EVENTS IN TIME (BIBLE PROPHECY LITERALLY FULFILLED)(BY GOD)

I WRITE NEWS ABOUT AND PUT NEWS ARTICLES ABOUT ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM PERTAINING TO BIBLE PROPHESY HAPPENINGS.JOEL 3:20 But Judah (ISRAEL) shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.(THATS ISRAEL-JERUSALEM WILL NEVER BE DESTROYED AGAIN)-WE CHRISTIANS ARE ALL WAITING PATIENTLY FOR THE PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE TO OCCUR.SO WE CAN GO TO JESUS AND GET OUR NEVER DYING BODIES.SO WE CAN RULE OVER CITIES OURSELVES.WHILE JESUS RULES FROM DAVIDS THRONE FOREVER IN JERUSALEM.

Saturday, June 25, 2016

THE OTHER 27 EU COUNTRIES WANT BRITAIN TO START THE OUT PROCESS IMMEDIATELY. IF YOUR GOING-GET QUICK.

DANIEL 7:23-26
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE-REV 17:9-10,REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE-THE EUROPEAN UNION) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth,(EU GETS WORLD CONTROL) and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(DIVIDE INTO 10 WORLD TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 WORLD DIVISION GOVERNMENT TRADE BLOCS) and another shall rise after them;and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(1 OF THE 1ST EU ORIGINAL 6 NATIONS POSSIBLY PRODUCES THE FUTURE EU WORLD DICTATOR)(ITALY IS ROME)(GERMANY-FRANCE-BELGIUM-NETHERLANDS-LUXUMBOURG ARE THE OTHER 5 ORIGINAL EU NATIONS)
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.

EU COUNTRIES-WHEN THEY JOINED
http://europa.eu/about-eu/countries/index_en.htm#goto_3

WE WILL SEE MONDAY IF THE WORLD STOCK MARKETS STILL ARE IN CHAOS AND DOWN HEAVILY AS A RESULT OF THE BRITAIN OUT OF THE EUROPEAN UNUION VOTE. I HEARD TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS WERE LOST ON THE WORLD STOCK MARKETS FRIDAY. IF THIS CONTINUES. THE WORLD WILL NEED A LEADER-THE EUROPEAN UNION TO IMPLIMENT A MICROCHIP IMPLANT SYSTEM-SO IF THE WORLD STOCK MARKETS CRASH. THE EU CAN STEP IN AND TAKE WORLD ECONOMIC CONTROL WITH THE NEW MICROCHIP IN THE HAND OR FOREHEAD CASHLESS SOCIETY. BY THE BIBLE.

The EU-Israel relationship, post-Brexit-June 24, 2016, 1:16 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

Words are cheap these days. Everyone is a ‘star,’ ‘breaking news’ can last all day, and ‘legend’ status is bandied about freely.But what we woke up to this morning is truly unprecedented.Britain has voted to leave the European Union. And they may not be the last country to do so. They weren’t the first — that honour/calamitous decision depending on how you see the news this morning – goes to Greenland. They left what was then called the EEC in 1985.But with all due respect to Greenland, Britain is a much bigger fish, economically and politically. It was a major and important member of the European Union. There are questions this morning whether the UK can even survive when Scotland voted massively to stay in the EU. The Prime Minister David Cameron has resigned, prompting a period of uncertainty as to whom will take up the reins and negotiate the terms of departure.These are the deep questions that the UK has to answer.But I am the director of a pro-Israel advocacy group operating at the heart of the EU Institutions in Brussels, and I’m busy looking at the current lay of the political land and what it will all mean for the EU Israel relationship.Our offices sit opposite the European Council and the European Commission. Before I stepped into the office, I sat outside taking it all in. Eurocrats walked past in groups, the most common words I picked up were “I don’t know,” and “slap in the face.” Most looked ashen faced with smartphones in hand reading the news. And to be honest I wasn’t far behind. This truly is uncharted territory.But let us all be honest, the UK-Israel relationship was a rollercoaster ride with as many highs as lows, from the British Mandate to good relations during the Suez Crisis. In the 60’s Britain was seen as pro-Arab. The 80’s were not much better, with Britain imposing an arms embargo on Israel during the 1982 Lebanon war. But since then, things were on the up again. Relations were strong, a majority of British parliamentarians are pro-Israel and only last year the British government began efforts to outlaw BDS activities in the UK.So we have lost a good, solid and largely dependable pro-Israel voice in the European Institutions. We have lost not only a great number of MEPs who were our friends and allies, but also many more British staffers and policy wonks – those who actually prepare the briefing notes, do the research and advise their political and bureaucratic masters on lines and positions to take on Israel. So from that perspective it’s sad and you could allow yourself to worry.But there are opportunities too. The emerging markets as we call them: Balkan states, the Visegrad group of countries, and not forgetting the Baltic states, will undoubtedly feel emboldened after Brexit. They will feel their voices have become louder in the European Council, Parliament and Commission. They will also feel that that Britain’s unprecedented – there’s that word again – departure shows cracks in the old established power blocks, and that they can be the cement.As these countries enjoy a by and large excellent relationship with Israel, their cement can only be good news for us, and we anticipate a deeper and more co-operative relationship with them at Permanent Representative and EU institutional level.But the real question is can the EU, as presently constituted, even survive? This morning it feels like a game of Jenga. The UK have removed their brick from the tower, and the edifice looks shaky and could potentially collapse.So we say goodbye to Britain in the EU playground with a heavy heart. But just like all playgrounds, there are always plenty of others to make friends and continue to play with.This is the task of all Israel advocates in the months and years ahead. So let’s get to it post haste.

IMF weighs in on Brexit-By EUOBSERVER-24. Jun, 15:10

Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), urged authorities in the UK and the EU to work together "to ensure a smooth transition to a new economic relationship" between the pair. She said the IMF backs commitments by the Bank of England and the ECB to supply liquidity to the banking system in an effort to "curtail financial volatility."

UK petition on second referendum passes 1-million mark-By EUOBSERVER-jun 25,16

Today, 13:06-More than 1 million people have signed a petition on the website of the British parliament calling for a second referendum on EU membership. If a petition passes 100,000 names, it is considered for a debate in parliament. The popularity of the initiative is a sign of division in British society, where the vast majority of young and better educated people had voted to Remain.

Ireland to 'consider' relations with Northern Ireland-By EUOBSERVER-24. Jun, 14:52

Irish leader Enda Kenny said Friday that relations between Ireland and Northern Ireland will "require careful consideration" after Brexit, but that he would approach problems "in the same spirit of partnership that had underpinned the peace process" on the island for decades. Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland had earlier called for a referendum on Irish unification.

Scottish leader seeks 'immediate' talks with EU-By EUOBSERVER-jun 25,16

Today, 13:19-Scotland's first minister Nicola Sturgeon said Saturday after an emergency cabinet meeting that she would seek “immediate discussions” with EU institutions in order to “protect Scotland’s place in the EU”. She said that holding a new referendum on Scottish independence is "on the table". All 32 constituencies in Scotland backed the UK's EU membership, by 62 percent, while Leave won in the UK by 51.9 percent.

EU's founding members say talks on UK exit needed urgently-[Associated Press]-KIRSTEN GRIESHABER-Associated Press-June 25, 2016-YAHOONEWS

BERLIN (AP) — Foreign ministers of the European Union's founding members on Saturday urged quick negotiations about Britain's departure from the bloc, saying the other 27 countries in the union need to move ahead and think about the future."There is a certain urgency ... so that we don't have a period of uncertainty, with financial consequences, political consequences," French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said.He spoke alongside counterparts from the other five founding members of what has become the EU — Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.The leaders also accepted a degree of criticism that the EU in recent times did not show the energy and braveness needed to work together on such important topics as migration, unemployment and terrorism.German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier also said negotiations on a British exit, or Brexit, should begin "as soon as possible" and added that "intensive European discussions" are needed.Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn said he hoped there would be no "cat and mouse" game now and that Britain would invoke Article 50 of the EU charter, which would officially start the exit process."There must be clarity," Asselborn told reporters. "The people have spoken and we need to implement this decision."German Chancellor Angela Merkel, speaking at a different press conference in Potsdam, outside Berlin, also prodded for British action."To be honest, it shouldn't take forever, that's right — but I would not fight over a short period of time," Merkel said.The British side is much more relaxed. Prime Minister David Cameron is resigning and says his successor, to be chosen by October, should start the formal exit process.All six foreign ministers agreed that Europe needs to do more to solve pressing issues like the migration crisis, unemployment and security concerns following the terror attacks in France and Belgium."We did not have the energy, the power, and perhaps the braveness, to make the necessary decisions and this we must now show in Europe —that we are in a position to make decisions, especially in difficult fields like migration," Steinmeier said.In a joint statement, the leaders said they need to find ways to better deal with the different levels of ambition in regard to the European integration and that they need to make sure that Europe will be better at fulfilling the expectations of all citizens.Ayrault urged the remaining 27 EU countries to return to "the spirit of the founders" of European unity, forged to prevent conflict via trade after World War II."It is up to us to recreate this spirit," he said, noting all the European countries that subsequently joined after overthrowing dictatorships and embracing democracy.However, the leaders did not present a concrete plan on how to tackle the union's many pressing issues and how exactly they will react to the citizen's worried and EU-fatigue.The head of the EU's executive Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, warned in German daily Bild on Saturday that other countries may also call for referendums to leave the EU."The populists will not leave out this opportunity to promote their anti-Europe politics with much noise," he said.At the same time, he said the consequences the British people may now face could put a stop to such sentiment."It should show quickly that Great Britain did better in the EU — economically, socially and when it comes to foreign politics," Juncker said.___David Rising contributed reporting.

Gloom, doom and predictions for disaster in European press after Brexit-In EU press coverage on the day after, Britain’s shock vote to leave the EU seen fanning nationalism-By Gina DOGGETT June 25, 2016, 4:48 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

PARIS (AFP) — Europe’s press was awash with gloom and doom over Brexit on Saturday, warning that it was a boon for nationalists while urging EU leaders to meet the challenge of their “rendezvous with history.”A cartoon in the Dutch paper AD Haagsche Courant styled after Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” showed the German, Dutch and British leaders howling in horror, holding their hands to their faces.“It’s not an exaggeration to call it a disaster,” Spain’s El Pais daily said in an editorial about Britons voting to leave the European Union in Thursday’s referendum.It urged EU nations to offer their citizens “ideas, plans, real leadership,” adding only then could the EU “be saved from the dangerous abyss it has reached.”“A black day for Europe – OUTch!” was the banner headline of the German daily Bild, while Spain’s El Mundo ran a cartoon showing the Beatles crossing Abbey Road towards an abyss.“The Brexit shock will have profound geopolitical implications,” said an editorial in Italy’s leading Corriere della Sera. “The European project will not be the same and the role of Europe in the world will inevitably be reshaped.”Calling the UK referendum result a “blow to Europe”, Corriere said it marked the end of a period of optimism and cooperation in European history that began with the fall of the Berlin Wall.“Europe is a common home that is on fire,” said Laurent Joffrin of France’s left-leaning daily Liberation. “Its leaders have a rendezvous with history.”He said Britons had voted with their pocketbooks and their disaffection was shared across the EU.“The demographics of the vote leaves no doubt: the poorer and older you are in Great Britain, the more you reject the European project,” he said.“Workers across the continent don’t believe in it anymore. They are turning towards their national identities as the only credible rampart against the excesses of globalization.”Die Welt chastised German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her role in fanning anti-immigration sentiment, saying she “contributed to it significantly with the times she went it alone with her refugee policy.”-‘Chain reaction’-Populism could doom several EU leaders facing elections, said Italy’s Il Fatto Quotidiano under the headline “Now everyone is scared”.“The anti-establishment wave risks sweeping away” Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in Spain’s elections on Sunday, it said.A “chain reaction” could follow that would doom Italy’s Matteo Renzi in an October referendum as well as the French and German leaders, who face elections next year, the paper said.But Austrian daily Die Presse warned against lambasting political elites in the aftermath of Brexit, which journalist Rainer Nowak said was seen as a “new victory of the underdogs over the decadent establishment.”“Things cannot work without elites at a decision-making level,” he said. “(Rejecting) experts, universities, high culture, thinkers and debate… would be bad for everyone not just Europe.”Many editorialists saw the break with Britain as a watershed, with Jerome Fonglio of France’s leading daily Le Monde saying it should prompt “deep thought about what (the EU) should be and the direction it should take.”Italy’s left-leaning La Repubblicca called on the youth of Europe to revitalise the European project.“Europe belongs to you,” said a front-page headline. “Don’t let the peddlers of fear win.”Philippe Gelie of France’s right-leaning daily Le Figaro slammed EU leaders for failing to plan for a possible Brexit.“The crisis sparked by the British divorce requires sang-froid and intelligence,” he said, while warning that the bloc has become too unwieldy with 28 — and soon 27 — members.In the end, wrote Herve Favre of France’s La Voix du Nord: “Maybe one day we will thank our English friends for delivering the shock treatment that resuscitated the European patient.”

EU urges UK to submit Brexit papers-By Peter Teffer-euobserver

Brussels, 24. Jun, 14:34-The remaining 27 members of the European Union are calling on the United Kingdom to start the process of leaving the bloc “as soon as possible”, instead of waiting until a new prime minister has settled in 10 Downing Street.British leader David Cameron said on Friday morning (24 June) that he would try “to steady the ship over the coming weeks and months”, but that the formal request to withdraw from the EU should be done by his successor.“There is no need for a precise timetable today, but in my view we should aim to have a new prime minister in place by the start of the Conservative Party conference in October,” he said.His European counterparts do not want to wait that long.“We now expect the United Kingdom government to give effect to this decision of the British people as soon as possible, however painful that process may be,” the heads of four EU institutions said in a common statement later the same day.The text was agreed by the presidents of the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the European Council, as well as by the prime minister of the Netherlands, which holds the rotating six-month EU presidency.It was read out by commission head Jean-Claude Juncker at a press conference shortly after noon on Friday.“Any delay would unnecessarily prolong uncertainty. We have rules to deal with this in an orderly way,” he said.Those rules are the now oft-cited article 50 of the EU treaty, which states that any member state may pull out of the union.Other member states cannot force the UK out. But the exit process depends on the UK's formal notification of triggering article 50. Only then can the process of negotiations on future relations between the divorcees begin. That process can take up to two years.“It is for the UK to make that notification,” one EU source said. “The referendum result is not a notification as such.”-Speed things up'-Many EU politicians from the remaining 27 countries also urged the UK to trigger article 50 sooner rather than later.“There is no time to lose,” said the French foreign minister Jean-Marc Ayrault at an EU event in Luxembourg on Friday.The ministerial was chaired by Bert Koenders, the foreign minister of the Netherlands.“We hope this whole process of negotiation after this landmark [UK] decision will be transparent, predictable and as soon as possible,” he told press before the meeting.-What future for the 27?-The negotiations can take up to two years. But there were already calls for a rethink of the future of the European project for its remaining members.Juncker, when asked if the Brexit vote could trigger the collapse of the EU, said “No. Thank you,” was his only comment before he gathered his paper and left the stage.German chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday said that Brexit was a “cut in Europe”, but she said European unity must continue.“The European Union is strong enough to find the right answers for today,” she said. The German leader reminded people that the original idea for European integration “was an idea for peace”.Miroslav Lajcak, foreign minister of Slovakia, which will take over as EU chair from the Netherlands on 1 July, said the vote was more than just a British vote.“It is a message for the rest of the European Union as well,” he said.“We believe in the European project. We have to make it more attractive to our citizens. We have to win back the support of our citizens,” Lajcak added.-What's next?-On Saturday, foreign ministers of the original six founding members will meet in Berlin for talks. Two days later, Merkel will host French president Francois Hollande, Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi, and EU Council president Donald Tusk.Also on Monday, Cameron will hold a meeting with his cabinet.On Tuesday and Wednesday, all EU government leaders will travel to Brussels for a summit.They were due to talk about the economy and migration, but now the summit will be dominated by Brexit.Cameron will give a presentation on the results, but there will also be a meeting of EU leaders where Cameron will not be allowed in the room.Not everyone is happy with the pre-summit meetings.Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves said in a social media message that if unity among the 27 remaining EU member states is the priority, then Saturday's meeting of the six original members is "not quite on message".

EU gangs up on Cameron By Eric Maurice-june 25,16-euobserver

BRUSSELS, Today, 14:39-The French foreign minister has said that a new British prime minister should be appointed “in a few days”, hours after the European Commission chief suggested that the current PM David Cameron was responsible for Brexit.“A new prime minister has to be appointed; that will take a few days,” Ayrault said in Berlin at a meeting of the foreign ministers of the EU’s six founding countries - Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.He said the British government “must trigger” article 50 of the EU treaty, so that talks to organise the UK’s exit from the EU can start.“It’s a question of respect” for the EU, he said. His five colleagues also urged Cameron to accelerate the move.Cameron on Friday said he would step down after summer and that it would be up to the next PM to “start the formal and legal process of leaving the EU”.“We expect the UK government to provide clarity and give effect to this decision [the Brexit vote] as soon as possible,” the six ministers said in a statement.The call for a quick handover in London came after the EU commission put the blame of the referendum result on Cameron.“The usual reflex is for the finger to be pointed at Brussels. Yet in this case, that is completely wrong: the referendum was called by the British prime minister,” Jean-Claude Juncker said in an interview with German tabloid Bild published on Saturday.He said Cameron did not do enough to secure the UK’s membership in the EU.  “Here in Brussels, we did everything to accommodate David Cameron's concerns,” Juncker said.He said that he and his colleagues “spent countless days and nights” last winter on reaching an agreement on EU reform with Cameron and that he was surprised that the new deal “played no role whatsoever” in Cameron’s referendum campaign.-'Not acceptable'-“At the same time it is hardly surprising. If someone complains about Europe from Monday to Saturday then nobody is going to believe him on Sunday when he says he is a convinced European,” Juncker added, referring to Cameron’s eurosceptic profile.Juncker’s comments come after one of his commissioners, Germany’s Gunther Oettinger, told Euronews TV on Friday that what Cameron did “is not acceptable”.Oettinger said that after Cameron struck the EU deal last winter he gave a “clear order” that the commission should stay out of the referendum campaign.Asked if the result was Cameron’s fault, the commissioner said: “I think so. Yes”.

EUROPEAN JEWISH CONGRESS CALLS ABBAS SPEECH TO THE EU PARLIAMENT-INCENDARY.

EU SIGNS FUTURE ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN-ARAB 7 YEAR PEACE TREATY

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince (ROMANS) that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he (EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950

Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.

No one will enter the New World Order... unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation.- David Spangler Director of Planetary Initiative United Nations.

AN EU WORLD LEAD ARMY

REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies,(UNITED NATIONS TROOPS) gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)

ABBAS SPEECH TO EU PARLIAMENT JUN 24,16
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/06/transcript-of-abbas-eu-speech-filled.html

European Jewish Congress calls Mahmoud Abbas' speech to European Parliament "incendiary, a reminder why we have found no lasting peace"-JUNE 24,16-EUROPEAN JEWISH CONGRESS

The European Jewish Congress (EJC) has called on European leaders to condemn the speech by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, in which he claimed that Israeli rabbis called to poison Palestinian water and that global terrorism will end if the Israel-Palestinian conflict is resolved.“It is unconscionable that a foreign leader proudly states a blood libel in the European Parliament and he receives a standing ovation,” Dr. Moshe Kantor, President of the EJC, said, referring to the unsubstantiated comment about Israel rabbis which was a hoax spread across Arab media. “If a far-Right politician would have made similar comments they would have been correctly discredited, but Abbas is feted like a hero and this double-standard allows him to evade scrutiny in the international arena and the negotiations table.”“Furthermore, his avoidance of an EU-backed meeting with Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin demonstrates once again that he remains one of the greatest obstacles between a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians.”Both Rivlin and Abbas were in Brussels together and European leaders had tried to broker a meeting between the two, which Abbas refused to attend.“Additionally, Abbas’ blaming Israel for global terrorism sets off dog whistles for anti-Semites and conspiracy theorists around the world,” Kantor said. “In one short speech, Abbas reminded the world that he has no interest in peace, continues to incite against Jews and Israel and uses the understandable fear of terrorism to rail against Israel and score political points.”“The only question that remains is about the reaction of the international community to such a malicious and malevolent speech.”Friday, June 24, 2016.

Antisemitic Rhetoric From Mahmoud Abbas-June 25, 2016, 5:06 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

In a speech delivered at the European Parliament in Brussels on June 23, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas set back the cause of peace and tarnished his credentials as a leader by descending into the muck of antisemitism.Abbas claimed that “a number of rabbis in Israel … made a clear announcement demanding that their government poison the water to kill the Palestinians.” He then posed a question: “Isn’t that clear incitement to commit mass killings against the Palestinian people?”Less than a day after making this crude and outlandish accusation, Abbas retracted it, admitting it was “baseless,” saying he had not intended to “harm Judaism or to offend Jewish people” and condemning antisemitism.Abbas’ flirtation with antisemitism, or blood libel, as Israel described it, is an ugly blot on his record.Abbas was sucked into this needless morass after the Palestine Liberation Organization, which he heads, published the allegation on a website. The PLO retrieved this misinformation from a Turkish news agency report. According to Anadolu, “Rabbi Shlomo Mlma, chairman of the Council of Rabbis in the West Bank,” had issued an advisory allowing Jewish settlers to commit mass murder.The reputable news agency Reuters examined the allegation but failed to authenticate it. Reuters could neither find the rabbi nor track down an organization called the Council of Rabbis in the West Bank.It’s clear that Abbas’ staff took the false Turkish report at face value without even bothering to verify it, a shocking oversight that was nothing short of irresponsible and reckless.The net effect was that Abbas circulated a vicious antisemitic canard that has been exploited since medieval times to defame, marginalize and murder Jews in European societies. The myth that Jews poison wells gained wide currency especially during the Black Plague period and the Nazi era in Germany.Abbas’ inflammatory comments were picked up by the Palestinian press in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and by the media in the Arab and Islamic worlds, creating yet more animus against Israel and Jews. Among Israeli Jews, Abbas’ remarks reinforced perceptions that the Palestinians are not ready for coexistence.Did Abbas really think his foray into antisemitism would be conducive to the pursuit of peace? Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office rightly condemned him, saying “Palestinian incitement … fuels terror.”But amid the sound and fury, the Israeli government conveniently neglected to mention the positive aspects of Abbas’s speech. Lest it be forgotten, Abbas said the Palestinian Authority supports diplomatic efforts to reach a two-state solution based on the pre-1967 borders and the Arab League peace initiative, which offers Israel an opportunity to normalize relations with its members.Beyond paying lip service to a two-state solution, Netanyahu does nothing concrete to advance it and promotes the expansion of settlements in the West Bank. He and his cabinet ministers are basically satisfied with the status quo, which may well transform Israel into a binational state. They prefer conflict management to conflict resolution.It’s a prescription for more strife and bloodshed. It’s a disaster waiting to happen.In his speech in Brussels, Abbas also claimed that once Israel’s occupation of the West Bank ends, “terrorism will disappear, there will be no more terrorism in the Middle East, or anywhere else in thee world.”It goes without saying that this was a surreal and absurd statement. As he must surely know, jihadist terrorism, as practised by Islamic State and Al Qaeda, is inspired by a whole host of reasons outside of Israel’s existence as a Jewish state. And the end of the Arab-Israeli dispute will not necessarily usher in a brave new world marked by universal amity and mutual understanding.However, terrorism emanating from the West Bank may well decrease significantly should Israel agree to Palestinian statehood following direct talks with the Palestinian Authority.Abbas would have been wise to focus his attention on this key aspect of the conflict instead of dabbling in cheap antisemitic rhetoric, which only hardens public opinion on both sides of the Arab-Israeli divide.

Once Occupation Ends, Resistance Will Disappear – Abbas Speech in EU Parliament Enrages Israel-Jun 24-Posted by J.C.-By RT

June 24, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – “RT” – The Palestinian president has asked the EU to shield his people from Israeli provocations, as he accused Tel Aviv of breeding fascism and the IDF of carrying out “unlawful killings.” Israel lashed out against the speech, calling it a “blood libel.”“Israel has turned our country into an open prison,” Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas told the European Parliament, accusing the Jewish government of becoming more extreme and acting in a fascist manner. “Israel is experiencing a tendency toward violence and extremism, and this is expressed in settler terrorism.”“This is in addition to the Israeli Army’s criminal conduct, which carries out murderous operations against the Palestinians and holds itself above the law,” forcing even Israel’s heavyweight politicians to criticize Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu government about “growing signs of fascism in Israeli society,” Abbas said.The Palestinian leader appealed to EU lawmakers for their support in taming Israel, calling on Europe to help end Israel’s rule in Palestine, and restrict Tel Aviv from provocations.“The non-existence of a Palestinian state and the non-implementation of the two-state solution prolongs the conflict and produces extremism. We are against international terror, and the way to have the terror you face come to an end, you must bring an end to the Israeli occupation,” Abbas said.While claiming to be advocating peaceful solutions to ongoing hypertension in Israeli-Palestinian relations, Abbas said Israel continues to provoke violence actions from Palestinian youths and accused Israeli rabbis of calling for the poisoning of Palestinian water.“Only a week ago, a number of rabbis in Israel announced, and made a clear announcement, demanding that their government poison the water to kill the Palestinians,” Abbas said.While reports of an alleged rabbinical edict to murder Palestinians surfaced on Sunday, independent news sources found no evidence that such a call was ever made or the organization called the Council of Rabbis in the West Bank, which issued the edict even exists. Yet this did not stop Abbas from questioning Israeli attitudes towards Palestinians.“Isn’t that clear incitement to commit mass killings against the Palestinian people?” Abbas asked.Over the past nine months, Israeli forces have killed at least 197 Palestinians, 134 of whom were deemed terrorists. Others were killed in clashes and protests, which resulted in the deaths of 32 Israelis and two visiting US citizens..#Israel blames Palestinians for water shortages in West Bankhttps://t.co/n2MguTqk6lpic.twitter.com/ULyS1s6by9— RT (@RT_com) June 23, 2016-Calling for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Abbas said Palestinians “oppose any suggestion of temporary borders or an interim agreement because it’s a waste of time that doesn’t lead anywhere.” He once again reiterated that Palestine hopes to have a state based on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as the capital.The “Palestinian nation wants to live in full sovereignty […] and the EU, being a major player, is helping to create an embryo Palestinian State,” President Abbas said.The Palestinian leader again voiced his support for the French initiative to bring all conflicting parties in for talks, saying French President Francois Hollande told him France is determined to hold a conference before the end of the year.Abbas’ speech in Brussels, and in particular his allegations of Israel calling to poison Palestine’s water sparked strong criticism and condemnation from Netanyahu’s office, which accused the Palestinian leader of spreading a “blood libel.”“Someone who refuses to meet with the president and Prime Minister Netanyahu for direct talks, who propagates a blood libel in the European Parliament, is lying when he says his hand is outstretched in peace,” a statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office said.The statement added that Israel “awaits the day” when Abbas will stop spreading “lies” and dealing in incitement. “Until then, Israel will continue to defend itself against Palestinian incitement, which motivates terror attacks.”Jewish advocacy groups such as the American Jewish Committee and the European Jewish Congress also condemned Abbas’s rhetoric.“Instead of returning to direct peace talks with Israel, Abbas abused an international platform to deliver yet another tirade full of invectives and falsehoods against Israel,” said American Jewish Committee CEO David Harris, calling Abbas the “great disappointer.”“It is unconscionable that a foreign leader proudly states a blood libel in the European Parliament and he receives a standing ovation,” Dr Moshe Kantor from the European Jewish Congress said. “In one short speech, Abbas reminded the world that he has no interest in peace, continues to incite against Jews and Israel, and uses the understandable fear of terrorism to rail against Israel and score political points.”Rabbi Calls for Poisoning of Palestinian Water Supply: The foreign ministry of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Sunday, demanded the arrest of a Jewish Rabbi, who called on Israeli settlers to poison water used by Palestinians in hundreds of towns and villages across the occupied West Bank.Abbas says some Israeli rabbis called for poisoning Palestinian water: Abbas’s remarks, in a speech to the European parliament, did not appear on the official transcript issued by his office, suggesting he may have spoken off the cuff as he condemned Israeli actions against Palestinians amid stalled peace talks.-http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44958.htm

Friday, June 24, 2016

THE UNITED KINGDOM LEAVE-STAY VOTE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION JUNE 23,2016.

OTHER UK-EU OUT NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/06/today-is-big-day-will-britain-remain-in.html

THE UNITED KINGDOM LEAVE-STAY VOTE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION JUNE 23,2016.

T=TIME UK TIME - EST IS 5 HOURS BEHIND.
L=LEAVE
R=REMAIN
D=DECLARED

ESTIMATED VOTES NEEDED TO WIN 16,800,000
T-00:25 A - 005/382-D - L-161,744 - R-158,537
T-01:15 A - 011/382-D - L-321,339 - R-314,521
T-01:34 A - 015/382-D - L-497,630 - R-494,603
T-01:49 A - 022/382-D - L-758,423 - R-693,233
T-01:56 A - 030/382-D - L-01,038,777 - R-00,901,013
T-02:05 A - 036/382-D - L-01,279,166 - R-01,105,164
T-02:13 A - 041/382-D - L-01,438,695 - R-01,292,093
T-02:20 A - 049/382-D - L-01,643,752 - R-01,621,145
T-02:29 A - 060/382-D - L-02,121,019 - R-02,179,077
T-02:31 A - 067/382-D - L-02,393,175 - R-02,434,333
T-02:41 A - 080/382-D - L-02,808,091 - R-02,892,942
T-02:45 A - 086/382-D - L-03,137,260 - R-03,169,022
T-02:53 A - 103/382-D - L-03,714,205 - R-03,718,994
T-02:59 A - 114/382-D - L-04,080,626 - R-04,063,630 - 29.8% OF DECLARED COMPLETE
T-03:06 A - 122/382-D - L-04,389,735 - R-04,329,672
T-03:11 A - 141/382-D - L-05,105,590 - R-04,987,780
T-03:16 A - 144/382-D - L-05,306,828 - R-05,115,427
T-03:20 A - 153/382-D - L-05,752,238 - R-05,601,466
T-03:26 A - 164/382-D - L-06,242,154 - R-05,931,077
T-03:38 A - 188/382-D - L-07,686,260 - R-07,238,505
T-03:40 A - 196/382-D - L-08,022,159 - R-07,510,281 - 51.3% OF DECLARED COMPLETE
T-03:43 A - 202/382-D - L-08,236,717 - R-07,757,767
T-03:46 A - 209/382-D - L-08,478,803 - R-08,042,838
T-03:49 A - 212/382-D - L-08,601,272 - R-08,168,212
T-03:56 A - 226/382-D - L-09,133,861 - R-08,671,829
T-04:00 A - 234/382-D - L-09,482,401 - R-08,983,457
T-04:04 A - 245/382-D - L-10,002,965 - R-09,587,370
T-04:06 A - 251/382-D - L-10,254,802 - R-09,832,535
T-04:12 A - 261/382-D - L-10,119,286 - R-10,148,135 - 68.3% OF DECLARED COMPLETE
T-04:16 A - 267/382-D - L-10,894,193 - R-10,313,294
T-04:20 A - 272/382-D - L-11,151,279 - R-10,549,955
T-04:26 A - 280/382-D - L-11,706,279 - R-10,945,358
T-04:30 A - 290/382-D - L-12,131,154 - R-11,456,591
T-04:33 A - 300/382-D - L-12,628,210 - R-11,887,832 - 78.5% OF DECLARED COMPLETE
T-04:40 A - 309/382-D - L-13,055,523 - R-12,207,708 (THE OUT VOTE WINS)
THE UNITED KINGDOM WILL DROP OUT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
T-04:46 A - 316/382-D - L-13,554,290 - R-12,678,318
T-04:48 A - 321/382-D - L-13,874,034 - R-12,943,709 - 84.0% OF DECLARED COMPLETE
T-04:52 A - 325/382-D - L-14,098,653 - R-13,167,856
T-04:56 A - 329/382-D - L-14,356,533 - R-13,409,611 - 86.1% OF DECLARED COMPLETE
T-04:59 A - 332/382-D - L-14,605,522 - R-13,661,500
T-05:01 A - 333/382-D - L-14,629,624 - R-13,676,003 - 87.1% OF DECLARED COMPLETE
T-05:08 A - 339/382-D - L-14,899,282 - R-13,905,623
T-05:11 A - 344/382-D - L-15,203,370 - R-14,157,273 - 90.0% OF DECLARED COMPLETE
T-05:27 A - 355/382-D - L-15,882,960 - R-14,753,634 - 92.9% OF DECLARED COMPLETE
T-05:30 A - 358/382-D - L-15,991,507 - R-14,890,095
T-05:37 A - 362/382-D - L-16,184,565 - R-15,084,310 - 94.7% OF DECLARED COMPLETE
T-05:41 A - 364/382-D - L-16,252,257 - R-15,130,139
T-05:44 A - 368/382-D - L-16,403,186 - R-15,328,123
T-05:54 A - 370/382-D - L-16,527,182 - R-15,456,908 - 97.3% OF DECLARED COMPLETE
T-05:57 A - 373/382-D - L-16,738,813 - R-15,610,071
T-06:01 A - 374/382-D - L-16,835,512 - R-15,692,093 - NO OFFICIALLY GETS OVER 16,800,000 THE WRAP UP MARK.
T-06:18 A - 377/382-D - L-16,992,701 - R-15,812,943 - 98.6% OF DECLARED COMPLETE
T-06:23 A - 378/382-D - L-17,061,744 - R-15,864,555
T-06:50 A - 380/382-D - L-17,176,006 - R-15,952,444 - 99.4% OF DECLARED COMPLETE
T-06:58 A - 381/382-D - L-17,228,077 - R-16,000,701
T-07:00 A - 382/382-D - L-17,410,742 - R-16,141,241 - 100.0% OF DECLARED COMPLETE.

THE POUND DROPS TO LOWEST LEVEL SINCE 1985
THIS SHOULD DOWN ALL WORLD MARKETS TODAY.
IT WILL TAKE UP TO 2 YEARS FOR THE UK TO DROP TOTALLY OUT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION.AFTER 43 YEARS IN IT.
ALL THESE STATS OCCURED FROM 7:25PM - 2:00AM EST

Now that Britain has voted to leave the EU, what comes next?-[The Canadian Press]-Danica Kirka And Frank Jordans, The Associated Press-June 24, 2016-YAHOONEWS

LONDON - Britons have voted to leave the European Union, their concerns about immigration and what some saw as the ever-increasing power of the 28-member bloc trumping the attraction of being part of a single market of more than 500 million people and a European project forged from the ashes of World War II.Here's a look at what happens next:WHAT HAPPENS FRIDAY MORNING?-Prime Minister David Cameron, head of the ruling Conservative Party, is expected to make a statement, most likely outside his official residence at 10 Downing Street. Former London Mayor Boris Johnson has not indicated when he will speak about the "leave" campaign success. U.K. Independence Party chief Nigel Farage, who spoke several times late Thursday and early Friday, also plans a further statement Friday morning. Cameron's defeat in the referendum represents a political earthquake that may re-shape the Conservative Party leadership, which was deeply split by the Brexit issue, and could cost him his job. "He's almost certainly got to go," said Tim Bale, a professor of politics at Queen Mary, University of London. "There are too many people who will see him as someone who lost his legitimacy and ... was outplayed by an opponent who wants to take over as a leader."WHAT HAPPENS TO ECONOMY?-The pound suffered one of its biggest one-day falls in history Friday, plummeting more than 10 per cent in six hours on concerns that severing ties with the EU will hurt the U.K. economy and undermine London's position as a global financial centre. Authorities including the International Monetary Fund, the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of England had warned Britain's exit would send shivers through a world economy that is only slowly recovering from the global crisis that began in 2008. Now economists will wait to see if their predictions come to pass.WHAT ABOUT THE NEIGHBORS?-EU leaders will see Britain quitting as a dangerous precedent and a potentially fatal blow to the European project. Some face growing euroskepticism from their own citizens and may feel the need to make a strong case domestically for why the now-27-nation bloc has a future. This could lead to reforms of how the EU works. Future negotiations may be overshadowed by a sense of betrayal and the feeling that an example needs to be made of the U.K. to discourage others from leaving too. The fallout could also hit Europe's fragile growth. Germany's Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble recently said that "it would be a miracle if a withdrawal of Britain would come without economic disadvantages." On the other hand, a British exit, or Brexit, could spur the European Union into action. Since joining the club in 1973, Britain has shaped the bloc mainly by putting the brakes on the drive toward ever-closer political union, a project that could now be revived with gusto.COULD LAWMAKERS DECIDE TO IGNORE THE PROCESS?-Britain's referendum doesn't automatically trigger an exit from the European Union, which has led a few commentators to suggest that lawmakers might simply decide to ignore or slow-ball the process. So could they? "In legal theory that is possible. In practice that is absolutely not possible," said Alan Renwick, the deputy director of the Constitution Unit at University College London. "If there is a vote for Brexit then on Friday the PM will indicate how the process of Brexit will begin."-THE WAY FORWARD MAY NOT BE STRAIGHTFORWARD-The result will trigger a new series of negotiations as Britain and the EU search for a way to separate economies that have become intertwined since the U.K. joined the bloc on Jan. 1, 1973. Under Article 50 of the Treaty of European Union, talks would likely last two years, with the possibility for extension if all of the remaining 27 EU nations agree. But the clock starts ticking only when the U.K. notifies the EU that it wants a divorce — and some on the "leave" side have suggested that this won't occur until 2018. However, the EU may not accept a delayed exit. "U.K. negotiations with the European Union will prove difficult, given that EU leaders will not want to set a precedent for an easy withdrawal for other countries that could reconsider their status, such as Denmark," said Howard Archer of IHS, a research firm. No matter what, the EU will face issues. Alongside economic woes, troubles with Greece and the inability to agree on how to manage a refugee emergency, a British exit would deepen Europe's existential crisis.___Associated Press Writer Raphael Satter in London contributed to this report.

THE DOW WAS UP 230 POINTS THURSDAY-YESTERDAY.

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 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)

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.(IN 1 HR THE STOCK MARKETS WORLDWIDE WILL CRASH)
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed:(CONFISCATED) their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.

1 KINGS 10:13-14
13 And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.
14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,

GENESIS 49:16-17
16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

BANK RELATED INFORMATION
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UPDATE-JUNE 24,2016-12:00AM

DOW MARKET FRIDAY-JUNE 24,2016
09:30AM-470.07-
10:00AM-384.52-
10:30AM-378.33-
11:00AM-402.31-
11:30AM-460.70-
12:00PM-454.61-
12:30PM-485.51-
01:00PM-543.33-
01:30PM-513.70-
02:00PM-511.11-
02:30PM-575.75-
03:00PM-559.59-
03:30PM-629.63-
04:00PM-611.21- 17,399.86 -S&P -76.02 2037 - NASDAQ -202.06 4707.98
HIGH -384 LOW -648
TSX -239.50 13,891.88 - GOLD $+58.70 $1,316.40 - OIL $-2.52 $47.59

WORLD MARKETS DIVE AFTER UK VOTES OUT OF EUROPEAN UNION.12:00PM

ASIA - ALL 12:00PM NOON RESULTS JUNE 24,2016
HONG KONG (HSI) -609.21 02.92%
NIKKEI 225 -1286.83 07.92%
S&P/ASX 200 -167.50 03.17%
SHANGHAI CSI 300 -38.33 01.33%
KOREA KOSPI -61.47 03.09%
NSE NIFTY 50 -153.57 02.25%
STRAITS TIMES INDEX STI -58.46 02.09%
MIDEAST/AFRICA
KSE 100 INDEX -
TEL AVIV 100 -0.94 0.07%
EUROPE
BEL 20 INDEX -223.85 06.40%
CAC 40 -359.17 08.04%
GERMAN DAX -699.87 06.82%
IBEX 35 -1097.60 12.35%
AEX INDEX -25.66 05.70%
FTSE 100 -199.41 03.15%
FTSE MIB -2242.46 12.48%
EURO STOXX 50 -270.00 08.89%
RUSSIA 2K -62.00 05.33%
AMERICAS
S&P/TSX -189.77 1.34%
MEXICO STOCK -1236.40 2.66%
BRAZIL -1748.63 3.39%
UNITED STATES
DOW -601.00 3.35% (FUT 3:30AM)
NASDAQ -200.00 4.49% (FUT 3:30AM)
S&P 500 -96.00 4.57% (FUT 3:30AM)
GOLD $1,317.58 +60.75 (TODAY NOON)
OIL $48.04 -2.07 (TODAY NOON)

World stocks tumble as Britain votes for EU exit-Reuters – JUNE 24,16-YAHOONEWS-By Herbert Lash and Edward Krudy

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global stock markets lost about $2 trillion (£1.4 trillion) in value on Friday after Britain voted to leave the European Union, while sterling suffered a record one-day plunge to a 31-year low and money poured into safe-haven gold and government bonds.The blow to investor confidence and the uncertainty the vote has sparked could keep the Federal Reserve from raising interest rates as planned this year, and even spark a new round of emergency policy easing from major central banks.The move blindsided investors, who had expected Britain to vote to stay in the EU, and sparked sharp repricing across asset classes. Mainland European equity markets took the brunt of selling as investors feared the vote could destabilise the 28-member bloc by prompting more referendums.The traditional safe-harbour assets of top-rated government debt, the Japanese yen and gold all jumped. Spot gold rose over 4 percent and the yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note fell to a low of 1.406 percent, last seen in 2012, but climbed higher in afternoon trading.Stocks tumbled in Europe. Frankfurt and Paris each fell 7 percent to 8 percent. Italian and Spanish markets posted their sharpest one-day drops ever, falling more than 12 percent led by a dive in European bank stocks. Italy's Unicredit fell 24 percent while Spain's Banco Santander fell 20 percent.London's FTSE, however, dropped 3.2 percent, with some investors speculating that the plunge in sterling could benefit Britain's economy."Big institutional customers saw this morning's event as a much more longer-term opportunity. So names that were really dislocated found plenty of bids, plenty of support," said Ken Polcari, director of the NYSE floor division at O’Neil Securities in New York.Still, Britain's big banks took a $100 billion battering, with Lloyds, Barclays and RBS plunging as much as 30 percent, although they cut those losses in half later in the day.Stocks on Wall Street traded down around 3 percent, with the Dow Jones industrial average dropping as much as 544 points.The Dow Jones industrial average fell 520.19 points, or 2.89 percent, to 17,490.88. The S&P 500 slid 65.75 points, or 3.11 percent, to 2,047.57 and the Nasdaq Composite lost 182.46 points, or 3.72 percent, to 4,727.58.MSCI's all-country world stock index fell 4.4 percent.Voting results showed a 51.9/48.1 percent split for leaving, setting the UK on an uncertain path and dealing the largest setback to European efforts to forge greater unity since World War Two.The British pound dived by 18 U.S. cents at one point, easily the biggest fall in living memory, to its lowest since 1985. The euro slid 3 percent to $1.1050 as investors feared for its very future.Sterling was last down 7.4 percent at $1.3775, having carved out a range of $1.3228 to $1.5022. The fall was even larger than during the global financial crisis and the currency was moving two or three cents in the blink of an eye.The Bank of England, European Central Bank and the People's Bank of China all said they were ready to provide liquidity if needed to ensure global market stability.-SHOCKWAVES-The shockwaves affected all asset classes and regions.The safe-haven yen jumped 3.9 percent to 102.21 per dollar, having been as low as 106.81. The dollar's peak decline of 4 percent was the largest since 1998.Emerging market currencies across Asia and eastern Europe and South Africa's rand all buckled on fears that investors could pull out. Poland's zloty slumped 4 percent.Europe's safety play, the 10-year German government bond, surged with yields tumbling back into negative territory and a new record low.MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan slid almost 3.3 percent. Tokyo's Nikkei saw its worst fall since 2011, down 7.9 percent.Investors stampeded into low-risk sovereign bonds, with U.S. 10-year notes gained around 1.5 points in price to yield 1.570 percent. Earlier, the yield dipped to 1.406 percent.The rally even extended to UK bonds, despite a warning from ratings agency Standard & Poor's that it was likely to downgrade Britain's triple-A credit rating if it left the EU. Yields on benchmark 10-year gilts fell 27 basis points to 1.096 pct.Across the Atlantic, investors were pricing in less chance of another hike in U.S. interest rates given the Federal Reserve had cited a British exit from the EU as one reason to be cautious on tightening."A July (hike) is definitely off the table," said Mike Baele, managing director with the private client reserve group at U.S. Bank in Portland, Oregon.Fed funds futures were even toying with the chance that the next move could be a cut in U.S. rates.Oil prices slumped by more than 4 percent amid fears of a broader economic slowdown that could reduce demand. U.S. crude shed $2.36 to $47.77 a barrel while Brent fell 4.7 percent to $48.50 before.Industrial metal copper sank 2.1 percent but gold galloped nearly 5 percent higher thanks to its perceived safe haven status.(Editing by Nick Zieminski and Bernard Orr)

World Markets Roiled by Brexit as Stocks, Pound Drop; Gold Soars-Jeremy Herron-Anna-Louise Jackson-Updated on June 24, 2016 — 2:48 PM EDT-BLOOMBERG

Global markets buckled as Britain’s vote to leave the European Union drove the pound to the lowest in more than 30 years while sparking demand for haven assets from U.S. Treasuries to gold.Why Britain Voted to Leave the EU-The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 587 points, or 3.4 percent, erasing gains for 2016 as bank shares plunged. European stocks bore the brunt of the carnage, with the Stoxx 600 Index sliding 7 percent in its worst day since October 2008. The yen briefly strengthened past 100 per dollar for the first time since 2013. Treasury yields had their biggest drop in more than four years and gold rallied above $1,300 an ounce. Volatility surged, with the CBOE’s measure of anxiety jumping 30 percent.“This is going to take a large number of trading days, if not weeks, to iron through,” said Stephen Wood, who helps manage $237 billion as chief market strategist for North America at Russell Investments in New York. “‘There were a lot of surprise positions that had be unwound very, very quickly -- that’s been a significant phenomenon. Some of that will probably be re-traced. Initial reactions tend to be more extreme than long-term averages.”The victory for the “Leave” campaign prompted Prime Minister David Cameron to resign, while Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said a second referendum on independence was back “on the table.” The outcome stunned many investors who’d put wagers on riskier assets over the past week as bookmakers’ odds suggested the chance of a so-called Brexit was less than one in four.“Market participants are right to be concerned,” said Dean Maki, chief economist of investment firm Point72 Asset Management. “This is a legitimate risk-off event, and there are concerns about what’s going to happen. We’re likely to see weaker growth as a result of this, and it’s appropriate that markets are reacting to this.”How Britain Voted: Brexit Results-Some riskier assets stemmed losses amid a chorus of central bank assurances that policy makers stand ready to intervene. Mark Carney said the Bank of England could pump billions of pounds into the financial system, while the European Central Bank said it will give banks all the funding they require. The Swiss National Bank waded into currency markets to stabilize the franc, and the Federal Reserve said it was “carefully monitoring” financial markets.“The central banks are saying all the right things and they’re flooding the market with liquidity so you have a more orderly move,” said Frank Maeba, managing partner with Breton Hill Capital in Toronto. His firm manages about C$1.4 billion. You may be seeing some tactical rotation, the U.S. looks more solid now at least until the U.S. election.”Today is also the date of the annual rebalancing of FTSE Russell’s stock indexes, a procedure that reliably exacerbates trading. In 2015, the reconstitution helped fuel a jump in volume to more than 10 billion shares, the seventh-highest total of the year.Stocks-The S&P 500 fell 3.4 percent to 2,041.03 at 2:47 p.m. in New York, headed for the biggest drop since August. The losses wiped out the index’s gain for 2016. The Nasdaq Composite Index tumbled 4.1 percent, on track for the steepest slide since 2011. Trading volume in S&P 500 shares was 75 percent above the 30-day average for this time of day.Banks plunged after rallying the most in five weeks Thursday, with Citigroup Inc. down 8.1 percent. JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. lost more than 5 percent. Caterpillar Inc. and Boeing Co. sank at least 4.5 percent after pacing the Dow’s biggest gain in three months Thursday. Energy shares lost 3 percent as crude fell.The Stoxx Europe 600 Index tumbled 7 percent in the worst day since the height of the financial crisis. The volume of shares changing hands on the European gauge was almost four times higher than the 30-day average. The FTSE 100 Index fell 3.2 percent, trimming a slump of as much as 8.7 percent as exporters gained amid a plunge in the pound.Eastern Europe led a selloff in developing-nation shares, with benchmark stock indexes in Warsaw, Prague and Istanbul retreating at least 4.1 percent. The MSCI Emerging Market Index lost 3.6 percent, the most since August.Currencies-The pound was down 8 percent to $1.3686. Its biggest one-day loss prior to that was a move of 4.1 percent recorded in 1992, when the currency was forced out of Europe’s exchange-rate mechanism.“Market liquidity and overall liquidity in the U.K. is drying up as we speak in a very rapid way,” said John Woods, chief investment officer for Asia-Pacific at Credit Suisse Private Banking, told Bloomberg TV in Hong Kong. “It’s highly likely that we see monetary easing in a coordinated response” from central banks across the world, he said.The euro slumped 2.7 percent, while currencies in Norway, Sweden and Australia posted even steeper losses.Bonds-Treasuries surged, pushing benchmark yields down the most in seven years, as demand rose for U.S. debt, traditionally a haven for global investors during periods of stress. U.S. 10-year note yields plunged 19 basis points, or 0.19 percentage point, to 1.56 percent. The yield fell as low as 1.4 percent, approaching the record low of 1.38 percent reached in July 2012. The last time it fell more was in March 2009.U.K. government bonds surged amid speculation the Bank of England will maintain an easy monetary policy to ward off the risk of recession after the departure. Benchmark 10-year gilt yields dropped to an all-time low, while those on two-year securities plunged to the lowest since April 2013. S&P Global Ratings is preparing to remove the U.K.’s top credit grade after the country voted to leave the European Union.Europe’s corporate-bond market may be closed for weeks as investors and companies try to divine the implications of the U.K.’s decision. Overall bond sales in Europe next week may total less than 5 billion euros, according to 81 percent of market participants surveyed by Bloomberg. Zero issuance was predicted by 37.5 percent, which would be a first for the year.Commodities-Gold surged the most since the height of the 2008 global financial crisis. Bullion jumped as much as 8.1 percent and futures trading volume was three times the average for this time of day.Other commodities plunged, swept up in the global market frenzy. Brent crude futures slumped as much as 6.6 percent and copper in London sank the most since Jan. 7 as the U.S. dollar surged. The Bloomberg Commodities Index of returns on 22 raw materials fell as much as 2.2 percent, the most since January.“The flight to safety is very, very evident,” said Jeremy Wrathall, head of global natural resources in London at Investec Plc. “Copper is moving down, oil is moving down, it’s a reaction to the dollar. The only commodity that’s not behaving that way is gold.”

EARTHQUAKES

EZEKIEL 37:7,11-14
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.(POSSIBLE QUAKE BRINGS ISRAEL BACK TO LIFE-SO NOISE AND SHAKING-QUAKES WILL ALSO DESTROY ISRAELS ENEMIES)
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

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

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

UPDATE-JUNE 24, 2016-11:55PM

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
18 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2016-06-24 23:59:59 UTCShowing event times using UTC18 earthquakes in map area

    4.6 102km WNW of Iquique, Chile 2016-06-24 22:43:13 UTC 33.1 km
    4.9 Reykjanes Ridge 2016-06-24 22:43:11 UTC 10.0 km
    3.6 50km SSW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2016-06-24 22:18:07 UTC 105.5 km
    4.5 26km NNE of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska 2016-06-24 22:05:44 UTC 163.6 km
    4.5 38km SW of Shizunai, Japan 2016-06-24 22:03:51 UTC 75.3 km
    5.5 73km NNE of Diego de Almagro, Chile 2016-06-24 21:29:15 UTC 130.0 km
    4.6 39km SSE of Shizunai, Japan 2016-06-24 16:40:32 UTC 66.7 km
    2.6 46km SSW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2016-06-24 12:53:37 UTC 113.3 km
    4.6 46km SSW of Brooklyn, New Zealand 2016-06-24 12:38:41 UTC 10.0 km
    4.9 89km S of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska 2016-06-24 09:23:02 UTC 35.0 km
    2.9 1km NW of Lakeland South, Washington 2016-06-24 08:38:34 UTC 22.0 km
    3.3 129km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 2016-06-24 08:36:50 UTC 68.0 km
    5.0 Pacific-Antarctic Ridge 2016-06-24 03:29:43 UTC 10.0 km
    2.5 4km S of Indios, Puerto Rico 2016-06-24 02:36:32 UTC 10.0 km
    2.9 4km SW of Santa Monica, CA 2016-06-24 01:46:35 UTC 9.3 km
    4.7 102km WSW of Manismata, Indonesia 2016-06-24 00:41:35 UTC 16.0 km
    2.8 91km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico 2016-06-24 00:39:08 UTC 10.0 km
    2.6 5km SW of Liborio Negron Torres, Puerto Rico 2016-06-24 00:14:02 UTC 13.0 km
    4.7 115km NW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia 2016-06-24 00:07:12 UTC 19.9 km
    4.4 13km N of Aratoca, Colombia 2016-06-23 22:28:55 UTC 147.0 km

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HEZBOLLAH MP URGES KIDNAPPING ISRAELI CIVILLIANS IN NEXT WAR.

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.

Abbas turns down suggested meet with Rivlin in Brussels-As both leaders visit Belgium to address EU parliament, PA leader declines European invitation for sit-down with Israeli president-By Tamar Pileggi June 23, 2016, 12:54 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas turned down an invitation to meet with President Reuven Rivlin while the two leaders are in Brussels, an Israeli official said Thursday.Rivlins office told The Times of Israel the Palestinian leader “refused to accept a European initiative to set a meeting between the two.”Earlier this week, European Parliament President Martin Schulz sought to arrange what would have been the first meeting between Rivlin and Abbas as both visited the European capital to address MEPs on regional peace initiatives.After speaking with Rivlin on Wednesday, Schulz told reporters he hoped the two leaders would cross paths when Abbas arrived at the assembly later that evening.“I hope (Abbas) will arrive in due time before President Rivlin will leave, so my answer to you is that the diplomatic progress I wish depends a bit on the timetables of both,” he said.“If we achieve that both are crossing the floor in the European Parliament, I think they will not run away from each other so I will do my best,” Schulz added.Rivlin interjected: “I can assure you that I will not run away.”The European Union has been pressing hard to get the stalled Middle East peace process back on track based on a two-state solution.EU foreign ministers on Monday backed a French initiative to call an international conference on the Middle East, aimed at restarting Israeli-Palestinian talks which have been deadlocked since 2014.On Wednesday, Rivlin told MEPs the French plan suffered from “very fundamental faults” and was doomed to fail.“The French initiative suffers from fundamental faults. The attempt to return to negotiations for negotiations’ sake, not only does not bring us near the long-awaited solution, but rather drags us further away from it,” Rivlin said.Like other international initiatives to reach a peace agreement, the president said the plan’s inflexible “all or nothing” approach to the implementation of a two-state solution ignores the total lack of trust between Israelis and Palestinians.Rivlin urged EU nations to instead show patience and facilitate trust-building measures between Israel and the Palestinians.Abbas spoke to the plenary on Thursday, calling for a two-state solution and backing the Arab Peace Initiative, which calls for normalization of ties with Israel in exchange for a full West Bank pullout and other concessions.As part of the French initiative, earlier this month representatives from 28 Arab and Western countries, the Arab League, the European Union and the United Nations met in Paris to discuss ways in which the international community could help advance the Palestinian-Israel peace process. Neither Israeli nor Palestinian representatives were invited to attend the meeting, which aimed to lay the ground for a full-fledged peace conference to be held by the end of the year.AFP contributed to this report.

EU: Israeli accusations of ‘colonialism’ false and offensive-Union snaps back after attack by Foreign Ministry official, says absence of peace agreement has global repercussions-By Raphael Ahren June 22, 2016, 2:37 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

The European Union on Wednesday dismissed strident criticism by an Israeli official — who, among other things, had accused the organization of “colonialism” — as “offensive, inaccurate and inappropriate.”-On Tuesday, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Emmanuel Nahshon told The Times of Israel that the EU’s policies vis-a-vis the Israeli-Palestinian conflict feel like the “ghosts of a colonial European past coming back to life.”The Israeli diplomat further accused European leaders of cynically exploiting the conflict to deflect criticism and to distract the public from their inability to solve the continent’s real pressing problems.Nahshon’s comments “were offensive, inaccurate and inappropriate to the close and deep relations that Israel enjoys with the EU,” an official in the union’s delegation to Israel said the following day.-‘A comprehensive resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has long been a priority for the EU’-“As a partner and as a neighbor, a comprehensive resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has long been a priority for the European Union as it is for Israel,” the official told The Times of Israel, insisting on anonymity because he was not authorized to address the matter in the press.“Contrary to Nahshon’s remarks, the EU is dealing with the challenges it is facing in the world, in the region and at home,” the official said. “The lack of progress in the Middle East peace process, which takes its toll on Israel and on the Palestinians, and continues to reverberate regionally and globally, is one of them.”Nahshon’s comments to The Times of Israel came on the heels of Monday’s meeting of the EU’s 28 foreign ministers in Brussels, after which they unanimously endorsed the French plan to host an international peace process later this year.Israel has repeatedly rejected the French initiative, arguing that it hardens Palestinian negotiating positions and thus distances peace.“When I look at the sequence of the EU implementing labeling [for settlement products] and now the endorsement of an international conference, I feel that those are the ghosts of a colonial European past coming back to life,” Nahshon had fumed.European leaders “have no credibility whatsoever if they deal with this conflict without dealing with the major issues that are far more important to Europe and the world, starting with the Syrian civil war, and challenges that Europe itself is facing, such as Brexit, immigration and Islamic terror,” he said.Jerusalem wonders “whether Israel is not being employed, whether we are not being used in a cynical and deliberate way as a kind of fig leaf, a universal panacea, for a continent that is obviously unwilling or unable to deal with its real issues,” the diplomat thundered.“Unfortunately, the conclusion is that this is probably the case,” he said. “Whenever you are in trouble, whenever you are a European leader unpopular at home, and whenever you face insurmountable challenges, then there’s nothing like organizing a conference on Israel to create a false agenda that will attract attention elsewhere.”If the EU was genuinely concerned about the stalled peace process, it would focus all its efforts on getting the Palestinians to agree to enter direct bilateral talks with Israel, the diplomat said.

Rivlin laments Abbas’s ‘strange’ refusal to meet Israeli leaders-In Brussels, president urges Quartet to give ‘serious consideration’ to Israel’s perspective in upcoming report on stalled peace talks-By Stuart Winer June 23, 2016, 5:54 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

President Reuven Rivlin on Thursday expressed regret over Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas’s refusal to meet with him this week in Europe, calling Abbas’s ongoing avoidance of meetings with Israeli leaders “strange.”Rivlin made the comments during a joint press conference with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini, after the three met in Brussels.He argued that face-to-face negotiations were the best way forward toward a final peace agreement.“Direct talks is the only possible way to build trust to restore the condition for a peace perspective between Israelis and Palestinians,” Rivlin said. “There are no shortcuts or detours in the Middle East. On a personal level, I must say that I find it strange that President Mahmoud Abbas — my friend Abu Mazen — refused again and again to meet with Israeli leaders, and turns again and again to the support of the international community.”Earlier this week Rivlin’s foreign affairs adviser confirmed that EU officials had asked him if he was willing to meet with Abbas while both men were in Brussels.”“We can talk. We can talk directly, and find a way to build confidence…. I was happy to welcome the initiative by the representative of the EU to set up a meeting between me and President Abbas, who is also visiting Brussels on this very day,” he said.“I was very sorry to learn he rejected such a meeting. We will not be able to build trust between us if we don’t begin to speak directly and look at what we can do and what can be done, and not at what cannot be done. And there is a lot, a lot, to be done.”Rivlin also addressed an upcoming report, prepared by the Middle East Quartet — comprising the United Nations, United States, European Union, and Russia — on stalled peace talks with the Palestinians, which is expected to be critical of Israel over its role.“I truly hope this report will take Israel’s perspective into serious consideration,” he said. The country, he said, was obligated to protect its citizens, “not as a right… but as a duty.”Rivlin was in Brussels for a round of meetings with EU leaders, and addressed the European Parliament on Wednesday. Abbas gave a speech to the same plenum on Thursday, taking Israel to task for a series of grievances.Earlier in the week Rivlin met with European Council President Donald Tusk and with the president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz.According to a Tuesday report on the Ynet news site, it was Schulz who pitched to Rivlin the idea of a meeting with Abbas.Rivlin and Abbas were initially supposed to stay in the same hotel during their time in Brussels, the report said, but when the arrangement was publicized, the Palestinian delegation quickly found an alternate location.The EU has recently renewed efforts to push Israelis and Palestinians toward talks on reaching a peace agreement, while positioning itself as a significant element in negotiations.

ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST

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

GENESIS 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

ISAIAH 41:11
11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee (ISRAEL) shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing;(DESTROYED) and they that strive with thee shall perish.(ISRAEL HATERS WILL BE TOTALLY DESTROYED)

ISRAELS TROUBLE

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

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

If occupation ends, so will terror worldwide, Abbas tells EU-In speech to Brussels parliament, PA leader repeats hoax story of rabbis calling for poisoning of Palestinian wells-By Tamar Pileggi June 23, 2016, 2:45 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

In an appeal to the European Union on reaching a two-state solution to the conflict with Israel, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday said an end to Israeli presence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem would eradicate terrorism across the globe.Speaking to European Parliament lawmakers, Abbas also underscored Ramallah’s support for a two-state solution as outlined in the current French peace plan and the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, and pleaded with EU lawmakers to save Palestinians from Israeli “provocations,” including what he said were calls by rabbis to poison Palestinians’ water — repeating a hoax story.“We are against terrorism, in whatever form it may take, and whoever carries it out,” Abbas told members of the European Parliament to a resounding applause.“Once the occupation ends, terrorism will disappear, there will be no more terrorism in the Middle East, or anywhere else in the world,” he said.Speaking a day after his Israeli counterpart Reuven Rivlin spoke in the same venue and rejected the French multilateral peace push, Abbas rebuffed the possibility of reaching an interim peace agreement with Israel as an exercise in pointlessness.“We reject any suggestion of temporary borders or an interim agreement because it’s a waste of time and does not lead anywhere,” he said.“We favor a two-state solution based on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as the capital, and the solution will be based on the Arab Peace Initiative that was approved in 2002 with no changes to it,” Abbas said. “Our hands are extended with a desire for peace, we have the political will to achieve peace.”An international conference aimed at resurrecting the stalled peace talks, to be held later as part of the French plan, must include a “set schedule for negotiations and the implementation of decisions, and constitute a mechanism for the implementation and monitoring of the decisions, as happened in the negotiations with Iran,” he said.The Palestinian leader went on to condemn Israel’s “never-ending provocations” and “fascist policies,” and pointed as proof to sharp criticism of Israel’s current leadership made recently by former prime minister Ehud Barak and former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon.Israel, Abbas charged, has started three wars in Gaza and killed thousands of people in the process. Since 1967, the PA leader continued, Israel has imprisoned over 1 million Palestinians.“Israel has “turned our country into an open-air prison,” Abbas told EU lawmakers. “You are our friends, help us.”In his address, Abbas also touched on the persistent Israeli accusations of Palestinian incitement, saying he was willing to re-start the Tripartite Committee on Incitement watchdog group to monitor calls for violence on either side, a move Israel has consistently rejected.He called for the EU to join the joint US- Israeli-Palestinian commission.While Israel typically accuses Palestinian officials of encouraging violence against Israelis, Abbas claimed that rabbis in Israel had recently called for the poisoning of Palestinian water supplies to murder Palestinians.“The Israelis are doing this as well… certain rabbis in Israel have said very clearly to their government that our water should be poisoned in order to have Palestinians killed,” he said, repeating an anti-Semitic canard.A story reported in the Turkish press earlier in June claimed a rabbi had made such a call, leading to denunciations by the Palestine Liberation Organization, though the story was quickly debunked.Abbas went on to press EU lawmakers on why Israel was “free to act with impunity” and was not held accountable under international law.“Why is international law not being applied in the case of Israel?” he asked to applause by MEP lawmakers.The European Union has been pressing hard to get the stalled Middle East peace process back on track based on a two-state solution.EU foreign ministers on Monday backed a French initiative to call an international conference on the Middle East aimed at restarting Israeli-Palestinian talks, which have been deadlocked since 2014.On Wednesday Rivlin addressed the EU parliament, saying the French plan was doomed to fail and suffered from “very fundamental faults.Like other international initiatives to reach a peace agreement, the president said the plan’s inflexible “all or nothing” approach to the implementation of a two-state solution ignores the total lack of trust between Israelis and Palestinians.Rivlin urged EU nations to instead show patience and facilitate trust-building measures between Israel and the Palestinians.Later Thursday, President Reuven Rivlin was set to meet with EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini.Abbas met with Mogherini earlier in the day, and told a press conference he had doubts about Israel’s commitment to peace-“If Israel wanted peace with its Arab neighbors, it must end its control over our people and home country first by withdrawing from our lands and acknowledging the rights of our people, which also has a significant interest for Israel as it would be possible then to apply the Arab Peace Initiative in accordance with the Beirut conference of 2002,” Abbas said.Earlier in the day, Rivlin’s office said Abbas had spurned an attempt to broker a sit-down between the two while in Brussels.

Israel accuses Abbas of peddling lies, promoting blood libels-Netanyahu’s office says the Palestinian leader showed his ‘true colors’ in Brussels speech to European parliament-By Times of Israel staff June 23, 2016, 8:46 pm

Israel excoriated Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday, saying he was peddling lies and promoting blood libels after the he told European lawmakers in Brussels that terrorism worldwide would be eradicated if only Israel withdrew from the West Bank and East Jerusalem.Abbas also pleaded with EU lawmakers to save Palestinians from Israeli “provocations,” including what he said were calls by rabbis to poison Palestinians’ water — repeating a debunked hoax story.“Abbas showed his true colors in Brussels. Someone who refuses to meet with the [Israeli] president [Reuven Rivlin] and with Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu for direct negotiations, and someone who promotes blood libels in the European parliament, is lying when he claims his hand is outstretched in peace,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement.“Israel waits for the day Abbas stops peddling lies and inciting [against Israel]. Until then, Israel will continue to defend itself against Palestinian incitement, which fuels terror,” the statement said.In his speech earlier Thursday, Abbas cited recent criticisms of the current Israeli leadership by former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon and former prime minister Ehud Barak in condemning Israel’s “never-ending provocations” and “fascist policies.”Ya’alon took issue with Abbas’s mention of him, accusing the Palestinian leader of taking advantage of “true, healthy, democratic dialogue that exists in Israeli society (and that does not exist in his).”Abbas, said Ya’alon in a Facebook status, was “lying, as usual, and continuing to propagate blood libels against Israel,” and was proving yet again that he was never interested in an “agreement that recognizes the State of Israel as the state of the Jewish people.”“We mustn’t delude ourselves,” urged the former defense minister, who was recently effectively ousted from his position following a political upheaval that saw Yisrael Beytenu join Netanyahu’s ruling coalition and Avigdor Liberman take up the prestigious defense portfolio.Earlier Thursday, Abbas refused to meet with Rivlin, who was also in Brussels and who addressed the European Parliament a day earlier.US-based Jewish groups joined the fray in denouncing Abbas, with the Anti-Defamation League accusing Abbas of making a speech that “interspersed claims of an interest in reconciliation with Israel with base allegations against the Jewish state, which are reminiscent of age-old anti-Semitic stereotypes.”“Unfortunately, conspiratorial incitement by the Palestinian Authority is not new,” said ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, adding that Abbas’s “charges of an Israeli effort to poison Palestinian water, and claims of Israel serving as the root of terrorism worldwide, are particularly disturbing and significant.”The American Jewish Committee also issued a sharp rebuke of the PA president, calling him a “great disappointer” who “abused an international platform to deliver yet another tirade full of invectives and falsehoods against Israel.”AJC CEO David Harris said that “Abbas’s malicious attack contradicts any attempt he made to verbally offer a hand for peace. Indeed, Abbas demonstrably held back his hand both by his remarks, and by rejecting an EU request that he meet with President Rivlin.”In his speech, Abbas said the Palestinian Authority supported efforts to reach a two-state solution as outlined in the current French peace plan and the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, and dismissed calls for an interim agreement.“We reject any suggestion of temporary borders or an interim agreement because it’s a waste of time and does not lead anywhere,” he said.“We favor a two-state solution based on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as the capital, and the solution will be based on the Arab Peace Initiative that was approved in 2002 with no changes to it,” Abbas continued. “Our hands are extended with a desire for peace, we have the political will to achieve peace.”An international conference aimed at resurrecting the stalled peace talks, to be held later as part of the French plan, must include a “set schedule for negotiations and the implementation of decisions, and constitute a mechanism for the implementation and monitoring of the decisions, as happened in the negotiations with Iran,” he said.The Palestinian leader also claimed that “once the occupation ends, terrorism will disappear, there will be no more terrorism in the Middle East, or anywhere else in the world.”He accused Israel of turning “our country into an open-air prison.”Touching on persistent Israeli accusations of Palestinian incitement, Abbas claimed that rabbis in Israel had recently called for the poisoning of Palestinian water supplies to murder Palestinians.“The Israelis are doing this as well… certain rabbis in Israel have said very clearly to their government that our water should be poisoned in order to have Palestinians killed,” he said, repeating an anti-Semitic canard.A story reported in the Turkish press earlier in June claimed a rabbi had made such a call, leading to denunciations by the Palestine Liberation Organization, though the story was quickly debunked.Abbas went on to press EU lawmakers on why Israel was “free to act with impunity” and was not held accountable under international law.“Why is international law not being applied in the case of Israel?” he asked to applause by MEP lawmakers.The European Union has been pressing hard to get the stalled Middle East peace process back on track based on a two-state solution.EU foreign ministers on Monday backed a French initiative to call an international conference on the Middle East aimed at restarting Israeli-Palestinian talks, which have been deadlocked since 2014.

Hezbollah MP urges kidnapping Israeli civilians in next war-Walid Sukkarieh says seizing northern communities would block Israeli use of disproportionate force, create new balance of power-By Times of Israel staff June 23, 2016, 10:02 pm

A member of parliament from the political arm of Lebanese terror group Hezbollah called for Israeli communities to be captured and civilians taken hostage in any future war with Israel.Speaking on Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV, MP Walid Sukkarieh said that in addition to the group’s missile arsenal — said to number in the tens of thousands — an offensive to seize northern Israeli communities should be employed to prevent Israel from retaliating and implementing its “Dahiyeh Doctrine,” a military strategy that advocates the use of disproportionate force against a militant entity by destroying civilian infrastructure.The strategy, named after a suburb of Beirut, was implemented in the Second Lebanon War in 2006 to level whole buildings in the Hezbollah stronghold using sustained airstrikes. The doctrine was first mentioned in 2008 by the then head of the IDF’s northern division and current IDF chief of staff, Gadi Eisenkot, who warned that Israel would reapply the strategy in every village in Lebanon from which Israel is attacked.Israel is preparing to mark the 10-year anniversary of the 34-day war next month.Sukkarieh said in his interview on June 18 that Israel could not implement the doctrine if Hezbollah holds Israelis hostage in another round of conflict.“The Israeli people would be a prisoner in our hands. This would prevent Israel from targeting civilians on our side. It would not be able to implement the Dahiyeh strategy. They have threatened that in the next war, they will implement this strategy and destroy all of Lebanon. What will they destroy if we hold settlements hostage? We will have hostages. If they kill us, we will kill them,” he argued, according to a translation posted Thursday by the Middle East Media Research Institute.The Hezbollah MP added that seizing Israeli lands would create a new balance of power in the region, one in favor of the Palestinian cause, and that no outside element would successfully force Hezbollah to withdraw.“Under these circumstances, no resolution will be able to force you to withdraw to your previous positions, and to hand this land back to Israel. Even the Arab [regimes] would not be able to tolerate this. The worst Arab regimes would not be able to accept this. They would not be able to say: ‘Hezbollah managed to liberate a settlement in Palestine, but it must withdraw from it.’ A new situation will be forced upon the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel,[and] upon the Palestinian cause as a whole,” he said.Last week, Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz warned that Lebanon would be “ruined” in any future conflict between the IDF and Hezbollah, calling Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah a “megalomaniac” with no concept of reality.“Hezbollah continues to be the primary non-state threat, not only to Israel but also to Lebanon,” he told the Herzliya Conference, an annual seminar reviewing Israel’s security.He added that a conflict with the group could be triggered by a minor incident due to “the megalomaniac character of the organization’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, a fanatical personality who lacks any conception of reality except, perhaps, anything to do with protecting his personal security.”His remarks came a day after IDF Military Intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Herzl Halevy, speaking at the same conference, put particular emphasis on the threat from Hezbollah in Lebanon.Hezbollah is believed to have an arsenal of more than 100,000 missiles and rockets, along with weapons systems “that they never had before,” Halevy said.But Katz said that it is Israel’s northern neighbor and the Hezbollah leader who had the most to lose in a conflict with Israel.“A war in Lebanon and an attack on the Israeli home front will bring about the ousting of Nasrallah and will bring ruin to Lebanon,” he predicted.

JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)

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,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
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)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

UN official: Israel to ratify nuke test ban treaty within 5 years-Lassina Zerbo meets with PM Netanyahu, makes his case for the Jewish state to pick the ‘low-hanging fruit’ of the pact-By Judah Ari Gross June 23, 2016, 5:34 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

Year after year, Dr. Lassina Zerbo returns to Israel with the hope of convincing the Jewish state to ratify an international treaty banning nuclear tests, a move the UN nuclear test ban czar claims would have little negative effect on Israel’s security but would be a “serious step forward in showing goodwill on arms control.”Though his task may seem Sisyphean and occasionally “frustrating,” the head of the United Nation’s Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization sees progress being made, notably in the fact that this year he met personally with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, instead of meeting with a cabinet minister as he has done in the past.“It’s a step up. The issue has been elevated to [Netanyahu’s] level,” Zerbo told The Times of Israel in the lobby of Tel Aviv’s David InterContinental Hotel on Tuesday.Netanyahu, for his part, was apparently convinced of the argument, saying this week that Israel would ratify the treaty at some point in the future, depending upon “the regional context and the appropriate timing.”The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, known as the CTBT, was passed by the United Nations in 1996. Though Israel signed the treaty, it — along with seven other countries — has yet to ratify it, keeping the CTBT from being fully implemented.For the treaty to go into effect, it still needs to be ratified by China, the United States, Egypt, Israel and Iran, and needs to be both signed and ratified by North Korea, India and Pakistan.In the meantime, using 337 facilities around the world, Zerbo’s organization monitors seismic activity and sound waves on land and underwater, as well as radioactive particles, to detect nuclear detonations anywhere on the planet.The nuclear test ban treaty is different from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which tries to prevent the spread of atomic weapons, in that the CTBT looks only to ban nuclear detonation tests — think Bikini Atoll — something Israel allegedly hasn’t done since the late 1970s.In fact, the only country that is believed to have conducted such a test in the past decade is North Korea, according to the CTBTO.The US military detected the dictatorial regime’s latest test earlier this month, but the CTBTO picked up the country’s last nuclear detonation in January.“No decent country in the world will carry out a nuclear test explosion — that [practice] is done,” Zerbo said.For this reason, the CTBTO executive secretary regularly refers to the treaty as “low-hanging fruit,” a measure that the vast majority of countries have agreed to already.-Lots to gain, little to lose-During their 40-minute meeting, he and Netanyahu held a “frank and open discussion” about the nuclear test ban treaty, and the prime minister was “well-informed on the issue,” Zerbo said.Zerbo was somewhat surprised by how well the conversation went, considering Israel’s sometimes publicly acrimonious relationship with the United Nations.“I think it went better than anyone expected — though I probably shouldn’t say that,” he said.Nevertheless, the conversation was a “step up and a step forward” in getting Israel to ratify the treaty, Zerbo said.To Zerbo, who is originally from Burkina Faso but now operates out of Vienna, ratifying the treaty would give Israel more information about who is conducting nuclear tests and would make Israel “less isolated” in the international community.And the cost, he argued, would be minimal. The CTBT would not impede Israel’s ability to carry out laboratory tests or employ its alleged second strike capabilities in the case of an attack.Zerbo was unwilling to hazard a precise estimation of when Israel would ratify the treaty, but said he expected it would happen “sometime in the next five years.”He added, “That can mean tomorrow or in five years.”One of the hang-ups in the past was the lack of monitoring stations in the region, which Israel’s representative to the CTBTO, Merav Zafary-Odiz, has said would keep the treaty from being fully enforceable in the region. A planned facility in Egypt has yet to be built, and an existing detection site in Iran is not connected to the rest of the network.But in the past year a monitoring station was completed in Turkmenistan, just north of Iran, Zerbo said, which will provide additional coverage for the Middle East.Plus, he added, the construction of the Egyptian facility was only “a matter of time.”However, Israel’s main concerns regarding the CTBT have less to do with the treaty itself and more with the “regional context,” Netanyahu said, presumably referring to Iran, which has also not yet ratified the treaty.Israel would be loath to take the potential first steps toward nuclear non-proliferation if its neighbors were not doing the same.In the year since Zerbo’s last visit to Israel, the Iran nuclear deal was signed, halting the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program at least temporarily.While he thinks it was a “mistake” that ratifying the CTBT was not a part of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — something that should have been a “no-brainer” — he said he understood that throwing too many things into the agreement could have potentially scuttled the whole deal.Though it was not required by the JCPOA, Zerbo told the Associated Press that Iran should still ratify the treaty as a sign of “good faith or goodwill.”Since the signing of the JCPOA last year, Zerbo has met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to convince him to get Iran to do so.Zarif appeared to be in favor of the action and seemed “sincere” in saying so, but Zerbo did not seem convinced that it would happen any time soon.Rather, he said, it was important to focus on the younger generation of Iranians “who are interested in connecting with the world.”Zerbo’s work, traveling around the world to convince the remaining eight countries to ratify the nuclear test ban treaty, can be “frustrating” and slow-going.“But you have to love the process,” he said.Though he loves his work and believes in the CTBT, Zerbo said he would like nothing more than to be out of a job.Looking out the hotel window toward the Mediterranean Sea, he said that on the day the last country ratifies the nuclear test ban “I will lie down under a palm tree, look up at the sky and enjoy life.”