- New member states and France
are set to lose most from a fresh EU budget proposal slashing €75
billion from proposed 2014-2020 spending, but Britain still wants more
cuts or it will veto the deal at a summit next week.Drafted by EU Council chief Herman Van Rompuy, the new "negotiating
box" seeks cuts in almost all areas, with farm subsidies - which France
benefits from the most - slashed by €21.5 billion compared to the
initial EU commission proposal of €1 trillion overall for the seven-year
period.Funds for infrastructure and enterprises to help eastern member
states to catch up with the West - so-called cohesion policy - is also
set to receive €17 billion less than planned.Neither French nor Polish diplomats were happy about the draft."It is clearly not what we wanted," one source told this website.
Paris has already slammed a previous compromise tabled by the Cypriot EU
presidency, which had sought smaller cuts in farm subsidies.
For his part, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is currently busy
shuttling between Brussels and Berlin in his bid to make the case for
the "Friends of cohesion" - a group of countries benefiting the most
from regional spending."Germany as a net payer has clearly a different view than Poland and
the Friends of cohesion, but we have always been able to find common
ground," Tusk said on Wednesday (14 November) at a joint press
conference with Chancellor Angela Merkel."Germany wants big cuts, but Poland says these cuts should be more
balanced, to protect this growth mechanism that is cohesion policy," he
added.Merkel said she is willing to seek a compromise next week and warned
that having no deal on the seven-year budget would damage EU
credibility."Even if we are net payers, it is not our goal not to have a deal. We
will do our best to reach an agreement, one that is fair for everyone,"
she said.A German government spokesman earlier in the day welcomed the Van Rompuy text."It is a good thing to have compromise proposals, we are now in the
hot phase ahead of the summit and we all have an interest in reaching a
deal next week," Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert told a press
conference.The current proposal is closer to what Germany first had in mind - €120 billion less than what the commission tabled."I think in the end we'll get a deal on cuts of around €100 billion,"
one Cypriot diplomat told this website. Asked why Cyprus earlier
proposal only went called for cuts of €50 billion, he replied it was
"negotiating tactics.""The key to the deal is Britain," the source added.As for British sensitivities, the draft goes nowhere near what would
be acceptable for Prime Minister David Cameron not to use his veto."We think it's still too high and the cuts don't go far enough. It will be difficult to get a deal," a British source said.Sweden has also said it is unhappy with the proposal, which seeks to
reduce the Swedish rebate by some €25 million while leaving Britain's
multyi-billion-euro rebate untouched.
BRUSSELS - Many of Europe's capital
cities ground to a halt on Wednesday (14 November) with a series of
anti-austerity marches and co-ordinated strikes.The demonstrations, which amount to the biggest pan-European attack
on tough austerity budgets across a number of EU countries, were
organised as part of a 'European day of action and solidarity' by the
European Trade Union Congress (ETUC).More than 80 people were arrested during riots in Madrid. Violence
also flared up in Milan and Rome, with riot police firing rubber bullets
at protesters.Elsewhere hundreds of flights and trains were cancelled in Spain and
Portugal after unions held their first coordinated general strike.Bernadette Ségol, the ETUC general secretary, said that "by sowing
austerity, we are reaping recession, rising poverty and social anxiety".
"People's exasperation is reaching a peak," she added.The ETUC reiterated its demand for a legally binding protocol on
social policy to be included in any new EU treaty change. A declaration
adopted by the ETUC executive committee stated that the budget cuts were
"dragging Europe into economic stagnation...as well as the continuing
dismantling of the European social model:"In Brussels, several thousand demonstrators marched from Place
Luxembourg outside the European Parliament to the European Commission
and Council buildings on Schuman Rondpoint calling for an end to 'casino
capitalism' and more social protection for those in work. Further
protests were planned in the evening.Trade unionist marchers were led by the Centrale Nationale des
Employés (CNE), which represents 180,000 members. MEPs and officials
from the leftist Gue/NGL group and Socialist and Democrat group also had
delegations on the march.GUE/NGL President Gabi Zimmer commented that "today's mobilisations
show the need and popular appetite for a radical change of course."It is time for economic, democratic, and social solidarity in the
EU, not the further aggravation of inequality and social injustice," she
added.Meanwhile, Phillip de Buck, who leads the pan-European business lobby
BusinessEurope, said that the unrest would damage the economy. "If you
start striking at national level and its companies you will only harm
the economy", he said.
MUSLIM NATIONS
EZEKIEL 12:25
25 For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.
EZEKIEL 5:17
17 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I 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:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
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, 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.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8,11-18
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 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 BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37 For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)
ISAIAH 17:1,12-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
JEREMIAH 47:1-7
1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN/ARABS) before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north,(NORTHERN TSUNAMI POSSIBLY) and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses,(ISRAELS ARMY) at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;(ISRAEL POSSIBLY NUKES GAZA)
4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN FAKE ARABS) and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
5 Baldness is come upon Gaza;(NUKED POSSIBLY) Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
6 O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? (MEDITTERANEAN SEA) there hath he appointed it.
DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south ( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS-MUSLIMS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them,(BEFORE THE NUKE GOES OFF) and behind them a desolate wilderness;(AFTER THE ATOMIC BOMB GOES OFF) yea, and nothing shall escape them.(EVERYTHING NUKED)
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,ARAB,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate,(SIBERIAN DESERT) with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(FOR COMING AGAINST ISRAEL)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
JEREMIAH 8:7
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times;(MIGRATION TIME) and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming;(IN MIGRATION SEASON) but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.(WW3 MIGRATING BIRDS EAT ISRAELS ENEMIES FLESH AND BLOOD)
3 DEAD IN ISRAEL CITY
http://www.timesofisrael.com/rockets-rain-down-on-south-after-israel-launches-operation-pillar-of-defense/
SO THE PALESTINIANS AND HAMAS HAS SHOT 300 ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL IN THE LAST 3 WEEKS OR SO AND 1,000 PLUS ROCKETS IN THE PAST YEAR.AND ISRAEL JUST KILLS ONE MEMBER OF HAMAS TERROR ORGANIZATION WHO FOUNDED HAMAS.AND THE GAZA ARAB/MUSLIMS GO NUTS AND CRY FOUL AGAINST ISRAEL.OBAMA ACTUALLY GAVE ISRAEL THE OK TO GET GAZA BUT WATCH FOR CIVILIANS BEING KILLED.IN YESTERDAYS OBAMA PRESS CONFERENCE NOT ONE THING WAS SAID ABOUT ALL THE ARAB ROCKETS BEING SHOT IN ISRAEL.IT TOOK A PHONE CALL FROM NETANYAHU LAST NIGHT FOR OBAMA TO GIVE ISRAEL THE OK.OR OBAMA WOULD NOT HAVE PHONED NETANYAHU WE KNOW FOR SURE.SO NOW THAT ISRAEL IS DEFENDING ITSELF.THE ARAB/MUSLIMS IN GAZA ARE AS USUAL CLAIMING ISRAEL IS COMMITTING AUTRAUSITIES AGAINST INNOCENT CIVILIANS MEANING WOMEN AND CHILDREN. WELL MY COMMENT TO THAT IS WERE WAS THE WORLD COMMUNITY FOR THE LAST YEAR WHEN 1,000PLUS ROCKETS HAVE BEEN SHOT AT INNOCENT ISRAELI WOMEN AND CHILDREN.AN AVERAGE OF 3 GAZA ROCKETS A DAY CAME INTO ISRAEL JUST THIS YEAR ALONE.WHAT DOES THE WORLD THINK ,ISRAEL WILL JUST KEEP ITS HEAD IN THE SAND AND LET HAMAS AND PALESTINIAN MURDERERS SHOOT ROCKETS INTTO ISRAEL AND NOT RETALIATE.IF IT WAS ME I WOULD HAVE NUKED GAZA A LONG TIME AGO AND GOT BACK MY LAND WE GAVE UP TO THE ARABS IN 2005.THIS IS JUST REDICULAS HOW ISRAEL TAKES THE HEAT FOR DEFENDING ITSELF.WHILE THE WORLD PITIES THE POOR BILLION DOLLAR ROCKET MAKERS ARAB/MUSLIM PALESTINIAN/HAMAS MURDERERS WHO WANT ISRAEL ELIMINATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.WERE THE OUTRAGE FROM THE WORLD TOWARD THE MURDERER ARAB/MUSLIMS IS MY QUESTION.
Israeli envoy tells Security Council Israel won’t play Russian Roulette with its citizens’ lives
Palestinian envoy slams Israel for ‘malicious onslaught’ of Gaza during closed door meeting on conflict
The United Nations Security
Council held a closed-door meeting on Wednesday evening to discuss the
escalating conflict in Gaza and Israel’s south.Both the Israeli and Palestinian envoys were
given permission to attend and speak in the emergency session, which was
convened at Egypt’s request.Israeli envoy Ron Prosor defended Israel’s
decision to launch an offensive on Gazan terror groups following a
four-day volley of rocket fire on towns in the south of Israel.“We have demonstrated maximum restraint for
years, but the Israeli Government has a right and a duty to respond to
these attacks,” he told the council. “Israel will not play Russian
Roulette with the lives of our citizens.”He added no one complained when Palestinians
were “raining rockets on Israeli civilians,” and that no nation would
tolerate that.“Hamas has turned Gaza into a dump of ammunition and weapons supplies brought in from Iran,” he said.Prosor said some of the representatives on the
council support Israel’s “right of self-defense and condemned the
indiscriminate shooting of rockets upon innocent Israeli citizens.”Palestinian envoy Riyad Mansour slammed Israel
for its offensive against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. Some 50
airstrikes were carried out against military targets in the Palestinian
enclave, leaving at least 10 dead, including Hamas military chief Ahmed
Jabari.Mansour said Israel was “vulgarly and publicly
boasting about its willful killing of Palestinians” after taking out
Jabari, whom Prosor had characterized as a “mass murderer” hours
earlier.“Once again the international community is
witness to Israel’s malicious onslaught, using the most lethal military
means and illegal measures against the defenseless Palestinian civilian
population,” Mansour, told the Security Council, according to a text of
his speech given to reporters. ”A direct firm message must be sent to
Israel to cease immediately its military campaign against the
Palestinian people and to abide … by its obligations under international
law.”He added that Israel was preparing a ground offensive and fear and panic were spreading throughout the Strip.
The council’s Arab bloc, led by Sudan, called for the body to condemn Israel.Any such move is likely to be vetoed by the
United States, which earlier Wednesday issued a
statement condemning Hamas and standing behind Israel’s right to defend
itself.US Ambassador Susan Rice spoke in favor of
Israel, saying it was not right for Hamas and other groups to terrorize
Israel’s populace.Both Prosor and Mansour earlier turned to the 15-nation panel to condemn the other side for the latest round of fighting.Mansour, the Palestinian envoy to the UN, sent
a letter to the Indian president of the Security Council Wednesday,
calling on the body to stop Israel before he said it launched a ground
offensive.“This escalation, which continues at this
moment, demands the attention of the international community, including
the Security Council, with the aim of averting the further deterioration
and destabilization of the situation on the ground and the fueling by
Israel of yet another deadly cycle of violence and bloodshed,” Mansour
wrote.Prosor defended Israel’s actions, which he
said were needed in the fact of “indiscriminate rocket fire against
Israeli citizens, children, women.”Prosor added that Israel had shown restraint for a long time and that the IDF’s actions in Gaza were “well defined.”UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon spoke to
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the situation, which he
described as “alarming.”” [Ban] expressed his concern about the
deteriorating situation in southern Israel and the Gaza Strip, which
includes an alarming escalation of indiscriminate rocket fire from Gaza
into Israel and the targeted killing by Israel of a Hamas military
operative in Gaza,” a statement from his press office read. “The
secretary general reiterated his strong condemnation of rocket fire out
of Gaza and noted his expectation that Israeli reactions are measured so
as not to provoke a new cycle of bloodshed that could cause additional
civilian casualties and have dangerous spillover effects in the region.”Ban also spoke with Egyptian President
Mohammed Morsi “about the worrisome escalation of violence in southern
Israel and Gaza and the need to prevent any further deterioration,” a
statement read.On Saturday the Cairo-based Arab League is to hold an emergency meeting on the situation in Gaza.The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Wider offensive and possible ground operation on the table, as cabinet okays reserves call-up
Netanyahu
says army is ready to broaden activities, Barak confirms air force
crippled Hamas’s rocket arsenal, but Gaza operation won’t be over ‘in
one fell swoop’
By Ilan Ben Zion
November 14, 2012, 10:12 pm
Updated: November 15, 2012, 1:32 am
Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu on Wednesday night announced the onset of a broad aerial and
naval bombardment of Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, and said the
country’s military was ready to widen its operations until its
objectives were reached.Netanyahu’s national security cabinet also
announced it had tasked the Israel Defense Forces with calling up extra
reserve units, should the need arise, a possible precursor to a wider
ground operation.The announcements came hours after an Israeli Air Force strike
killed Hamas military chief Ahmed Jabari, the first blow in the army’s Operation Pillar of Defense in Gaza.
“Today we sent a clear message to the Hamas
organization and to other terrorist organizations, and should the need
arise, the IDF is prepared to broaden the operation,” Netanyahu said at a
joint press conference with Defense Minster Ehud Barak. “We will
continue to do everything to protect our citizens.”He blamed Hamas for escalating its attacks
against civilians, and added that Israel was “not prepared to make peace
with a situation in which Israel’s citizens are menaced by the terror
of rocket fire.“No country would agree to such a situation; Israel is not prepared to reconcile itself to such a situation.”The Israeli military said it was ready, if
necessary, to send ground troops into Gaza. The defense officials who
said a ground operation was likely in the coming days spoke on condition
of anonymity because they were discussing sensitive military plans.The prime minister reiterated the IDF’s report
that Israeli Air Force planes had “damaged strategic targets of Hamas
in a precise fashion” and “substantially damaged the launch capabilities
of rockets from Gaza” at central and southern Israel.“The terror organizations hurt our citizens
with premeditation, while they deliberately conceal themselves behind
their own citizens,” he said.Speaking after Netanyahu, Barak told reporters
that “the accuracy of the Shin Bet’s information and the sharpness of
the IDF’s operation brought about the assassination of Hamas chief of
staff [Ahmed] Jabari and the neutralization of Fajr missiles and Hamas’s
infrastructures.” He added that most of Hamas’s Fajr long-range rocket
arsenal was destroyed in IAF airstrikes.Barak noted that Operation Pillar of Defense
would not be completed in “one fell swoop,” but that the objectives
would be attained in due time.The defense minister delineated the
operation’s objectives as “strengthening deterrence, damaging the rocket
arsenal, damaging and hurting Hamas and minimizing injury to the
civilians on the homefront of the State of Israel.”“The IDF will receive all of the support to do everything necessary in order to return calm to the South,” Barak said.
Smoke
billows over Gaza after a series of IAF airstrikes that marked the
onset of Operation Pillar of Defense, Wednesday, November 14, 2012
(photo credit: Edi Israel/Flash90)
In an earlier address to the press, former deputy chief of General Staff Maj. Gen. (res.) Dan Harel said that “Hamas thought [Israel] would not retaliate” to rocket barrages in recent weeks. “They were wrong.”
Hamas has escalated its smuggling of
high-quality weaponry recently, Harel explained, and “felt it has enough
power to face down Israel,” Harel said. “We are in the early hours of
the clash, and where it goes from here depends on Hamas’s activity.”Besides the killing of Jabari, he added, “some
of the long-range rockets of Hamas were destroyed. Fighter jets are
bombing rocket cylinders buried in the ground. We’re trying to take away
[Hamas’] launching capability. It will be difficult, but we’re doing
our best.”Israel does not wish to launch a ground operation, Harel said, but is willing to do so to stop the rocket fire.“We’re not looking at going further on the ground, but if we have to do it, we will do it.”Haviv Rettig Gur and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
Obama to PM: Green Light, But Watch Out for Civilians
U.S.
President Obama and EU Foreign Policy chief Ashton both expressed
understanding, if not support, for Israel's operation in Gaza By David Lev First Publish: 11/15/2012, 8:59 AM-INN
Binyamin Netanyahu-Israel news photo: Flash 90
So far, the world's leaders seem to be backing Israel's defensive
action in Gaza. U.S. President Barack H. Obama and EU Foreign Policy
chief Katherine Ashton both expressed understanding, if not support,
for Israel's situation, and for the need to break the back of Hamas and
other Gaza terror groups that have rained thousands of rockets over the
heads of Israelis in the Negev for the past decade.Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke to
Obama early Thursday, in which “the President reiterated to Prime
Minister Netanyahu the United States' support for Israel's right to self defense
in light of the barrage of rocket attacks being launched from Gaza
against Israeli civilians," a White House statement said. "The President
urged Prime Minister Netanyahu to make every effort to avoid civilian
casualties."The statement said Obama and Netanyahu
agreed that Hamas needed to stop attacks on Israel to "allow the
situation to de-escalate." Obama and Netanyahu spoke after the Israeli
leader, who has had a rocky relationship with the current US
administration, briefed Vice President Joe Biden on the latest events in
Gaza.Obama also spoke with Egyptian leader
Mohammed Morsi, stressing Egyp's "central role in preserving regional
security," the White House said. "In their conversation, President Obama
condemned the rocket fire from Gaza into Israel and reiterated Israel's
right to self-defense," the White House statement said.The UN Security Council, at an emergency
closed session, discussed the situation in Gaza without coming to any
decisions. But during the meeting, U.S. Ambassador to the UN strongly
defended Israel, saying that said there was no justification for the
violence that "Hamas and other terrorist organizations" are aiming at
Israel.“We call on those responsible
to stop these cowardly acts immediately,” Rice said, adding that the
rocket attacks were harming efforts to end the Middle East conflict and
create a PA state. “Hamas claims to have the best interests of the
Palestinian people at heart, yet it continues to engage in violence that
does nothing but set back the Palestinian cause," said the US
ambassador, who is considered a frontrunner to become the next US secretary of state.
"Attacking Israel on a near daily basis does nothing to help
Palestinians in Gaza nor to move the Palestinian people any closer to
achieving self determination and independence," Rice said.
IDF Warning to Hamas: Don't Show Your Faces Above Ground
IDF spokesman said there will be further military operations in the coming days and said he expects more rockets from Hamas By Annie Lubin First Publish: 11/14/2012, 10:21 PM-INN
The IDF is planning further operations into Gaza-IDF Facebook
IDF spokesman, Brigadier General Yoav (Poly) Mordechai held a press conference Wednesday night and addressed the military
operation in Gaza. He said the operation was launched "After a long
period of several years of unbearable fire aimed at residents of the
south, which has intensified even more in recent weeks, including
launches aimed at communities in the South and attacks against IDF
forces."Mordechai said that so far, the IDF has attacked dozens of targets, and noted that "the IDF operates with pinpoint accuracy
to try to make as clean a hit as possible, but unfortunately some of
the weapons are located near kindergartens and mosques. An orchard is
intende for oranges, not weapons, and a school is intended for studies and not weapons. A mosque is intended for prayer and not weapons."Mordechai said that he expects further operations in the
coming days, saying, "We expect that in the coming days the challenge
will be very difficult and there will be rockets shot at southern
Israel. I encourage all members of Hamas not to walk around above ground.”On its Facebook page,
the IDF wrote, “We recommend that no Hamas operatives, whether low
level or senior leaders, show their faces above ground in the days ahead.”Below the message was a picture of Jaabari with the word “eliminated” stamped across it.Ahmed Jaabari, head of Hamas' military wing, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza Wednesday afternoon.
Hamas rocket kills three in Israel, wider war looms
By Nidal al-Mughrabi | Reuters – 23 mins ago NOV 15,1
GAZA (Reuters) -
Hamas fired dozens of rockets into southern
Israel on Thursday, killing three people, and Israel launched numerous air strikes across the
Gaza Strip, threatening a wider offensive to halt repeated Palestinian salvoes.Israeli police said
the three died when a Palestinian rocket hit a four-story building in
the town of Kiryat Malachi, some 25 km (15 miles) north of
Gaza. They were the first Israeli fatalities of the latest conflict to hit the coastal region.Israel on Wednesday assassinated Hamas's military
mastermind and shelled the enclave from the land, sea and air, killing
13 people, including five militants, three children and a pregnant
woman. More than 100 were wounded.The U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting
late on Wednesday to discuss the Israeli assault. It called for a halt
to the violence, but took no action.
Expecting days or more of fighting, Israel warned Hamas
that all its men were in its sights and dropped leaflets in Gaza
telling residents to keep their distance from militants and Hamas
facilities."The leaflets stress that Hamas is dragging the region
toward violence, and that the IDF is prepared to defend the residents of
the State of Israel until quiet is restored to the region," the
military said in a statement.Israel weathered censure from influential Arab powers
Egypt
and Qatar. The United States condemned Hamas, shunned by the West as an
obstacle to peace for its refusal to renounce violence and recognize
Israel.Hamas has said the killing of its top commander, Ahmed
Al-Jaabari, would "open the gates of hell" for Israel. It also appealed
to neighboring Egypt to halt the "barbaric" assault.
"PILLAR OF DEFENCE"
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom opinion
polls favor for victory in a January 22 general election, said on
Wednesday the Gaza operation could be stepped up.His cabinet has granted authorization for the
mobilization of military reserves if required to press the offensive,
dubbed "Pillar of Defense" in English and "Pillar of Cloud" in Hebrew
after the Israelites' divine sign of deliverance in Exodus.The assault came after a week of surging cross-border violence and defied hopes that Egypt had brokered a truce.
Within hours of a missile destroying Jaabari's car,
militants fired a slew of rockets against the Jewish state's desert
south.Israel's military reported that its Iron Dome interceptor had shot down more than 30 of the missiles.Israel said it had destroyed much of Gaza's
longer-range rocket stockpiles, an assertion seemingly confirmed when
Hamas claims of hits on ambitious targets like Tel Aviv, Israeli naval
craft and secret intelligence bases proved unfounded.Egypt, whose new Islamist-rooted government pledged to
honor the 1979 peace treaty with Israel, condemned the new Israeli raids
as a threat to regional security. It recalled its ambassador from
Israel and called for an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council.Pro-Western Qatar demanded the Israelis be "punished"
and the Arab League called a meeting to discuss Gaza on Saturday.The United States, by contrast, placed the onus for the
Gaza escalation on Hamas and said it backed Israel's "self-defense"."There is no justification for the violence that Hamas
and other terrorist organizations are employing against the people of
Israel," said Mark Toner, deputy State Department spokesman.The flare-up on Israel's southern front came in a week
when, up north, it fired at Syrian artillery positions it said had shot
into the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights amid a civil war in Syria that
has brought renewed instability to Lebanon next door.A second Gaza war has loomed on the horizon for months
as waves of Palestinian rocket attacks and Israeli strikes grew
increasingly more intense and frequent.Israel's Operation Cast Lead in 2008-2009 began with a
week of air attacks and shelling, followed by a land invasion of the
blockaded coastal strip, sealed off at sea by the Israeli navy. Some
1,400 Palestinians were killed and 13 Israelis died.Hamas has been emboldened by the Islamist rise to power
in Egypt, viewing President Mohamed Mursi as a "safety net" who will
not permit a second Israeli thrashing of Gaza, home to 1.7 million
Palestinians.Hamas is also supported by Iran, which Israel regards
as a rising threat to its own existence due to its nuclear program.Helped by the contraband trade through tunnels from Egypt, Gaza militias have smuggled in longer-range rockets.But their estimated
35,000 Palestinian fighters are still no match for Israel's F-16
fighter-bombers, Apache helicopter gun ships, Merkava tanks and other
modern weapons systems in the hands of a conscript force of 175,000,
with 450,000 in reserve.(Additional reporting by Ari Rabinovitch; Writing by Dan Williams; Editing by Crispian Balmer)
Israeli military, Gaza militants trade fire
By AMY TEIBEL and IBRAHIM BARZAK | Associated Press – 55 mins ago NOV 15,12
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli aircraft, tanks and naval gunboats pounded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and rocket salvoes thudded into southern Israel
on Thursday as terrified residents on both sides of the frontier holed
up at their homes in anticipation of heavy fighting on the second day of
Israel's offensive against the Palestinian militants.The
operation, launched in response to several days of rocket fire from the
coastal territory, was Israel's most intense attack on Gaza since its full-scale war there four years ago.It started with the assassination Wednesday of Hamas' top military commander, deepening the instability gripping the Mideast. Israel's already strained relations with Egypt's new Islamist government frayed even further as Cairo recalled its ambassador in response to the Israeli military operation.Just days earlier, Israel was drawn into Syria's
civil war for the first time, firing missiles into its northern
neighbor for the first time in four decades after stray mortar fire
landed in Israeli-occupied Syrian territory.The assassination of Hamas mastermind Ahmed Jabari
was followed by a wave of Israeli airstrikes on more than 100 militant
targets. The air attacks continued steadily into early Thursday,
targeting the armed group's training facilities and rocket launchers.
Ten
Palestinians, including two young children and seven militants, were
killed Wednesday and more than 93 were wounded. Early on Thursday,
Israel targeted a motorcycle carrying a rocket squad, killing one
militant and wounding two, a Palestinian health official said. The
Israeli military had no immediate confirmation of the report.Tank
shells and naval gunfire backed up the air onslaught. Few in the
territory's largest urban area, Gaza City, came out following the call
for dawn prayers, and the only vehicles plying the streets were
ambulances and media cars.One of the airstrikes Wednesday
destroyed a two-story house, sending rubble flying within a radius of
about 500 meters (yards). It shattered windows on nearby buildings,
collapsed walls, knocked down a tree and cut electricity wires and
telephone cablesWajdi Ali, a 52-year-old teacher who lives a
couple of buildings down the street, said the explosion was so powerful
it threw him across his living room."By killing Jabari, Israel
has cocked the trigger and fired at itself," he said. "No one knows when
this dark chapter is going to end. I am sure that dark days await us,
and them as well."Gaza schools were ordered closed until the
operation ends, and most of the territory's 1.6 million people were
expected to hunker down close to home, venturing out only to buy food,
fuel and other basic supplies. Hamas announced a state of emergency in
Gaza, evacuating all its security buildings and deploying its troops
away from their locations.Israeli aircraft dropped leaflets on
several locations in Gaza early Thursday, warning Gazans to stay away
from Hamas, other militants and their facilities.The Israeli
military said that the Hamas fighters and other militant factions,
undeterred by the air attacks, bombarded southern Israel with more than
70 rockets after the operation began. Israel's newly deployed Iron Dome
missile defense system, developed as a response to the short-range
rockets from Gaza, intercepted two dozen of them, military spokeswoman
Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich said.Israel declared a state of
emergency in the country's south, where more than 1 million Israelis
live within rocket range, instructing people to remain close to
fortified areas. School was canceled in communities within a
40-kilometer (25-mile) radius of Gaza. People living in areas along the
frontier were ordered to stay home from work, save for essential
services, and shopping centers were shut down. Israeli police stepped up
patrols around the country, fearing Hamas could retaliate with bombing
attacks far from the reaches of Gaza.Batya Katar, a resident of Sderot, a community that has been a frequent target of rocket fire, said streets were empty there."People
won't be outside. The minute they assassinated the Hamas military chief
we knew an offensive had begun. We were waiting for it, and it's about
time they did it. We have the right to live like other countries in the
world."Israel said Wednesday's airstrikes were the beginning of a
broader operation against the Islamic militants and that a ground
invasion was a strong possibility in the coming days if Hamas didn't
rein in the rocket fire. The military said it destroyed dozens of the
militants' most potent rockets — the Iranian-made Fajr, which is capable
of striking Israel's Tel Aviv heartland — as well as shorter-range
rockets. In all, the military estimated Hamas had 10,000 rockets and
mortars in its arsenal before the military operation began.In a nationwide address, Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu
said Israel could no longer stand repeated attacks on its southern
towns. Days of rocket fire have heavily disrupted life for some 1
million people in the region, canceling school and forcing residents to
remain indoors."If there is a need, the military is prepared to
expand the operation. We will continue to do everything to protect our
citizens," Netanyahu declared late Wednesday.The Israeli military was cleared to call up special reserve units — a sign the operation might broaden.For
the past four years, Israel and Hamas have largely observed an informal
truce. But in recent weeks, the calm has unraveled in a bout of rocket
attacks from Gaza and retaliatory Israeli airstrikes. From Israel's
perspective, Hamas escalated the situation with two specific attacks in
recent days: an explosion in a tunnel along the Israeli border and a
missile attack on an Israeli military jeep that seriously wounded four
soldiers.Earlier this week, Israeli defense officials warned they
were considering resuming their controversial practice of assassinating
senior militants. Wednesday's killing of Jabari was an indication they
were serious. Israel has refrained from such attacks, which have drawn
international condemnations, since its January 2009 offensive in Gaza.Hamas
officials had brushed off the Israeli threats, and Jabari, contrary to
form, was driving in broad daylight when his vehicle was hit.
The
Hamas military chief had long topped Israel's most-wanted list, blamed
for masterminding a string of deadly attacks that including a bold,
cross-border kidnapping of an Israeli soldier in 2006. He also was
believed to be a key player in Hamas' takeover of Gaza in 2007 from a
rival Palestinian faction, the Western-backed Fatah movement.The
Israeli military
released a black-and-white video of the Jabari airstrike, showing a
sedan moving slowly along a road before going up in flames in an
explosion so powerful that a large chunk of the vehicle flew high into
the air.Crowds of people and security personnel rushed to the
scene of the strike, trying to put out the fire that had engulfed the
car and left it a charred shell. Plumes of black smoke wafted into Gaza
City's skies following other airstrikes. Ambulance sirens blared as
people ran in panic in the streets and militants fired angrily into the
air.Outside the hospital where Jabari's body was taken, thousands
of Gazans chanted "Retaliation!" and "We want you to hit Tel Aviv
tonight!""I was sitting on my bed with my grandson when suddenly
the wall collapsed on both of our heads," said Mahmoud Bana, a
62-year-old man who was slightly wounded along with his 11-year-old
grandson. "We don't know what happened but we know it is going to be a
few hard days ahead."In a statement, Hamas' prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, eulogized Jabari and vowed revenge."We
mourn our late leader who walked the path of jihad while he knew the
end, either victory or martyrdom," Haniyeh said. "There is no fear among
our people and our resistance, and we will face this vicious attack."Advocates
say targeted killings are an effective deterrent without the
complications associated with a ground operation such as civilian and
Israeli troop casualties, and that they also prevent future attacks by
removing the masterminds. Critics say they amount to extrajudicial
killings and invite retaliation by militants and encourage them to try
to assassinate Israeli leaders.
During a wave of suicide bombings
against Israel a decade ago, the country employed the tactic to
eliminate the upper echelon of Hamas leadership.Hamas accused
Netanyahu of launching Wednesday's operation to win votes in the Jan. 22
parliamentary election. But major Israeli parties, including the dovish
opposition, all lined up behind Netanyahu.Still, the region has
changed greatly since the Gaza offensive four years ago. Neighboring
Egypt is now governed by Hamas' ideological counterpart, the Muslim
Brotherhood.Israel and Egypt signed a peace accord in 1979.
Relations, never warm, deteriorated after longtime Egyptian President
Hosni Mubarak was ousted in a popular uprising last year. The Jabari
assassination threatened to further damage those fraying ties.On
its official Facebook page, Egypt's Freedom and Justice Party, which is
the Muslim Brotherhood's political arm, called Jabari's assassination a
"crime that requires a quick Arab and international response to stem
these massacres against the besieged Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip."
It accused Israel of trying to "drag the region toward instability."In Washington, the United States
lined up behind Israel. "We support Israel's right to defend itself,
and we encourage Israel to continue to take every effort to avoid
civilian casualties," said State Department spokesman Mark Toner.President
Barack Obama spoke with Netanyahu and the two men agreed Hamas needs to
stop its attacks on Israel to allow tensions to ease, the White House
said.Obama spoke separately to Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi,
given Egypt's central role in preserving regional security, the White
House said. The two men agreed on the need to de-escalate the conflict
as quickly as possible.U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for calm and urged both sides to respect international humanitarian law.On
Wednesday night, the U.N. Security Council met behind closed doors to
consider an Egyptian request for an emergency meeting on Israel's
military action in Gaza. The Palestinians asked the council to act to
stop the operation.____Teibel reported from Jerusalem. Additional reporting from Sarah El Deeb in Cairo and Bradley Klapper in Washington.
EARTHQUAKES
ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
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.
REVELATION 11:11-14
11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
12 And they(ELIJSH-MOSES) heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither.(REV 4:1 WE KNOW IS THE RAPTURE FOR SURE) And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.(RAPTURED)
13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.
REVELATION 16:18-20
18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
19 And the great city (JERUSALEM) was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
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