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)
LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these
things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE)
then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE)
draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30
When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that
summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT
COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
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.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor
their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath;
but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for
he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC
BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be
stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of
hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
And here
are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through
war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only
Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land
in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel,
Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half
of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18,
Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY
OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND
IN THE FUTURE
Trump said to be considering son-in-law
Kushner for chief of staff role-Senior adviser tasked with
administration’s plans for Middle East peace reportedly eyed for key
White House role, as US president scrambles to find replacement for
Kelly-By Agencies and TOI staff-DEC 17,18
Jared Kushner
is being considered for the White House chief of staff position, CBS
News reported Thursday.Kushner met with US President Donald Trump on
Wednesday to discuss the possibility of him taking the job and replacing
John Kelly, who is set to leave at the end of the year, the outlet
reported.Kushner, an Orthodox Jew who is married to Trump’s daughter
Ivanka, is tasked with leading the US administration’s Middle East peace
efforts and has been serving as Trump’s senior adviser since the
president took office.Trump is scrambling to find a new chief of staff
after his first choice to replace Kelly — Nick Ayers, Vice President
Mike Pence’s chief of staff — bailed at the last minute, and several
other potential successors signaled they weren’t interested in the
job.As quickly as names were being floated, candidates appeared to be
pulling themselves from consideration, underscoring the challenges of
working for a mercurial president who has acknowledged that he likes to
surround himself with chaos and despises any suggestion he’s being
managed.Trump’s administration has set records for staff turnover, and
the president has often struggled to attract experienced political
professionals, a challenge that has grown more difficult with the
upcoming threat of costly Democratic oversight investigations and an
uncertain political environment.Trump has already burned through two
chiefs of staff — a former chairman of the Republican National Committee
and a retired Marine four-star general — subjecting them to regular
humiliation and ridicule.Former RNC Chairman Reince Priebus’s departure
from the White House was unceremoniously announced by tweet. Nearly 18
months later, Trump stepped on an orderly succession plan for Kelly,
making a surprise Saturday announcement on the White House lawn that the
retired general would be leaving by year’s end.Ayers’ ascension and
Kelly’s departure looked like a done deal Friday night, according to
multiple people in and close to the administration, with an announcement
planned for Monday. Trump and Ayers had discussed the job for months,
and the president had already been steering inquiries to the Pence
staffer rather than Kelly. These people, like others, spoke on the
condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters.But Trump
jumped the gun Saturday, and Ayers re-evaluated his decision. While a
White House official said Ayers’ decision was driven by a desire to
return to Georgia to be closer to his family, people familiar with his
thinking said he was also worried about scrutiny of his former political
consulting business. He and Trump also could not reach agreement on
Ayers’ length of service. Ayers wanted to serve on an interim basis;
Trump wanted a two-year commitment.Trump was stung by Ayers’ decision to
back out, according to people close to him. The embarrassment comes at a
pivotal time for Trump, as he prepares for re-election while facing an
expected onslaught of investigations from Democrats who will take
control of the House and amid the ongoing Russia probe.When Trump
appoints a replacement for Kelly, he will set a record for most chiefs
of staff within the first 24 months of an administration, according to
an analysis by Kathryn Dunn Tenpas of the Brookings Institution.Yet
Trump once mocked his predecessor for chief of staff turnover.“3 Chief
of Staffs in less than 3 years of being President: Part of the reason
why @BarackObama can’t manage to pass his agenda,” Trump wrote in a 2012
tweet.Trump had said Saturday that he would be announcing Kelly’s
replacement in the next day or two. But with Ayers no longer waiting in
the wings, there is fear that Trump may not have someone in place in
time for Kelly’s departure or that he will pick the first person who
comes to mind as he tries to counter perceptions that no one wants the
position.Trump has told confidants that he is eager to bring on someone
he gets along with as his third chief of staff. While he still had a
measure of respect for Kelly, the men’s personal relationship had long
been frosty. This time, Trump has told allies, he wants someone he can
chat with — trading gossip and complaining about media coverage — as
well as someone more attuned politically.Trump has also told people
around him that he misses the more freewheeling feel of the Oval Office
under Priebus and would not let his new chief of staff set the kinds of
limits he allowed Kelly to impose.
Vienna says still wants
to give citizenship to descendants of Holocaust victims-Rebutting claim
that far-right Freedom Party stalling the move, Austrian envoy says it
has broad consensus but is part of a ‘slow process’-By Raphael Ahren-17
December 2018
The government in Vienna remains fully
committed to advancing legislation granting citizenship to the
descendants of Austrian Holocaust victims, Austrian officials insisted
Thursday, rebuffing a report claiming that parts of the ruling coalition
were stalling on the promised reform.“Amending the Austrian Citizenship
Law in order to extend the Austrian citizenship to Shoah victims’
descendants enjoys wide support by all political parties represented in
the Austrian Parliament,” Martin Weiss, the country’s ambassador in Tel
Aviv, told The Times of Israel.“It is true that the current overhaul of
the Austrian Citizenship Law, of which this provision is part of, is a
slow process. However, amending basic citizenship laws is — entirely
unrelated to the issue of extending the Austrian citizenship to Shoah
victims’ descendants — always a politically sensitive process,” he
added.Besides the descendants of Holocaust victims, the planned
citizenship law reform would also include granting Austrian passports to
German speakers in South Tyrol and UK citizens with Austrian
roots.Earlier on Thursday, the Haaretz newspaper reported that the plan
to give descendants of Holocaust victims Austrian passports “has been
stymied” by the far-right Freedom Party, “saying it would set a
precedent for other foreigners.”The Freedom Party, known by its German
acronym FPOe, is the junior partner in Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s
ruling coalition. Due to its Nazi past, the local Jewish community and
the State of Israel are boycotting the party and its officials.Haaretz’s
description of the situation is “very misleading,” according to
Weiss.“No member of the Austrian government is on record opposing the
extension of the Austrian citizenship to the descendants of Shoah
victims,” the ambassador said. “Quite on the contrary: the Chancellor,
Vice-Chancellor [FPOe leader Heinz-Christian Strache] and Foreign
Minister [Karin Kneissl] have repeatedly said — on the record — that
they are in full support. To suggest otherwise is simply false.”The
current government has repeatedly committed itself to extending Austrian
citizenship to the descendants of Holocaust victims, including in a
formal decision in March, Weiss added. Indeed, the move “enjoys wide
support by all political parties represented in the Austrian
parliament,” he stressed.Also Foreign Minister Kneissl, who is
affiliated with but not a member of the FPOe, on Thursday reiterated her
government’s commitment to advancing the planned amendment to the
country’s citizenship law.At the same time, she criticized as “mistimed”
an initiative by the Social Democrats, who sit in the opposition, who
on Thursday introduced their own bill that would grant Austrian
citizenship to descendants of people who fled the country due to Nazi
persecution.Austria would first have to withdraw from a 1968 European
Council Convention on the Reduction of Cases of Multiple Nationality and
on Military Obligations in Cases of Multiple Nationality, she argued.In
a November interview with The Times of Israel, Kneissl had said that
she was “very glad indeed that the descendants of Austrian Holocaust
survivors — even in the second and third generation — will soon be able
to receive Austrian citizenship while maintaining their current
nationality.”At the time, she said it was too early to say when exactly
descendants of Holocaust survivors could apply for Austrian
passports.“We are in the process of preparing a detailed legislative
proposal for this, so it is a bit too early to say when this new law
will be adopted by parliament. But we are speaking about months, not
years,” she said.“There will definitely be a few hundred Israelis who
are interested in receiving the Austrian citizenship, maybe more,” she
estimated.According to current Austrian law, only children — but not
grandchildren — of Austrian citizens persecuted during the Holocaust
could claim Austrian nationality. The coalition agreement struck by
Chancellor Kurz’s People’s Party and Strache’s far-right FPOe promised
to consider changing the existing situation.
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)
ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
1
The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which
stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth,
and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make
Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they
shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And
in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people:
all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all
the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that
day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his
rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah,
and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
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.
Israel
said ‘disappointed’ by Australia’s recognition of West Jerusalem
only-Foreign Ministry issues reserved response to Canberra’s
declaration, welcomes opening of defense and trade office; but senior
officials say: ‘We expected more’-By TOI staff-DEC 17,18
Israel’s
Foreign Ministry on Saturday evening issued a positive yet decidedly
tempered response to Australia’s decision to recognize West Jerusalem as
the nation’s capital.In a short statement, the ministry — which, due to
the lack of a foreign minister, is directly under the authority of
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — did not comment on the recognition
itself, but called Canberra’s decision to open a defense and trade
office in Jerusalem “a step in the right direction.”It also welcomed
Australia’s stance on “sanctions against Iran and its steadfast position
in support of Israel at the UN and against anti-Semitism.”Meanwhile a
senior Israeli official told Hebrew media anonymously that Israel was
disappointed by Australia’s decision to stress that its recognition only
pertained to West Jerusalem.“We’re disappointed with the Australian
decision…[Prime Minister Scott] Morrison only went half-way. It’s a step
in the right direction, but we expected more,” the official said.The
official said Israel was also unhappy that Australia continued to
support the nuclear deal with Iran, which Morrison has said in the past
he was open to reviewing.Unlike the US last December, Australia did not
recognize all of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. It also stopped short of
announcing a relocation of its embassy from Tel Aviv, saying it would
only do so after a peace accord is achieved with the Palestinians.Yuval
Rotem, director general of the Foreign Ministry and a former Israeli
ambassador to Canberra, issued a warmer response, tweeting: “I welcome
Australia’s announcement recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital,
reflecting the Jewish people’s historical bond to Jerusalem, and a
practical approach to the future of the peace process in our
region.”Minister for Regional Cooperation Tzachi Hanegbi (Likud)
tweeted: “Australia is a great friend of Israel and we greatly
appreciate our friendship and warm relations. But there is no such thing
as ‘West Jerusalem’ and ‘East Jerusalem.’ There is only Jerusalem, the
eternal and undivided capital of the state of Israel.”#Australia is a
great friend of #Israel and we greatly appreciate our friendship and
warm relations. But there is no such thing as “West Jerusalem” and “East
Jerusalem”. There is only Jerusalem, the eternal and undivided capital
of the state of Israel.— Tzachi Hanegbi | @Tzachi_Hanegbi) December 15,
2018-Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) called the Australian
statement “difficult to understand…all of Jerusalem is our eternal
capital, not just a part of it.”Science and Technology Minister Ofir
Akunis (Likud) thanked Canberra, but he too added that “all of Jerusalem
has been our capital for the past 3,000 years.”Morrison, in a speech
early Saturday, said: “The Australian government has decided that
Australia now recognizes West Jerusalem, as the seat of the Knesset and
many of the institutions of government, is the capital of Israel.”He
said the decision respects both a commitment to a two-state solution and
longstanding respect for relevant UN Security Council
resolutions.Morrison also committed to recognizing the aspirations for a
future state of Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital when the
city’s status is determined in a peace deal.While the embassy move is
delayed, Morrison said his government will establish a defense and trade
office in Jerusalem and will also start looking for an appropriate site
for the embassy.“We look forward to moving our embassy to West
Jerusalem when practical, in support of and after final status of
determination,” he said, adding that work on a new site for the embassy
was under way.The prime minister said it was in Australia’s interests to
support “liberal democracy” in the Middle East and took aim at the
United Nations he said was a place where Israel is “bullied.”The
opposition Labor party slammed Morrison for putting “self-interest ahead
of the national interest.”“Recognizing West Jerusalem as Israel’s
capital, while continuing to locate Australia’s embassy in Tel Aviv, is
nothing more than a face-saving exercise,” shadow minister for foreign
affairs Penny Wong said in a statement.“This is a decision which is all
risk and no gain,” she said, adding it puts Australia “out of step” with
the international community.Palestinians excoriated the decision, with
top official Saeb Erekat saying the move was “irresponsible.”Erekat, who
serves as a top aide to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
and is head of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Executive
Committee, said the decision was “one wherein petty domestic politics
steer irresponsible policies that contradict world peace and
security.”The Palestinian negotiator also dismissed Australian claims
that the move would help advance a two-state solution, saying Canberra
refuses to recognize Palestine as a state, votes against the Palestinian
right to self-determination, and continues to trade with Israeli
settlements in the West Bank.“All of Jerusalem remains a final status
issue for negotiations, while East Jerusalem, under international law,
is an integral part of the occupied Palestinian territory,” he added in
the statement.Australia had on Friday warned citizens to take care while
traveling in neighboring Muslim-majority Indonesia ahead of the
expected announcement by Morrison.While Australia’s then-foreign
minister Julie Bishop said in June that “the Australian government will
not be moving our embassy to Jerusalem,” Morrison said in October that
he was “open-minded” regarding following the American example.But
Morrison’s statement was seen by many Australians as a political stunt.
Critics called it a cynical attempt to win votes in a by-election in
October for a Sydney seat with a high Jewish population.Recognizing
Jerusalem is expected to help the embattled Australian PM — who faces
the prospect of an election drubbing next year — with Jewish and
conservative Christian voters and win him friends in the White
House.Opposition leader Bill Shorten said Saturday that the decision to
recognize West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital but not move the embassy
there was a “humiliating backdown” from the October by-election
campaign.“What I’m worried is that Mr. Morrison put his political
interest ahead of our national interest,” Shorten told reporters.Both
Israel and the Palestinians claim Jerusalem as their capital. Israel
captured Arab East Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day War and later annexed
it in a move never recognized by the international community. It sees
the entire city as its capital.For decades the international community
maintained that the city’s status should be negotiated between Israel
and the Palestinians. Critics say declaring Jerusalem the capital of
either inflames tensions and prejudges the outcome of final status peace
talks.Morrison’s supporters argue Israel has the right to choose its
own capital and peace talks are dead in the water, so there is no peace
to prejudge.But the move still risks heightening unrest, not least in
Australia’s immediate neighbor and the world’s most populous Muslim
nation.Indonesia’s government, facing domestic pressure at home, had
reacted angrily earlier this year, when Morrison floated the idea of
both recognizing Jerusalem and moving the Australian embassy there. The
issue has put the conclusion of a bilateral trade agreement on
hold.Raphal Ahren and Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
Bahrain
defends Australia’s recognition of West Jerusalem as Israeli
capital-After Arab League lashes out at Canberra, Manama’s FM says its
comments are ‘irresponsible’ and asserts move does not hurt
Palestinians-By TOI staff-DEC 17,18
As Palestinians and
the Arab League on Saturday condemned Australia’s recognition of West
Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the move was somewhat surprisingly
defended by one Arab nation — Bahrain.The Arab League in a statement
said it “strongly condemns” Australia’s move which it called
“irresponsible and biased” and “contrary to international law.” It
warned that the decision would only “encourage the occupation to
continue its aggression, arrogance, settlement and defiance of
international resolutions” and added that the move could have serious
ramifications for Arab-Australian relations.But Bahrain’s Foreign
Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa took issue with the statement,
saying in a tweet: “These are irresponsible statements. Australia’s
position does not hamper the legitimate demands of the Palestinians and
first and foremost East Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital. It also
does not contradict the Arab Peace Initiative.”Israel and Bahrain do not
have diplomatic relations, but are said to have solid clandestine ties.
Both countries see in Iran a strategic threat.Earlier this month Al
Khalifa tweeted support for Israel’s operation to expose and destroy
Hezbollah’s cross-border tunnels and in May said the Jewish state had
the right to defend itself.Australia on Saturday officially recognized
West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said,
but a contentious embassy shift from Tel Aviv will not occur until a
peace settlement is achieved.“The Australian government has decided that
Australia now recognizes West Jerusalem, as the seat of the Knesset and
many of the institutions of government, is the capital of Israel,” he
said.He said the decision respects both a commitment to a two-state
solution and longstanding respect for relevant UN Security Council
resolutions.Morrison also committed to recognizing the aspirations for a
future state of Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital when the
city’s status is determined in a peace deal.“All of Jerusalem remains a
final status issue for negotiations, while East Jerusalem, under
international law, is an integral part of the occupied Palestinian
territory,” he said.While the embassy move is delayed, Morrison said his
government will establish a defense and trade office in Jerusalem and
will also start looking for an appropriate site for the embassy.Top
Palestinian official Saeb Erekat issued a withering response, calling on
Arab nations to sever their ties with Canberra and saying the decision
was “one wherein petty domestic politics steer irresponsible policies
that contradict world peace and security.”Erekat, who serves as a top
aide to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and is head of the
Palestine Liberation Organization’s Executive Committee, also dismissed
Australian claims that the move would help advance a two-state
solution, saying Canberra refuses to recognize Palestine as a state,
votes against the Palestinian right to self-determination, and continues
to trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank.Jordan also
condemned Canberra, saying its move was “biased towards Israel” and only
served to “perpetuate the occupation.”Morrison’s move was seen by many
Australians as a political stunt. Recognizing Jerusalem is expected to
help the embattled Australian PM — who faces the prospect of an election
drubbing next year — with Jewish and conservative Christian voters and
win him friends in the White House.Australia’s opposition Labor party
slammed Morrison for putting “self-interest ahead of the national
interest.”“Recognizing West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, while
continuing to locate Australia’s embassy in Tel Aviv, is nothing more
than a face-saving exercise,” shadow minister for foreign affairs Penny
Wong said in a statement.“This is a decision which is all risk and no
gain,” she said, adding it puts Australia “out of step” with the
international community.Both Israel and the Palestinians claim Jerusalem
as their capital. Israel captured Arab East Jerusalem in the 1967 Six
Day War and later annexed it in a move never recognized by the
international community. It sees the entire city as its capital.For
decades the international community maintained that the city’s status
should be negotiated between Israel and the Palestinians. Critics say
declaring Jerusalem the capital of either inflames tensions and
prejudges the outcome of final status peace talks.Agencies contributed
to this report.
Erekat slams Australian recognition of West
Jerusalem as Israel’s capital-Palestinian official says move is
‘irresponsible’; PM Scott Morrison announces embassy to remain in Tel
Aviv until peace is achieved, but defense, trade office to open in
capital-By Agencies and TOI staff-DEC 17,18
Top
Palestinian official Saeb Erekat responded Saturday to Australia’s
recognition of West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, calling the move
“irresponsible.”Erekat, who serves as a top aide to Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and is head of the Palestine
Liberation Organization’s Executive Committee, said the decision was
“one wherein petty domestic politics steer irresponsible policies that
contradict world peace and security.”The Palestinian negotiator also
dismissed Australian claims that the move would help advance a two-state
solution, saying Canberra refuses to recognize Palestine as a state,
votes against the Palestinian right to self-determination, and continues
to trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank.“All of Jerusalem
remains a final status issue for negotiations, while East Jerusalem,
under international law, is an integral part of the occupied Palestinian
territory,” he added in the statement.Australia on Saturday officially
recognized West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Prime Minister Scott
Morrison said, but a contentious embassy shift from Tel Aviv will not
occur until a peace settlement is achieved.“The Australian government
has decided that Australia now recognizes West Jerusalem, as the seat of
the Knesset and many of the institutions of government, is the capital
of Israel,” he said.He said the decision respects both a commitment to a
two-state solution and longstanding respect for relevant UN Security
Council resolutions.Morrison also committed to recognizing the
aspirations for a future state of Palestine with East Jerusalem as its
capital when the city’s status is determined in a peace deal.While the
embassy move is delayed, Morrison said his government will establish a
defense and trade office in Jerusalem and will also start looking for an
appropriate site for the embassy.“We look forward to moving our embassy
to West Jerusalem when practical, in support of and after final status
of determination,” he said, adding that work on a new site for the
embassy was under way.The prime minister said it was in Australia’s
interests to support “liberal democracy” in the Middle East and took aim
at the United Nations he said was a place where Israel is “bullied.”The
opposition Labor party slammed Morrison for putting “self-interest
ahead of the national interest.”“Recognizing West Jerusalem as Israel’s
capital, while continuing to locate Australia’s embassy in Tel Aviv, is
nothing more than a face-saving exercise,” shadow minister for foreign
affairs Penny Wong said in a statement.“This is a decision which is all
risk and no gain,” she said, adding it puts Australia “out of step” with
the international community.The General Delegation of Palestine to
Australia and New Zealand on Saturday released a statement linking
Morrison’s decision to domestic politics.“Many strong arguments have
been advanced between Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s floating the idea
during the Wentworth by-election campaign and now and most of them have
exposed the faulty thinking and flimsy pretexts that underpin the case
of the proponents of this move,” the statement said.Australia had on
Friday warned citizens to take care while traveling in neighboring
Muslim-majority Indonesia ahead of the expected announcement by
Morrison.While Australia’s then-foreign minister Julie Bishop said in
June that “the Australian government will not be moving our embassy to
Jerusalem,” Morrison said in October that he was “open-minded” regarding
following the American example.But Morrison’s statement was seen by
many Australians as a political stunt. Critics called it a cynical
attempt to win votes in a by-election in October for a Sydney seat with a
high Jewish population.Opposition leader Bill Shorten said Saturday
that the decision to recognize West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital but
not move the embassy there was a “humiliating backdown” from the October
by-election campaign.“What I’m worried is that Mr. Morrison put his
political interest ahead of our national interest,” Shorten told
reporters.Both Israel and the Palestinians claim Jerusalem as their
capital. Israel captured Arab East Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day War and
later annexed it in a move never recognized by the international
community. It sees the entire city as its capital.For decades the
international community maintained that the city’s status should be
negotiated between Israel and the Palestinians. Critics say declaring
Jerusalem the capital of either inflames tensions and prejudges the
outcome of final status peace talks.Morrison’s mid-October announcement
that he was “open-minded” to following the United States in recognizing
Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, drew criticism at home. Australia’s
spy agency warned the move could provoke further violent unrest in
Israel, while opposition lawmakers accused the prime minister of
cynically pandering to Jewish voters ahead of a crucial
by-election.Recognizing Jerusalem is expected to help the embattled
Australian PM — who faces the prospect of an election drubbing next year
— with Jewish and conservative Christian voters and win him friends in
the White House.His supporters argue Israel has the right to choose its
own capital and peace talks are dead in the water, so there is no peace
to prejudge.But the move still risks heightening unrest, not least in
Australia’s immediate neighbor and the world’s most populous Muslim
nation.Indonesia’s government, facing domestic pressure at home, had
reacted angrily earlier this year, when Morrison floated the idea of
both recognizing Jerusalem and moving the Australian embassy there.The
issue has put the conclusion of a bilateral trade agreement on hold.
Mashaal
calls for guerrilla warfare to ‘liberate West Bank’ and ‘all
Palestine’-Former Hamas chief says ‘resistance’ is ‘pinnacle of life’
and defines Palestinians: ‘I resist, therefore I am’-By TOI staff-DEC
17,18
The former leader of the Hamas terror group has
called on West Bank Palestinians to prepare for “guerrilla warfare” in
the West Bank and ongoing “resistance” to force Israel to retreat from
the territory.Khaled Mashaal said this would be a step on the way to its
retreat from “all of Palestine.”Speaking on the Al-Jazeera TV network
on December 2, Mashaal, in a play on René Descartes’ famous
philosophical proposition, said: “The Palestinians say ‘I resist,
therefore I am.'”In comments translated by the Middle East Media
Research Institute, Mashaal said that according to the Quran, “Jihad,
resistance, and self-defense [are] the essence of life.“The abandonment
of Jihad leads to humiliation and death. Hence, resistance is the
pinnacle of life. A person who lives under occupation, and who does not
resist, is in fact dead.”Mashaal, who headed Hamas’s political bureau
between 1996 and 2017, claimed there was no alternative way to
“liberate” the Palestinian nation.“When did Israel withdraw from
southern Lebanon? It wasn’t a result of negotiations — not in Madrid and
not in Washington. It retreated as a result of resistance. When did it
retreat from Gaza? After the [Second] Intifada in 2000 and the heroic
resistance. Today we are being called and preparing to force Israel to
retreat from Jerusalem and from the West Bank. Allah willing, this is on
the way to its retreat from all of Palestine,” he said.Former Hamas
Leader Khaled Mashal Calls for West Bank "Guerrilla Warfare," States: "I
Resist, Therefore I Am" pic.twitter.com/OyZr0Ehc0q— MEMRI
(@MEMRIReports) December 14, 2018-He called on the West Bank’s Fatah to
join Hamas in popular resistance against Israel, saying it should take
an example from the people of the Gaza Strip.“The West Bank spans over
5,600 square kilometers, and has mountains and valleys. I’m from there, I
know the landscape. It has everything necessary for guerilla warfare.
Why are we not preparing for that?”A Fatah spokesman on Thursday called
on Palestinians to ignore calls for a new armed uprising against Israel
in the West Bank, urging them to instead step up peaceful protests
against the Jewish state’s military rule.“We need to be smart…and not
listen to the talk of the demagogues about the necessity of going to an
armed confrontation,” Fatah spokesman Osama Qawasma told Palestine TV,
the official Palestinian Authority television channel, Thursday night.
“My words are candid. We must escalate popular resistance in the
Palestinian lands.”Hamas has for years called on Palestinians to stir up
a confrontation with Israel in the West Bank.On Friday the Palestinian
Authority police cracked down on a Hamas protest in the southern West
Bank city of Hebron, beating demonstrators with batons and throwing stun
grenades.Some 50 Hamas activists confronted Palestinian forces after
Muslim prayers on Friday, as the terror group marked the 31st
anniversary of its establishment.Hamas condemned the PA for suppressing
the demonstrations. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said in a statement on
the Hamas website that the “barbaric behavior” was proof the PA
“denigrated the blood of the martyrs.”The Palestinian Authority, led by
president Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah party, cooperates closely with
Israeli security, while Hamas has fought three wars with the Jewish
state since 2008.Hamas cells continue operate in the West Bank despite
PA and Israeli efforts to arrest them. The protests come amid a surge of
terror attacks in the West Bank, some of them claimed by Hamas.Two
Israeli soldiers were killed Thursday and two other Israelis injured
when a man opened fire at a bus stop at a settlement in the West Bank,
before fleeing.Hamas has claimed two other recent shooting attacks in
the West Bank but has so far not taken responsibility for Thursday’s
attack, near the settlement of Givat Assaf.The Israeli military says it
believes a Hamas cell conducted a drive-by shooting attack near the
settlement of Ofra Sunday, in which seven people were wounded. One
victim’s baby was delivered prematurely in an emergency operation, but
died on Wednesday afternoon.Agencies and Adam Rasgon contributed to this
report.
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
OH
BY THE WAY WHEN THE MEDIA SAYS ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS GOD IS GREAT LIE. IN
ISLAM ALLU-AK-BAR MEANS OUR GOD IS GREATER OR GREATEST. THIS IS HOW THE
MEDIA SUCK HOLES UP TO ISLAMIC-QURANIC-MUSLIMS. BY WATERING DOWN THE
REAL MEANING OF THE SEX FOR MURDER DEATH CULT ISLAM. TO MAKE IT SOUND
LIKE A PEACEFUL RELIGION (CULT OF DEATH AND WORLD DOMINATION).
GENESIS 6:11-13
11
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with
violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the
earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and,
behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11
And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with
child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF
THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And
he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS)
man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be
against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against
him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL
ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his
brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the
morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground,
which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine
heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars
of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the
sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above
the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF
THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that
whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM
MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
Wave of
hoax bomb threats made across US; San Francisco JCC evacuated-Law
enforcement agencies say threats not credible; were meant to cause
disruption and compel recipients into sending money-By Agencies-DEC
17,18
A wave of bomb threats emailed Thursday to hundreds
of schools, businesses and government buildings across the US triggered
searches, evacuations and fear — but there were no signs of explosives,
and authorities said the scare appeared to be a crude extortion
attempt.Some 500 people were safely evacuated from the Jewish Community
Center of San Francisco after a nearby bank was targeted in the hoax.San
Francisco Police were called to at least nine locations around 10 a.m.,
including the JCC, which was ordered to evacuate after a threat was
made against the San Francisco Fireman’s Credit Union, located directly
across the street.Just before 11 a.m., JCC executive director Marci
Glazer received a call from the police, informing her of the bomb threat
and the need to get people out of the building.“This is something we
are completely prepared for and practice on a regular basis,” she
said.JCC staff accounted for preschoolers, gym users, swimmers in the
pool, seniors and others, and ushered them out of the building within
eight minutes, according to Glazer. The all clear notice came less than
two hours later, when people were allowed back in the building.By 1
p.m., the JCC’s website announced that the building and the fitness
center had reopened. The preschool remained closed for the day, and
afterschool has been canceled.Police presence seen outside the @JCCSF.
SFPD are investigating reports of bomb threats throughout the city.
https://t.co/a8QcA3ui30 pic.twitter.com/ykALXo6ljx— NBC Bay Area
(@nbcbayarea) December 13, 2018-Law enforcement agencies across the
country dismissed the threats, saying they were meant to cause
disruption and compel recipients into sending money and were not
considered credible.Some of the emails had the subject line: “Think
Twice.” They were sent from a spoofed email address. The sender claimed
to have had an associate plant a small bomb in the recipient’s building
and that the only way to stop him from setting it off was by making an
online payment of $20,000 in Bitcoin.“We are currently monitoring
multiple bomb threats that have been sent electronically to various
locations throughout the city,” the New York City Police Department’s
counterterrorism unit tweeted. “These threats are also being reported to
other locations nationwide & are NOT considered credible at this
time.”Other law enforcement agencies also dismissed the threats, which
were written in a choppy style reminiscent of the Nigerian prince email
scam.The Palm Beach County, Florida, sheriff’s office and the Boise,
Idaho, police said they had no reason to believe that threats made to
locations in those areas were credible. One of the emails wound up in a
spam filter, Boise Police Chief William Bones said.The FBI said it is
assisting law enforcement agencies that are dealing with the threats.“As
always, we encourage the public to remain vigilant and to promptly
report suspicious activities which could represent a threat to public
safety,” the FBI said in a statement.Across the country, some schools
closed early and others were evacuated or placed on lockdown because of
the hoax. Authorities said a threat emailed to a school in Troy,
Missouri, about 55 miles (88 kilometers) northeast of St. Louis, was
sent from Russia.The bomb threats also prompted evacuations at city hall
in Aurora, Illinois, the offices of the News & Observer in Raleigh,
North Carolina, a suburban Atlanta courthouse and businesses in
Detroit.“Organizations nationwide, both public and private, have
reported receiving emailed bomb threats today,” Michigan State Police
spokeswoman Shannon Banner said. “They are not targeted toward any one
specific sector.”Penn State University notified students via a text
alert about threats to a half-dozen buildings and an airport on its main
campus in State College, Pennsylvania. In an update, the school said
the threat appeared to be part of a “national hoax.”Officials at
Columbine High School in Colorado were dealing Thursday with a bomb
threat of a different sort. Students were being kept inside for the rest
of the school day after someone called in a bomb threat against the
school.The Jefferson County, Colorado, Sheriff’s Office said the caller
claimed to have placed explosive devices in the school and to be hiding
outside with a gun.There is nothing to validate the threat that was
found at Columbine, where 12 students and a teacher were killed by two
students in 1999, according to Sheriff’s spokesman Mike Taplin.Two dozen
other Colorado schools were also temporarily placed on lockout, meaning
their doors were locked but classes continued normally, as the threat
was investigated.Last month the Tel Aviv District Court sentenced an
American-Israeli man, convicted of hoaxing US Jewish community centers
and other targets around the world with thousands of bomb threats, to 10
years in prison.The 20-year-old, M., whose full name is withheld by a
gag order in Israel, has been diagnosed with autism and also suffers
from a brain tumor, which his parents and attorney argue impacted his
behavior. But, while Judge Tzvi Gurfinkel acknowledged M.’s medical
condition, he concluded that the young man was responsible for his
actions and understood the difference between right and
wrong.Authorities say he made thousands of threatening calls, mostly to
community centers and schools in the US, from 2015 to 2017, using an
online calling service that disguised his voice and allowed him to hide
his identity. He also targeted hundreds of airlines and airports, malls,
and police stations, in the US, Canada, the UK, New Zealand, Australia
and Britain, and tried to extort Republican State Senator Ernesto Lopez
from Delaware.
Gunman who killed three in Strasbourg market
shot dead by French police-Cherif Chekatt, who Islamic State says was
one of its ‘soldiers,’ killed in exchange of fire in Neudorf area of
city-By Marc Antoine BAUDOUX and Adam PLOWRIGHT-TOI-DEC 17,18
STRASBOURG,
France (AFP) — French police on Thursday shot dead a gunman who had
been on the run since killing three people at Strasbourg’s popular
Christmas market.More than 700 French security forces had been hunting
for 29-year-old Cherif Chekatt since the bloodshed on Tuesday night.He
was believed to have been injured after exchanging fire with soldiers
during the attack, but managed to escape and had not been seen since
getting out of a taxi in the Neudorf area of the northern French
city.Minutes before the fatal shooting on Thursday, a helicopter with
powerful searchlight flew over Neudorf.Interior Minister Christophe
Castaner told reporters police swooped after the suspect was spotted in
the street.Officers tried to arrest him, but he shot at police. “They
immediately returned fire and neutralized the assailant,” Castaner
said.Dozens of police vehicles converged on the area where police were
applauded after the shooting. “Bravo!” some shouted as people gathered
at the police cordon.Police in several other countries earlier joined
the manhunt for Chekatt, a Strasbourg native and career criminal with at
least 27 convictions in four European states.The Islamic State
terrorist group said Thursday that he was one of their “soldiers.”The
perpetrator of “the attack in the city of Strasbourg… is one of the
soldiers of the Islamic State and carried out the operation in response
to calls to target nationals of the coalition” against IS, the Amaq
agency said in a message posted on Twitter.The terrorist group offered
no evidence for the claim.Authorities published Chekatt’s picture late
Wednesday with police describing him as dangerous and urging people not
to approach him.A fifth person was detained by police for questioning on
Thursday, in addition to the suspect’s parents and two brothers who
have been in custody since Wednesday.Castaner has announced that the
Strasbourg Christmas market would reopen on Friday.French President
Emmanuel Macron expressed “the solidarity of the whole country” towards
the victims as he arrived for a European summit in Brussels.“It is not
only France that has been hit… but a great European city as well,” he
added, referring to the seat of the European parliament in the eastern
French city that lies on the border with Germany.-Plea to ‘yellow
vests’-As police were hunting Chekatt Thursday, the French government
urged “yellow vest” protesters not to hold another round of
demonstrations this weekend, given the strain on the country’s security
forces.Government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux called on the
anti-government protesters to be “reasonable” and not protest again
Saturday, after nearly four weeks of often violent demonstrations which
has led the government to offer a range of financial relief to low
earners.“Our security forces have been deployed extensively these past
few weeks,” Griveaux told CNews television.“It would be better if
everyone could go about their business calmly on Saturday, before the
year-end celebrations with their families, instead of demonstrating and
putting our security forces to work once again,” he added.The “yellow
vest” protesters, known for their fluorescent high-visibility jackets,
had called for a fifth round of protests this Saturday.The protests
began on November 17 over fuel tax increases, but snowballed into a
revolt over living standards as well as Macron’s perceived indifference
to the problems of ordinary citizens.Underscoring attempts to ease
tensions, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe confirmed a proposed
constitutional reform, which was to be debated in January, had been
postponed to allow time for more discussions over local grievances.Some
union leaders also put pressure on “yellow vests” not to demonstrate on
Saturday so they would not overburden police as they dealt with security
after the Strasbourg attack.But some “yellow vest” demonstrators
dismissed calls to suspend protests.A 23-year-old protester was killed
after he was hit by a truck on a roundabout in southern France near
Avignon late on Thursday, the sixth person to have died during the weeks
of demonstrations.-Wide search-Strasbourg’s location in the heart of
western Europe means that Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg
can be easily reached by car or train, making the search for Chekatt
more complicated.Swiss police had reinforced border checks, while German
authorities also widely published the photo of the suspect, which
showed him with dark hair, a short beard and a visible mark on his
forehead.In 2016, a jihadist responsible for an attack on a Christmas
market in Berlin was shot and killed only three days later in Milan in
northern Italy after travelling through the Netherlands and France.The
Strasbourg suspect, who lived in a rundown apartment block a short drive
from the city center, was flagged by French security forces in 2015 as a
possible Islamic extremist.France has been hit by a wave of attacks
from gunmen claiming allegiance to Al Qaeda or the Islamic State group
since 2015, which have claimed the lives of 246 people before Tuesday’s
attack, according to an AFP toll.No group has claimed responsibility for
the Strasbourg attack, but social media accounts used by Islamic State
sympathizers have celebrated the killings.Times of Israel staff
contributed to this report.
EU court rejects Hamas appeal
over terror listing-The terrorist group ruling the Gaza Strip had sought
an end to a European freeze on its assets, imposed in the wake of 9/11
attacks-By Agencies and TOI staff-DEC 17,18
BRUSSELS,
Belgium — A top EU court on Friday threw out an appeal by the
Palestinian organization Hamas against its listing by the bloc as a
terrorist organization.The General Court of the EU rejected a bid by
Hamas, the terror group which has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007, to
end a freeze on assets held in the bloc that was imposed in the wake of
the 9/11 attacks in the United States.The ruling by the Luxembourg-based
court is the latest round in a protracted legal battle between the EU
and Hamas, which has opposed the sanctions from the outset.“By its
judgment today… the General Court dismisses Hamas’ appeal concerning the
acts of the Council adopted between 2010 and 2014 and in 2017,” the
bloc’s second-highest tribunal said.In July 2017 the European Court of
Justice (ECJ) overturned an earlier ruling by the General Court that
Hamas should be dropped from the terror list because the EU had made the
decision based on information from the media and internet.The ECJ, the
bloc’s highest court, ruled that the General Court had erred in law and
should examine the case again.In Friday’s ruling, the General Court said
the EU was entitled to list Hamas as a terrorist organization on the
basis of a decision made by the British interior minister.“The General
Court observes, contrary to Hamas’ submissions, that holding on to power
following elections, the political nature of an organization or its
participation in a government do not constitute grounds for avoiding the
application of the rules,” the court said.
Yair Netanyahu
says he’d ‘prefer’ if ‘all the Muslims leave’ Israel-PM’s son declares
there will be no peace until one of the land’s two major religions
departs, and he rather it wasn’t the Jews-By TOI staff-DEC 17,18
Yair
Netanyahu has said there will not be peace in the land of Israel until
either all the Jews or all the Muslims leave — and he would prefer the
latter.The son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted the comment
on Facebook on Thursday:“There will not be peace here until: 1. All the
Jews leave the land of Israel. 2. All the Muslims leave the land of
Israel.“I prefer the second option,” he added.The post had garnered over
750 reactions as of Friday evening in Israel, most of them in
agreement.In a later post he added: “Do you know where there are no
terror attacks? In Iceland and Japan. Coincidentally there’s also no
Muslim population there.”It’s the second time in a week that the younger
Netanyahu has posted a controversial comment online. On Monday, he
posted on Facebook that the press, as well as left-wing NGOs and
politicians, are “traitors.” His father disavowed the comment.Last year,
Yair Netanyahu posted and then deleted an apparently anti-Semitic
caricature of liberal Jewish financier George Soros.
COUNTRIES WITH ISRAEL AND THE ENEMIES OF THE WEST
EZEKIEL 38:10-19
10
Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same
time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil
thought:
11 And thou shalt say,(RUSSIA,ARAB,MUSLIMS) I will go up to
the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that
dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither
bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine
hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the
people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle
and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
13 Sheba, and
Dedan,(SAUDIA ARABIA)(JORDAN) and the merchants of Tarshish,(ENGLAND)
with all the young lions thereof,(USA,CANADA,AUSTRALIA,NEW
ZEALAND,EU,ENGLAND,ENGLISH SPEAKING shall say unto thee, Art thou come
to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry
away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great
spoil?
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth
safely, shalt thou not know it?
PSALMS 83:3-7 (COUNTRIES AGAINST ISRAEL)(EXCEPT JORDAN)
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7
Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and
Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the
inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
ISRAEL-WEST ENEMIES EZEK 38:4-6,15-19
4
And I (GOD) will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD
FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all
thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of
armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them
handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6
Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of
the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with
thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
15 And thou shalt come from
thy place out of the north parts,(RUSSIA-ARAB/MUSLIMS) thou, and many
people with thee,(AFRICAN ISLAMIC COUNTRIES) all of them riding upon
horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up
against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be
in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the
heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before
their eyes.
17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have
spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which
prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against
them?
18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall
come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall
come up in my face.
19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath
have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the
land of Israel;
DANIEL 11:44 (CHINA WITH RUSSIA-MUSLIMS)
44 But
tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS
WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL)
therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to
make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
EZEKIEL 39:1-6 ISRAELS ENEMIES DESTROYED
1
Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and
say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the
chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will
turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the
sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I
BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA)
and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4
Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,(
ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the
ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be
devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6
And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) and among them
that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the
LORD.
Report: MBS mulling public Netanyahu meeting to
counter Khashoggi fallout-Unnamed sources tell Middle East Eye website
Saudi task force is considering ‘major stunt’ to help rehabilitate crown
prince’s international image-By TOI staff-DEC 17,18
Saudi
Arabia’s Muhammad bin Salman is considering a Camp David-style meeting
with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump, a
London-based website claimed, in what it said would be a grand
diplomatic gesture intended to help rehabilitate the crown prince’s
image in the wake of the brutal murder of dissident journalist Jamal
Khasoggi.According to the Qatari-funded Middle East Eye website, Saudi
Arabia’s de facto leader is “seriously considering” pursuing a “game
changing” summit with the Israeli and US leaders.The report quoted
unnamed Saudi sources and could not be independently confirmed.The plan
for a meeting with Netanyahu would purportedly include a public
handshake modeled on the handshake between Prime Minister Menachem Begin
and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat following the signing of the peace
agreement at Camp David under the auspices of US President Jimmy Carter
in 1978.An emergency task-force has reportedly been set up to explore
ways to deflect growing criticism of the crown prince, who is widely
believed to have ordered Khashoggi’s murder at the Saudi consulate in
Istanbul in October.According to Middle East Eye, MBS hopes a public
meeting with Netanyahu could help reframe him as a Middle East peace
maker and paper over international criticism. He particularly seeks to
stave off any action by the US Congress, a danger that will grow when
Democrats take control of the House in January.In two motions on Friday,
the Republican-controlled US Senate delivered an unusual rebuke of
Trump’s response to the death of Khashoggi and signaled new skepticism
from Capitol Hill toward the longtime Middle East ally. One measure
recommended that the US end its assistance to Saudi Arabia for the war
in Yemen. The other put the blame for the death of Khashoggi squarely on
bin Salman. Both had been vigorously opposed by the Trump
administration.“MBS asked his task force to study this proposal and he
hinted that he liked the idea,” an unnamed Saudi official told Middle
East Eye.“The task force agreed that without a major stunt, there is a
real danger of a series of decisions from Congress that would
fundamentally set back the Saudi-US relationship, which is key for the
crown prince,” he said.US intelligence officials concluded that bin
Salman must have at least known of the plot, but Trump has repeatedly
praised the kingdom.The journalist, who had lived in the US and wrote
for The Washington Post, had been critical of the Saudi regime. He was
killed in what US officials have described as an elaborate plot when he
visited the consulate for marriage paperwork.Saudi prosecutors have said
a 15-man team sent to Istanbul killed Khashoggi and then dismembered
his body, which has not been found. Those findings came after Saudi
authorities spent weeks denying Khashoggi had been killed in the
consulate.Trump has been reluctant to condemn the crown prince. He said
the United States “intends to remain a steadfast partner” of the
country, touted Saudi arms deals worth billions of dollars to the US and
thanked the Saudis for plunging oil prices.Netanyahu on Wednesday
appeared to defend Israel’s tacit support of Saudi Arabia in the face of
growing criticism of the murder of the Saudi journalist.While he
described Khashoggi’s brutal October 2 murder at the kingdom’s Istanbul
consulate as “horrific,” he stressed that the gulf state’s stability was
crucial for global stability.Israel and Saudi Arabia have no official
relations and the kingdom does not recognize the Jewish state. Israel
has hinted at clandestine ties with Saudi Arabia in recent years,
stressing the two countries share an interest in countering Iran.
