RUSSIA-UKRAINE SITUATION FRI 2 DAYS FROM REFERENDUM

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.

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THE RUSSIA - UKRAINE SITUATION AT 8:57AM FRI MAR 14,14

NOW THE REPORTS HAVE IT RUSSIA IS READY FOR AN ALL OUT INVASION OF CRIMEA.

 14 Mar. 2014-Visit to NATO by the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic of Moldova
The NATO Deputy Secretary General, Ambassador Alexander Vershbow, will meet with the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic of Moldova, Mr. Valeriu Chiveri on Monday, 17 March 2014.

14 Mar. 2014-Visit to NATO by the Leader of the Crimean Tatars and Ukrainian Member of the Parliament
The NATO Deputy Secretary General, Ambassador Alexander Vershbow, will meet with the Leader of the Crimean Tatars and Ukrainian Member of the Parliament, Mr. Mustafa Cemilev Kirimoglu on Friday 14 March 2014.

Russia ships troops into Ukraine, repeats invasion threat
By Andrew Osborn and Lina Kushch 1 hour ago-MAR 14,14-Yahoonews
SEVASTOPOL/DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Russia shipped more troops and armor into Crimea on Friday and repeated its threat to invade other parts of Ukraine, showing no sign of listening to Western pleas to back off from the worst confrontation since the Cold War.Russia's stock markets tumbled and the cost of insuring its debt soared on the last day of trading before pro-Moscow authorities in Crimea hold a vote to join Russia, a move all but certain to lead to U.S. and EU sanctions on Monday.The Russian Foreign Ministry, responding to the death of at least one protester in Ukraine's eastern city of Donetsk, repeated President Vladimir Putin's declaration of the right to invade to protect Russian citizens and "compatriots". "Russia is aware of its responsibility for the lives of compatriots and fellow citizens in Ukraine and reserves the right to take people under its protection," it said.Ukrainian health authorities say one 22-year-old man was stabbed to death and at least 15 others were being treated in hospital after clashes in Donetsk, the mainly Russian-speaking home city of Ukraine's ousted President Viktor Yanukovich.Organizers of the anti-Moscow demonstration said the dead man was from their group.Moscow denies that its forces are intervening in Crimea, an assertion Washington ridicules as "Putin's fiction". Journalists have seen Russian forces operating openly in their thousands over the past two weeks, driving in armored columns of vehicles with Russian license plates and identifying themselves to besieged Ukrainian troops as members of Russia's armed forces.A Reuters reporting team watched a Russian warship unload trucks, troops and at least one armored personnel carrier at Kazachaya bay near Sevastopol on Friday morning. Trucks drove off a ramp from the Yamal 156, a large landing ship that can carry more than 300 troops and up to a dozen APCs.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was due to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in London later on Friday in a last-ditch effort to head off the referendum in Crimea, now seen as all but inevitable.Russian troops seized the southern Ukrainian region two weeks ago as a pro-Moscow regional government took power there. The new regional authorities intend to secede from Ukraine and join Russia in a vote described in the West as illegal."What we would like to see is a commitment to stop putting new facts on the ground and a commitment to engage seriously on ways to de-escalate the conflict, to bring Russian forces back to barracks, to use international observers in place of force to achieve legitimate political and human rights objectives," a U.S. State Department official said ahead of Kerry's talks.But Russia has shown no sign of veering from President Vladimir Putin's plan to annex Crimea.Putin declared on March 1 that Russia had the right to invade its neighbor, a week after its ally Yanukovich fled the Ukrainian capital following three months of demonstrations that ended with about 100 people killed in the final days.In further signs of Moscow's belligerent posture ahead of the Crimea vote, the Defence Ministry announced on Friday it would hold exercises with fighter jets and helicopters over the Mediterranean Sea. On Thursday it announced artillery drills near Ukraine's border.U.S. and EU sanctions, including travel bans and asset freezes on Russian officials and their firms, are now seen as inevitable. The only mystery remaining is who will be on the lists of targets when they are agreed at the start of next week.U.S. and European officials say the targets will not include Putin or Lavrov, but will include senior figures in the government and members of parliament in an effort to impose hardship on Russia's elite for backing Putin's policies.The initial list would be just a start, with more individuals and companies to be added later, and further trade sanctions could follow. Germany's Bild newspaper said the initial EU list would include at least 13 officials including top ministers and people around Putin.

SHARES FALL, DEBT INSURANCE COSTS RISE
Russia's MICEX stock index was down 2.9 percent at 0930 GMT, having lost more than 16 percent of its value in the two weeks since Putin declared his right to invade. At one point in the morning it had fallen 5 percent to its lowest since 2009.The cost of insuring Russia's debt against default for five years rose 18 basis points to 285 - a rise of nearly 7 percent - and is now up by half since the crisis began.Although Russian public opinion, fed by overwhelmingly state-controlled media, is still solidly behind the plan to annex Crimea, Western countries believe sanctions could undermine support for Putin among the wealthy elite.Goldman Sachs lowered its prediction for Russian economic growth for this year to 1 percent from 3 percent on Thursday, blaming the Ukraine crisis for sparking capital flight that will destroy investment.Former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin told Russian media that the threat of Western sanctions was already imposing higher borrowing costs on Russian businesses and that further sanctions would push capital flight to $50 billion a quarter.Renaissance Capital estimated capital outflow in the first quarter would exceed $55 billion, compared with $63 billion for the whole of 2013.The ruble has declined only slightly despite the rout in share prices, held aloft by a central bank that raised its lending rates on March 3 and has been spending reserves to keep the currency from falling.Putin's March 1 declaration of the right to invade was accompanied by demonstrations  across the south and east by groups who raised Russian flags, seized buildings and convened regional legislative sessions demanding secession, in what Kiev called Kremlin-orchestrated bids to repeat the Crimea scenario.The most persistent pro-Moscow agitation has been in Donetsk, where the Russian flag was flown above the regional government headquarters for nearly a week and pro-Russian protesters occupied the building for days. Their leader, who had declared himself "people's governor" and demanded police report to him, was finally arrested last week.(Writing by Peter Graff; Editing by Will Waterman)
 
EU diplomats start putting names on Russia blacklist
13.03.14 @ 14:36-By Andrew Rettman-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS - EU countries have started talks on who to blacklist for Russia’s invasion of Crimea, but few think it will make Russian leader Vladimir Putin retreat.The EU on Wednesday (12 March) agreed to impose visa bans and asset freezes on “persons responsible for actions which undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty, and independence of Ukraine … and entities associated with them.”Talks on who to name have so far taken place outside EU structures.The British foreign office, for one, has been speaking with officials from the American, Canadian, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Swiss, and Turkish embassies in London on who to designate.But on Thursday, EU countries’ diplomats began to collate each other’s ideas in an all-day meeting in Brussels.

The draft lists of names are confidential.
But diplomats say the EU will not name the one man who took the Crimea decision - Putin - or his foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, for now.Meanwhile, Wednesday’s sanctions text indicates they will first target Putin’s executive branch.Russia watchers say officials associated with the Crimea operation are: Alexander Bortnikov (Putin’s intelligence chief); Sergey Glazyev (a senior aide); Sergei Ivanov (Putin’s chief of staff); Nikolay Patrushev (the head of Putin’s security council); Sergei Shoygu (defence minister); Vladislav Surkov (another aide); and Alexander Vikto (the commander of Russia’s Crimea-based Black Sea Fleet).

If the EU decides to make the sanctions more political, it could target MPs.
Valentina Matvienko (the speaker of the Russian senate) shepherded a resolution to authorise Russian troops to invade Ukraine. Alexey Pushkov (the head of the foreign affairs committee in the lower house) and Dmitry Rogozin (deputy PM) also championed the idea. Vladimir Zhirinovsky (an MP) visited Crimea and called for it to join Russia.

EU states could target Putin’s business allies.
Alexey Miller (chairman of Russia’s gas monopoly, Gazprom) has waged economic warfare against Ukraine. Igor Sechin (one of Putin’s oldest friends) now runs state oil firm Rosneft. Vladimir Yakunin (Russia’s multi-millionaire railway chief) is a Putin confidante in a Kremlin culture in which decisions are not necessarily made by the official hierarchy.

EU countries also have more colourful options.
These include Ramzan Kadyrov (the leader of Russia’s semi-autonomous Chechen Republic), said to have sent paramilitaries to Crimea.They also include Alexander Zaldostanov (a Putin friend who leads the Night Wolves, a biker gang which went to Crimea to drum up support for secession) and Dmitry Kiselyov (a propagandist who heads Russia’s RT news channel).
 
The likely sequence of events is as follows.
Crimea votes to join Russia in a referendum - deemed illegal by the EU and US - on Sunday; Putin endorses the result; EU foreign ministers trigger the blacklist in Brussels on Monday; EU leaders discuss further sanctions at a summit on Thursday.

Looking stupid?
For his part, Andrew Wood, the British ambassador to Russia between 1995 and 2000, believes the EU has no better option than to impose the blacklist. He told EUobserver on Wednesday: “We’re in a situation where some bold gesture is needed and has become inevitable. If we don’t do it, we’ll look a bit stupid.”He does not believe Putin will back down: Wood said it would be “political suicide” for the Russian leader to cede Crimea due to Western pressure. “We know in advance that he’s not going to listen.”

But he believes Putin will try to limit the international fallout.
He said Russia is unlikely to formally annex Crimea at this stage. He also said Moscow might offer to join a "Contact Group" on Crimea conflict resolution, even though a Contact Group risks “serving Russian purposes” by institutionalising the partition of Ukraine.The former UK ambassador added that international opprobrium will undermine Putin in the long term.“It [the Crimea invasion] is a huge mistake,” he noted.“ Russians will rally round him in the initial aftermath, but in the end he will face a blowback from his own people … What he has shown is that he can do whatever he wants. This will discourage international investors and hurt Russia’s economy and future development. It will harm him morally as Russian people realise they are living in an ever-less liberal regime.”Unlike Russia's oligarchs, the Kremlin officials are not believed to hold significant financial assets in Europe.But the US also thinks that stigmatising Putin’s top cadre will harm his authority.“Putin depicts himself as someone who is capable of protecting his loyalists, down from the janitor in the building to the top chain of command, but the sanctions will show that he cannot guarantee their impunity,” a US contact involved in drawing up Washington’s Russia blacklist said.The US source added that EU naming and shaming of notoriously corrupt oligarchs like Sechin or Yakunin would stimulate the Russian opposition.

Realpolitik
The inclusion of Turkey and Switzerland in the UK deliberations indicate that London is willing to go pretty far to discourage Moscow from escalation.Swiss banks and low-tax cantons are considered a safe haven by Russia’s economic elite, while Turkey is a popular holiday destination for its middle class.But despite the strong rhetoric, there are cracks in the European facade.The Swiss foreign ministry told EUobserver its main interest in the London meeting was asset freezes on the former Ukrainian regime, not Russia.A Turkish diplomatic source indicated that Ankara is wary of Moscow: “Turkey gets 60 percent of its gas from Russia. A Russian company is building Turkey's first nuclear power plant. Turkish contractors have won contracts worth billions. In that sense, our position is no different from that of Germany: Realpolitik.”At the same time, the Russian opposition has a long way to go to challenge Putin’s rule.Vladimir Ashurkov, a spokesman for the Anti-Corruption Foundation, a Moscow-based NGO linked to opposition leader Alexei Navalny, told this website on Wednesday: “It is of course inspiring for me to see that people [in Ukraine] can overthrow a corrupt and authoritarian government … and we believe this can be an inspiration for Russian society.” Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a Russian oligarch-turned-reformer, in Kiev this week told crowds: “This [the Ukrainian revolution] makes the Russian government nervous.”Very few Russians have so far come out on the streets to protest Putin’s actions in Crimea, however.For one, the Kremlin has cracked down on NGO financing and frightened people by throwing critics in prison.Navalny himself is under house arrest and cannot meet, phone, email, or tweet his contacts. He is only allowed visits by close relatives and lawyers. “The situation for civil society in Russia is quite different to Ukraine,” Ashurkov said.But for some Ukrainians, the lack of solidarity is also linked to nationalist sentiment in the Russian opposition.Roman Sohn, a Ukrainian civil society activist, noted that Khodorkovsky in his Kiev speech quibbled whether Russia was right or wrong to give Crimea to Ukraine in 1954.“I don't expect anything from Khodorkovsky,” he said.“Russian democracy stops at the matter of Ukraine … The miniscule number of people in Moscow protesting against the war speaks loudly to the rest of the world that even the Russian opposition has the same imperialistic mentality as Putin,” he added.

KERRY-BALESTINIANS DO NOT HAVE TO RECOGNIZE ISRAEL FOR PEACE DEAL

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.

LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).

THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week:(7 YEARS) and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

ISAIAH 33:8
8  The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)

JERUSALEM DIVIDED

GENESIS 25:20-26
20  And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21  And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22  And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23  And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24  And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25  And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26  And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

Kerry: It's a Mistake for Israel to Demand Recognition-Secretary of State thinks it is a “mistake” for Israel to demand that the PA recognize it as a Jewish state in order to achieve peace.-By Elad Benari-First Publish: 3/14/2014, 1:13 AM-Israelnationalnews

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry thinks it is a “mistake” for Israel to demand that the Palestinian Authority (PA) recognize it as a Jewish state in order to achieve peace.“I think it's a mistake for some people to be raising it again and again as the decider of their attitude towards the possibility of a state and peace, and we've obviously made that clear," Kerry told the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on Thursday, when asked to clarify the official position of the Obama administration on the issue, according to the Breitbart website.He further said that the issue was resolved in 1947, when UN Resolution 181, which divided Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state, was passed. This resolution, said Kerry, referred to "Jewish state" several times.Kerry also said that former PA Chairman Yasser Arafat explicitly recognized Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state.Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has insisted that the PA recognize Israel as a Jewish state in order to reach a peace agreement, explaining that the Arabs’ refusal to recognize Israel stands at the heart of the conflict.PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has repeatedly insisted that the PA would not recognize Israel as a Jewish state and has also stressed that the future Palestinian state would not include the presence of a single Israeli – civilian or soldier.He stood his ground last Friday, saying during a meeting with Fatah youth activists that that there is "no way" he will recognize Israel as a Jewish state and accept a Palestinian capital in just a portion of eastern Jerusalem.On Sunday, he was backed by members of his Fatah party, who unanimously endorsed his rejection of demands to recognize Israel as a Jewish state.On Saturday, Kerry’s spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that the United States believes there is no need for the PA to recognize Israel as a Jewish state as part of a peace agreement.Psaki, who spoke to the PA-based Arabic-language Al-Quds newspaper, said, “The American position is clear, Israel is a Jewish state. However, we do not see a need that both sides recognize this position as part of the final agreement.”In contrast, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro recently declared that the PA will be obligated to recognize Israel as a Jewish state under the framework agreement that Kerry is planning to bring to the two sides.Breitbart, which reported Kerry’s comments from Thursday, pointed out two different occasions on which both Kerry and President Obama expressed support for Israel’s demand to be recognized as a Jewish state.In December 2013, on a visit to Israel, Kerry promised that he and Obama were committed to pursuing recognition of Israel as a "Jewish state" in a final agreement with the Palestinian Authority:“And I join with President Obama in expressing to the people of Israel our deep, deep commitment to the security of Israel and to the need to find a peace that recognizes Israel as a Jewish state, recognizes Israel as a country that can defend itself by itself, and that is an important principle with which the prime minister and the President and I are in agreement,” he said at the time.In March 2013, during a joint press conference with Netanyahu in Jerusalem, President Obama committed to pursuing a "Jewish state" as part of a peace agreement with Palestinians:“We also discussed the way forward to a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians. And I very much welcomed Bibi’s words before I spoke. I’ll be meeting with President Abbas tomorrow, and I will have more to say on this topic in the speech that I deliver to the Israeli people tomorrow. But for now, let me just reiterate that a central element of a lasting peace must be a strong and secure Jewish state, where Israel’s security concerns are met, alongside a sovereign and independent Palestinian state,” Obama said.

Gaza fighting unlikely to derail peace talks, officials say-Rocket fire strengthens Jerusalem’s demand for strong security arrangements, says deputy defense minister-By Raphael Ahren March 13, 2014, 5:18 pm 1-The Times of Israel

The recent escalation in violence between Israel and Gaza will likely not derail or even hamper Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, current and former Israeli officials said Thursday.“I don’t see a direct influence. There are other obstacles and challenges for the talks, but I think it only [shows] the demands on Israel in a different perspective,” Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon told The Times of Israel.While he personally opposes the release of Palestinian terrorists in the framework of the negotiations, Danon said he does not expect the recent events to impact the government’s decision on whether to go ahead with the fourth and final round of these releases, planned for March 29. Other ministers, though, do oppose the scheduled release.The Islamic Jihad terror group fired more than 60 rockets from Gaza at Israeli towns beginning Wednesday afternoon, leading the IDF to retaliate against terror-related targets in the coastal strip. On Thursday afternoon, Islamic Jihad announced that a truce had gone into effect and Israeli officials said quiet would be met with quiet.Danon said Wednesday’s heavy rocket fire should serve to illustrate Israel’s predicament to “our allies and friends, who are trying to push forward the negotiations,” and strengthen Israel’s position in the talks.

“They need to understand that there are other forces in the region,” he said, and thus even if Israel were able to reach an agreement with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, “we cannot ignore the current reality in Gaza… When we speak about security aspects and scenarios of instability in the region, and at the same time you have dozens of rockets trying to [harm] civilian population, it makes clear to our friends in Washington that we have a good reason to be worried about what would happen in the future in Judea and Samaria,” Danon added, using the Biblical name for the West Bank.A government official confirmed that Jerusalem currently has no plans to halt or reschedule the peace talks, acknowledging that Abbas and the PA cannot be blamed for the rocket fire. “We always knew that Abbas has next to no influence on what happens in Gaza,” the official said, speaking on a condition of anonymity.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s former national security adviser, Yaakov Amidror, also said the recent escalation will probably not disrupt the process.Amidror, a retired general who dealt mostly with military intelligence, said that the only connection between the situation in the South and the peace talks is that the massive rocket fire from Gaza proved how crucial ironclad security arrangements are in any peace agreement. Israel must be able to prevent weapons from being smuggled into the West Bank, “because the alternative is Gaza,” he said.Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, on the other hand, appeared to use the rocket fire from Gaza to agitate against the continuation of the peace talks. “Sderot and Ashkelon residents are still in their shelters. Yet there are those who think running away from Samaria so that the residents of Kfar Saba are in shelters too is the solution,” he posted on Facebook.The international community urged Israelis and Palestinians not to allow the recent events to derail the talks.“The calculations of those responsible for these acts of terrorism, who hope that these attacks will torpedo the difficult and still fragile peace process, must be proved wrong,” German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said. “The negotiations on peace in the Middle East are in a difficult phase. All sides need to make even greater efforts.”Middle East Quartet representative Tony Blair, speaking to British journalists after a meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron in Jerusalem, called for a “completely new strategy towards Gaza,” but indicated that the talks need to continue. “I don’t think even with those rocket attacks that should get in way of pursuing a political process and a political negotiation that allows, under the leadership of the United States, the two sides to come together and to try and describe an outline of what a two state solution looks like of how a Palestinian state is going to be and to operate and to function,” he said.Netanyahu has so far remained silent about the future of the peace talks, indicating, however, that they will proceed as planned. On Thursday, during a visit in a Jerusalem industrial zone together with Cameron, he denounced Abbas for failing to condemn the rocket attacks fired at Israel. “I say we want to move to a genuine peace. To move to a genuine peace, we have to be very clear on our condemnation of terror and our support for the right to defend ourselves against terror. That is a crucial component of peace,” Netanyahu said.A few hours later, Abbas did condemn the attacks coming out of Gaza. ”We condemn all military escalation, including rockets,” he said at a press conference in Bethlehem alongside Cameron.

Make unpopular moves for peace, Cameron urges from Bethlehem-British PM says he believes agreement between Israel and Palestinians possible; blasts humanitarian situation in GazaBy Adiv Sterman March 13, 2014, 6:38 pm 4-The Times of Israel

British Prime Minister David Cameron called on Israeli and Palestinian leaders to pursue peace talks and end their conflict, if necessary by carrying out “unpopular” measures.Speaking at a press conference Thursday with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem, Cameron said he believed peace was achievable, despite the many difficulties which still lay ahead of Abbas and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.“They both will have to take difficult and unpalatable and sometimes unpopular decisions for their constituencies in order to achieve that settlement, but I sense it’s possible,” Cameron said. “I’m not saying it’s definite or even probable, but it’s certainly possible.”He acknowledged that the two sides still had “serious disagreements” that would have to be tackled before a deal could be reached.Cameron condemned the downpour of rockets fired by Islamic Jihad from the Gaza Strip at southern Israel on Wednesday and Thursday, but also deplored the humanitarian situation in the Strip.“The situation in Gaza is unacceptable. There are 1.7 million people living in Gaza, a huge number are reliant for their life on food aid, there is extremely high unemployment, there is very low provision of healthcare.”Abbas too condemned the rocket fire, but implied that Israel’s airstrikes on the Strip were unjust as well. “We condemn all military escalation, including rockets,” Abbas said.The PA president went on to say that an escalation in the region would be detrimental to the peace process. “We still hope to reach an actual achievement from the talks during the prescribed period,” he said, according to news site Walla. Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are set to end next month, and US Secretary of State John Kerry is seeking both sides’ agreement to continue the negotiations on the basis of a new “framework” agreement.Abbas’s statements came hours after Netanyahu criticized him for initially condemning Israeli retaliatory airstrikes on the Strip, but not the original Islamic Jihad rocket fire from Gaza.On Wednesday, over 60 rockets were fired from Gaza at southern Israel, in the largest barrage since November 2012. Israel responded by striking 29 targets in Gaza from the air. Several more rockets were fired Thursday, prompting further IAF strikes, as a fragile ceasefire came into force.Cameron, who spoke in the Knesset and met with Netanyahu Wednesday, also visited Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity Thursday, before leaving the region.Times of Israel Staff contributed to this report

EU envoy to Israel: You shouldn’t have released prisoners-If Europe had advised Israel, says ambassador, it would have said freeze the settlements and negotiate on basis of pre-1967 lines
By David Horovitz March 14, 2014, 12:02 am 8-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

While praising Benjamin Netanyahu for being bold in his peace efforts and for seeking to prepare the Israeli public for compromise, the European Union’s ambassador to Israel said the prime minister had made the wrong decision in agreeing to release long-term Palestinian prisoners as part of the current negotiations.In an interview, Lars Faaborg-Andersen said that “had the EU been asked to advise Israel on which of the three positions [sought by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas] to accept as the basis for discussion — accepting to discuss [Palestinian statehood] on the [basis of the pre-] ’67 lines; accepting a settlement moratorium, or releasing 104 pre-Oslo prisoners — I know which two of those the EU would have pointed the Israeli government to take. You didn’t do that,” he said. “That’s your own sovereign choice. You also have to deal with the consequences.”Bolstering the critique, Faaborg-Andersen said, “The fact that these pre-Oslo prisoners are being released and coming back and being treated as heroes, is at the outset facilitated by you, because you are releasing them.”The ambassador was being interviewed (by this writer) at an event organized by the Europeans for Israel group, held Tuesday evening in the Jewish Agency building in Jerusalem. Robustly rejecting the notion that Europe was disproportionately critical of Israel, he said the EU had “basically only one quarrel with Israel as far as the peace process is concerned, and that is the settlements,” which he said were “particularly destructive for creating the kind of confidence and negotiating environment that is necessary to succeed.” The EU, he noted, considered settlements to be “illegal under international law and unhelpful on top of it.He likened ongoing settlement expansion during the peace process to “starting to eat a cake while you are discussing how to slice it,” and said the European public saw it as “a bit underhanded to continue expanding settlements in the territory which is subject to negotiations.”Israel, he advised, “would do itself a big service by putting a freeze on settlement expansion, particularly during a time of serious negotiation.”Faaborg-Andersen, who first came to Israel as a kibbutz volunteer in his youth and decades later as a senior Danish diplomat, drafted an initial version of the George W. Bush-era Road Map for peace when Denmark held the rotating presidency of the EU in 2002, called the prospects for an Israeli-Palestinian accord much better today than they had been then.Abbas is ‘a very old man and there is no certainty that he would be succeeded by anyone who has a similar commitment to a peaceful solution’He said there was a greater realization on both sides now of the need for a solution, and that “one needs to take the Palestinians at face value when they are saying they would like to have their own state.” However, no Palestinian leader wants to go “down in history as a traitor,” he said — though he later mused that “maybe ‘traitor’ is not a good word” — and Israel’s “best guarantee for security is to give the Palestinians a reasonable deal that will stick and will not immediately create dissatisfaction and frustration among the [Palestinian] public.”He said time had not been working in the Palestinians’ favor, and that the Palestinians bore much of the blame for this, noting that the original partition plan “was roughly a 50-50 sharing of the British Mandate” territory, and now the Palestinians were seeking statehood on 22%.Asked to address widespread Israeli concerns about Abbas’s credibility as a peacemaker, the danger of Islamic extremists taking control of the West Bank, and the genuine readiness of the Palestinians for abiding peace with Israel, Faaborg-Andersen said that with Abbas, “you know more or less what you have and what you would get.” But “he’s a very old man and there is no certainty that he would be succeeded by anyone who has a similar commitment to a peaceful solution.”

He said Abbas was not omnipotent and “needs to be cognizant of what the internal market in Palestine can bear in terms of a compromise. There are certain limits to what he would be able to accept.” Abbas “is accountable to a constituency, as politicians in this country are accountable to a constituency.”The ambassador offered several further reasons why Israel should “move decisively on this issue now,” including a “commonality of interests between Israel and some of the Sunni Muslim states” in confronting Hezbollah, Iran and other dangers. And he stressed Israel’s own “democratic, demographic challenge: Israel wanting to realize its aspiration as the home of the Jewish people and ensuring the self-determination of the Jewish people within the Israeli state.”He said he fully understood Israel’s security concerns, noted that “the EU wants Israel to live behind safe and defensible borders,” and suggested that international peacekeepers could play a role in the West Bank, notably on the potentially vulnerable border with Jordan. NATO peacekeeping forces in Afghanistan and other places had performed successfully against what he envisaged were far bigger challenges than such forces might face here. But in any event, he said, while the US and EU sought to help resolve security concerns, it was up to the parties themselves to find a solution.“The prime minister has put down some clear proposals on security; they are currently subject to discussion between the parties. There’s nothing wrong with that,” he said. “I don’t think it’s an insurmountable obstacle.” ‘We are not participating in paying any stipends or any kinds of salaries for martyrs or any of their families. One can argue that if [the PA] didn’t get our money, they wouldn’t be able to pay that money out of their pocket, but these are some of the things we have to live with.He argued that the rise of Hamas in Gaza stemmed “to a very large extent” from the fact that Israel had withdrawn in 2005 without an agreement. The unilateral withdrawal “allowed Hamas to step up as the big liberator,” he said. “That is a very bad precedent” and the reason “why we pin all our hopes” on a negotiated solution.The ambassador highlighted what he called the EU’s determination to help Israel in the peace effort, recalling that late last year, EU ministers “put on the table a very strong political signal to Israel. We said if the current negotiations are crowned with success, we are ready to provide Israel with a Special Privileged Partnership. This is no mean offer from the EU side. What we’re talking about is the next best thing to membership. It’s a status akin to Norway and Switzerland, across a gamut of areas — security, politics, economics, trade, science and technology, and so on. The message to Israel from our side is that you are not alone on this. There is an international community that is willing to back you and support you in this process because we know this is an existential decision that carries risks for you as well, and we would like to assist you as much as possible in trying to reduce these risks to a manageable and acceptable level.”Questioned on Abbas’s hardline positions at the negotiating table, including the demand for a right of return for Palestinian refugees, the ambassador noted that Abbas “got a lot of heat back home” for a 2012 Channel 2 interview in which he said in English that he did not feel he had the “right” to return to his town of birth, Safed, in northern Israel. He said Abbas and Netanyahu were “both being very bold,” in that they were “running into strong opposition on some of their views.”Netanyahu, he said, “is trying to prepare the Israeli public for a possible compromise.” Abbas “is trying to do the same thing,” he argued.Questioned about ongoing EU funding of the PA, even as it pays out large sums of money to jailed terrorists and to the families of dead terrorists, he said the EU did impose conditions on its funding, with “close monitoring and transparency” and that “problematic transactions” were followed up. “We are not participating in paying any stipends or any kinds of salaries for martyrs or any of their families,” he said. “One can argue that if [the PA] didn’t get our money, they wouldn’t be able to pay that money out of their pocket, but these are some of the things we have to live with.”He said the EU was providing about €1 billion a year to the “Palestinian state-building project” and had made clear to Abbas that “time is running out for them as well.” In the long-term, those funding levels would not be sustainable, he warned.The ambassador noted, however, that if the EU halted its funding, “the State of Israel would have to dole out considerably more money in order to keep peace and quiet on the West Bank.” He also hailed the security cooperation between Israel and the PA, that had provided Israel with the security it deserves in the West Bank.The relative economic prosperity in the West Bank “has put a considerable damper on discontent and therefore potentially also on violence,” he said. “I’m not sure that situation would necessarily prevail if one were to see a pulling out of donor funds from the area. Not that I’m saying you would have a third intifada or anything like that. But I think that the level of instability and the level potentially of violence would be higher.”Finally, asked about ostensible double standards in that the EU works with Morocco despite its occupation of the western Sahara and Turkey despite its presence in northern Cyprus, but will not work with Israeli institutions based in the territories, Faaborg-Andersen said “every legal situation is different. The situation as regards western Sahara and northern Cyprus cannot be directly compared to the situation in the West Bank.”Broadly speaking, the EU cooperates with Israel within the ’67 lines, he said. “The settlements are not part of Israel’s internationally recognized borders. Therefore they are excluded from our cooperation program.”He added, “We allow products from settlements to come onto the European market but they don’t enjoy the benefit of coming in at reduced customs rates or no customs rate because our agreement is with Israel. And since they don’t form part of Israel they don’t enjoy the customs preference that normal Israeli products are enjoying. If that’s called a boycott or considered a sanction, I must say I don’t understand it.”

Ministers cast doubt on looming prisoner release-Officials say they see move as ‘difficult’ and pointless unless Palestinians commit to continue talks-By AFP March 13, 2014, 4:48 pm 1-The Times of Israel

Ministers said Thursday that Israel would have difficulty approving a scheduled release of Palestinian prisoners if the Palestinian leadership refuses to extend peace talks beyond an April deadline.Israel committed to the release of 104 Palestinian prisoners in four stages when talks were launched in July. It has so far released 78 of those in three batches, with Palestinians demanding that the fourth — scheduled for later this month — include Arab Israelis as well.“As long as we don’t know what is happening — if the talks will be extended — it will be difficult for Israel to approve a move as dramatic as releasing Arab Israelis in the fourth tranche,” an aide to Science Minister Yaakov Peri quoted him as saying.After a three-year deadlock, the US brought the two sides back to the negotiating table with a nine-month time frame for an agreement.“Israel will have to be certain the talks are continuing to approve the fourth release,” said Peri, who used to head the Shin Bet internal security agency.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said: “We think the negotiations should be extended to the end of the year at least.”Asked in an interview with the Knesset television channel whether the government would approve the fourth prisoner release, Liberman said he didn’t “see any chance, if it’s not clear beforehand that the negotiations will continue till the end of the year.”“If there’s no change in tone and attitude, there’s no point in releasing them,” he said.US President Barack Obama is to host Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the White House on Monday after similar talks with Israeli Prime Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this month.“We hope that by the end of next week we will be informed that we’ve progressed from indirect negotiations through the Americans to direct talks,” Liberman said.Abbas has said the Palestinians will not agree to extend the negotiations without Israel releasing more prisoners and halting settlement construction in the occupied West Bank.

JOEL 3:2 (WW3 OCCURS WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED)
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.(JERUSALEM)(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND BRINGS 3 DEAD BILLION IN WW3)

PSALMS 137:5-6
5  If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.(STROKE)
6  If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

ISAIAH 31:5
5 As birds flying,(WAR PLANES WITH BOMBS) so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem;(WITH PLANES) defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.(NUKE OR BOMB ISRAELS ENEMIES)

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, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
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)

ZECHARIAH 14:1-4 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

PA: 'Allah Will Gather Israelis So We Can Kill Them'-Senior PA official calls Israelis 'advanced instrument of evil' with 'no belief, no principles,' on official PA TV.-By Ari Yashar-First Publish: 3/13/2014, 8:15 PM-Israelnationalnews
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YLJisx9sQE

A senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official appeared on PA TV on Wednesday, where he called Israelis "an advanced instrument of evil," claiming "Allah will gather them so that we can kill them."The official, Abbas Zaki, further opined Israelis "have no belief, no principles." He is a close associate of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas; last October he reportedly went to Syria as Abbas's personal representative, and he has spoken at public events representing Abbas's Fatah movement.Zaki's statements, translated by Palestinian Media Watch, can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YLJisx9sQE
The PA TV host speaking with Zaki claimed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had "failed in his attempt to stir up the media," referencing his exposure of the seized Iranian shipment of arms to Gaza on Monday.According to the host's theory, Netanyahu's "disappointment" in low world concern over the transfer of weapons to the terror group Hamas caused him to turn "to the option of bloodshed," a reference to the Tuesday IAF strike on Islamic Jihad terrorists in Gaza after they fired mortars at IDF soldiers.Zaki responded by saying Netanyahu "provoked an uproar," blaming Israel for the barrage of nearly 100 rockets fired from Gaza starting Wednesday and into Thursday."Don't tell anyone, we want to destroy Israel"This is not the first bombshell comment made by Zaki. In February he said on TV "none of us, especially in Fatah, has ruled out the military options" against Israel.Back in January, the Fatah man revealed on Syrian TV that any agreement Abbas reaches with Israel will merely be the "first stage" in destroying Israel.Zaki similarly revealed the not-so-secret intentions of the PA back in 2011, when he said "if Israel withdraws from Jerusalem, evacuates the 650,000 settlers, and dismantles the wall, what will become of Israel? It will come to an end."“If we say that we want to wipe Israel out...C'mon, it's too difficult. It's not [acceptable] policy to say so. Don't say these things to the world,” he warned. “Keep it to yourself.”

IAF Hits Seven Gaza Terror Targets-IAF aircraft hit seven terror targets in Gaza on, after rocket attacks continue despite "ceasefire."-By Elad Benari-First Publish: 3/14/2014, 12:42 AM-Israelnationalnews

Aircraft of the Israeli Air Force (IAF) attacked seven terror targets in Gaza on Thursday night, shortly after midnight.In a statement, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said that three targets in northern Gaza and four targets in southern Gaza were hit.“The IDF will not tolerate any attempt to harm Israeli citizens and IDF soldiers and will continue to act decisively and strongly against anyone who carries out terror activities against the State of Israel,” said the statement, which added that any Gaza rocket fire was the responsibility of the Hamas terror organization which rules the region.“The IDF is prepared to defend the citizens of Israel,” the statement said.The IDF airstrikes came after Gazan terrorists continued to fire rockets at southern Israel, even after the Islamic Jihad claimed that an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire would take effect at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday.As of Thursday night, at least nine rockets were fired on Israel's south from Gaza, a continuation of the escalated rocket barrage, in which roughly 100 rockets have been fired since Wednesday. The latest attack was recorded shortly after 11:00 p.m., when a rocket fired by Gaza-based terrorists exploded in an open area of the Eshkol Regional Council on Thursday evening.Most of the rockets exploded in open areas, several of them being shot down by the Iron Dome system which was stationed in Be'er Sheva and Sderot and which is designed to intercept rockets before they explode in populated areas.The rocket barrage has led Intelligence and Strategy Minister Yuval Steinitz and Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman to call for Israel to retake Gaza."Sooner or later we will have to take control of Gaza, in order to get rid of the Hamas regime,” Steinitz said. “We do not need to reoccupy it permanently, but we do need to remove from Gaza the option of firing rockets on us."

JAPAN-CHINA SPAT GOING ON MAR 09,14 DOES THIS HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH MISSING PLANE MH370

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.

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SEARCH FOR THE PLANE YOURSELF-HERE
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FLIGHTWARE-LIVE FLIGHT TRACKING
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/MAS370/history/20140307/1635Z/WMKK/ZBAA/tracklog

THE MISSING PLANE MH370 SITUATION AT 3:00AM THU MAR 13,2014
 
MH 370'S 777-200 ORIGINAL TRACK TO CHINA.

THE CONSPIRACY GROWS TO CHINA-JAPAN IN MY EYES

CHINA AND JAPAN WERE HAVING A DISPUTE IN THE EAST CHINA SEA ON SUNDAY MORNING SOMETIME.AND CHINA SAID IT WAS SUNDAY MAR 9,14 WHEN THEY TOOK A PICTURE OF THE DEBRIS IN THE WATER.COULD IT BE THAT THE 370 LOST ITS WIRING-ACCIDENTALLY FLEW INTO THIS JAPAN-CHINA-DISPUTE IN THE EAST SEA DIAOYU ISLANDS AREA.AND SINCE CHINA HAD 2 H--6 BOMBERS FLYING IN THE AREA.THE CHINESE MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT IT WAS A ENEMY PLANE SINCE THE WIRES WOULD BE OUT.CHINA TRYED TO SEND THE PLANE A WARNING.BUT THE 370 COULD HEAR NOTHING IF THE WIRING WAS ALL OUT ON THE PLANE.AND ONE OF CHINAS BOMBERS SHOT A MISSLE INTO IT AND DESTROYED THE PLANE.IT FELL IN THE OCEAN.AND CHINA KNOWING WHEN THEY LOOKED CLOSELY AT THE PLANE AFTER THEY SHOT IT DOWN.REALIZED IT WAS A MALAYSIAN PLANE AND NO ENEMY PLANE.THE CHINESE WOULD HAVE TO CLEAN UP THE DEAD BODIES FROM THE AREA AND CLEAN UP THE REMAINS FROM THE DOWNED 370.THEN AFTER THEY WOULD CLEAN UP THE SITE THEY WOULD PLACE OTHER PLANE DEBRIS IN THE LAST PLACE WERE THE LAST SOUND AND RADAR CAME FROM. THIS WOULD EXPLAIN WHY CHINA WAS SI HESITANT TO GIVE THE INFORMATION FOR 4 DAYS.THIS WOULD TAKE TIME FOR CHINA TO CLEAN UP THE SITE AND PLACE THE DEBRIS IN PLACE OF IT.THEN YESTERDAY - CHINA DECIDED THEY WOULD REVEAL THAT ON MAR 9,14 THEY FOUND DEBRIS IN THE LAST AREA WERE THE RADAR AND GPS WERE REPORTED.I THINK I MAY BE ONTO SOMETHING HERE.I SMELLED A SCAM RGHT FROM THE BEGGINING.AND THIS WOULD BE A GREAT WAY FOR CHINA TO COVERUP THE ACCIDENTAL BOMBING OF 370 FOR ACCIDENTALLY COMING INTO THE CHINA-JAPAN DISPUTED AREA WHILE THE 2 WERE ON ALERT WITH BOMBERS AND DATA PLANES.

Diaoyu Islands-south china mourning post mar 09,14

The Diaoyu Islands are a group of uninhabited islands located roughly due east of mainland China, northeast of Taiwan, west of Okinawa Island, and north of the southwestern end of the Ryukyu Islands. They are currently controlled by Japan, which calls them Senkaku Islands. Both China and Taiwan claim sovereignty over the islands.

Japan scrambles jets against Chinese planes in East China Sea
UPDATED : Sunday, 09 March, 2014, 5:20pm-Agence France-Presse in Tokyo

Japanese surveillance plane flies over the disputed islands in the East China Sea, called the Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan.Japan scrambled military jets on Sunday to counter three Chinese military planes that flew near Japanese airspace, defence officials said.One Y-8 information gathering plane and two H-6 bombers flew over the East China Sea, travelling in international airspace between southern Japanese islands and went to the Pacific Ocean before returning towards China on the same route on Sunday morning, according to a spokesman at the Joint Staff of the Ministry of Defence.“They flow above public seas, and there was no violation of our airspace,” he said, declining to release more details about the incident.Japan and China are locked in a bitter territorial row over islands in the East China Sea administered by Japan as the Senkaku Islands, but which China calls the Diaoyu Islands.Chinese government ships and planes have been seen off the disputed islands numerous times since Japan nationalised them in September 2012, sometimes within the 12 nautical-mile territorial zone. 

 
   

THE MISSING PLANE MH370 SITUATION AT 11:00AM THU MAR 13,2014
IF THE PLANE WAS ACTUALLY IN THE AIR 4 HOURS LONGER THEN THERE SAYING. MY CONSPIRACY THEORY COULD BE A GOOD LEAD.AS IF THE PLANE LOST ITS WIRING SYSTEM AND HEADED IN THE DISPUTED AREA.MY SENARIO COULD HAVE OCCURRED.OR THE PLANE WAS HIJACKED-TAKEN TO THE DISPUTED AREA.AND CHINA BOMBERS BLEW THE PLANE UP AS THE HIJACKER WANTED TO GO POSSIBLY PAST THE DISPUTED AREA.MAYBE WITH A LOAD OF DRUGS OR SOMETHING THE PILOTS OR THE HUJACKER WANTED TO FLY PAST THE DISPUTED AREA.BUT CHINA SHOT THE PLANE DOWN INSTEAD OF LETTING IT GO THREW THE DUSPUTED TERRITORY.SINCE THE PLANE WAS POSSIBLY GOING FOR 4 HOURS MORE.

ONE EXPERT SAID THE PLANE COULD BE AS FAR AWAY AS THE MARIANA ISLANDS IN THE SEA IF THE 4 EXTRA HOURS ARE ADDED IN.THIS PUTS THE PLANE RIGHT IN THE DISPUTED AREAS.OR CLOSE TO IT.


China's military buildup-MAR 7,14 - (A DAY BEFORE THE MH370 TOOK OFF)
ASIAN REVIEW


The latest QDR refers to these emerging A2/AD challenges, although it stops short of naming China. But it is clear that the U.S. plan to build up its naval presence in the Pacific is aimed at countering China's growing presence there.The new QDR also comes amid growing fears of an accidental clash in Asian waters.Japan, a key U.S. ally in Asia, is facing unilateral provocations from China in the East China Sea, which is home to the Senkaku Islands, or the Diaoyu Islands as China calls them.The Philippines, another U.S. ally, is also facing a similar situation in the South China Sea.By setting a numerical target for the U.S. naval presence in the Pacific, Washington is issuing a thinly veiled warning to Beijing over China's aggressive maritime activities in the East China and South China seas. 

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang delivered a government work report at the opening of the annual session of the National People's Congress, the nation's parliament, on Wednesday. In the report, Li made clear China's policy of further modernizing its military. He said that China will enhance the combat readiness of its military and make efforts to develop high-tech weapons and equipment.China has been putting a particular emphasis on its navy, air force and Second Artillery Corps, which is the strategic missile division.Beijing sees the expansion of its state-of-the-art weaponry, including its aircraft carrier, stealth fighter jets, submarines and ballistic missiles, as crucial to its efforts to prevent U.S. forces deployed in the Pacific from approaching mainland China.The Chinese military has drawn two conceptual lines of defense against the U.S. -- the "First Island Chain," which stretches from Okinawa's main island to the South China Sea, and the "Second Island Chain," which links Tokyo to Guam and other places.China's navy has already placed most of the waters inside the First Island Chain under its sphere of influence and has also stepped up military exercises in the western Pacific in recent years.According to Chinese media, the Chinese navy conducted military drills in the western Pacific nine times in 2013, compared with a total of 21 drills during the previous six years of 2007 to 2012.It is now common for Chinese naval vessels to sail beyond the Second Island Chain. "We dispatch intelligence-gathering vessels to waters off the coast of Hawaii to collect electronic intelligence from the U.S. Pacific Fleet," a Chinese military source said.China shows no sign of backing away from its growing assertiveness in disputed waters in the East China and South China seas, as it is testing the waters to see how the U.S. will respond to issues in the Pacific.    During an official visit to the U.S. last June, Chinese President Xi Jinping reportedly told President Barack Obama, "The vast Pacific Ocean has enough space for the two large countries of China and the U.S."Xi's remark is widely seen as reflecting China's ambition to have its own part to play in the Pacific.

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Malaysian plane flew on for hours, data suggests-No sign of missing jetliner have been found; multinational hunt for Boeing 777 continues-By AP March 13, 2014, 8:28 am 1-tHE tIMES OF iSRAELThe Wall Street Journal is reporting that US investigators suspect a missing Malaysian jetliner flew on for four hours after it lost contact with air traffic controllers.The suspicion is based on data from the plane’s engines that are automatically downloaded and transmitted to the ground as part of routine maintenance programs. The report raises questions as to why the Boeing 777 was flying like that, and if anyone was in control during that time.The plane’s last known confirmed position was roughly halfway between Malaysia and Vietnam. Malaysian authorities have since said they tracked what could have been the plane changing course and heading west.No signs of the missing Malaysian jetliner have been found at a spot where Chinese satellite images showed what might be plane debris, Malaysia’s civil aviation chief said Thursday, deflating the latest lead in the five-day hunt.“There is nothing. We went there, there is nothing,” Azharuddin Abdul Rahman told reporters in Kuala Lumpur.Vietnamese officials previously said the area had been “searched thoroughly” in recent days.The hunt for the Boeing 777 has been punctuated by false leads since it disappeared with 239 people aboard just hours after leaving Kuala Lumpur for Beijing early Saturday. The plane was heading northeast over the South China Sea when it disappeared, but authorities believe it may have turned back and headed into the upper reaches of the Strait of Malacca or beyond.The location where Chinese images showed possible debris is not far from where the last confirmed position of the plane was between Malaysia and Vietnam. The images and coordinates were posted on the website of China’s State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense.A Xinhua report said the images from around 11 a.m. on Sunday appear to show “three suspected floating objects” of varying sizes in a 20-kilometer radius, the largest about 24-by-22 meters (79-by-72 feet) off the southern tip of Vietnam.Pham Quy Tieu, deputy transport minister, told The Associated Press that the area had been “searched thoroughly” by forces from other countries over the past few days. Doan Huu Gia, chief of air search and rescue coordination center, said Malaysian and Singaporean aircraft were scheduled to visit the area again Thursday.Li Jiaxiang, chief of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, said later China had yet to confirm any link between the suspected floating objects and the plane.Malaysia has come under some criticism for its handling of the search, which currently covers 35,800 square miles (92,600 square kilometers) and involves 12 nations.Investigators have not ruled out any possible cause to explain the disappearance of the plane and the 239 people on board.

A nervous region eyes robust Chinese response to missing Malaysian plane
By Greg Torode 1 hour ago-MAR 13,14-YahoonewsHONG KONG (Reuters) - From high-resolution satellites to advanced warships, China's military build-up is on full display in the hunt for a missing Malaysian jetliner - putting Asia on notice as to what Beijing might do in the future to further assert its regional presence.Now in its sixth day, the search for the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 and its 239 passengers and crew has exposed tensions between Beijing and Kuala Lumpur, with Chinese officials from Premier Li Keqiang on down criticizing Malaysia's handling of the crisis. China has sent a team of envoys and investigators to Malaysia to deepen its involvement.While Beijing's concerns reflect, in part, public anxiety over the fate of more than 150 Chinese on board Flight MH370, the search comes at a time when China has been flexing its muscles in the disputed South and East China Seas.One aerospace and defense industry source with years of experience in the region said the Chinese response would stick in the minds of its neighbors."This is a demonstration of force in a peaceful context," said the source, who declined to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the media.China has deployed four warships, four coastguard vessels, eight aircraft and trained 10 satellites on a wide search area far from mainland China. Chinese media have described the ship deployment as the largest Chinese rescue fleet ever assembled.The missing plane's last reported contact with civilian radar was near the mouth of the Gulf of Thailand, which opens into the South China Sea. The aircraft was bound for Beijing after taking off from Kuala Lumpur.Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang on Monday acknowledged Malaysia had the "main responsibility" for both the search and the follow-up investigation. He added, however, that Beijing had a responsibility not only to participate but to "demand and urge" Malaysia to step up its efforts.

ONCE WARM TIES?
Ironically, China's ties with Malaysia had been among its warmest in the region despite a dispute over territory in the South China Sea.However, Chinese warships staged a show of sovereignty just two months ago at the James Shoal, a submerged reef about 80 km (50 miles) off Malaysia's Borneo island state of Sarawak - and some 1,800 km (1,125 miles) from mainland China.Beijing regards those waters as its southernmost territory, the bottom of a looping so-called nine-dash line on maps that comprise 90 percent of the South China Sea. The Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei and Taiwan are also in dispute with Beijing over parts of the ocean.The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) deployment at the shoal was led by one of its three state-of-the-art amphibious assault ships. Two of those 20,000-tonne vessels - the Kunlunshan and the Jingangshan - have joined the search for the missing plane."The Chinese are drawing the conclusion that these guys are not ready for prime time," said Ernie Bower, a Southeast Asia specialist at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies, referring to Malaysia.The fruitless search has shone the spotlight on a series of fumbling news conferences by Malaysian officials and a long delay in divulging details of the military's tracking of what could have been the plane hundreds of miles off course.Malaysian government officials say they are coping as best they can with a highly complex crisis.Regional naval officials and analysts said one of the big questions now was what the protracted search - and China's growing concerns over Malaysia's response - would mean for Beijing's approach to the region in future.While many foreign experts see Beijing's deployment as robust, Chinese state television and other media reports have referred to a lack of Chinese capabilities to conduct extended search and rescue operations far from the mainland coast.More facilities would be needed for dealing with humanitarian disasters, one Chinese expert said, even though China had expanded listening posts, ports and runways at its facilities in the disputed Paracel and Spratly archipelagoes of the South China Sea."This will not be the last time. China has a responsibility and calling to join in," said Ruan Zongze, a former Chinese diplomat with the China Institute of International Studies, a think tank affiliated with the Foreign Ministry.The Chinese effort is already sparking concern among the public in Vietnam, where battles over sovereignty against China go back decades.Social media has been active with postings, comments and deep suspicion about the presence of Chinese planes and warships near the Vietnamese coast.Deputy Transport Minister Pham Quy Tieu, head of Vietnam's search and rescue effort, told Reuters that China had asked permission for its ships and planes to enter Vietnamese territory and that Hanoi remained in "total control"."China only flies and searches at high altitude, its boats never go deep inside our waters. So we are not concerned about breaches of our sovereignty," Tieu said.

"NEW HISTORIC MISSIONS"
Ian Storey, an expert on ties between China and Southeast Asia, said Beijing's deployment reflected its regional military build-up and the PLA's so-called "new historic missions", which included protecting Chinese nationals abroad.The crisis would bolster the case of those in China who believe that as the country's global interests expand, its defense budget should grow to protect those interests, added Storey, from the Institute of South East Asian Studies in Singapore.China this month announced a 12.2 percent rise in military spending to 808.23 billion yuan ($131.57 billion) for 2014, but gave no breakdown of how the money would be spent.Its military spending, second only to the United States, has allowed China to create a modern force that is projecting power not only across the East and South China Seas, but further into the western Pacific and Indian Oceans.Bower said the confused search highlighted weak military cooperation in Asia and the need for better coordination between Washington and its Asian allies and partners.A long- running effort by the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to tie China to a binding agreement on measures to lower tensions in the South China Sea includes search and rescue cooperation. Such cooperation is part of the discussions, and ASEAN envoys said this could be accelerated outside the broader and more sensitive talks."Since we don't have that collaborative effort well established yet, I think the Chinese are, whether intentionally or unintentionally, sending a message to their citizens that Malaysia is a small country that's not able to manage well," said Bower.(Additional reporting by David Brunnstrom in Washington, Tim Hepher in Paris, Ben Blanchard and Megha Rajagopalan in Beijing, Grace Li in Hong Kong and Nguyen Phuong Linh in Ho Chi Minh City. Editing by Dean Yates.)

Sources: CBC News stories, Reuters, AP (CBC) 

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March 11, 2014 3:38 am JST-China may hold key to Ukraine deadlock
EIJI FURUKAWA, Nikkei senior staff writer-The Asian Review-MAR 11,14
TOKYO -- China has not taken sides outwardly on the Ukraine crisis, hiding behind its noninterventionist rhetoric. But it is grasping for ways to influence the events in the country, a key source of grain and military gear.Last December, after Ukraine broke off preparations to sign an association agreement with the European Union, then-President Viktor Yanukovych flew to China to meet with counterpart Xi Jinping. The two leaders cemented a "strategic partnership" between their countries, with China even promising to shelter Ukraine under its nuclear umbrella.Crimea, now in Russia's grip, occupies a critical juncture along the modern-day Silk Road that Xi envisions linking China and Europe across Central Asia and the Black Sea. China plans to invest some $3 billion in port facilities and other infrastructure in the southern part of the peninsula. It had also been working on a deal to lease 3 million hectares of Ukrainian farmland, potentially one of China's biggest foreign holdings of soil for feeding its masses.Ukraine is also a key exporter of arms to China. It sold China the old Soviet warship that was rebuilt into the Middle Kingdom's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning. In addition, Ukrainian companies help maintain Chinese fighter jet engines. Xi and Yanukovych discussed joint aircraft development at their summit in December.No surprise, then, that the Chinese government saw Yanukovych's ouster last month as a setback that threw its bilateral agreements with the Ukraine into doubt. Beijing seems to have feared the new government in Kiev would move the nation closer to Europe, which has restricted arms exports to China since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Xi have discussed the Ukraine situation since December, according to a source in the Russian government, who says that "China sides with Russia's position." The West is also reaching out to China on the Ukraine crisis. U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel phoned Xi on Sunday and Monday.While China has voiced opposition to Western sanctions against Russia in response to its intervention in Crimea, it has avoided expressions of support for Moscow's actions. Like the rest of the world, Beijing has no way of knowing whether Russia will succeed in peeling the peninsula away from Ukraine. At a news conference Saturday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi described China's position as "just and objective.""We will play a constructive role in bringing about a political settlement," Wang added.Cui Hongjian, a senior research fellow at the China Institute of International Studies, said, "China and Russia clearly have different visions of Ukraine's future."While treading cautiously, aware of both its geopolitical rivalry with the U.S. and its cooperation with Russia, "China is acting with an eye to eventual relations with the new government" in Kiev, Cui added.The EU has sought out China, among other countries, as a possible partner in financial aid for Ukraine. China can also influence possible action by the United Nations Security Council, where it holds a veto. Beijing's weight could conceivably tilt the tug of war between Russia and the West in either direction.


Ukraine parliament appeals to U.N. over Crimea
3 hours ago-mar 13,14-YAHOONEWSKIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's parliament appealed on Thursday to the United Nations to discuss the occupation by Russian forces of its Crimea peninsula and said it reserved the right to ask individual countries for help in resolving the issue.In a debate hours before Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk was to address the Security Council in New York, some members called for a U.N. peacekeeping force, though the resolution that was passed did not specify that form of assistance.In a second vote, the chamber endorsed a document confirming that Ukraine sought deeper integration with the European Union.A total of 250 members in the 450-seat assembly, which last month removed a Moscow-backed president, endorsed the appeal to the U.N., citing the "flagrant violation by the Russian Federation of the fundamental principles of international law".Ukraine, the appeal said, reserved the right to ask "any state or regional system of collective security for help in restoring its sovereignty"."Parliament must ask the U.N. to bring in a peacekeeping contingent," Oles Doniy, an independent member allied with parties favoring integration with Europe, told the chamber. "We cannot compete with Russia on our own."But with Crimea now firmly in Moscow's hands for more than a week ahead of a referendum this Sunday on joining Russia, the parliament split along political lines.

Pro-European parties voted in favor.

Only two members of ousted president Viktor Yanukovich's Party of Regions voted in favor while others, saying they wanted first to see the outcome of Sunday's plebiscite in Crimea. Communists also abstained.The appeal made no specific reference to the U.N. Security Council. Pro-European member Borys Tarasyuk, a former foreign minister, said such a move would be pointless as Russia enjoyed veto power in the 15- member  Council."All attempts to appeal to Russia have produced no results," Tarasyuk told the chamber."I therefore believe an appeal to the U.N. is justified so that a special session of the U.N. General Assembly can be held. Unfortunately, Russia will use its veto in the Security Council."Prime Minister Yatseniuk received support for Ukraine's position during talks on Wednesday in Washington with U.S. President Barack Obama. He is to take part in a session of the U.N. Security Council on Thursday.Parliament also approved a resolution "confirming Ukraine's policy of integration with the European Union".The resolution authorized Yatseniuk to "conclude as quickly as possible from the Ukrainian side an association agreement between Ukraine and the European Union".Three months of crisis gripping Ukraine, culminating in Yanukovich's removal, were triggered by Yanukovich's decision to abandon plans to sign such an accord with the EU. Officials in the EU have said the pact can be revived.(This version of the story corrects day of week to Thursday)(Reporting by Ron Popeski; Editing by Alastair Macdonald)

03/10/2014 - VATICAN INSIDER-A bold "j'accuse" to Putin by prominent Ukrainian Jews on behalf of all Ukrainians-“Open letter” signed by Jewish intellectuals and public figures challenges Putin’s “lies” and hegemonic goals-Lisa Palmieri-BilligRome-“Mr. President! We are Jewish citizens of Ukraine: businessmen, managers, public figures, scientists and scholars, artists and musicians” begins the “Open letter To the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.” “We are addressing you on behalf of the multi-national people of Ukraine, Ukraine’s national minorities, and on behalf of the Jewish Community.”The letter now circulating, signed by significant Ukrainian Jewish personalities and still gathering more signatures, charges Putin with “consciously choosing lies and slander from the massive amount of information about Ukraine” to “delegitimize the new Ukrainian government”, defame the revolutionary movement for democracy of Maidan Square and divide the country.”Lies have been circulated in Russian media, the letter holds, regarding the trampling of civil rights of Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine and “bans on the Russian language” existing only ”in the heads of those who invented them”.  The letter notes that “historically, Ukrainian Jews are also mostly Russian – speaking”. Putin is also charged with falsely accusing Kiev of anti-Semitism and “Fascism.” “Your certainty of the growth of anti-Semitism in Ukraine also does not correspond to the actual facts. It seems you have confused Ukraine with Russia”, the letter states, “where Jewish organizations have noticed growth in anti-Semitic tendencies last year.” The letter hits out hard against Russia’s hypocrisy in attributing extremism to Kiev while nurturing it at home. It states that while it is true that nationalistic groups are part of “the political opposition and forces of social protests who have secured changes for the better…even the most marginal do not dare show anti-Semitism or other xenophobic behavior.  And we certainly know that our very few nationalists are well-controlled by civil society and the new Ukrainian government – which is more than can be said for the Russian neo-Nazis, who are encouraged by your security services.”Moreover, “there are quite a few national minority representatives in the Cabinet of Ministers: the Minister of Internal Affairs is Armenian, the Vice Prime Minister is a Jew, two ministers are Russian. The newly-appointed governors of Ukraine’s region are also not exclusively Ukrainian.”The real threat, the letter holds, “is coming from the Russian government, namely – from you personally.”“It is your policy of inciting separatism and crude pressure placed on Ukraine that threatens us and all Ukrainian people, including those who live in Crimea and the Ukrainian South-East. South-eastern Ukrainians will soon see that for themselves”, the letter warns.The letter closes with irony and clear-cut demands. “Vladimir Vladimirovich, we highly value your concern about the safety and rights of Ukrainian national minorities. But we do not wish to be ‘defended’ by sundering Ukraine and annexing its territory. We decisively call for you not to intervene in internal Ukrainian affairs, to return the Russian armed forces to their normal fixed peacetime location, and to stop encouraging pro-Russian separatism.”“Vladimir Vladimirovich, we are quite capable of protecting our rights in a constructive dialogue and in cooperation with the government and civil society of a sovereign, democratic, and united Ukraine. We strongly urge you not to destabilize the situation in our country and to stop attempts of delegitimizing the new Ukrainian government.”Estimates of the total Jewish population in the Ukraine today vary from 70,000 to 300,000. According to Josef Zissels, Chairman of the Association of Jewish Communities and Organizations of Ukraine (VAAD) who is the first signer of this document, the higher figure is the more credible. Because of their historic experience of pogroms and massacres during and between wars, Ukrainian Jews are fearful of exposing their religious or ethnic sense of identity, afraid this will lead to a proverbial “knock at the door” of their homes with subsequent violence. The estimated population includes both religious and secular Jews well integrated into public life.“The Jewish population of Ukraine is about 0.7% of the total population of Ukraine and at least 10% of the members of the Ukrainian parliament have Jewish roots – i.e. they are part of the very same 300 000 that we count among the Jewish community, even if they do not advertise their Jewishness” says Zissels.Ukrainian Jews participate in protests on an individual basis, neither encouraged nor discouraged by the Community. “But I believe”, says the VAAD chairman, “first, that the Jewish youth participate more often than older people, and, second, that as in other actions directed to democratize society, participation of Jews is disproportionately high.” He himself, some of his family, Jewish friends and acquaintances have joined the public protest.However, as individuals living in democracy, Ukrainian Jews are also divided politically. Not all support the revolution.The small minority of Jews in Crimea (which, incidentally,  once hosted Jewish collective farms, temporarily designated by Communist Russia to become a future ‘Jewish homeland’) keep a lower profile, surrounded as they are by a majority of Russian nationalists and now invaded by Putin’s men.An additional input of support for Maidan Square comes from young Israeli Jews of Ukrainian origin returning to the country in search of their roots, who have now joined the protest movement. 

On Feb 28  “Haaretz” published a JTA interview with a former Israeli soldier known as “Delta”, born in the Ukraine, immigrated to Israel in the 1990s, who moved back to Ukraine several years ago and has headed the “Blue Helmets” – a nickname for a force of 35 men and women who are not Jewish plus “several fellow Israeli Defence Force veterans…in the still-unfinished revolution.”Delta is an Orthodox Jew “in his late 30s who regularly prays at Rabbi Moshe Azman’s Brodsky Synagogue”. Although Svodoba, the Extreme Right political movement is part of the protest movement, Delta claims he “never saw any expression of anti-Semitism during the protests, and claims to the contrary were part of the reason I joined the movement. We’re trying to show that Jews care” he said.” Delta says the Kremlin is using the anti-Semitism card falsely to delegitimize the Ukrainian revolution, which is distancing Ukraine from Russia’s sphere of influence.”He and Rabbi Azman “are organizing the airborne evacuation of seriously wounded protesters – none of them Jewish – for critical operations in Israel.”All are hoping that this time, in contrast to past history, Ukraine’s Jewish citizens will not be cynically sacrificed as scapegoats for conflicting political strategies for hegemony – on one side or the other.Several synagogues have been firebombed recently in the South-east, creating anxiety regarding future developments.

Merkel: Comparing Crimea to Kosovo is 'shameful'
Today @ 11:34-MAR 13,14-EUOBSERVER-By Valentina PopBerlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday (13 March) told the Bundestag it is "shameful" to compare the independence of Kosovo with the referendum for independence in Crimea and called on Russia to stop its actions in Ukraine or face economic sanctions."In Kosovo we had years in which the international community had no power to intervene while Slobodan Milosevic carried out his ethnic cleansing. Nato then decided to act alone because Russia continuously blocked any UN mandate on Serbia. That situation is in no way similar to what is happening today in Ukraine," she said."In my opinion it is shameful to compare Crimea to Kosovo. And even if there had been other breaches of international law - Kosovo not being one of them - Russia's actions in Ukraine are still a breach of international law," she added.Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this month justified a decision to send troops to Crimea by comparing it to the international intervention in Kosovo in the late 1990s.He said he wanted to protect ethnic Russians, who make up the majority of the population on the Crimean peninsula.But to Merkel "this conflict is about spheres of influence and territorial claims" and a repeat of Russian actions during the 2008 Georgian war, which ended with two Georgian regions under Russian occupation.Merkel noted that the independence referendum called by Crimean authorities, and advanced from 25 May to 16 March, is in violation of Ukraine's constitution because it was not approved at national level."In a phase of big insecurity in Ukraine, Russia is not acting like a stability partner, but uses its neighbour's weakness to advance its own interests. It is the power of the mightiest put above the power of law. What we are witnessing now is oppressive and I fear we need to be prepared for the long haul in solving this conflict," she said.Unlike the US, whose army chiefs have prepared for military action and whose diplomats say "all options are on the table" against Russia, Merkel insists that there is "no military option" to solve this conflict.She spoke of a three step approach against Russia. The first - freezing EU-Russia talks on visa freedom and trade - has already been taken.A travel ban on Putin allies is the second step. This could be triggered on Monday at a foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels. The third step - economic sanctions - may be then agreed by EU leaders when they meet at a summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday."Nobody wants these measures, that is clear. But we would be willing and determined to go this road if it is unavoidable. This has been agreed among all 28 EU states and in close coordination with Nato and G7 partners.""If Russia stays the course, it would not be just a catastrophe for Ukraine, not just a threat for us as its neighbours, but it would massively hurt Russia, economically and politically," Merkel warned.The sanctions move is unpopular in Germany. A recent poll showed only 24 percent in favour of economic sanctions while 69 percent believe it would not help solve the Crimea crisis.