KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
ARE THESE FIRST 2 STORIES RELATED.ONLY TIME WILL TELL.WHY DAVID PETRAEUS RESIGNS OVER A SEX AFFAIR AND A POSSIBLE SCAPEGOAT FOR OBAMA AS A COVERUP FOR THE 4 MURDERED LIBYA EMBASSY WORKERS.WAS THE WHITEHOUE TOLD ABOUT LIBYA MONTHS BEFORE IT HAPPENED THAT STEVENS NEEDED MORE PROTECTION.OR DID STEVENS NOT AGREE WITH THE WHITEHOUSE ABOUT SOMETHING AND HE HAD TO DISAPPEAR.AND IS PETRAEUS TAKING THE FALL FOR OBAMA IN THE LIBYA MURDERS.WE MIGHT FIND OUT.EVEN ON OBAMAS PUPPET NETWORK CNN THEY HAD A ANALYST ON SAYING-THERE HAS TO BE MORE IN THIS PETRAEUS CASE BECAUSE NO CIA DIRECTOR HAS EVER BEEN INVESTIGATED FOR HAVING AN AFFAIR.THE CIA JUST USUALLY IGNORES IT.
OH AND NOW JUST A BRIEF COMMENT ON ANOTHER SUBJECT.THE BIBLE SAYS ISRAEL WILL LEAD THE WORLD.WHAT HAPPENINS IN ISRAEL OR THAT DEALS WITH ISRAELIS WILL LEAD THE WORLD.WELL 7 OUT OF EVERY 10 ISRAELIS VOTED FOR OBAMA IN THE ELECTIONS IN AMERICA ON TUESDAY.AND OBAMA WON THE ELECTIONS,I BELIEVE AS A RESULT FROM THE JEWISH VOTE.THE ISRAELIS VOTED OBAMA AND THE WORLDLY PEOPLE VOTED FOR OBAMA ALSO.SO ONCE AGAIN WE SEE GODS WORD COMING TO PASS AS ISRAELIS GO,GO THE WORLD.EVEN IN EUROPE THEY SAID IF OBAMA WAS IN ELECTIONS FOR PRESIDENT OF EUROPE.EUROPE OVERWHELMINGLY WOULD VOTE FOR OBAMA.IN FACT 90% OF FRENCH WHICH IS 10% PLUS MUSLIM WOULD VOTE OBAMA THEIR LEADER.SO YES WHAT ISRAELIS DO THE WORLD FOLLOWS.
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
TESTIFY ON CAPITOL HILL
Petraeus recently traveled to Libya and the Middle East, and had been scheduled to testify about the Benghazi events next week behind closed doors to the House and Senate intelligence committees. Now, he will not give that testimony.There is no indication Petraeus broke any agency rule in connection with his admitted affair, sources familiar with the matter said. The CIA has no broad rule banning officials from engaging in extramarital affairs though, if discovered, liaisons by CIA personnel with suspected foreign agents would pose security problems for a U.S. agent.In his statement, Obama said "I am completely confident that the CIA will continue to thrive and carry out its essential mission."Obama, who accepted Petraeus' resignation in a phone call with him on Friday afternoon, said Michael Morell, the agency's long-time deputy director, would serve as acting CIA chief.Morell is a leading candidate to be Petraeus' permanent successor, sources said. He earned Obama's trust when he frequently briefed the president during planning for the operation to take down Osama bin Laden, a senior administration official said."He's respected, a straight shooter, and has great relationships with the White House and Capitol Hill. Not to mention over 30 years of agency experience," said a former CIA official, who called Morell "the odds-on favorite."Other possible candidates being discussed on Capitol Hill include John Brennan, Obama's chief counter-terrorism adviser; Obama's national security adviser Thomas Donilon; and former congresswoman Jane Harman, who chaired the House intelligence committee.Petraeus' resignation also adds a new vacancy on Obama's national security team. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said she will leave after Obama's first term, and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is widely expected to leave as well.Petraeus' wife, Holly, has been an advocate for U.S. veterans and head of the Office of Servicemember Affairs at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.Last month, Petraeus and his wife appeared together at a reception at the Canadian Embassy in Washington to celebrate the premiere of the Ben Affleck film "Argo," which chronicles a successful operation in which the CIA and Canadian diplomats smuggled a group of U.S. officials out of Tehran during the 1979-81 U.S. Embassy hostage crisis.At the Pentagon, people who worked closely with Petraeus expressed shock at the revelations and at his resignation.Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a statement: "I wish President Obama had not accepted this resignation, but I understand and respect the decision."(Additional reporting by Matt Spetalnick and Phil Stewart in Washington and Rick Rothhacker in Charlotte; Writing by Warren Strobel; Editing by Jackie Frank, Jim Loney and Todd Eastham)
ARE THESE FIRST 2 STORIES RELATED.ONLY TIME WILL TELL.WHY DAVID PETRAEUS RESIGNS OVER A SEX AFFAIR AND A POSSIBLE SCAPEGOAT FOR OBAMA AS A COVERUP FOR THE 4 MURDERED LIBYA EMBASSY WORKERS.WAS THE WHITEHOUE TOLD ABOUT LIBYA MONTHS BEFORE IT HAPPENED THAT STEVENS NEEDED MORE PROTECTION.OR DID STEVENS NOT AGREE WITH THE WHITEHOUSE ABOUT SOMETHING AND HE HAD TO DISAPPEAR.AND IS PETRAEUS TAKING THE FALL FOR OBAMA IN THE LIBYA MURDERS.WE MIGHT FIND OUT.EVEN ON OBAMAS PUPPET NETWORK CNN THEY HAD A ANALYST ON SAYING-THERE HAS TO BE MORE IN THIS PETRAEUS CASE BECAUSE NO CIA DIRECTOR HAS EVER BEEN INVESTIGATED FOR HAVING AN AFFAIR.THE CIA JUST USUALLY IGNORES IT.
OH AND NOW JUST A BRIEF COMMENT ON ANOTHER SUBJECT.THE BIBLE SAYS ISRAEL WILL LEAD THE WORLD.WHAT HAPPENINS IN ISRAEL OR THAT DEALS WITH ISRAELIS WILL LEAD THE WORLD.WELL 7 OUT OF EVERY 10 ISRAELIS VOTED FOR OBAMA IN THE ELECTIONS IN AMERICA ON TUESDAY.AND OBAMA WON THE ELECTIONS,I BELIEVE AS A RESULT FROM THE JEWISH VOTE.THE ISRAELIS VOTED OBAMA AND THE WORLDLY PEOPLE VOTED FOR OBAMA ALSO.SO ONCE AGAIN WE SEE GODS WORD COMING TO PASS AS ISRAELIS GO,GO THE WORLD.EVEN IN EUROPE THEY SAID IF OBAMA WAS IN ELECTIONS FOR PRESIDENT OF EUROPE.EUROPE OVERWHELMINGLY WOULD VOTE FOR OBAMA.IN FACT 90% OF FRENCH WHICH IS 10% PLUS MUSLIM WOULD VOTE OBAMA THEIR LEADER.SO YES WHAT ISRAELIS DO THE WORLD FOLLOWS.
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
CIA Director Petraeus resigns, admits extra-marital affair
By Mark Hosenball and Tabassum Zakaria | Reuters – NOV 10,12
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - CIA Director David Petraeus resigned as head of the leading U.S. spy agency on Friday, saying he had engaged in an extramarital affair and acknowledging he "showed extremely poor judgment."In a letter to the CIA workforce, Petraeus, 60, said he met with President Barack Obama at the White House on Thursday and asked "to be allowed, for personal reasons, to resign from my position."
"After being married for 37 years, I showed extremely
poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair," he wrote. "Such
behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an
organization such as ours."Obama, who was re-elected to a second term on Tuesday,
said in a statement he had accepted Petraeus' resignation, praising him
for his work at the Central Intelligence Agency and for leading U.S.
troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.The woman with whom the former CIA director
had the affair is Paula Broadwell, according to a person familiar with
the matter. She is an author who wrote a biography of Petraeus titled
"All In."Attempts to reach Broadwell were unsuccessful. There
was no answer at the door of her house in the affluent Charlotte, North
Carolina, neighborhood of Dilworth.Much about the sudden and dramatic turn of events
remained unknown Friday evening, including how long the affair had gone
on and what prompted Petraeus to resign now, just days after the 2012
presidential election.There were indications, however, that the affair was
first uncovered a few months ago during an investigation by the FBI. A
U.S. national security source said the FBI had stumbled across evidence
of Petraeus' affair during an apparently unrelated investigation of news
leaks.Petraeus' revelation of the affair appeared to end the
public career of a widely admired warrior-scholar who played a key role
in the Iraq war, led the U.S. Central Command and commanded U.S. and
NATO troops in Afghanistan.Petraeus' name had
circulated speculatively as a possible Republican presidential nominee
before Obama tapped him as CIA chief. Before taking the CIA post, he retired as an Army general after nearly four decades of military service.Petraeus led the CIA for only 14 months. His sudden
departure threatened to usher in a period of instability at the spy
agency, which is grappling with a leveling off in its budget after a
decade of steady increases.The agency is also fending off questions about its
performance before and after the attack that led to the death of U.S.
Ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi, Libya.U.S. officials insisted the CIA's handling of the
Benghazi incident had nothing to do with Petraeus' decision to resign.TESTIFY ON CAPITOL HILL
Petraeus recently traveled to Libya and the Middle East, and had been scheduled to testify about the Benghazi events next week behind closed doors to the House and Senate intelligence committees. Now, he will not give that testimony.There is no indication Petraeus broke any agency rule in connection with his admitted affair, sources familiar with the matter said. The CIA has no broad rule banning officials from engaging in extramarital affairs though, if discovered, liaisons by CIA personnel with suspected foreign agents would pose security problems for a U.S. agent.In his statement, Obama said "I am completely confident that the CIA will continue to thrive and carry out its essential mission."Obama, who accepted Petraeus' resignation in a phone call with him on Friday afternoon, said Michael Morell, the agency's long-time deputy director, would serve as acting CIA chief.Morell is a leading candidate to be Petraeus' permanent successor, sources said. He earned Obama's trust when he frequently briefed the president during planning for the operation to take down Osama bin Laden, a senior administration official said."He's respected, a straight shooter, and has great relationships with the White House and Capitol Hill. Not to mention over 30 years of agency experience," said a former CIA official, who called Morell "the odds-on favorite."Other possible candidates being discussed on Capitol Hill include John Brennan, Obama's chief counter-terrorism adviser; Obama's national security adviser Thomas Donilon; and former congresswoman Jane Harman, who chaired the House intelligence committee.Petraeus' resignation also adds a new vacancy on Obama's national security team. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said she will leave after Obama's first term, and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is widely expected to leave as well.Petraeus' wife, Holly, has been an advocate for U.S. veterans and head of the Office of Servicemember Affairs at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.Last month, Petraeus and his wife appeared together at a reception at the Canadian Embassy in Washington to celebrate the premiere of the Ben Affleck film "Argo," which chronicles a successful operation in which the CIA and Canadian diplomats smuggled a group of U.S. officials out of Tehran during the 1979-81 U.S. Embassy hostage crisis.At the Pentagon, people who worked closely with Petraeus expressed shock at the revelations and at his resignation.Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a statement: "I wish President Obama had not accepted this resignation, but I understand and respect the decision."(Additional reporting by Matt Spetalnick and Phil Stewart in Washington and Rick Rothhacker in Charlotte; Writing by Warren Strobel; Editing by Jackie Frank, Jim Loney and Todd Eastham)
Pentagon timeline shows military response to Libya
By | Associated Press – NOV 10,12
WASHINGTON (AP) — New Pentagon details show that the first U.S. military unit arrived in Libya more than 15 hours after the attack on the consulate in Benghazi was over, and four Americans, including the ambassador, were dead.A
Defense Department timeline obtained by The Associated Press
underscores how far the military response lagged behind the Sept. 11
attack, due largely to the long distances the commando teams had to
travel to get to Libya.Defense
Secretary Leon Panetta and his top military adviser were notified of
the attack about 50 minutes after it began and were about to head into a
previously scheduled meeting with President Barack Obama.
The meeting quickly turned into a discussion of potential responses to
the unfolding situation in Benghazi, where militants had surrounded the
consulate and set it on fire. The first wave of the attack at the
consulate lasted less than two hours.Ambassador Chris Stevens was
killed in the attack. Intelligence, State Department and military
officials have released details on the response in an effort to answer
Republican criticism that the administration was holding back what and
when it knew about the assault.Panetta and other defense
officials have repeatedly said that they did not have armed aircraft or
military teams near Benghazi that could have gotten there quickly.But there have been persistent questions about whether the Pentagon
should have moved more rapidly to get troops into Libya or had units
closer to the area as the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America
approached. In particular, there was at least a 19-hour gap between the
time when Panetta first ordered military units to prepare to deploy —
between midnight and 2 a.m. local time in Tripoli — and the time a
Marine anti-terrorism team landed in Tripoli, which as just before 9
p.m.A senior defense official on Friday said forces were at the
ready around the globe, but it took time to assess the murky situation,
evaluate the threats, put plans in place and get the teams there. With
the situation on the ground rapidly evolving, military officials have
said there were a number of potential scenarios that had to be
evaluated, including concerns that the violence could continue for some
time or there could be a hostage situation to which commandos might have
to respond.In a letter to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on Friday,
Panetta specifically addressed the claim that the military could have
dispatched armed unmanned aerial vehicles, AC-130 gunships or fighter
jets to thwart the attack. Such aircraft were not in the region and not
an effective option, he said.Panetta said that based on a
continuous evaluation of threats, military forces were spread around
Europe and the Middle East to deal with a variety of missions. In the
months before the attack, he noted, "several hundred reports were
received indicating possible threats to U.S. facilities around the
world" and noted that there was no advance notice of imminent threats to
U.S. personnel or facilities in Benghazi.The attack began at
about 9:40 p.m. local time in Benghazi. Less than 20 minutes later, the
U.S. military began moving an unarmed drone to a position over Benghazi,
so it could provide real time intelligence to the CIA team on the
ground. The CIA team went to aid the Americans at the consulate. The
drone arrived shortly after 11 p.m. By 11:30 p.m., a CIA team was able
to get all the Americans out of the compound.As that was
happening, Panetta and Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, left the Oval Office and went into a series of meetings
in the Pentagon with senior leaders to discuss how to respond to the
Benghazi attack and assess the potential for other outbreaks of violence
in the region.Between midnight and 2 a.m., Panetta began to issue verbal orders, telling two Marine anti-terrorism teams based in Rota, Spain,
to prepare to deploy to Libya, and he ordered a team of special
operations forces in Central Europe and another team of special
operations forces in the U.S. to prepare to deploy to a staging base in
Europe.As the military units begin moving, just before dawn, the
Americans in Benghazi, who were now at the CIA base less than a mile
away from the consulate, again came under attack around 5:15 a.m. when
five mortars were fired at the building. Two missed, but three hit,
killing two CIA security officers who were on the roof.The
Americans fired back and soon afterward fled the CIA base for the
airport. By 10 a.m., they had flown out, heading to Tripoli. Shortly
after 7 p.m., the Americans, including the bodies of the four dead, were
flown out of Tripoli on a military aircraft.Not
until just before 8 p.m., however, did the first U.S. military unit
arrive in the region, as the special operations team landed at Cigonella
Naval Air Station in Sicily. An hour later, the Marine team landed in
Tripoli. The defense official noted that even if the military had been
able to get units there a bit faster, there was no way they could have
gotten there in time to make any difference in the deaths of the four
Americans."The U.S. Armed
Forces did everything they were in position to do to respond to the
attack in Benghazi," Panetta said in the letter, obtained by The
Associated Press. "The department's senior leaders and I spared no
effort to save the lives of our American colleagues, as we worked to
bolster security in response to a series of other threats in the region
occurring at the same time."
ISAIAH 34:10
10 It (AMERICA-POLITICAL BABYLON) shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
JEREMIAH 51:29-32 (CYBER ATTACK 1ST)
29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon,(AMERICA-NEW YORK) to make the land of Babylon (AMERICA) a desolation without an inhabitant.
30 The mighty men of Babylon (AMERICA) have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon (NEW YORK) that his city is taken at one end,
32 And that the passages are stopped,(THE WAR COMPUTERS HACKED OR EMP'D) and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.(DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO)
COMPLETE SILENCE AFTER AN EMP GOES OFF
REVELATION 8:1
1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north (RUSSIA) there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon,(AMERICA) and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK CYBER,EMP ATTACK,THEN NUKE ATTACK ON AMERICA)
There may be no way home for us.For those of us who fundamentally reject Obama’s policies, things are going to get very rough for the next four years. We have allowed our fellow Americans to pronounce judgment on the nation.That’s what Obama represents to me – God’s judgment on a people who have turned away from Him and His ways and from everything for which our founders sacrificed their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor.The nation is divided like never before – intentionally so. That has been Obama’s game plan from the beginning – to build a constituency of special-interest groups that truly believe their salvation is found in bigger government, more programs, irresponsible spending and unconstitutional policies.This election could very well represent the beginning of the end of the American Dream, American exceptionalism, the American way.But it’s no time to give up – to throw up our hands in disgust and walk away from politics. Neither is it time to surrender to the radical social agenda Obama has championed to win his victory.It’s time to change tactics.It’s time to double-down and fight harder.It’s time to raise our collective voices of outrage.It’s time to form new alliances.It’s time to form new communities of people who understand just how much Americans have been disenfranchised from our God-given rights and responsibilities.But, at the end of the day, people generally get the kind of government they deserve.
When you turn away from the ways of God Almighty, this is what you should expect, if you are a student of the Bible and history.I’m not going to lie to you.I think things are going to get very tough in America over the next four years.I expect more division, more stratification, maybe even the disintegration of the constitutional republic that was the envy of the world for so long.It’s time to hunker down.It’s time to prepare for the worst – economically, militarily, socially, culturally.The revolutionaries have won a major political victory.The America haters are running the country for another four years.That is not a pretty prospect.But it’s not time to retreat. It’s time for those of us who love what America has been for most of its history to gather our wits and begin the long march back.Most of all, it’s time for collective repentance.Only a miracle can save us – and we need to humble ourselves before God and pray hard for one.Can we find our way home? Is the political system even viable for us anymore? Has our heritage of representative government been permanently robbed from us? Are our cultural institutions – from the press to the schools and universities to the major foundations and even our churches – let us down so badly that there is no hope of restoring the America we once knew and loved?I don’t know the answers to these questions.But we must not retreat. We must not hide. We must not be intimidated. We must not stop fighting for truth, justice and the American way.
Maybe we deserve this punishment for taking our lifestyles for granted. Maybe we deserve this judgment for our own individual and collective sins. Maybe there’s still time to turn things around because we serve a Creator of second and third chances.One thing is for certain: Our national condition is going to get much worse before it gets better.
ISAIAH 34:10
10 It (AMERICA-POLITICAL BABYLON) shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
JEREMIAH 51:29-32 (CYBER ATTACK 1ST)
29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon,(AMERICA-NEW YORK) to make the land of Babylon (AMERICA) a desolation without an inhabitant.
30 The mighty men of Babylon (AMERICA) have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon (NEW YORK) that his city is taken at one end,
32 And that the passages are stopped,(THE WAR COMPUTERS HACKED OR EMP'D) and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.(DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO)
COMPLETE SILENCE AFTER AN EMP GOES OFF
REVELATION 8:1
1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north (RUSSIA) there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon,(AMERICA) and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK CYBER,EMP ATTACK,THEN NUKE ATTACK ON AMERICA)
BETWEEN THE LINES
America pronounces judgment on itself
Exclusive: Joseph Farah on Obama election: 'It's time to double-down and fight harder'
For many of us, the unthinkable has happened.America has decisively turned the corner away from the constitutional principles of limited government and self-government with the re-election of Barack Obama.
by There may be no way home for us.For those of us who fundamentally reject Obama’s policies, things are going to get very rough for the next four years. We have allowed our fellow Americans to pronounce judgment on the nation.That’s what Obama represents to me – God’s judgment on a people who have turned away from Him and His ways and from everything for which our founders sacrificed their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor.The nation is divided like never before – intentionally so. That has been Obama’s game plan from the beginning – to build a constituency of special-interest groups that truly believe their salvation is found in bigger government, more programs, irresponsible spending and unconstitutional policies.This election could very well represent the beginning of the end of the American Dream, American exceptionalism, the American way.But it’s no time to give up – to throw up our hands in disgust and walk away from politics. Neither is it time to surrender to the radical social agenda Obama has championed to win his victory.It’s time to change tactics.It’s time to double-down and fight harder.It’s time to raise our collective voices of outrage.It’s time to form new alliances.It’s time to form new communities of people who understand just how much Americans have been disenfranchised from our God-given rights and responsibilities.But, at the end of the day, people generally get the kind of government they deserve.
When you turn away from the ways of God Almighty, this is what you should expect, if you are a student of the Bible and history.I’m not going to lie to you.I think things are going to get very tough in America over the next four years.I expect more division, more stratification, maybe even the disintegration of the constitutional republic that was the envy of the world for so long.It’s time to hunker down.It’s time to prepare for the worst – economically, militarily, socially, culturally.The revolutionaries have won a major political victory.The America haters are running the country for another four years.That is not a pretty prospect.But it’s not time to retreat. It’s time for those of us who love what America has been for most of its history to gather our wits and begin the long march back.Most of all, it’s time for collective repentance.Only a miracle can save us – and we need to humble ourselves before God and pray hard for one.Can we find our way home? Is the political system even viable for us anymore? Has our heritage of representative government been permanently robbed from us? Are our cultural institutions – from the press to the schools and universities to the major foundations and even our churches – let us down so badly that there is no hope of restoring the America we once knew and loved?I don’t know the answers to these questions.But we must not retreat. We must not hide. We must not be intimidated. We must not stop fighting for truth, justice and the American way.
Maybe we deserve this punishment for taking our lifestyles for granted. Maybe we deserve this judgment for our own individual and collective sins. Maybe there’s still time to turn things around because we serve a Creator of second and third chances.One thing is for certain: Our national condition is going to get much worse before it gets better.
Vatican computer expert convicted in leaks case
Reuters – 1 hr 34 mins ago NOV 10,12
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A Vatican court on Saturday found Claudio Sciarpelletti, a computer expert, guilty of obstruction of justice in the investigation of leaks of sensitive papal documents to the media by Pope Benedict's former butler.The same court which last month convicted Paolo Gabriele, the Pope's former butler, gave Sciarpelletti a two-month suspended sentence.Sciarpelletti had been charged with aiding and abetting Gabriele in leaking the document.But the court decided that he was guilty only of
obstruction of justice because he had changed his version of events
several times during the investigation.Gabriele was convicted of aggravated theft at a
separate trial last month and sentenced to 18 months in jail for
stealing sensitive papal documents and leaking them to the media. He
kept some confidential information on his computer.One of the pope's
closest household assistants, Gabriele admitted leaking the documents in
what he said was an attempt to help disclose corruption and "evil" in
the headquarters of the 1.2 billion-member Roman Catholic faith.Sciarpelletti spent one night in a Vatican jail cell on
May 25, two days after Gabriele was arrested when police searched the
former butler's home and found many copies of papal documents, some
alleging infighting in the papal court and corruption at the highest
levels of the church.When Vatican police searched Sciarpelletti's desk in
the Secretariat of State - the nerve center of the Holy See's
administration - they found a closed envelope addressed to Gabriele
marked "personal".It contained documentation relating to a chapter in a
book about Vatican corruption and intrigue written by Italian journalist
Gianluigi Nuzzi, who had received confidential documents from Gabriele.(Reporting By Philip Pullella; Editing by Andrew Heavens and Pravin Char)
ISAIAH 17:1,12-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
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 (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
ISAIAH 17:1,12-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
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 (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
Suicide blasts in Syria kill at least 20 troops
By | Associated Press – 2 hrs 36 mins ago NOV 10,12
BEIRUT
(AP) — Twin suicide bombings shook a southern Syrian city on Saturday,
killing at least 20 regime troops, an activist group said.The early morning blasts in Daraa targeted an encampment for government forces in the city, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists on the ground.The explosions were followed by clashes between regime forces and rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad,
said the Observatory. Its chief, Rami Abdul-Rahman, said at least 20
soldiers were killed in the blasts but the claim could not be
independently verified.The state-run news agency SANA said the
explosions caused multiple casualties and heavy material damage, but did
not provide further details.Daraa was the birthplace of the
uprising against Assad, which erupted in March 2011. The conflict began
largely with peaceful protests against Assad's rule but turned bloody
after rebels took up arms in response to the regime's crackdown.The
crisis has since morphed into a vicious civil war and in recent months,
rebels have driven regime forces out of much of a pocket of
northwestern Syria
and are battling troops in several key cities and towns. The fight has
also taken on dangerous sectarian tones between a mainly Sunni
opposition and a regime dominated by Assad's minority Alawite sect, an
offshoot of Shiite Islam."I heard two very loud explosions and a
third smaller one followed by bursts of gunfire," said Mohammad Abu
Houran, an activist in Daraa. He said the first two were likely car
bombs and the third a mortar shell or rocket propelled grenade.Abu
Houran said black smoke could be seen over the high-security area,
which was sealed off. Heavy shooting could be heard from the area for
about 10 minutes after the explosions, he added.Bombings
targeting state security institutions have become frequent in recent
months, and military intelligence branches in Damascus and other cities
have been hit. Most dramatically in July, rebels detonated explosives
inside a high-level crisis meeting in Damascus, killing four top regime
officials, including Assad's brother-in-law and the defense minister.The
targeted area is considered a security zone that houses a branch of the
country's Military Intelligence as well as an officer's club where
dozens of regime forces are based. Around 30 tanks that regime forces
use to shell Daraa and surrounding areas are also stationed in a nearby
stadium, activists said.Despite gaining control over large
swathes of territory, particularly in the country's north, Syria's
rebels are far outgunned by the military, which has increasingly relied
on airstrikes against rebel strongholds.The Syrian opposition,
which is deeply divided and plagued by rivalries, says it needs weapons
to break the military stalemate and defeat Assad. The rebels' Western
backers have been reluctant to send weapons to the opposition fighters,
for fear they will fall into the wrong hands.George Sabra, the
newly elected leader of the main opposition bloc, the Syrian National
Council, urged the international community on Saturday to support rebels
without any conditions."Unfortunately, we get nothing from them,
except some statements, some encouragement" while Assad's allies "give
the regime everything," Sabra told The Associated Press on the sidelines
of a weeklong SNC conference in the Qatari capital of Doha.Sabra
was heading an SNC delegation Saturday in talks with rival opposition
groups on forging a new, broader and more inclusive opposition
leadership group — an idea promoted by Western and Arab backers of those
trying to oust Assad.Syria has dismissed the meeting in Doha,
and Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi called it a political folly. In
an interview on state-run Syrian TV aired late Friday, al-Zoubi said
those who "meet in hotels" abroad are "deluding themselves" if they
think they can overthrow the government.Activists say more than 36,000 people have died in Syria during the nearly 20-month-old conflict.The
Daraa bombings come a day after as many as 11,000 people were said to
have fled Syria over just 24 hours, to escape fierce fighting between
rebels and government forces — the latest surge of refugees fleeing the
civil war.The flood of Syrians into neighboring Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon
was "the highest that we have had in quite some time," said Panos
Moumtzis, the U.N. refugee agency's regional coordinator for the region
said Friday.About 2,000 to 3,000 people are fleeing Syria daily,
and the recent surge brings the number registered with the UNHCR to more
than 408,000, said Moumtzis.The largest flow into Turkey came
from the fighting at Ras al-Ayn in the predominantly Kurdish
oil-producing northeastern province of al-Hasaka, where rebels were
fighting government forces.
Iraq reconsiders $4 billion Russian arms plans
– 27 mins ago NOV 10,12
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say the government is reconsidering plans to buy more than $4 billion in arms from Russia.Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki last month traveled to Moscow and outlined plans to buy the weapons, including helicopter gunships and air defense missiles.Some Iraqi media reports, such as one that aired this week on the private al-Sharqiya TV channel,
have suggested impropriety such as kickbacks by some of those involved
in brokering the deal. They cite mostly unnamed sources and provide few
specifics.The prime minister's spokesman, Ali al-Moussawi, said Saturday the proposed deal is now under review.Iraq's
acting defense minister, Saadoun al-Dulaimi, insisted no money has
changed hands so far and says the existing proposal "has become
meaningless." He says the government plans to renegotiate the deal,
seeking better terms.
Egypt Muslim Sisters rise with conservative vision
By | Associated Press – NOV 10,12
CAIRO (AP) — The rise of the Muslim Brotherhood to power in Egypt
has brought with it a new group of female politicians who say they are
determined to bring more women into leadership roles — and at the same
time want to consecrate a deeply conservative Islamic vision for women
in Egypt.Women's rights have
sprung to the forefront of the debate in Egypt as members of an
Islamist-dominated assembly wrestle over the writing of a new
constitution for the country. The power of Islamists, who dominated
parliament elections last winter and who seized the presidency with the
election this year of the Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi, has worried secular and liberal Egyptians who fear they will restrict rights of women and minorities.The
women of the Brotherhood say the fundamentalist group is doing more
than any other political movement in Egypt to promote women in a
political scene where men have always held a near total monopoly.
Confident and articulate, the women say they are pushing for a greater
voice within the Brotherhood itself and its political party, the Freedom and Justice Party, where the leadership is entirely male.The
number of women in prominent positions in Egyptian politics remains
tiny, as it was under the ousted secular president, Hosni Mubarak. But
in the new Egypt, if a woman does hold a high post, she's most likely a
member of an Islamist group. Morsi has appointed three women — two of
them Islamists — to his 21-member team of advisers and aides. Of the six
women on the 100-member assembly writing the constitution, three are
Brotherhood members.Their vision is a world apart from that of
liberal women's rights activists, who fear that Islamist women in power
will only carry out the Brotherhood agenda of implementing its
conservative interpretation of Islamic law.Azza el-Garf, one of
the Brotherhood women on the constitution-writing panel, said the
"first" role of women in Egypt is "inside the family, as a wife and
mother," while politics or work comes second. "Women are responsible for
raising the new generation ... this means the future of Egypt is in our
hands," she told The Associated Press.El-Garf, a 47-year-old
mother of seven, said that a woman's role in her family need not
contradict with her participation in politics, saying that she balances
these two responsibilities. El-Garf joined the Brotherhood when she was
15 and has done social work and community organizing for the group.Secular feminists, she argues, are out of step with Muslim-majority Egypt's conservative society.
"We speak on behalf of the street," said el-Garf, who like most Egyptian Muslim women wears a head scarf. "Egyptian people are very religious, devout people. If (the liberals) continue to separate religion from normal life, people will not listen to them."El-Garf was one of three women from the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party elected to the first parliament formed after the revolution, which had fewer than a dozen female lawmakers among its nearly 500 members. The body has since been dissolved, but she plans to run in new parliamentary elections to take place once a new constitution is ratified.Islamists who make up the majority on the constitution-writing assembly are racing to try to finish the document in the coming weeks to put it to a referendum. One of the biggest fights is over an Islamist-backed clause that would call for equality between men and women but only if it does not contradict Islamic law, or Shariah. Liberals say that condition will allow influential ultraconservatives to severely restrict women's rights. A seventh woman who was on the assembly — Manal el-Tibi, a non-Islamist activist — resigned in September in protest over that and other articles concerning women.Omaima Kamel, perhaps the most powerful of the Brotherhood women, defended the clause. Kamel is a member of Morsi's advisory team and sits on the constitutional panel.
In a recent interview on state TV, she said that without the phrasing, certain rights that Shariah gives to men and not to women could be overturned — such as men's right to marry up to four women or inheritance laws that give a greater to share to men than women. Such polygamy and inheritance laws existed during the Mubarak era and in most Muslim countries.Kamel, a 51-year-old doctor, dismissed fears that hardliners would use the clause to pass harsh restrictions on women, saying only rulings of Shariah that are "firmly established, with no controversy around them," like polygamy and inheritance, could be applied.
The clause was also needed to ensure Egypt is not beholden to international women's rights accords that she said would impose "complete equality" and "strip us of our character as a people who are religious and respect Islam.""Just like people on the left fear that someone on the right will one day say women have to stay in the home, there are people on the right — the conservatives and Islamists — who fear that one day Egypt will be forced to carry out what's in international agreements, like complete equality."
Other issues have stirred up trouble for the Brotherhood's women, particularly the issue of female genital mutilation, which is known as "circumcision" in Egypt and is widespread despite a 2008 law banning it. Both el-Garf and Kamel have been quoted in the Egyptian media as speaking of allowing the practice to a degree, but each later denied making the comments. Now they both are circumspect in talking about it.
"We have problems in education, health care, and security," she said. "These issues (of FGM) do not bother anyone, we have bigger issues," el-Garf told The AP, adding, "I respect all laws," in reference to the ban. Kamel called FGM a "bad practice" that should be addressed through awareness campaigns.Like other female Brotherhood politicians, Kamel says she is determined to see more women in positions of authority.
The Brotherhood is "trying to put the cornerstones for the right path toward democracy" within its political party, including bringing more women into the leadership, she told The AP. But she added that this will take "a few years" because there are currently few women with the political experience to compete for top positions in the party.Liberals say the Brotherhood women are just a token cover for an agenda they consider deeply opposed to women's rights.Having Brotherhood women in authority "is even more dangerous than not (having them), given their ideology," said Hoda Badran, a veteran women's rights activist and chair of the Egyptian Feminist Union.Bahy Eddin Hassan, director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights, said the Brotherhood's female members "don't believe in the concept of basic women's rights ... We don't have illusions about how much progress we can make with them."Sally Zohney, a founding member of the local women's rights group Baheya Ya Masr, said the constitution is a "lost cause" given the Brotherhood's ability to rally public support. The liberal side, she said, has to work to advocate an alternative vision among Egyptians."We have to start reaching the public, and fast," she said.
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.
JOEL 3:2 (WW3 OCCURS WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED)
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 (ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(JERUSALEM)(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND BRINGS 3 DEAD BILLION IN WW3)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)
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.
By Elad Benari First Publish: 11/9/2012, 5:13 AM-INN
Envoys from the Palestinian Authority on Thursday unveiled the
resolution they hope will give them observer membership at the United
Nations but held back from setting a date for a vote, AFP reported.Arab League foreign ministers are to discuss the resolution next week, diplomats told AFP.The PA’s mission to the United Nations sent a letter to UN members
with its proposed resolution, saying it would be put to the 193 member
UN General Assembly "at a date to be announced in the near future."The resolution would call on the assembly to accord observe
membership and urge the 15-nation UN Security Council to "consider
favorably" an application for full membership made last year by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.The United States has blocked the full membership bid, threatening to
use a veto at the Security Council, which must approve any full application. It cannot hold up any bid for observer membership at the General Assembly.
The PA’s application is certain to be passed at the General Assembly but the question would be how big a majority it would get if the United States opposes the resolution.Arab League foreign ministers are to meet on November 12-13 and could set a date for a vote if Abbas agrees, UN diplomats said, according to AFP.
The draft resolution "reaffirms the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination" on the basis of Israeli-Arab borders before the 1967 Six Day War.The resolution highlights "the urgent need for the resumption and acceleration of negotiations" between the two sides to settle the questions of refugees, Jerusalem, settlements, borders, security, water and prisoners.Abbas formally announced in September that the PA would ask the General Assembly to grant it "super-observer" status that could give it access to UN institutions and agencies.Kol Yisrael radio reported on Thursday night that the PA will likely table the resolution on November 29.Channel 10 News reported earlier this week that Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has threatened that if the PA goes ahead with its unilateral statehood bid he “will work to ensure the PA will collapse.”Lieberman reportedly stressed that a unilateral statehood bid by the PA will "put an end to the chances to resume peace negotiations."Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that he remains ready to sit down for final status talks with the PA leader."Only in direct negotiations will it be possible to clarify what the true positions are. Generally, I can say that if Abu Mazen is really serious and intends to advance peace, as far as I am concerned, we can sit together immediately. Jerusalem and Ramallah are only seven minutes apart; I am ready to start negotiations today,” Netanyahu said bluntly.
"I will take this opportunity to again call on President Abbas to return to the negotiating table without preconditions, because peace may be advanced only around the negotiating table and not via unilateral decisions in the United Nations General Assembly, which will only push peace further away and will only lead to instability.”The Obama administration has indicated that it opposes the PA’s unilateral move and said it would “make the case” at the UN for Israeli- PA talks when Abbas submits his bid.
By Elad Benari, Canada First Publish: 11/9/2012, 8:46 PM-INN
Two Kassam rockets fired by Gaza-based terrorists exploded in open areas in the Eshkol Regional Council on Friday afternoon.The rockets did not cause any physical injuries or damage. The rockets were fired despite an Egyptian-brokered “ceasefire” that was supposed to have gone effect in late October, after Gaza-based terrorists fired more than 80 rockets at southern Israel within a period of 24 hours.Similar “ceasefires” have been announced by Hamas rulers after
previous rounds of escalation, but the Gaza-based terrorist groups
always take advantage of these “ceasefires” to periodically send a
reminder to Israelis that they have the ability to fire rockets.In another incident on Thursday evening, a smuggling tunnel exploded in southern Gaza as a group of IDF soldiers were in the middle of an operation to uncover it.One of the soldiers was very lightly wounded in the incident and
damage was caused to an empty military vehicle that was standing nearby.Residents of the Eshkol Regional Council on Thursday held a rally at the Sharona Park in Tel Aviv, across from the IDF's Kirya central military base.The residents told the government during the rally, “We are not willing to accept this kind of life. Even one Kassam rocket is one too many. The government of Israel must bring quiet to the area.”(Arutz Sheva’s North American Desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
"We speak on behalf of the street," said el-Garf, who like most Egyptian Muslim women wears a head scarf. "Egyptian people are very religious, devout people. If (the liberals) continue to separate religion from normal life, people will not listen to them."El-Garf was one of three women from the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party elected to the first parliament formed after the revolution, which had fewer than a dozen female lawmakers among its nearly 500 members. The body has since been dissolved, but she plans to run in new parliamentary elections to take place once a new constitution is ratified.Islamists who make up the majority on the constitution-writing assembly are racing to try to finish the document in the coming weeks to put it to a referendum. One of the biggest fights is over an Islamist-backed clause that would call for equality between men and women but only if it does not contradict Islamic law, or Shariah. Liberals say that condition will allow influential ultraconservatives to severely restrict women's rights. A seventh woman who was on the assembly — Manal el-Tibi, a non-Islamist activist — resigned in September in protest over that and other articles concerning women.Omaima Kamel, perhaps the most powerful of the Brotherhood women, defended the clause. Kamel is a member of Morsi's advisory team and sits on the constitutional panel.
In a recent interview on state TV, she said that without the phrasing, certain rights that Shariah gives to men and not to women could be overturned — such as men's right to marry up to four women or inheritance laws that give a greater to share to men than women. Such polygamy and inheritance laws existed during the Mubarak era and in most Muslim countries.Kamel, a 51-year-old doctor, dismissed fears that hardliners would use the clause to pass harsh restrictions on women, saying only rulings of Shariah that are "firmly established, with no controversy around them," like polygamy and inheritance, could be applied.
The clause was also needed to ensure Egypt is not beholden to international women's rights accords that she said would impose "complete equality" and "strip us of our character as a people who are religious and respect Islam.""Just like people on the left fear that someone on the right will one day say women have to stay in the home, there are people on the right — the conservatives and Islamists — who fear that one day Egypt will be forced to carry out what's in international agreements, like complete equality."
Other issues have stirred up trouble for the Brotherhood's women, particularly the issue of female genital mutilation, which is known as "circumcision" in Egypt and is widespread despite a 2008 law banning it. Both el-Garf and Kamel have been quoted in the Egyptian media as speaking of allowing the practice to a degree, but each later denied making the comments. Now they both are circumspect in talking about it.
"We have problems in education, health care, and security," she said. "These issues (of FGM) do not bother anyone, we have bigger issues," el-Garf told The AP, adding, "I respect all laws," in reference to the ban. Kamel called FGM a "bad practice" that should be addressed through awareness campaigns.Like other female Brotherhood politicians, Kamel says she is determined to see more women in positions of authority.
The Brotherhood is "trying to put the cornerstones for the right path toward democracy" within its political party, including bringing more women into the leadership, she told The AP. But she added that this will take "a few years" because there are currently few women with the political experience to compete for top positions in the party.Liberals say the Brotherhood women are just a token cover for an agenda they consider deeply opposed to women's rights.Having Brotherhood women in authority "is even more dangerous than not (having them), given their ideology," said Hoda Badran, a veteran women's rights activist and chair of the Egyptian Feminist Union.Bahy Eddin Hassan, director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights, said the Brotherhood's female members "don't believe in the concept of basic women's rights ... We don't have illusions about how much progress we can make with them."Sally Zohney, a founding member of the local women's rights group Baheya Ya Masr, said the constitution is a "lost cause" given the Brotherhood's ability to rally public support. The liberal side, she said, has to work to advocate an alternative vision among Egyptians."We have to start reaching the public, and fast," she said.
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.
JOEL 3:2 (WW3 OCCURS WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED)
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 (ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(JERUSALEM)(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND BRINGS 3 DEAD BILLION IN WW3)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)
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.
PA Unveils UN Membership Resolution
PA envoys unveil the resolution they hope will give them observer membership at the United Nations.
Abbas addresses UN Genearal Assembly-AFP/Timothy A. Clary
The PA’s application is certain to be passed at the General Assembly but the question would be how big a majority it would get if the United States opposes the resolution.Arab League foreign ministers are to meet on November 12-13 and could set a date for a vote if Abbas agrees, UN diplomats said, according to AFP.
The draft resolution "reaffirms the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination" on the basis of Israeli-Arab borders before the 1967 Six Day War.The resolution highlights "the urgent need for the resumption and acceleration of negotiations" between the two sides to settle the questions of refugees, Jerusalem, settlements, borders, security, water and prisoners.Abbas formally announced in September that the PA would ask the General Assembly to grant it "super-observer" status that could give it access to UN institutions and agencies.Kol Yisrael radio reported on Thursday night that the PA will likely table the resolution on November 29.Channel 10 News reported earlier this week that Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has threatened that if the PA goes ahead with its unilateral statehood bid he “will work to ensure the PA will collapse.”Lieberman reportedly stressed that a unilateral statehood bid by the PA will "put an end to the chances to resume peace negotiations."Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that he remains ready to sit down for final status talks with the PA leader."Only in direct negotiations will it be possible to clarify what the true positions are. Generally, I can say that if Abu Mazen is really serious and intends to advance peace, as far as I am concerned, we can sit together immediately. Jerusalem and Ramallah are only seven minutes apart; I am ready to start negotiations today,” Netanyahu said bluntly.
"I will take this opportunity to again call on President Abbas to return to the negotiating table without preconditions, because peace may be advanced only around the negotiating table and not via unilateral decisions in the United Nations General Assembly, which will only push peace further away and will only lead to instability.”The Obama administration has indicated that it opposes the PA’s unilateral move and said it would “make the case” at the UN for Israeli- PA talks when Abbas submits his bid.
Finance minister threatens to withhold tax revenues if Palestinians make UN statehood bid
Yuval Steinitz points at success of freezing assets in preventing similar measure last year
November 10, 2012, 4:51 pm
0-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Israel will withhold
transferring tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority if President
Mahmoud Abbas presses forward with a United Nations statehood bid,
Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz warned on Saturday.
Stenitz said that Israel would not collect
taxes on the Palestinians’ behalf, nor deliver the moneys to the PA, nor
assist Ramallah in economic matters if the Palestinians insist on
seeking nonmember observer state status at the UN.Under the current economic agreements between
Israel and the PA, Israel collects customs, border and some income taxes
on behalf of the Palestinians and transfers the sums to Ramallah on a
monthly basis.The finance minister noted that the
Palestinians backed down from a unilateral UN bid last year after Israel
blocked the transfer of Palestinian tax funds to the PA.Abbas was expected to submit a resolution to
the UN General Assembly this month requesting nonmember state status for
the Palestinians, but a senior Palestinian official indicated Friday that Abbas may be willing to postpone the move if
the US were to offer a “clear objective” for negotiations. According to
the official, the objective would have to be a Palestinian state based
on 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.Palestinian sources indicated Saturday that Abbas was “seriously
considering” pushing back a UN bid, and that the stated reason for a
possible postponement – from November to the end of January – is
that reelected US President Barack Obama needs time to organize a
political agenda for the second term of his administration.
Peres: I Intend to Complete My Term
President
Shimon Peres denies reports that he is planning to run in the next
Knesset elections as head of Israel’s center-left bloc.By Elad Benari, Canada First Publish: 11/9/2012, 9:11 PM-INN
President Shimon Peres-Flash 90
President Shimon Peres denied on Friday recent media reports that he is planning to end his term early and run in the next Knesset elections as head of Israel’s center-left bloc.This week it was reported that former Kadima chairwoman Tzipi Livni
has been pressuring Shimon Peres to head a center-left Knesset list in
the coming election. She reportedly told the 89-year-old president that
she would support him if he chooses to run as his number two.Peres has also been under pressure
by other politicians to run. It has been suggested in previous weeks
that Peres might be the only candidate who can unite the fragmented
center-left bloc and beat Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in the
January elections.However, on Friday morning as he was making his way en route from
Moscow back to Israel, Peres denied the reports about his political
intentions and said he intends to complete his term as president in one
year and 10 months.President Peres rejected any idea of returning to the Knesset and said, “All the reports are pure speculation.”On Thursday, opposition head MK Shaul Mofaz (Kadima) hinted at an impending center-left political union to match the Likud-Yisrael Beytenu merger on the political right. Mofaz told an interviewer at Gordon College in Haifa to expect political change.“Things will happen in the next two and a half months,” he said. “These are things that aren’t ready yet.”“The map is going to change,” he added. “It will happen very quickly, close to the time of elections.”Mofaz was asked if he has considered the possibility that if a left-wing political merger occurs, he may not stand at the head of the new party. Polls show that Kadima, the largest party in the current Knesset, may not make it into the next Knesset.“I take everything into account,” Mofaz replied.(Arutz Sheva’s North American Desk is keeping you updated until
the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all
Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
Gaza Rockets Explode in Eshkol Region
Two Kassam rockets fired by Gaza-based terrorists explode in open areas in the Eshkol Regional Council.
Qassam rocket (archive)-Flash 90
