off [sic] their hands off the throat of the Zionists and their supporters.[4].According to Iran's official national news outlet, The Islamic Republic News Agency, Ahmadinejad stated that the creation of the Zionist regime, [and the] continuation of its existence... are an insult to human dignity. [5] Millions of Iranians attended Al Quds Day rallies throughout Iran [6] and the Muslim world, including in Syria, [7] Bahrain, [8] Lebanon, Pakistan, Turkey and Indonesia. [9]
According to Iran's Fars News Agency, in a speech at the Tehran rally, former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said the planned November peace meeting between Israel and the Palestinians is a wasted opportunity and that Palestinians should continue their resistance against Israel. [10] Ayatollah Mahould Hashemi Shahroudi, Iran's judiciary chief, said Friday's rallies were a good start for the destruction of the Zionist regime. [11] Al Quds Day was established following Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979. The founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, declared the last Friday of the fasting month of Ramadan the International Quds Day,[12] intended to protest the enemies of Islam, at the head America and Israel.[13] Ahmadinejad's belligerence towards Israel, as well as his regime's leading role in sponsoring terrorist organizations and pursuit of a nuclear program in defiance of the United Nations, have defined his leadership. Ahmadinejad has said Israel should be wiped off the map [14] and has repeatedly referred to the Holocaust as a myth. [15] Ahmadinejad's threats extend well beyond Israel. On July 11, 2006, for example, he said, The rage of the Muslim peoples will not be restricted to the boundaries of our region... The waves of the explosion... will reach the corrupt forces [i.e. the Western countries] which support this fake regime.[16] Ahmadinejad has previously said Israel should be relocated to Alaska and that Jews should return to the European countries they fled during the Holocaust. [17]
Iran's nuclear program, which has been described by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner as a real danger for the whole world, [18] is now reportedly comprised of close to 3,000 centrifuge machines, which would be enough to start refining usable amounts of nuclear fuel. [19] Ahmadinejad stated Friday that no power can stop this nation from making more and more achievements in its pursuit of its nuclear program and continued to announce to the whole world that the Iranian nation has passed the difficult points on its nuclear path. [20] On Sept. 25, Ahmadinejad told countries gathered for the U.N. General Assembly that his country's nuclear program is closed as a political issue. [21] International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed ElBaradei said in May 2007 that Iran could acquire nuclear weapons within three years. [22] Iran, the world's most active state sponsor of terror, provides funding, weapons, training and sanctuary to numerous terrorist groups. [23] Iran is Hezbollah's main arms supplier and has replenished Hezbollah's cache of Katyusha and longer-range rockets that were depleted during the defensive war Israel fought against Hezbollah in the summer of 2006. Iran also supplies Hezbollah advanced anti-tank weapons and surface-to-air rockets. [24] Iran gives Hamas $20 million a year [25] and provided an additional $50 million after Hamas won control of the Palestinian Authority in 2006. [26] Iran also provided Hamas members intensive military training in the weeks and months leading up to the group's takeover of the Gaza Strip. [27]
Furthermore, prominent military analysts believe that Iran is responsible for the majority of U.S. casualties sustained in Iraq. Iran manufactures explosively formed penetrators that have killed and wounded a large majority of U.S. troops. [28] In order to stoke civil unrest in Iraq, Iran provides funding and arms both to Shi'ite and to Sunni groups. [29] Ahmadinejad recently spoke at Columbia University in New York and the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. via videoconference.For sources and additional information about Iran and President Ahmadinejad, please see:
Iran Press Kit.
For information about U.S. efforts to divest from Iran, please see: Terror-Free Investing Resources.
Footnotes
[1] Anti-Israeli Demonstrations Start in Iran, Fars News Agency, Oct. 5, 2007, http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8607130398
[2] Imam's message announcing Quds Day from Sahifa-yi Nur , Vol. 8, p. 229, dated 7 August 1979, Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, accessed Oct. 5, 2007, http://www.irib.ir/worldservice/imam/palestin_E/10.htm
[3] Country Reports on Terrorism, U.S. Department of State, April 28, 2006, http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/2005/64337.htm
[4] Iran marks Jerusalem Day, Aljazeera, Oct. 5, 2007, http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/877E8E21-01A0-4498-B67F-7FD645096470.htm
[5] Iranian officials support Palestine on Qods Day, IRNA, Oct. 5, 2007, http://www2.irna.com/en/news/view/line-24/0710054137164336.htm
[6] Millions of Iranians hold rallies to mark Jerusalem Day, The Associated Press, Oct. 5, 2007, http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/05/africa/ME-GEN-Iran-Jerusalem.php
[7] Millions of Iranians Attend Anti-Israel Rallies Called 'Al Quds Day, The Associated Press via Foxnews.com, Oct. 5, 2007, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,299603,00.html
[8] Bahraini Muslims mark World Quds Day, Press TV, Oct. 5, 2007, http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=25908§ionid=351020202
[9] Al-Quds Day, Foxnews.com, Oct. 5, 2007, http://www.foxnews.com/photoessay/0,4644,2433,00.html http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8607130432
[10] Rafsanjani Dismisses Palestinian-Israeli Peace Conference in US, Fars News Agency, Oct. 5, 2007, http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8607130432
[11] Millions of Iranians hold rallies to mark Jerusalem Day, The Associated Press, Oct. 5, 2007, http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/05/africa/ME-GEN-Iran-Jerusalem.php
[12] Qods Day Rallies a Global Referendum Showing Israel's Illegitimacy, Fars News Agency, Oct. 5, 2007, http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8607130416
[13] Ibid.
[14] Penketh, Anne, Iran's leader says Jewish state 'should be wiped from map, The Independent, Oct. 27, 2005, http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article322539.ece
[15] President: Real holocaust to be sought in Palestine, Iraq, IRNA, Feb. 11, 2006
[16] Iran and the Recent Escalation on Israel's Borders, Middle East Media Research Institute, Special Dispatch No. 1204, July 13, 2006, http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP120406
[17] Iranian leader: Holocaust a myth, CNN, Dec. 14, 2005, http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/12/14/iran.israel/index.html
[18] France warning of war with Iran, BBC News, Sept. 17, 2007,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6997935.stm
[19] Hafezi, Parisa. Iran says clears hurdles to nuclear industry, Reuters, Oct. 4, 2007, http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL0457325120071004
[20] Ahmadinejad Rules out Talks on Iran's N. Rights, Fars News Agency, Oct. 5, 2007, http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8607130396
[21] Jahn, George, DiLorenzo, Sarah and Bergman, Justin, Ahmadinejad: Nuclear Issue Closed, Time.com, Sept. 26, 2007, http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1665616,00.html
[22] Iran could make nuclear bomb in three years: UN, ABC News, May 25, 2007, http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1932715.htm
[23] State Sponsors: Iran, Council on Foreign Relations Web site, Aug. 2007, http://www.cfr.org/publication/9362/
[24] Hughes, Robin, Iran Replenishes Hizbullah's Arms Inventory, Jane's Defence Weekly, Jan. 3, 2007
[25] Hamas, Council on Foreign Relations Web site, accessed July 2, 2007, http://www.cfr.org/publication/8968/
[26] Iran pledges $50m Palestinian aid, BBC News, April 16, 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4914334.stm
[27] Rabinovich, Abraham, Hamas digs in for war in Gaza, The Australian, March 16, 2007
[28] Jacobs, Jack. Is the U.S. planning to strike Iran? MSNBC, Oct. 2, 2007, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21107443/
[29] Rubin, Alissa J., U.S. Suspects That Iran Aids Both Sunni and Shiite Militias, The New York TImes, A12, April 12, 2007
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
Sarkozy talks tough on Iran before Putin meeting Tue Oct 9, 4:05 AM ET
MOSCOW (Reuters) - France will not compromise on the need for tougher sanctions on Iran, President Nicolas Sarkozy said in an interview published on Tuesday, hours before he meets Russian President Vladimir Putin near Moscow. Sarkozy praised Putin as a man with whom he could do business, but his comments on Iran are likely to put him at odds with Moscow, which has said it does not believe further sanctions against Tehran will be helpful.Between resignation (to Iran's nuclear ambitions) and war -- and these two words are not in my lexicon -- there is a responsible stance: toughening sanctions with the aim of bringing Iran to its senses, Sarkozy said.No one should put in doubt France's seriousness and resoluteness on this issue, he said in the interview in Russia's state-run Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily.We are talking about protecting our collective security from the danger of nuclear proliferation. I will not give ground on an issue which is of such great importance.
Western powers believe Iran is using its civilian nuclear program as a cover for a bomb-making project. Tehran denies this. Russia has used its veto in the United Nations Security Council to water down previous sanctions.Sarkozy, on his first trip to Russia as president, is to fly in to Moscow late on Tuesday. He is to have a working dinner with Putin at his residence near Moscow.The French leader, in the interview, criticized Russia for disruptions in the past to oil and gas supplies to European customers.I will not hide from you that when Russia, without warning, halts energy deliveries to a part of Europe, that damages trust, Sarkozy said.
But he described Putin as a pragmatist. This should help us find a common language on these important international issues, he said in the interview.A Kremlin official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Sarkozy and Putin would focus on economic ties, in particular joint aerospace projects.(The talks will) continue the constructive and frank dialogue that the presidents started during their first personal meeting (at the Group of Eight summit) in Heiligendamm on June 7 2007, said the official.
REVELATION 17:2
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.(VATICAN IN POLITICS)
Pope, Jewish leaders, discuss resurgent anti-Semitism By Philip Pullella Mon Oct 8, 11:15 AM ET
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - World Jewish leaders on Monday expressed concern to Pope Benedict about resurgent anti-Semitism and asked Vatican officials to take steps against a radical Polish priest accused of making anti-Jewish comments. A World Jewish Congress delegation headed by the group's president, Ronald S. Lauder, held talks with the Pope in the pontiff's private study and also discussed ways that Christians, Muslims and Jews could work to improve dialogue.WJC Secretary-General Michael Schneider told Reuters among the topics discussed was the problem of resurgent anti-Semitism, particularly in some European countries.
A WJC statement said the group called on the Pontiff to take action against those in the Church who wanted to do damage to the close and positive relationship between Christians and Jews.Lauder told Vatican officials during two days of meetings that statements by Father Tadeusz Rydzyk, a controversial broadcaster, should not be tolerated anymore, the statement said.Jewish and other groups have accused Rydzyk of spreading anti-Semitism and meddling in politics.Rydzyk is the head of a powerful Catholic media empire, which includes Radio Maryja and television Trwam, watched and listened to by millions of Poles.The Vatican has rebuked the priest for openly backing ruling conservative politicians in Poland. But Jewish groups complained in August when the Pope met Rydzyk, saying the encounter appeared to lend the priest legitimacy.Human rights groups and Jewish groups have repeatedly called on Poland's authorities and the Polish Church to remove Rydzyk from his position because of anti-Semitic and xenophobic remarks that often appear in his media.
The Polish Church has so far failed to take a common stance on Rydzyk, fearing many elderly and poor Poles for whom Rydzyk is a moral guide would turn away from the Church.But earlier this month Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, who was the late Pope John Paul's secretary for decades, publicly accused Rydzyk of trying to split the Church and smear the legacy of the late Pope, who greatly improved relations with Jews during his 27-year reign.Rydzyk has strong support from Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski and his twin brother, President Lech Kaczynski.The priest's strong backing and appeals on the radio and television to vote for the conservatives in 2005 elections helped the brothers rise to power.The issue is sensitive in the campaign for an early parliamentary election this month.
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
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.
ZECHARIAH 14:1-9 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
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)
Manhigut Yehudit Opposes Any Division of Jerusalem
October 9, 2007.
Manhigut Yehudit opposes the upcoming November summit in Maryland in which the United States and Israel will seek to divide Jerusalem and relinquish Israeli sovereignty from Judaism's holiest site - The Temple Mount - while at the same time bringing Israel back to what Abba Eban called it's Auschwitz Borders.This summit is solely a tool for two desperate men - US President George Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert - to attempt to make political gains on the backs of the Jewish People. Bush supports this plan (which will bring rockets raining down on all of Israel) as he desperately wants to focus attention away from Iraq, and if he can come up with a newfangled Mid-East Peace then he and the Republicans will walk away smelling like roses. Olmert is willing and eager to make Israel spiritually bankrupt and militarily defenseless by creating another Arab tyranny in its very backyard whose sole aim will be to destroy the Jewish State. Olmert's first objective is solely the opportunity to stay in office just a little while longer, and he thinks that by producing another false peace ala Oslo then he'll be able to do just that.
Neither of them care about Israel's identity, security or viability more than they care about their own political ambitions.
All recent polls in Israel show approximately 75% of Israeli Jews are opposed to dividing Jerusalem and giving up the Temple Mount. Olmert has NO MANDATE to make the concessions that he is rushing to make.
Olmert's declaration that he is willing to divide Jerusalem and risk countless Jewish lives is a betrayal of the Jewish People and new elections should be called immediately. The Olmert regime will go to any lengths to achieve its ultimate goal of stripping the Jewish Nation of all vestiges of it's Jewish character. Whether that means expelling one hundred thousand Jews (predominantly religious Jews) from their homes in Judea and Samaria or DIVIDING JERUSALEM, G-D forbid, Jews must wake up to the reality that a band of anti-Jewish corrupt individuals are leading the Jewish people to national suicide.Manhigut Yehudit is the authentic Jewish leadership that Israel needs and must have. We will continue to speak out with all of our might against the division of Jerusalem, the wholesale giveaway of Eretz Yisrael, and the risking of Jewish lives as sacrifices for peace.The Manhigut Yehudit website is www.jewishisrael.org
Israel minister draws fire over Jerusalem division call by Ron Bousso Mon Oct 8, 7:57 AM ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - A close ally of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sparked controversy on Monday after saying that Israel should share sovereignty of Jerusalem with the Palestinians as part of a peace deal. It is in Israel's interest to tackle the issue of Jerusalem in the negotiations, deputy prime minister Haim Ramon said, reiterating his stance over the holy city, which Israel calls its eternal, indivisible capital.If we reach a deal with the Palestinians, the Arab world and the international community according to which the Jewish neighbourhoods of Jerusalem will be recognised as the capital of Israel and the Arab neighbourhoods as part of the Arab capital, will that be a bad deal?
Ramon also urged Israel not to miss the opportunity presented by a US-sponsored Midde East conference expected to take place in Annapolis, Maryland in November to try to advance the dormant peace talks.Israel captured Arab east Jerusalem, including the Old City with its sites holy to Christianity, Islam and Judaism -- during the 1967 Six Day war and later annexed it.In 1980, the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, passed a law proclaiming it the reunified and eternal capital of Israel, a claim not recognised by the international community.Ramon's comments as Israeli and Palestinian officials met for the first time to draw a joint statement outlining understandings ahead of the renewal of bilateral talks which are planned following the international meeting.But senior members of Olmert's coalition government were swift to criticise Ramon for breaking of one of Israel's strongest taboos.Of course, Jerusalem is not on the negotiations agenda, Trade and Industry Minister and chairman of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party Eli Yishai told AFP.
Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz of Olmert's centrist Kadima party warned that Ramon's proposal causes damage on the security level and also on the national level.The issue of the division of Jerusalem is an inalienable asset of the state of Israel. Palestinian refugees will not be returned to Israel and Jerusalem will not be divided, the former chief of staff told public radio.
The issue of Jerusalem -- which the Palestinians demand be the capital of their promised state -- is one of the most sensitive and intractable issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict along with the question of refugees.Referring to the planned peace conference, the deputy prime minister told army radio: The meeting is an important occasion to reach an agreement on the political horizon with the Palestinian partners and we cannot miss this opportunity.The alternative in case of failure is that we will be left to face Hamas and fight it he said, referring to the Islamist movement that seized power in Gaza in June by routing forces loyal to moderate Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.Olmert is due to address the talks with the Palestinians issue during a speech at the opening of parliament's winter session on Monday, telling the chamber that he is absolutely determined.... to give momentum and a chance to a substantive peace process, the mass-selling Yediot Aharonot daily said.
Jordanian NGOs to take part in Jerusalem forum
www.chinaview.cn 2007-10-07 17:24:32
AMMAN, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- Jordanian non-governmental organizations will partake in the Jerusalem International Forum slated for next month in Turkey, which marks the 40th anniversary of the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem during the Six-Day War in 1967, the Jordan Times reported on Sunday. Around 3,000 intellectuals from Turkey and around the world will take part in the Nov. 15-17 forum, which aims to highlight the historical rights of the Palestinians as well as denying Israel's claims on East Jerusalem, the report said. Jordan Engineers Association (JEA) President Wael Saqqa was quoted as saying that the JEA will send 150 of its members to the forum, noting that the participants are keen to do their part in support of the Palestinians in the occupied territories. There are several committees formed by the JEA that work side-by-side with other concerned parties to fight against Jewish attempts to Judaise the holy city, said Saqqa.
Razan Zueiter, who will represent Jordan's civil sector at the forum, said she hoped the forum would offer an opportunity to work together with Palestinian institutions in the occupied territories, said the newspaper. She also called for reactivating the Arab boycott of Israeli products and increasing Arab investments in Jerusalem. On the sidelines of the forum, several folklore, cultural and art exhibitions will be held by the participating delegations, according to the report. Israel seized East Jerusalem, Gaza, the West Bank, Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and Syria's Golan Heights during the Six-Day War in 1967,which ended with Israel's stunning victory over the Arab armies. The United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 242unanimously in November 1967, demanding the Jewish state withdraw from the occupied lands in return for peaceful actions from Arab states.
Editor: Wang Hongjiang
Report: Israel, PA agree Jordanian control of Temple Mount
London-based Palestinian daily quotes Abbas aide as saying, Israel and Palestinians have agreed to transfer control of parts of Old City in Jerusalem to Jordan as part of future peace agreement
Roee Nahmias 10.08.07, 10:14 / Israel News
Israel and the Palestinians have agreed that the Temple Mount as well as other parts of the Old City in Jerusalem will be under Jordanian control as part of a future peace deal, a Palestinian daily reported on Monday.The London-based al-Quds al-Arabi reported that President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reached the agreement during recent talks in Jerusalem. Under the arrangement, the Old City's Arab residents will be granted Jordanian citizenship. The newspaper did not say whether Israel would keep control of Jewish holy sites and neighborhoods in the Old City. The arrangement will make the Jordanian monarchy a guardian of holy Muslim shrines in Jerusalem. The plan's details and implementation will be supervised by Jordan, Israel, Egypt, the Palestinian Authority and the United Nations, the newspaper said.
The report comes a day after remarks by Vice Premier Haim Ramon that Abbas and Olmert will discuss the status of Jerusalem during the US-sponsored talks in November. Ramon said it was in Israel's interest to hand over control of Jerusalem's Arab neighborhoods to the Palestinian Authority.A Palestinian official told Ynet it was agreed in principle that the neighborhoods of Shuafat, Wadi Jos, Beit Hanina, Ras el-Amoud and Jabal Mukaber would be transferred to PA control.He added that progress was also made regarding the excavations at the Temple Mount. The Palestinians have recently claimed that Israel is attempting to build a synagogue under the complex. The official said that under a future deal Israel would be responsible for security at the Temple Mount while the Palestinians would have sovereignty over the area. In addition, Israel agreed not to conduct any archeological digs at the complex.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office denied al-Quds al-Arabi's report, saying no agreement has been reached.Ali Waked contributed to the report.
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