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1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
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:(7 YEARS) 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)
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
GENESIS 25:20-26
20 And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22 And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)
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.
Germany irked by Netanyahu’s claim that Merkel disavowed two-state solution-Pro-Israel MP from chancellor’s center-right party to tell PM during visit to Jerusalem that he ‘must not misinterpret’ Berlin’s position-By Raphael Ahren February 28, 2016, 7:09 pm-the times of israel
The German government is reportedly displeased with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for asserting that Chancellor Angela Merkel has changed her stance on a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians, and has dispatched emissaries to Jerusalem clarify Berlin’s position.On February 16, Merkel said at a joint press conference with Netanyahu in Berlin that now is “certainly not the time to make really comprehensive progress.” Netanyahu hailed Merkel’s statement, arguing that the world is slowly coming to a realization he had a long time ago.Sources in the chancellery were “surprised” by Netanyahu’s statement, the German daily Die Welt reported Sunday. Berlin has not changed its position on the need for Palestinian statehood and Netanyahu was told as much during Israel-German government consultations two weeks ago in Berlin, sources told the paper.According to Die Welt, Roderich Kiesewetter, a member of parliament for Merkel’s center-right CDU party, will confront Netanyahu on the issue during a meeting Monday in Jerusalem.“Netanyahu is usually very clear. Therefore he must state clearly that he holds on to the two-state solution. Most of all, he must not abuse visits at Israel’s closest friend in Europe — Germany — to misinterpret Germany’s position,” said Kiesewetter, a defense expert with a long history of staunch support for Israel.Kiesewetter, who is visiting Israel this week as part of a delegation of the Bundestag’s Foreign Affairs Committee, was not the only member of Merkel’s party to come out against Netanyahu. Jürgen Hardt, the foreign policy spokesperson of the CDU’s parliamentary faction, warned that “a misinterpretation of the chancellor’s position for political gains in Israel would strain bilateral relations.”The foreign policy spokesperson of the center-left SPD, which forms a part of Merkel’s coalition, declared that Germany continues to call for a two-state solution that guarantees a secure Israel alongside a viable Palestinian state. “This position is also not going to change through a very creative interpretation of the chancellor,” Niels Annen said.Even members of the opposition criticized Netanyahu. “The chancellor rightfully brought up the stagnation in the Holy Land, which is frustrating for us all,” said the foreign policy spokesperson of Greens, Omid Nouripour. “To turn this into an disavowal of the two-state solution shows what is lacking most for a solution of the conflict: political will.”Left Party MP Stefan Liebich, who will also meet Netanyahu on Monday in Jerusalem, told Die Welt that he wants to address the issue together with his colleagues from center-right CDU: “In our conversation with Netanyahu we will make clear that there has not been any change to the policy of the Federal Republic of Germany. And that we are very surprised about reports claiming otherwise.”During their press conference after the February 16 meeting in Berlin, Merkel said that Germany wants to be realistic about prospects for peace in the Middle East.“We know the threat of terrorism that Israel has to endure. We believe, on the other hand, that we have to advance a process of peaceful coexistence, and this, according to our opinion, is ultimately built on a two-state solution.” She added: “Now is certainly not the time to make really comprehensive progress, but you can achieve improvements in certain places.”Netanyahu, during a subsequent briefing for the traveling press, hailed Merkel’s statement, arguing that the world has slowly been coming to the same realization he had arrived at long ago. “When I said it a year ago, everyone came out and attacked me viciously,” he said.“Today we hear same things from the leaders of the world, not only from [US President Barack] Obama [who has stated he no longer believes Israeli-Palestinian peace can be achieved in the coming months] and Merkel. Even the leader of the opposition [in Israel, Isaac Herzog] understands it now.”
PA demands control over Iran cash handouts to terrorists-After Tehran announces $7,000 payment per ‘shahid,’ Abbas spokesman says funds must go via PA, to avoid illegal interference in its internal affairs-By Times of Israel staff and AFP February 28, 2016, 7:52 pm
The Palestinian Authority on Sunday said direct financial assistance by Iran to the families of Palestinian terrorists and attackers killed in a five-month wave of violence would be unacceptable, and called for such funding to be directed through a PA .Nabil Abu Rudeineh, a PA presidency spokesman, was quoted in local media as saying that bypassing the Authority in handing out such funds would constitute illegal interference in internal Palestinian affairs.Tehran announced last week assistance would be offered to families of those killed in the wave of Palestinian stabbing, car-ramming and shooting attacks that erupted in October 2015. The PA official did not reject the payments, but said such aid must follow official channels.Iran should “send this money through official channels to the [PA’s] Martyrs and Prisoners Foundation rather than relying on informal and circuitous routes,” Abu Rudeineh said.Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon, Mohammad Fathali, said Wednesday that Tehran would offer $7,000 to the families of each Palestinian killed in what he called the “Jerusalem intifada.”Iran will also give $30,000 to Palestinian terrorists’ families whose homes are destroyed by Israel, he told a news conference in Beirut.The money pledged is in addition to the monthly aid paid since 1987 by an Iranian institution to families of Palestinians killed, the ambassador said.Twenty-eight Israelis and three foreign nationals have been killed in a wave of Palestinian terrorism and violence since October. Nearly 170 Palestinians have also been killed, some two-thirds of them while attacking Israelis, and the rest during clashes with troops, according to the Israeli army.Iran has been accused of providing support to Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip and is a rival to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party. Fatah dominates the Palestinian Authority.Palestinian economists have questioned whether Iran would be capable of distributing the aid to the families directly via banks since it could be considered “terrorism financing.”The day after Iran’s announcement, Israel denounced the decision, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying it showed Tehran was “continuing to aid terrorism.” Netanyahu has also repeatedly accused the PA of helping to incite the current round of Palestinian terrorism.
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37 For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)
Iran said withdrawing all its fighting forces from Syria-After 160 fatalities, Tehran pulling back all 2,500 troops, TV report says, although hundreds of military advisers will remain-By Times of Israel staff and AFP February 28, 2016, 8:18 pm
Iran is withdrawing all of its 2,500-strong fighting force from Syria, Israeli television reported Sunday night.Most of the forces have already been returned home, and the rest are on their way out, Channel 2 said. It said the decision was taken by Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani.The forces, drawn from various units of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, have been increasingly deployed to fight alongside President Bashar Assad’s forces for more than the past two years. They have sustained some 160 fatalities, with over 300 injured, the TV report said. Among the dead are at least six senior officers, including generals and colonels.The report did not specify a single reason for the withdrawal, which comes amid a fragile new cease-fire in the bitter civil war, but highlighted an Iranian tradition, breached by their deployment, not to deploy fighting forces beyond the immediate area of Iran.The report said 700 Iranian military advisers were staying in Syria, to assist Assad.Tehran will also continue to arm and support Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, which has itself dispatched forces to shore up the Syrian regime against local rebel forces, the report said. Iran last week also made explicit that it is funding Palestinian terror attacks against Israel, announcing the specifics of payments to “shahids” and their families.The tide of the civil war has turned in Assad’s favor of late, since President Vladimir Putin stepped up Russia’s involvement in the fighting with Assad against rebel forces.The TV report followed US Secretary of State John Kerry’s testimony in Congress last week, to the effect that Iran had withdrawn a “significant number” of its IRGC troops from the Syrian battlefield.“The IRGC has actually pulled its troops back from Syria. Ayatollah Khamenei pulled a significant number of troops out. Their presence is actually reduced in Syria,” Kerry told US lawmakers.“That doesn’t mean that they’re still not engaged and active in the flow of weapons from Syria through Damascus to Lebanon,” Kerry stressed. “We’re concerned about that and there’s an ongoing concern.”Tehran has never released official figures for the number of its troops present in Syria.
Cop badly hurt in apparent hit-and-run near Nazareth-Suspect arrested after fleeing scene; police officer taken to hospital for treatment-By Marissa Newman February 28, 2016, 1:41 pm-the times of israel
20:55-Police detain suspect in possible car-ramming-Police have detained a suspect in the potential car-ramming. He is now being questioned, a spokesperson says.The officer who was hit was taken to Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center in serious condition, according to Israel Police spokesperson Luba Samri.— Judah Ari Gross-20:14-Clinton urges church-goers to reject ‘the demagoguery’-Hillary Clinton is church-hopping across Memphis in an effort to mobilize African-American voters ahead of Tuesday’s primaries.She’s speaking at two churches in the city Sunday and asking worshippers to reject “the demagoguery, the prejudice, the paranoia.” She never mentions GOP front runner Donald Trump’s name, but the comments references his campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.”“American has never stopped being great, our task is to make American whole,” says Clinton at Greater Imani Cathedral of Faith.With rival Bernie Sanders trailing in delegates, Clinton is beginning to focus more attention on her potential GOP challengers. Her church addresses, like her South Carolina victory speech, makes no mention of the Vermont senator, or his policy plans.Clinton is trying to rally black voters ahead of the Super Tuesday contests, which take place in a number of southern states. Black voters turned out in a higher percentage in South Carolina on Saturday than in 2008, catapulting Clinton a sweeping win there.— AP-20:07-Cop hit near Nazareth badly hurt-The police officer hit by a car near Nazareth is in moderate-to-serious condition.He had signaled at a car to stop, when the driver rammed into him, police say.19:55-Sudeten Germans drop claim to territory in Czech Republic-An organization representing ethnic Germans who were ejected from the former Czechoslovakia after World War II votes to drop its territorial claims.Some 2.9 million so-called Sudeten Germans were expelled after 1945 by the Czech government, which blamed them for the Nazis’ pre-war aggression against the country.The Sudeten German Homeland Association says in a statement late Saturday that delegates meeting in Munich voted 72 percent in favor of changing its statutes to relinquish the largely symbolic claims. The group says the decision was meant to “build a bridge to the Czech people.”Sudeten Germans lived mainly in the provinces of Bohemia and Moravia from at least the 14th century. They included automotive engineer Ferdinand Porsche and the industrialist Oskar Schindler, best known for saving Jews from the Holocaust.— AP-19:31-Cop hurt in apparent hit-and-run near Nazareth-A police officer is hit by a car near Nazareth, in northern Israel, according to preliminary information from police.The policeman is injured and taken to the hospital for treatment, police say. The car flees the scene.— Judah Ari Gross-19:22-Migrants protest at Greek-Macedonian border-About 300 migrants stranded at the Greek-Macedonian border stage another protest, this time cutting off the railway line connecting the two countries. The protesters are carrying posters reading “Open the border” and shouting the same slogan.A cargo train on its way to central Europe is forced to turn back.Over 6,500 refugees are stranded at a tent camp in the Greek border town of Idomeni, as Macedonia has again put in severe border restrictions for migrants. Another 400 migrants are camped at a gas station 17 kilometers (11 miles) away.Macedonia let in only 300 Iraqis and Syrians on Saturday after closing the border on Friday. It says it is regulating the migrant flow depending on what other countries further north in the Balkans migration route — Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia — do.— AP-18:34-PA rejects direct Iran aid to terrorists’ families-The Palestinian Authority on Sunday said direct financial assistance by Iran to the families of Palestinians killed in a five-month wave of violence — many of whom carried out terror attacks against Israelis — would be unacceptable.Tehran announced last week assistance would be offered to families of Palestinians killed in the wave of violence that erupted in October, but the PA says such aid must follow official channels.Palestinian presidency spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh, cited by local media, says bypassing the authority in handing out such funds would constitute illegal interference in internal Palestinian affairs.Iran should “send this money through official channels to the (PA’s) Martyrs and Prisoners Foundation rather than relying on informal and circuitous routes,” Abu Rudeineh says.— AFP, Times of Israel staff-18:06-Egypt cop shot dead in attack claimed by IS-Masked gunmen shot dead an Egyptian police officer Sunday in the Sinai, the interior ministry says, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group which is leading an insurgency in the peninsula.Gunmen opened fire on Captain Abdullah Khalil in the early hours of Sunday as he stood in front of his house in El-Arish, the provincial capital of North Sinai, the ministry says in a statement.The Sinai Province, the Egyptian affiliate of IS, claims the attack.“A security detachment was able to eliminate the apostate Abdullah Khalil… in the center of the city of El-Arish,” it says in a statement posted on the group’s Twitter accounts.— AFP-18:00-Police call off search near Beit Horon-After several hours of sweeping the area, police call off the alert around Beit Horon.— Judah Ari Gross-17:57-Army confirms it shot at Palestinian stone-throwers-The IDF confirms that soldiers opened fire on Palestinian stone-throwers south of Bethlehem.“A force arrived on the scene in order to stop the attack. They shot at the suspects,” an IDF spokesperson said, adding the army did not have information about Palestinian injuries at this time.Palestinian media reports say two people are critically hurt, including a middle-aged dentist.— Judah Ari Gross-17:46-Trump says he knows ‘nothing about’ Ku Klux Klan-Donald Trump is refusing to disavow his endorsement by David Duke, saying he doesn’t know anything about the former Ku Klux Klan leader.Trump was asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” whether he would declare that he didn’t want Duke’s support, or that of other white supremacists in the presidential election.Trump says of Duke, “I just don’t know anything about him.”Trump likewise says he wouldn’t condemn a group that he knows “nothing about.” He adds that if he were sent a list of groups he would research them and “certainly” would disavow any if he thought there was “something wrong.”— AP-17:17-Cop hurt in rock, firebombing attack in East Jerusalem-A border policewoman is taken for medical treatment after a group of Israeli police officers come under a stone and firebomb barrage in Issawiya.“A border policewoman is hit in the head and taken for medical treatment,” police say. “The troops, who were in real danger,” opened fire with a .22 Ruger sniper rifle. “A hit in the leg was identified, and a 19-year-old resident of Issawiya was arrested.”— Judah Ari Gross-16:52-Palestinian would-be stabber moved from jail to hospital-Yasmin Zaru, who attempted to stab a Border Police officer in Hebron earlier this month, has been taken from jail to an Israeli hospital for treatment, according to an Israel Prison Service spokesperson.On February 13, the 21-year-old tried to stab the officer near the Tomb of the Patriarchs, but was shot in the lower body before she could injure him.While in jail, her wounds became infected, which prompted the transfer to a hospital for further care, according to Palestinian media.— Judah Ari Gross-16:42-Bombings near Baghdad market kill at least 22-Bombings near a market in a Shiite area of northern Baghdad kill at least 22 people on Sunday, security and medical officials say.The blasts in the Sadr City area, at least one of which was a suicide bombing, also wounds at least 55 people.The bombings are the deadliest attacks to hit the capital this year.There is no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, but suicide bombings are a tactic almost exclusively employed in Iraq by Sunni militants, especially members of the Islamic State jihadist group.— AFP-16:42-Cruz acknowledges Trump could clinch nomination-Ted Cruz doesn’t think it will happen, but he’s acknowledging that a super showing by Donald Trump on Super Tuesday could perhaps seal the nomination for the billionaire businessman.Cruz tells CBS’ “Face the Nation” that “there is no doubt that if Donald steamrolls through Super Tuesday, wins everywhere with big margins, that he may well be unstoppable.”Republicans will vote in 11 states, with 595 delegates at stake.Cruz and Marco Rubio are the leading contenders trying to slow down Trump.Cruz says he’s the only one who can beat Trump, and the Texas senator is making this appeal to voters: “I would encourage you, even if you like another candidate, stand with us if you don’t want Donald to be the nominee.”— AP-16:26-Saudi Arabia accuses Assad regime, Russia of ‘ceasefire violations’-Saudi Arabia on Sunday accused President Bashar Assad’s regime and its ally Russia of “ceasefire violations” in Syria.“There are violations to the ceasefire from Russian and (Syrian) regime aircraft,” Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Jubeir tells reporters in Riyadh.— AFP-16:15-2 Palestinians said badly hurt by IDF fire-Two Palestinians are reportedly critically injured by Israeli gunfire during clashes with the military near Bethlehem, according to the Ma’an news agency.The report says both were hit in the chest south of the West Bank city. One of the injured Palestinians is “a middle-aged dentist who was standing in his front yard near the city’s historical gate when he was shot,” the report says.There is no immediate comment from the army.16:10-Turkey thwarted 18 suicide attacks since New Year-Turkish security forces have prevented 18 potential suicide attacks since the New Year, the interior minister says Sunday, with the country on high alert after a deadly suicide car bombing in Ankara earlier this month.Interior Minister Efkan Ala tells Haber 7 TV in an interview that three cars loaded with explosives to be used in attacks had been found by the authorities.He indicates that one car was seized at Istanbul’s Bogazici University last week which caused a major security alert on the campus.“Since the start of the year, 18 suicide bombings have been prevented… We don’t talk (to the public) about most of the prevented attacks,” he says, without giving details on the nature of the plots.— AFP-15:47-Israeli teen says he was attacked in West Bank-An Israeli teenager says he was attacked by man with his face covered in the West Bank settlement of Beit Horon, according to police. It was not immediately clear if he sustained any injuries.Police say they are verifying the report and searching the area.The settlement was the scene of a deadly terror attack last month, in which 23-year-old Shlomit Krigman was stabbed to death.— Judah Ari Gross-15:46-Arab League chief won’t seek second term-Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi says Sunday he will not seek a second term as secretary general of the pan-Arab body after his present term ends in July.Arabi, 80, took over as League chief from fellow Egyptian diplomat Amr Moussa in 2011.He had served as foreign minister in the Egyptian government that came to power after the ouster of longtime president Hosni Mubarak earlier that year.“I have asked the Egyptian government not to think about renewing my mandate,” Arabi tells reporters at the League’s headquarters in Cairo, adding that his present tenure would end in early July.Traditionally, the secretary general of Arab League has held the post for two terms, and Cairo has always insisted that it be held by an Egyptian diplomat.— AFP-15:45-McGill U student body fails to ratify BDS motion-Students at Montreal’s McGill University fail to ratify a pro-Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions motion against Israel.The controversial motion, which passed in the university’s student society on February 22 by a vote of 512 to 357, and was seen as a blow by pro-Israel students, could not be ratified after being rejected by an online vote of 2,819 – or 57 percent of voting undergraduate students – to 2,119, or about 43 percent. About 440 students abstain.“The BDS movement, which among other things calls for universities to cut ties with Israeli universities, flies in the face of the tolerance and respect we cherish as values fundamental to a university,” McGill principal and vice chancellor, Suzanne Fortier, says in a statement.“It proposed actions that are contrary to the principles of academic freedom, equity, inclusiveness, and the exchange of views and ideas in responsible open discourse,” she adds.— JTA-15:14-Egyptian MP hit by shoe after meeting Israeli envoy-An Egyptian lawmaker has a shoe thrown at him in parliament by a fellow legislator who is outraged about a meeting the MP held with Israel’s ambassador, according to Egyptian media reports.MP Tawfik Okasha, who is also a television host and was described by the state-run al-Ahram daily as “controversial,” publicly — during a broadcast — invited Ambassador Haim Koren to his house for dinner. Koren happily obliged, and the two met on Tuesday at Okasha’s home, discussing issues of politics, trade and agricultural cooperation between the countries.But other legislators were outraged by the consultation, which one MP called “political prostitution.” One hundred members of the legislature had called for an emergency session to discuss the meeting.And at the special parliamentary session, Okasha was attacked by a shoe-throwing MP.The culprit, MP Kamel Ahmed, and Okasha were both removed from the session.Ahmed says Okasha “deserves 90 million shoes,” according to a translation of his remarks by the Ynet news website. “I want to shoot him. What I did reflects the nation’s opinion. I did what I did because I am an MP and a representative of the people. Every time I see him, I’ll hit him with a shoe.”14:47-Syria opposition says truce breached 15 times Saturday-Syria’s main opposition grouping records 15 violations by government troops and allied forces on the first day of a landmark truce, a spokesman tells reporters Sunday.“There were 15 violations by the regime forces on day one of the ceasefire, including two attacks by (Lebanese militant group) Hezbollah in Zabadani” west of Damascus, says Salem al-Meslet, spokesman for the High Negotiations Committee.— AFP-14:43-Jean-Marie Le Pen gives stamp of approval to Trump-French far-right patriarch Jean-Marie Le Pen, kicked out of his own party for xenophobic and anti-Semitic comments, gives controversial US Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump the thumbs up.“If I was American I would vote for Donald Trump… may God protect him,” tweets the fiery 87-year-old founder of the National Front, now led by his daughter Marine.Le Pen was booted out of the party after a bitter feud with his daughter over his continued inflammatory, racist and xenophobic comments while she tries to polish the FN’s image to lure voters.Last year he rehashed familiar comments about Nazi gas chambers being a “detail” of history and said France should get along with Russia to save the “white world.”— AFP-14:25--Russia says ceasefire breached 9 times in 24 hours-The Russian military says on Sunday that a fragile ceasefire in Syria had been breached nine times over the past 24 hours but the truce was mostly holding.“Over the past 24 hours, nine instances of violations of cessation of hostilities have been uncovered,” Lieutenant General Sergei Kuralenko, head of the country’s coordination center in Syria, is quoted as saying by Russian news agencies. “On the whole, the ceasefire regime in Syria is being implemented.”— AFP-14:15-70,000 migrants may be ‘trapped’ in Greece next month-Greece on Sunday says the number of refugees and migrants on its soil could more than triple next month, reaching as many as 70,000, as a cap on border crossings by Balkan countries left them “trapped” in the country.“We estimate that in our country the number of those trapped will be from 50,000-70,000 people next month,” Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas says.“Today, there are 22,000 refugees and migrants,” he adds in an interview with Mega Channel TV.Some 6,500 people are stuck at the Idomeni camp on Greece’s northern border with Macedonia on Sunday as Macedonian border officials let only 300 refugees and migrants pass the day before.— AFP-14:05-Pope urges Europe to share migrant burden-Pope Francis on Sunday urges European countries struggling with the migrant crisis to “share the burden fairly,” amid growing divisions on how to handle the flow of people fleeing poverty and war.The pontiff uses his regular Sunday address in St. Peter’s Square to hail the “generous help” offered by Greece and “other countries on the front line,” saying the situation “required cooperation among all nations.”— AFP-13:49-Israeli woman, 38, said to die of swine flu-A 38-year-old Israeli woman dies of swine flu after contracting the disease over two months ago, the B’Hadrei Haredim website reports.She is identified as Shayna Chaya Kugel of Modiin Illit.13:44-Russia reports attack on Syrian town from Turkey-The Russian military on Sunday says armed groups had attacked a Syrian town from Turkish territory, adding it had demanded an explanation from the United States.“Overnight from February 27 to 28 the Russian center for the reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria received information about an attack from Turkish territory on the Syrian town of Tal Abyad by armed units using large-scale artillery,” says the chief of the center, Lieutenant General Sergei Kuralenko.“This was subsequently verified and confirmed through several channels including representatives of the Syrian Democratic Forces,” Kuralenko is quoted as saying by Russian news agencies from the Hmeimim airbase.The Syrian Democratic Forces is a US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance.“The Russian center has turned for an explanation to the Amman-based US center for reconciliation,” Kuralenko adds, stressing that Turkey was a member of a US-led coalition.No other details are provided by the Russian side.— AFP-13:43-Airstrikes reported in northern Syria-Syria’s fragile ceasefire enters a second day with battle zones still largely quiet for the first time in five years, despite sporadic incidents including several airstrikes.The truce, brokered by Washington and Moscow, is seen as a crucial step towards ending a conflict that has claimed 270,000 lives and displaced more than half the population.The convoluted patchwork of territorial control in Syria, wrapped up in a brutal civil war since 2011, has complicated efforts to implement the deal.Warplanes, believed to be either Syrian or Russian, bomb seven villages Sunday in the northern province of Aleppo and Hama in the center, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.It is unclear if the raids hit areas covered by the ceasefire, which excludes territory held by the Islamic State jihadist group and Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front.According to Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman, only one of the villages, Kafr Hamra in Aleppo province, is controlled by Al-Nusra and the others are in the hands of non-jihadist rebels.— AFP.
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:(7 YEARS) 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)
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
GENESIS 25:20-26
20 And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22 And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)
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.
Germany irked by Netanyahu’s claim that Merkel disavowed two-state solution-Pro-Israel MP from chancellor’s center-right party to tell PM during visit to Jerusalem that he ‘must not misinterpret’ Berlin’s position-By Raphael Ahren February 28, 2016, 7:09 pm-the times of israel
The German government is reportedly displeased with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for asserting that Chancellor Angela Merkel has changed her stance on a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians, and has dispatched emissaries to Jerusalem clarify Berlin’s position.On February 16, Merkel said at a joint press conference with Netanyahu in Berlin that now is “certainly not the time to make really comprehensive progress.” Netanyahu hailed Merkel’s statement, arguing that the world is slowly coming to a realization he had a long time ago.Sources in the chancellery were “surprised” by Netanyahu’s statement, the German daily Die Welt reported Sunday. Berlin has not changed its position on the need for Palestinian statehood and Netanyahu was told as much during Israel-German government consultations two weeks ago in Berlin, sources told the paper.According to Die Welt, Roderich Kiesewetter, a member of parliament for Merkel’s center-right CDU party, will confront Netanyahu on the issue during a meeting Monday in Jerusalem.“Netanyahu is usually very clear. Therefore he must state clearly that he holds on to the two-state solution. Most of all, he must not abuse visits at Israel’s closest friend in Europe — Germany — to misinterpret Germany’s position,” said Kiesewetter, a defense expert with a long history of staunch support for Israel.Kiesewetter, who is visiting Israel this week as part of a delegation of the Bundestag’s Foreign Affairs Committee, was not the only member of Merkel’s party to come out against Netanyahu. Jürgen Hardt, the foreign policy spokesperson of the CDU’s parliamentary faction, warned that “a misinterpretation of the chancellor’s position for political gains in Israel would strain bilateral relations.”The foreign policy spokesperson of the center-left SPD, which forms a part of Merkel’s coalition, declared that Germany continues to call for a two-state solution that guarantees a secure Israel alongside a viable Palestinian state. “This position is also not going to change through a very creative interpretation of the chancellor,” Niels Annen said.Even members of the opposition criticized Netanyahu. “The chancellor rightfully brought up the stagnation in the Holy Land, which is frustrating for us all,” said the foreign policy spokesperson of Greens, Omid Nouripour. “To turn this into an disavowal of the two-state solution shows what is lacking most for a solution of the conflict: political will.”Left Party MP Stefan Liebich, who will also meet Netanyahu on Monday in Jerusalem, told Die Welt that he wants to address the issue together with his colleagues from center-right CDU: “In our conversation with Netanyahu we will make clear that there has not been any change to the policy of the Federal Republic of Germany. And that we are very surprised about reports claiming otherwise.”During their press conference after the February 16 meeting in Berlin, Merkel said that Germany wants to be realistic about prospects for peace in the Middle East.“We know the threat of terrorism that Israel has to endure. We believe, on the other hand, that we have to advance a process of peaceful coexistence, and this, according to our opinion, is ultimately built on a two-state solution.” She added: “Now is certainly not the time to make really comprehensive progress, but you can achieve improvements in certain places.”Netanyahu, during a subsequent briefing for the traveling press, hailed Merkel’s statement, arguing that the world has slowly been coming to the same realization he had arrived at long ago. “When I said it a year ago, everyone came out and attacked me viciously,” he said.“Today we hear same things from the leaders of the world, not only from [US President Barack] Obama [who has stated he no longer believes Israeli-Palestinian peace can be achieved in the coming months] and Merkel. Even the leader of the opposition [in Israel, Isaac Herzog] understands it now.”
PA demands control over Iran cash handouts to terrorists-After Tehran announces $7,000 payment per ‘shahid,’ Abbas spokesman says funds must go via PA, to avoid illegal interference in its internal affairs-By Times of Israel staff and AFP February 28, 2016, 7:52 pm
The Palestinian Authority on Sunday said direct financial assistance by Iran to the families of Palestinian terrorists and attackers killed in a five-month wave of violence would be unacceptable, and called for such funding to be directed through a PA .Nabil Abu Rudeineh, a PA presidency spokesman, was quoted in local media as saying that bypassing the Authority in handing out such funds would constitute illegal interference in internal Palestinian affairs.Tehran announced last week assistance would be offered to families of those killed in the wave of Palestinian stabbing, car-ramming and shooting attacks that erupted in October 2015. The PA official did not reject the payments, but said such aid must follow official channels.Iran should “send this money through official channels to the [PA’s] Martyrs and Prisoners Foundation rather than relying on informal and circuitous routes,” Abu Rudeineh said.Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon, Mohammad Fathali, said Wednesday that Tehran would offer $7,000 to the families of each Palestinian killed in what he called the “Jerusalem intifada.”Iran will also give $30,000 to Palestinian terrorists’ families whose homes are destroyed by Israel, he told a news conference in Beirut.The money pledged is in addition to the monthly aid paid since 1987 by an Iranian institution to families of Palestinians killed, the ambassador said.Twenty-eight Israelis and three foreign nationals have been killed in a wave of Palestinian terrorism and violence since October. Nearly 170 Palestinians have also been killed, some two-thirds of them while attacking Israelis, and the rest during clashes with troops, according to the Israeli army.Iran has been accused of providing support to Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip and is a rival to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party. Fatah dominates the Palestinian Authority.Palestinian economists have questioned whether Iran would be capable of distributing the aid to the families directly via banks since it could be considered “terrorism financing.”The day after Iran’s announcement, Israel denounced the decision, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying it showed Tehran was “continuing to aid terrorism.” Netanyahu has also repeatedly accused the PA of helping to incite the current round of Palestinian terrorism.
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37 For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)
Iran said withdrawing all its fighting forces from Syria-After 160 fatalities, Tehran pulling back all 2,500 troops, TV report says, although hundreds of military advisers will remain-By Times of Israel staff and AFP February 28, 2016, 8:18 pm
Iran is withdrawing all of its 2,500-strong fighting force from Syria, Israeli television reported Sunday night.Most of the forces have already been returned home, and the rest are on their way out, Channel 2 said. It said the decision was taken by Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani.The forces, drawn from various units of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, have been increasingly deployed to fight alongside President Bashar Assad’s forces for more than the past two years. They have sustained some 160 fatalities, with over 300 injured, the TV report said. Among the dead are at least six senior officers, including generals and colonels.The report did not specify a single reason for the withdrawal, which comes amid a fragile new cease-fire in the bitter civil war, but highlighted an Iranian tradition, breached by their deployment, not to deploy fighting forces beyond the immediate area of Iran.The report said 700 Iranian military advisers were staying in Syria, to assist Assad.Tehran will also continue to arm and support Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, which has itself dispatched forces to shore up the Syrian regime against local rebel forces, the report said. Iran last week also made explicit that it is funding Palestinian terror attacks against Israel, announcing the specifics of payments to “shahids” and their families.The tide of the civil war has turned in Assad’s favor of late, since President Vladimir Putin stepped up Russia’s involvement in the fighting with Assad against rebel forces.The TV report followed US Secretary of State John Kerry’s testimony in Congress last week, to the effect that Iran had withdrawn a “significant number” of its IRGC troops from the Syrian battlefield.“The IRGC has actually pulled its troops back from Syria. Ayatollah Khamenei pulled a significant number of troops out. Their presence is actually reduced in Syria,” Kerry told US lawmakers.“That doesn’t mean that they’re still not engaged and active in the flow of weapons from Syria through Damascus to Lebanon,” Kerry stressed. “We’re concerned about that and there’s an ongoing concern.”Tehran has never released official figures for the number of its troops present in Syria.
Cop badly hurt in apparent hit-and-run near Nazareth-Suspect arrested after fleeing scene; police officer taken to hospital for treatment-By Marissa Newman February 28, 2016, 1:41 pm-the times of israel
20:55-Police detain suspect in possible car-ramming-Police have detained a suspect in the potential car-ramming. He is now being questioned, a spokesperson says.The officer who was hit was taken to Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center in serious condition, according to Israel Police spokesperson Luba Samri.— Judah Ari Gross-20:14-Clinton urges church-goers to reject ‘the demagoguery’-Hillary Clinton is church-hopping across Memphis in an effort to mobilize African-American voters ahead of Tuesday’s primaries.She’s speaking at two churches in the city Sunday and asking worshippers to reject “the demagoguery, the prejudice, the paranoia.” She never mentions GOP front runner Donald Trump’s name, but the comments references his campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.”“American has never stopped being great, our task is to make American whole,” says Clinton at Greater Imani Cathedral of Faith.With rival Bernie Sanders trailing in delegates, Clinton is beginning to focus more attention on her potential GOP challengers. Her church addresses, like her South Carolina victory speech, makes no mention of the Vermont senator, or his policy plans.Clinton is trying to rally black voters ahead of the Super Tuesday contests, which take place in a number of southern states. Black voters turned out in a higher percentage in South Carolina on Saturday than in 2008, catapulting Clinton a sweeping win there.— AP-20:07-Cop hit near Nazareth badly hurt-The police officer hit by a car near Nazareth is in moderate-to-serious condition.He had signaled at a car to stop, when the driver rammed into him, police say.19:55-Sudeten Germans drop claim to territory in Czech Republic-An organization representing ethnic Germans who were ejected from the former Czechoslovakia after World War II votes to drop its territorial claims.Some 2.9 million so-called Sudeten Germans were expelled after 1945 by the Czech government, which blamed them for the Nazis’ pre-war aggression against the country.The Sudeten German Homeland Association says in a statement late Saturday that delegates meeting in Munich voted 72 percent in favor of changing its statutes to relinquish the largely symbolic claims. The group says the decision was meant to “build a bridge to the Czech people.”Sudeten Germans lived mainly in the provinces of Bohemia and Moravia from at least the 14th century. They included automotive engineer Ferdinand Porsche and the industrialist Oskar Schindler, best known for saving Jews from the Holocaust.— AP-19:31-Cop hurt in apparent hit-and-run near Nazareth-A police officer is hit by a car near Nazareth, in northern Israel, according to preliminary information from police.The policeman is injured and taken to the hospital for treatment, police say. The car flees the scene.— Judah Ari Gross-19:22-Migrants protest at Greek-Macedonian border-About 300 migrants stranded at the Greek-Macedonian border stage another protest, this time cutting off the railway line connecting the two countries. The protesters are carrying posters reading “Open the border” and shouting the same slogan.A cargo train on its way to central Europe is forced to turn back.Over 6,500 refugees are stranded at a tent camp in the Greek border town of Idomeni, as Macedonia has again put in severe border restrictions for migrants. Another 400 migrants are camped at a gas station 17 kilometers (11 miles) away.Macedonia let in only 300 Iraqis and Syrians on Saturday after closing the border on Friday. It says it is regulating the migrant flow depending on what other countries further north in the Balkans migration route — Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia — do.— AP-18:34-PA rejects direct Iran aid to terrorists’ families-The Palestinian Authority on Sunday said direct financial assistance by Iran to the families of Palestinians killed in a five-month wave of violence — many of whom carried out terror attacks against Israelis — would be unacceptable.Tehran announced last week assistance would be offered to families of Palestinians killed in the wave of violence that erupted in October, but the PA says such aid must follow official channels.Palestinian presidency spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh, cited by local media, says bypassing the authority in handing out such funds would constitute illegal interference in internal Palestinian affairs.Iran should “send this money through official channels to the (PA’s) Martyrs and Prisoners Foundation rather than relying on informal and circuitous routes,” Abu Rudeineh says.— AFP, Times of Israel staff-18:06-Egypt cop shot dead in attack claimed by IS-Masked gunmen shot dead an Egyptian police officer Sunday in the Sinai, the interior ministry says, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group which is leading an insurgency in the peninsula.Gunmen opened fire on Captain Abdullah Khalil in the early hours of Sunday as he stood in front of his house in El-Arish, the provincial capital of North Sinai, the ministry says in a statement.The Sinai Province, the Egyptian affiliate of IS, claims the attack.“A security detachment was able to eliminate the apostate Abdullah Khalil… in the center of the city of El-Arish,” it says in a statement posted on the group’s Twitter accounts.— AFP-18:00-Police call off search near Beit Horon-After several hours of sweeping the area, police call off the alert around Beit Horon.— Judah Ari Gross-17:57-Army confirms it shot at Palestinian stone-throwers-The IDF confirms that soldiers opened fire on Palestinian stone-throwers south of Bethlehem.“A force arrived on the scene in order to stop the attack. They shot at the suspects,” an IDF spokesperson said, adding the army did not have information about Palestinian injuries at this time.Palestinian media reports say two people are critically hurt, including a middle-aged dentist.— Judah Ari Gross-17:46-Trump says he knows ‘nothing about’ Ku Klux Klan-Donald Trump is refusing to disavow his endorsement by David Duke, saying he doesn’t know anything about the former Ku Klux Klan leader.Trump was asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” whether he would declare that he didn’t want Duke’s support, or that of other white supremacists in the presidential election.Trump says of Duke, “I just don’t know anything about him.”Trump likewise says he wouldn’t condemn a group that he knows “nothing about.” He adds that if he were sent a list of groups he would research them and “certainly” would disavow any if he thought there was “something wrong.”— AP-17:17-Cop hurt in rock, firebombing attack in East Jerusalem-A border policewoman is taken for medical treatment after a group of Israeli police officers come under a stone and firebomb barrage in Issawiya.“A border policewoman is hit in the head and taken for medical treatment,” police say. “The troops, who were in real danger,” opened fire with a .22 Ruger sniper rifle. “A hit in the leg was identified, and a 19-year-old resident of Issawiya was arrested.”— Judah Ari Gross-16:52-Palestinian would-be stabber moved from jail to hospital-Yasmin Zaru, who attempted to stab a Border Police officer in Hebron earlier this month, has been taken from jail to an Israeli hospital for treatment, according to an Israel Prison Service spokesperson.On February 13, the 21-year-old tried to stab the officer near the Tomb of the Patriarchs, but was shot in the lower body before she could injure him.While in jail, her wounds became infected, which prompted the transfer to a hospital for further care, according to Palestinian media.— Judah Ari Gross-16:42-Bombings near Baghdad market kill at least 22-Bombings near a market in a Shiite area of northern Baghdad kill at least 22 people on Sunday, security and medical officials say.The blasts in the Sadr City area, at least one of which was a suicide bombing, also wounds at least 55 people.The bombings are the deadliest attacks to hit the capital this year.There is no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, but suicide bombings are a tactic almost exclusively employed in Iraq by Sunni militants, especially members of the Islamic State jihadist group.— AFP-16:42-Cruz acknowledges Trump could clinch nomination-Ted Cruz doesn’t think it will happen, but he’s acknowledging that a super showing by Donald Trump on Super Tuesday could perhaps seal the nomination for the billionaire businessman.Cruz tells CBS’ “Face the Nation” that “there is no doubt that if Donald steamrolls through Super Tuesday, wins everywhere with big margins, that he may well be unstoppable.”Republicans will vote in 11 states, with 595 delegates at stake.Cruz and Marco Rubio are the leading contenders trying to slow down Trump.Cruz says he’s the only one who can beat Trump, and the Texas senator is making this appeal to voters: “I would encourage you, even if you like another candidate, stand with us if you don’t want Donald to be the nominee.”— AP-16:26-Saudi Arabia accuses Assad regime, Russia of ‘ceasefire violations’-Saudi Arabia on Sunday accused President Bashar Assad’s regime and its ally Russia of “ceasefire violations” in Syria.“There are violations to the ceasefire from Russian and (Syrian) regime aircraft,” Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Jubeir tells reporters in Riyadh.— AFP-16:15-2 Palestinians said badly hurt by IDF fire-Two Palestinians are reportedly critically injured by Israeli gunfire during clashes with the military near Bethlehem, according to the Ma’an news agency.The report says both were hit in the chest south of the West Bank city. One of the injured Palestinians is “a middle-aged dentist who was standing in his front yard near the city’s historical gate when he was shot,” the report says.There is no immediate comment from the army.16:10-Turkey thwarted 18 suicide attacks since New Year-Turkish security forces have prevented 18 potential suicide attacks since the New Year, the interior minister says Sunday, with the country on high alert after a deadly suicide car bombing in Ankara earlier this month.Interior Minister Efkan Ala tells Haber 7 TV in an interview that three cars loaded with explosives to be used in attacks had been found by the authorities.He indicates that one car was seized at Istanbul’s Bogazici University last week which caused a major security alert on the campus.“Since the start of the year, 18 suicide bombings have been prevented… We don’t talk (to the public) about most of the prevented attacks,” he says, without giving details on the nature of the plots.— AFP-15:47-Israeli teen says he was attacked in West Bank-An Israeli teenager says he was attacked by man with his face covered in the West Bank settlement of Beit Horon, according to police. It was not immediately clear if he sustained any injuries.Police say they are verifying the report and searching the area.The settlement was the scene of a deadly terror attack last month, in which 23-year-old Shlomit Krigman was stabbed to death.— Judah Ari Gross-15:46-Arab League chief won’t seek second term-Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi says Sunday he will not seek a second term as secretary general of the pan-Arab body after his present term ends in July.Arabi, 80, took over as League chief from fellow Egyptian diplomat Amr Moussa in 2011.He had served as foreign minister in the Egyptian government that came to power after the ouster of longtime president Hosni Mubarak earlier that year.“I have asked the Egyptian government not to think about renewing my mandate,” Arabi tells reporters at the League’s headquarters in Cairo, adding that his present tenure would end in early July.Traditionally, the secretary general of Arab League has held the post for two terms, and Cairo has always insisted that it be held by an Egyptian diplomat.— AFP-15:45-McGill U student body fails to ratify BDS motion-Students at Montreal’s McGill University fail to ratify a pro-Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions motion against Israel.The controversial motion, which passed in the university’s student society on February 22 by a vote of 512 to 357, and was seen as a blow by pro-Israel students, could not be ratified after being rejected by an online vote of 2,819 – or 57 percent of voting undergraduate students – to 2,119, or about 43 percent. About 440 students abstain.“The BDS movement, which among other things calls for universities to cut ties with Israeli universities, flies in the face of the tolerance and respect we cherish as values fundamental to a university,” McGill principal and vice chancellor, Suzanne Fortier, says in a statement.“It proposed actions that are contrary to the principles of academic freedom, equity, inclusiveness, and the exchange of views and ideas in responsible open discourse,” she adds.— JTA-15:14-Egyptian MP hit by shoe after meeting Israeli envoy-An Egyptian lawmaker has a shoe thrown at him in parliament by a fellow legislator who is outraged about a meeting the MP held with Israel’s ambassador, according to Egyptian media reports.MP Tawfik Okasha, who is also a television host and was described by the state-run al-Ahram daily as “controversial,” publicly — during a broadcast — invited Ambassador Haim Koren to his house for dinner. Koren happily obliged, and the two met on Tuesday at Okasha’s home, discussing issues of politics, trade and agricultural cooperation between the countries.But other legislators were outraged by the consultation, which one MP called “political prostitution.” One hundred members of the legislature had called for an emergency session to discuss the meeting.And at the special parliamentary session, Okasha was attacked by a shoe-throwing MP.The culprit, MP Kamel Ahmed, and Okasha were both removed from the session.Ahmed says Okasha “deserves 90 million shoes,” according to a translation of his remarks by the Ynet news website. “I want to shoot him. What I did reflects the nation’s opinion. I did what I did because I am an MP and a representative of the people. Every time I see him, I’ll hit him with a shoe.”14:47-Syria opposition says truce breached 15 times Saturday-Syria’s main opposition grouping records 15 violations by government troops and allied forces on the first day of a landmark truce, a spokesman tells reporters Sunday.“There were 15 violations by the regime forces on day one of the ceasefire, including two attacks by (Lebanese militant group) Hezbollah in Zabadani” west of Damascus, says Salem al-Meslet, spokesman for the High Negotiations Committee.— AFP-14:43-Jean-Marie Le Pen gives stamp of approval to Trump-French far-right patriarch Jean-Marie Le Pen, kicked out of his own party for xenophobic and anti-Semitic comments, gives controversial US Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump the thumbs up.“If I was American I would vote for Donald Trump… may God protect him,” tweets the fiery 87-year-old founder of the National Front, now led by his daughter Marine.Le Pen was booted out of the party after a bitter feud with his daughter over his continued inflammatory, racist and xenophobic comments while she tries to polish the FN’s image to lure voters.Last year he rehashed familiar comments about Nazi gas chambers being a “detail” of history and said France should get along with Russia to save the “white world.”— AFP-14:25--Russia says ceasefire breached 9 times in 24 hours-The Russian military says on Sunday that a fragile ceasefire in Syria had been breached nine times over the past 24 hours but the truce was mostly holding.“Over the past 24 hours, nine instances of violations of cessation of hostilities have been uncovered,” Lieutenant General Sergei Kuralenko, head of the country’s coordination center in Syria, is quoted as saying by Russian news agencies. “On the whole, the ceasefire regime in Syria is being implemented.”— AFP-14:15-70,000 migrants may be ‘trapped’ in Greece next month-Greece on Sunday says the number of refugees and migrants on its soil could more than triple next month, reaching as many as 70,000, as a cap on border crossings by Balkan countries left them “trapped” in the country.“We estimate that in our country the number of those trapped will be from 50,000-70,000 people next month,” Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas says.“Today, there are 22,000 refugees and migrants,” he adds in an interview with Mega Channel TV.Some 6,500 people are stuck at the Idomeni camp on Greece’s northern border with Macedonia on Sunday as Macedonian border officials let only 300 refugees and migrants pass the day before.— AFP-14:05-Pope urges Europe to share migrant burden-Pope Francis on Sunday urges European countries struggling with the migrant crisis to “share the burden fairly,” amid growing divisions on how to handle the flow of people fleeing poverty and war.The pontiff uses his regular Sunday address in St. Peter’s Square to hail the “generous help” offered by Greece and “other countries on the front line,” saying the situation “required cooperation among all nations.”— AFP-13:49-Israeli woman, 38, said to die of swine flu-A 38-year-old Israeli woman dies of swine flu after contracting the disease over two months ago, the B’Hadrei Haredim website reports.She is identified as Shayna Chaya Kugel of Modiin Illit.13:44-Russia reports attack on Syrian town from Turkey-The Russian military on Sunday says armed groups had attacked a Syrian town from Turkish territory, adding it had demanded an explanation from the United States.“Overnight from February 27 to 28 the Russian center for the reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria received information about an attack from Turkish territory on the Syrian town of Tal Abyad by armed units using large-scale artillery,” says the chief of the center, Lieutenant General Sergei Kuralenko.“This was subsequently verified and confirmed through several channels including representatives of the Syrian Democratic Forces,” Kuralenko is quoted as saying by Russian news agencies from the Hmeimim airbase.The Syrian Democratic Forces is a US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance.“The Russian center has turned for an explanation to the Amman-based US center for reconciliation,” Kuralenko adds, stressing that Turkey was a member of a US-led coalition.No other details are provided by the Russian side.— AFP-13:43-Airstrikes reported in northern Syria-Syria’s fragile ceasefire enters a second day with battle zones still largely quiet for the first time in five years, despite sporadic incidents including several airstrikes.The truce, brokered by Washington and Moscow, is seen as a crucial step towards ending a conflict that has claimed 270,000 lives and displaced more than half the population.The convoluted patchwork of territorial control in Syria, wrapped up in a brutal civil war since 2011, has complicated efforts to implement the deal.Warplanes, believed to be either Syrian or Russian, bomb seven villages Sunday in the northern province of Aleppo and Hama in the center, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.It is unclear if the raids hit areas covered by the ceasefire, which excludes territory held by the Islamic State jihadist group and Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front.According to Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman, only one of the villages, Kafr Hamra in Aleppo province, is controlled by Al-Nusra and the others are in the hands of non-jihadist rebels.— AFP.
