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LITERAL BIBLE -EGYPTIAN ARMY DESTROYED IN RED SEA DISCOVERED.
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ROMANS 3:13-18 (THE DEMONS OF THE ISLAM HATE CULT HERE)
13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17 And the way of peace have they not known:
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST
1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
ISRAELS TROUBLE
JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.
DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
NEHEMIAH 2:17
17 Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we (ISRAELIS) are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste,(AD 70) and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem,(DAN 9:24-27) that we be no more a reproach.
LUKE 21:24
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.(ISRAEL RECAPTURES JERUSALEM)(THE BEGGINING OF THE LAST GENERATION AND THE LAST END OF THE AGE OF GRACE.NOT THE END OF THE WORLD ,THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER)
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE
REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a(MEASURING) reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out,(TO THE WORLD NATIONS) and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.(JERUSALEM DIVIDED BUT THE 3RD TEMPLE ALLOWED TO BE REBUILT)
DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant 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 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.
THIS CULT OF 72 VIRGIN-ALLAH-AK-BAR-SEX FOR MURDER LEAD BY A NON EXISTANT MURDERING MOON GOD ALLAH AND A PEDOPHILE PROPHET MOHAMMID.THAT CAN KILL THEIR WOMEN UNDER THEIR MAN MADEUP SHARIA LAW CULT.ALL I CAN SAY IS.I CAN NOT WAIT TILL ISRAEL USES THOSE AT LEAST 10 ATOMIC BOMBS THEY HAVE IN THEIR ARSENAL ON THE RUSSIAN-ISLAMIC-MUSLIM-ARAB HOARDS.THE BIBLE SAYS 85% OF THEIR ARMY OR 300 MILLION WILL BE SLAUGHTERED ON THE MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL.DURING THE SPRING OR FALL BIRD MIGRATION IN ISRAEL OF 300 MILLION BIRDS IN ISRAEL.EACH BIRD WILL BE ABLE TO FEAST ON A SINGLE ENEMY OF ISRAEL WHEN THIS ATOMIC BOMB SLAUGHTER ON ISRAELS ENEMIES OCCUR.IT WILL TAKE 7 MONTHS TO BURY THIS RUSSIAN-ISLAMIC-MUSLIM-ARAB HOARD IN THE JORDAN VALLEY. EAST OF THE DEAD SEA.GOD WILL NOT BE MOCKED. YOU HATE ISRAEL.YOU PAY.
EZEKIEL 38:1-7
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8,11-21
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)
REVELATION 19:17-21
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war (NOT COMETS KILLING AND COMING) against him (JESUS) that sat on the horse, and against his army.(THE 7 YRS EARLIAR RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
20 And the beast (EU WORLD DICTATOR) was taken, and with him the false (VATICAN POPE) prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.(ISRAELS MIGRATION SEASON)
ISRAEL GET THOSE ATOMIC BOMBS READY FOR THE RUSSIAN-ISLAMIC-SHARIA-SEX FOR MURDER CULTS DESTRUCTION.AT LEAST ONE QUATER OF ISLAM WILL BE NUKED IN THIS ATOMIC DEFENCE OF ISRAEL IN THIS WAR ALONE.
Op-Ed: Understanding Islamic Terrorism as Religious Sacrifice-By sacrificing himself, the Jihadist expects to attain an otherwise unattainable immortality. Existential fears are converted into a twisted form of "heroism" while Israel, meanwhile, is expected to help in its own genocide.Published: Monday, December 01, 2014 5:32 PM-Prof. Louis René Beres-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Somewhat like war, Islamic terrorism is founded upon assorted fantasies of redemption through sacrifice. Today, the universal Jihadist rallying cry, "We love death," animates much of what is presented publicly as "liberation" or "self-determination,"[1] and is common to a broad variety of terrorist groups. This variegated collection includes both Sunni and Shia elements.The rallying cry, always shrill, and always shouted in chorus, exhibits no core differences between ISIS in Iraq or Syria, and Hamas/Fatah in Gaza.Oddly, this critical observation has been lost upon the administration in Washington. For some as yet undisclosed reason, the president decided to bomb the former, but (effectively) support the latter.Despite readily discoverable commonalities of Islamist terror, in the particular evolution of Palestinian terror, there exists an almost unique historical narrative. Originally, before an explicitly sacred love of death took its uncompromising hold throughout the Islamic Middle East, the fraternity of Palestinian terrorist groups had brought together several extraordinarily disparate bedfellows.Then, the principal desired end of insurrection and war, Israel's "liquidation" (the first term used most frequently in the Arab aggressor's lexicon) had amply justified all manner of eager participants.Then, virtually every Arab enemy of Israel was more-or-less welcome to join in the expectedly conclusive battle against "Zionists."Then, even Marxists, and similarly flagrant "unbelievers," were welcomed under the same operational tent.
No more.
Today, the fight has changed from what had once been a preeminently secular and tactical one, to one that draws insistently upon generally unhidden commitments to religious sacrifice. These viscerally primal commitments are discernibly relentless, persistent, and conspicuous.Speaking on official PA (Palestinian Authority) TV, on November 7, 2014, a senior Fatah official literally blessed all Islamic killers of Israelis, stating: "Jerusalem needs blood in order to purify itself of Jews."Two days later, on November 9, 2014, PA television honored these same killers again, now expressing their latest sentiments as follows: "Greetings and honor to our heroic Martyrs....We stand submissive and humbled by what you gave and sacrificed."Further, on November 14, 2014, representatives of the PA Ministry of Religious Affairs, seemingly summing up, wrote synthetically in Al-Hayat Al-Jadida: "Jerusalem needs sacrifices and blood."Who are these heroic "martyrs?" Plainly, they are the 'courageous' Palestinians who drive cars into groups of women and children waiting at Israel's train or bus stations, who attack elderly Jews praying in the synagogues, and who randomly stab assorted civilians walking quietly on the streets on Jerusalem.Seeing requires distance. The deepest roots of Jihadist terror originate from those cultures that embrace certain religious views of "sacrifice." In these mostly Arab cultures, the key purpose of sacrifice extends far beyond any presumed expectations of civic necessity (expectations, for example, reported by Plutarch, in his accounts of ancient Sparta). [2] More precisely, this rationale goes to the very heart of individual human fear, that is, to the palpable and ubiquitous dread of one's own death.The promised reward for those who would sacrifice everything for jihad is salvation. In essence, these martyrs choose to "die" for their cause, not in order to expire, but rather, not to become "really" dead. This is because the pain and suffering of an ordinary death, they reason, is merely a passing distraction, a tolerably temporary inconvenience, one to be endured in the fully rational(social scientists would say, "cost-effective") pursuit of a true immortality, in paradise.Says Sura 2:154: "Do not think that those who are killed in the way of Allah are dead, for indeed they are alive, even though you are not aware."[3]-In the Arab Middle East, where theological doctrine divides carefully into the dar al-Islam (world of Islam) and the dar al-harb (world of war), acts of terror against unbelievers have long been taken as an exemplary expression of sacredness. Here, individual sacrifice derives, in large part, from a fervidly hoped-for conquest of personal death. By adopting such atavistic practice, the Jihadist terrorist expects to realize an otherwise unattainable immortality, not to mention other substantially seductive and corollary benefits.For Hamas, which would ultimately dominate power in any ne w state of Palestine,[4] there are certain obligatory aspects of sacrificial terror that must never be overlooked. These aspects, underscoring the two-sided nature of terror/sacrifice - that is, the sacrifice of "The Jew," and the reciprocal sacrifice of "The Martyr" - is explicitly codified, within the Charter of Hamas, as a "religious" problem."
Earlier, Yasser Arafat's appointed clergy, preaching on the Temple Mount, had reaffirmed a core Islamic precept: "Palestinians spearhead Allah's war against the Jews. The dead shall not rise, until the Palestinians shall kill all the Jews...."Most worth noting, in this very consequential reaffirmation, is Arafat's identification of the enemy in purely religious (not narrowly geopolitical) terms.Always, from Arafat to Abbas, the true Jihadist's enemy is "The Jew," not merely "The Israeli."Sometimes, when Jihadists settle upon using the specific tactic of suicide bombing - that is, when the older Palestinian leaders give orders, from Qatar, for young Palestinians to make sacrifices on behalf of all others - they leave nothing about their surrogates' promised immortality to chance. Because dying in the act of killing “infidels," “apostates," and "unbelievers" is sworn to buy freedom from the unbearable penalty of non-being,[5] these selected terrorists aim to conquer their dreaded mortality by killing themselves. Here, existential fears are converted into a twisted form of "heroism."Of course, Israel and its myriad terrorist enemies display very different orientations to "peace." This stark asymmetry is not beside the point. Rather, it puts the Jewish State at a notable disadvantage.To be sure, Israelis don't not share the Palestinians' commitment to immortality through homicidal forms of "suicide." Fundamentally unlike their Jihadist enemies, Israelis do not make celebratory plans to murder certain other human beings in order not to die themselves. Yet, it is still the Israelis, not the Palestinians, who are being urged by the "civilized world" to accept their own national disappearance.Jurisprudentially, Israel is being pushed toward complicity in its own literal genocide.Credo quia absurdum. "I believe because it is absurd." Under pertinent international law, war and genocide are not mutually exclusive. The planned Islamic war against Israel is conceived as a distinctly "final solution" for "The Jews."The undisguised expectations of Palestinian terrorists regarding Israel's physical disappearance - expectations codified both verbally and cartographically, and on all official Palestinian maps - meet the specified criteria of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.[6] -For the United States, a state party to this authoritative treaty, it is worth noting that America has its own unambiguous legal obligation to support Israel against "Palestine." To wit, by virtue of Article 6 of the U.S. Constitution (the "Supremacy Clause"), all treaties entered into by the United States become the "supreme law of the land."For Hamas, Islamic suicide represents not only the temporary "death" of heroic Muslims, but also the required disintegration of a religiously-despised Jewish state. For Israel, on the other hand, there is something innately wrong with this view, something "crazy," something that only an authentically "mad" adversary could possibly choose as its preferred strategy of confrontation. Nonetheless, as this particular Islamic view is the authentic source of Palestinian policies toward the Jewish State, Israel must fashion its security postures accordingly.For Hamas and other Palestinians, suicide against Jews represents the highest form of political engagement, a divinely mandated road to salvation that rewards doubly, because the enemy infidel is forced to cooperate in its own uncompensated dying. For Israel, which has yet to fully understand that an asymmetrical sort of suicide is being sought through the creation of a Palestinian state, America's steadily undaunted commitment to a "Two-State Solution" may continue (erroneously) to appear more-or-less "realistic."
Israel faces an expanding threat of unconventional war and unconventional terrorism.[7] Faced with opponents who are not only willing to die, but who actually and ecstatically seek their own "deaths," Jerusalem must quickly understand the critical limits of ordinary warfare, national homeland defense, and strategic deterrence.For Israel, the root "Middle East Peace Process" problem is Jihadist death fear, and the consequent religious compulsion to sacrifice certain despised others. This compulsion, in turn, stems from a firm doctrinal belief that killing unbelievers, and being killed by unbelievers, is the best available path to immortality. In short, an Islamist terrorist unwillingness to accept personal death leads to the killing of certain others in order to escape this death.[8]-For Jihadists, killing Jews offers the optimal immunization against personal death. Always.Resembling more explicitly sacrificial elements of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the military wing of Fatah is now oriented toward much more than a purely nationalistic “armed struggle.” It is openly dedicated to religious sacrifice, to a commitment that promises followers not just military victory over “Zionist occupiers,” but, also an immunity from death.What could be better? For the Palestinian terrorist, violence and the sacred remain closely intertwined. Israel, therefore, must think in terms of desacrilizing this relentless adversary, and somehow convincing him that ritual murders of Jews will not lead to paradise and sexual pleasures, but to untold "terrors of the grave."Can such a desacrilization ever be accomplished through ordinary politics, including the U.S.-brokered "peace process?" To be persuasive, it would have to originate among certain influential Islamic clerics themselves. How could this improbable origination ever be made to work? Overall, Jerusalem must inquire, what is the correct "peace" strategy for Israel? As Palestinian statehood is already being endorsed and validated in the U.N., and among certain individual European states, Mr. Netanyahu will quickly need to acknowledge the fallacy of ever accepting a Palestinian state because it has allegedly agreed to "demilitarization."[9] -Every state, he will soon need to recognize, maintains an "inherent" and irreducible right of self-defense. This right would not be summarily withdrawn from "Palestine," even if it should make public its long-term program for aggression[10] against Israel. This is the case, moreover, whatever its leaders might have conceded in any pre-independence negotiations.[11]-President Obama's "Road Map" coaxes Israel along a determinably lethal excursion to unending war and terror. By ignoring the core roots of Palestinian terrorism, this twisting cartography can offer Israel only a contrived "Two-State Solution." Should Prime Minister Netanyahu agree to follow Washington's simplistic views, he will have misunderstood the deepest, and simultaneously most ineradicable, origins of Palestinian terrorism.
For Hamas, Fatah, and other Jihadist fighters, the terror-based struggle against Israel has never been about land compromises or halting "settlements." Always, it has been about God and about immortality. In this regard, we should be reminded that there is no greater political power on earth than power over death.
Never!
For Jihadists, the ethos of redemption through sacrifice remains an immutably core pillar of both individual and collective Islamic existence. It follows that Israel's and possibly even our own survival will ultimately be contingent upon understanding this grotesque ethos, and, reciprocally, on calculating just how it might be most effectively countered.Nietzsche, writing in that part of Zarathustra that deals with "The New Idol," calls the state "the coldest of all cold monsters." More precisely, he continues, the state signifies "the will to death. Verily, it beckons to the preachers of death....Only where the state ends, there begins the human being who is not superfluous...."At the time, Nietzsche had already understood that, at least in principle, it was the state that seemed most directly able to salve the ubiquitous "hunger for immortality."[12] Hegel, after all, had previously said (but then, in a markedly positive voice): "The State represents the march of God in the world."[13]-What could be more vital to understand? From an analytic standpoint, neither Nietzsche nor Hegel was mistaken, but their particular understandings were also limited and partial. Today, we can see, plainly, that there are other available objects of veneration that can relieve the apparently timeless human horror of death, most obviously certain Jihadist religious persuasions, and their various organizational incarnations. In an emergent "Palestine," these organizations are principal Jihadist terror groups, especially Hamas and Fatah.Just as the state recurrently requires blood sacrifice as a tangible means to personal redemption, including even literal salvation, Jihadists require the same. They, too, wish to be recognized as dedicated "soldiers" of sacrifice. Once this derivative wish is more fully acknowledged, necessary measures to curtail the destructive power of pertinent terror groups could become substantially more promising.Louis René Beres was educated at Princeton (Ph.D., 1971), and publishes widely on world politics, terrorism, and international law. Born in Zurich, Switzerland, on August 31, 1945, he is the author of some of the earliest major books on nuclear war and nuclear terrorism, including Terrorism and Global Security: The Nuclear Threat (1979) ; Apocalypse: Nuclear Catastrophe in World Politics (1980); Mimicking Sisyphus: America's Countervailing Nuclear Strategy (1983); and Security or Armageddon: Israel’s Nuclear Strategy (1986). Professor Beres' most recent writings can be found in The Atlantic; U.S. News & World Report; The New English Review; Israel National News; The Jerusalem Post; The Washington Times; and Oxford University Press. His recently published and more specifically academic articles have been featured in The Harvard National Security Journal (Harvard Law School); International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence; Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs; The Brown Journal of World Affairs; and Parameters: Journal of the U.S. Army War College.
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[1] See: Louis René Beres, "Self-Determination, International Law, and Survival on Planet Earth," 11 Ariz. J. of Int'L & Comp. Law, 1, n.1 (1994).
[2] Sayings of Spartan Mothers
[3] See also: Qur'an, 3:157-8; 169-171; 44:56.
[4] Under authoritative international law, any Palestinian declaration of statehood would need to satisfy the settled criteria codified at the Convention on the Rights and Duties of States ("Montevideo Convention") concerning control over a fixed and clearly defined territory; a population; a government; and the capacity to enter into diplomatic and foreign relations. See: Convention on the Rights and Duties of States, art. 1, Dec. 26, 1933, 49 Stat. 3097, 165 L.N.T.S. 19.
[5] For the Judeo-Christian world, the Treaty of Westphalia (1648), which concluded the Thirty Years' War, put a legal end to the doctrine that an enemy in belligerency was simply a criminal or heretic upon whom one must necessarily wage a war of annihilation. See: Articles of the Treaty of Peace, Oct. 1648, 1 Consol. T.S. 271; A Treaty Between the Empire and Sweden, Oct. 1648, 1 Consol. T.S. 119.
[6] Done at New York, Dec. 9, 1948. Entered into force, Jan. 12, 1951, 78 U.N.T.S. 277.
[7] To be sure, much of this threat originates in a steadily nuclearizing (Shiite and non-Arab) Iran. On July 23, 2014, Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, called openly for the annihilation of Israel. See: Y. Mansharof, E. Kharrazi, Y. Lahat, and A, Savyon, "Quds Day in Iran: Calls for Annihilation of Israel, and Arming the West Bank," MEMRI, July 25, 2014, Inquiry and Analysis Series Report, No. 1107.
[8] Nonetheless, such zero-sum thinking about death is not entirely unique or distinctive to Islamist terrorism. Generically, the essence of such thinking is captured best by psychologist Ernest Becker's paraphrase of Elias Canetti: "Each organism raises its head over a field of corpses, smiles into the sun, and declares life good." See: Ernest Becker, Escape From Evil, 2 (1975). Similarly, says psychologist Otto Rank: "The death fear of the ego is lessened by the killing, the Sacrifice, of the other; through the death of the other, one buys oneself free from the penalty of dying, of being killed." See: Otto Rank, Will Therapy and Reality 130 (Alfred A. Knopf, 1950((1936).
[9] See, on this point: Louis René Beres and (Ambassador) Zalman Shoval, "Why a Demilitarized Palestinian State Would Not Remain Demilitarized: A View Under International Law," Temple International and Comparative Law Journal, Winter 1998, pp. 347-363.
[10] See: Resolution on the Definition of Aggression, G.A. Res. 3314 (XXIX), at 142, U.N. Doc A/9890 (Dec. 14, 1974); also, U.N. Charter, art 53.
[11] See Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, Done at Vienna, May 23, 1969. Entered into force, Jan. 27, 1980. U.N. Doc. A/CONF. 39/27 at 289 (1969), 1155 U.N.T.S. 331, reprinted in 8 I.L.M. 679 (1969).
[12] This is an actual expression offered by the great Spanish existentialist, Miguel de Unamuno, in his Tragic Sense of Life (1913).
[13] See Hegel's The Philosophy of Right (1820).
Elections As Early as March 2015, Likud Officials Say-Legislation on Opposition bills to dissolve the Knesset due to be voted upon Wednesday - and could see the coalition dissolve by January.By Tova Dvorin-First Publish: 12/2/2014, 10:50 AM / Last Update: 12/2/2014, 11:24 AM-israelnationalnews
The Knesset plenum will vote Wednesday on Opposition bills to dissolve the coalition in a preliminary reading, Likud officials told Walla! News Tuesday. In the event the bills pass on their preliminary reading, a discussion will begin in the Knesset plenum over a date of elections, to be agreed upon by all parties.The expected date will be a Tuesday in March 2015, the officials said - as MKs and Ministers allegedly want elections as soon as possible, but are hampered by the fact that, by law, elections cannot be held earlier than 90 days after a Knesset vote on the decision. After a date is decided, various bills calling for the Knesset's dissolution are expected to be united into a single bill - and votes on the first, second, and even third readings required to pass the bill into law could be held as early as next week.Technically, there is no reason why the votes cannot be held by next Monday, and for the coalition to fall within two weeks' time.Two separate motions have been filed to bring down the government - one from left-wing parties Labor and Meretz, and another from the hareidi parties.Both follow weeks of coalition tensions, after outspoken views against the controversial Jewish State Law took an intra-Knesset conflict between the left and right wing into Israel's streets.Conflict erupted over the ratification of the Jewish State Law, which aims to elevate the status of Israel's Jewish character in the legal system and concretize Israel's status as the Jewish national homeland. Ratification of the bill was a crucial part of Netanyahu's coalition agreement - and opposing votes threaten to torpedo that agreement.Despite this, several ministers - including Finance Minister Yair Lapid and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni - have declared intent to oppose the vote regardless, prompting a furor over the possibility of new elections.But the actualization of election threats has inched closer overnight, after a failed meeting between Lapid and Netanyahu Monday night, during which the Prime Minister gave him an ultimatum: accept five conditions set forth to follow through on budgetary transfers, freeze Lapid's own 0% VAT bill, and stop attacking the coalition over Netanyahu's decisions regarding construction in Jerusalem and relationship with the US.Analysts say the conditions may be nearly impossible to fulfill, leading to widespread speculation that Netanyahu might dissolve the Knesset or form some sort of alliance with the hareidi parties.
