Friday, December 23, 2016

THE USELESS UNITED NATIONS PASSES A RESOLUTION THAT ISRAEL CAN NOT BUILD HOUSES ON THEIR OWN LAND. OBAMA ABSTAINS ON THE VOTE. LETS PASS A RESOLUTION AT THE UN THAT AMERICA CAN NOT BUILD ANY HOUSES ON THEIR 50 STATES LAND. LETS MAKE THIS AN EVEN RESOLUTION.AY USELESS U.N.

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

JEREMIAH 3:14
14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you:(ISRAEL) and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

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

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 20m20 minutes ago-DEC 23,16-As to the U.N., things will be different after Jan. 20th.

Full text of UNSC resolution, approved Dec. 23, demanding Israel stop all settlement activity-Approved by 14-0, with US abstaining, text seeks action ‘to reverse the negative trends on the ground that are imperiling the two-state solution’-By Times of Israel staff December 23, 2016, 9:23 pm

Text of Egyptian-drafted resolution 2334 on settlements, approved by the UN Security Council, on December 23, 2016.The Security Council,Reaffirming its relevant resolutions, including resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973), 446 (1979), 452 (1979), 465 (1980), 476 (1980), 478 (1980), 1397 (2002), 1515 (2003), and 1850 (2008),Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and reaffirming, inter alia, the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force,Reaffirming the obligation of Israel, the occupying Power, to abide scrupulously by its legal obligations and responsibilities under the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, and recalling the advisory opinion rendered on 9 July 2004 by the International Court of Justice,Condemning all measures aimed at altering the demographic composition, character and status of the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, including, inter alia, the construction and expansion of settlements, transfer of Israeli settlers, confiscation of land, demolition of homes and displacement of Palestinian civilians, in violation of international humanitarian law and relevant resolutions,Expressing grave concern that continuing Israeli settlement activities are dangerously imperilling the viability of the two-State solution based on the 1967 lines,Recalling the obligation under the Quartet Roadmap, endorsed by its resolution 1515 (2003), for a freeze by Israel of all settlement activity, including “natural growth”, and the dismantlement of all settlement outposts erected since March 2001,Recalling also the obligation under the Quartet roadmap for the Palestinian Authority Security Forces to maintain effective operations aimed at confronting all those engaged in terror and dismantling terrorist capabilities, including the confiscation of illegal weapons,Condemning all acts of violence against civilians, including acts of terror, as well as all acts of provocation, incitement and destruction,Reiterating its vision of a region where two democratic States, Israel and Palestine, live side by side in peace within secure and recognized borders,Stressing that the status quo is not sustainable and that significant steps, consistent with the transition contemplated by prior agreements, are urgently needed in order to (i) stabilize the situation and to reverse negative trends on the ground, which are steadily eroding the two-State solution and entrenching a one-State reality, and (ii) to create the conditions for successful final status negotiations and for advancing the two-State solution through those negotiations and on the ground, 1. Reaffirms that the establishment by Israel of settlements in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, has no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation under international law and a major obstacle to the achievement of the two-State solution and a just, lasting and comprehensive peace; 2. Reiterates its demand that Israel immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and that it fully respect all of its legal obligations in this regard; 3. Underlines that it will not recognize any changes to the 4 June 1967 lines, including with regard to Jerusalem, other than those agreed by the parties through negotiations; 4. Stresses that the cessation of all Israeli settlement activities is essential for salvaging the two-State solution, and calls for affirmative steps to be taken immediately to reverse the negative trends on the ground that are imperilling the two-State solution; 5. Calls upon all States, bearing in mind paragraph 1 of this resolution, to distinguish, in their relevant dealings, between the territory of the State of Israel and the territories occupied since 1967; 6. Calls for immediate steps to prevent all acts of violence against civilians, including acts of terror, as well as all acts of provocation and destruction, calls for accountability in this regard, and calls for compliance with obligations under international law for the strengthening of ongoing efforts to combat terrorism, including through existing security coordination, and to clearly condemn all acts of terrorism; 7. Calls upon both parties to act on the basis of international law, including international humanitarian law, and their previous agreements and obligations, to observe calm and restraint, and to refrain from provocative actions, incitement and inflammatory rhetoric, with the aim, inter alia, of de-escalating the situation on the ground, rebuilding trust and confidence, demonstrating through policies and actions a genuine commitment to the two-State solution, and creating the conditions necessary for promoting peace; 8. Calls upon all parties to continue, in the interest of the promotion of peace and security, to exert collective efforts to launch credible negotiations on all final status issues in the Middle East peace process and within the time frame specified by the Quartet in its statement of 21 September 2010; 9. Urges in this regard the intensification and acceleration of international and regional diplomatic efforts and support aimed at achieving, without delay a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East on the basis of the relevant United Nations resolutions, the Madrid terms of reference, including the principle of land for peace, the Arab Peace Initiative and the Quartet Roadmap and an end to the Israeli occupation that began in 1967; and underscores in this regard the importance of the ongoing efforts to advance the Arab Peace Initiative, the initiative of France for the convening of an international peace conference, the recent efforts of the Quartet, as well as the efforts of Egypt and the Russian Federation; 10. Confirms its determination to support the parties throughout the negotiations and in the implementation of an agreement; 11. Reaffirms its determination to examine practical ways and means to secure the full implementation of its relevant resolutions; 12. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Council every three months on the implementation of the provisions of the present resolution; 13. Decides to remain seized of the matter.

Israel furious at Washington’s abstention at UN: ‘This isn’t how friends behave’-Coalition members speak of betrayal and disappointment, while opposition lawmakers say vote was Israel’s comeuppance for Netanyahu’s conduct-By Times of Israel staff December 23, 2016, 10:11 pm

Israeli officials on Friday reacted with disappointment and anger at Washington’s failure to veto an anti-settlement resolution at the UN Security Council.Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said that “neither the Security Council nor UNESCO will succeed in rewriting history and disconnecting the bond between the People of Israel and the Land of Israel,” referring to UNESCO resolutions earlier this year that ignored Judaism’s connection with the Temple Mount, the Jewish religion’s holiest site.Danon slammed the US abstention during the vote — an unprecedented move from Israel’s closest ally that has historically vetoed such resolutions.“It was expected that Israel’s greatest friend act according to its years-long policy of vetoing such one-sided resolutions,” Danon said. “There is no doubt that the change in US administration will usher in a new era.He added: “The Palestinian efforts to hurt Israel through the UN will not be fruitful and will not advance any solution. The Palestinian will gain nothing until they stop incitement and terrorism and return to direct negotiations with Israel.”Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz told Channel 2 News that the US abstention was “not how friends behave” while cabinet minister Tzachi Hanegbi said the US vote also “spits in the face” of incoming president Donald Trump.Likud Knesset member Yoav Kisch was quoted by Hebrew language website Ynet as saying that just as US President Barack Obama “betrayed other allies around the world, so he has done to Israel.”Meanwhile opposition MKs asserted that the beating Israel had taken at the UN was entirely Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fault.Zionist Union MK Tzipi Livni said the vote was Israel’s comeuppance for Netanyahu’s constant clashes with Obama, as well as his support for the the ‘Regulation Law’ to legalize outposts built in Palestinian lands.“Netanyahu insisted on running headfirst into a wall, knowing that this would be the outcome — and now we are all paying the price,” she said.“You could blame Obama, but all major countries of the world such as the UK, France, Russia and China supported the resolution against us,” she added.Zionist Union MK Eitan Cabel said Israel “paid a heavy price for Netanyahu’s conduct with Obama. Obama chose the time and place that were most convenient for him and gave Israel a harsh beating that the Trump administration may not so easily fix.”Shortly before the vote, an Israeli official used unprecedentedly harsh language to accuse the Obama administration of scheming with the Palestinians to harm Israel with the resolution.“The US administration secretly cooked up with the Palestinians an extreme anti-Israeli resolution behind Israel’s back which would be a tailwind for terror and boycotts and effectively make the Western Wall occupied Palestinian territory,” the official said. (The draft resolution refers to East Jerusalem as “occupied Palestinian territory.)-Palestinian and Egyptian officials met earlier in the month with State Department officials in Washington, Channel 2 noted Friday evening, and it was in those talks, Israel believes, that plans were coordinated to push through the anti-settlements resolution. Hence the official’s reference to the US administration having “cooked up” the resolution.“This is an abandonment of Israel which breaks decades of US policy of protecting Israel at the UN and undermines the prospects of working with the next administration of advancing peace,” the official added.The US denied the allegations. “Contrary to some claims, the administration was not involved in formulating the resolution nor have we promoted it,” the unnamed official told Reuters.

The UN resolution that could redefine Obama’s legacy on Israel-Op-Ed: Is the president really ready to allow the passage of a text formulated by the Palestinians to ratchet up world pressure on the Jewish state?-By David Horovitz December 23, 2016, 4:39 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

The Obama administration has had eight years to convey its concerns about Israel’s settlement expansion, eight years to use its phenomenal leverage with its key Middle East ally to pressure Jerusalem to change course.If — and as of this writing, we are still in “if” territory — the administration was, perhaps still is, ready to forgo its UN veto and let a Palestinian-designed resolution gain passage in the UN Security Council, condemning all settlements and potentially inviting new international diplomatic and financial pressure against Israel, it will instead have chosen a course of action that could sabotage its admirable two-term history of defending Israel against those international players that wish it ill. It will have essentially sided against Israel with those negative forces.It will have reversed and made a mockery of its own previous pledges and positions — notably when it vetoed a similar resolution five years ago with the explanation that the Security Council was not the right venue for tackling issues that need to be resolved by the parties themselves. (Susan Rice, the US envoy to the UN at the time, noted that the veto “should not be misunderstood to mean we support settlement activity, but added: “Unfortunately, this draft resolution risks hardening the positions of both sides and could encourage the parties to stay out of negotiations.”)-And it will have acted without nuance on the settlement issue, undermining its own goals when it comes to this vexed and complex issue, as it unfortunately often has.For eight years, the Obama administration frequently condemned all building beyond the pre-1967 lines as a crime of equal gravity, rarely choosing to distinguish between new homes built deep in West Bank territory, where the Palestinians seek statehood, and those in Jerusalem or close to the pre-1967 lines, where even the Palestinians realize they will not be gaining control. Those blanket condemnations alienated much of mainstream Israel — which opposes settling in areas that complicate any eventual separation from the Palestinians, but largely supports building inside Jerusalem and the so-called settlement blocs — and thus worked against the Obama administration’s own goal of bolstering Israeli backing for an eventual accommodation.In its final months and weeks, the administration had been dropping hints that it might not block anti-settlement moves at the UN, notably when Secretary of State John Kerry, publicly castigating the settlement enterprise with unprecedented vigor during an appearance at the Saban Forum earlier this month, promised only to veto what he termed “a biased, unfair resolution calculated to delegitimize Israel.”Did the administration persuade itself that the Egyptian text submitted late Wednesday constituted an unbiased and fair resolution that it could reasonably allow to win passage? If so, and again we remain in the corridors of uncertainty for now, then Israel plainly disagrees. The Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, termed the text “disgraceful.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pleaded publicly with the US to veto it.Dore Gold, until recently the director-general of the Foreign Ministry, told The Times of Israel on Friday that language in the resolution calling on “all states … to distinguish, in their relevant dealings, between the territory of the State of Israel and the territories occupied since 1967” potentially gives backing to the relentless effort worldwide to impose boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) pressure on Israel. Moreover, Gold noted, by acquiescing to a resolution that brands settlements as “having no legal validity,” the US could be regarded as having changed its position, having hitherto formally chosen to consider settlements “illegitimate” rather than illegal — a subtle difference but an important one as other countries and organizations look to the US when considering sanction and boycott action.Numerous unnamed Israeli officials have been alleging, in the past day, that Obama was indeed about to let the resolution pass, and that Kerry had been readying to deliver an address on Thursday afternoon explaining the dramatic shift in US policy, until Egypt, contacted by incoming president Trump, opted to withdraw the resolution. Israel “became aware that the admin would not veto the anti-Israel resolution,” one Israeli official stated, in writing, to reporters here on Thursday evening. This was nothing less than a planned diplomatic “hit” by Obama against Netanyahu and the settlements, and it would have worked had Trump not dashed to the rescue, Israel’s Channel 2 news quoted a senior Jerusalem official saying on Thursday night. By contrast, another source asserted that the US Ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, had not been given instructions on how to vote when the Egyptians withdrew the resolution.We may get the full story soon enough. For now, if there was a planned “hit,” it has been bungled. For now, it would appear that Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, quite extraordinarily, chose the promise of warmed ties with the incoming US administration over Egypt’s traditional dutiful obligation to the Palestinian cause. For now, it would appear that Netanyahu, so plainly disliked by the outgoing president, has been rescued by his new best friend, the incoming president. And for now, the Obama administration finds itself laid open to the allegation that it opted for a heavy-handed tactic, that backfired, in support of a stance that it had two full terms to advance via friendlier, more subtle and more effective means.But the saga is not over yet. If Egypt chooses not to change course a third time by re-introducing its resolution, there seems to be no shortage of other Security Council members ready to step into the breach and submit a similar text.We may yet see definitively whether, after eight years when it failed to use its leverage to push a nuanced approach on the settlement issue, the Obama administration will leave the scene with an act that empowers Israel’s non-nuanced critics, undercuts its own long-held position regarding the role of the UN in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, amend its legacy on Israel, and seeks to constrain the policies of a new president who will be taking office in less than a month.We may yet see whether President Barack Obama — reportedly the only president in 50 years to have blocked all anti-Israel resolutions at the Security Council — is going to choose to redefine his relationship with Israel via an abstention there in these, his final days.

Choosing not to veto, Obama lets anti-settlement resolution pass at UN Security Council-In dramatic departure from eight years of policy, US abstains, enabling 14-0 vote; Israel accuses Obama, Kerry of abandoning it; Palestinians hail ‘day of victory’-By Eric Cortellessa December 23, 2016, 9:21 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

In a stunning departure from its policy over the last eight years, the Obama administration abstained from voting on a United Nations Security Council resolution Friday that demands an immediate halt to all Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, enabling the measure to pass.Resolution 2334 was approved with 14 member states voting in favor, none voting against and one abstention — the United States. The passage of the resolution was met with applause in the packed chamber.The text also calls on all states “to distinguish, in their relevant dealings, between the territory of the State of Israel and the territories occupied since 1967” — language that Israel fears will lead to a surge in boycott and sanctions efforts, and that an Israeli official warned would provide “a tailwind for terror.”Israeli minister Yuval Steinitz, speaking after the vote, said the US had “abandoned Israel, its only ally in the Middle East” and said its behavior was not that of a friend.The Palestinian Authority hailed “a day of victory.”Speaking at the Security Council after the vote, US Ambassador Samantha Power said the decision underlined the Council’s long-standing position that “the settlements have no legal validity.” She claimed the US position was “fully in line with the bipartisan history” of how US presidents have approached the issue for decades.The US did not agree with every word of the resolution, she said, and therefore had not voted in favor. But “we cannot stand in the way of this resolution,” she said, in the quest for “two states living side by side in peace and security.”“The settlement problem has gotten so much worse,” she said, that it was now endangering that solution. “One has to make a choice between settlements and separation,” she said.Still, she stressed, peace would not be at hand were every settlement dismantled tomorrow. “We would not have let this resolution pass had it not also addressed counter-productive actions by the Palestinians,” she said, citing terrorism and incitement. She also said the vote did not diminish the United States’ unparalleled commitment to Israel’s security.A succession of Security Council ambassadors similarly castigated settlement expansion as threatening the viability of a two-state solution.Originally initiated by Egypt, the resolution was co-sponsored by New Zealand, Malaysia, Venezuela and Senegal, who stepped in a day after Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi withdrew the measure amid pressure from Israel and President-elect Donald Trump.Introducing the resolution, Malaysia said the move was made more urgent by Israeli moves to retroactively legalize outposts build on private Palestinian land in the West Bank.Shortly before the vote, an Israeli official used unprecedentedly harsh language to accuse the Obama administration of scheming with the Palestinians to harm Israel with the resolution.“The US administration secretly cooked up with the Palestinians an extreme anti-Israeli resolution behind Israel’s back which would be a tailwind for terror and boycotts and effectively make the Western Wall occupied Palestinian territory,” the official said. (The draft resolution refers to East Jerusalem as “occupied Palestinian territory.)Palestinian and Egyptian officials met earlier in the month with State Department officials in Washington, Channel 2 noted Friday evening, and it was in those talks, Israel believes, that plans were coordinated to push through the anti-settlements resolution. Hence the official’s reference to the US administration having “cooked up” the resolution.“This is an abandonment of Israel which breaks decades of US policy of protecting Israel at the UN and undermines the prospects of working with the next administration of advancing peace,” the official added.The US denied the allegations. “Contrary to some claims, the administration was not involved in formulating the resolution nor have we promoted it,” the unnamed official told Reuters.Israeli cabinet minister Tzachi Hanegbi said the US vote also “spits in the face” of incoming president Donald Trump.On Thursday morning Trump posted on his social media accounts that the resolution was “extremely unfair” to Israelis, and took the extraordinary step of urging the outgoing president to veto it.“As the United States has long maintained, peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians will only come through direct negotiations between the parties, and not through the imposition of terms by the United Nations,” Trump said on Facebook.The 15-member council had been due to vote on Thursday, but after Israeli diplomats made behind-the-scenes overtures with Egypt and Trump forcefully intervened after Israeli officials contacted his team for help blocking the measure, Sissi postponed the vote indefinitely.It was soon leaked by Western officials that Obama had been planning to let the resolution pass via abstention, but this was not confirmed.Channel 2 news reported on Friday evening that in a phone call to Netanyahu on Thursday, Kerry refused to commit to vetoing the resolution.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the US on Thursday to veto the resolution. In a video statement, the Israeli prime minister implored the Obama administration to “stand up in the UN and veto anti-Israel resolutions,” designating that position “one of the great pillars of the US-Israel alliance.”“I hope the US won’t abandon this policy,” Netanyahu said. “I hope it will abide by the principles set by President Obama himself in his speech in the UN in 2011: That peace will come not through UN resolutions, but only through direct negotiations between the parties. And that’s why this proposed resolution is bad. It’s bad for Israel; it’s bad for the United States and it’s bad for peace.”The resolution submitted by Cairo called on Israel to “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem.”It further expressed “grave concern that continuing Israeli settlement activities are dangerously imperiling the viability of the two-state solution,” and called on all states “to distinguish, in their relevant dealings, between the territory of the State of Israel and the territories occupied since 1967,” which some analysts say invites boycotts of Israeli settlements goods.The text also condemns “all acts of violence against civilians, including acts of terror, as well as all acts of provocation, incitement and destruction,” which some in the international community understand as turning the resolution into a “balanced” text.Until Friday, Obama had not allowed passage of any Security Council resolution critical of Israel over the course of his presidency, and had set out a deliberate policy of blocking such resolutions.By contrast, a considerable line of his predecessors have allowed similar measures to pass.Former presidents Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford all permitted the UN General Assembly and/or the Security Council to adopt resolutions critical of the Jewish state; Ronald Reagan reportedly saw 21 measures through the international body, while George H.W. Bush allowed nine, Bill Clinton three and George W. Bush six.In November 1981, for instance, the Reagan administration voted in favor of a General Assembly resolution condemning Israel’s air strikes on an Iraqi nuclear reactor, which was part of a campaign to prevent Iraq from fulfilling its nuclear aspirations. That measure also called on the Security Council to “investigate Israel’s nuclear activities” and have the country’s own nuclear sites subjected to international monitoring.In May 2004, the Bush administration abstained from voting on a draft resolution at the Security Council condemning Israel for demolishing Palestinian homes in Gaza amidst the Second Intifada.Using language that has often been included in resolutions targeting Israel throughout the years, the measure stated “the obligation of Israel, the occupying Power, to abide scrupulously by its legal obligations and responsibilities under the Fourth Geneva Convention,” a treaty adopted in 1949 that is often cited by settlement critics to designate those communities a violation of international law.For the last eight years, however, Obama has made it his policy to protect Israel from “one-sided” resolutions at the United Nations critical of Israel.Under Obama, the US in 2011 used its veto power to block a similar measure to the one adopted Friday.During his address that September at the UN General Assembly, the president stated, “Peace is hard work. Peace will not come through statements and resolutions at the United Nations — if it were that easy, it would have been accomplished by now.”As the vote neared Friday, a number of high-profile Democrats issued public statements urging Obama to veto the resolution.Most notably, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, one of the most prominent Jewish members of Congress and the new Senate minority leader, said he had “spoken directly to the administration numerous times” and “in the strongest terms possible” urged them to veto.Meanwhile, Congressional Republicans were also voicing their own indignation.South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham threatened to “form a bipartisan coalition to suspend or significantly reduce United States assistance to the United Nations” if the international body went through with the resolution.

TRUMPS TRANSITION TO POWER HAPPENINGS P-4 NOV 8TH-JAN 20,2017

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

TRUMPS TRANSITION TO POWER
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/11/trumps-transition-to-power-happenings-p.html (P-1)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/11/trumps-transition-to-power-happenings-p_14.html  (2)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/12/trumps-transition-to-power-happenings-p.html (P-3)
ALL AMERICA VOTING RESULTS NOV 8,2016 FOR PRESIDENT
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/11/2016-overall-presidential-results-from.html
DONALD TRUMP BECOMES THE 45TH AMERICAN PRESIDENT
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/11/donald-trump-becomes-45th-president-of.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/11/donald-trump-congradulations-from.html
DONALD TRUMP VICTORY SPEECH AROUND 2:30AM NOV 8,2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESYEUWrW39I
MIKE PENCE VICTORY SPEECH-CHRISTIANITY COMES BACK TO AMERICA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOqT0Q_V8f8
2016 ALL ELECTION RESULTS-HAPPENINGS
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/08/the-poll-leaders-for-president-of-usa_23.html
ALT LEFT-WING MEANS BY ME-ALL LIBERAL-DEMOCRAT-PROGRESSIVE CRY BABIES. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w939nWadqMw

DONALD TRUMP AND HIS ADMINISTRATION BECOMES THE 45TH PRESIDENCY OF AMERICA. NOV 08,2016. ISRAEL-CANADA AND AMERICA. TOGETHER FOREVER.NEVER TO BE DIVIDED EVER AGAIN.-pic-bbc.com 
THE GODLESS HATER LIBERAL-DEMOCRAT-PROGRESSIVES. SAID IF HITLER 2ND WOULD WIN. THE PEOPLE WOULD PROTEST. SURPRISE-SURPRISE THE LEFT-WING LIAR HYPOCRITES. THEY CLAIM PEACE-LOVE-JOY-UTOPIA. BUT STILL HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF GODLESS BABY MURDERER ABORTIONISTS-SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPER-BLACK LIVES HATERS-MUSLIMS AND LIBERAL-DEMOCRATS ARE OUT ON THE STREETS ALL OVER AMERICA. AND SOME OF THESE GODLESS WERE ACTUALLY CRYING BECAUSE CLINTON LOST.-pic-yournewswire.com 

UPDATE-DECEMBER 23,2016-12:00AM
ADDED PEOPLE TO TRUMPS CABINET-HOPE HICKS, JASON MILLER, DAN SCAVINO ALL SENIOR MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS TEAM. VINCE VIOLA SECRETARY OF THE ARMY. MICK MULVANEY BUDGET DIRECTOR AND WHITEHOUSE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT. STEPHEN MILLER SENIOR ADVISOR TO THE PRESIDENT FOR POLICY. SEEMA VERMA ADMINSTRATOR FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICADE SERVICES.

UPDATE-DECEMBER 22,2016-02:30PM
ADDED PEOPLE TO TRUMPS CABINET-SHAWN SPICER WHITEHOUSE PRESS SECRETARY.
Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 3h3 hours ago-DEC 22,16-The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes
Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 3h3 hours ago-DEC 22,16-Someone incorrectly stated that the phrase "DRAIN THE SWAMP" was no longer being used by me. Actually, we will always be trying to DTS.
Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 6h6 hours ago-DEC 22,16-The resolution being considered at the United Nations Security Council regarding Israel should be vetoed....cont:

JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(ATOMIC BOMBS)(RUSSIA CHINA DESTROYED BY ISRAELS ATOMIC BOMBS)

REVELATION 16:12-16
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates;(WERE WW3 STARTS IN IRAQ OR SYRIA OR TURKEY) and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon,(SATAN) and out of the mouth of the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) and out of the mouth of the false prophet.(FALSE POPE)
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.(WERE 2 BILLION DIE FROM NUKE WAR)
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 16h16 hours ago-DEC 21,16-I met some really great Air Force GENERALS and Navy ADMIRALS today, talking about airplane capability and pricing. Very impressive people!
Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump Dec 21,16-I have not heard any of the pundits or commentators discussing the fact that I spent FAR LESS MONEY on the win than Hillary on the loss!
Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump Dec 21,16-I would have done even better in the election, if that is possible, if the winner was based on popular vote - but would campaign differently
Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump Dec 21,16-Campaigning to win the Electoral College is much more difficult & sophisticated than the popular vote. Hillary focused on the wrong states!

UPDATE-DECEMBER 22,2016-08:16AM
ADDED PEOPLE TO TRUMPS CABINET-KELLYANNE CONWAY WHITEHOUSE COUNCILOR.AND PETER NAVARO AN ECONOMIC POSITION.AND THE CRY BABY ALT-LEFT COMPLAINTS AGAINST TRUMPY GOES ON AND ON. TRUMPS ADMINISTRATION HAS TO MANY BILLIONAIRES. AND IS TO WHITE TO SUIT THE ALT-LEFT LUNATIC-NUTJOBS.

UPDATE-DECEMBER 21,2016-08:00PM
ADDED PEOPLE TO TRUMPS CABINET-CARL ICAHN SPECIAL ADVISOR ROLE.AND THE CRY BABY ALT- LEFT ARE STILL HATING ALL OVER TRUMPY. EVEN AFTER HE WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF AMERICA.

UPDATE-DECEMBER 20,2016-09:25AM
I AM WITH FRANKLIN GRAHAM. CONGRADULATIONS DONALD TRUMP FROM CANADA FOR BEING ELECTED THE 45TH AMERICAN PRESIDENT. TRUMP GOT 304 VOTES-CLINTON AND THE ALT-LEFT LOST 5 DEMOCRATS TO 227. SO EVEN THIS VOTE HURT THE ALT-LEFT CRY BABIES.
Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 15h15 hours ago-DEC 19,16-We did it! Thank you to all of my great supporters, we just officially won the election (despite all of the distorted and inaccurate media).
Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 12h12 hours ago-dec 19,16-"@mike_pence: Congratulations to @RealDonaldTrump; officially elected President of the United States today by the Electoral College!"
Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 12h12 hours ago-dec 19,16-"@Franklin_Graham: Congratulations to President-elect @realDonaldTrump--the electoral votes are in and it's official." Thank you Franklin!

UPDATE-DECEMBER 19,2016-04:34PM
ITS NOT FINALIZED QUITE YET. BUT DONALD TRUMP WILL BE THE 45TH PRESIDENT OF AMERICA. AS MOST OF THE 50 STATES HAVE VOTED.AND IF TEXAS CURRENTLY VOTES TRUMP. THIS WILL PUT HIM OVER THE 270 WINNING ELECTORAL VOTES.EVEN THOUGH THE ALT-LEFT NUTJOBS WERE TRYING TO INTIMIDATE THE REPUBLICAN ELECTORALS TO NOT VOTE FOR TRUMP.


UPDATE-DECEMBER 19,2016-1:00PM
AS THE ELECTORAL VOTING GOES ON TODAY IN THE 50 STATES. I BELIEVE OBAMA WHO SAID HE WOULD GET REVENGE ON PUTIN FOR SO CALLED FALSELY SAYING RUSSIA HACKED INTO THE DNC AND PODESTAS E-MAILS. WELL I BELIEVE SUNNI-ARAB-MUSLIM OBAMA GOT A MUSLIM PAL OF HIS FROM A MUSLIM COUNTRY. AND DONE A FALSE FLAG TERRORIST ATTACK ON RUSSIAS AMBASSADOR TO TURKEY. AND KILLED RUSSIAS AMBASSADOR. THIS WILL LEAVE TRUMP TO DEAL WITH PUTIN AND RUSSIA, INSTEAD OF OBAMA, WHO IS OUT OF OFFICE FINALLY ON JAN 20TH,2016. YES OBAMA KILLED 2 BIRDS WITH ONE STONE. OBAMA GOT HIS FALSE FLAG TERRORIST ATTACK ON PUTIN AS WELL AS LEAVING TRUMP NOW TO DEAL WITH RUSSIA IN THE FUTURE. AND WHAT A DAY TO DO IT ON. THE DAY DONALD TRUMP OFFICIALLY GETS VOTED IN AS THE 45TH PRESIDENT OF AMERICA. TALK ABOUT THAT FRAUD-SUNNI-ARAB MUSLIM OBAMA SENDING MESSAGES ALL OVER. THE ALLEGED TERRORIST THAT KILLED RUSSIAS AMBASSADOR TO TURKEY. YELLED ALLU-AKBAR FOR SYRIA AND TURKEY OR IRAQ I BELIEVE.
Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 36m36 minutes ago-dec 18,16-If my many supporters acted and threatened people like those who lost the election are doing, they would be scorned & called terrible names!
Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump Dec 16-Well, we all did it, together! I hope the "MOVEMENT" fans will go to D.C. on Jan 20th for the swearing in. Let's set the all time record!


UPDATE-DECEMBER 18,2016-07:52AM
WELL THE CRY BABY ALT-LEFT LIBERAL-DEMOCRAT-PROGRESSIVES ARE CRYING FOWL. THEY ARE AFFRAID DONALD TRUMP WHEN HE BECOMES PRESIDENT IN 33 DAYS ON JAN 20,17 WILL GET RID OF ALL THE SCAM ENVIROMENTALCASE INFORMATION FROM THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT WEB SITES. AND THESE ENVIROMENTAL CASES WILL HAVE NO FRAUD-FAKE NEWS TO TRY TO SUCK THE AMERICANS INTO THIS SCAM CARBON TAX-CLIMATE CHANGE-ENVIROMENTAL SCAM. AND TRUMP AND HIS ADMINISTRATION WILL TRUELY MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. AND OF COURSE THE ALT-LEFT ARE COMPLAINING THAT DAVID FREIDMAN IS THE US AMBASSADOR TO ISRAEL. BECAUSE TRUMP AND FREIDMAN WANT TO MOVE THE AMERICAN EMBASSY FROM TEL AVIV TO JERUSALEM. AND TRUMP AND FREIDMAN WILL ALLOW ISRAEL TO BUILD HOUSES ANY WHERE THEY WANT ON THEIR OWN LAND. GET A LIFE CRY BABY LIBERAL-DEMOCRATS. YOUR ISRAEL HATER FRAUD SUNNI-ARAB MUSLIM OBAMA IS OUT AND ON HIS WAY BACK TO INDONESIA WERE HE BELONGS. AND TRUMP AND ISRAEL WILL HAVE A TRUE FREINDSHIP AGAIN. AMERICA PROTECTING ISRAEL. NOT LIKE FRAUD OBAMA-IGNORING NETANYAHU AND SUCK HOLING UP TO HIS ARAB-MUSLIM BRETHEREN MURDERERS.AND TOMORROW THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE OFFICIALLY VOTES TRUMP IN AS THE 45TH PRESIDENT OF AMERICA. ISRAEL AND AMERICA TOGETHER FOR AT LEAST 4 YEARS WHILE TRUMP IS PRESIDENT. 

UPDATE-DECEMBER 17,2016-12:00AM
WELL WE NOW FIND OUT THE DNC WAS WARNED AT LEAST 11 TIMES TO WATCH OUT FOR HACKING ON THEIR E-MAILS. BUT INSTEAD OF TAKING ACTION. CLINTON AND HER CLUELESS BUNCH OF ALT-LEFT LIBERAL-DEMOCRATS. CLINTON AND PODESTRA BLAMED PUTIN  WAS GETTING REVENGE ON THEM. BUT WHILE THE WIKILEAKS PODESTA E-MAILS WERE COMING OUT FROM OCT ON. CLINTON AND PODESTA WERE IGNORING THEM AND SAYING THE E-MAILS WERE NOT REAL. BUT AFTER TRUMP WON-THEN CLINTON-PODESTA-ALL MEDIA WERE SAYING THAT RUSSIA HACKED INTO THE E-MAILS WITH TRUMP KNOWING ABOUT IT. NOW THE CIA-FBI ARE DENYING THE E-MAILS WERE HACKED BY RUSSIA. BUT THE MEDIA WHORES AND CLINTON AND PODESTA ARE STILL TRYING TO KEEP THE LIES GOING. BY INSISTING RUSSIA HACKED IN. AND FBIS COMEY ALSO CLINTON IS BLAMING FOR LOSING THE ELECTION. CLINTON AND THE ALT-LEFT LIBERAL-DEMOCRATS WILL DO ANYTHING TO STOP TRUMP FROM GETTING ELECTED MONDAY BY THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. AND THIS WILL BE WHAT THE ALT-LEFT WILL TRY TO DO ALL WEEKEND UNTIL THE MON DEC 19TH FINAL ELECTORAL VOTES TO GIVE DONALD TRUMP THE PRESIDENCY. OBAMA IN HIS FINAL PRESS CONFERENCE AS PRESIDENT ALSO CLAIMED RUSSIA HACKED THE E-MAILS. BY JULIAN ASSANGE OF WIKILEAKS SAID RUSSIA NEVER GAVE HIM THE E-MAILS. AND A NEWSPAPER SAID IT WAS A WORKER IN CLINTONS ADMINISTRATION THAT GAVE WIKILEAKS THE E-MAILS. BECAUSE CLINTON SCAMMED A WIN IN THE PRELIMINARIES OVER BERNIE COMMUNIST-SOCIALIST SANDERS. AND ASSANGE WOULD NOT CONFIRM THE LEAK. BUT HE NEVER SAID A CLINTON WORKER NEVER GAVE HIM THE E-MAILS EITHER. HE JUST SAID-OUR INFORMANT IS CONFIDENCIAL. AND WE DO NOT TALK ABOUT INFORMANTS. BUT HE DID INSIST RUSSIA NEVER HACKED THE DNC E-MAILS. SO OVIOUSLY IT WAS A CLINTON OR PODESTA CLOSE ASSOCIATE THAT GOT ACCESS TO THE E-MAILS AND GAVE THEM TO WIKILEAKS.THE CIA AND FBI ARE MAD AT OBAMA AND CLINTON FOR SAYING THEY POLITISIZED THEIR POSITIONS.

THE DOW WAS DOWN 23 POINTS THURSDAY-YESTERDAY

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.(IN 1 HR THE STOCK MARKETS WORLDWIDE WILL CRASH)
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed:(CONFISCATED) their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2  (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3  And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.

1 KINGS 10:13-14
13  And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.
14  Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,

GENESIS 49:16-17
16  Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
17  Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

BANK RELATED INFORMATION
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/09/bank-related-links.html 
CURRENCIES
http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/currencies
COMMODITIES
http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/commodities 


UPDATE-DECEMBER 23,2016-12:00AM

DOW MARKET FRIDAY-DECEMBER 23,2016
09:30AM-5.07-
10:00AM-3.12
10:30AM-7.77-
11:00AM-8.16-
11:30AM-6.07-
12:00PM-8.79-
12:30PM-10.68-
01:00PM-8.77-
01:30PM-3.40-
02:00PM-1.07-
02:30PM-3.25-
03:00PM-0.61-
03:30PM-0.07-
04:00PM-14.93+ 19,933.81 - S&P  +2.83 2263.79 - NASDAQ +15.27 5462.69
HIGH +15 LOW -20
TSX -07.09 15,328.15 - GOLD $+3.10 $1,131.52 - OIL $+0.06 $53.01

EARTHQUAKES

EZEKIEL 37:7,11-14
7  So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.(POSSIBLE QUAKE BRINGS ISRAEL BACK TO LIFE-SO NOISE AND SHAKING-QUAKES WILL ALSO DESTROY ISRAELS ENEMIES)
11  Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
12  Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13  And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14  And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

UPDATE-DECEMBER 23,2016-11:55PM

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide-37 of 37 earthquakes in map area.

    4.0-25km N of La Serena, Chile-2016-12-24 00:50:41 (UTC)-70.6 km
    4.8-28km E of San Isidro, Philippines-2016-12-24 00:49:03 (UTC)-74.1 km
    4.9-136km SSE of Taron, Papua New Guinea-2016-12-24 00:27:09 (UTC)-61.3 km
    4.8-149km WSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea-2016-12-24 00:09:59 (UTC)-22.0 km
    4.3-6km N of Igalo, Montenegro-2016-12-23 23:39:25 (UTC)-16.1 km
    5.0-180km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea-2016-12-23 22:32:18 (UTC)-9.1 km
    4.4-177km NNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia-2016-12-23 22:15:32 (UTC)-97.0 km
    2.6-26km ENE of Mooreland, Oklahoma-2016-12-23 22:09:35 (UTC)-3.5 km
    2.9-23km ENE of Mooreland, Oklahoma-2016-12-23 21:51:46 (UTC)-5.0 km
    3.3-28km ENE of Mooreland, Oklahoma-2016-12-23 21:31:00 (UTC)-5.0 km
    2.5-25km ENE of Mooreland, Oklahoma-2016-12-23 21:20:27 (UTC)-5.2 km
    3.5-25km ENE of Mooreland, Oklahoma-2016-12-23 20:45:05 (UTC)-5.0 km
    3.2-122km W of Ruby, Alaska-2016-12-23 19:41:26 (UTC)-7.7 km
    4.5-29km NNW of Cimarron, New Mexico-2016-12-23 19:31:13 (UTC)-5.0 km
    5.0-89km SE of Molibagu, Indonesia-2016-12-23 19:15:39 (UTC)-73.6 km
    3.0-21km NW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska-2016-12-23 18:06:52 (UTC)-134.9 km
    2.8-73km NNW of Talkeetna, Alaska-2016-12-23 17:46:36 (UTC)-95.8 km
    5.1-103km ESE of Iwaki, Japan-2016-12-23 17:25:00 (UTC)-7.4 km
    5.0-25km NE of General Luna, Philippines-2016-12-23 16:09:35 (UTC)-61.2 km
    5.0-113km SSE of Taron, Papua New Guinea-2016-12-23 14:28:31 (UTC)-23.4 km
    4.1-67km WSW of Anchor Point, Alaska-2016-12-23 14:23:30 (UTC)-95.7 km
    2.5-28km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada-2016-12-23 11:16:21 (UTC)-15.0 km
    2.9-11km S of Emajagua, Puerto Rico-2016-12-23 04:20:36 (UTC)-6.0 km
    4.3-4km WNW of Yaguara, Colombia-2016-12-23 03:43:51 (UTC)-10.0 km
    2.6-5km SE of Guthrie, Oklahoma-2016-12-23 03:25:09 (UTC)-6.7 km
    4.3-41km SE of Blenheim, New Zealand-2016-12-23 02:39:53 (UTC)-19.1 km
    4.6-42km E of Namie, Japan-2016-12-23 02:27:37 (UTC)-28.5 km
    3.3-27km WNW of Nikiski, Alaska-2016-12-23 01:44:43 (UTC)-74.9 km
    3.0-15km SSE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands-2016-12-23 01:37:35 (UTC)-18.0 km
    4.9-46km WSW of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands-2016-12-23 01:01:04 (UTC)-259.8 km
    4.2-44km WNW of Kobuk, Alaska-2016-12-23 00:43:51 (UTC)-5.4 km
    2.6-15km SE of Volcano, Hawaii-2016-12-23 00:39:13 (UTC)-3.3 km
    4.4-42km NE of Ndoi Island, Fiji-2016-12-22 23:38:34 (UTC)-614.4 km

STOCK MARKET AND EARTHQUAKE NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/12/the-dow-was-down-32-points-wednesday.html 
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/12/the-dow-was-up-91-points-tuesday.html 
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/12/the-dow-was-up-39-points-monday_20.html 
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/12/the-dow-was-down-08-points-friday-new.html 
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/12/weekend-quake-results-for-december-17.html 

ISRAEL URGES WASHINGTON TO VETO RESOLUTION ON SETTLEMENTS.AND HANNUKAH IN ISRAEL DEC 24TH.

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)

JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE

France to convene Middle East peace conference on Jan. 15-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-December 22, 2016

PARIS (Reuters) - France will convene some 70 countries on Jan. 15 for a Middle East peace conference in Paris, its foreign minister said on Thursday, and will invite the Israeli and Palestinian leaders to meet separately at its conclusion.France has repeatedly tried to breathe new life into the peace process this year, holding a preliminary conference in June where the United Nations, European Union, United States and major Arab countries gathered to discuss proposals without the Israelis or Palestinians present.The plan was to hold a follow-up conference before the end of the year with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas involved to see whether the two sides could be brought back to negotiations and revive moribund peace talks.Netanyahu had repeatedly rejected the conference proposal."France is still determined to hold a conference in Paris to reaffirm the necessity of a two-state solution," Jean-Marc Ayrault told journalists."January 15 is the date that has been fixed and 70 countries are invited. We are not going to give up now."A French diplomatic source said invitations would also be sent to Netanyahu and Abbas to meet French president Francois Hollande to outline the results of the conference.The source said that with uncertainty surrounding how the next US administration would handle the issue it was more important than ever to deal with the issue."You can see that it's even more justified in this context," the source said.Ahead of a UN Security Council vote at the UN later on Israeli settlements, Ayrault declined to say how Paris would vote, but repeated that settlements were illegal."We will look at this text carefully. The ongoing settlements completely weaken the situation and create tensions and move Us away from a two-state solution".(Reporting by John Irish; Editing by Maya Nikolaeva and Richard Balmforth)

Oh Hanukkah! So many ways to celebrate the festival of lights-From candlelit menorah walking tours to interactive museum exhibits, there are more than enough activities to keep the kids busy over holiday break-By Jessica Steinberg December 21, 2016, 2:12 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

With eight days of Hanukkah and seven days of school vacation, there’s a serious need to keep kids occupied and happy in between the massive intake of oil and sugar in daily doses of doughnuts and latkes.Luckily, local museums and cultural venues are prepared for the holiday onslaught, with numerous performances, events and programs planned for families. Many of the events are even free.Below are a list of options, ranging from candelighting ceremonies and candlelit menorah walking tours to new museum exhibits and film screenings. There are eco-tours, including one to save Ashdod’s sand dunes, a recycling effort at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, and do-it-yourself art at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. 1) There are several options at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, but one that is particularly good for families is “Different Than Usual,” a hands-on exhibit of painting, collage and 3D that is created each day, starting December 24, by visitors to the museum. During the week of Hanukkah there are also plays and other activities for kids nearly every day. Check the museum website for more details. 2) The Children’s Museum in Holon has an exhibit on urban street art, with a host of activities and workshops to keep the kids busy, including drawing graffiti, playing a game of time travel trivia, and the always-fascinating Dialogue in the Dark, where blind guides lead visitors through dark spaces. Entrance fees are NIS 50 for kids and NIS 65 for adults. Call ahead at 03-650-3000 for reservations. 3) Haifa has some interesting museum events, including a comic workshop with artist Uri Fink at the Hermann Struck Museum on December 29. There is a course for ages 8+ from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m., and one for teens and adults from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.; NIS 50 per person. Over in the Haifa neighborhood of Wadi Nisnas, as part of the Holiday of Holidays festival, there’s Play Haifa, a set of installations created by artists at Beit HaGefen, the Arab-Jewish cultural center. The artworks, situated inside and outside the center’s buildings, are designed to spark dialogue between visitors and passersby. 4) Looking for something free and outdoors? Head towards the Nitzanim Sand Dune Park between Ashdod and Ashkelon on December 27 for a Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI) environmental education tour. SPNI and the local Ashdod municipality are hosting tours from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.Keeping with the environment, on December 20 at Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., there will be recycled arts and crafts, talks on composting, and even a ride on a recycling truck to understand how it all works. 5) Over in Lod, the Festival in the East takes place on December 25 and 26, with musical performances from Shimon Buskila and the sisters of A-Wa, a performance of piyyut (Jewish liturgical poems), street theater and dance, and some poetry slamming as well. Some events require tickets, so be sure to go to the Facebook page and ticket website for more information.For more performances, there’s the Razel family singing together, as siblings Yonatan, Aaron and Ricka gather on Saturday night, December 31, at 8:30 p.m., at Jerusalem’s Gerard Behar Theater. 6) The artsy streets of downtown Jerusalem, around the pedestrian streets of Bezalel, Shmuel Hanagid, Shatz, King George and Hillel will become the location for street performances produced by alternative theater Hazira on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, December 27-29, from 7 p.m. until 11 p.m. 7) Try out some alternative films at the first Female Directors’ Week at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, eight days of 50 new films by 50 Israeli female directors, from December 18-25. The films haven’t been screened yet, and they offer an alternative set of voices, from Jewish and Arabic, religious and secular, straight and LGBT, about relationships, experiences and matters of the heart. One of the screenings is an episode of “Landing on Their Feet,” a new comedy series for YES starring Mili Avital and Shani Cohen (“Eretz Nehederet”). 8) Candlelighting is an activity all in itself this season, and Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi has several Hanukkah-related tours this season, with candlelighting tours of the Jewish Quarter and Nachlaot, to see and learn about the customs of lighting Hanukkah menorahs (hanukkiyot, as they’re known in Hebrew). The Jewish Quarter tours are December 26 and 27, from 4:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m., NIS 35 per child, NIS 60 per adult. The Nachlaot tour is December 28, from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m., and includes candlelighting with local families, and costs NIS 50 per person. Register by calling 02-539-8855. Discounts available for those who register online at the Yad Yitzchak Ben Zvi website.Other Jerusalem candlelighting ceremonies will take place on the streets of the Mahane Yehuda market from December 26-28, at 5:30 p.m., with street artists, clowns and jugglers taking part in the fun. 9) Candlelighting ceremonies abound in Tel Aviv, with the menorah art installation at Tel Aviv’s northern port, an enormous candleabra made of clear pipes that will be lit each night of Hanukkah, at 5:30 pm.There’s also the Night Light Festival in the neighborhood of Neve Sha’anan, which was designed in the shape of a menorah back in 1923. This year, the multicultural neighborhood will recreate its original street menorah with light installations and projections, and celebrate with musical performances, food stalls marking the local culinary influences of the Filipino, Eritrean, Sudanese, Ethiopian and Chinese residents, tours of the local streets and block parties. December 22 and 24, 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. 10) In honor of the Festival of Lights, the historic Israel Electric building in Tel Aviv’s Gan Ha-hashmal (Electricity Garden) will be open on December 28 and 29, from 6 p.m. to midnight.There’s also the Lights Market Festival at Givon Square in Tel Aviv, when the city hosts Nazareth’s famed Christmas market, with music, street performances and food stalls on December 27-29, from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., at the juncture of Ha’arba’a Street and Hashmonaim streets.Finally, head to Jaffa to view the lighting of the 15-meter-high Christmas tree at the clocktower. Crowds, and lights, abound.

While religious institutions continue to oppose the dual-faith education model, interfaith families are voting with their feet'-Is the Jewish community ready for a very merry interfaith Chrismukkah?-Over 60% of US Jews who married since 2000 have non-Jewish spouses. Will today’s youth be raised inside, outside, or maybe with one foot in the American Jewish community? By Amanda Borschel-Dan December 22, 2016, 2:46 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

As a five-year-old, Ella Goldberg suspected Santa wasn’t real. After all, he never came to her house, just to her grandmother’s. Finally, her mother confirmed her suspicions, but made her swear not to tell her friends at school.“She said she couldn’t lie to me because ‘it wasn’t part of your tradition,'” Goldberg said this week. Goldberg, whose mother is Catholic and father is Jewish, converted to Judaism as a baby and grew up in the faith.“From a young age, it was always very clear to us that Christmas was ‘mom’s holiday.’ We knew that Hanukkah was our tradition and we were proud of it,” she said. “My younger sister Lauren brought in a Hanukkiah [candelabra] for ‘show-and-tell’ in first grade and proudly proclaimed that ‘you all have one day of presents and we have eight!'”It’s relatively easy for interfaith families to celebrate both Christmas and Hanukkah — when the holidays are distinctive dates. In a true December dilemma, this year the two coincide. (According to a nifty Vox article replete with charts and graphs, the convergence of the first day of Hanukkah with Christmas Eve or Day has occurred on seven other occasions since 1900.) As jokes fly about Chrismukka or Hanukmas, in Jewish circles the volume on the constant communal intermarriage conversation has moved to full blast.There is objective cause for concern among those working towards Jewish continuity: Over 60 percent of Jews who married since 2000 have non-Jewish spouses.Add to this mix another — even more pervasive — push factor: the rise of the religious “nones.” According to the 2013 Pew Survey, “A Portrait of American Jews,” 22% of adult US Jews consider themselves “Jews of no religion.”In an increasingly secular United States, this religious disaffiliation is hardly unique to Jews. “Nearly eight-in-ten Millennials with low levels of religious commitment describe themselves as atheists, agnostics or ‘nothing in particular,'” according to a 2016 Pew report, “The factors driving the growth of religious ‘nones’ in the US”But this combination of intermarriage and increased secularization creates for the makings of a perfect alarmist storm: “Intermarried Jews, like Jews of no religion, are much less likely to be raising their children in the Jewish faith,” according to the 2013 Pew Survey.As interfaith families such as Goldberg’s are increasingly common, the question now goes beyond whether they will observe Christmas, Hanukkah — or both, a la Natalie Portman’s first Christmas tree — on December 24, the first night of candle lighting.Even as their parents struggle to remain in the pews, will today’s interfaith youth be raised inside, outside, or maybe with one foot in the American Jewish community? -No longer a Solomonic compromise?-In many cases of interfaith marriage, there may be more “oy gevalt” among the Jewish leadership than perhaps need be.“The Jewish community is always tense about the relationship between Hanukkah and Christmas in so-called interfaith families. I say ‘so-called’ because so many practice what I would call civil religion with a smattering of Christmas and Hanukkah rather than actually raising their children in two faiths or practicing two faiths in one family,” said Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky, the executive director of Big Tent Judaism.Trans-denomination organization Big Tent Judaism tries to find and engage those that Pew would label “Jews of no-religion.” There are Jews who are unaffiliated, marginalized, or disenfranchised by mainstream institutionalized Jewish practice. The idea is to welcome them and their partners on their own terms, and give resources and support towards a fulling Judaism in their lives.“Often the family’s religion is Judaism but there is a nod to the other religion practiced in the family, usually by the other adult partner,” said Olitzky.While that doesn’t seem so dramatic, the statistics sound dire: According to the 2013 Pew Report, “79% of married Jews of no religion have a spouse who is not Jewish, compared with 36% among Jews by religion. And intermarried Jews, like Jews of no religion, are much less likely to be raising their children in the Jewish faith.”But maybe the phrase “in the Jewish faith” should be prefaced by the word “only” as blended families increasingly choose to expose children to both families’ heritages. This was the case for Ella Goldberg, whose interfaith childhood is no longer rare in a Jewish community where intermarriage rates have significantly risen over the past 50 years.-‘Interestingly enough, it was my Catholic mom who made sure we had a Jewish home, observed all of the holidays and attended Hebrew school’-Far from growing up confused or torn apart by her parents’ “competing” cultures, Goldberg said, “Interestingly enough, it was my Catholic mom who made sure we had a Jewish home, observed all of the holidays and attended Hebrew school.”Her Jewish education produced a strong Jewish identity: Eight years ago, Goldberg immigrated to Israel. Today, she is married to an Israeli and has a four-month-old baby Eitan.“Religiously, I only practice Judaism and continue to have a strong Jewish identity (I did make aliyah after all!),” she said. At the same time, her mother’s Catholic heritage is also an acknowledged part of her make-up. “I also still continue to enjoy the traditions from my childhood by enjoying Christmas music, hanging a stocking and exchanging gifts with my immediate and extended family,” she said.It is possible to embrace ‘both’-Journalist Susan Katz Miller, the author of “Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family,” is both an interfaith child and an interfaith parent. Her father is Jewish, her mother is Protestant, as is her husband.Based on Pew data, she told The Times of Israel that “some 25% of Jewish parents in interfaith marriages are raising children with more than one family religion.” Her family included: Katz Miller, a Reform Jew, and her husband raised their children in a community of interfaith families, the Interfaith Families Project of Greater Washington DC.“I found that these parents, whether they are religious or secular, want their interfaith children to have interfaith literacy. They want their children to have bonds of affection with both family religions. They want their children to be informed and knowledgeable and fluent with the traditions of both family religions. And they want both parents to be able to play an equal role in passing on family traditions,” said Katz Miller.In one of her many blogs on the subject, Katz Miller writes, “After experiencing both the ‘choose one’ pathway as a child, and the ‘choose both’ pathway as a parent, my contention is that there is no way to exclusively raise a child with one religion in an extended interfaith family… Family is family, and in the end, a claim that we are raising children exclusively in one religion means trying to exclude the emotional weight and sensory memories of the family traditions we experience together.”For Goldberg, for example, growing up Jewish while honoring and observing some of the traditions of her Catholic mother was a net positive.“I am especially grateful for my interfaith upbringing as I feel it helped to make me aware of and sensitive to people who are different from me… I’m proud of our multi-cultural family and I plan to continue to teach Eitan (and our future children) about his grandmother’s traditions as he grows up as I feel there is enormous value to learning about and being exposed to different cultures and faiths,” Goldberg said.-Rabbi expelled for performing interfaith weddings-Although Reform Judaism’s Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) members are officially discouraged from officiating at interfaith weddings, the movement has pursued serious outreach to blended families from the late 1970s. Additionally, in 1983, the movement ruled that a child whose father is Jewish and is raised in a Jewish home may be considered Jewish.But the issue of interfaith marriage is still a minefield and forbidden in much of institutional Judaism, including all forms of Orthodoxy and the Conservative movement.Just this week, Conservative Rabbi Seymour Rosenbloom was expelled from the movement’s rabbis’ association, the Rabbinical Assembly, for performing interfaith weddings — including that of his stepdaughter to her non-Jewish spouse.In response, Rosenbloom told JTA, “It’s a futile policy, a policy that will eventually be overturned because the trend of history is against it.”The Conservative denomination, which considers itself a halachic movement (even though, anecdotally at least, most of its adherents do not fully commit to Jewish law), refuses to condone intermarriage. At the same time it is cognizant of the repercussions.“How we work with families where not everyone in the family is Jewish is tremendously important to us,” Rabbinical Assembly executive vice president Rabbi Julie Schonfeld said. “A tremendous amount of effort is invested by the Conservative movement and the Conservative rabbinate in making our synagogues really welcoming places for everyone.”‘It is not clear whether being intermarried tends to make US Jews less religious, or being less religious tends to make US Jews more inclined to intermarry’-In parsing out the whys and wherefores, for some in Jewish leadership, intermarriage is construed as a “failure.” But according to the 2013 Pew report, “It is not clear whether being intermarried tends to make US Jews less religious, or being less religious tends to make US Jews more inclined to intermarry, or some of both.”However, where many Jewish leaders see a problem, some organizations see a chance for deeper learning and mutual respect.Big Tent Judaism, for example, is hip to the void in institutionalized Judaism in terms of interfaith families. “The future of the North American Jewish community will be determined by the warmth, wisdom and caring with which we welcome and engage intermarried families and unaffiliated Jews into our midst,” reads the Big Tent website.Unfortunately, for many children of interfaith families, or Jews marrying non-Jews today, Big Tent’s style of outreach may be too little, too late.“Millennials are disaffiliating from religious institutions that are dogmatic or inflexible about how to teach interfaith children, or that try to place restrictions on how interfaith families get to educate their children or celebrate in their own homes,” said author Katz Miller. “Interfaith families are learning that interfaith education can be a joyous intellectual process, and can inspire their children to be bridge-builders and peacemakers in the world.”Today, for those who are attempting to raise children in two faiths, there are several independent organizations to support their decision.“While religious institutions continue to oppose the dual-faith education model, interfaith families are voting with their feet,” said Katz Miller.-An opportunity, not a problem-One such support network is the New York-based Interfaith Community, which was initially founded as an informal association of families in 1987. By 2003, it was legally incorporated as a nonprofit organization, began curriculum development, and opened programs in other locations.Currently the Interfaith Community has five chapters, with a sixth in formation, throughout the New York metropolitan area. Its programs include education for pre-school through 8th grade, in classes that are team-taught by 20 part-time Jewish and Christian professional educators.According to Dr. Sheila C. Gordon, the volunteer president of Interfaith Community since 2001, the chapters vary in size and membership fluctuates. “This year altogether we have about 90 paid member households and about 140 children enrolled in classes. We have served many hundreds of couples and families over the years,” said Gordon.In an increasingly diverse world, said Gordon, families can — and must — accommodate, respect and nurture their differences. “The traditions families incorporate are not only Jewish and Christian, but also include cultural differences from each,” said Gordon.“Jewish families include different heritages,” Gordon said, citing an Israeli-born member married to an American from a Roman Catholic background in a New York chapter who has introduced everyone to sufganiyot, a Hanukkah staple in Israel.“Our primary focus has been on educating families – and helping them to sustain authentic religion in their lives. But of great importance to us is our role in explaining interfaith families to the world,” said Gordon.-‘We are aware of how rapidly attitudes toward our dual-tradition families have changed in just a few years’-And headway is being made. As one of the older kids on the interfaith block, “we are aware of how rapidly attitudes toward our dual-tradition families have changed in just a few years,” said Gordon.Olitzky of Big Tent Judaism is also cautiously optimistic.“While the general tension with regard to interfaith families is less, I do not think it’s less regarding Hanukkah and Christmas issues,” he said.“Unlike most of the organized Jewish community, I do not assume that the presence of a Christmas tree presumes that this is a family that is raising their children in two faiths… I am also among the few who believe that you can have a faith experience in another faith without compromising one’s religious identity,” Olitzky said.-How to be a Jew and ‘observe’ Xmas-Ella Goldberg is currently in the US for the holidays — both of them. Her strong Jewish identity, she said, is a result of a combination of factors. Foremost among them appears to be basic acceptance and support on the part of both sides of her religious equation.“My mom’s total commitment to raising her children in the Jewish faith, celebrating holidays with my Jewish relatives, attending Hebrew school (three times per week through grade 8) and finally but perhaps most importantly, Israel,” all contributed in shaping her religious identity.“My Jewish identity, while always existent, was hesitant to be expressed until I experienced and moved to Israel. I still vividly recall my first trip to Israel with Birthright and standing on the shore of the Kinneret [the Sea of Galilee] in tears, overwhelmed by the sense of belonging I felt,” said Goldberg.And so it is from a place of utter security in their Jewish identities that Goldberg and her husband prepare to introduce their baby Eitan to Christmas.“My mom bought him a stocking with his name on it and it will be filled with small gifts for him. This year we will be at her house through Christmas and New year’s, so we will celebrate with my mom and her family,” she said. “In the future if we are in Israel for the holiday I plan to celebrate, but not in the same way that I would at my mom’s house with a tree and stockings.”

Israel urges Washington to veto resolution on settlements-Senior official says US vote in favor of motion would violate its ‘longstanding commitment,’ as affirmed by Obama at UN-By Raphael Ahren December 22, 2016, 3:12 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

The US would be in breach of its commitment to not back one-sided anti-Israel resolutions, if the administration were to allow an Egyptian-proposed resolution on settlements to pass Thursday at the United Nations Security Council, a senior Israeli official said Thursday.“We hope America doesn’t breach its longstanding commitment to advance peace through negotiations,” a senior official told The Times of Israel, speaking on condition of anonymity. “If they don’t veto, it will be a last gasp by the Obama administration, as they expect policy to change with the new [Trump] administration. We hope President Obama stays true to his words in 2011 that peace won’t come through statements at the UN.”At his speech to the UN General Assembly in September 2011, Obama declared: “Peace is hard work. Peace will not come through statements and resolutions at the United Nations — if it were that easy, it would have been accomplished by now.”Over the last few months, as Jerusalem prepared for a possible anti-Israel resolution at the Security Council, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu often quoted that passage from Obama’s speech, insisting that the White House block any effort to advance Israeli-Palestinian peace effort via international forums.“The US should veto the anti-Israel resolution at the UN Security Council on Thursday,” Netanyahu wrote in a tweet posted early Thursday.The US should veto the anti-Israel resolution at the UN Security Council on Thursday.— Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) December 22, 2016-Late Wednesday, in a surprise move, Egypt — which currently holds a non-permanent seat and represents the Arab Group in the council — circulated a draft that will be voted on at 10 p.m. Israel time Thursday.The most recent draft of the resolution, which is subject to change due to last-minute negotiations, calls on Israel to “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem.”It further expresses “grave concern that continuing Israeli settlement activities are dangerously imperiling the viability of the two-state solution.” It calls on all states “to distinguish, in their relevant dealings, between the territory of the State of Israel and the territories occupied since 1967,” which some analysts say invites boycotts of Israeli settlements goods.On the other hand, the draft also condemns “all acts of violence against civilians, including acts of terror, as well as all acts of provocation, incitement and destruction,” which some in the international community understand as turning the resolution into a “balanced” text.On Thursday, top Israeli officials spoke out against the resolution and urged the US administration to veto it.Education Minister Naftali Bennett, in a video message, called the UN Security Council meeting a “record in hypocrisy” in light of the slaughter in Syria, and said those who support it are backing “the bad guys” and “the forces of evil.”“Just a short plane ride from here, in Aleppo, there is a genocide going on,” he said. “Yet the UN Security Council is going to convene to tell us not to build a house here in Jerusalem, pave a road, open up a kindergarten. That is from the UN Security Council’s perspective, the number one issue… We expect the decent free world to support the world’s number-one fighter against radical terror, Israel.”“We expect our greatest friend not to let such a one-sided and anti-Israel resolution pass,” Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said. “A resolution like this won’t advance any [peace] process, but will only serve as a prize by the UN for the Palestinian policy of incitement and terror.”“Whoever truly supports peace must reject this resolution and all other contemptible efforts to promote a boycott against Israel through the United Nations,” Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan said. “President Obama and many US states already passed legislation opposing any form of boycotts. I call on the American administration to veto this resolution immediately.”Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely said that backing the Palestinians at the UN would harden their “extremist positions” and distance peace. “We expect from the United States, our friends, to cast a veto, since such resolutions damage any future chances of reaching an agreement.”Stuart Winer contributed to this report.

Israeli envoy: US embassy move to Jerusalem a ‘step forward’ for peace-Ron Dermer urges Trump to follow through on campaign pledge to relocate embassy, says it would send a ‘strong message against delegitimization’-By AP and Times of Israel staff December 21, 2016, 3:38 am

The Israeli ambassador to the United States has urged the incoming Trump administration to move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, telling guests at a Hanukkah reception at the Israeli embassy in Washington on Tuesday that the controversial move would be a “great step forward” for peace.Trump and his nominee for US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, have pledged to move the embassy. But previous Republican presidents have made that promise without following through.Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer added at the reception that such a move would send a “strong message against [the] delegitimization of Israel.”The US and nearly every other country have their embassies in Tel Aviv. Israel considers Jerusalem its capital, but Palestinians claim part of eastern Jerusalem as the capital for a future Palestinian state.US presidents have repeatedly waived a law requiring the embassy to be moved, but Trump has signaled real intention to go ahead with his campaign promise.Trump’s transition team has begun exploring the logistics of moving the US Embassy from Tel Aviv, and checking into sites for its intended new location, Israeli TV reported last week.Israel’s Foreign Ministry is involved in the matter, with officials in Jerusalem checking into when a possible site for the embassy, in an area that includes the Diplomat Hotel in Jerusalem’s Talpiot neighborhood, would be available, Channel 2 reported.Also last week, Trump’s senior aide Kellyanne Conway said moving the embassy was a “very big priority for this president-elect, Donald Trump.” Conway told conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt, in a lengthy interview discussing Trump’s transition to the White House: “He made it very clear during the campaign, and as president-elect, I’ve heard him repeat it several times privately, if not publicly.”During the election, Trump pledged to end the longstanding White House policy to perpetually defer a 1995 Congressional decision to recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital and move the embassy there.“It is something that our friend Israel, a great friend in the Middle East, would appreciate and something that a lot of Jewish-Americans have expressed their preference for,” Conway said. “It is a great move. It is an easy move to do based on how much he talked about that in the debates and in the soundbites.”Earlier this month, US President Barack Obama renewed a presidential waiver that again delayed plans to relocate the embassy for another six months.In keeping with every other presidential administration over the last 20 years, Obama cited “national security interests” in waiving Congress’s 1995 decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the embassy there.The most often cited argument against Washington recognizing Jerusalem as the capital and moving its embassy, is that such a move should only come after the successful conclusion of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. The status of Jerusalem is subject to bilateral negotiations, diplomats generally argue, and relocating the embassy as a gesture to Israel before a final-status agreement is signed would greatly anger Palestinians and the larger Arab world, sending an already moribund peace process to its certain death.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last week that it would be “great” if Trump made good on his campaign promise to move the US embassy to Jerusalem, even as some Israeli security and diplomatic officials, according to reports, are worried about the consequences of an immediate relocation, with fears of adverse reactions from the Arab world and on the streets of Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem.

There’s more than one way to move a US embassy-Op-ed: You can announce the relocation as an in-your-face rejection of all non-Israeli claims to Jerusalem. Or you can highlight the fact that the site is in pre-1967, ostensibly non-disputed Israeli West Jerusalem, and assert that its opening prejudges nothing. And a whole host of other ideas besides-By David Horovitz December 21, 2016, 5:10 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

In September 1996, brand-new Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorized the opening of a second exit, an unassuming aperture on Via Dolorosa in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, for visitors to the subterranean Western Wall tunnels that run alongside the Temple Mount. Whatever had or had not been agreed with the Waqf (Muslim Trust) and other authorities, this relatively minor act of construction in the ultra-sensitive Old City was immediately denounced by PLO leader Yasser Arafat as an assault on Islam. Protests erupted in the territories, and in the subsequent armed clashes 17 Israeli soldiers and 70 Palestinians were killed.Twenty years later, US President-elect Donald Trump is said by his aides to be making a high priority of moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and his intended ambassador David Friedman has declared, in a Trump team statement, that he anticipates working from the Israeli capital.The current Palestinian leadership is already warning of dire consequences if Trump follows through on his campaign pledge to relocate the embassy to what he called “the eternal capital of the Jewish people.” In a conference call this week, chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat said the PLO would revoke its recognition of Israel, the peace process would be over, and there would be turmoil in the region. Furthermore, he predicted, America would be forced to close its embassies throughout the Arab world, since the Arab citizenries would not tolerate their ongoing presence.Put it another way, the violence prompted by the opening of the Western Wall tunnel exit would look like a stroll in the park by comparison.Netanyahu, today the longest-serving Israeli prime minister bar David Ben-Gurion, affects to be unfazed. It may be that Netanyahu doesn’t think often these days of what happened in September 1996; or maybe he thinks about it frequently and reminds himself that the violence died down in the end and that the second entrance to the Western Wall Tunnels is still open.Ron Dermer, Netanyahu’s ambassador to the United States and very close adviser, on Tuesday, hailed the anticipated opening of the American Embassy in Jerusalem as a “great step forward” for peace and a “strong message against delegitimization of Israel.” Netanyahu, who earlier this week hosted the entire Times of Israel editorial staff for an unprecedented, lengthy, but strictly off-the-record briefing packed with insights into his thinking, has thus far publicly confined himself, when discussing the embassy move, to an enthusiastic “great.”Such enthusiasm is self-evident. Jerusalem is the reason the Jewish state is here. It’s our historic capital. It is central to our faith. And much as UNESCO and other skewed international forums might seek to revise history, much as an intensifying Palestinian narrative seeks to disconnect us, Jerusalem has nestled in the heart of our nationhood for 3,000 years.Having regained sovereignty in the west of the city with independence, and recaptured the Old City and the east in the Six Day War, Israel has always sought to have the international community recognize Jerusalem as its capital. The United States, like most nations, has not done so. Until 1980, there were 13 countries that maintained their embassies in the city, but subsequently Israelis watched with sorrow the departing stream to Tel Aviv — Costa Rica and El Salvador being the last to go in 2006. Now Trump is apparently bent on reversing that diplomatic boycott. How could the prime minister of Israel, and his people for that matter, do anything but exult? Netanyahu plainly sees in Trump’s intended embassy move an extraordinary act of friendship and support for Israel, along with the clearest of signals to the Palestinians and the Arab world that change has emphatically arrived in Washington. A fervent believer that Israel must both be strong and project strength in order to survive in this treacherous region, the last thing Netanyahu is instinctively inclined to do is suggest to Trump that he reconsider his intended act of presidential Zionism because of doomsday threats from the likes of Saeb Erekat.There are, however, many ways for a US president to move an embassy. You can, as the head of Republicans Overseas in Israel, Marc Zell, suggested last week, simply change the plaque on the current US consulate. Or you can spend years building an entirely new structure. You can announce the move as an in-your-face rejection of all non-Israeli sovereign claims throughout the city. Or you can highlight the fact that the location is in pre-1967, ostensibly non-disputed Israeli West Jerusalem, and assert that its opening prejudges nothing in the disputed East. You can calibrate the announcement as the intended culmination of the peace negotiations you intend to convene. Taking a leaf out of a French diplomatic book, you can make plain that you seek to broker an accommodation, but that, come what may in those talks, you’ll be moving your embassy to Jerusalem on a specific date.And a whole host of other ideas besides.Along with his promise to relocate the embassy, Trump, that supreme artist of the deal, emphasized in recent months that he’d love to seal that “toughest” deal of all, the one that resolves the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and promised he’d “give it a shot.” It could be argued that utterly alienating one of the two sides by preempting negotiations with a step that could doom the effort is not the smartest course for a peace-broker to take. Others would doubtless counter that making plain to the other side that the rules of the game have changed, and it better wise up fast, is the best possible opening gambit.As with so much about the imminent Trump presidency, we watch, we wait, we wonder. And we also hope — we lovers of Jerusalem, we who live in Jerusalem, we whose daily lives play out against the backdrop of Jerusalem’s uniquely resonant and incendiary sensitivities — for wisdom from our leaders.

Trump: US should veto UN resolution on settlements-Police arrest brother of Jerusalem terrorist; court seeks clearer commitment to non-violence at Amona; Putin mulls expanding nuclear arsenal-By Sara Miller December 22, 2016, 2:09 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

15:40-Trump calls for US veto of UN resolution on settlements-President-elect Donald Trump call for the US to veto an Egypt-drafted UN resolution demanding that Israel immediately halt its settlement activities in the Palestinian territories and East Jerusalem.“The resolution being considered at the United Nations Security Council regarding Israel should be vetoed,” the Republican says in a statement issued ahead of the vote.“As the United States has long maintained, peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians will only come through direct negotiations between the parties, and not through the imposition of terms by the United Nations,” he says.15:32-Meretz head: UN draft on settlements is ‘lifeline’ for peace process-The head of the left-wing Meretz party, Zehava Galon, praises the UN draft resolution on settlements, calling it a “lifeline” for peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians.“This is a lifeline for the two-state solution,” Galon says, according to Channel 10. “The proposal presented by the Egyptians is balanced in its language.”15:25-Court to Amona residents: Say you will go peacefully regardless of timeframe-The High Court of Justice rejects a declaration by residents of the Amona outpost that they will evacuate the site peacefully, saying it does not go far enough to guarantee there will be no violence when security forces do move in.Channel 2 says the court has given the settlers until 5 p.m. to come up with a new version of the declaration, one which states there will be no opposition to the evacuation whether or not it approves a state request to extend the court’s December 25 deadline for the removal of residents.“The statement the [Amona] residents were supposed to deliver according to our decision yesterday was meant to be an unequivocal declaration of peaceful evacuation without resistance,” the court says. “We are allowing the Amona residents to present an unequivocal statement as we requested yesterday, by 5 p.m. today.”15:14-Erdan: UN draft on settlements is height of hypocrisy-Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan lashes out over the UN draft on settlements due to be voted on this evening, calling it a new height of “hypocrisy.”“The Egyptian proposal represents a new record in the hypocrisy of the United Nations,” Erdan says, according to the Walla news website.“Boycotts of any kind only harm the tens of thousands of Palestinian workers who make a living in the joint [West Bank] industrial zones, as well as efforts to revive the peace process,” he says. “Those who truly support peace must reject this decision and every contemptible effort to promote a boycott against Israel via the United Nations.”14:48-Putin urges Russian nuclear weapons boost-Russian President Vladimir Putin calls for the country to reinforce its military nuclear potential and praises the army’s performance in its Syria campaign.In a speech recapping military activities in 2016, Putin says the army’s preparedness has “considerably increased” and called for continued improvement that would ensure it can “neutralize any military threat.”“We need to strengthen the military potential of strategic nuclear forces, especially with missile complexes that can reliably penetrate any existing and prospective missile defense systems,” he says.“We must carefully monitor any changes in the balance of power and in the political-military situation in the world, especially along Russian borders, and quickly adapt plans for neutralizing threats to our country.”He says Russia’s military has successfully demonstrated its capabilities in Syria, showcased its technology to potential arms buyers and helped the Syrian army make considerable advances.“The Syrian army received considerable support, thanks to which it carried out several successful operations against militants,” he says. “The effective use of Russian weapons in Syria opens new possibilities for military-technical cooperation. We must take maximum advantage of this. We know there is interest in modern Russian weapons from foreign partners.”–AFP-14:36-Man held for Hamas contacts is brother of terrorist who killed 2-The East Jerusalem resident arrested yesterday for contacts with Hamas officials abroad is the brother of Mesbah Abu Sabih, the terrorist who killed two Israelis in an October shooting attack in the capital, Channel 2 reports.Abu Sabih was killed during a shootout with Israeli security forces in the moments after the attack.The report says the brother received a call last night from Qatar-based Hamas political leader Khaled Mashaal, who congratulated him on the attack. The call came shortly after the family’s home was demolished by Israel.14:10-2 Haredi men arrested for blocking non-segregated Beit Shemesh bus-Two ultra-Orthodox men are arrested in Beit Shemesh for obstructing the passage of a bus that did not have separate seating for men and women.The two were among dozens of Haredi protesters who blocked a road along which the bus was traveling. They were taken in for questioning by police when they refused to heed repeated calls to disperse, Channel 2 reports.14:10-East Jerusalem man arrested for contact with Hamas officials abroad-Police say a resident of the East Jerusalem village of a-Ram was arrested for suspected contact with members of the Hamas terrorist organization abroad.According to the police spokesperson, the man in his 30s was detained yesterday on suspicion of contact with a foreign agent. He was to appear in court today for a remand extension hearing.— Ilan Ben Zion.

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