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RADIOACTIVE POISON STOPPAGE DOSES ORDERED BY US GOVERNMENT

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

01/ 1/2014 VATICAN INSIDER

Francis: “Justice and peace start from the home”

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This morning the Pope celebrated the start of the new year with a mass in St. Peter’s Basilica and later, during the Angelus prayer, he quoted a letter sent to him by a Christian: “what has happened in the hearts of men, in the heart of humanity?” and stressed “it is time to stop! Francis also extended his thanks to the President of the Italian Republic

Iacopo Scaramuzzi vatican city Standing on the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica on he evening of 13 March, Francis began his pontificate by asking the “people” gathered in St. Peter’s Square for their blessings. “And now we begin this path together: bishop and people.” In his first New Year mass as Bishop of Rome, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the “people’s” Pope, underlined once again the importance of the “sensus fidei” of “God’s people” which in its unity never fails.At the midday Angelus the Pope sent out his first message for the 47th World Day of Peace which the Catholic Church celebrates every year on this day. The theme of this year’s peace day is “Fraternity: the Foundation and Pathway to Peace”.  The Pope’s message was recently published by the Vatican and contains a quotation from a letter sent to the Pope by a man who had experienced a personal tragedy: “what has happened in the hearts of men, in the heart of humanity? It is time to stop!”After the Angelus the Pope took the opportunity to thank the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, who paid tribute to Francis in his traditional New Year’s Eve speech. Francis invoked a blessing on the Italian people so that with the “responsible” and fraternal “contribution of everyone,” they may “look to the future with trust and hope.”“The Mother of God! This is the first and most important title of Our Lady. It refers to a quality, a role which the faith of the Christian people, in its tender and genuine devotion to our heavenly Mother, has understood from the beginning,” the Pope said in his morning mass in St. Peter’s. It refers to a quality, a role which the faith of the Christian people, in its tender and genuine devotion to our heavenly Mother, has understood from the beginning. We recall that great moment in the history of the ancient Church, the Council of Ephesus, in which the divine motherhood of the Virgin Mary was authoritatively defined. The truth of her divine maternity found an echo in Rome where, a little later, the Basilica of Saint Mary Major was built, the first Marian shrine in Rome and in the entire West, in which the image of the Mother of God – the Theotokos – is venerated under the title of Salus Populi Romani. It is said that the residents of Ephesus used to gather at the gates of the basilica where the bishops were meeting and shout, “Mother of God!” The faithful, by asking them to officially define this title of Our Lady, showed that they acknowledged her divine motherhood. Theirs was the spontaneous and sincere reaction of children who know their Mother well, for they love her with immense tenderness.” “But it is more than this,” the Pope added off-the-cuff. “It is the sensus fidei of the people who are faithful to God, which in its unity never fails.” The Pope ended his homily by inviting all faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Basilica to invoke the Mother of God out loud three times, as the residents of Ephesus used to do. He asked the same thing to the crowds of faithful that had come to St. Peter’s Square for the Angelus.

In his homily the Pope then emphasised that “when the faith of the disciples was most tested by difficulties and uncertainties, Jesus entrusted them to Mary, who was the first to believe, and whose faith would never fail.” To her let us entrust our journey of faith, the desires of our heart, our needs and the needs of the whole world, especially of those who hunger and thirst for justice and peace.” The new Vatican Secretary of State, Mgr. Pietro Parolin, was among those who concelebrated mass with the Pope.At midday the Pope appeared at the window of the apostolic palace study and referred to his message for the World Day of Peace, reiterating his conviction that we are “all children of one God and are part of the same human family,” sharing a common destiny. Francis drew on the writings of predecessors such as Paul VI to show “that fraternity is the foundation and pathway of peace.” Hence “we all have a responsibility, the Pope stressed, to build a world which “becomes a community of brothers who respect each other, accept each other’s differences, and take care of each other.” We are also called to acknowledge “the violence and injustices present in many places around the world” and we cannot allow ourselves to be “indifferent and immobile.”Everyone must work to build a society of solidarity and “truly more just,” the Pope said.The Pope then paused for a moment to talk about a letter he had received: “Yesterday I received a letter from a man, who perhaps is among you now, telling me about a family tragedy he had experienced. He went on to list the many tragedies that exist today, including the wars being fought across the world and he asked me: “what has happened in the hearts of men, in the heart of humanity? It is time to stop!” I also believe that we would do well to stop this path of violence and seek peace instead! I second what this man said: “what has happened in the hearts of men, in the heart of humanity? It is time to stop!” Francis said. “Today, believers around the world pray to the Lord for the gift of peace and the ability to spread it everywhere. May the Lord lead us down the path of justice and peace “more decisively,” starting from the home. Finally, the Pope entrusted the “cries for peace of populations oppressed by war and violence so that the courage of dialogue and reconciliation prevails over temptations of revenge, of arrogance (Italian: prepotenza), of corruption.” Pope Francis prayed that “the Gospel of fraternity announced and witnessed by the Church will speak to every conscience and break down the walls that prevent enemies from recognizing each other as brothers.”Before the Angelus the Pope wished everyone peace and all the best. He added that his wishes for the New Year are “those of the Church:” Christian wishes that put Jesus Christ at the centre of history and at its end: “the Kingdom of God, Kingdom of peace, justice, liberty in love.” And the Holy Spirit, the Holy Father said, is the force which propels us towards that end.”The Pope concluded by welcoming the many initiatives taken up around the globe for the World Day of Peace: the national march that took place yesterday in the southern Italian city of Campobasso, organised by the Italian Bishops’ Conference, Caritas and Pax Christi, the movement of family love that held the peace vigil in St. Peter’s Square and the “Peace in All Lands” demonstration which the Sant’Egidio community held in Rome and many other countries. “There are lots of them aren’t they?” the Pope added, sparking waves of applause. “Dear brothers and sisters, Happy New Year, enjoy your lunch and goodbye!” the Pope said concluding the first Angelus of 2014.

POISONED WATERS

HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land,(EARTH) because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2  By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3  Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

ZEPHANIAH 1:2-3
2  I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.
3  I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.

EZEKIEL 32:6-9
6  I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.
7  And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
8  All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
9  I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.

REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)

REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS-CHEMICAL WEAPONS

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

US Government Orders 14 Million Doses of Potassium Iodide

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Huge purchase linked to ongoing Fukushima crisis?
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
January 1, 2014
The Department of Health and Human Services has ordered 14 million doses of potassium iodide, the compound that protects the body from radioactive poisoning in the aftermath of severe nuclear accidents, to be delivered before the beginning of February.

Image: Potassium Iodide (YouTube).
According to a solicitation posted on the Federal Business Opportunities website, the DHHS asks contractors to supply, “potassium iodide tablet, 65mg, unit dose package of 20s; 700,000 packages (of 20s),” a total of 14 million tablets. The packages must be delivered on or before February 1, 2014.
Potassium iodide helps block radioactive iodine from being absorbed by the thyroid gland and is used by victims of severe nuclear accidents or emergencies. Under current regulations, states with populations living within 10 miles of a nuclear plant are encouraged, but not required, to maintain a supply of potassium iodide.
A search of the FedBizOpps website returns no other results regarding the purchase of potassium iodide from any government agency, suggesting that the DHHS bulk buy of the tablets is unprecedented in recent times.The ongoing crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plant has prompted concerns that the purchase is connected to the threat posed by radioactive debris washing up on the shores of the west coast or the potential for another natural disaster occurring in Japan which could impact the U.S.
“Governments usually respond to disasters very similarly; first move is to avoid panic,” writes The West Wire. “The Japanese didn’t want to panic the world, or tarnish their honor and now, as a consequence of their reluctance, Japanese citizens and international aid personal find themselves in a horrible state of being.”“Panic is usually avoided by keeping their citizens as blind to the truth as possible, until confrontation with the truth becomes inevitable. The crucial question at this juncture; “would our government be reluctant about warning us of potential disaster, in an attempt to avoid panic?” 14 million doses of Potassium Iodide say that might just be the case.”
Last month it was revealed that 71 U.S. sailors who helped during the initial Fukushima relief efforts are suing the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) after they returned with thyroid cancer, Leukemia, and brain tumors as a result of being exposed to radiation at 300 times the safe level.TEPCO has repeatedly been caught lying in their efforts to downplay the scale of the disaster. In September it was confirmed that radiation readings around the power plant were 18 times higher than previously reported by TEPCO. After a tank leaked 300 tonnes of toxic water in August, groundwater radiation readings at the plant soared to 400,000 becquerels per litre, the highest reading since the nuclear accident occurred in March 2011.Top scientists have warned that if another major earthquake hits Fukushima, which is almost inevitable, it would mean “bye bye Japan” and the complete evacuation of the west coast of North America.Now that radioactive debris is hitting the West Coast of North America, numerous different animals and sea life are suffering from mysterious diseases, including 20 bald eagles that have died in Utah over the last few weeks alone.
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.

KERRYS 9 POINT FRAMEWORK PLAN FOR PEACE

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

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

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).

THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

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.

DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

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

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

ISAIAH 33:8
8  The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)

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

Exclusive: US “framework” calls for 80,000 Israeli West Bank evacuations to the big settlement blocs-DEBKAfile Exclusive Report December 31, 2013, 9:34 AM (IDT) 
 
The State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said in Washington Tuesday, Dec. 31, that Secretary John Kerry would discuss with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas a “proposed framework” to serve as “a guideline for addressing all core issues” in the decades-long dispute.“Some people say this would be an interim agreement. No, that’s not the case,” she said. The core issues she listed were “borders between Israel and a future Palestine, security arrangements, the fate of Palestinian refugees and conflicting claims to the holy city of Jerusalem.” Kerry leaves for Israel and Ramallah on New Year’s Day to continue his shuttle, after Monday night, Dec. 30, Israel released from jail 26 Palestinian terrorists serving life sentences for murder. debkafile reported earlier that the US Secretary does not expect Israeli and Palestinian leaders to approve the proposed framework – only to contribute their comments. We also reported that Abbas had indicated to the Secretary that that Palestinians were preparing to reject his proposals by demanding their referral to the various pan-Arab forums.

DEBKA Weekly No. 616 of Dec. 20 was first to divulge the nine points of the unpublished draft Kerry planned to present to Israeli and Palestinian leaders this week. Since then, certain amendments were introduced - especially in relation to Israel’s military presence in the Jordan Valley and Judea and Samaria.  The document continues to be molded by Kerry’s ongoing back-and-forth communications with the two parties. Nevertheless, the nine points disclosed hereunder stand as the basic guidelines of the proposed US framework:

Israel hands over 92.8 pc of West Bank to Palestinians
1. Nearly all its content draws on the proposal Ehud Olmert, then Prime Minister, submitted to Abbas on Aug. 31, 2008, which he never accepted; nor was it approved by any Israeli authority.

2. Territory:  Israel will annex 6.8% of the West Bank including the four main settlement blocs of Gush Etzion with Efrata; Maale Adummim; Givat Zeev;and Ariel, as well as all of the “settlements” of East Jerusalem and Har Homa - in exchange for the equivalent of 5.5% of Israeli territory.

3. The Safe Passage:  The territorial link between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank would cut through southern Israel and remain under Israeli sovereignty and Palestinian control.Our sources add that out of all other options, the American sponsors of the accord prefer to build an express railway line from Gaza to Hebron, without stops, which would be paid for by Washington. Abbas has already informed John Kerry that he wants the train to go all the way to Ramallah. There will be a special road connecting Bethlehem with Ramallah that bypasses East Jerusalem. This is mostly likely the same route currently planned to go around Maaleh Adummim. Since the safe passage will cross through Israeli, accounting for 1% of its territory, this area will be deducted from the land Israel concedes, leaving 4.54% for the land swap with the Palestinians.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

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.(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND)

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)

4. Jerusalem:  East Jerusalem will be divided territorially along the lines of the Clinton Parameters with the exception of the “Holy Basin,” which comprises 0.04% of the West Bank.Sovereignty over this ancient heart of Jerusalem, with its unique and historic concentration of Jewish, Christian and Muslim shrines, will pass to an international commission comprised of the US, Israel, the Palestinians, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

5. Refugees:  This issue will be addressed according to guidelines proposed by President Bill Clinton at Camp David in the year 2000 - and rejected by Yasser Arafat.
An International Foundation will be established to resettle the bulk of the Palestinian refugees in Canada and Australia, except for a small portion to be accepted in Israel in the framework of family reunification.

6. Security:  The Olmert package made no mention of security. However the Kerry draft deals extensively with this issue and Israel’s concerns. It calls for the evacuation of all 10,000 Jewish settlers from the Jordan Valley leaving behind a chain of posts along the Jordan River. Security corridors cutting through the West Bank will maintain their land and operational links with Israel. Border crossings will be set up between Palestine and Jordan with an Israeli security presence. The security section of the draft assigns the use of West Bank and Gaza airspace by Israel and the Palestinians. There will be no Israeli military presence inside the Palestinian state.

7. Taxes: The present arrangement for Israel to collect customs levies and distribute the revenues to the Palestinians will continue. (debkafile: That is about the only clause which the Palestinians accept.) Israel will carry out security checks on goods bound for Palestinian that are unloaded at Haifa and Ashdod ports, and levy customs at rates fixed by the Palestinians to be disbursed in the Palestinian state.

8. Settlements:  Eighty percent of all Jewish settlers on the West Bank will be confined to the major settlement blocs as defined in 2. The remaining 20% amounting, according to American calculations to 80,000 people, will have to decide on their own whether they prefer to stay where they are under Palestinian rule or move to Israel.debkafile’s sources report that Secretary Kerry advised the Israeli Prime Minister bluntly that he need not promise to force settlers to leave their homes - as the Sharon government did when he executed the unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip in 2005. Netanyahu replied that it was unacceptable for Israel to abandon the settlers to their fate. He therefore proposed that instead of forcing them to cross back into Israel, they would be absorbed in the larger settlement blocs remaining under Israeli sovereignty.

9. Timelines:  Different timetables are proposed in the US framework for implementing different sections: The Palestinian leader says he is willing to give Israel three years as a transition period for relocating settlers.
When he submitted the paper to the Israeli and Palestinian leaders earlier this month, the Secretary of State told them that he saw no point in the two negotiating teams holding meetings consumed by interminable debates on one point or another. He therefore asked both parties to henceforth send him their comments in writing.

Israel reportedly offering land and its 300,000 residents to Palestinians

Israeli Arab citizens living in northern ‘Triangle’ would find themselves in Palestinian state under swap deal to enable annexation of settlement blocs, Maariv says

January 1, 2014, 1:14 pm 13-The Times of Israel
Israel has raised the idea of transferring parts of the territory in “the triangle” southeast of Haifa — along with the hundreds of thousands of Israeli-Arab citizens who live there — to a future Palestinian state in return for annexing West Bank territory including settlement blocs, Maariv reported on Wednesday.The idea is not central to the formal talks being brokered by US Secretary of State John Kerry, who is due back in Israel on Thursday pushing a “framework” peace agreement. But it has been discussed “at the highest levels” between Israel and the US, the report said.The area known as “the triangle,” located in the Sharon plain, contains mostly Arab-populated towns and cities such as Kafr Qara, Umm al-Fahm, Tayibe and Qalansawe. It was to have come under Jordanian rule in the arrangements that saw the establishment of the State of Israel but was ultimately included in Israeli sovereign territory under the 1949 armistice agreements because of Israeli security demands, and instead Israel ceded territory that had been earmarked for Israeli sovereignty in the area of the southern Hebron hills.Unnamed sources told Maariv that the “triangle” plan has come up during talks between Israel and US officials at various levels, including at least one occasion when very senior officials including Kerry were in attendance. Israeli legal officials have begun investigating legal aspects of such an arrangement, the newspaper said. It added that the Americans have apparently not assented to the idea, and that the Palestinians are likely to reject it.The idea is aimed at addressing two central issues in a possible peace agreement: first, land swaps between Israel and a Palestinian state that would enable Israel to expand its sovereignty to encompass major West Bank settlements, while compensating the Palestinians with territory that is currently part of sovereign Israel; and second, preserving Israel’s Jewish majority.The possibility of land swaps between Israel and the Palestinians has gained widespread backing in the international community, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is making stiffer territorial demands than some of his prime ministerial predecessors, the report said, including refusing to give away as much as he receives. In other words, whereas former prime minister Ehud Olmert was prepared to trade land on a one-to-one basis, Netanyahu is apparently pushing for a better formulation from Israel’s point of view.
John Kerry, left, and Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference in Jerusalem In September 2013. (photo credit: US State Department)
John Kerry, left, and Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference in Jerusalem In September 2013. (photo credit: US State Department)
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has been widely reported to seek only very minimal land-swap border adjustments, whereas Netanyahu seeks to ensure that as many Israelis living beyond the Green Line as possible be brought under undisputed Israeli sovereignty under a permanent accord. Netanyahu is also concerned about Israel’s available land reserves being sufficient to meet its growing population demands, the report said. In addition, the prime minister is worried that even after signing a peace agreement, the Palestinians won’t genuinely be reconciled to ending their conflict with Israel, and will hope instead that Israel’s Arab population, whose growth rate is higher than the Jewish population, can eventually bring about a binational state in today’s Israel alongside the new Palestinian state.There are currently around 1.6 million Israeli Arabs in the country and Maariv estimated that transferring 300,000 of those residents to a Palestinian state would leave Israel’s Arab population at around 12%.By drawing on land from the triangle, where two of Israel’s largest Arab towns, Tayibe and Umm al-Fahm are located, Israel would be able to offer the Palestinians more territorial compensation in order to annex more West Bank settlement areas, the report said.The idea of swapping territory including the residents who live on it has been discussed for years in some Israeli political circles. Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman has long argued that it would be a mistake, and inequitable, for Israel to relinquish unpopulated Israeli territory to the Palestinians in exchange for annexing settler-populated territory in the West Bank. Maariv noted that Liberman consistently raises his proposals in contacts with American and European interlocutors, and that he recently held talks on the peace process with Kerry in Washington.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman seen during a meeting of the Likud Beytenu faction in the Knesset on November 18, 2013. (Photo credit: Flash90)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman seen during a meeting of the Likud-Beytenu faction in the Knesset on November 18, 2013. (Photo credit: Flash90)
In the formal peace talks with the Palestinians, the report went on, Israel has told the Palestinians which territory it seeks to annex in the West Bank under any future accord, but has not detailed how it would be willing to compensate the Palestinians. Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, leading those talks, has asked the Palestinians what they want in return.Aside from the land issue another major sticking point in the negotiations is Netanyahu’s demand, even after the establishment of a Palestinian state, to maintain IDF forces in the Jordan Valley and full control over the border between the West Bank and Jordan. Israel insists on control there out of security concerns, while the Palestinians emphatically reject any Israeli presence on the territory of a future state.Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah told Maariv that, from his point of view, there was nothing to discuss over the matter. “We are talking about a clear message to Israel and the US: The Jordan Valley is Palestinian,” he said.Hamdallah also made clear that, despite repeated assertions by chief PA negotiator Saeb Erekat that there was no point in continuing talks, the Palestinians would see through the nine-month negotiating period agreed with Kerry. “We committed to the Americans to hold talks until April and we will keep that commitment,” he said.Kerry is due to arrive in the region on Thursday for his tenth visit this year, to try to push for a framework agreement that, while not a signed document, would address all core issues, including the borders between Israel and a future Palestine; security; Palestinian refugees; and conflicting claims to the holy city of Jerusalem. The framework deal reportedly includes clauses providing for Israeli readiness under certain conditions to partner the Palestinians to a state based on the pre-1967 lines with land swaps, and for the Palestinians to recognize Israel as a Jewish state and declare an end to the conflict.Kerry reportedly hopes to have the sides agree in the course of January to proceed on the basis of the framework deal, and to extend the negotiating period beyond April.
 

Netanyahu to Declare New Housing after Kerry Leaves

Building of 1,400 new homes was to be announced Tuesday but under US pressure, announcement was put off.-By Gil Ronen-First Publish: 1/1/2014, 3:22 PM-Israelnationalnews

Construction site
Construction site-Flash 90
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had intended to announce the construction of 1,400 new homes in Judea and Samaria Tuesday, but decided at the last minute to put it off under US presure, reports Maariv/NRG.Netanyahu will wait with the announcement until US Secretary of State John Kerry ends his current visit to Israel.Initially, according to the report, Netanyahu had intended to wait two or three weeks with the announcement, because the US said that announcing the construction immediately after the release of Palestinian Authority (PA) terrorist murderers would anger the PA and endanger the US-brokered “peace talks” between it and Israel.However, the recent surge in terror attacks in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, and pressure from nationalist ministers who felt that a release of terrorist murderers was more than they could accept, caused the government to decide to time the construction announcement to accompany the release of the terrorists.The Ministry of Housing and Construction was about to issue the tenders for 1,400 new homes in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria Tuesday when a phone call from the Prime Minister's Office put the plan on hold. Government Secretary Avihai Mandelblit asked Housing Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) to wait with the tenders, and they will probably be issued next week, after Kerry has left Israel.

MK Akunis: Jordan Valley is our 'Iron Wall'

Deputy Minister tours Jordan Valley, says Israel must not succumb to US pressure to withdraw.
By Gil Ronen-First Publish: 12/31/2013, 8:14 PM-Israelnationalnews

MK Akunis
MK Akunis
Flash 90
Deputy Minister MK Ofir Akunis (Likud-Beytenu) toured the Jordan Valley Tuesday and warned against plans to cede the strategic territory to the Palestinian Authority as part of a “peace deal.”"Unfortunately, Israel does not have much strategic depth,” he said. “This is what we have. If, G-d forbid, the IDF and the settlers will not be here, as our friends the Americans want, this plan could endanger the entire state of Israel.”Akunis added: “The Jordan Valley is Israel's iron wall, and only the presence of the IDF and the settlers of the Valley, will guarantee the security of the citizens of Israel. Whoever cedes the Jordan Valley, will abandon Israel's security.”The “Iron Wall” is a phrase famously used by nationalist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky, who established the revisionist movement, which eventually turned into the Herut party, and later – Likud. In a 1923 article, he argued that Palestinian Arabs would never agree to a Jewish majority in Palestine, and that the Jewish settlement enterprise “can proceed and develop only under the protection of a power that is independent of the native population – behind an iron wall, which the native population cannot breach."The only solution to achieve peace and a Jewish state in the Land of Israel, he argued, would be for Jews to unilaterally decide its borders and defend them with the strongest security possible.

Netanyahu condemns hero’s welcome for prisoners

Celebrations of murderers’ release in West Bank and Gaza Strip undermine peace efforts, prime minister says

December 31, 2013, 4:48 pm 28-The Times of Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday lambasted Israel’s neighbors for celebrating the release overnight Monday of 26 Palestinian prisoners, saying the reaction reflected the difference between Israel and its negotiating partners.The essence of the difference between us and our neighbors can be seen in one picture,” Netanyahu said at the seventh annual Galilee Conference in Tiberias Tuesday, referring to the sight of throngs of Palestinians giving the released prisoners — almost all of them convicted of murder — a hero’s welcome.“While we prepare to take very painful steps in an effort to try and reach an agreement that would end the conflict, they, along with their top leadership, are celebrating,” said the prime minister.“Murderers are not heroes,” he declared. “This is not how one educates for peace.”Late Monday, Israel released 26 Palestinian prisoners in the third phase of a four-stage prisoner release agreed on when US-arbitrated peace talks were renewed last summer. As bereaved Israeli families protested the release, which went ahead around midnight as planned, Arabs in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem’s Old City greeted the arrivals with great fanfare.Jailed since before the Oslo Accords of the mid-’90s, all 26 men had been convicted of violent crimes, including murders and terror attacks (click here for a list of the convicts and their offenses).In Ramallah, 18 of the prisoners were greeted at 1 a.m. Tuesday morning by throngs of thousands, including Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, with officials and jubilant relatives lining up to kiss and embrace the newly freed men. The released prisoners then proceeded via red carpet into the Muqata’a, the headquarters of the Palestinian Authority, where they laid a wreath at the grave of Yasser Arafat.
Earlier in the night, three prisoners were transferred to the Gaza Strip via the Erez Crossing and five were sent to east Jerusalem, marking the first time residents of the capital, eligible for Israeli citizenship, were released as part of the deal.In a speech outside the PA’s headquarters, Abbas said there would be “no final agreement with Israel until all of the prisoners are freed.”“Today is a day of joy for our people, our families and our prisoner heroes,” he said. “We promise that this won’t be the last time that prisoners are released.”
In response to Abbas’s comments, Netanyahu said Tuesday, “This isn’t how peace is achieved.”
Urging the Palestinian Authority to put an end to “education toward incitement and the destruction of Israel,” Netanyahu said peace would be possible only if Israel’s security and housing needs were met and the country could defend itself.“We have a genuine need for peace and security, but it doesn’t only depend on us. It also depends on our neighbors,” he said.The prisoner release, as with the other two before it, was met in Israel with dismay and protests.The High Court rejected a petition by families of terror victims to stop the release, and hundreds of people demonstrated in the capital against the move Monday.
Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

Cameron, Merkel headed to Israel next month

Diplomatic official denies report British and German leaders’ visits are tied to peace talks

January 1, 2014, 8:30 am 2-The Times of Israel
British Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will both visit Israel next month, Foreign Ministry officials said Wednesday.The leaders will make the trips within days of each other in mid-February, though they won’t won’t overlap.While the trips will come amid peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, an Israeli diplomatic official denied an Israeli TV report that the purpose of the visits was to push along peace talks.The official told the Times of Israel that while the leaders will likely comment on the peace process, it will not be the focus of the visits.The visit will be the first to Israel for Cameron since he was elected prime minister in 2010.Cameron told Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein in early December that he would visit Israel sometime in 2014. He also said he would “happily” deliver a speech to the Knesset.The two spoke at the Nelson Mandela memorial in Johannesburg.For Merkel, the trip will be made with a number of Cabinet ministers in order to reciprocate a visit made by Netanyahu last year, in the framework of the “government to government” program.Diplomatic offices in both countries, closed for the New Years holiday, were unavailable for comment.News of the visits came as US Secretary of State John Kerry was expected in Israel Thursday for his 10th visit to the region as part of ongoing peace talks.
Kerry is expected to present the sides with a US-drafted framework agreement that will set the outlines for a permanent deal, allowing Jerusalem and Ramallah to keep negotiating beyond an April deadline.Merkel last visited Israel in January 2011. Her newly installed foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, is expected to make a trip to the region next week.Berlin in particular, because of its history in the Holocaust, has been vocal about its commitment to Israel’s security, recently selling Jerusalem a series of advanced submarines at a subsidized price.“We’ll never be neutral and … Israel can be sure of our support when it comes to ensuring its security,” Merkel told a Jewish magazine in Germany in August. “That’s why I also said that Germany’s support for Israel’s security is part of our national ethos, our raison d’être.”Britain and Germany have both been critical of Israel’s settlement policies and have pushed for the sides to reach an agreement based on a two-state solution, though much of their involvement in the peace process has been outsourced to the European Union, which is a member of the Quartet for Mideast Peace.The two countries were also recently party to an agreement between Iran and the P5+1 which calls for eased sanctions of Tehran in exchange for curbs on nuclear activity and more robust oversight. Israel has been critical of the deal, which has yet to be implemented.On Tuesday, German newspaper Der Speigel reported that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani may visit Munich for a security conference at the end of January.

Op-Ed: The Roman Solar Year That Was

Published: Monday, December 30, 2013 7:56 AM
Lots of bad news politically, but lots of Israeli - and personal - accomplishments sum up 2013.


This year, the left-stream/mainstream media has published one Big Lie after another, really too numerous to mention.

Politically, this has been a very bad year. President Obama’s administration has managed to reduce America’s stature in the world, abandon freedom-loving peoples everywhere, betray our own Ambassadors, (think: Christopher Stevens and his military aides in Benghazi); pressure Jewish and democratic Israel as a way of avoiding any criticism of the genocidal Muslim-on-Muslim violence and Muslim-on-Christian violence going on in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa.Obama’s administration is willing to “negotiate” with (that is, appease) the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Afghan Taliban, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood which has just been labeled a “terrorist” entity by the government of Egypt—not by the free world which has tolerated their proliferation and infiltration of our anti-terrorist infra-structures, media, academy, and human rights organizations.This was also the year in which Secretary of State John Kerry bypassed Israel on his first official trip to the Middle East; the Boston Marathon was bombed by two Muslim Islamists—a “coincidence,” a case of “madness”—I think not. The new “moderate” President of Iran, Rouhani, was linked to the 1994 bombing of the Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was also quoted as describing Israel as “a wound on the body of the Islamic world.”
Obama’s administration lifted sanctions against Iran without receiving anything in return. This is, sadly, similar to Israel’s being forced to return Palestinian Arab terrorists with blood on their hands and who are without remorse, in order to please/appease an anti-Zionist American administration.And, by the way: Despite an increased demand for his release, Jonathan Pollard still remains behind bars. It has been said by others with whom I agree: Do not free another Palestinian Arab terrorist until Pollard has been released.Bashar Assad still remains standing—despite the fact that, like his father, he has also used chemical weapons against other Syrians.The Pakistani Taliban continue to shoot down polio vaccine health aides and girls who want an education; Islamists in every Muslim-majority country are practicing gender apartheid with a vengeance, forcibly face veiling women, arranging first cousin marriages when the girls are still children, engaging in polygamy, and practicing female genital mutilation. Such mutilation is really a tribal custom but Islam has not abolished it. What’s more, the practice has increased in Indonesia as Islamist-ification proliferates.
Obama’s administration has failed the American people on health care—and this nightmare is only going to get worse. And, he has failed the American people in terms of the economy. And, all those who voted for him, not once but twice, and all those who helped him steal the first election away from Hillary, are also to blame. They elected a man who has proved to be both an empty suit and a Manchurian Candidate; an anti-colonialist socialist, a pro-Islamist, with absolutely no political ability; a word-charmer who may look “black” but who is half “white.”I do not understand why Obama’s maternal line has been so minimized and denied. Read James McBride’s “The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother” for a corrective vision of how a black man may honor his white mother. I am waiting for Obama to write “Dreams of My Mother” someday because he owes her that.This year, the left-stream/mainstream media has published one Big Lie after another, really too numerous to mention. Read CAMERA, HonestReporting, and MEMRI for a detailed and ongoing roundup. The latest Big Lie, in the New York Times, is that Hillary’s and Barack’s Benghazi Fiasco was really due to a You Tube video which insulted the Prophet Mohammed and that Al-Qaeda was not involved since Obama has insisted that Al-Qaeda was vanquished with the assassination of Osama Bin Laden.Films and political theatre have continued to demonize Israel the entire year—beginning with two anti-Israeli films which were nominated for Academy Awards The BDS campaign against Israel-only continues on campus after campus and at churches—although I believe that the latest American Studies Association academic boycott vote against Israeli academics has just backfired in a big way.I cannot leave you without some uplifting news which also exists. Looted Jewish-European art has been discovered and the challenge to return it to its rightful owners has been launched. Missing and ruined Jewish texts in Baghdad were discovered and restored and are presently, for the time being, safe in the United States. Billionaire American entrepreneurs are investing in Israel. China and Israel signed a major trade agreement. Birthright Israel has been blessed with a new 40 million dollar donation from Dr. Miriam and Sheldon Adelson. Both Democrats and Republicans denounced Obama’s Geneva deal with Iran and are attempting to re-impose sanctions.Despite being under perpetual siege, Israel has continued to send medical teams everywhere to help deal with typhoons, tornados, floods, earthquakes, and bombings—and has been giving both food and medical assistance to Syrians. Israeli hospitals treat Palestinians—recently, Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyah’s one year old granddaughter was treated by Israeli doctors. Israelis also continue to win Nobel Prizes in Science and Medicine.Personally, 2013 was a year of accomplishment. I completed writing and rewriting and, in October, I published my new book, “An American Bride in Kabul,” which has since received hundreds of (mainly positive) pre-publication and post-publication reviews over a seven month period, including in these pages. I have also been widely interviewed—and the QNAs are still ongoing as are the Book Events and lectures. Most important, I enjoyed a totally positive working relationship with my publisher, Palgrave-Macmillan, both in New York and in the UK. For an author to say this is really Saying Something.Also, at the personal level, I was appointed a Fellow at the Middle East Forum, appeared at the 92St Y with my colleagues Ibn Warraq and Raquel Evita Saraswati, and lectured at Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Annual Conference on Honor Violence.I am very grateful for such personal blessings.A Happy Roman Solar New Year to my readers at Arutz-7.

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

2014 PLUS WHAT TO WATCH FOR BY THE BIBLE

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

2014 PLUS HAPPENINGS TO WATCH FOR FROM THE BIBLE-FROM MATTHEW 24

1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
2  And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.(CHURCHES DESTROYED)
3  And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? (AGE OF GRACE-THE WORLD NEVER ENDS)

1-4  And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5  For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
11  And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

2-6  And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7  For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom (ETHNIC GROUP) against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP)

3-and there shall be famines,(FOOD SHORTAGES)(WORLDWIDE)

4-and pestilences,(DISEASES AND BIOLOGICAL,CHEMICAL WEAPONS)

5-and earthquakes, in divers places.(GIANT QUAKES)
8  All these are the beginning of sorrows.

THE ABOVE SIGNS WERE THE BEGININGS-NOW WE REALLY GET DOWN TO HAPPENINGS

6-9  Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you:(PERSECUSSION BIGTIME)

7-and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.

8-10  And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

9-12  And because iniquity (SIN) shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
13  But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

10-14  And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end (OF THE AGE OF GRACE) come.

WORLD DICTATOR FUTURE HAPPENINGS

11-15  When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place,(3RD TEMPLE ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT IN JERUSALEM) (whoso readeth, let him understand:)(AT THE MIDPOINT OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD)(WHICH DOES NOT START TILL THE EU-ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS AND NATIONS SIGN A 7 YR PEACE TREATY)
16  Then let them which be in Judaea (ISRAEL) flee into the mountains:
17  Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
18  Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
19  And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
20  But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:(FRIDAY NIGHT 6PM  TILL SATURDAY NIGHT 6PM IS ISRAELS SABBATH)
21  For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

12-22  And except those days should be shortened,(DAYLIGHT HOURS SHORTENED-NOT THE TRIBULATION PERIOD.GOD SAID IT WILL LAST 7 COMPLETE YEARS-THE TRIBULATION WILL BE 7 YEARS -NO MORE-NO LESS)(SO THIS TELLS US THE DAYLIGHT HOURS WILL BE SHORTENED) there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s (ISRAELS) sake those days shall be shortened.(DAY LIGHT HOURS-PROBABLY ONLY AROUND 6-8 HOURS OF DAYLIGHT AT THIS TIME)

13-23  Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24  For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.(SO FROM THE MIDPOINT OF THE TRIBULATION-THE FALSIES GET WORSE AND WORSE)
25  Behold, I have told you before.
26  Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

JESUS AND RAPTURED CHRISTIANS LITERAL RETURN TO EARTH HAPPENINGS

14-27  For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.(SO THE SKY WILL LIGHT UP FROM EAST TO WEST WITH LIGHT OR LIGHTENING WHEN JESUS LITERALY RETURNS TO EARTH-REMEMBER THERES ONLY 6-8 HOURS OF DAYLIGHT AT THIS TIME.AND ALSO REMEMBER THE CHRISTIANS WERE RAPTURED TO HEAVEN 7 YEARS EARLIER.SO ALL THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS RETURN TO EARTH ON THEIR WHITE HORSES AS WELL.JESUS WILL BE LEADING THEM ON HIS WHITE HORSE AND THE CHRISTIANS WILL BE FOLLOWING HIM TO EARTH.BUT WHAT AMAZES ME IS THEIR COMING FROM THE EAST TO WEST TO EARTH.WHEN GODS KINGDOM IS IN THE NORTH.THEY SHOULD BE COMING NORTH TO SOUTH TO EARTH.ONLY GOD KNOWS WHY THIS WILL BE.

15-28  For wheresoever the carcase is,(VULTURES-ISRAELS MIGRATING BIRDS) there will the eagles be gathered together.(SO WHEN JESUS AND THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS LITERALLY RETURN TO EARTH THEIR WILL BE A WAR GOING ON IN ISRAEL)

16-29  Immediately after the tribulation of those days (END OF THE 7 YEAR PERIOD) shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:(WELL NOW WE KNOW WHY WHEN JESUS RETURNS IT WILL BE LIGHT FROM EAST TO WEST.BECAUSE THIS VERSE SAYS IT WILL BE DARK AT THE TIME.

17-30  And then (AT THE END OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD) shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven:(LIGHT OR LIGHTENING LIGHTING UP THE SKY FROM EAST TO WEST)

18-and then shall all the tribes (ETHNIC GROUPS)(AND ALL PEOPLE) of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31  And he (JESUS) shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect (CHRISTIANS) from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.(NOTICE HERE THE CHRISTIANS ARE BEING GATHERED FROM ALL OF HEAVEN TO RETURN TO EARTH WITH JESUS ON THEIR WHITE HORSES.THE TRUMPET SOUNDED BY JESUS 7 YEARS EARLIER BROUGHT THE RAPTURED CHRISTANS TO HEAVEN.BUT THIS TIME AT THE END OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD.THE TRUMPET IS BLOWN BY ANGELS IN HEAVEN BRINGING THE CHRISTIANS TO JESUS TO GET READY TO COME BACK TO EARTH.(THIS VERSE IS NOT THE RAPTURE FROM EARTH AS THE MID OR POST TRIBULATIONISTS CLAIM.THESE ARE PEOPLE IN HEAVEN BEING GATHERED TOGETHER TO COME BACK TO EARTH TO LIVE FOREVER LEAD BY JESUS ON THEIR WHITE HORSES.

THE GENERATION THAT SEES ALL THE SIGNS AND JESUS RETURN WILL BE WHEN ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION AND RECAPTURES JERUSALEM AS THEIRS.

19-32  Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:(ISRAEL WAS LITERALLY REBORN JUST BEFORE SUMMER-MAY 14,1948)
33  So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.(THE END OF THE AGE OF GRACE IS HERE AND THE RAPTURE CAN OCCUR AT ANY MOMENT AFTER ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION AND RECAPTURES JERUSALEM FROM JUNE 6-10,1967)

20-34  Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
35  Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.(THIS VERSE TELLS US THAT THERE WILL BE MAJOR DESTRUCTION GOING ON IN THE HEAVENS AND ON THE EARTH AT THE END OF THE AGE OF GRACE WHILE WE WAIT FOR THE RAPTURE TO OCCUR.BUT GODS WORDS THE BIBLE THIS SAYS WE CAN COUNT ON TO GIVE US COMFORT-BECAUSE HIS WORD WARNS US WHAT WILL BE HAPPENING AT THE END OF THE AGE OF GRACE OR GENERATION.SO WE WILL KNOW HOW LATE WE ARE AT THE END OF THE AGE AND TO WAIT PATIENTLY FOR THE RAPTURE TO TAKE US TO HIM IN THE CLOUDS THEN TO HEAVEN.

21-36  But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

THE MORAL DECAY SIGNS AT THE END OF THE AGE

22-37  But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38  For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39  And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION (3 BILLION) DIE FROM NUCLEAR WAR OVIOUSLY.HERE-BECAUSE NOT HALF ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.
23-40  Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3) and the other left.(TO GO INTO JESUS RULING KINGDOM FROM JERUSALEM ON EARTH)
41  Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3) and the other left.(GOING INTO JESUS KINGDOM)

JESUS TELLS US TO WATCH FOR THE SIGNS HAPPENING SO WE DON:T GET CAUGHT OFF GUARD LIKE A THIEF.

24-42  Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43  But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44  Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45  Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46  Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47  Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.(JESUS TELLS US IN THE BIBLE WE CHRISTIANS WILL LITERALLY RULE OVER NATIONS WHILE HE RULES FROM JERUSALEM.SOME CHRISTIANS WILL RULE OVER MANY PEOPLE.OTHER CHRISTIANS WILL RULE SMALL TOWNS.BUT IT WILL BE CHRISTIANS AND JESUS THAT RULE THE WHOLE EARTH.NOT THE GODLESS AND CHRISTIANOPHOBES-ISRAEL-JESUS HATERS LIKE CURRENTLY.AND WE WILL BE LIVING ON EARTH FOREVER WITH JESUS.NOT THIS HOGWASH THAT THE WORLDS ENDING AND WE WILL BE IN HEAVEN FOREVER.
48  But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49  And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50  The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51  And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.(YES THE GODLESS WILL BE DESTROYED AND THROWN IN THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER WITH THEIR NEVER DYING BODIES.WHILE WE CHRISTIANS RULE ON EARTH FOREVER WITH JESUS WITH OUR NEVER DYING BODIES.

CANADIAN COLD SPELL

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

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,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)

Bitter cold prompts windchill warnings in parts of Canada

CBC News Posted: Dec 30, 2013 7:33 PM ET Last Updated: Dec 30, 2013 9:59 PM
According to Environment Canada, an Arctic ridge of high pressure from northwestern Alberta is responsible for the cold temperatures hitting provinces like Manitoba and Saskatchewan. (Troy Fleece/Canadian Press)
A number of provinces are facing some bitter cold temperatures, with Manitoba, parts of Saskatchewan, northern Ontario and Quebec all under extreme windchill warnings.According to Environment Canada, an Arctic ridge of high pressure from northwestern Alberta is responsible for the cold temperatures, with wind chills of –55 C expected in some areas of the country.In Manitoba, the entire province was under an extreme windchill warning on Monday, with extreme wind chills of –45 to –50 expected tonight and Tuesday. In Winnipeg, the overnight low on Monday night is expected to drop to –38 but the windchill will make it feel more like –50. It will be much the same situation overnight on Tuesday to Wednesday.
Northern Saskatchewan was one of the coldest places on Earth Monday morning, with several communities recording –40 or lower temperatures.But this evening, parts of Saskatchewan including Melfort-Tisdale-Niipawin-Carrot River, Cree Lake, and Regina, will see wind chills of –40 to –45 before the winds taper off and become lighter.Bitterly cold Arctic air combined with moderate west winds have resulted in extreme which chills of –45 to –50 across much of northern Ontario, Environment Canada said. Some areas may experience wind chills of –55, with the extreme cold likely to last into Thursday.Meanwhile, southern Quebec is also being chilled. Places like Saguenay could see temperatures plummet to –27, and a wind chill of –38. Chibougamau could record a wind chill of –40 this evening. The frigid air combined with moderate winds will cause extreme wind chill values at least until Wednesday morning, Environment Canada said, adding that the cold air will remain over the province for much of the week.

3RD PHASE OF FREAKSHOW ARAB MURDERERS SET FREE

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

Palestinian prisoners on way to Ramallah for festive welcome

18 convicts transferred to Bitunia checkpoint en route to PA headquarters; five East Jerusalemites taken to undisclosed location, and three to Gaza

December 31, 2013, 1:57 am 0-The Times of Israel
The third phase of Palestinian prisoner releases, agreed as a confidence-building measure to support ongoing peace talks, went ahead late Monday night and into Tuesday morning.The 26 prisoners were driven out of the West Bank’s Ofer Prison. First, three prisoners were taken by van to the Erez Crossing for release into the Gaza Strip, and five others, residents of East Jerusalem who were eligible for Israeli citizenship, were taken to an undisclosed location.Shortly after midnight, the remaining 18 convicts, were transferred from the prison to the Beitunia checkpoint, en route to celebrations in Ramallah.Jailed since before the Oslo Accords of 1993, all 26 men had blood on their hands. Click here for a list of the convicts and their offenses.
In Jerusalem earlier Monday evening, dozens of people, many of whom had lost family members to terror attacks, protested the move, and a last-minute High Court petition to stop the releases was rejected.
Israeli critics of the releases put the blame on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the powerful settler lobby, with many charging that the government should have chosen to stop settlement construction instead of freeing convicted murderers to build confidence between the sides.Netanyahu for his part is expected to approve plans to build 1,400 new homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in the coming days.
On Monday night, dozens of protesters armed with black umbrellas marched from the Prime Minister’s Residence to the Old City of Jerusalem, where 15 of them demonstrated outside the home of Ahmed Halaf, one of the 26 prisoners slated to be released.The organizers, representing victims of terror attacks and other opponents of the prisoner releases, had originally gone to court to be allowed to protest, but eventually came to a deal with police that only a limited amount of people would approach the home of Halaf.Earlier in the day, dozens of people protested at the entrance to Jerusalem, attempting to burn tires and block the main road into the city before being stopped by police.Two people were arrested just after midnight Sunday during a protest in front of the Prime Minister’s Residence against the releases.The protesters tried to run past the security guards at the entrance to Netanyahu’s home, banging on pots and yelling out slogans against the government’s decision to release the inmates.It was the mirror image in the West Bank through Monday, as the coming releases generated wide excitement in Palestinian society, where prisoners held by Israel are revered as heroes and freedom fighters. Families decorated their homes and neighborhoods with posters of their loved ones who were returning home and planned large feasts.The family of Ahmed Shihadeh was busy preparing a welcoming celebration in the Qalandiya refugee camp in the West Bank. Shihadeh, 51, has spent nearly 29 years in prison after being convicted in the murder of an alleged collaborator with Israel.His mother, Haseba, 75, said she has “spent my life” visiting her son, but hasn’t been able to make the trip for the past two years because she can no longer walk. “I’ve visited him in 14 jails. I would leave my kids screaming and go for a visit,” she said.In the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabal Mukaber, the sound of kettle drums and ululating women filled the air as residents braced for the return of Jamal Abu Jamal, who has spent nearly 20 years in prison for a stabbing attack.Women holding Abu Jamal’s picture sang and danced in circles and praised Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for securing his release. His mother, Rayouf, 77, who is unable to speak after suffering two strokes, sat in a chair with tears in her eyes.“Since she heard the news, she’s getting better,” said Abu Jamal’s sister Huda. “I can’t express how happy she is.”AP contributed to this report.

ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST

1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

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.

ISAIAH 31:5
5 As birds flying,(PLANES) so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem;(WITH PLANES) defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.(NUKE OR BOMB ISRAELS ENEMIES)

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)

ISAIAH 14:12-15
12  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13  For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14  I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(SATAN HAS PROUD I PROBLEMS)
15  Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.


Kerry ‘deceived’ Israel over prisoner releases, TV report claims

Israeli official tells Channel 2 that US secretary allowed Abbas to believe Netanyahu would free Israeli Arabs, then tried to persuade the PM to do so

December 30, 2013, 9:35 pm 8

US Secretary of State John Kerry “deceived” Israel during the discussions over the release of longtime Palestinian terrorist convicts, a senior Israeli official charged Monday, according to a TV report.The dramatic Channel 2 report — broadcast just a few hours before Israel’s release of a third group of 26 Palestinian prisoners, and shortly before Kerry is due back in the region with hopes to get Israel and the Palestinians to sign a “framework” peace deal — suggested a profound breakdown of trust between the secretary and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Prime Minister’s Office late Monday issued a statement saying it was not accusing Kerry of deception.The TV report said that Netanyahu had sent a message to Kerry in the last few days making crystal clear that Israel will not free any Israeli Arab prisoners in the fourth and final phase of the prisoner releases, set for the coming months, and it suggested that Kerry had duplicitously allowed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to believe that Israeli Arab prisoners would be freed.According to the report, quoting an unnamed senior Israeli government source, Netanyahu had agreed with Kerry, when they were finalizing terms for a resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in the summer, that Israel would free 82 Palestinian prisoners in a series of phased releases, and that Israel would not include any Israeli Arab convicts among those to be freed. And yet when Abbas demanded, in his own separate meetings with Kerry, that 104 prisoners be released, and that Israeli Arab terrorist convicts be among those set free, “Kerry did not correct him,” the report said, presumably because he did not want to scupper the talks.Instead, having chosen not to resolve the discrepancy with Abbas, the secretary of state came back to Netanyahu, and apparently attempted to persuade the prime minister to change his position. According to the TV report, that was when the issue of a possible release of spy-for-Israel Jonathan Pollard entered the equation. Netanyahu reiterated to Kerry that he was not prepared to release Israeli Arab prisoners as any kind of a goodwill gesture to Abbas, but said he might consider doing so as a gesture to the United States, were Washington to free Pollard. The secretary then promised to look into the possibility.
In the last few days, the report continued, Netanyahu had made clear to Kerry that Israel’s refusal to release Israeli Arab terror convicts is unchanged. The prime minister has also instructed the Shin Bet security service and the Israel Prison Service to draw up a list of 26 names for the fourth and final scheduled batch of prisoner releases, set to take place in the coming months, that does not include any Israeli Arabs.The report sensationally quoted the senior Israeli official charging that Kerry had “deceived” Israel over the episode, but did not specify precisely what the official meant by the charge. Apparently the accusation related to Kerry failing to tell Abbas that Israel would not free Israeli Arabs, and failing to reconcile the discrepancy over the overall numbers of prisoners to be released, and then trying to persuade Israel to change its position on the issue, including by referencing Pollard..Israel has historically been disinclined to give the Palestinian leadership any say in the fate of Israeli Arab citizens, regarding such citizens as being solely an Israeli responsibility. Among the 26 prisoners going free on Monday night were several East Jerusalem residents, who would theoretically be eligible for Israeli citizenship and who hold Israeli residency papers, but none of them is a full Israeli citizen.The complicated TV report, by Channel 2′s well-connected diplomatic correspondent Udi Segal, came in the wake of a series of contradictory reports at the weekend concerning purported American readiness to consider freeing Pollard — reports that were denied by the White House and played down by the US Ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro.“I suggest we don’t believe every media report,” Shapiro said Sunday morning. “There’s no direct link between Pollard and the [peace] negotiations or the prisoner release. These are different issues.”Israel’s Channel 10 News reported Friday night, citing unnamed Israeli sources, that Kerry had offered to arrange the release of Pollard if Israel freed Israeli Arab prisoners in the fourth and final phase of the prisoner releases. That TV report added, however, that Kerry clarified in his contacts with Israel’s leaders on the issue that Pollard’s release had not been approved by President Barack Obama, and the report further said Israel doubted that Kerry could actually secure Obama’s approval.In contrast to the TV report, Israel Radio reported Friday night that Kerry had merely promised to check into the possibility of freeing Pollard, as requested by Netanyahu.Pollard has served 28 years for spying for Israel. Israeli politicians of all stripes, led by Netanyahu, have recently called on the US to let the 59-year-old former US naval intelligence analyst go free. The issue has hit the headlines again particularly in light of recent revelations that the US spied on Israeli prime ministers and other senior officials in 2008 and 2009.After a lengthy debate at the Knesset last Wednesday, an overwhelming 106 of the 120 Knesset members signed off on an official request to Obama to free Pollard, who is a dual US-Israeli citizen.
Last Monday, Netanyahu met with Esther Pollard, wife of the Israeli-American spy, and “updated her on the non-stop efforts to release Jonathan,” according to a statement by his office.Pollard was convicted in 1987 on charges of passing classified information to Israel while he worked as an intelligence analyst for the US Navy. He was given a life sentence for the crime, sparking decades of activism for his release by Jewish groups, and, more recently, some high-profile US and Israeli officials.Marissa Newman contributed to this report.

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


Likud sources claim PM ready to negotiate on basis of pre-1967 lines

Netanyahu reported to have changed position, said to see Kerry’s ‘framework’ terms as a basis for talks, TV report claims

December 30, 2013, 11:04 pm 6

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is prepared to continue peace talks for another year on the basis of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s “framework” agreement, which provides for negotiations for Palestinian statehood on the basis of the pre-1967 lines, according to Likud sources quoted by Israel’s Channel 10 news Monday night.Netanyahu is prepared to view the framework agreement, including the provisions for talks on the basis of the pre-1967 lines, as “a basis for negotiation,” the sources were quoted as saying. The report noted that Netanyahu’s ostensible assent is based on the assumption that neither he nor Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will be required to actually sign the Kerry framework proposal.
Netanyahu has hitherto refused to negotiate Palestinian statehood on the basis of the pre-1967 lines. There was no confirmation from the Prime Minister’s office of the Channel 10 report.Palestinian sources told the Saudi daily Al-Watan on Sunday that the Kerry plan offers Israeli and Palestinian negotiators a political trade-off: Israeli recognition of the 1967 lines as a basis for the future Palestinian state, in return for Palestinian recognition of Israel as the state of the Jewish people.Kerry is due back in the region later this week.Netanyahu refused in the summer to agree to talks on the basis of the pre-1967 lines, or to freeze all settlement building — two preconditions demanded by Abbas. He did accept a third demand — agreeing to free 104 Palestinian prisoners, most of them terrorists convicted of involvement in the murder of Israelis. Twenty-six such convicts were being freed Monday night, in the third of a four-phase program of releases.
The prisoner releases were agreed as part of the terms for a nine-month period of peace talks which began in July and is set to end in April. Kerry, who had spoken optimistically about reaching a peace deal in that timeframe, is now hoping to secure the two sides’ agreement on the “framework” deal, in order to keep the talks alive. The framework agreement reportedly outlines the particulars of a permanent status accord to resolve core issues — Israeli security, the status of Jerusalem, the borders of a Palestinian state, and the issue of Palestinian refugees.Kerry’s visit will come amid a row over reported plans by Netanyahu to imminently authorize construction of 1,400 homes over the pre-1967 Green Line — 600 of them in Jerusalem, and 800 in West Bank settlements. Abbas has urged the US to block the plans.Ahead of the framework deal, Kerry has in recent weeks detailed security proposals for a peace accord — sparking more disagreements between the two sides.While allowing for an Israeli military presence in the border area between Jordan and the West Bank, the security proposals would require the dismantling of all Israel’s settlements in the Jordan Valley, an Army Radio report said last week.According to the report, the Kerry security proposals provide for a massively upgraded border fence along the border between the West Bank and Jordan, with the IDF maintaining sole responsibility for the border for the first 10 years of a peace agreement. After that, border authority would be shared in some as-yet unfinalized constellation between Israel and the PA.Netanyahu has insisted on retaining the IDF’s deployment at that border; Abbas has rejected it, while allowing for the possibility of an international force.The US, under the proposals, would provide an additional West Bank security “envelope,” which would utilize drones and other high-tech equipment to provide real-time intelligence on any terrorist threats and other unlawful border activity.The Americans’ thinking is that if they can get Netanyahu’s agreement to the security plan, he might prove to be more flexible on other core issues of a peace accord, such as border demarcation, Palestinian refugee claims and Jerusalem, the report said.
After a meeting with Abbas last week, an Arab League official said the PA president would not agree to even one Israeli soldier on the Palestinian-Jordanian border. He also indicated that Abbas refuses to acquiesce to a completely demilitarized Palestinian state, or recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, both key Israeli demands. Abbas would consent to a three-year Israeli military withdrawal process from the territories, according to an agreed-upon timeline, the official said.The PA president is demanding control of “all East Jerusalem,” which would become the Palestinian capital, and would be open to one-for-one land swaps to adjust the Green Line, provided the territory to be swapped was of equivalent value, the official added.


Israeli envoy urges UN to act over Lebanon attacks

Ron Prosor warns that Israel cannot be expected to stand by as its citizens are targeted in persistent incidents

December 30, 2013, 11:05 pm 0-The Times of Israel

A day after a volley of rockets broke a tense calm on the border with Lebanon, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations called on the organization to act in southern Lebanon and prevent further border incidents.
In a missive sent to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Monday, Ron Prosor said the Security Council should work to assure the rocket fire does not evolve into a wider conflict.“I urge the Security Council to address the escalation on the part of Lebanon before the situation further escalates,” he wrote. “Israel has shown maximum restraint, but will continue to exercise its right to self-defense, as appropriate, and take all necessary measures to protect its citizens.”On Sunday, four rockets were fired at Israel from southern Lebanon, with two landing in open areas near the town of Kiryat Shmona. The missiles landed in open areas and caused no damage, but shocked the country after several years of relative calm along the northern front.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would hold Beirut and the terror group Hezbollah responsible, though some analysts said the rockets may have been the work of other militiamen.“Israel cannot be expected to stand by as its citizens become the victims of persistent attacks,” Prosor wrote. “The reign of terror is the result of a complete drought in leadership on the part of the Lebanese government, which is harboring Hezbollah terrorists and undermining regional stability.”The rockets were the second violent border incident in several days, after an IDF soldier was killed by sniper fire from a Lebanese soldier last week while driving near the border.In both cases UNIFIL, which has monitored the border between the countries for the United Nations since the 2006 Second Lebanon War, convened officials from both sides in a bid to calm tensions.Maj. Gen. Paolo Serra made contact with the Israeli and Lebanese armies immediately after Sunday’s incident and urged both sides to exercise “maximum restraint.” He said UNIFIL had stepped up patrols in southern Lebanon to prevent any further incidents.“I have been assured by the parties of their full cooperation with UNIFIL in this effort and of their continued commitment to the cessation of hostilities,” Serra said in a statement. “It is of paramount importance to identify and apprehend the perpetrators of this attack and we will spare no efforts to this end working in cooperation with the Lebanese Armed Forces.”
Prosor made it clear that, regardless of who was behind the incidents, it is the Beirut authorities that must bear the blame.“The Government of Israel holds the Lebanese government responsible for the escalation of violence in recent weeks,” Prosor wrote. “In addition to the wave of rockets, armed fighters have been firing across the Blue Line into northern Israel throughout the month of December. And just last week, a member of the Lebanese Armed Forces shot and killed an Israeli, Shlomi Cohen, while he was driving in a civilian vehicle inside Israel.”The ambassador highlighted Hezbollah’s presence in Lebanon and noted that its military use of the area near the border with Israel is a war crime.“In direct violation of international law, Hezbollah has stationed tens of thousands of missiles and rockets in the heart of Southern Lebanon’s civilian population,” he wrote. “Hezbollah is committing a double war crime; first by using Lebanese civilians as human shields and second by targeting Israeli citizens.”

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