Thursday, February 02, 2017

ARABS ARE ELATED AND HANDING OUT CANDY TO EACH OTHER AS ISRAELIS ARE TAKEN OFF THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND.

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

Slowly, amid clashes and tears, Israel evacuates Amona outpost-Over 2 dozen of the 42 homes cleared as protesters hole up inside illegal settlement, passively resist eviction; operation to continue overnight; 20 cops and two protesters hurt; 13 arrests made-By Judah Ari Gross and Times of Israel staff February 1, 2017, 5:15 pm

AMONA, West Bank — Clashing with protesters and pulling tearful settlers from trailer homes, Israeli forces carried out an operation to clear out the Amona outpost Wednesday, ending years of uncertainty over the fate of the hilltop.As of 6 p.m., 28 of the outpost’s 42 buildings had been evacuated, including some 11 families who left of their own volition, police said.Thirteen people were arrested for disturbing the peace and obstructing police work, while hundreds more protesters were simply led by officers off the hilltop with no charges, police said.Police said they planned to work through the night to clear out the remaining dozen-plus homes and hundreds of protesters, after briefly mulling taking a break for the night. Some 200 people were sitting in at the Amona synagogue after night fell.Unarmed police in blue sweatshirts and black baseball caps made their way up the hill around midday. On the hilltop, home to some 40 families, hundreds of nationalist youths erected makeshift barricades out of smashed tiles, rusty metal bars and large rocks to slow their advance. Some protesters threw rocks at security forces, while others set fire to tires and trash piles.When one vehicle full of female residents and carrying at least two of Amona’s Torah scrolls made its way out of the settlement in late afternoon, a police officer remarked that while they were leaving without force, “at this point, no one is leaving here willingly.”Standing in the street with tears in her eyes, Ayelet Vidal, one of the residents who left on her own, said she didn’t know where she would go.“Until the last moment I didn’t think this would happen,” she told Channel 2 news.The evacuation ended decades of legal wrangling and political machinations over the outpost, ruled in 2014 to have been built on private Palestinian land.Threats of clashes hung heavily over the evacuation as supporters of Amona set up makeshift roadblocks and other defenses intended to keep the army from advancing on the outpost, which was the scene of a violent melee during a partial evacuation in 2006.About 3,000 security personnel were deployed to the operation; about 1,000 people — residents and their supporters — were estimated to be at Amona.One border police officer at the scene said he would not take part in the evacuation. He was led away by a colleague as a protester ran alongside, praising him.Protest organizers had told supporters to make the evacuation as difficult and long as possible, and that message was apparently taken to heart.In a series of scuffles Wednesday, one female officer was moderately injured and 20 officers suffered light wounds, some from pushing and shoving with protesters, while the rest suffered eye and skin damage after demonstrators threw bleach and paint at them, police said.Two protesters were lightly injured, a spokesperson for Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem said.“This is a dark day for us, for Zionism, for the state and for the great vision of the Jewish people returning to its homeland,” Avichay Boaron, a spokesman for Amona, told Channel 2 TV.The hundreds of protesters, most of them religious teenage boys, but also including a number of right-wing lawmakers who had flocked to the outpost ahead of the evacuation, locked themselves inside houses and sheds. Another hundred or so barricaded themselves in Amona’s synagogue. At one home, several dozen young residents and supporters linked arms, sat on the floor, and sang songs including the national anthem when police came to remove them.When removed from Amona, some of the protesters were taken away by bus and set down at bus stations on Road 443 near Jerusalem, Channel 2 reported.Bilha Schwarts, 24, came along with her husband and nine-month-old daughter to support the residents. “If they want it they can take it, we will not fight. We will leave but we will come back,” she told the Associated Press.-Officers injured by bleach-A small police force had been in place on the road leading up to the outpost throughout Tuesday. At approximately 8 a.m. Wednesday, they were joined by nearly 20 buses full of additional officers, along with police vans, cruisers and two ambulances.As the hundreds of police officers disembarked from their vehicles, they were met by jeers — and some rocks — from the hundreds of protesters gathered on the hilltop.Just after 11, the officers — a mix of Border Police and Israel Police — made their way up the hill in two straight lines, trekking alongside the road, as the street itself had been slicked with oil and was littered with rocks and caltrops.The police moved methodically, setting up at the entrance to the outpost, before moving in those two lines deeper and deeper into the settlement.As they approached the settlement’s houses, protesters pushed back against the approaching police lines. Small scuffles broke out, with demonstrators shouting at the officers to “be ashamed of themselves” and to not obey the evacuation order. Bleach and paint were also thrown at the officers.The protesters screamed that the officers were “enemies of Israel” and “traitors.”“Why are you doing this? For a salary? It’s not worth it,” one protester told an officer.At this stage, one Border Police officer determined he could not carry out the evacuation order and left the area, flanked by other officers.The protesters cheered the border guard, chanting “Hero! Hero!” and hugging him as he left.Slowly, the police pushed back against the protesters and made their way to the far end of the outpost and set to work on the actual evacuation.A dozen officers would surround an individual house or trailer. Once given the go-ahead, they would break open doors and windows that had been sealed shut.One by one, the officers removed the protesters. Some came out on foot, while others were carried out forcibly.Tears were shed, by the protesters themselves, and by the predominantly older settlers who were watching the events but not taking part themselves.During this evacuation stage, there were relatively few violent incidents, as organizers encouraged protesters not to resist or lash out at the police.After the officers removed from the protesters from the homes, they took them aside, giving them water and speaking with them calmly.The protesters were then led to buses and driven away from Amona.-‘We lost the battle’-On Tuesday residents were given eviction notices, warning them to be out of their homes within 48 hours. The order allowed residents to file a new appeal to the IDF for a further 48-hour extension. Nevertheless, police began the evacuations a day later.After over a decade of delays and legal wrangling, the High Court ruled in December 2014 that Amona, which lies east of Ramallah, was built on private Palestinian land and must be demolished. Nine homes in the adjacent Ofra settlement were also due to be demolished.The eviction came ahead of the final February 8 deadline to demolish the outpost.Yesh Din, the Israeli legal rights group that represented the Palestinian landowners in court, welcomed the evacuation. In a Facebook post, it said the landowners are “waiting to return.”“Our feeling is indescribable,” said Abdel-Rahman Saleh, the mayor of the nearby Palestinian town of Silwad, who assisted the landowners in building their case. “We struggled for 20 years to get our land back.”Shortly after the notices were given, troops began blocking off roads leading to the outpost, in a bid to keep supporters seeking to thwart the eviction order from reaching the hilltop.Ahead of the evacuation, parents sent their children down the hill toward the adjacent Ofra settlement so that they wouldn’t be involved in the expected confrontations.Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel joined fellow Jewish Home lawmakers Bezalel Smotrich and Shuli Muallem-Refaeli in Amona, along with Likud’s Oren Hazan.Speaking at a Knesset debate on Wednesday, Jewish Home leader and Education Minister Naftali Bennett called the residents of Amona “heroes” and hailed their determination to remain steadfast on the windy hilltop, defying harsh conditions in their struggle to settle the Land of Israel even after it emerged that their outpost was built on private Palestinian land.“We fought a hard fight but we were confronted with a final court order by the High Court of Justice. We came to Amona and looked the residents in the eye. We knew that we were embarking on a struggle against all odds, but we didn’t give up. Together with the residents, we turned over every stone, we explored all possibilities and exhausted all ways to save Amona,” Bennett said. “To our regret, the struggle over Amona was not successful. We lost the battle, but we will in the war over the Land of Israel.”In a deal struck last month with the government, the outpost residents agreed to move peacefully to an adjacent plot. But the deal was complicated after a Palestinian claimed ownership of the nearby hilltop, prompting the High Court to order a stop to all work on the site. A ruling on the matter was expected from the court on Wednesday.As part of preparation for the impending eviction, residents of Amona handed over to authorities a bag containing nonlethal weapons, police said. The bag contained stun grenades and flares, according to a police statement.Police called on residents “to continue to show responsibility so that the court order can be carried out appropriately and to prevent the eviction turning violent.”“This is a hard and sad day for the people of Israel,” Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said ahead of the evacuation.“Despite the difficulty and the pain, I call on everyone who is still on the mountain – let the police do their job,” he said in the statement, adding that he also calls on Knesset members and public leaders to avoid statements that could “exacerbate the situation.”Erdan says he expected the police to bring to justice anyone who acts violently.Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau called on Amona residents and those who have joined them to refrain from violence against security forces.“Evacuating a settlement and those living there arouses pain and sadness but we have an obligation to respect the law and not to use any violence towards anyone,” he said. “Everyone should act in accordance to Jewish law.”Residents of the neighboring Ofra settlement announced that Thursday would be a “public fast day.”The fast — a Jewish sign of mourning — is being called “over the destruction of houses and communities in the Land of Israel, a merciless and unjust [High Court] ruling, and the wantonness of elected officials.”The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Accepting Palestinian petition, High Court rejects Amona compromise-Residents of illegal West Bank outpost later accept fresh government offer to relocate entire community to new settlement-By Tamar Pileggi February 1, 2017, 7:34 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

A compromise deal struck between the government and residents of the Amona outpost was overridden by the High Court on Wednesday, as justices accepted a Palestinian petition against relocating the settlers to an adjacent plot.The decision came as police were evacuating the West Bank outpost, which the High Court has long held was built on privately owned Palestinian land. The same court accepted Wednesday that the land earmarked by the government for the evacuated settlers also belongs to Palestinians.In a final ruling in 2014, the High Court ordered the government to evacuate and demolish the hilltop community by December 25, 2016. But under fierce pressure from settlers and their Knesset supporters, the government in late December secured a 45-day extension from the court until February 8, after reaching an agreement with Amona residents that would see 24 of the outpost’s 41 families moved to an adjacent plot of land on the same hilltop, while the rest would relocate to the nearby settlement of Ofra.But local Palestinians objected to the government plan, saying the adjacent plot was also privately owned.Israeli human rights group Yesh Din then petitioned the High Court on behalf of the Palestinian claimants.Earlier this month, the court issued a temporary injunction halting the construction of the new homes, complicating government efforts to find a solution for the settlers and avoid a possible violent standoff.Last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Chief of Staff Yoav Horowitz said the Palestinians’ claim on the land nullified the compromise deal.Instead, he said the Amona residents were offered new options: build a new settlement in the area, or relocate the entire community to Ofra.Amona residents initially rejected the government’s counter-offer, saying that remaining on the contested hilltop was the cornerstone of the entire agreement.But on Wednesday, a community spokesperson told The Times of Israel that residents would agree to relocating the entire settlement.“In the absence any other option, the residents will accept the offer to establish a new settlement,” Ofer Inbar said.Authorities were hoping the compromise deal could prevent a repeat of the violence that followed the destruction of several permanent buildings in the outpost in 2006, when the court similarly ruled that buildings were built on private Palestinian land.On Wednesday, a week ahead of the February 8 deadline, thousands of unarmed police officers descended on the West Bank hilltop to carry out the evacuation and demolition orders.Threats of clashes hung heavily over the evacuation as supporters of Amona set up makeshift roadblocks and other defenses intended to keep the army from advancing on the outpost, which was the scene of a violent melee during a 2006 partial evacuation.Though not a repeat of the violent clashes a decade ago, Wednesday’s evacuation saw scuffles break out between police and young, pro-settlement activists protesting the evacuation.On Wednesday evening, police said 20 officers were injured, and 12 protesters were arrested.

Palestinians rejoice as Amona outpost evacuated-‘We struggled for 20 years to get our land back,’ says mayor of nearby Palestinian town. ‘Our feeling is indescribable’-By AP and Times of Israel staff February 1, 2017, 7:08 pm

Palestinians rejoiced Wednesday over Israel’s evacuation of the West Bank settlement outpost of Amona, saying they had waited 20 years for their land.“Our feeling is indescribable,” Abdel-Rahman Saleh, the mayor of the nearby Palestinian town of Silwad, told The Associated Press. “We struggled for 20 years to get our land back.”Amona is one of about 100 outposts across the West Bank that Israel considers illegal but tolerates and often allows to flourish. It was established in 1996, when a small group of settlers erected caravans on the windswept hilltop.The outpost became a symbol of settler defiance when Israel demolished nine of its structures in 2006, sparking violent clashes between settlers and Israeli security forces.In 2008, the Palestinian landowners, represented by lawyers from the left-wing Israeli legal rights group, Yesh Din, petitioned the Supreme Court to have the outpost removed, setting off a years-long struggle.The state agreed to demolish the outpost peacefully by the end of 2012 but the move was repeatedly delayed. What seemed like a final ruling in 2014, declaring the land private Palestinian property, gave the government until December 25, 2016, to carry out the evacuation.But under fierce pressure from settlers and their supporters in parliament, the government secured a 45-day extension until early February — and on the first day of the month, evacuating forces went in.Yesh Din, which represented the Palestinian landowners in court, welcomed the evacuation. In a Facebook post, it said the landowners were “waiting to return.”The organization said Amona was built on private Palestinian land registered in the land registry under the names Mariam, Ibrahim and Munir, as well as additional residents from the West Bank villages of Taybeh, Ein Yabrud and Silwad.It claimed that reports about land theft filed with Israeli police in the late 1990s went unaddressed and that Palestinian attempts to draw awareness to the issue were thwarted.

Palestinians call ‘urgent’ meet to respond to settlement spurt-Abbas spokesman says talks underway on ‘necessary measures’ after another 3,000 West Bank homes approved, demands US ‘rein in’ Israel-By Joshua Davidovich and Times of Israel staff February 1, 2017, 4:59 pm

Palestinian Authority officials are holding an urgent meeting to discuss how to respond to a recent uptick in Israeli settlement building, a spokesperson for the PA said Wednesday.On Tuesday, Israel announced it was approving permits for some 3,000 new homes in settlements sprinkled throughout the West Bank. The move came a week after the approval of some 2,500 homes in the territory and another 500 in East Jerusalem, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling it “just a taste of what’s to come.”“We have started urgent consultations in order to take the necessary measures to confront the settlement activities,” Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for PA President Mahmoud Abbas, said according to official Palestinian news outlet Wafa.Abu Rudeineh did not elaborate on what steps were being considered or who was taking part in the meeting. Abbas is currently in Bangladesh on an official visit.Abu Rudeineh also called on the US government to take action to “rein in” Israel, saying its actions were “going to destroy the peace process.”The administration of US President Donald Trump kept silent on last week’s settlement building announcement, underlining a marked shift in how the White House treats Israel.Hanan Ashrawi, a senior official in the Palestine Liberation Organization, said Wednesday that Israel’s building plans signaled the death knell for the two-state solution, blaming the Trump administration for being complicit.“The silence of the new American government, including those who actively support the settlements in the White House and the administration as a whole, has emboldened Netanyahu to persist with his settlement activities,” she said, according to Wafa.The announcement for the 3,000 homes, hundreds of which fall outside the main blocs that Israel hopes to keep in any two-state compromise, came as Israeli forces prepared to remove dozens of settlers from the Amona outpost, deemed illegally built on private Palestinian land and ordered by the High Court to be razed.Many saw the new building as an attempt by the government to calm settler anger over the court-ordered removal of Amona.In a statement late Tuesday night, the Defense Ministry said the new construction “comes as part of a return to normal life in Judea and Samaria, as well as conduct which provides real solutions to housing and living needs.”The new homes will include 700 homes in Alfei Menashe, 650 in Beitar Illit, 650 in Beit Arye, 200 in Nofim, 150 in Nokdim, 100 in Shilo, 100 in Karnei Shomron and 100 in Metsudot Yehuda.Last week’s announcement of 2,500 homes came just days after Trump and Netanyahu had their first phone call since the president assumed power.Asked at a press briefing last Tuesday for a response to the building plans, White House press secretary Sean Spicer neither approved nor condemned the decision, saying that the two countries’ leaders would discuss the matter when Netanyahu visits Washington in mid-February.Netanyahu has signaled to his governing coalition that he intends to accelerate construction with the new US president far less hostile to the settlement enterprise than his predecessor. The latest building announcements were just “a taste,” he told Knesset members last week. “We are going to be doing many things differently from now on.”Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat on Thursday accused the Trump administration of encouraging Israeli settlement construction, and hurting the chances of a two-state outcome, with its lack of response to new building projects beyond the Green Line.“We’re waiting to hear an official response from the American administration, President Trump’s administration, on the Israeli settlement activities,” Erekat said in a video posted on Twitter by the PLO.

Bennett implores PM to prevent destruction of Amona farmland-Leader of pro-settler party wants Netanyahu to make agricultual plots off limits; defense minister declines to intervene in evacuation-By Times of Israel staff February 1, 2017, 6:50 pm

Education Minister Naftali Bennett, the head of the pro-settlement Jewish Home party on Wednesday implored Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to prevent Amona’s agricultural plots from being destroyed, as the court-ordered evacuation and demolition of the illegal West Bank outpost got underway.Bennett appealed to the prime minister as thousands of police officers worked to demolish the West Bank outpost in line with a 2014 court order that ruled the Jewish community was built on privately owned Palestinian land, and must be destroyed.Bennett, however, claimed the demolition order from the High Court of Justice did not include the adjacent agricultural lands belonging to the Amona residents, and said it was “unnecessary and cruel” to destroy their farmland in addition to evicting them from their homes.He urged Netanyahu to instruct Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman to order security forces to stay away from Amona’s agricultural lands.In response, Defense Ministry officials said Liberman had not ordered the lands destroyed, and would not get involved in the operation.According to Israel Radio, Amona residents appealed to the IDF’s legal adviser for Judea and Samaria against the destruction of their farmlands.Reports say the issue will likely be resolved in the High Court at a later date.After over a decade of delays and legal wrangling, the High Court ruled in December 2014 that Amona, which lies east of Ramallah, was built on private Palestinian land and must be demolished.On Wednesday, police were ordered to evacuate the outpost of 40 families.Some 3,000 officers were dispatched to Amona, and roads leading to the outpost were blocked in a bid to keep supporters seeking to thwart the eviction order from reaching the hilltop.Threats of clashes hung heavily over the evacuation as supporters of Amona set up makeshift roadblocks and other defenses intended to keep the army from advancing on the outpost, which was the scene of a violent melee during a 2006 partial evacuation.

MK likens Amona outpost evacuation to ‘brutal rape’-Lawmaker, women’s rights leader flail Bezalel Smotrich for saying removal of settlers is ‘judicial tyranny that is raping us’-By Stuart Winer and Times of Israel staff February 1, 2017, 1:57 pm

A Jewish Home party lawmaker came under fire Wednesday after he compared the evacuation of an illegal West Bank outpost to the brutal rape of a woman.MK Bezael Smotrich made the comments when he arrived at the Amona outpost to protest its scheduled court-ordered removal by security forces. Amona was built on privately owned Palestinian land, the court detrermined.“The government is forced to do something awful and terrible, that hurts the way it does when something terrible happens,” Smotrich told Channel 2 television. “When a woman is raped it hurts, and what is happening here is a brutal rape.”“This is judicial tyranny that is raping us, raping the government, raping elected officials, raping those who received a mandate from the people. We want to build the settlement enterprise, to develop it.”Hundreds of activists were believed to be holed up inside the outpost, in addition to the 40 families who live there, while some 3,000 members of the security forces massed outside during the morning and prepared to clear the community. A message sent out to residents instructed them to resist without violence, but make the evacuation as difficult and time-consuming as possible for security forces.Opposition MK Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin of the Zionist Union called Smotrich’s comments “intolerable disrespect of rape.”“It is an unfortunate statement embodying an absolute lack of moral judgment and values,” she said. “Rape is against the principles of morality and law and should not be compared to the evacuation of Amona that implements the law and is fulfilling the High Court decision. His comment is hurtful to tens of thousands of men and women who have experienced rape. It is a shame that MK Smotrich resorted to populism and quick headlines.”“I have empathy for the residents of Amona who need to leave their homes, despite MK Smotrich who isn’t capable of showing empathy for anyone who has a different opinion to his own.”Galia Wolloch, president of Na’amat, the Movement of Working Women and Volunteers, also criticized Smotrich over his choice of words.“Only someone who has not been raped can use this terrible situation for his political needs. The elected officials need to be much careful in their words. The rape of women is a shocking thing that should only ever be condemned.”Smotrich defended his pro-settlement party’s decision not to leave the government in protest at the evacuation, saying it would be more effective to remain in the cabinet and push through laws beneficial to the settlement enterprise.“Leaving the government at the moment is not effective. We are going to push through the Regulation Law,” he said, referring to a bill currently going through parliament that would enable the government to recognize unapproved outposts built on privately held Palestinian land and offer financial compensation to the owners in return.On Tuesday morning Amona residents received an eviction order from the army, giving them 48 hours to leave the area with their belongings. Nevertheless, the government began evacuating the outpost Wednesday morning.

France ‘bitterly condemns’ latest settlement construction plan-Paris says green-lighting thousands of West Bank housing units ‘seriously endangers’ peace efforts, a sentiment echoed by UN-By Sue Surkes and AFP February 1, 2017, 5:36 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

France on Wednesday said it “bitterly condemned” Tuesday’s announcement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman of plans to build 3,000 homes in the West Bank, some of them outside settlement blocs Israel hopes to keep in a future peace deal with the Palestinians.The UN also expressed concern Wednesday at the settlement expansions.The comments came a week after Israel approved the construction of 2,500 housing units in the West Bank and 566 in East Jerusalem, marking a major uptick in settlement building following the inauguration of US President Donald Trump.The two earlier announcements of settlement construction were made immediately after Netanyahu spoke by phone with Trump, who has taken a less confrontational stance toward settlement building than predecessor Barack Obama, spurring the Israeli building spree.“Within a week they [the Israelis] have announced [plans for] 6,000 housing units, twice as many as those approved for construction through the whole of 2016,” a French foreign ministry spokesman said.“France bitterly condemns this decision and calls to mind once again that the settlements contravene international law and particularly the United Nations Security Council decision 2334 and that it seriously endangers the chances for a just and sustainable peace.”Resolution 2334, passed by the UN Security Council in December, demands an immediate halt to all Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The measure passed when the outgoing Obama administration broke with recent precedent and abstained.The UN also warned that the expansions could threaten peace efforts.“We once again warn against any unilateral actions that can be an obstacle to a negotiated two-state solution and call on both parties to return to meaningful negotiations,” said UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric.Earlier this month, the 70 participants at the Paris Peace Initiative reaffirmed that “a negotiated solution with two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security, is the only way to achieve enduring peace.”They also stressed the need for the final peace deal that would give full statehood to Palestinians while satisfying Israel’s security needs.“A negotiated two-state solution should meet the legitimate aspirations of both sides,” the statement read, “including the Palestinians’ right to statehood and sovereignty, fully end the occupation that began in 1967, satisfy Israel’s security needs and resolve all permanent status issues on the basis of [the relevant] United Nations Security Council resolutions.”The new settlement homes announced Wednesday will include 700 homes in Alfei Menashe, 650 in Beitar Illit, 650 in Beit Arye, 200 in Nofim, 150 in Nokdim (Liberman’s home settlement), 100 in Shilo, 100 in Karnei Shomron and 100 in Metsudot Yehuda.The announcement appeared to be an attempt by the government to calm settler anger over the court-ordered removal of Amona, which began Wednesday.After over a decade of delays and legal wrangling, the High Court ruled in December 2014 that Amona, which lies east of Ramallah, was built on private Palestinian land and must be demolished. Nine homes in the adjacent Ofra settlement were also due to be demolished.On Tuesday residents were given eviction notices, warning them to be out of their homes within 48 hours. The order allowed residents to file a new appeal to the IDF for a further 48-hour extension. Nevertheless, police began the evacuations a day later.The eviction came ahead of the final February 8 court-ordered deadline to demolish the outpost.

IDF vehicles reportedly operating inside Lebanon-Hezbollah says bulldozers carrying out work beyond border fence; army declines to comment-By Stuart Winer and Times of Israel staff February 1, 2017, 2:20 pm

Hezbollah claimed Wednesday that IDF units had crossed the Israeli-Lebanese border and were operating inside Lebanon, Channel 10 reported.The reported cited Hezbollah as saying IDF bulldozers were carrying out work near the border.Photos allegedly taken of the area showed a bulldozer and soldiers, although their country of origin was not clear.The IDF declined to comment about the reports.The IDF occasionally carries out work on the border fence, including activities on the Lebanese side of the border.In October 2016 an IDF soldier was shot and lightly injured by gunfire coming from Lebanon while he was on duty in northern Israel.The shots were fired from a passing car across the border, according to the IDF. The Israeli troops had been working on the defenses along the border, when they came under attack near Reches Ramim, southwest of Kiryat Shmona, the IDF said.The Lebanese military denied that the shooting had taken place, telling the government news outlet NNA that “there is no truth to the claims by some media reports from the Zionist enemy” — meaning Israel — “that shots were fired from a car within Lebanon at an Israeli soldier.”The injured soldier was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.Hezbollah, an Iran-proxy terror organization, maintains a large arsenal, which includes hundreds of thousands of rockets aimed at Israel.

REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE

REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a(MEASURING) reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out,(TO THE WORLD NATIONS) and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.(JERUSALEM DIVIDED BUT THE 3RD TEMPLE ALLOWED TO BE REBUILT)

DANIEL 9:27
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

MICAH 4:1-5
1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
2  And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
3  And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
4  But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.
5  For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.

DANIEL 11:31
31 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.(3RD TEMPLE REBUILT)

DANIEL 12:11
11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away,(AT THE MIDPOINT OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD)(3RD TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED BY DICTATOR) and the abomination that maketh desolate set up,(TO WORSHIP THE DICTATOR OR DIE) there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.(1,290 DAYS)(AN EXTRA 30 DAYS AT THE END OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD FOR JESUS TO DESTROY THE ARMIES AGAINST JERUSALEM.AND TO JUDGE THE SHEEP AND GOAT NATIONS OF MATTHEW 25:31-46-HOW THEY TREATED ISRAEL DURING THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD.AND THEN I BELIEVE JESUS WILL REBUILD THE 4TH TEMPLE 25 MILES FROM THE CURRENT TEMPLE MOUNT.AND THEN JESUS RULES FOR THE 1,000 YEARS-THEN FOREVER FROM THAT 4TH TEMPLE.)

MATTHEW 24:15-16
15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)(THE DICTATOR SITS IN THE REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE CALLING HIMSELF GOD AT THE MIDPOINT OR 3 1/2 YEAR PERIOD OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD.OR 7 YEAR PEACE TREATY BETWEEN ISRAEL-ARABS AND MANY OF DANIEL 9:27)
16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

REBUILT 4TH TEMPLE (THE TRUE MESSIAHS TEMPLE)

ZECHARIAH 6:12-13
12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH;(JESUS) and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
13 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

ISAIAH 60:9-10
9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.

ISAIAH 2:1-5
1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

MARK 11:9-10,15-17
9 And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord:
10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.

ISAIAH 51:3-4
3  For the LORD shall comfort Zion:(JERUSALEM) he will comfort all her waste places;(FROM NUCLEAR WAR) and he will make her wilderness like Eden,(I BELIEVE THE EZEKIEL 40-48,(4TH) TEMPLE WILL BE BUILT 25 MILES FROM THE CURRENT TEMPLE MOUNT AFTER JESUS RULE FOR THE 1,000 YRS FROM JERUSALEM) and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.(PRAISE TO JESUS IN THE DESERT-COULD BE THE NEW JERUSALEM-4TH TEMPLE BUILT 25 MILES INTO THE DESERT FROM THE CURRENT TEMPLE MOUNT.SINCE EZEKIELS TEMPLE IS WAY TO BIG FOR THE CURRENT TEMPLE MOUNT)
4  Hearken unto me, my people;(ISRAEL) and give ear unto me, O my nation:(ISRAEL) for a law shall proceed from me,(JESUS IN JERUSALEM) and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.(ISRAEL AND THE WORLD)

After bleating a path to Israel, Jacob’s sheep frolic in new home-With flock’s 5,000-year exile and difficult quarantine beset by rains behind them, biblical sheep are baaaack in the Holy Land-By Melanie Lidman and Video by Luke Tress February 1, 2017, 7:10 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

NES HARIM — Every new immigrant to Israel faces many challenges making a new life in the Holy Land. The 118 Jacob’s sheep, the first livestock to immigrate to Israel for religious reasons, are no different.Gil and Jenna Lewinsky have spent the past three years fighting to make aliyah to Israel with their herd of Jacob’s sheep, a breed whose genetics trace it back to the Middle East some 5,000 years ago. The sheep are characterized by “spots and speckles,” the kind of sheep that Jacob took from Laban in Genesis, Chapter 30.After a three-year-long journey that required top-level political negotiations between the Israeli Embassy and the Canadian Embassy, a road trip across Canada, $80,000 worth of flights to airlift the herd from Toronto to Tel Aviv, and a harrowing quarantine, the sheep are finally frolicking in their pasture in the Beit Shemesh suburb of Nes Harim.As with all new immigrants, the first issue to address was the housing quandary. For the sheep, this was a quarantine imposed by the Ministry of Rural Development and Agriculture. The wettest December in decades pelted the sheep with cold rain relentlessly, as their makeshift stables collapsed from heavy rain. Over 40 sheep got sick and five sheep died due to the difficult conditions. The Agricultural Ministry eventually allowed the Lewinskys to leave quarantine two days early to move to their new home in Nes Harim, ahead of another winter storm. They found the rental farm in Nes Harim through a farmers WhatsApp group.Now, as the sun shines over the Jerusalem mountains, the sheep playfully butt heads with each other and sniff at visitors’ pockets for treats, the difficult journey seemingly forgotten.“When we first got out of the desert [quarantine], everything was so overwhelming it didn’t sink in that we were really in Israel,” said Jenna Lewinsky. “The next day we walked in the Judean Hills, from here you can see all the way to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and even Gaza. We felt that we saw the footprint of God’s miracle. Every day when I wake up it feels like we’re living the dream,” she said.That’s partly because their bedroom window looks into the barn, so sheep impatient for their breakfast act as an alarm clock by bumping the glass with their nose and baa-ing pitifully until someone gets up to feed them.“There is a mystical bond between the Jewish people and these sheep, they bring so much joy to everyone who visits,” said Gil Lewinsky. Gil Lewinsky sometimes reads parts of the Torah to his flock, kneeling down among the ovines and making sure no curious onlookers try to nibble pages of the holy books.“This is the national flock of Israel, and the work has just started,” said Gil Lewinsky. “Our connection to these sheep goes back to the beginning of our faith.”The next step in the immigration process was the identity card, or for the sheep, a red tag in their ears. The Lewinskys decided not to remove the Canadian yellow tags, allowing the sheep to keep their Canadian “passports.”Eventually, all new immigrants need to join the workforce, and the sheep are no exception. The Lewinskys plan to turn the farm into an ecological heritage park and educational farm, which could open as early as March. They will offer “sheep trekking” with special sheep harnesses ordered from America, so visitors can choose their favorite sheep and go for a stroll in the stony Jerusalem hills that surround the farm, with stunning vistas and deep wadis. In the spring, Jenna Lewinsky, who completed a sheep-shearing course in Canada, will give the sheep haircuts. Future plans include possibly weaving tallits from the sheep’s wool. Until they open to visitors, the Lewinskys are subsisting on donations.New immigrants to Israel often struggle with adapting to the culture of their new home. But here is where the sheep, who don’t seem to be having any difficulty becoming culturally Israeli, diverge from their human counterparts. “Israelis that come to visit say they know they’re Israeli sheep because they don’t stand in line,” said Jenna Lewinsky. “Every sheep has its own idea of what it wants to do; each one is its own boss.”The sheep also seem to be adapting to the food. During the quarantine, Jenna left a bowl of hummus on the table and stepped away for a moment. When she came back, the hummus was gone. Abraham, one of the original patriarchs of the flock, had a bit of suspicious hummus stuck to his wool.The Lewinskys were never concerned that Abraham, whose magnificent horns and friendly demeanor make him an instant visitor favorite, would adapt to Israel. When the Lewinskys were still in Abbotsford, Western Canada, a volunteer who was considering donating came to visit the flock. She immediately connected with Abraham and knelt down to pet him under his chin, the “sweet spot” for sheep. Abraham, sensing the opportunity, tilted his head to the side, stuck his horn into her purse and deftly removed, among other things, her checkbook. She ended up making a donation. And after an exile that lasted more than 5,000 years, the Jacob’s sheep ended up back in Israel.

Iran confirms missile test, denies breach of nuclear deal-Defense minister says ‘action was in line with boosting Iran’s defense power,’ while foreign minister warns US not ‘to create new tensions’-By AFP and Times of Israel staff February 1, 2017, 2:04 pm

TEHRAN — Iran confirmed on Wednesday that it had tested a ballistic missile, but denied that was a breach of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.“The action was in line with boosting Iran’s defense power and is not in contradiction with the JCPOA (the nuclear deal) or Resolution 2231,” Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said.He was referring to a UN Security Council resolution that bans Iran from developing missiles that can carry nuclear warheads. Iranian officials have previously claimed the country cannot violate the resolution, as it has no intention of developing nuclear weapons.“This test was in line with our ongoing program,” the ISNA news agency quoted Dehghan as saying.“We have previously announced that we will execute the programs we have planned in production of defense items meant for our national interests and objectives. Nobody can influence our decision.”The missile test, which Fox News reported took place on Sunday, was unsuccessful; the Khorramshahr medium-range ballistic missile flew 600 miles and then exploded, it said, citing US officials. Israel’s Channel 10 television said the failed test actually took place nearly two weeks ago. It said the Iranians were plainly “testing Trump,” who last week, in a phone conversation with Netanyahu, said the two would consult closely to address “the threats posed by Iran.”Fox said the missile was launched from Semnan, outside Tehran, and that the failure involved “a reentry vehicle.” It noted that Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier Gen. Hossein Dehqhan said four months ago that Iran would start producing the missile.Channel 10 said the Khorramshahr is a Russian-developed missile originally intended for submarine launch that is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. It said North Korea has successfully tested it from a ground launch.Terming the test a “flagrant breach” of UN Security Council resolutions, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promptly demanded the reimposition of sanctions against Iran and said he would discuss with Trump a reevaluation of the “entire failed nuclear accord” that the Obama Administration and other P5+1 countries agreed with Iran in 2015.Tehran on Tuesday warned Washington against fueling tensions.“We hope that Iran’s defense program is not used by the new US administration… as a pretext to create new tensions,” Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said.His comments came ahead of emergency consultations at the UN Security Council on the missile test convened at Washington’s request.US ambassador Nikki Haley told the meeting that the test-firing of the medium-range missile was “absolutely unacceptable.”“The United States is not naive. We are not going to stand by. You will see us call them out,” she said.The row comes against a backdrop of already strained relations between Washington and Tehran over US President Donald Trump’s travel ban on citizens from Iran and six other Muslim-majority countries.Eric Cortellessa contributed to this report.

MONTREAL POLICE ARREST MAN ACCUSED OF ONLINE HATE SPEECH TARGETING MUSLIMS.

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)

BLOOD STAINS FROM MOSQUE SHOOTING
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/horror-pictures-reveal-bloodstained-scenes-9734389

Montreal police arrest Kirkland man accused of online hate speech targeting Muslims-Provincial police came across remarks while monitoring social media sites, then notified Montreal police-CBC News Feb 01, 2017 8:39 AM ET

Montreal police have arrested a Kirkland man accused of making hateful social media comments targeting Muslims.The man was arrested overnight at a home on de Shediac Street, near de Berne Street in Kirkland.Const. Raphael Bergeron said members of the Sûreté du Québec came across the alleged remarks while monitoring various social media sites.They transmitted the information to Montreal police. Investigators were questioning the man, whose name has not been released.It is still unclear what charges he may face, or whether he will appear in court Wednesday or be released on a promise to appear.Montreal police Chief Philippe Pichet said Tuesday that since Sunday night's attack at a Quebec City mosque, there has been a spike in reports of hate-related comments.The force is hiring 55 people whose jobs will include monitoring social media sites for hate speech.

Canada 'trash radio' under fire after Quebec mosque attack-[AFP]-Clément SABOURIN-YAHOONEWS-February 1, 2017

Quebec City (AFP) - After a shooting rampage at a Quebec City mosque, the Canadian province's popular conservative talk radio hosts have come under fire for allegedly spreading intolerance and hate.Critics say the talk shows fuel a divisive climate that allows extreme ideologies to take root and flourish -- a charge that has taken on heightened relevance after a gunman with far-right sympathies opened fire on Muslim worshippers, killing six and wounding eight more.While not pointing a finger at any specific person or organization, Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard emphasized Tuesday that "words do matter."Residents of Quebec City tend to vote more conservatively than the rest of the province.Some say that radio stations like local FM93 and Radio X -- which are respectively the region's second and third-most listened to, with a combined 30 percent market share -- simply reflect their audience's views.But others say the shows stoke dangerous beliefs."These are right-wing talk radio stations with little substance but a lot of opinions," said Stephane Leman-Langlois, a criminologist at Laval University, where the alleged shooter studied.These "trash radio" stations, as they have become known locally, "contribute to legitimize increasingly adversarial discourse against minorities in general and Muslims in particular," he told AFP.Leman-Langlois said they tout "white supremacy, white victimology and repeat over and over that Quebec is in grave danger."Station managers did not respond to requests for an interview.But Sylvain Bouchard, a host on FM93, said, "We must fight disinformation, and we failed to do this enough."There is no indication the suspect arrested in connection to the attack at the Quebec City mosque on Sunday listened to these radio stations.His online activities, however, suggest that he supports political leaders including US President Donald Trump and French far-right politician Marine Le Pen.Muslims in the Canadian province lay the blame for rising Islamophobia squarely at the foot of local right-wing talk radio.Some stations "have made it their mission to increase distrust and hate of Muslims," said Mohamed Yangui, head of the Islamic cultural center and mosque that was attacked.For more news videos visit Yahoo View, available now on iOS and Android.- 'Spokesperson for racism' -"Their comments are often over the top and blundering," said Leman-Langlois, recalling a one-hour episode last fall in which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was said to be an agent of the Muslim Brotherhood determined to Islamize Canada."There is really an examination of conscience to do on the part of these radio stations."His words echo media research group Project J, which has called on the stations to take a hard look at themselves and reflect on how they cover communities -- "Muslims in particular."The organization has highlighted the under representation of visible minorities in Quebec media, for example, compared to the rest of Canada.Calls have also increased to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications agency, which regulates the industry, to take a hard line.The CRTC has at times warned radio stations, and some hosts have been sued for defamation, but the stations themselves keep broadcasting.Since the mosque shooting, these radio stations have said they deplore violence.But on Tuesday morning, Radio X's broadcast quickly degenerated, decrying that the far-right's political agenda had come under siege from the left.The host accused "leftists of rejoicing" over the opportunity to use the attack to thrash conservatives' views.But for Mohamed Ali Saidane, who lost a friend to the shooting, some of the radio hosts "have become spokespeople for racism.""The general climate remains negative," he said.

Mosque shooting a challenge to Canada pluralism-[AFP]-Jacques LEMIEUX-YAHOONEWS-February 1, 2017

Montreal (AFP) - The Quebec City mosque shooting was a brutal blow to Canada's multicultural, open and tolerant society, revealing cracks in what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says is the nation's biggest strength.Police are still piecing together motives for the attack, that resulted in the deaths of six worshippers.But according to Andre Gagne, a theologian at Concordia University in Montreal and expert on radicalization, the likely hate required to spur such violence did not sprout in isolation.The shooting occurred one day after Trudeau, a fervent advocate of multiculturalism, said Canada would welcome all refugees regardless of their faith.Those comments followed President Donald Trump's 90-day ban on entry into the United States to nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries.The attack has cast a shadow over Canada's image as a safe and inclusive society. Last year it welcomed 40,000 Syrian refugees. Trudeau himself met the first arrivals with a smile and a gift of a parka.Muslims are a minority in Canada, totaling 1.1 million out of a total population of 36 million.Gagne told AFP: "There is increasing intolerance around the world, which is feeding both Islamist extremists and far right groups."He said the attack by a far right sympathizer raises questions about religion's place in society, "which nobody now wants to talk about."- 'Open our eyes' -"Many commentators have said the attack was a total surprise. But we must open our eyes. We knew well before that there were problems," commented Martin Papillon, a political science professor at the University of Montreal."It is indicative of a wider problem than the simple question of social integration," he said, adding that there were before the rampage "plenty of signs of intolerance towards the Muslim community" in this country.Paradoxically, "the members of this mosque were well integrated into Canadian society," Gagne said, noting that they all spoke French, some had lived here more than 30 years, and one was even a respected professor at Laval University."The societal fractures have always been there, and are growing wider in Quebec and in Canada, as elsewhere in the world," said Papillon.Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard has rejected suggestions the attack is proof that Muslims and others cannot live together in a liberal democracy -- a bedrock of Canada's multicultural mosaic."Every society must live with demons" such as "Islamaphobia, racism and exclusion" and "if our society is not perfect it is because no society is perfect."Like the rest of Canada, Quebec welcomes migrants of different ethnicities from around the world, but arguably Canada's policy of pluralism is contested here, according to Papillon.The descendants of French colonists are still the majority in Quebec, but they constitute a minority within Canada. And some view multiculturalism as diluting their own francophone identity, which they fought to preserve over the past 400 years.The French tradition tends more to discourage, in the public arena at least, religious or other symbols that accentuate people belonging to a minority as opposed to being part of a larger nation.Trudeau proclaims the post-modern character of Canada as one that celebrates individual freedoms and universal values that unite its citizens."Diversity is our strength and, as Canadians, religious tolerance is a value that is dear to us," the prime minister said Monday after the mosque shooting.The shooting highlights a disconnect between this non-Quebec Canada, where symbols of religion and ethnic identity are worn proudly in parliament, and Quebec, which broke with its Catholic past last century and embraced secularism akin to that which emerged in France.Over the past three years, for example, a debate has raged in Quebec over whether to legislate a ban on wearing ostentatious religious symbols in the public service, pitting nationalists against pluralists."We must take off our rose-colored glasses and admit that we are still grappling with these difficult questions" and will continue to do so "as long as we fail to try to understand one another," Gagne concluded.

WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)

EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18

WORLD TERRORISM

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)

ISAIAH 14:12-14
12  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13  For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14  I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)

JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)

EUobserved-EU flirts with hypocrisy in criticising Trump's refugee ban By Nikolaj Nielsen-feb 1,17-euobserver

BRUSSELS, Today, 11:00-The EU rightly spoke out against Donald Trump's entry ban on asylum seekers from Syria. But its own track record leaves much to be desired.EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Monday (30 January) that the EU would continue to host refugees."It's our identity: we celebrate when walls are brought down and bridges are built," she said in a tweet.Her comments appeared the same day a young man from Pakistan suffocated to death in a tent at the Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. He was trying to keep warm. It was the third death at the camp in a week.The misery of people is well documented in so-called hotspots set up by the EU in both Italy and in Greece. The conditions are so bad that many, including Syrian refugees, have volunteered to return to Turkey from the Greek islands.The EU blames the Greek government. The Greek government blames EU states for not relocating asylum seekers and for sealing off the Western Balkan route.When Hungary erected a wall on its border with Serbia, the European Commission said it was a national issue. When a Syrian refugee protested against the barrier, Hungarian authorities gave him a 10-year prison sentence.The EU talks endlessly about solidarity. But in reality, solidarity does not exist except among the nameless volunteers on the ground. And some of those are risking jail for their efforts. One Danish woman went on trial for people-smuggling after giving a family of refugees a ride to Copenhagen. A similar case is unfolding in Sweden.Only around 10,000 people have been relocated from Italy and Greece to other EU states. The two-year scheme, which ends in September, had called for 160,000.Many more have been kicked out. Almost 11,000 people were sent home last year, a four-fold increase compared with 2015 when 3,565 migrants were returned in 66 operations.Both EU commission and member states now appear to oppose issuing humanitarian visas for people in need.Germany may stand out as an exception after welcoming some 1 million in 2015.-Disgrace-But the fact that the world's richest nations are unwilling to properly care for the thousands stranded in Greece and on its islands is a disgrace. The task has largely been delegated to volunteers, NGOs and international aid organisations.With populist parties gaining ground in the Netherlands, France and Germany, the anti-immigrant discourse has also gone mainstream. Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte last week told Muslims to "act normal, or go away".France's conservative presidential contender Francois Fillon has promised to erect national borders and German interior minister Thomas de Maiziere wants zones outside Europe to screen applicants before arrival.De Maiziere's proposal is gaining traction.The plan is to offshore the problem to war-torn Libya. The job is already under way in a handful of other African states and Afghanistan. This is the EU's invisible wall.Last week, the EU commission announced a €200 million migrant deal with Libya and other north African states. It includes more training for the Libyan coast guard and navy and more surveillance in a country whose detention centres, according to leaked memos from the German government, are death traps.Catherine Woollard, secretary general of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE), has shed doubt on the plan."By supporting the Libyan coastguard, Europe wants to dispense with its obligation to provide protection. But what 'protection' will be provided when they are returned to Libyan soil - and the migrant centres it hosts?" she said.Malta, the EU rotating presidency, says a migrant deal signed last year between Turkey and the EU could be a blueprint for Libya. The EU Turkey deal slowed the flow of people leaving for Greece.But Libya has no functioning government and is largely run by warlords, despite the UN having the recognised GNA government in Tripoli.Around 5,000 people died trying to reach the EU last year.Most drowned while crossing the Mediterranean from Libya. Many more have been rescued and brought to Italy. But once onshore, another struggle begins.-Italian police-Last year, Amnesty International documented cases of torture by the Italian police in their effort to meet EU commission demands to fingerprint every arriving asylum seeker.On the Italian border with Austria, Musa Diakite, a 35-year old from Mali, broke down and cried in despair when he told this website his dignity was in shreds.Diakite's application for asylum was rejected. Unable to return home and without any rights, he wandered about aimlessly. "I don't want to sleep in the streets, I can't do it," he said.He is one of many in a Europe that has turned its back on people in need of help.

This didn’t start yesterday': Quebec's history with Islamophobia and the problem nationwide-Terri Coles-Yahoo Canada NewsFebruary 1, 2017

The deadly shooting at a Quebec City mosque is highlighting concerns about rising Islamophobia in the province, after years of polls showing growing anti-Muslim sentiment and proposed laws targeting religious garb.“Muslims are fearful, they are concerned. Over the last ten years or so we’ve seen the rise of Islamophobia,” imam Yūsuf Badāt of the Islamic Foundation of Toronto told Yahoo Canada News.The Islamophobia seen in Quebec is part of a broader history discrimination in Canada, says Michelle Hartman, an Islamic studies professor at McGill University.“There is a specific local context to Quebec, and we have a lot of things here that foster and give rise to racism and Islamophobia … But they’re also not specific,” Hartman said.For example, the racism and exclusion of Muslims is akin to police carding of Black and brown people in Toronto or the residential school system for Indigenous people, she says.-Recent history with Quebec and Islam-Thousands protested in Quebec in 2013 against a proposed charter of values that would have forbidden public employees from wearing conspicuous religious symbols like hijabs, turbans, yarmulkes, or larger-than-normal crucifixes.And Bill 62, introduced in Quebec last year and currently in committee, would prohibit anyone receiving public services or working in the public sector to wear a face covering like a niqab. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association has called Bill 62 “a deeply troubling law that would infringe basic rights and cannot be justified in a free and democratic society.”Similar laws in Europe have been tied to a rise in anti-Muslim sentiment and even personal attacks. When France introduced a ban on veils covering the face, some say incidents of Islamophobia rose, in particular those targeting women. And when some French communities banned burkinis, videos of Muslim women being publicly singled out for discrimination cropped up online.The problem goes beyond government policy. A survey done by the Quebec Human Rights Commission in 2015 found that 48.9 per cent of respondents were bothered by “being attended to” by a woman in a hijab. According to data from the Minister of Public Security in Quebec the number of annual hate crimes in the province was 257 in 2014-15, compared to 198 in 2010-11.The often-changing nature of hate groups makes them difficult to track but a study released last February found that there were dozens across the country at any one time, with most located in the populous provinces of Ontario and Quebec.-Moving forward-Days after the attacks in Quebec City, there is fear and apprehension among Muslims in Canada, Badāt says. And Montreal police reported Tuesday that there has been a spike in hate crime calls since Sunday’s shooting.Just as some legislators have played a role in stoking Islamophobia with their words, they can have a part in countering it, Badāt says.“In terms of government I think it’s high time that they need to establish some legislation around Islamophobia, because it’s real,” he said. M-103, a motion calling on the government to look into reducing Islamophobia and other systemic discrimination is scheduled for debate in the House of Commons in February.But Badāt says he and other Muslim leaders are also heartened by the support he has seen from Canadians since the Quebec City attack. Coming together combats the ignorance that fosters hate, he says.“This is an opportunity to collaborate and work together and make efforts to understand each other,” Badāt said.Part of that work is looking not just at Quebec and Islamophobia itself, Hartman says, but at discrimination across the country. She says rhetoric about an open and inclusive society needs to be reflected in government policy — such as the rules for refugee admission or in our immigration system.“This didn’t start yesterday, or even 2012 or 2007. It’s a much longer and deeper problem,” Hartman said.

Security fund deadline extended after mosque shooting-Dene Moore-National Affairs Contributor-Yahoo Canada News-February 1, 2017

The federal government has extended the application deadline for funding that helps improve security for communities at risk of hate crimes, in the aftermath of a deadly terrorist attack on a Quebec City mosque.The Security Infrastructure program provides up to $100,000 for non-profit organizations to strengthen security. The Jan. 31 deadline has now been pushed back to March 31.Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale announced the extension in his statement on the Quebec City mosque shooting on Monday.“The call for applications under the Security Infrastructure Program was scheduled to close tomorrow. The Department of Public Safety will extend that deadline, so that places of worship, community centres, and educational institutions have a chance to re-examine their security infrastructure – and consider bolstering it,” he said.Introduced in 2007, the fund provides up to a total of $1 million per year, on a 50-50 shared basis with at-risk organizations. To date, though, 202 non-profits have received a total of $4.1 million – far short of the total that’s available through the program.“This program helps ensure community members can practice their faith, culture, and activities peacefully, without fear of harm,” Jean-Philippe Levert, spokesman for Public Safety Canada, said in an email response to Yahoo Canada News.“Eligible recipients include places of worship, schools and community centers. It is not limited to religious institutions.”Levert said program funds help cover the costs of minor security infrastructure enhancements such as outdoor lighting, fencing, and video surveillance.Attacks on Jewish organizations and members of the Jewish faith still dominate Canadian hate crime statistics, but such attacks have decreased in recent years while attacks on Muslims have rapidly increased.Police across Canada reported 1,295 hate crimes in 2014. That’s 3.7 incidents per 100,000 people. (For comparison, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation reported 3.2 hate crimes against Muslims alone per 100,000 people.) Of those Canadian incidents reported in 2014, 429 were motivated by religion and 611 by race or ethnicity. Of the religious hate crimes, 99 were against Muslim people or organization, while 213 were anti-Semitic. Of the race crimes, 69 were against Arabs or West Asians, compared to 238 against Blacks, according to reports from Statistics Canada. The crimes range from homicide to uttering threats and vandalism.The shifting target of hatemongers is reflected in the list of infrastructure security funding.The mosque where a white Quebec man opened fire and killed six worshippers on Sunday night was previously targeted. A pig’s head was left on the front steps last year.Last fall, someone set fire to garbage bins outside the South Nepean Muslim Community centre. It was not the first attack on the centre, which received $75,000 through the federal Infrastructure Security program to make safety improvements.Two years earlier, a man inflicted $10,000 in damages to the Assunnah Muslim Association in Ottawa, in the weeks after Cpl. Nathan Cirillo was killed by an Islamic extremist as he guarded the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National War Memorial. The Assunnah association has since received $50,000 through the fund.No one from the National Council of Canadian Muslims was immediately available to comment, but the group warned in a 2014 report of an increase in anti-Islamic hate crime.“The incidence of anti-Muslim hate crimes or incidents reported to [the National Council of Canadian Muslims], the Toronto Police, or in the media has risen sharply overall,” the report said.The murders of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo in Ottawa and Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent in Saint-Jean-Sur-Richelieu, Que., in a deliberate hit-and-run two days earlier caused an immediate spike in attacks reported to the council, it noted. The incidents included an attack on a teenage girl by a 67-year-old man in Hamilton, Ont., and shots fired at a vehicle of five women wearing hijabs in Ottawa.

Speak loudly and carry a big stick: how Kevin O'Leary would govern Canada-[The Canadian Press]-yahoonews-February 1, 2017

OTTAWA — He's a household name in Canada and the U.S., and Kevin O'Leary intends to use audiences in both to convince Canadians he's the right man to lead this country.Millions of Americans watch his reality TV show "Shark Tank" each week, making him a household name in a country that's overhauling all of its international relationships, O'Leary said in a wide-ranging interview with The Canadian Press.Case in point: on Tuesday, O'Leary met Conservative MPs, and later glad-handed with party members whose support he needs to become leader; this morning, he was planning to be on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange for the opening bell.He said he would be talking up the Canadian economy and trade in a way the current Liberal government under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has failed to do in the weeks since U.S. President Donald Trump was elected."This is an opportunity for me to do something I don't believe any Canadians had an opportunity to do," O'Leary said."I've built a trust over a decade with them on television, and to be able to explain our relationship in a unique way, in a way that they will trust. Trudeau? I'm better known in the U.S. than he is."Those conversations are part of a long game O'Leary said he's playing when it comes to carving out his path to victory in the Conservative leadership race, a campaign that comes to a close May 27 when members choose a permanent new leader.The moment O'Leary called his now-campaign chair to confirm he would run came just before Christmas, when the federal Finance Department issued a report predicting budget shortfalls until at least 2051, with debt levels exceeding $1.55 trillion.The thought of his two adult children buried by that kind of debt was unthinkable, O'Leary said.It's his kids — 20-year-old Trevor and 23-year-old Savannah — that seem to be serving as the touchpoints for O'Leary's nascent political campaign.He said he intends to win by targeting voters in the 18-to-35 demographic and convincing them to first join the party, and then to back him in 2019 for prime minister.His secret weapon? They've seen him on TV."There's no other candidate that connects with the young with the way I can," he said. "They grew up with me; I've been on television forever."While he's running on an economic platform first, on social issues he said he intends to be where his kids are on the political spectrum. And in 2015, neither of them voted Conservative.So when his daughter tells him that protecting and championing the rights of lesbian, gay, transgender and intersex Canadians is important, he listens, he said.And to social conservatives within the party who don't agree, or who don't want to legalize marijuana or permit doctor-assisted dying, he has a simple question: "Do you want to win a majority government?"He's already providing hints of what life might look like under an O'Leary majority government.A series of angry letters he's been trading with Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, who he blames for destroying the Ontario economy, is partially about setting a tone, he suggested.Any province that gets in the way of his plan to get the country to 3 per cent growth in GDP will feel the heat, he said."Call me when you fix it or suffer the consequences of a prime minister with a big stick," O'Leary said. "There's many many tools you have as a prime minister — you start at transfer payments all the way down."Since announcing he was joining the race in late January, O'Leary said his campaign has signed up 9,000 members and raised $300,000, an effort he said that dwarfs that of any of the 13 other candidates in the race.Fundraising numbers released Tuesday show Maxime Bernier raised $586,000 during the final three months of 2016, with Kellie Leitch, the next closest candidate, came in at more than $355,000.Stephanie Levitz, The Canadian Press.

U.S. Senate delays vote on Trump EPA pick after Democrats boycott-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-February 1, 2017

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. senators on Wednesday delayed a committee vote on President Donald Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency after the panel's Democrats boycotted the meeting, saying that nominee Scott Pruitt doubts the science of climate change.The boycott in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee delayed the transition to a new administrator for the agency. Senator Ben Cardin, a Democrat, said he could not support Pruitt, a Republican and the attorney general of Oklahoma, for a public health position because he "denies the sum of empirical science and the urgency to act on climate change."At a confirmation hearing held by the panel earlier this month Pruitt, who has sued the agency he intends to run more than a dozen times on behalf of the oil-drilling state Oklahoma, expressed doubt about climate change science. But he said he would be would be obliged for now to uphold the agency's 2009 "endangerment finding" that carbon dioxide emissions harm public health.Republicans decried the move by the Democrats. "This is simply a senatorial temper tantrum," said Senator Dan Sullivan, a Republican.John Konkus, a spokesman for Pruitt's confirmation team, said Democrats and the former EPA administration had "put politics and rhetoric ahead of their core work and ahead of the welfare of the American public."In 2013, Republican senators on the panel boycotted then-President Barack Obama's second term pick for the agency, Gina McCarthy, saying they were "completely unsatisfied" by her answers to more than 1,000 written questions they had asked her. She was eventually confirmed.(Reporting by Timothy Gardner; editing by Bill Trott)

U.S. Senate panel suspends rules, backs Price, Mnuchin for Cabinet-[Reuters]-By Susan Cornwell-YAHOONEWS-February 1, 2017

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee suspended committee rules and confirmed U.S. Representative Tom Price to head the Department of Health and Human Services and banker Steven Mnuchin to be Treasury secretary Wednesday on a straight party line vote, sending the nominations to the Senate floor.Under pressure from their political base to block President Donald Trump's nominees, Democrats stayed away from the meeting for a second day running. This normally would have stopped action, but Republicans plowed ahead by voting to suspend the rule that required at least one Democrat to be present for business to be conducted.Republican members of the committee, who were all present, then approved the nominees 14-0. The nominees are considered likely to be confirmed by the Republican-majority Senate."We took some unprecedented action today due to some unprecedented obstruction on the part of our colleagues," said the panel's chairman, Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, who was furious over the Democrats' no-show. He said he had obtained approval from the Senate parliamentarian for the move suspending the rule.Democrats were also unhappy."It's deeply troubling to me that Republicans on the Finance Committee chose to break the rules in the face of strong evidence of two nominees' serious ethical problems," the Finance Committee's top Democrat, Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, said in a statement.The Democrats said Tuesday they were boycotting Finance Committee proceedings because they wanted more information on Price's stock trades in an Australian medical company and reports that Mnuchin's former bank, OneWest, used automated "robo-signings" of foreclosure documents, which apparently contradicted statements the nominees had made to senators.Senate Democrats on Wednesday boycotted another committee vote on Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, who has expressed doubts about the science of climate change. That session ended without any committee action.Republicans accused the Democrats of deliberately stalling the functions of Trump's new administration. "They (the Democrats) had tons of information (about Price and Mnuchin)," Hatch said. "It's another way of roughing up the president and his choice of nominees."But Democrats have come under pressure from liberal activists who want them to counter Trump at every turn, especially after his order last week blocking immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries. It sparked a wave of protests in major U.S. cities.One group that has been running television ads against Mnuchin blasted Republicans for the vote."Steven Mnuchin is such an illegitimate, compromised nominee that Republicans had to change the rules to force through his nomination," said Kait Sweeney, press secretary of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.(additional reporting by Susan Heavey and David Lawder; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe and Alan Crosby)

Air strikes hit Red Crescent offices in Syria, monitoring group says-[Reuters]-YAHOONEWS-February 1, 2017

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Air strikes hit Syrian Red Crescent offices in the northwestern city of Idlib after midnight on Wednesday, injuring several staff and causing extensive damage, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.It was not clear which air force the jets belonged to or whether they had taken off from inside Syria or crossed its borders, the British-based Observatory said.Russian and Syrian warplanes have been carrying out raids against Syrian insurgents in Idlib province, a rebel stronghold, but since the new year U.S. air strikes have also targeted militants in Idlib formerly affiliated to al Qaeda.Among those wounded in Wednesday's raid was the director of the local Red Crescent branch, the Observatory said.(Reporting by John Davison, editing by Larry King)

Wednesday, February 01, 2017

THE DOW WAS DOWN 107 POINTS TUESDAY-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.

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UPDATE-FEBRUARY 01,2017-12:00AM

DOW MARKET WEDNESDAY-FEBRUARY 01,2017
09:30AM-5.07
10:00AM-82.43
10:30AM-57.31
11:00AM-10.09
11:30AM-5.60-
12:00PM-6.47-
12:30PM-2.22-
01:00PM-19.55
01:30PM-28.28
02:00PM-13.34-
02:30PM-44.11
03:00PM-12.12
03:30PM-24.60
04:00PM-26.85+ 19,890.94 - S&P +0.68 2279.55 - NASDAQ +27.86 5642.65
HIGH +108 LOW -14
TSX +16.43 15,402.39 - GOLD $-02.36 $1208.45 - OIL $+0.74 $53.55

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-FEBRUARY 01,2017-11:55PM

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ U.S.28 of 29 earthquakes in map area.

    3.6-4km NE of Aljubarrota, Portugal-2017-02-01 23:22:31 (UTC)-11.2 km
    4.5-132km N of Lae, Papua New Guinea-2017-02-01 21:37:49 (UTC)-191.7 km
    4.4-130km WSW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia-2017-02-01 20:53:17 (UTC)-34.1 km
    2.8-7km NNW of Friday Harbor, Washington-2017-02-01 20:34:10 (UTC)-14.0 km
    4.3-60km N of Lae, Papua New Guinea-2017-02-01 19:12:03 (UTC)-69.7 km
    2.9-117km WNW of Gustavus, Alaska-2017-02-01 18:34:13 (UTC)-0.0 km
    4.9-44km E of Naze, Japan-2017-02-01 18:11:32 (UTC)-31.5 km
    4.1-5km ENE of Sorong, Indonesia-2017-02-01 18:05:57 (UTC)-38.8 km
    2.5-2km SSW of Cobb, California-2017-02-01 14:19:19 (UTC)-1.6 km
    4.5-168km W of Pangai, Tonga-2017-02-01 13:48:53 (UTC)-189.1 km
    2.6-6km SW of Volcano, Hawaii-2017-02-01 13:18:09 (UTC)-2.6 km
    3.3-79km SW of Anchor Point, Alaska-2017-02-01 13:08:33 (UTC)-83.2 km
    4.6-52km SSW of Tinyahuarco, Peru-2017-02-01 11:38:30 (UTC)-96.8 km
    4.4-37km W of Arauco, Chile-2017-02-01 11:23:25 (UTC)-26.8 km
    2.9-110km NNE of Chignik Lake, Alaska-2017-02-01 10:54:48 (UTC)-6.3 km
    4.6-20km WNW of Atuncolla, Peru-2017-02-01 10:35:47 (UTC)-205.1 km
    4.9-15km ENE of Kaikoura, New Zealand-2017-02-01 10:21:29 (UTC)-23.8 km
    5.1-141km NNW of Zhadong, China-2017-02-01 10:07:44 (UTC)-10.0 km
    2.7-110km NNE of Chignik Lake, Alaska-2017-02-01 09:28:39 (UTC)-3.0 km
    2.8-96km NNW of Nikiski, Alaska-2017-02-01 08:16:15 (UTC)-0.2 km
    2.8-31km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada-2017-02-01 04:12:11 (UTC)-10.8 km
    2.6-63km W of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii-2017-02-01 03:02:18 (UTC)-16.5 km
    2.7-6km SW of Volcano, Hawaii-2017-02-01 00:39:03 (UTC)-2.6 km
    2.6-38km NE of Larsen Bay, Alaska-2017-02-01 00:34:57 (UTC)-54.7 km
    4.7-11km W of San Andres, Colombia-2017-02-01 00:18:25 (UTC)-154.3 km
    4.8-166km SE of Sucua, Ecuador-2017-01-31 23:38:27 (UTC)-47.3 km

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ARABS SAY THEY WON'T GIVE UP ON TRUMP YET.

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

Outpost bill makes return to Knesset after coalition overrides opposition objections-AG says government can use parliamentary regulations to shorten deliberations on bid to legalize settlement homes built on private Palestinian land-By Times of Israel staff January 31, 2017, 10:55 am

The Knesset was to begin a week-long debate Tuesday on a controversial bill to legalize some 4,000 homes in West Bank settlements built on privately owned Palestinian land, after coalition lawmakers used a clause in the Knesset regulations to override the opposition’s request for over a month of deliberations.The legislation, known as the Regulation Bill, was originally scheduled to pass into law on Monday evening. However, opposition MKs sought to introduce hundreds of revisions to the bill and requested 38 days of debate on the legislation, plus an additional two days for voting. The vote was then pushed off until a compromise on the time frame was reached.Due to the stalemate, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit informed the powerful Knesset House Committee — tasked with setting which bills come up in the plenum — it may use Clause 98 if a compromise could not be reached. The clause is a provision that allows for the significant shortening of a period of debate for a given piece of legislation.Israel Radio reported Tuesday morning that with the coalition’s implementation of Clause 98, the bill will be introduced in the plenum that afternoon for a debate that will run until 9 a.m. Wednesday morning. At that point, the Knesset will determine the schedule for further deliberations to run until Thursday morning. The bill is scheduled to be brought before the plenum next Monday for its second and third readings.Coalition chairman David Bitan told Israel Radio that the opposition’s intransigence forced the coalition to resort to Clause 98.The “meaningless reservations that were presented by [the opposition],” were what “obliged [the coalition] to use Clause 98 of the regulations to prevent the debasement of the Knesset,” Bitan said.Zionist Union MK Merav Michaeli, chair of the opposition, accused the coalition of acting out of cowardice and refusing to hear any dissent on the legislation.“If it were not enough that the coalition is bringing forward an illegal law, they don’t have the bravery to hear a true debate and to listen to the destructive results of this law,” Michaeli told Israel Radio.Condemned by the Obama administration, the European Union, the United Nations and Israel’s attorney general, the so-called Regulation Law is being hailed by the settler movement as a turning point in the 50-year settlement project. Once passed, supporters say, the era of evacuating Jewish settlements will be over, though the measure will not cover the doomed Amona outpost, slated for evacuation by early next month.The legislation had been taken off the Knesset slate late last year, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly waited for Obama to leave office. On Sunday, he announced it would come back for a vote this week.The final draft of the bill outlines the procedures for legalizing unauthorized construction on private land and compensating the Palestinian landowners. It also immediately freezes administrative proceedings in 16 West Bank settlements for a period of 12 months. As the text stands, it does not apply to buildings that have received final demolition orders from Israeli courts, effectively excluding the outpost of Amona, which is set to be razed by next Wednesday.The proposed bill stipulates that settlement construction in the West Bank that was carried out in good faith, without knowledge that the land was privately owned, would be recognized by the government, provided the settlers show some kind of state support in establishing themselves at the site. This support could in some cases be as minimal as having access to public infrastructure.Under the terms of the bill, the government will be able to appropriate land for its own use if the owners are unknown. If the owners are known, they will be eligible for either yearly damages amounting to 125 percent of the value of leasing the land, a larger financial package valued at 20 years’ worth of leasing the plots, or alternate plots.Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has warned that the Regulation Bill breaches both local and international law, and indicated that the High Court was likely to strike it down. Some officials, including Netanyahu himself, have also warned that the law could see Israeli officials brought before the International Criminal Court in The Hague.Marissa Newman and Raoul Wootliff contributed to this report.

We hope the Israeli government's over-excitement will soon be proven unfounded'-PA hasn’t given up on Trump, senior official says-Husam Zomlot, who may be the next envoy to the US, says Washington has yet to reach out to the Palestinians, but doesn’t subscribe to idea that the White House is completely in Israel’s corner-By Dov Lieber January 31, 2017, 8:04 am-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

The Palestinian Authority believes US President Donald Trump has not abandoned long-held policies in Washington regarding the Israel-Palestinian conflict, a senior Palestinian official reportedly slated to be the next envoy to the US said Monday.Husam Zomlot, a senior political adviser to PA President Mahmoud Abbas, said the Trump administration had yet to reach out to the PA. But despite the apparent cold shoulder, Ramallah is not taking for granted that Washington will shift under Trump to align with the Israeli right wing, as many have predicted, Zomlot said.“Our expectation is that the long-held US policies with regards to the illegality of the settlements, the status of Jerusalem and with regards to the contours of the solution will remain,” said Zomlot.“We did not hear any change of these long-held US policies up until today. Until we hear otherwise, this will be our working assumption,” he added.During the first week of Trump’s presidency, Israel approved the construction of 2,500 new homes to be built in West Bank settlements, as well as the construction of 566 housing units in East Jerusalem, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed more of the same was to come.The US has yet to respond to the announcements and when asked, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer offered only that Trump would discuss the matter with Netanyahu when the Israeli leader visits in February.Zomlot said he does not believe the silence of the Trump administration is a tacit approval for settlement construction.“The Trump administration is not yet fully formed,” he said, pointing out that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has yet to take office.“It’s premature to judge. We hope the Israeli government’s over-excitement will soon be proven unfounded,” he added.Zomlot argued that the idea that Trump will allow unfettered Israeli settlement construction is an unfounded narrative being pushed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.“It is not the US administration that is acting at this point in time; it is the Netanyahu government that is acting, thinking that in this limbo [of the presidential transition] it could actually reshape US policy and recruit President Trump to abandon the two state solution, as [Israel] did,” he said.Netanyahu recently said he was willing to give the Palestinians “not exactly a state with full authority, rather a state minus,” but did not elaborate further.However, the Palestinians have argued that Netanyahu’s commitment to building settlements in the West Bank shows he is only playing lip-service to the two-state solution.Trump’s appointment for ambassador to Israel David Friedman has expressed support for and funded construction in Israeli settlements, and has expressed doubt about the need for a two-state solution.When asked whether this appointment was a signal from the Trump administration, Zomlot responded, “Ambassadors do not make national policies. They are the conveyors of national policies. They are not decision makers.”But Zomlot conceded that there is “worry” within the PA.“But we are not speculators here. We will only act based on information and direct engagement with the new administration,” he added.It’s not clear when Zomlot, who for years has acted as a Palestinian representative in meeting with American officials, might replace Maen Areikat, the current ambassador to the US. Reports emerged in October that he had been tapped for the post, on the eve of a major Fatah congress.Despite the lack of contact between Ramallah and Washington, Zomlot maintained the PA will “have contacts with the new administration once it is intact.”“We expect to be invited to the White House and State Department once the new administration is fully operative. We have been a key partner of the US for decades and expect no change,” he said.-US could ‘disqualify itself’ as mediator-Zomlot pointed out that in the past Trump has said he was keen to make a peace deal, and that when the president appointed his son-in-law Jared Kusher to be his envoy to the region, he also expressed enthusiasm that Kushner could make peace.In an interview aired Monday, Trump seemed to acknowledge for the first time that the Palestinian side’s claims would have to be dealt with, saying there were “two sides” to the issue of moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem. Abbas has warned that the PA might revoke its recognition of Israel if the embassy is moved.But given the signals that the Trump administration might not hew as closely to the idea of the two-state solution as past administrations, Zomlot warned the US would thus be de facto “disqualifying itself” from the job of mediator between Israelis and Palestinians.“The US engagement since 1991, all of the agreements written and signed, are based on the two-state solution along 1967 lines,” he said.Zomlot stressed that even if the US withdraws its support for a two-state solution, the PA will continue to pursue it, including by pursuing multilateral efforts in the international arena.“[Would a US withdrawal] from the two-state solution mean it is over? No. It just means we need to look for a new strategy to achieve the same goal. And we believe international law and consensus, as reconfirmed in the recent UNSC Resolution 2334, multilateralism and reestablishing international political sponsorship towards finding a solution as manifested in the Paris peace conference two weeks ago, is the way forward,” he said.The 70 countries who recently met in Paris as part of the French peace initiative reaffirmed that a two-state solution is the only one acceptable to the international community and called on both sides to act accordingly.After the meeting in Paris, Abbas said he would meet in the near future with French President Francis Holland to see how to advance the initiative.Israel has rejected the French initiative, arguing only bilateral negotiations will prove fruitful.During a phone call with Netanyahu last week, Trump also said bilateral negotiations were the only way forward, according to a White House readout of the call.

Israel, Mexico presidents to speak to smooth over rift-Two countries work to get past crisis over Netanyahu tweet praising border walls-By Times of Israel staff January 31, 2017, 10:30 am

President Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday was set to speak to his Mexican counterpart in a bid to smooth over a diplomatic rift caused by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Twitter praise for building walls to keep out refugees.Rivlin’s planned phone call with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto came a day after Israel’s Ambassador to Mexico Yoni Peled met with Mexico’s deputy foreign minister as part of efforts to soothe Mexico City’s wounded response to the prime minister’s post. The tweet was perceived as offering an endorsement of US President Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall along the US-Mexico border.Netanyahu on Saturday posted a Twitter message that read: “President Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel’s southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success. Great idea.” The prime minister later denied the post had anything to do with Mexico.Trump made construction of a controversial anti-immigration wall between the US and Mexico a key plank of his election campaign. One of his first acts after inauguration as president was to sign an executive order to begin work on the wall.President Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel's southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success. Great idea— Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) January 28, 2017-In an interview with Fox News on Thursday, Trump appeared to be touting Israel’s border know-how as an example of a successful deterrent to unlawful entry into a country.“The wall is necessary,” Trump said. “That’s not just politics, and yet it is good for the heart of the nation in a certain way, because people want protection and a wall protects. All you’ve got to do is ask Israel. They were having a total disaster coming across and they had a wall. It’s 99.9 percent stoppage.”On Saturday, Mexican officials phoned Jerusalem and angrily demanded a clarification on the tweet.Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray reportedly called on Netanyahu to apologize, saying his comments “felt like an act of aggression.”“We hope that Israel’s government will be sensitive enough to correct Netanyahu’s statement,” Videgaray said.Mexico’s Foreign Ministry said in a communique that it had expressed its “profound surprise, rejection and disappointment in the prime minister’s message on Twitter” to Israel’s ambassador. “Mexico is Israel’s friend and should be treated as such.”On Monday, Netanyahu denied that his tweet had constituted support for Trump’s border wall with Mexico. He told the weekly Likud faction meeting he had merely been responding to Trump’s praise for the Egypt border in the social media post, which was later retweeted by the US president. “Who even mentioned Mexico?” asked the prime minister.Backtracking after Mexican officials demanded a clarification, a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry stressed Saturday that Netanyahu was not commenting on US-Mexican relations.“[Netanyahu] referred to our specific security experience which we are willing to share,” spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon wrote on Twitter. “We do not express a position on US-Mexico relations.”

Trump fires acting attorney general for ordering staff not to defend refugee ban-White House says Sally Yates, a Democratic appointee, ‘betrayed’ Justice Department by refusing to enforce ‘legal order’ to protect US citizens-By Agencies and Times of Israel staff January 31, 2017, 4:44 am

WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump on Monday fired the acting attorney general, a holdover from the Obama administration, after she ordered Justice Department attorneys not to defend his controversial executive order on immigration.“The acting attorney general, Sally Yates, has betrayed the Department of Justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States,” the White House said in a statement.“President Trump relieved Ms Yates of her duties and subsequently named Dana Boente, US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, to serve as acting attorney general until Senator Jeff Sessions is finally confirmed by the Senate.”The statement called Yates an Obama administration appointee “who is weak on borders and very weak on illegal immigration.”Trump had earlier complained of being saddled with an “Obama A.G.” in a tweet.The Democrats are delaying my cabinet picks for purely political reasons. They have nothing going but to obstruct. Now have an Obama A.G.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 31, 2017-Yates had indicated earlier Monday that she was not convinced Trump’s executive order barring travel and immigration from seven Muslm-majority countries was legal.Yates’ abrupt decision reflected the dissent over the order, with administration officials moving to distance themselves from the policy. As protests erupted at airports over the weekend and confusion disrupted travel around the globe, some of Trump’s top advisers and fellow Republicans privately noted they were not consulted about the policy.At least three top national security officials — Defense Secretary James Mattis, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and Rex Tillerson, who is awaiting confirmation to lead the State Department — have told associates they were not aware of details of directive until around the time Trump signed it. Leading intelligence officials were also left largely in the dark, according to US officials.Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations committee, said that despite White House assurances that congressional leaders were consulted, he learned about the order in the media.The fallout was immediate: Friction between Trump and his top advisers and a rush by the Pentagon to seek exemptions to the policy. The White House approach also sparked an unusually public clash between a president and the civil servants tasked with carrying out his policy.Other parts of Trump’s administration were voicing dissent Monday. A large group of American diplomats circulated a memo voicing their opposition to the order, which temporarily halted the entire US refugee program and banned all entries from seven Muslim-majority nations for 90 days. In a startlingly combative response, White House spokesman Sean Spicer challenged those opposed to the measure to resign.“They should either get with the program or they can go,” Spicer said.The blowback underscored Trump’s tenuous relationship with his own national security advisers, many of whom he met for the first time during the transition, as well as with the government bureaucracy he now leads. While Trump outlined his plan for temporarily halting entry to the US from countries with terror ties during the campaign, the confusing way in which it finally was crafted stunned some who have joined his team.Mattis, who stood next to Trump during Friday’s signing ceremony, is said to be particularly incensed. A senior US official said Mattis, along with Joint Chiefs Chairman Joseph Dunford, was aware of the general concept of Trump’s order but not the details. Tillerson has told the president’s political advisers that he was baffled over not being consulted on the substance of the order.US officials and others with knowledge of the Cabinet’s thinking insisted on anonymity in order to disclose the officials’ private views.Trump’s order pauses America’s entire refugee program for four months and indefinitely bans all those from war-ravaged Syria. Critics dispute the president’s assertion that the policy is needed to keep Americans safe, noting that recent acts of extremist violence have been carried out either by US citizens or by individuals whose families weren’t from the nations singled out in the order.The president has privately acknowledged flaws in the rollout, according to a person with knowledge of his thinking. But he’s also blamed the media — his frequent target — for what he believes are reports exaggerating the dissent and the number of people actually affected.Trump has also said he believes the voters who carried him to victory support the plan as a necessary step to safeguard the nation. And he’s dismissed objectors as attention-seeking rabble-rousers and grandstanding politicians.After a chaotic weekend during which some US legal permanent residents were detained at airports, some agencies were moving swiftly to try to clean up after the White House.Homeland Security, the agency tasked with implementing much of the refugee ban, clarified that customs and border agents should allow legal residents to enter the country. The Pentagon was trying to exempt Iraqis who worked alongside the US and coalition forces from the 90-day ban on entry from the predominantly Muslim countries.“There are a number of people in Iraq who have worked for us in a partnership role, whether fighting alongside us or working as translators, often doing so at great peril to themselves,” said Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman.Policies with such broad reach are typically vetted by affected agencies and subject to review by multiple agencies. It’s a process that can be frustratingly slow but is aimed at avoiding unintended consequences.On Capitol Hill, lawmakers in Trump’s party sought to distance themselves from the wide-ranging order.While Spicer said “appropriate committees and leadership offices” on Capitol Hill were consulted, GOP lawmakers said their offices had no hand in drafting the order and no briefings from the White House on how it would work.“I think they know that it could have been done in a better way,” Corker said of the White House.The executive order was largely crafted by Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist, and Stephen Miller, a young policy adviser and former congressional aide to Trump’s pick for attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions. Spicer insisted the advisers had kept departments “in the loop at the level necessary,” but he sidestepped questions about whether Cabinet secretaries were directly involved in the process.Some Trump supporters defended the president, saying his actions should not have come as a surprise given his positions during the campaign.“Nothing he did over the weekend was new,” said Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker and an informal adviser. He conceded that coordination could have been better, but he said Trump’s vow to quickly bring change to Washington will sometimes mean he needs to prioritize fast action over broad consultation.

Jerusalem strike intensifies as daycare centers join municipal walkout-Standoff between city, Treasury deepens on day 3 of wage row that sees capital without garbage collectors, welfare services-By Times of Israel staff January 31, 2017, 6:46 am

Municipal day care centers in Jerusalem were shut on Tuesday as a municipality strike entered its third day amid a budgetary standoff between the city and the Finance Ministry over unpaid wages.Programs for special-needs children would continue normally, Israel Radio reported, but other municipal services including garbage collection, welfare and social services, would be non-operational for a third day.The municipality announced a general strike on Sunday because its 2017 budget has not yet been transferred to the city by the Finance Ministry.On Monday, Jerusalem high schools and middle schools started at 10 a.m. and kindergarten afternoon programs were canceled altogether.Hundreds of demonstrators also blocked major roads in the capital’s downtown area Monday, near the Prime Minister’s Residence, to demand an end to the public spat over city funding.Elsewhere in the city, large buildups of garbage disrupted the light rail service. Outside the Mahane Yehuda market on Jaffa Road, uncollected trash spilled out onto the train tracks, limiting service in downtown Jerusalem.The ongoing dispute has featured biting public arguments between city and Finance Ministry officials.The municipality says that if the Finance Ministry does not transfer the funds, it will be forced to lay off staff and the quality of services in the city will drop.Paz Cohen, head of the Jerusalem teachers’ organization, on Sunday said that auxiliary teachers had not been paid a salary since the beginning of the school year in September.Mayor Nir Barkat called on Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon to personally intervene to ensure the money is transferred immediately, “to prevent more suffering for the city’s residents.”However, the Finance Ministry claims the lack of funds is a result of mismanagement, and asked Interior Minister Aryeh Deri to appoint a city accountant to stop the municipality from holding Jerusalem residents “hostage to foreign interests.”In response, the municipality bitterly denied the accusations of mismanagement under Barkat and accused the treasury of waging a dishonest media campaign.“We are sorry that the Finance Ministry uses lying media spin instead of strengthening the city. The challenges of the capital are the challenges of the country,” the municipality statement said.“In contradiction to the lies of the Finance Ministry, throughout the entire Barkat era the municipality has never been in deficit and it even earned prizes from the Interior Ministry for the proper use of its finances and its transparent conduct.”“If you’re the reformer, you need the momentum,” Gingrich said.

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