KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
AND MORE ROCKETS ARE COMING FROM LEBANON INTO ISRAEL.ISRAEL BOMB LEBANON AND GAZA HARD .....NOW.
LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) 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.
ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
The Ministerial Committee for Legislation voted Sunday in
favor of a bill that would annex the Jordan Valley and place it under
full Israeli sovereignty.Four ministers voted in favor of the
draft law, which was proposed Likud MK Miri Regev. Three opposed
it.Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, who is in charge of “peace
negotiations” with the Palestinian Authority (PA) attacked the ministers
who voted for the bill, and called it “an irresponsible proposal that
will harm Israel and isolate it.”"Some of those who supported the bill
would have opposed it, if they
had known it would pass,” she added. “They are taking advantage of the
fact that I will file an appeal and do the work for them.”Livni also
attacked MK Regev, saying: “I have no respect for the bill nor for its
proposer.”Minister Gideon Saar fired back at Livni, asking her “by what
right” she is talking in this way.The Ministerial Committee for
Legislation decides which proposed
bills will enjoy the support of the Coalition. Bills it approves are
likely to pass in the plenum. However, Livni's appeal means that the the
Committee will vote on the bill again in the coming weeks.The Jordan
Valley, situated in eastern Samaria (Shomron), has been
the topic of contention in recent months. US Secretary of State John
Kerry is reportedly attempting to force a deal on Israel and the Palestinian Authority which would see an Israeli "withdrawal" from all of Judea and Samaria, but allow for a temporary arrangement
whereby IDF and/or foreign forces would maintain a presence in the
Jordan Valley.The Israeli government argues the Valley is strategically
important,
and Prime Minister Netanyahu has insisted in the past that, in the event
of a withdrawal from Judea and Samaria, Israel would still keep troops
in the area.Calls by some nationalist MKs to annex the area are an
attempt to forestall any withdrawal from the area whatsoever.Some
analysts have criticized
the idea that an Israeli withdrawal from Judea and Samaria would be
"safe" as long as forces remained in the Jordan Valley, saying that the
mountainous regions to the west and south are in fact even more strategically crucial for Israel's security.
"All of the possible outcomes the negotiations may have do not represent the will of the Palestinian people, but only represent the negotiators themselves," Hamas claimed. US Secretary of State John Kerry is set to return to the region this week, to advance the negotiation process between the two countries. Rumor has it that he will "force" a deal between Israel and the PA - even though both sides have rejected the US's security plans for an interim deal. The news also follows heightened tensions between the PA and Hamas, after PLO officials called on the terrorist group to withdraw its associations with the Muslim Brotherhood on Saturday.
"The (Hamas) movement's subordination to the Muslim Brotherhood organization has weakened the Palestinian position," Fatah official Mahmoud Ismail charged.Egypt has accused Hamas of being involved in terror attacks in the Sinai Peninsula and of teaching Islamists in Egypt how to carry out attacks. Hamas has denied the allegations.PA supporters have criticized Hamas for their involvement, believing their loyalty to the Brotherhood to be greater than to "the national interests of the Palestinian people." Hamas spokespeople declined to comment on the accusation.
A report compiled by security sources in the Palestinian Authority
indicates a high chance for an “intifada” terror war in 2014. The PA
report was published by Kol Yisrael (Voice of Israel) radio.The authors of the report suggested that the PA crack down on
expected protests and riots in order to avoid letting rioters set the
tone.The report argued that the PA faces several difficulties in
attempting to stop “lone wolf” terrorist attacks by Palestinian Arabs.United States Secretary of State John Kerry has used threats of a "third Intifada" to pressure Israeli leaders to accept America's proposals regarding an Israel-PA diplomatic deal.
Sources in the IDF have argued that the recent spike in terrorist attacks is an “ongoing wave of terrorism” rather than the start of a third “Intifada.” Victims of terrorism and government ministers are among those who have expressed skepticism, and have warned that the “unplanned” attacks seen in recent weeks are reminiscent of the beginnings of the first and second “Intifada” terror wars.Head of the Political-Security Division in the Defense Ministry Amos Gilad reiterated the denial of an impending “intifada.” Speaking to Kol Yisrael, Gilad said Israel’s defense establishment has not seen signs of the type of organized terrorism that characterized the second Intifada (known by some as the Oslo War).The Palestinians have no interest in initiating an intifada at the current time, he argued. However, he said, the defense establishment has increased its efforts to prevent actions that could encourage terrorism.Gilad also reacted to the recent rocket attacks from Gaza. Hamas rules Gaza and is capable of imposing its orders on terrorist groups there, he said, making it responsible for any attacks on Israel.“If it doesn’t restrain the more extreme terrorist groups and impose quiet in Gaza, the consequences for it will be severe,” he warned.
AND MORE ROCKETS ARE COMING FROM LEBANON INTO ISRAEL.ISRAEL BOMB LEBANON AND GAZA HARD .....NOW.
LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) 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.
ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
Ministers Approve Jordan Valley Annexation
Justice Minister Livni vows to appeal the decision, is certain that it will be blocked.
By Gil Ronen and Ari Soffer-First Publish: 12/29/2013, 5:14 PM-Israelnationalnews
Israeli cabinet meeting-Flash 90
Hamas Stresses it Views Negotiations, Abbas as Illegitimate
Hamas
stresses that it does not recognize negotiations of any kind with
Israel, claims Abbas 'unreliable' for agreeing to peace talks.-By Dalit Halevi, Tova Dvorin-First Publish: 12/29/2013, 5:20 PM-Israelnationalnews
Mahmoud Abbas-AFP photo
Hamas declared Sunday, on the 5th anniversary of Operation Cast Lead, that it would continue to "fight the Israeli occupation" and "advance national goals," no matter what the outcome of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) might be. "Our nation (the Palestinians) did not authorize a single person to
negotiate with the Occupation," the group declared in a statement,
slamming Abbas and the PA."All of the possible outcomes the negotiations may have do not represent the will of the Palestinian people, but only represent the negotiators themselves," Hamas claimed. US Secretary of State John Kerry is set to return to the region this week, to advance the negotiation process between the two countries. Rumor has it that he will "force" a deal between Israel and the PA - even though both sides have rejected the US's security plans for an interim deal. The news also follows heightened tensions between the PA and Hamas, after PLO officials called on the terrorist group to withdraw its associations with the Muslim Brotherhood on Saturday.
"The (Hamas) movement's subordination to the Muslim Brotherhood organization has weakened the Palestinian position," Fatah official Mahmoud Ismail charged.Egypt has accused Hamas of being involved in terror attacks in the Sinai Peninsula and of teaching Islamists in Egypt how to carry out attacks. Hamas has denied the allegations.PA supporters have criticized Hamas for their involvement, believing their loyalty to the Brotherhood to be greater than to "the national interests of the Palestinian people." Hamas spokespeople declined to comment on the accusation.
Palestinian Authority Report Predicts: 3rd Intifada in 2014
PA security apparatus warns of high chance of ‘intifada’ terror war next year.
By Maayana Miskin-First Publish: 12/29/2013, 11:59 AM-Israelnationalnews
Arabs riot on 'Nakba Day'-Flash 90
Sources in the IDF have argued that the recent spike in terrorist attacks is an “ongoing wave of terrorism” rather than the start of a third “Intifada.” Victims of terrorism and government ministers are among those who have expressed skepticism, and have warned that the “unplanned” attacks seen in recent weeks are reminiscent of the beginnings of the first and second “Intifada” terror wars.Head of the Political-Security Division in the Defense Ministry Amos Gilad reiterated the denial of an impending “intifada.” Speaking to Kol Yisrael, Gilad said Israel’s defense establishment has not seen signs of the type of organized terrorism that characterized the second Intifada (known by some as the Oslo War).The Palestinians have no interest in initiating an intifada at the current time, he argued. However, he said, the defense establishment has increased its efforts to prevent actions that could encourage terrorism.Gilad also reacted to the recent rocket attacks from Gaza. Hamas rules Gaza and is capable of imposing its orders on terrorist groups there, he said, making it responsible for any attacks on Israel.“If it doesn’t restrain the more extreme terrorist groups and impose quiet in Gaza, the consequences for it will be severe,” he warned.
Kerry heads back, yet again, to a peace effort mired in crisis
Obama reportedly vowed recently to ‘bring home’ a deal. With the secretary flying in to disputes on settlements and prisoners, it’s hard to explain such optimism
December 28, 2013, 5:56 pm
11-The Times of Israel
As US Secretary of State John Kerry heads back to the Middle East this coming week,
conflicting reports emerged at the weekend over the top US diplomat’s
capacity to achieve a framework agreement between Israel and the
Palestinians, much less the full accord he said he believes possible
when launching nine months of peace talks in July.Israel’s
Channel 10 news on Friday night claimed President Barack Obama told a
“senior Israeli official” in Washington earlier this month that he was
confident a dramatic accord could and would be brokered. “We’re going to
bring it home,” the president was said to have promised.However, Kerry’s diplomatic efforts have been
beset by complications and arguments between the sides, according to
both Israeli and Palestinian sources, and his latest visit comes amid a
series of new disputes.For one, Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas is insistently opposed to any ongoing Israeli military
presence after Palestinian statehood on the eastern border between the
West Bank and Jordan, or anywhere else in a future “Palestine” for that
matter. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with Kerry’s
reported backing, is adamant that the IDF must protect that border for
the foreseeable future.A second argument surrounds prisoner releases.
Israel committed to freeing 104 longtime terror convicts, and has
already freed 52, but is refusing to include any Israeli-Arab prisoners
among them. Kerry has reportedly pushed Netanyahu to show flexibility
and, according to one rather improbable report at the weekend, offered to free spy-for-Israel Jonathan Pollard
if the prime minister went along. This report on Israel’s Channel 10
news was unconfirmed, and included the curious claim that Kerry had made
the suggestion while stressing that he did have Obama’s approval to do
so. The third of four phases of Palestinian prisoner releases is set to
take place this coming week. There will be no Israeli-Arabs in this
third group, but Abbas is pressing hard for them to be included in the
final batch in the coming months.A third, extremely bitter argument revolves
around Netanyahu’s reported intention to announce plans later this week —
around the time of the third phase of the prisoner release — to build
1,400 new homes over the pre-1967 Green Line: 800 in West Bank
settlement blocs and 600 in Jerusalem. Abbas has protested to the US
over the plan, and Palestinian officials are threatening to walk away
from the peace talks if it goes ahead. They have further warned that
they will instead revert to unilaterally advancing efforts for statehood
through the UN and other international forums, and seek international
legal sanction against Israel for settlement building, including through
the International Criminal Court in The Hague.Abbas is also reportedly opposed to
Netanyahu’s demand that he formally recognize Israel as a Jewish state,
and is further said to be demanding Palestinian sovereignty throughout
East Jerusalem. Sources on both sides have indicated that the fate of
Jerusalem is so bitterly disputed that there is no realistic prospect of
an agreement bridging the gaps on that issue in the foreseeable future.Middle East analyst Ehud Yaari said Friday
night that Netanyahu’s new settlement building plan risked providing
Abbas with the ideal cause on which to abrogate the peace negotiations
and to blame Israel for their failure, secure in the knowledge that
Israel’s settlement expansion is opposed by virtually the entire
international community, notably including the United States.In marked contrast to the confident quotation
ascribed to Obama, the well-connected Yaari, speaking on Channel 2, said
there was “nobody” on the Israeli or Palestinian sides who believes
Kerry will be able to broker a peace deal.On his two previous recent visits, the
secretary presented a highly detailed set of security proposals,
designed to form the basis of a framework deal, which in turn would
justify continued negotiations. The security proposals do not deal with
Jerusalem, or with Palestinian demands for a “right of return” for
millions of refugees and their descendants — a demand that Israel
opposes since it would spell the end of Israel as a Jewish majority
state. But the bitter arguments over the security issue — believed by
some in the American team to be one of the core issues that are easiest
to solve — underline the complex, uphill nature of Kerry’s peacemaking
task.
And that’s without taking into account the
recent steady upsurge in Palestinian terrorist attacks on Israeli
targets, and the growing sense that a third intifada may be brewing inside the West Bank’s Palestinian refugee camps.Yifa Yaakov and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Kerry to return to Middle East next week
Secretary to hold talks in Ramallah and Jerusalem — with prisoner releases and settlement plans high on agenda
December 28, 2013, 2:58 pm
7-The Times of Israel
US Secretary of State John Kerry will return to the Middle East late next week.Kerry
will hold talks on the peace process with Palestinian and Israeli
officials, the US State Department said Saturday. The top US diplomat is
set to arrive on January 1st.The visit will come shortly after Israel’s
scheduled released of a third group of Palestinian prisoners and amid a
row over reported plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to
authorize construction of 1,400 homes over the pre-1967 Green Line — 600
of them in Jerusalem, and 800 in West Bank settlements. Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has urged the US to block the plans.“Kerry has told the Palestinian Authority he
will return to the region on January 4 to discuss the peace process and
negotiations with Israel,” the official was quoted as saying.Ahead of his upcoming visit, Kerry is expected
to present both sides with a written framework agreement for resolving
the long-standing conflict between them, while unveiling Palestinian
demands for a final deal.Last week, Arab League Assistant Secretary
General Mohammad Sbeih said that Abbas and other Arab officials revealed
to an Arab League meeting of foreign ministers that Kerry would present
the plan on December 31, according to a report in the Palestinian Ma’an
news agency.Abbas told the meeting that he would not
respond to the Kerry proposal immediately, but would instead present it
first to Arab countries in order to come to a joint decision.
Many of the demands Abbas is said to be making
for a permanent accord, meanwhile, run counter to reported Israeli
requirements for a deal.Israel has been demanding that the PA
recognize Israel as a Jewish State, for instance, which Abbas will
refuse, according to the report.Israel has also insisted upon the
continued
presence of Israeli troops in the Jordan Valley. Sbeih said that Abbas
would not agree to even one Israeli soldier on the Palestinian-Jordanian
border, but that he would be open to an international force stationed
there — something Netanyahu has rejected.Sbeih also indicated that Abbas
refuses to acquiesce to a completely demilitarized Palestinian
state.Abbas would consent to a three-year Israeli
military withdrawal process from the territories, according to an agreed
upon timeline, the Arab League official said.The PA president would
demand control of all
East Jerusalem, which would become the Palestinian capital, and would
also be open to one-for-one land swaps to adjust the Green Line,
provided the territory to be swapped was of equivalent value.Under heavy
US pressure, Israel and the
Palestinians resumed negotiations in July after a three-year hiatus. The
sides have reportedly met more than 20 times since and Kerry has
traveled to the region no fewer than nine times in recent months to
further talks, though officials have reportedly complained that talks
are at a dead-end.Kerry has been pushing for a framework
agreement that would outline particulars of a permanent status accord to
resolve core issues — Israeli security, Jerusalem, the borders of a
Palestinian state, and the Palestinian refugees.As a preliminary step to
the agreement, Kerry
proposed a security plan earlier this month to mollify Israeli concerns
about control over the Jordanian border and Jordan Valley area.Among its
key elements, the US security plan
reportedly provides for a series of border crossings along the Jordan
Valley border between the West Bank and Jordan which would be jointly
controlled by Israel and the PA. The entire border itself, however,
would remain under full Israeli control, for the next 10-15 years, with
the IDF joined only by a symbolic Palestinian security presence.
The US, under the proposal, would provide an
additional security “envelope,” which would utilize drones and other
high-tech equipment to provide real-time intelligence on any terrorist
threats and other unlawful border activity.Last Saturday the Arab League rejected the security plan at an emergency meeting of its foreign ministers in Cairo that was called by Abbas.Kerry was last in the region earlier this
month as Israel and neighboring countries were hit by a severe winter
storm. He met with Netanyahu, President Shimon Peres and Abbas.The Associated Press and Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
Israeli ministers approve list of Palestinian prisoners set to go free Monday
Dozens of terror victims’ families protest outside Netanyahu’s home; Israel Prison Service to publish the names overnight
December 28, 2013, 11:37 pm
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A government ministerial panel
on Saturday night finalized a list of 26 Palestinian prisoners set to go
free late Monday, in the third of a four-phase series of prisoner
releases as part of Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts.
The
panel met earlier Saturday to approve the list of prisoners, all
convicted of involvement in the murder or attempted murder of Israelis
prior to the signing of the 1993 Oslo Accords. They have all served
between 19 and 28 years of their sentences, according to a
statement released by the Prime Minister’s Office.“If the released Palestinian convicts will
engage in hostilities, they will be re-incarcerated so as to serve out
the rest of their sentences,” the statement read.The Israel Prison Service will publish the
names of the prisoners set for release on its website sometime overnight
Saturday-Sunday.The 26 are set to go free late on Monday,
after a legally mandated 48-hour period during which opponents can
appeal the release of individual prisoners.Families of terror victims demonstrated
Saturday night against the scheduled releases. Representatives of the
families claimed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been refusing to
meet with them.Israel’s Channel 10 news, which on Friday
night claimed Secretary of State John Kerry had proposed that the US
would release spy-for-Israel Jonathan Pollard around the time of the
fourth and final phase if Israel would agree to set free Israeli Arab
terror convicts, reported Saturday night that Israel was still trying to
ascertain whether the offer had the support of US President Barack
Obama.Kerry is
expected back in the region on January 1 on his tenth visit of the year,
to try to push Israeli and Palestinian negotiators toward agreeing a
“framework” deal covering all the core issues of dispute in the peace
process. But the Palestinians are threatening to scuttle the talks
altogether if Netanyahu goes ahead with reported plans next week to
announce the building of 1,400 new homes in East Jerusalem and West Bank
settlements.Jibril Rajoub, a senior PA official who is
close to PA President Mahmoud Abbas, on Saturday night called Israeli
settlement building “official terrorism,” urged Israel to halt it, and
warned: “I hope we don’t get to the stage where neither of us can count
the number of bodies” in a new upsurge of violence.Speaking on Channel 2′s Meet the Press, Rajoub
said that the “worst thing [that could happen] is the loss of hope on
the Palestinian side.” Amid talks of a third intidafa
given the uptick in attacks on Israeli targets, the senior official
claimed the Palestinian Authority would not lead its people to violence
and bloodshed and hoped to sign a peace agreement with Israel in
2014.Science Minister Yaakov Peri (Yesh Atid) said
Saturday that he opposed the new settlement plans, and that they would
do nothing to “calm” any of the families that are protesting against the
prisoner releases. He also said Yesh Atid “can’t sit in a government”
indefinitely “that’s not making every effort” to advance the peace
process.The High Court of Justice on Thursday rejected an appeal against
the release of the 26 Palestinian prisoners.The petition was filed by
members of the
Schijveschuurder family, whose parents and three siblings were murdered
in a gruesome suicide bombing at the Sbarro restaurant in downtown
Jerusalem in 2001. 
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