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)
MYSTERY FIRES WERE RUSSIAN TEST RUNS TO TARGET CARGO FLIGHTS TO U.S.
AT 11.05PM TRUMP HAS 216 OF 270 TO WIN.
HARRIS HAS 193 OF 270 TO WIN AS BABY MURDERER.
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.
MARK OF THE BEAST (engraved microchip in your hand or forehead)
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, (SLAVE) to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
REVELATION 16:1-2
1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
I KNOW THIS MARK WILL BE A MICROCHIP IMPLANT UNDER THE SKIN. LETS LOOK UP WHAT THE WORD MARK SAYS IN REVELATION 13:16-18, 14:9,11, 15:2, 16:2, 19:20, 20:4-ALL THESE VERSES FROM THE BOOK OF REVELATION SPEAK OF THIS DICTATORS MARK. NOW LETS SEE WHAT IT MEANS FROM STRONGS EXAUSTIVE CONCORDANCE OF THE BIBLE. UNDER MARK PAGE 684.MARK UNDER MARK. THE OLD TESTAMENT IS UNDER HEBREW AND THE NEW TESTAMENT IS UNDER GREEK. SO WHEN WE LOOK UNDER REVELATION 13:16-17 WE SEE IT IS UNDER GREEK, SO WE GO TO GREEK IN THE BACK SECTION AND GO TO 5480 TO SEE WHAT IT SAYS THIS MARK WOULD BE. SO LETS GET TO IT.MARK IN STRONGS GREEK 5480 XAPAYUA CHARAGMA, KHAR-AG-MAH: FROM THE SAME AS 5482: A SCRATCH OR ETCHING, I.E STAMP (AS A BADGE OF SERVITUDE), OR SCULPTURED FIGURE-(STATUE):-GRAVEN, MARK FROM 5482 XAPAE CHARAX, KHAR-AX; FROM XAPAOOW CHARASSO (TO SHARPEN TO A POINT; AKIN TO 1125 THROUGH THE IDEA OF SCRATCHING); A STAKE, I.E (BYIMPL.) A PALISADE OR RAMPART (MILITARY MOUND FOR CIRCUMVALLATION IN A SIEGE): - TRENCH FROM 1125 YPAPOE GRAPHO, GRAF-0; A PRIM. VERB; TO "GRAVE", ESPEC. TO WRITE; FIG. TO DESCRIBE:-DESCRIBE, WRITE (-ING, -TEN).G5516-GO TO G4742-666 - STRONGS NT 4742: στίγμα - στίγμα, στιγματος, τό (from στίζω to prick; (cf. Latinstimulus, etc.; German stechen, English stick, sting, etc.; Curtius, § 226)), a mark pricked in or branded upon the body. According to ancient oriental usage, slaves and soldiers bore the name or stamp of their master or commander branded or pricked (cut) into their bodies to indicate what master or general they belonged to, and there were even some devotees who stamped themselves in this way with the token of their gods (cf. Deyling, Observations, iii., p. 423ff); hence, τά στίγματα τοῦ (κυρίου so Rec.) Ἰησοῦ, the marks of (the Lord) Jesus, which Paul in Galatians 6:17 says he bears branded on his body, are the traces left there by the perils, hardships, imprisonments, scourgings, endured by him for the cause of Christ, and which mark him as Christ's faithful and approved votary, servant, soldier (see Lightfoots Commentary on Galatians, the passage cited). (Herodotus 7, 233; Aristotle, Aelian, Plutarch, Lcian, others.)
THE INVENTOR OF THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT-CARL SANDERS MICROCHIP ENGINEER LEADER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgH9D6n4ZWo
THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT IN YOUR RIGHT HAND OR FOREHEAD.
LEVETICUS 19.28
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
FAMINE
EZEKIEL 5:16
16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
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)
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: 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, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
DEUTORONOMY 28:24
24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
LOCUSTS (DEMONIC) TORTURES SINNERS 5 MONTHS
REVELATION 9:1-6
1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
3 And there came out of the smoke (DEMONIC) locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
Canada planning immigration biometrics contract worth up to $72M-Nov 5, 2024, 1:53 pm EST | Chris Burt
Canada is preparing to hold an open bidding process to procure biometric identification equipment to support its immigration system.The value of the contract or contracts available from the Department of Public Works and Government Services (PSPC) could be anywhere from $25 million Canadian (US$18.1 million) to CA$100 million ($72.2 million).“Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is engaging industry to better understand how to refresh its biometric collection capabilities and to potentially allow for future expanded service offerings of the Canadian Immigration Biometric Identification System (CIBIDS),” the notice says.The request for information has been issued to gather input from the biometrics community on “the latest innovations and emerging trends” in live face and fingerprint biometrics collection, both mobile and fixed. Information is sought on both hardware and software.IRCC wants to determine best practices for safeguarding the integrity of the biometric enrollments and managing a global network of biometric devices. It also wants to know about indigenous participation, environmental impacts and gender inclusivity.Responses are sought from suppliers with core competencies in manufacturing or reselling mobile or stationary biometric devices, IT fleet management or anti-fraud solutions.The description is strikingly similar to a tender process run by Canada’s government in 2021, when IRCC posted a letter of interest for “live facial capture and fingerprint collection” devices to be deployed to 850 endpoints in 270 global locations. The country also ran a procurement process to upgrade the face biometrics technology used in its passport program in the same year.Responses to the latest RFI are due by December 3, 2024.
Peripheral biometric scanner for palm, fingerprints wins French defense award-National Gendarmerie, Idemia co-develop mobile solution-Nov 5, 2024, 4:34 pm EST | Chris Burt
An Idemia Public Security partnership, the company’s NéoDK project in collaboration with Colonel Nicolas Thiburce, has been awarded the Prix de l’Audace, according to a press release. The biannual French prize awarded by the Defense Innovation Agency (AID) recognizes and rewards €2,500 per project to civilian or military personnel from the Ministry of the Armed Forces and Veterans and the National Gendarmerie who “imagine and develop new equipment and services, improving the operational capabilities of the forces or the daily functioning of the institution.”The NeoDK project resulted in the development of the MTop Mobile FAP60 fingerprint and palm print scanner for biometric enrollment on smartphones.The MTOP Mobile replaces traditional ink and paper with a digital system for capturing fingerprint biometrics and palm prints with a peripheral scanner. It is integrated into the MTopMobile, Idemia’s new mobile fingerprint enrollment device for rolled fingers and palm acquisition. The scanner weighs in at 350g and is designed to fit into a pocket, with USB-C connectivity. The partners say that mobile biometrics enrollment with the dedicated peripheral reduces processing time and improves biometric sample quality.NeoDK’s project manager is Colonel Nicolas Thiburce, director general for the Gendarmerie Nationale. Along with Idemia and Thiburce, it involved the Agence du numérique des forces de sécurité intérieure (ANFSI), the Centre de Production Multimédia de la Gendarmerie Nationale (CPMGN) and the AID.“This is a new method of capturing fingerprints and palm prints, as well as anthropometric photos, carried by the gendarme on his Néo phone,” explains Colonel Thiburce, project manager at the Operations and Employment Directorate (DOE), director of the NéoDK program. “Today, 80 percent of the surveys are done with ink and paper. The gendarmerie remained compartmentalized in this organization, in particular because the current cost of optical blocks would be exorbitant. NéoDK aims to put an end to this compartmentalization.”
US election rolls over unresolved biometrics oversight debates-Incoming congress to address police and border biometrics, data privacy-Nov 5, 2024, 12:46 pm EST | Anthony Kimery
The soon to be seated 119th Congress will face a number of issues regarding the regulation and oversight of biometrics that it eventually is going to have to address, according to a new report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), Congress’ investigative arm.Among the issues the new Congress will need to tackle is the use of facial recognition by law enforcement, the collection of biometrics by travelers into and out of the US, social media, and consumer data privacy, CRS said.“There are currently no federal laws specifically governing law enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology (FRT).” Consequently, law enforcement’s use of facial recognition continues to be a subject of ongoing congressional attention, The CRS issues brief says.CRS also said there are “several broad concerns related to AI spanning multiple sectors” that “could be considered” by the upcoming new session of Congress. And, CRS noted, that “there is no specific legislative framework at the federal level that governs law enforcement use of social media,” a matter of growing concern and contention that most certainly will have to be addressed.Indeed. Dozens of bills were introduced in the current 118th Congress that addressed scores of privacy and related matters having to do with the use of biometrics that went nowhere, but which will eventually have to be addressed. But until the new Congress is sworn in come January, it’s unclear how these issues will be treated given the potential political shifts and alliances that will occur.CRS said the “rapid advancements in information technologies present several issues for congressional policymakers, including those related to artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, Big Tech and online platforms, social media, consumer data privacy, children on the internet, quantum information science and technology, law enforcement use of information technologies and social media, and biometric technologies.”With regard to facial recognition, the CRS policy issues brief says “law enforcement use of FRT has been the subject of ongoing congressional attention,” and that “some of the concerns raised revolve around the accuracy of the technology, including potential race-, gender-, and age-related biases; the process of collecting, retaining, and securing facial images; public notification of the use of facial recognition and other image-capturing technology; and policies or standards governing law enforcement agencies’ use of the technology.”CRS said “some of these concerns have manifested in actions such as federal, state, and city efforts to prohibit or restrict law enforcement agencies’ use of FRT. In addition, some companies producing facial recognition software have placed new barriers to law enforcement using their technologies.”While there are no federal laws that govern law enforcement’s use of FRT, CRS said “guidelines and recommendations regarding law enforcement’s use of FRT have been produced by the Facial Identification Scientific Working Group (FISWG).FISWG is one of the various scientific working groups that support the Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science administered by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which facilitates standards development, including for FRT.FISWG has published a number of FRT-related guidelines and recommendations for forensic science practitioners. In addition, the FBI maintains a Policy and Implementation Guide for the use of the Next Generation Identification–Interstate Photo System (NGI-IPS). Authorized users of NGI-IPS are required to follow these policies as well as certain FISWG standards, CRS said.The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) launched FISWG in 2009. Initially overseen by the FBI, its mission is to develop consensus standards, guidelines, and best practices for the discipline of image-based comparisons of human facial features, provides recommendations for research development activities, and advances the state of the science in an ethical manner.In addition to NGI-IPS, which largely supports state and local law enforcement, the FBI also manages the Facial Analysis, Comparison, and Evaluation (FACE) Services Unit, which supports FBI investigations.The use of biometrics by CBP is another issue of concern for Congress. CRS said, “border enforcement officials use FRT for identity verification purposes, citing as an example CBP’s use of FRT to confirm travelers’ identities as part of its biometric entry and exit control system for noncitizen travelers into and out of the country.”CRS said while Congress “has long been interested in the completion of the exit component” of the Department of Homeland Security’s Biometric Entry-Exit System … some policymakers have expressed concern” over how opting out of biometric data collection at ports of entry (POE) is communicated to US citizens.CBP collects facial images from all travelers departing the United States which it uses to verify each traveler’s identity. CBP is authorized to collect this information by the 2002 Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act. However, US citizens who do not wish to participate in this biometric collection have the right to ask a CBP officer or an airline or airport representative that they wish to be provided with an alternative means of verifying their identity and documents. CBP discards all photos of US citizens, once their identities have been verified.The CRS report noted that “some policymakers are concerned about the accuracy of FRT and the security of biometric data, including data storage and the auditing of private partners and contractors who collect these data.”As for AI, while it “holds potential benefits and opportunities, such as through augmenting human decision-making and optimizing performance for complex tasks,” CRS pointed out that “it also presents challenges and pitfalls, such as through perpetuating or amplifying bias and failing in unexpected ways.”CRS said there are “several broad concerns [that] include questions regarding … the development of standards and testing protocols and algorithmic auditing capabilities for AI systems” and “the incorporation of ethics, privacy, security, transparency, and accountability considerations in AI systems, including such applications as facial recognition technologies.”“Congress may address additional national security concerns about the potential use of AI technologies, such as the potential for deepfakes to influence elections and erode public trust, the balance of human and automated decision-making in military operations, and concerns about the dissemination of US-developed AI technologies and federally funded AI research results to potential competitors or adversaries,” CRS said.Law enforcement’s use of social media and how social medial companies treat privacy and related matters will also be on the plates of the new Congress.CRS said “there are no federal laws that specifically govern law enforcement agencies’ use of information obtained from social media sites, but their ability to obtain or use certain information may be influenced by social media companies’ policies, law enforcement agencies’ own social media policies, and the rules of criminal procedure. Law enforcement may require social media platforms to provide access to certain restricted information through a warrant, subpoena, or other court order.”“While some have suggested that social media can provide a wealth of information for law enforcement and intelligence analysts, some observers have suggested that agencies may be reluctant to regularly analyze public social media posts for various reasons, including that it could be viewed as spying on the American public and could subsequently chill free speech protected under the First Amendment,” the CRS policy brief noted.In addition, CRS said “some observers have [also] questioned whether the nature of social media may place it in a qualitatively different category than law enforcement’s use of other investigative tools and have suggested that there should be enhanced boundaries regarding law enforcement operations that utilize social media.”“For instance,” CRS said, “some have suggested that law enforcement agencies should have written, publicly available policies on their use of social media; they should obtain local government approval before using these online spaces; they should obtain judicial approval for conducting undercover operations using social media; there should be restrictions on law enforcement contacting minors via social media; and law enforcement’s use of social media should be audited.”These are all “types of proposals” that “could be a subject of discussion” in Congress.CRS said how the big social media companies like Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, “and at times Microsoft … collect and use consumer data and whether to implement additional protections for content accessed by minors” are all issues that haven’t been settled with regards to federal regulation.“Some Members of Congress have also expressed interest in other aspects of social media platforms,” CRS said, and which “include the use of algorithms to amplify or remove content, and the national security, data privacy, and foreign influence risks posed by TikTok.”Finally, CRS said consumer data privacy remains an issue for Congress.“Some companies collect, process, and analyze large amounts of consumer data, such as users’ behavior on the platform and personally identifiable information, through online platforms. These data can be used for various purposes, including providing services for customers and obtaining revenue from sending targeted advertisements to specific individuals. The collection of consumer data has raised concerns about consumer data privacy, and whether existing data privacy laws are sufficient.”CRS noted that the 118th Congress enacted legislation prohibiting data brokers from selling, licensing, or otherwise making available personally identifiable sensitive data of an individual residing in the United States to a foreign adversary or an entity controlled by a foreign adversary, and that some bills were introduced “that would create a comprehensive data privacy law” while “several states … enacted comprehensive data privacy laws. Some of these federal bills and state laws would provide consumers with certain rights, such as the right to access and delete their data, and create requirements for companies, such as providing notice about their data collection practices.”These are all issues that the new Congress will be met with in a few short months. How the new Congress will act is another matter.
US federal agencies shift focus from perimeter to data to implement zero trust-Nov 5, 2024, 11:23 am EST | Chris Burt
Data is the new security perimeter. That notion is the foundation of a new document from the U.S. executive branch on how agencies can adopt zero-trust cybersecurity practices.The draft Federal Zero Trust Data Security Guide is a 42-page report that tells federal agencies how to define and secure the data they hold. More than 30 federal agencies and department participated in its development. The guide is accompanied by a 28-page volume of appendices that address how agencies can implement the guidance in their operations.Cybersecurity Executive Order 14028 directed the move towards zero trust led to OMB M-22-09, on “Moving the U.S. Government Towards Zero Trust Cybersecurity Principles.” That memo mandated federal officials to develop the Zero Trust Data Security Guide.The guide’s release comes just ahead of the November 7 deadline for federal agencies to submit their zero-trust implementation plans to the Office of the National Cyber Director and the Office of Management and Budget.The new guide begins with a case for the importance of data management for zero trust security, and an elucidation of zero trust data security principles.Federal bodies are instructed to set up a data inventory and a data catalogue. The data catalogue is a distinct document to help users find a particular data asset, the companion document explains.The guide also sets out essential identity, credential and access management (ICAM) practices, stating the importance of continuous monitoring, authentication, identity federation and single sign-on (SSO) systems.The importance of access controls based on users’ role, attributes and context is explained, and the role of security operations centers in vulnerability monitoring and response is set out.A section on data management has not yet been developed, and is left blank.The appendix on ICAM notes the importance of the identity assurance levels (IALs) set by NIST in SP 800-63 for identity verification and validation. It also advises implementing the principle of least privilege and behavior analytics and adaptive authentication.Zero trust adoption is picking up steam, motivated by fear of costly breaches, deepfakes and synthetic identities, but the U.S. is behind the curve, according to survey results released earlier this year by Ponemon and Entrust.
Kuwait warns foreign residents of upcoming deadline for compulsory biometric registration-Nov 5, 2024, 11:22 am EST | Ayang Macdonald
Kuwaiti authorities have called on foreign residents in the country to ensure that they complete an ongoing compulsory biometric registration exercise before the government-prescribed deadline at the end of this year.The deadline for Kuwaiti citizens to comply with the requirement elapsed in September, but aliens have until December 31 to do so.Col. Thamer Dakhin Al-Mutairi, an official from the Personnel Identification Department, is referenced by Arab Times as saying that all those who do not meet the December deadline will have their transactions disrupted.Already, the government says citizens who failed to meet the September deadline have a block on some of their transactions such as banking services, although they still have a chance to catch up.The government indicates that so far, slightly over three million people are already done with the process, while over 754,000 others are yet to do so.Al-Mutairi has also reminded residents of the points where registration takes place. He says it is safer to book appointments because all those who show up without an appointment may not be attended to by identification personnel.Kuwait mandated a compulsory collection of fingerprint biometrics from citizens and residents in May last year, saying it is part of efforts to bolster the country’s national security architecture.Digital ID apps ease services in Kuwait, Oman, Qatar-Meanwhile, in Kuwait, just like in two other Middle East nations, the use of digital ID apps is said to have seen strong adoption, leading to an improvement in access to a variety of public and private sector services.In Kuwait, authorities say the number of users of the Sahel App is growing rapidly with over 4.3 million users in October alone.This is probably thanks to the launch of the English version of the app, which now makes it easy to be accessed and used by non-Arabic speakers, per an Arab Times report.This version of the App was long awaited, and its launch in September has made it easier for English speakers to use it for access to digital government services in a faster, more secure and user-friendly manner.In Qatar, the government recently launched a digital government app to enable users obtain digital versions of their ID cards and other important documents, according to Qatar News Agency.Known as the “Qatar Digital Identity” application, the platform allows for the possibility of accessing various important services without necessarily presenting physical ID documents.As The Peninsular reports, the digital ID app can also be used for airport checks through biometric gates, electronic signature, document and identity verification, as well as access to digitally signed certificates.Over in Oman, a digital ID and government portal is being used to facilitate registration for the hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage.A recent announcement from the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs indicates that potential registrants can do so using their civil ID number, mobile number or personal card, per Muscat Daily. Oman is expected to register 14,000 pilgrims for the hajj in a process that runs from November 4-17.In the UAE, a new pensions platform, dubbed Ma’ashi, has been launched and authorities say a digital ID is required to complete transactions on it, Emirates 24/7 reports.According to the General Pension and Social Security Authority (GPSSA), new users must create an account on the Ma’ashi platform before having access to the dashboard, while old users need to confirm their ID using an email verification request.
LONG EXPLANATION OF AMERICAS DESTRUCTION (NEW YORK POLITICAL BABYLON OF REVELATION CHAPTER 18)(REVELATION CHAPTER 17 IS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE RELIOUS BABYLON THE VATICAN IN ROME)
JEREMIAH 51:29-32
29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon,(AMERICA-NEW YORK) to make the land of Babylon (NEW YORK) a desolation without an inhabitant.
30 The mighty men of Babylon (AMERICA) have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon (NEW YORK) that his city is taken at one end,
32 And that the passages are stopped,(THE WAR COMPUTERS HACKED OR EMP'D) and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.(DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO)
LEVITICUS 26:30-34 (NY IS BUILT ON A GARBAGE DUMP)
30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my (GODS) soul shall abhor you.
31 And I will make your cities waste,(GARBAGE-DESTROYED) and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
32 And I will bring the land into desolation:(RUIN) and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
33 And I will scatter you among the heathen,(ENEMY NATIONS) and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
2 KINGS 19:25
25 Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
ISAIAH 34:10
10 It (NEW YORK-POLITICAL BABYLON) shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
EZEKIEL 39:21
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
ISAIAH 18:1-2
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!(AMERICA)
JEREMIAH 50:11,37,12
11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage,(ISRAEL) because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;(BACKSLIDERS)
37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.(A NATION OF MINGLED PEOPLE)
12 Your mother (england) shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed:(MOTHER ENGLAND) behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
JEREMIAH 51:13,7,53
13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
53 Though Babylon (NEW YORK) should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.
REVELATION 18:3,5,7
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north (RUSSIA) there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon,(NEW YORK) and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK ATTACK ON NEW YORK)
REVELATION 18:9-11,15-21
9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,(NUKE ATTACK I BELIEVE FROM RUSSIA)
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.
11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
16 And saying, Alas, alas that great city, (NEW YORK) that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
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,
18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! (NEW YORK)
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.(1 HOUR NEW YORK IS GONE)
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon (NEW YORK) be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
THE CRAZY WORLD IS STILL TRYING TO POKE GOD IN THE EYE WITH THIS USELESS WASTE OF TIME ISRAEL HATE CEASEFIRE.he continued.“When the locals realized that the elephant population was dwindling, they gradually shifted their focus to fallow deer. Identifying the deer’s plentiful source, they began to develop the unique scrapers in the same place. This is the earliest instance of a phenomenon that later spread throughout the world,” Litov said.The Mount Gerizim location, near Nablus, is especially important because numerous fallow deer bones were found there at an ancient altar site. As Gerizim is associated with the Israelite’s entry into the Land of Israel and is considered a sacred site by the local Samaritan community, “apparently, the Mountains of Samaria gained a prominent, or even sacred status as early as the Paleolithic period, and retained their unique cultural position for hundreds of thousands of years,” the researchers said.
Mystery fires were Russian 'test runs' to target cargo flights to US-Paul Kirby-Europe digital editor-Frank Gardner-BBC security correspondent
A series of parcel fires targeting courier companies in Poland, Germany and the UK were dry runs aimed at sabotaging flights to the US and Canada, Polish prosecutors say.Katarzyna Calow-Jaszewska revealed late last month that four people had been arrested and authorities across Europe were investigating the incidents.Western security officials have now told US media they believe the fires - which happened in July - were part of an orchestrated campaign by Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU.Russia denies being behind acts of sabotage. But it is suspected to have been behind other attacks on warehouses and railway networks in EU member states this year, including in Sweden and in the Czech Republic.Ms Calow-Jaszewska said in a statement that a group of foreign intelligence saboteurs had been involved in sending parcels containing hidden explosives and dangerous materials via courier companies. The parcels then spontaneously burst into flames or blew up.Western officials believe the fires originated in electric massage machines containing a "magnesium-based" substance.Magnesium-based fires are hard to put out, especially on board a plane.“The group’s goal was also to test the transfer channel for such parcels, which were ultimately to be sent to the United States of America and Canada,” Ms Calow-Jaszewska said.Some of the devices originated in Lithuania, and prosecutor general Nida Grunskiene said there had been arrests there too. A pre-trial investigation was under way and law enforcement agencies from other countries were taking part, she told reporters.On three days in July, fires broke out in a container due to be loaded on to a DHL cargo plane in the German city of Leipzig, at a transport company near Warsaw, and at Minworth near Birmingham, UK, involving a package described as an incendiary device.The incident at Jablonow near Warsaw took two hours to extinguish, according to Polish reports.UK officials have given few details about the fire at Midpoint Way in Minworth on 22 July. A Met Police spokesperson confirmed that a counter-terrorism investigation was under way after a package at a commercial premises caught alight, adding that "it was dealt with by staff and the local fire brigade".Ken McCallum, head of the UK's domestic intelligence agency MI5, said last month that Russian secret agents had carried out "arson, sabotage and more. Dangerous actions conducted with increasing recklessness" after the UK had helped Ukraine in Russia's war. His allegations were flatly rejected by the Kremlin.Russia on mission to cause mayhem on UK streets, warns MI5-It is important to separate the known facts from the allegations being made and suspicions voiced by Western officials.What is beyond doubt is that this year has seen a succession of suspicious fires at cargo depots in the UK, Germany and Poland - suspicious enough to trigger investigations by counter-terrorism police.There have been other incidents across Europe and last month a man was convicted at the Old Bailey under the new National Security Act for an arson attack on a Ukrainian-owned business in Leyton, east London in March.In Germany, the head of the domestic intelligence agency (BfV) has said it was only by a stroke of fortune that the Leipzig device had not ignited in mid-air.BfV head Thomas Haldenwang has described the device that caught fire at DHL's logistics hub at Leipzig-Halle airport as suspected Russian sabotage.Taken together, these events are leading Western governments to conclude there is a strong possibility that Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency has embarked on a systematic campaign of anonymous, covert attacks on those countries helping Ukraine.The package that burst into flames in Leipzig is thought to have arrived from Lithuania and its onward flight was delayed.The device that caught fire in Minworth is also understood to have come from Lithuania, where the head of the parliament's national security and defence committee, Arvydas Pocius, said it was part of an ongoing campaign of hybrid attacks aimed at "causing chaos, panic and mistrust".DHL has increased security since the recent freight fires. "DHL Express has taken measures in all European countries to protect its network, its employees and facilities, as well as its customers' shipments," a spokeswoman said a few weeks ago.Poland's government has already responded to alleged Russian sabotage, with Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski announcing the closure of a Russian consulate in Poznan and threatening to expel the Russian ambassador if it fails to bring an end to its attacks.Russia's foreign ministry condemned the move as "a hostile step that will be met with a painful response".
Faced with flight shortage, tech firms relocate staff and seek to run a NY route-As US airlines stay away and fares are high, tech executives embark on plan to operate an airline with leased planes and crews to New York to keep sales and operations running-By Sharon Wrobel-5 November 2024, 8:33 pm
Liad Agmon is managing director of Insight Partners, a New York-based private equity firm that is invested in more than 100 Israeli startups and tech companies. Sitting in an airplane flying back from New York to Tel Aviv at the end of October, Agmon, found himself surrounded by Israel’s leading investors and founders and the main talking point was the frustration about the shortage of flight tickets, the high fares, and the need to move some operations and staff abroad.“At a board meeting [last month], we told the CEO of one of our companies that we expect him to move to the US and build a team there as soon as possible,” Agmon posted on X. “This is a conversation that is happening today in more and more companies.”Agmon, a serial entrepreneur, shared the insight in response to venture capitalist Michael Eisenberg’s outcry about the dire business travel situation for entrepreneurs, executives and their employees in Israel, which is causing disruptions to their operations and development plans and is bound to adversely affect the country’s economy.Since war broke out with the Hamas terror group following the October 7 onslaught on southern Israeli communities, foreign airlines have repeatedly canceled and resumed their flights to and from Israel. In recent months, US airlines completely stopped flying to Israel amid heightened fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, and as tensions rise in the Middle East.Earlier this week, American Airlines announced it is extending the suspension of flights to Tel Aviv from March 2025 until September as Israel escalated its response to Hezbollah’s near-daily rocket and drone attacks, including on central Israel, and came under the second attack from Iran.Delta Airlines and UK flag carrier British Airways canceled their routes to Israel until April next year joining an array of foreign airlines that have recently extended their flight suspensions. Israeli airlines, namely El Al, Arkia and Israir, have all continued flying to and from Israel throughout the war, only canceling flights when Ben Gurion Airport or Israeli airspace closes.“If you need to fly to New York next week, there is not even a waiting list you can sign up for in any class whether economy or business,” Eisenberg lamented. “An entrepreneur called me to inform me that he relocated the sales manager and two other support staff to work from abroad because there is no seat availability and flights are expensive when they need to meet customers and attend global conferences.”As the co-founder of Tel Aviv-based venture capital firm Aleph, Eisenberg manages $850 million in assets. The VC fund has invested in over 60 companies including Lemonade, Melio, Windward, Simply, Honeybook and Empathy.“The flight suspensions have become more permanent, and at the same time there are fewer and fewer options for investors to come to Israel and for founders and CEOs to meet investors because there are no flights,” Eisenberg told The Times of Israel. “We are seeing over the last 60 days executives and other staff having to move out of the country because they simply can’t get to their customers.”That’s because Israel’s tech industry doesn’t have a “local market so the availability of flights is the single most important thing for tech companies to be able to operate out of Israel,” Eisenberg added.Maayan Shahar, director of strategic partnerships at UST Spark Israel, noted that because of the limited flight availability many Israeli executives are now taking longer legs when they travel, and are staying overseas for work for longer periods.“Some companies have accelerated processes because of the situation, meaning that the CEO or salespeople relocated this year instead of maybe in 2025 or later,” Shahar said.Israel attracts most of its tech investments from abroad, with the US market representing the main market for expansion. About 80% of venture capital investments in local high-tech startups have been generated from foreign funds in recent years.The economy’s dependence on the tech sector has significantly grown in the past decades. The tech industry contributes about a fifth of the local GDP, versus 6.2% in 1995, and makes up more than 50% of total exports, while its employees generate a third of the tax revenue collected by the government, according to data by the Israel Innovation Authority.Like many around them, Eisenberg and Agmon are voicing their disappointment that the government has been missing in action to encourage and support foreign airlines to resume their flight services to Israel.“What’s incredible is that it wasn’t the war, it wasn’t the contentious judicial reform [proposed in January 2023], it was the incompetence of not being able to get airlines to fly here, that caused Israelis to actually have to leave,” said Eisenberg. “That’s lost tax revenue for the country and lost opportunity to build big companies here.”Eisenberg has directly appealed to Transportation Minister Miri Regev and Economy Minister Nir Barkat to take action and “do what is needed to remove the siege,” but with no success.“One thing that the government needed to do is to take care of flights and what worries me is this level of incompetence that is dangerous to our economy and to our prosperity because more and more companies will be growing outside of Israel,” he warned.Asked about what the government could do to ease business travel, Eisenberg suggested that it could “decide to provide guarantees to foreign carriers or charter more planes and add more flights by local carriers, including to destinations in Europe where there are connections to the US, which is the main market for the high-tech industry.”But Israel’s tech ecosystem is not waiting for the government to take action.Israel’s high-tech headquarters — a forum of leading entrepreneurs and founders of startup companies, investors and managers of venture capital funds — is advancing an initiative to operate a seasonal airline with leased planes and crews to bolster the route between Tel Aviv and New York slated to start running in January through at least March.The forum of tech executives is in talks to operate a total of 36 direct weekly flights that would depart at midnight from Israel and land at Newark Airport early in the morning on weekdays, with one flight departing over the weekend.“We are experiencing a prolonged shortage of flights and currently there are no solutions for those who need to fly to the US, while prices are sky high,” the Israel high-tech headquarters said. “We decided not to wait for solutions from the Transport Ministry and produce them ourselves.”“We are planning to open up this possibility to the general public and hope that we will be able to start selling tickets through travel agents offered at fair prices similar to pre-war flights to the US,” the forum added.
WARN THE PEOPLE-WW3
EZEKIEL 33:1-6
1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:
3 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
4 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.
6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.
DANIEL 11:40-45 (WW3 BREAKDOWN)
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
ISAIAH 24:1
1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste,(NUKES USED) and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(ARAB/MUSLIM) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man;(RIOTS-BURNING-MURDEROUUS RAGE) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM WANTS WORLD DOMINATION) and every man's hand against him;(DEFENDING THEMSELVES) and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(ARAB/MUSLIMS LIVE WITH ISRAELIS)
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
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 THEIR MOON GOD ALLAH)
ISAIAH 14:12-23
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, (SATAN) son of the morning! (HEBREW MEANS CRESCENT MOON ANGEL-ISLAM OVIOUSLY)(SATAN IS THE GOD OF 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 will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.
EZEKIEL 31:10-17
10 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.
12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:
14To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.(HELL).
15Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
17They also went down into hell with him unto [them that be] slain with the sword; and [they that were] his arm, [that] dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
18To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with [them that be] slain by the sword. This [is] Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
EZEKIEL 32:17-32
17 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, [even] her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.
20 They shall fall in the midst of [them that are] slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.
21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
22 Asshur [is] there and all her company: his graves [are] about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:
23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.
24 There [is] Elam (IRAN) and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves [are] round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of [them that be] slain.
26 There [is] Meshech, Tubal,(RUSSIA) (GERMANY, TURKEY) and all her multitude: her graves [are] round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.
27And they shall not lie with the mighty [that are] fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though [they were] the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
28 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with [them that are] slain with the sword.
29 There [is] Edom,(JORDAN) her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by [them that were] slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.
30 There [be] the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with [them that be] slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.
31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, [even] Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with [them that are] slain with the sword, [even] Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
EZEKIEL 38:1-23
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I (GOD) will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say,(RUSSIA-ARAB-MUSLIMS) I will go up to the land of unwalled villages;(ISRAEL) I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil,(OIL IS IN SPOIL) and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
13 Sheba, and Dedan,(SAUDI-ARABIA) and the merchants of Tarshish,(SPAIN) with all the young lions thereof,(ENGLAND,AND ALL ITS ASSOCIATES-CANADA,AUSTRALIA-NEW ZEALAND, USA, AND WESTERN ENGLISH SPEAKING NATIONS) shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?(OIL IS IN SPOIL-I BELIEVE THATS WHY RUSSIA,ARAB/MUSLIMS MARCH TO ISRAEL)
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
EZEKIEL 39:11-22
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
REVELATION 19:17-18
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;(AGAINST ALL NATIONS ARMIES THAT COME AGAINST JERUSALEM AND ISRAEL)
18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
PROOF HALF ON EARTH DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD (8 BILLION ON EARTH)
REVELATION 6:7-8 (8 BILLION- 2 BILLION = 6 BILLION)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 BILLION) to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
REVELATION 9:15,18 (6 BILLION - 2 BILLION = 4 BILLION)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,
18 By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS)
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE 17:34-37 (8 TOTAL BILLION - 4 BILLION DEAD IN TRIB = 4 BILLION TO JESUS KINGDOM) (HALF DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS)(GOD DOES NOT LIE)(AND NOTICE MOST DIE IN WAR AND DISEASES-NOT COMETS-ASTEROIDS-QUAKES OR TSUNAMIS)
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.(half earths population 4 billion die in the 7 yr trib)
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES.BECAUSE NOT HALF OF PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.AND THE CONTEXT IN LUKE 17 IS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION OR 7 YR TREATY PERIOD.WHICH IS JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH.NOT 50% RAPTURED TO HEAVEN.
MATTHEW 24:37-42 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)(50% OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE)
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.(ON EARTH)
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.(ON EARTH)
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
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 32:18-29 (NOTICE ALL THE COUNTRIES LAND PROMISED ISRAEL BY GOD ARE IN THE JORDAN VALLEY BURIED)
18 “Son of man, wail for the multitudes of Egypt, and consign her and the daughters of the mighty nations to the depths of the earth with those who descend to the Pit:
19 Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be placed with the uncircumcised! (IN HELL FIRES)
20 They will fall among those slain by the sword. The sword is appointed! Let them drag her away along with all her multitudes.
21 Mighty chiefs will speak from the midst of Sheol about Egypt and her allies: ‘They have come down and lie with the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword.’
22 Assyria (SYRIA) is there with her whole company; her graves are all around her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword.
23 Her graves are set in the depths of the Pit, and her company is all around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword—those who once spread terror in the land of the living.
24 Elam (IRAN) is there with all her multitudes around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword—those who went down uncircumcised to the earth below, who once spread their terror in the land of the living. They bear their disgrace with those who descend to the Pit.
25 Among the slain they prepare a resting place for Elam with all her hordes, with her graves all around her. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword, although their terror was once spread in the land of the living. They bear their disgrace with those who descend to the Pit. They are placed among the slain.
26 Meshech and Tubal (RUSSIA) are there with all their multitudes, with their graves all around them. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword, because they spread their terror in the land of the living.
27 They do not lie down with the fallen warriors of old, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were placed under their heads, whose shields rested on their bones, although the terror of the mighty was once in the land of the living.
28 But you too will be shattered and lie down among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword.
29 Edom (JORDAN) is there, and all her kings and princes, who despite their might are laid among those slain by the sword. They lie down with the uncircumcised, with those who descend to the Pit.THIS IS RIGHT FROM 93:
SECOND ANGEL: MIDDLE EAST
Then I saw that the second angel had a sickle in his hand, such as is used in harvesting.The second angel said: "Harvest time has come in Israel and the countries all the way to Iran."I saw those countries in a few split seconds."All of Turkey and those [inaudible] countries that have refused me and refused my message of love shall hate each other and kill one another."I saw the angel raise the sickle and come down on all the Middle East countries. I saw Iran, Persia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, all of Georgia - Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, all of Asia Minor - full of blood. I saw blood all over these countries. And I saw fire; Nuclear weapons used in many of those countries. Smoke rising from everywhere. Sudden destruction – men destroying one another. I heard these words:"Israel, Oh Israel, the great judgment has come." The angel said, "The chosen, the church, the remnant, shall be purified. The Spirit of God shall prepare the children of God."I saw fires rising to heaven.The angel said: "This is the final judgment. My church shall be purified, protected and ready for the final day. Men will die from thirst. Water shall be scarce all over the Middle East. Rivers shall dry up, and men will fight for water in those countries."The angel showed me that the United Nations shall be broken in pieces because of the crisis in the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.
PSALMS 83:1-8 (GODS LAND PROMISED TO ISRAEL)
1 O God, do not remain silent;do not turn a deaf ear,do not stand aloof, O God.
2 See how your enemies growl, how your foes rear their heads.
3 With cunning they (ARAB,MUSLIMS) conspire against your people;they plot against those you cherish.(ISRAELIS)
4 “Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.”
5 With one mind they plot together;(TREATIES) they form an alliance against you—
6 the tents of Edom (JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites, (EGYPTIAN ARABS SO CALLED PALESTIANS) of Moab (JORDAN) and the Hagrites,(EGYPT)
7 Byblos,(HEZBOLLOH) Ammon (JORDAN) and Amalek,(SYRIAN ARABS IN THE SINAI) Philistia,(ARABS) with the people of Tyre (LEBANON).
8 Even Assyria (SYRIA) has joined them to reinforce Lot’s descendants.
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.
1 OF 3 GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO
1-PROMISCUOUS SEX AMOUNG EACH OTHER.
ROMANS 1:24
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: (THE 60S FREE SEX)
2 OF 3 GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO
2-SODOMITES - MEN LUSTING MEN, AND WOMEN LUSTING AFTER WOMEN.
ROMANS 1:26-27
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
3 OF 3 GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO
3-A DEPRAVED MIND-ANY SIN GOES.
ROMANS 1:28-31
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO THESE 3 DEPRAVED ABOMINATION SINS?
OH OH NOAHS DAY. WHAT HAPPENED IN NOAHS DAY. THE WHOLE WORLD WAS JUDGED BY WATER.
GENESIS 6:7,17
7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
GENESIS 7:4
4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
GENESIS 8:16
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
WELL THE SODOMITES PICKED THE RIGHT SIGN OF A RAINBOW FOR JUDGEMENT. THE SODOMITES TRYED TO STEAL GODS SIGN THAT THE WHOLE EARTH WILL NEVER DIE FROM FLOOD WATERS AGAIN. BUT THE JUDGEMENT THIS TIME IS GOING TO BE BY FIRE.NOT WATER.
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
EZIKIEL 38:12-13
13 Sheba, and Dedan,(SAUDIA ARABIA) and the merchants of Tarshish,(ENGLAND) with all the young lions thereof,(USA,CANADA,AUSTRALIA,NEW ZEALAND,EU,ENGLAND,ENGLISH SPEAKING shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil? (AGAINST ISRAEL)
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, (RUSSIA AND HER MUSLIMS HORDES)Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST
1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
GENESIS 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
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.(ALL THESE ARAB, MUSLIMS ARE OCCUPYING ISRAELS LAND. GET OFF IMMEDIATELY. BECAUSE YOUR DEATH CULT DAYS ARE NUMBERED)
ISLAMIC DEATH CULT AND FAKE MOHAMMAAD AND FAKE MOON GOD ALLAH WHICH IS SIMPLY SATAN IS THE LEADER OF ISLAM.
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart:(WARS AND DEATH) and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.(CHINA CONTROLS AMERICAS ECONOMY BY BUYING UP DEBT)
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
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 THEIR MOON GOD ALLAH)
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(ARAB/MUSLIM) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man;(RIOTS-BURNING-MURDEROUUS RAGE) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM WANTS WORLD DOMINATION) and every man's hand against him;(DEFENDING THEMSELVES) and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(ARAB/MUSLIMS LIVE WITH ISRAELIS)
The Family Tree of Ishmael
12 This is the family tree of Ishmael son of Abraham, the son that Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maid, bore to Abraham.
13-16 These are the names of Ishmael’s sons in the order of their births: Nebaioth, Ishmael’s firstborn, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah—all the sons of Ishmael. Their settlements and encampments were named after them. Twelve princes with their twelve tribes.
(ISLAM CLAIMS MOHAMMID IS A OFF SPRING OF ISHMAEL THE FIRST BASTARD CHILD OF THE ARABS WITH A SLAVE MOTHER TO THE ISRAELIS.DOES ANY ONE SEE THE NAME OF MOHAMMID IN ISHMAELS FAMILY TREE. BECAUSE I SURE DON'T. I DOUBT MOHAMMID EVEN EXISTS. AND SATAN IS THE LEADER OF ISLAM HHIMSELF. SO ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION AT ALL. ISLAM IS NOTHING BUT A DEATH CULT THAT WORSHIPS DEATH. AND WILL BURN IN HELL FIRE, THEN THE FINAL JUDGEMENT IN FRONT OF JESUS.ONLY TO BE THROWN IN THE LAKE OF FIRE FOREVER WITH THEIR NEVER DYING BODIES.ISLAM EXPOSED AS A FRAUD SATAN LIE AND MURDER DEAT CULT.
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 8:44
44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
'He was born to be a trumpet of God' Why Trump is being compared to the obscure biblical king Jehu on the Christian right-Some pastors are urging their followers to think of the Republican candidate as a present-day manifestation of the monarch who violently killed the evil Jezebel-By Asaf Elia-Shalev 5 November 2024, 1:30 am
JTA — Donald Trump’s fans and critics alike have compared him to some of history’s most famous rulers: Cyrus the Great, Adolf Hitler, King David, and more.But on the eve of the election, a celebrity pastor named Jonathan Cahn wants his evangelical followers to think of the Republican candidate as a present-day manifestation of a far more obscure leader: the biblical king Jehu, who vanquished the morally corrupt house of Ahab to become the 10th ruler of the Kingdom of Israel.“President Trump, you were born into the world to be a trumpet of God, a vessel of the Lord in the hands of God. God called you to walk according to the template; He called you according to the template of Jehu, the warrior king,” Cahn told the hundreds of Christian leaders who gathered last week for the National Faith Summit outside Atlanta. He also shared a clip of his prophecy about Trump on his YouTube channel, which has more than a million followers.What Cahn means — and why at least one scholar of the Christian right says he is worried — requires some background. Cahn, 65, is the son of a Holocaust refugee and grew up in a Jewish household in New Jersey. When he was 20, he says he had a personal revelation that led him to Jesus, and he eventually became the head of a Messianic congregation, blending Jewish rituals with Christian worship and a focus on doomsday prophecies.Cahn helped popularize the interpretation of 9/11 as an apocalyptic biblical allegory. In his telling, the terrorist attacks were akin to God’s rebuke of the biblical nation of Israel, and they happened because God wanted the United States to revert to a time before legalized abortion and gay rights, when religion held a more central place in society — or else. His book on the topic, “The Harbinger,” came out in 2012 and spent months on The New York Times bestseller list.Cahn continued to release commercially successful books, and combined with his social media activity, he established a growing and enthusiastic audience for his prophetic warnings.Then Trump came along. During Trump’s first term, many evangelical Christian supporters explained his lack of religiosity by comparing him to Cyrus, the pagan ruler of ancient Persia, who served as God’s agent by, according to the Bible, helping the Israelites return home from exile. In 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, amid an effort to build stronger ties with the evangelical movement, praised Trump as a modern-day Cyrus.But Cahn had spun a different prophetic narrative about the new American president. He released a book called “The Paradigm” a few months after the 2016 election, which cast Trump as Jehu, the biblical king who took control of and restored the Kingdom of Israel, whose territory largely overlapped with parts of present-day Israel and Lebanon. Just as Jehu killed the idol-worshipers who had taken over the kingdom, Trump would “drain the swamp” of Washington and “make America great again.”In this contemporary rendition, Hillary and Bill Clinton play the role of Ahab and Jezebel, the evil rulers who led the kingdom astray. Jezebel is also seen as wicked in the Jewish tradition, but she is far more prominent as a symbol in evangelical discourse today, representing feminism, sexual promiscuity, and moral decay.In the 2024 election, the replacement of Biden with Harris as the Democratic candidate challenging Trump allowed the template of Jehu-versus-Jezebel to get updated and become salient again.Two weeks before Cahn spoke at the National Faith Summit, an ally of his named Ché Ahn evoked the comparison at another mass religious event. Ahn heads Harvest Rock Church in Pasadena, California, as well as a network of thousands of ministries all over the world. He is a leader of a spiritual movement known as New Apostolic Reformation, which aims for Christians to dominate society and government. Major Republican figures like Mike Pompeo, Sarah Palin, and Josh Hawley have visited Ahn’s church, reflecting the growing influence of Christian nationalism on the Republican party.On October 12, Yom Kippur, Ahn appeared at the “Million Women March” event on the National Mall, speaking before a crowd of tens of thousands with many wearing prayer shawls or blowing shofars — traditionally Jewish symbols highlighting the movement’s overlap with Messianic Judaism.“Jehu will cast down Jezebel,” Ahn said, and prophesized a victory by Trump over Harris.The social media user who brought the recent Jehu comparisons to wider notice through posts on X is Matthew Taylor, a scholar of the Christian right at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, & Jewish Studies, a Baltimore-based interfaith research and advocacy group, dedicated to “[dismantling] religious bias and bigotry.”“Since Harris became the candidate this summer, we’ve seen the Jehu image really rise to the surface much more,” Taylor said in an interview. “This is the story [Cahn and Ahn] want running through their followers’ heads, their lens for interpreting the election and its aftermath.”In the grim biblical story, recounted in the book of II Kings, as Jehu ascends the throne, he kills Jezebel by ordering her thrown out of a palace window, after which he stomps on her body, which is then eaten by dogs. The new warrior king then goes on a killing spree, slaying the families of Ahab and Jezebel and other Baal-worshiping pagans who had despoiled the kingdom.“Jehu came to the capital city with an agenda to drain the swamp,” Cahn said in his speech, addressing Trump, who also spoke at the National Faith Summit. “Jehu formed an alliance with the religious conservatives of the land. So, it was your destiny to do the same. Jehu overturned the cult of Baal by which children were sacrificed. So, God chose you to overturn America’s cult of Baal, Roe vs. Wade.”Cahn and Ahn did not respond to a request to their ministries from JTA to discuss the theology of their recent statements.Neither pastor elaborated on the analogy they were drawing and neither made an explicit call for violence. But Trump has generated widespread concern by speaking of retribution, calling his political opponents “the enemy from within,” and talking about using the military against political enemies if he wins.Given the riots that took place at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, after Trump challenged the election results, and his ongoing promotion of electron fraud narratives, independent experts and government agencies are warning of increased political violence. Many Jewish leaders are particularly concerned because Trump recently blamed Jews for his potential defeat.Taylor says the pastors’ followers would be familiar with the biblical story of Jehu and he believes that they are priming their audience to accept violence during the election or afterward.In a post on X, formerly Twitter, that surfaced the Jehu prophecies, Taylor voiced his alarm.“If Trump wins in this election, the Jehu ‘template’ tells Trump’s Christian supporters: some real-world violence may be needed to purge America of her demons,” Taylor wrote. “If Trump loses this election, particularly to Kamala Harris, their ‘Jezebel,’ the Jehu template prescribes vengeance.”The high-tech headquarters was formed as part of the protest movement at the beginning of last year as tech sector workers took to the streets to protest the government’s contentious plans to overhaul the judicial system. It is led by tech executives including Erez Shachar, co-founder of Qumra Capital, and leaders at tech and investment companies such as Papaya Global, Mellanox, Pitango, monday.com, Wix, Yotpo and Fireblocks.
I have not allowed, will not allow, any harm to the IDF' Gallant, after he’s fired, warns Israel is abandoning captives, risks ‘mark of Cain’ Defense minister says Netanyahu axed him because he opposed Haredi draft exemptions, supported a hostage deal and called for a state commission of inquiry into October 7 attack-By ToI Staff Today, 3:37 am-NOV 5,24
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, speaking after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu abruptly fired him from his role, warned that Israel would forever bear “the mark of Cain” if it abandons the hostages held in Gaza, and saluted the IDF, hostages and fallen soldiers, in a forceful denunciation of the government from which he was dismissed.Netanyahu fired the defense chief Tuesday evening, citing a breakdown of trust between the two, which the prime minister claimed helped Israel’s enemies. The move drew fierce condemnation from the political opposition and civil society groups, and brought thousands to the streets in protest.Gallant said his dismissal stemmed from disagreements on three issues: ultra-Orthodox military conscription, a hostage deal with Hamas, and a state commission of inquiry into the government’s failures related to the October 7 attack that sparked the ongoing Gaza war.His remarks were delivered three hours after Netanyahu fired him and as opposition politicians pilloried the move, accusing the prime minister of playing politics at the expense of national security.Visibly emotional as he spoke from the Defense Ministry headquarters, Gallant said his priorities “have remained constant and clear throughout nearly fifty years of public service, [and] are as follows: The State of Israel; the IDF and the security establishment, and only afterward, everything else, including my personal future.”Choking up, Gallant said that Israel’s security has been his life’s mission, and lauded “a series of impressive achievements, unprecedented in the history of the State of Israel,” which he attributed to “the IDF, the Shin Bet, the Mossad, and the entire security system.”I salute Israel’s fallen troops and their families, our wounded veterans, the hostages and their families, all of the IDF’s troops and security forces.I trust you and salute you. pic.twitter.com/7BuM2v8fyT— יואב גלנט – Yoav Gallant (@yoavgallant) November 5, 2024-The Likud party lawmaker, who has repeatedly clashed with Netanyahu over the handling of the war, already had a stormy relationship with the prime minister before Hamas’s attack last year.In 2023, Gallant spoke out against the Netanyahu government’s proposed overhaul of the judicial system, warning that the national rift over the issue had come to constitute a tangible security threat, prompting the prime minister to fire him — only to backtrack two weeks later amid massive public outcry.In his speech on Tuesday, Gallant called the issue of exempting Haredi men from military service “no longer just a social matter; it is the most critical matter for our existence.”The defense minister noted that since Hamas’s invasion of southern Israel last October, hundreds of soldiers have been killed, and thousands have been wounded.“The coming years will present us with complex challenges; wars are not over, and the sound of battle has not ceased. We must face these future challenges head-on and prepare,” he said.“Under these circumstances, there is no choice — everyone must serve in the IDF and participate in the mission to defend the State of Israel.”Gallant denounced what he called the “discriminatory, corrupt law” pushed by the coalition’s United Torah Judaism and Shas parties to preserve the exemption of ultra-Orthodox men from mandatory military service.The defense minister has been a vocal opponent of the bill, which was proposed after the High Court ruled there was no longer any valid legal framework for the existing de-facto exemption, and Netanyahu’s decision to fire Gallant on Tuesday was widely seen as linked to coalition politics surrounding the issue.Gallant also attributed his dismissal to Netanyahu’s position on a deal with Hamas, which together with other terror groups continues to hold 101 hostages, living and dead, in the Gaza Strip — vowing to release them only if Israel ends the ongoing war and withdraws its troops from the enclave.Israel has a “moral obligation and responsibility to bring our kidnapped sons and daughters back home as quickly as possible, with as many alive as possible, to their families,” he said, saying that to do so is “achievable, but involves painful compromises that Israel can bear, and the IDF can deal with.”Netanyahu has refused to sign off on a full withdrawal from Gaza in exchange for a hostage release, insisting, among other things, on maintaining a presence along the so-called Philadelphi Corridor along the Egypt-Gaza border — a demand that infuriated Gallant when it was declared, and which the defense minister publicly called on the government to reverse.“We cannot bring back those hostages who have died,” Gallant said Tuesday.“There is and will not be any atonement for abandoning the captives. It will be a mark of Cain on the forehead of Israeli society and those leading this mistaken path.”Gallant also addressed his support for a state commission of inquiry into the government’s failures related to the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack.“When it comes to the national level — political, security and military — there is a name for uncovering the truth and learning from it: a state commission of inquiry,” he said.Netanyahu has refused to allow a state commission of inquiry into October 7, despite calls from across the political spectrum that he do so.The prime minister is thought to prefer a lower-level inquiry, with more limited investigative powers. Critics say he seeks to avoid being blamed for failures that enabled Hamas to attack.In July, Gallant publicly called for a state commission of inquiry, demanding it “examine all of us: the decision-makers and professionals, the government, the army and security services, this government — and the governments over the last decade that led to the events of October 7.”The defense minister repeated his call on Tuesday: “I have said, and I repeat, I am responsible for the security establishment over the past two years — for the successes and the failures. Only sunlight and a truthful investigation will allow us to learn and build our strength to face future challenges,” he said.Concluding his speech, Gallant emphasized that “difficult challenges still await us, against Iran and its proxies in the region.” Israelis are “destined to live for many more years by the sword, but it is better that the sword remains in our hands than is placed at our throats,” he said.“In this regard, I say: The IDF and other security organizations are the shield that grants life to the State of Israel. I have not allowed and will not allow any harm to come to the IDF or the other security organizations, the commanders, and the soldiers,” he said.In final comments that did not mention Netanyahu by name, Gallant warned of “a moral darkness” that has descended on the country, and urged elected officials to adopt the same path that he said the security establishment has always followed.Finally, the defense minister said he wished “to salute the fallen and their families, the wounded and the disabled, the captives and their families, and the IDF fighters wherever they may be. I trust you and salute you,” and saluted from the podium for several seconds, then left without taking questions.Opposition Leader Yair Lapid responded to Gallant’s speech, writing on X that the defense minister’s concluding gesture would be recorded by the public as an iconic act of defiance.“Gallant’s salute at the end of his speech will be engraved in the memory of every Israeli,” said Lapid.“This is how an officer and fighter behaves who was fired only because he refused to prefer Netanyahu’s wretched politics over the good of the fighters and the lives of the hostages,” he added.National Unity Leader Benny Gantz, who sat on the now-defunct war cabinet with Gallant in the first months after the Hamas attack, called on the outgoing defense minister not to resign from the Knesset altogether, but rather “to stay and make his important voice heard on the critical issues at hand.“Yoav — your voice is important, your experience is important, keep standing guard,” Gantz wrote on X.
'In roundabout way, Jewish community has come home to Dems' Jewish regent at U of Michigan says Trump not the answer to anti-Israel campus unrest-Jordan Acker calls protesters hounding him on US Election Day a fringe, touts efforts of Harris-led Democratic Party to make American Jews ‘part of the coalition she’s building’By Jacob Magid-Today, 2:40 am-NOV 5,24
MICHIGAN — University of Michigan board member Jordan Acker arrived on campus in Ann Arbor on Tuesday in order to hand out pizza to student voters as he has in previous elections.But this year, he was accompanied by a security detail — a precaution he was asked to take after the June vandalization of his law firm’s office building, which police are investigating as a hate crime.The University of Michigan’s Board of Regents has been a primary target for anti-Israel student protesters who have sought unsuccessfully to coax the school into divesting from businesses and institutions connected to Israel amid the war in Gaza.Acker says he has been personally singled out because he is Jewish, noting that non-Jewish regents with similar views have not received the same treatment.The harassment continued on Tuesday shortly after he arrived on campus, where a handful of anti-Israel protesters managed to track him down.The activists shouted various accusations and grievances at Acker, claiming that he “supports Israeli genocide” in Gaza and is behind the “persecution” of anti-Israel protesters who were recently indicted for trespassing and resisting law enforcement during the break-up of a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus.Thank you for coming to campus and for the wonderful conversation @JordanAckerMI !!! One more time since you were so shy on camera, why do you want students to be brutalized for calling for accountability from elected officials like yourself who deny and fund genocide??? pic.twitter.com/UmHwxr6Va5 — TAHRIR Coalition (@TAHRIRumich) November 5, 2024“You’re using your power as an elected official to persecute your own political enemies,” one of the protesters could be heard shouting at Acker in a video uploaded to X by the Tahrir coalition of pro-Palestinian students groups at the University of Michigan.The group eventually swelled to 30 protesters and Acker’s security detail had to briefly escort him back into his vehicle.Nonetheless, Acker together with colleagues from his law firm managed to dish out pizza slices to roughly 1,000 students during their four hours on campus.While the issue of campus antisemitism appears to be one more likely to galvanize Republican voters who have pointed to former president Donald Trump’s pledges to deport anti-Israel protesters, Acker rejected the notion that the Republican nominee is better suited to address the issue.Speaking to The Times of Israel throughout Election Day, he explained his decision to campaign for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris over the past several months.He recognized some initial apprehension among Jewish voters after Harris replaced US President and self-described Zionist Joe Biden as the party’s nominee in July. “But to my pleasant surprise, she’s exceeded expectations.”Acker pointed to the Democratic National Convention in August when Harris’s aides ensured a speaking slot for the parents of American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin. “It sent a strong message about American Jews being part of the coalition she’s building.”He contrasted that with the DNC’s decision not to platform a representative from the Uncommitted movement of pro-Palestinian activists, who have called for an arms embargo against Israel and led a protest vote against Biden in the primaries.Harris “has been consistent about her support for Israel’s right to defend itself after October 7, and says this everywhere she goes,” Acker continued.“In a roundabout way, the Jewish community has come home (to the Democratic Party) in a way that I didn’t expect,” he said.Speaking at a polling station in the Detroit suburb of Oak Park earlier Tuesday, he highlighted Trump’s pledges to dismantle the US Department of Education, which is tasked with probing incidents of campus antisemitism, which “would be devastating for Jewish students.”Harris has issued statements condemning protesters who have harassed Jewish students, but has also expressed sympathy for pro-Palestinian activists, as she has apparently sought to avoid alienating progressive voters frustrated with the Biden administration’s support for Israel in the war against Hamas.“This whole idea that the Democrats are coddling up to the campus protesters — it’s simply not true,” Acker maintained.He said that the Harris campaign has made a point to only engage with Arab and Muslim American community leaders who back coexistence, ending meetings with more controversial figures such as Arab American News publisher Osama Siblani, who has praised Hamas and Hezbollah and met with Biden administration officials last February. While Harris’s campaign chief met with Siblani in August, Acker argued that sit-down occurred when she was still getting her footing as the nominee and that such meetings have since ceased.“It shows that the campaign has adapted and understands who its friends are,” Acker said, juxtaposing that decision with the one Trump made in late 2022 to dine with white nationalist Nick Fuentes and rapper Kanye West, who have engaged in antisemitism and Holocaust denial.The University of Michigan regent also pushed back against Trump’s calls to deport anti-Israel protesters residing in the US on student visas.“What Donald Trump needs to also understand is that there’s a First Amendment in America, and you have the right to protest,” Acker said. “You don’t have the right to make people feel unsafe on campus, but this whole concept that we throw people we don’t like out of the country is, frankly, very un-American.”While acknowledging that Democrats were initially caught flat-footed in its response to the surge post-October 7 surge in campus antisemitism, Acker said the party has since adapted its approach. The party has backed campus leaders who have begun rightfully differentiating between pro-Palestinian activists and antisemites, he claimed.“There are groups of student leaders who are dedicated to Palestinian rights and who feel that the occupation is unacceptable, but there are others who are simply dedicated to eliminating public Jews from public life,” he said. “This is about separating those two and saying it is okay to be pro-Palestine, but it is not okay to make Jews feel uncomfortable, especially public Jews.”Moreover, Acker insisted that the students harassing him are a fringe minority and should not be conflated with the Democratic Party.“If there are Democrats engaged in this kind of behavior, I am committed to ridding them from the party, but the protesters targeting me today are not Democrats. These are not Kamala voters. These are Jill Stein voters,” he says, referring to the far-left, third-party presidential candidate.Acker did try to engage in a conversation with one of the protesters but said he ended it abruptly after the student characterized testimony of Hamas’s sexual violence on October 7 as “propaganda.”
n this Jewish neighborhood of LA, the US presidential race is all about Israel-Residents of Pico-Robertson, a Jewish enclave with split-down-the-middle politics, say it’s a ‘tough year for Jews to decide’ how to vote amid war in Israel and rising antisemitism-By jacob gurvis Today, 1:41 am-NOV 5,24
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Avi, a 35-year-old nurse from Los Angeles, has never voted before.But on Monday, he was headed to a polling station at a synagogue in the Jewish neighborhood of Pico-Robertson to cast an early ballot. What’s driving him to vote this time, he said, was Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel last year and its aftermath. That’s also why he’s voting for Donald Trump.“Since October 7 I’ve been paying more attention to things related to Israel, and I care more than I did before,” said Avi, who is Jewish and declined to share his last name. “I haven’t been particularly happy with how the Biden-Harris administration has handled Israel since October 7. In the immediate aftermath it was OK but since then I think they’ve put a leash on Israel.”October 7 has changed the lives and feelings of many American Jews — and is shaping how they think about Tuesday’s election in states across the country. In Pico-Robertson, that shift may well take the form of a split neighborhood now leaning more toward Trump.Like voters nationwide, Pico residents said they were feeling anxious about an election they have experienced as divisive. Several would not share their names, and a number of others declined to give interviews at all. And like Avi, many said they expected to vote for Trump because of his Israel policies.“I think a lot of people just don’t know which way it’s going to go,” said Miriam Mark, the executive director of a Jewish organization doing voter outreach, about the overall election outcome. “I think there’s a healthy dose of fear out there.”Pico-Robertson is filled with synagogues of multiple denominations, kosher restaurants and other Jewish businesses and institutions. Many residents are Orthodox, but a Conservative rabbinical school recently moved to the neighborhood, which last year was the site of a pair of antisemitic shootings.How the neighborhood voted in 2020 depends on where its borders lie. According to the Los Angeles Times, Pico-Robertson’s main precinct was nearly split in 2020, with 602 votes for Biden compared to 578 for Trump. A New York Times election map of the area says it went narrowly for Trump, 848 to 751, a red-hued island in blue Los Angeles.Those numbers make the neighborhood an outlier among Jews nationally, who historically vote in large majorities for the Democratic candidate. But it accords with the country’s Orthodox Jewish community, which has shifted heavily in recent years toward Republicans and Trump.Area voters understood that no matter which direction the neighborhood goes, it will have zero impact on the national result: Barring a seismic shock, California’s electoral votes will go to Kamala Harris. That hasn’t made voters there any less conflicted, though.“I’m not sure, so much, that my vote in California matters,” said a 36-year-old lawyer who lives in the neighborhood and declined to share his name. “But in my community I talk to my friends and family about what makes sense and in my view, there’s not a clear choice for Jews in terms of Israel.”A woman who lives in nearby Beverly Hills, another Republican-leaning area, who was finishing up her grocery shopping at the neighborhood’s kosher Elat Market, said she was also concerned about the vote.“Everyone I talk to is extremely stressed out by the election,” said the woman, who declined to share her name. “It’s probably the most important election of my lifetime, and I’m 75.”She is voting for Harris — mainly as a vote against Trump, whom she called “unhinged.” She believes Harris, like past American presidents, will continue to be an ally to Israel and said some of her fellow Jewish voters who support Trump “don’t see beyond” his support for Israel.The lawyer, however, could not bring himself to vote for either candidate. He voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 election, but said October 7 had changed the dynamics of US politics.“The attack on Israel made a lot of theoretical questions more real in terms of the US’s funding for Israel and questions from candidates about whether there should be strings attached,” he said.While many of his friends are supporting Trump, he said the former president had too many “red flags” — ranging from his character to his 34 felony convictions to his remark that Jews would be partly to blame if he loses.“People in my community overlook the value of the character of a politician,” he said. “In my community we’re not supposed to respect someone who is so callous like that.”Of course, Pico-Robertson boasts its share of diehard Trump supporters, not least because it is home to a community of Iranian Jews as well as expats from Israel, where most people prefer Trump.Danny D., a consultant who moved to the United States from Tel Aviv around 10 years ago, voted early for the Republican candidate, who he believes will “fix things” like the economy and US-Israel relations. He said he doesn’t know anyone voting for Harris, whom he called “anti-Jewish.”“I think if Harris will be elected, I think there will be more antisemitic actions against Jews,” he said.He also fit squarely into another subset of Trump voters: He said he didn’t think his vote would matter because the election is “set up.”“I think that Trump needs to be elected but it’s going to be Kamala,” Danny said. Repeating a claim from 2020 that has been thoroughly debunked, he said that he had seen videos on Instagram of voting machines changing people’s votes from Republican to Democrat.Another voter, a part-time tutor aged 81, said she too was proudly pro-Trump. She said that after four years of each party being in power, she voted for Trump “because things were better under him than under this awful Biden-Harris thing.”The woman said she used to support Democrats. But she had started voting Republican around 2004, when the Orthodox shift toward the Republicans kicked off. She said most of her friends are supporting Trump this year, too.“It’s just the liberal secular Jews who are still voting for Democrats,” she said. She pointed to Trump backing an Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear sites as proof of his ironclad support for Israel.“He says it all there in one sentence, while Kamala runs around in circles,” she said, mispronouncing the vice president’s name.Josh Kessler, who works in Hollywood, said it was a “tough year for Jews to decide” who to support, but said he was voting for Harris. He accused both sides of pandering to Jewish voters.“There’s a lot of sensitivity and turmoil going on over the past year, and I think that’s been forced on the Jewish people,” said Kessler, 49. He said he identifies as moderate or center-right, but applauded the Biden administration’s response to October 7. He added that he believed Harris would continue to support Israel if she wins.“If you look historically, Biden-Harris has done more for Israel than any administration in US history,” said Kessler. “Harris has been painted as a progressive but I feel like in her heart she knows that Israel needs to protect itself.”Elsewhere in the neighborhood, a mobile voting center was parked outside Dr. Sandwich, a popular kosher restaurant, to encourage Jews to vote.The “Los Angeles Unites” initiative is a project of the Teach Coalition, an Orthodox Union-affiliated advocacy group focusing on Jewish education that has mobilized Jewish voters across the country.Mark, the executive director of Teach CA, the organization’s California outpost, said the program has engaged tens of thousands of voters across LA County. The mobile vote center, a large van, has traveled across the city since the initiative launched September 19, with an emphasis on educating people about the political process and encouraging them to vote, particularly in local elections.Mark said the initiative is nonpartisan and has worked with nearly 50 local Jewish schools and synagogues to reach voters through Shabbat programming, volunteer phone-banking and outreach events.Robert Lehan, who is not Jewish but is volunteering as a driver for the mobile voting center, said a lot of people have been asking him who they should vote for.Lehan said he’s heard distress from members of the Jewish community about “what’s going to happen to our country, and how is it going to affect Israel, and everything else, but primarily the Jewish community.”Mark said her background is not in politics or advocacy, but that she got involved through an effort, led by the Teach Coalition, to secure funding for Jewish special needs education in California. A court sided with the coalition last week.Mark pointed to that case as evidence that local elections matter, too, especially for Jews. She said this election was the first time she had filled out her entire ballot. And she suggested that the area’s Jews may have priorities that they can unite on, no matter who wins the White House.“We really want to make sure that people understand that there’s not just one thing on the ballot,” Mark said. “It’s so important to vote locally, because, again, as a community, if we want change for our community, we have to show local officials that we have a voice and that we have power when we come together.”
Proper management of war hindered; situation could not go on-Full text of Netanyahu speech: I fired Gallant amid crisis of faith that helped enemies-PM cites collapse of trust between him and defense minister, says Gallant made statements and took actions that contradicted government decisions-By ToI Staff Today, 12:11 am-NOV 5,24
Full text of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement to the nation after he fired Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on November 5, 2024:Citizens of Israel, my highest obligation as prime minister of Israel is to ensure Israel’s security and lead us to absolute victory.In the midst of a war, more than ever, full trust between the prime minister and the defense minister is required.Unfortunately, even though in the early months of the campaign there was such trust and very productive cooperation, in recent months, that trust has cracked.Between me and Defense Minister Gallant, significant gaps emerged regarding the management of the campaign, and these gaps were accompanied by statements and actions that contradicted government decisions and cabinet decisions.I made many attempts to bridge these gaps, but they only widened. They even became known to the public in an inappropriate manner, and worse still, they reached our enemies — who took pleasure in this and derived significant benefit from it.Anyone who knows me is aware that I welcome differing opinions in open debates; that’s how I conduct discussions, evaluations, and decision-making. Everyone knows this.But the crisis of faith between me and the defense minister became public knowledge, and this crisis now hinders the proper management of the campaign.It’s not just me saying this; the majority of the government and most of the cabinet members, almost all of them, share this feeling that this situation cannot continue.Therefore, I have decided today to end the defense minister’s tenure.In his place, I have decided to appoint Minister Israel Katz.Israel Katz has already proven his capabilities and his contribution to national security as foreign minister, finance minister, and intelligence minister for five years, and just as importantly, as a member of the Security Cabinet for many long years.He brings with him an impressive combination of extensive experience and effective execution skills. He is known as a bulldozer who combines responsibility with quiet determination, and all these qualities are crucial for managing the campaign.Additionally, today I spoke with Minister Gideon Sa’ar and invited him to join the coalition with his party and to serve as foreign minister.As a long-time government member and Security Cabinet member, Gideon Sa’ar brings with him significant experience and sound judgment in the fields of policy and security, and he will be a substantial addition to our leadership team.His and his party’s joining will add to the coalition’s stability and the government’s stability, which are extremely important at all times, especially in times of war.I am confident that these steps will strengthen the government and the cabinet, making them harmonious and cooperative bodies, working together for the security of the State of Israel, for the citizens of Israel, and for our victory.
At swearing-in ceremony, Argentina’s president compares Jewish FM to biblical Abraham-Inaugurating Gerardo Werthein, Javier Milei likens him to patriach who had a ‘responsibility to bring messages of Torah, life and freedom to the world’ By PHILISSA CRAMER 5 November 2024, 11:20 pm
JTA — When it came time to swear in his new foreign minister, Argentinian President Javier Milei turned to one of his favorite topics: the Torah.Milei, who is not Jewish, cited the week’s Torah portion, “Lech Lecha,” when inaugurating Gerardo Werthein, a Jewish businessman who is assuming the role.Milei fired Werthein’s predecessor, in part because Argentina voted at the United Nations against the US embargo of Cuba. Werthein had previously been Argentina’s ambassador to the United States.In public comments during a ceremony on Monday at Casa Rosada, his official residence, Milei drew a connection between the Torah portion, which describes God sending Abraham to the land of Canaan to create a great nation, and Werthein’s task in steering Argentina’s foreign relations.“The powers of heaven are sending you signals, Gerardo, because it speaks of the beginnings of Abraham’s travels throughout the world, spreading the messages of the creator,” Milei said in Spanish, according to a video shared online by an Argentine news agency.“God tells him in this parasha that he will have a lot of influence on the nations of the world, and gives him an important responsibility to bring the messages of the Torah, of life and freedom to the entire world.”[AHORA] Milei le tomó juramento a Werthein, el nuevo canciller. https://t.co/mHycLPcwW1 pic.twitter.com/VOKLCCsX8n— ElCanciller.com (@elcancillercom) November 4, 2024-A parasha is one of 54 portions of the Five Books of Moses read each Shabbat in synagogue; Jews study and chant the week’s portion according to a fixed calendar.The Catholic-born Milei has been famously drawn to Judaism and said he intends to convert once he leaves office. (He says it would be impossible to serve as president and observe Shabbat fully, a commitment that involves abstaining from writing, driving and using electricity for a full day.)He studies regularly with a rabbi, Axel Wahnish, whom he appointed as his ambassador to Israel. He has also cited Jewish stories at other events at Casa Rosada, including when he told the Hanukkah story and gave a menorah to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is Jewish, last year.
Netanyahu offering hostages’ captors millions of dollars, safe passage from Gaza-Vast majority of Jabalia residents evacuated amid IDF push in Strip’s north; Khan Younis desalination plant hooked up to Israeli grid; US soldier dies months after injury in Gaza pier op-By Emanuel Fabian,Lazar Berman,Jeremy Sharon,Jacob Magid-and Agencies 5 November 2024, 10:17 pm
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is prepared to offer captors of hostages in Gaza “several million dollars” for the release of each hostage, an Israeli official confirmed on Tuesday, as Israel’s offensive in northern Gaza continued alongside efforts to meet the humanitarian needs of the enclave’s civilians.The prime minister is prepared to guarantee “safe passage” out of Gaza for captors and their families who release hostages, the official said, responding to a Channel 12 report about the monetary reward.The idea was discussed in Sunday’s meeting on the hostages with government point man Gal Hirsch. Some family members of captives also met with Hirsch on Sunday, according to the Prime Minister’s Office.The official also confirmed the US State Department’s statement on Monday that Hamas had rejected a proposal for a short-term ceasefire and hostage release deal.“Nothing is happening on the ground until we know the results of [Tuesday’s] US elections,” the official said.The Egyptian proposal envisioned a 12-day ceasefire during which Hamas would agree to release four hostages and the sides would hold talks about a permanent ceasefire.But Hamas made clear that it would only agree to a short-term deal that includes guarantees for a longer-term one, and the Egyptian proposal stopped short of such an assurance, given Israel’s refusal to agree.Meanwhile, families of those held captive by the Hamas terror group were told the premier “doesn’t meet with hostage families,” according to a Channel 12 report.The Prime Minister’s Office issued a statement Tuesday denying the report, stressing that Netanyahu “has been meeting the hostage families continuously since the outbreak of the war and considers this to be of great importance.”The PMO stressed that all the families have met the prime minister, some more than once, citing the meeting with Hirsch.It is believed that 97 of the 251 hostages abducted by Hamas during its October 7 attack last year remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 34 confirmed dead by the IDF. Hamas is also holding two Israeli civilians who entered the Strip in 2014 and 2015, as well as the bodies of two IDF soldiers who were killed in 2014.As of Tuesday afternoon, the vast majority of the Palestinian civilian population that had been residing in northern Gaza’s Jabalia had evacuated, as the IDF pressed on with an offensive against Hamas in the area and other towns north of Gaza City.The IDF said it has managed to move more than 55,000 civilians out of Jabalia after Hamas was allegedly forcing them to stay there to act as a human shield for its activities. Some 60,000 Palestinians were estimated to have been in Jabalia before the latest operation was launched last month.The population has largely moved to Gaza City, with only a few dozen crossing the IDF’s Netzarim Corridor and heading to the Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in the Strip’s south.According to the IDF, it has evidence and testimonies that Hamas shot, beat and in some cases executed civilians trying to evacuate the Jabalia area.The IDF said it was seeking to clear the town of civilians to enable a cleaner operation against terror operatives, without risking the lives of innocents, while Hamas attempts to hide behind the population.Senior officers have continued to deny that the army is carrying out the so-called “generals’ plan” to lay siege to northern Gaza, promoted by a group of senior IDF retirees. Under the plan, northern Gaza would become a military zone where everyone is a target, and no supplies would enter the territory.On the ground, dozens of aid trucks are entering northern Gaza each day via the two Erez crossings, and the civilian population is being safely evacuated and not intentionally targeted, the IDF asserted on Tuesday.The statement came a day after the US State Department said that Israel got a “fail” grade in terms of meeting the conditions for an improvement in aid deliveries, with just over a week until a deadline for Israel to meet certain requirements set by the US or risk potential restrictions on offensive military assistance.The IDF also said Tuesday that it had captured 700 members of Hamas and other terror groups who surrendered to forces during the evacuation of civilians in Jabalia. Among those captured are dozens who participated in the October 7 onslaught, including the raid on the Erez Crossing, the military said. The detained terror operatives are providing the IDF with useful intelligence, it added.As of Tuesday morning, more than 1,000 terror operatives had also been killed amid the fighting, according to the IDF.The IDF’s latest estimate on Tuesday put the total number of people still in Jabalia at several hundred. Several thousand Palestinians also remain in Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun and other northern Gaza towns, where the military plans to operate against Hamas as part of the ongoing offensive.A strike late Monday in Beit Lahiya hit a house where several displaced families were staying, killing at least 20 people, including eight women and six children, according to Hamas-affiliated health officials.North Gaza’s towns, including Jabalia, are now disconnected from Gaza City amid the ongoing operation, which the IDF said is to prevent Hamas operatives from escaping or alternatively, from bringing in reinforcements from Gaza City, where thousands of terror operatives are thought to be stationed.Amid the operation, the IDF said it had discovered over 200 homes that were booby-trapped with explosives. In two cases, the bombs were not discovered before troops entered the buildings, leading to casualties.The operation marks the fourth push into Jabalia by the IDF since the start of the war a year ago. The military said it assesses that this operation will finally break Hamas’s forces in Jabalia, and it will no longer represent the terror group’s “most significant center of gravity” in northern Gaza.Nineteen IDF soldiers and officers have been killed during the Jabalia operation so far, including the commander of the 401st Armored Brigade, Col. Ehsan Daqsa.Early Tuesday, an Israeli strike hit a house in the Tufah neighborhood in Gaza City, killing two children and their parents, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry. Two other children were wounded, it said.In the central town of Zuweida, a strike hit a tent where a displaced family was sheltering, killing four people, including a mother and her two children, according to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the nearby city of Deir al-Balah.Another strike hit a house in Deir al-Balah, killing two people, the hospital said. An Associated Press journalist counted the bodies at the hospital morgue.The IDF said it targeted a weapons storage facility where a terror operative was located, and that “numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians.”Meanwhile, more than 100 patients, including children suffering from trauma injuries and chronic diseases, were set to be evacuated from Gaza on Tuesday in a rare transfer out of the war-ravaged enclave, according to a World Health Organization official.“These are ad hoc measures. What we have requested repeatedly is a sustained medevac [medical evacuation] outside of Gaza,” said Rik Peeperkorn, adding that 12,000 people were awaiting transfer.The patients will travel in a large convoy via the Kerem Shalom Crossing with Israel before flying to the United Arab Emirates, he added, and then a portion will travel to Romania.On Sunday, a water desalination plant in Gaza was also connected to Israel’s electricity grid, to increase the enclave’s supply of clean water.The plant, located in the southern city of Khan Younis, is run by UNICEF and can provide 20,000 cubic meters of water daily to the nearby humanitarian zone where the vast majority of Gaza’s population is currently taking refuge from the conflict.Israel’s security cabinet approved a decision in July to connect the desalination facility to the Israeli grid in July, but it has taken several months to complete the necessary work.Israel supplied close to 50 percent of Gaza’s electricity before the current war, but cut off its electricity supply to Gaza on October 12 last year following the Hamas invasion and atrocities on October 7.Separately, the US Army said Monday that an American soldier who suffered non-combat injuries while supporting the military’s pier off the coast of Gaza earlier this year had died.Sergeant Quandarius Davon Stanley, who recently retired from the military, suffered critical injuries in May while supporting operations at sea of the US-built pier designed to increase flows of humanitarian aid into the enclave.In a statement, the US Army confirmed that Stanley had died, though it did not specify when. He was receiving treatment in a long-term care medical center.“Stanley was an instrumental and well respected first line leader in the 7th Transportation Brigade Expeditionary (TBX), especially during the mission to provide humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza,” Colonel John “Eddie” Gray, commander of the unit, said.Israel has been at war with the Hamas terror group in Gaza since October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists invaded southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages, amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 43,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 18,000 combatants in battle as of November and another 1,000 terrorists inside Israel on October 7.Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 370.
Some European firms withdraw from Israel-linked finance amid pressure over Gaza war-Data shows direct investment into Israel fell by 29% in 2023 as credit rating agencies flagged war’s unpredictable impact on investment in the country-By Reuters 5 November 2024, 9:25 pm
LONDON, United Kingdom — Several of Europe’s biggest financial firms have cut back their links to Israeli companies or those with ties to the country, a Reuters analysis of filings shows, as pressure mounts from activists and governments to end the war in Gaza, where Israel has been battling the Hamas terror group since the latter launched its assault on southern Israel on October 7 last year.While banks and insurers are often vocal about their environmental and governance aims, they are less forthcoming about disclosing their potential exposure to war.UniCredit put Israel on a “forbidden” list as the war erupted in October last year, said a source familiar with the matter, confirming a study by Dutch nonprofit PAX.While in line with the Italian bank’s defense-sector policy of not directly financing arms exports to any country involved in conflict, it goes beyond Italy’s guidelines on arms exports to Israel.UniCredit declined to comment on its move and the Israeli Finance Ministry also declined to comment.Meanwhile, Norwegian asset manager Storebrand and French insurer AXA have sold shares of some Israeli firms, including banks.Although corporate filings offer only a glimpse into such exposures, they show companies have been readjusting.“We don’t know whether this represents the beginning of a shift in the industry, one that recognizes the power banks have in choosing where to allocate capital, and where not,” said Martin Rohner, executive director at the Global Alliance for Banking on Values, which focuses on sustainable financing.“Investing in the production and trade of weapons is fundamentally opposed to the principles of sustainable development,” Rohner added.Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich told a press briefing last week that although there are challenges to Israel’s economy, firms are still raising money. “I sit with foreign investors and they believe in our economy,” he said.Reuters has reported that Israel’s investor base has narrowed since it entered Gaza last year in response to the massacre of some 1,200 people perpetrated by Hamas in southern Israel on October 7, and it is feeling the effects of rising borrowing costs.The potential wider effects can be seen in the approach taken by Storebrand, which a filing showed divested a holding worth about $24 million in Palantir, citing the risk of violations of international humanitarian law and human rights.US group Palantir, which provides technology to Israel’s military, did not respond to a request for comment.Storebrand’s annual investment review said that, as of the end of 2023, it had excluded 24 firms, including Israeli companies, across its portfolios over their activities in the West Bank and Gaza.The International Court of Justice, the United Nations’ highest court, is discussing a case accusing Israel of committing genocide amid its war on Hamas in Gaza, a charge which Israel vehemently denies, saying it is targeting terror infrastructure with the goal of preventing a future October 7-style attack.The same court said in July that Israel’s military rule over the West Bank, including building settlements, is illegal.Israel has rejected both rulings, which combined with growing pressure from activists and governments, are nevertheless having an impact on investment decisions.AXA, one of Europe’s largest insurers, British bank Barclays and German insurer Allianz have increasingly been targeted by campaigners.“Increasing demand for greater transparency and scrutiny can only mean that financial institutions will intensify and broaden their self-assessment of their commercial associations with arms-related businesses or states,” said David Kinley, professor and chair of human rights law at the Sydney Law School.The Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) has exited six Israeli companies, selling holdings which amounted to about 3 million euros ($3.26 million), including some of Israel’s largest banks, a spokesperson told Reuters.Earlier this year, the 15-billion-euro Irish fund said that the risk profile of such investments was no longer within its investment parameters.And Norway’s $1.8 trillion wealth fund, the world’s biggest, may divest shares of companies that aid Israel’s operations in the West Bank which violate its ethics standards for businesses.War exposure investments in Israeli banks are also under scrutiny.The UN included them in 2020 in a list of companies with ties to West Bank settlements as part of its mission to review the implications on Palestinian rights.A study by research firm Profundo, commissioned by corporate watchdog Ekō, shows that AXA sold almost all of its holdings in Israeli bank stocks earlier this year, retaining only a marginal stake in Bank Leumi.Reuters verified the data with LSEG. A representative for Bank Leumi did not respond to a request for comment.A spokesperson for AXA declined to comment on whether AXA had cut its holdings, adding that it is not invested in the banks targeted by activists. The UN list is among the criteria AXA takes into account for investment decisions, they added.‘A clear line’ Foreign direct investment into Israel fell by 29 percent in 2023 to its lowest since 2016, UN Trade and Development data shows.While UNCTAD 2024 figures are not available, credit rating agencies have flagged the war’s unpredictable impact on investment in Israel as a concern.Although the US remains Israel’s biggest military and financial backer, Spain, Ireland and Norway have recognized a Palestinian state, French President Emmanuel Macron has called for an arms export halt and Britain has suspended some licenses.When it comes to international politics, “it should be down to the governments to take a clear line,” said Richard Portes, professor of economics at London Business School, adding: “To put the burden on the private firms, where does this end?”In an example of how pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activists are targeting companies directly, Barclays came under pressure from a campaign in Britain, prompting it to withdraw sponsorship from summer music festivals, while the Financial Times reported in August that it considered pulling out of an Israeli government bond sale.Barclays said in a statement that it remained “fully committed” to its role as a primary dealer and that such activities fluctuated each quarter. The bank fell out of the top five dealers of Israeli bonds in the second and third quarters, after ranking third in 2023.Times of Israel Staff contributed to this report.
Lebanese probe claims IDF commandos snuck ashore in speedboats, jammed UNIFIL radars-Lebanese Army presents alleged details of Israeli infiltration last weekend in which a Hezbollah official was nabbed, says boats were equipped with devices that prevented detection-By ToI Staff, AFP and Emanuel Fabian-5 November 2024, 9:25 pm
A preliminary Lebanese probe revealed new alleged details Tuesday about an Israeli naval raid last weekend in northern Lebanon in which commandos captured a Hezbollah operative.Speaking to AFP on Tuesday, a Lebanese judicial official said that the probe had found that operatives from the Israeli Navy’s Shayetet 13 commando unit entered Lebanese waters in a speedboat equipped with radar-jamming devices that evaded detection by Lebanon’s and UNIFIL’s naval radars during the raid in Batroun, south of Tripoli, some 140 kilometers (87 miles) north of Israel’s maritime border with Lebanon.The initial findings suggest that “the Israeli army used a high-speed vessel equipped with advanced devices capable of jamming radars,” the official said, requesting anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.The probe into the operation is being jointly conducted by the Lebanese police and judiciary.The Lebanese Addiyar news outlet reported that the new information on the raid was presented by Lebanese Armed Forces commander Gen. Joseph Aoun to caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Tuesday.The probe reportedly found that the naval radars failed to track the boats due to the high speed at which they were traveling. Aoun also reportedly noted that waves can further disrupt the accuracy of radar detection when it comes to small boats.Once they neared land, the commandos approached a fishing port from an area outside of the radar’s range and docked in a blind spot. They also used advanced devices capable of jamming radars to disrupt the signal, Addiyar reported, ensuring that even if the commandos were detected, Lebanese forces would not be alerted to their presence.The Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Akhbar news outlet reported on Sunday that Friday’s raid lasted a mere four minutes and involved some 20 operatives disguised as Lebanese security forces, along with several unidentified civilians. It also estimated that some Israeli special forces had likely been in the area for reconnaissance and surveillance before the operation.The target of the raid was Hezbollah operative Imad Amhaz, who Israel says is a senior officer in the terror group’s naval forces.After his capture, Amhaz was taken to Israel to be questioned by the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504 — which specializes in human intelligence — about Hezbollah’s naval operations.Citing sources familiar with the ongoing probe, Addiyar reported that Lebanese naval forces were not alerted to any suspicious activity along the coastline by the UNIFIL maritime task force, headed by Germany.The UN peacekeeping maritime task force has helped Lebanon’s army monitor territorial waters and prevent the entry of arms or related material by sea since 2006, according to the mission’s website.The Lebanese army is awaiting clarification from UNIFIL as to why no alert was issued, the sources reportedly said.UNIFIL has denied involvement in the Israeli operation, and an unnamed deputy spokesperson told the Saudi Asharq News channel last week that the organization “has no involvement in facilitating any kidnapping or any other violation of Lebanese sovereignty.”The Lebanese judicial official told AFP that Lebanese authorities “cannot probe UNIFIL forces or request they provide information or footage captured by their radars because they have immunity.”According to Addiyar, Aoun also broached the matter of eroded trust in Lebanon’s armed forces as a result of the raid and warned Mikati that public criticism of the military and its commanders would only serve the interests of Israel, which he claimed is trying to sow discord among Lebanon’s institutions and instigate a civil war.The Friday raid came as Israel pressed on with its military campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon. The operation aims to allow the fade return of some 60,000 displaced residents of northern Israel who were evacuated from their homes near the Lebanon border shortly after Hamas’s October 7, 2023, onslaught, amid fears Hezbollah would carry out a similar attack and persistent rocket fire by the terror group.After warning for nearly a year that it would not tolerate the ongoing attacks, Israel launched a major operation against Hezbollah in September, eliminating much of its leadership and crippling some of its fighting capabilities.In October, it launched a ground offensive in Lebanon’s south to clear the border area of terror infrastructure it said was to be used in an October 7-style attack on northern communities.
Knesset passes law allowing government to fire teachers it asserts identify with terror-Right-wing MKs call new law an important tool in preventing radicalization; rights group ACRI says it ‘violates the rights to expression, employment and pedagogical autonomy’By Sam Sokol-5 November 2024, 6:21 pm
The Knesset on Monday morning gave final approval to a law authorizing the Education Ministry to fire teachers who publicly identify with an act of terrorism, drawing immediate condemnation from human rights advocates.The bill, co-sponsored by MKs Zvika Fogel (Otzma Yehudit) and Amit Halevi (Likud), was approved 55-45 in its third and final reading — immediately after it also passed its second reading — following an overnight opposition filibuster.It grants the director-general of the Education Ministry the authority to fire, without prior notice, teachers who have either been convicted of a security or terror offense, or have “published a direct call to carry out an act of terrorism or published words of praise, sympathy or encouragement for an act of terrorism [or] support for or identification with it.”The law also allows the ministry to cut or reduce funding for schools in which such expressions have been found, if it has been determined that “the management of the educational institution knew or should have known about their existence.”Teachers are among the most significant influences on children and the bill was “designed to make sure that a teacher does not use their influence for terrorist activity by their students and that the school does not allow this to happen,” explained Fogel.According to its explanatory notes, the bill is primarily aimed at Arab schools in East Jerusalem where alleged incitement turns minors “against the State of Israel” and terrorists are glorified in a way that has a “destructive and long-term effect [that], among other things, may be expressed in the large number of minors living in East Jerusalem who carry out or attempt to carry out terrorist attacks.”The law’s passage was warmly welcomed by ultranationalist National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who said in a statement that “education is a central and significant factor that motivates many terrorist attacks against the State of Israel.”Teachers who identify with terrorism can teach “in Tehran, Gaza or Ramallah today, but not in our schools,” Halevi declared in a celebratory statement after the bill’s passage.“As we know, a bomb is not created and does not explode by itself. Its basic components are the brain and the heart, the destructive intention, and the emotional fervor to carry it out, and these are created first of all in the education system,” he said. “One teacher may raise dozens of ticking bombs every year. One idea can be more destructive than a thousand tanks.”The legislation was almost immediately panned by Hadash-Ta’al MK Ahmad Tibi, who retweeted a statement by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) arguing that its purpose was “to regulate the discourse in schools and to harm teachers whose statements and worldview do not coincide with those of the education minister and the political parties controlling the Education Ministry.”“The purpose of the law is to threaten teachers and principals of Arab schools, to mark them and make them a target for surveillance and persecution,” the rights group stated, arguing that the tools already at its disposal before the current law were “adequate and sufficient.”“The law severely violates the rights to expression, employment and pedagogical autonomy of teachers and administrators,” it added.Dismissing teachers who support terror is a good idea but the new law is a bad idea, said Yesh Atid MK Moshe Tur-Paz, a former educator.“What Fogel and Halevi did… is to give the director-general of the Education Ministry, a political appointee, the power to decide what terrorism is. It can be real terrorism and it can also be a leftist who doesn’t like Bibi. The authority will be at the discretion of the director-general,” he tweeted referring to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by his nickname.Fogel and Halevi’s bill defines identification with terrorism in accordance with Israel’s Counterterrorism Law, which bans acts of “identification with a terrorist organization, including by publishing words of praise, support or sympathy, waving a flag, displaying or publishing a symbol, or displaying, playing or publishing a slogan or anthem.”None of the large, non-governmental educational organizations such as the Teachers’ Union or National Parents’ Association released statements on Tuesday morning regarding the law’s passage. A Times of Israel request to the Teachers’ Union for comment received no reply.Policing the universities-A similar bill, focused on higher education, passed a preliminary reading in the Knesset this summer and is currently waiting for committee approval to go to the first of three readings necessary to become law.That bill — which was written in cooperation with the National Union for Israeli Students (NUIS) and is sponsored by coalition whip Ofir Katz (Likud), among others — would require universities to fire without compensation any instructors who deny Israel’s right to exist as a sovereign Jewish nation, incite terrorism, or express support for a terrorist organization or an armed struggle against the State of Israel.Addressing party lawmakers in June, MK Tibi decried what he described as a “fascist campaign” against “lecturers and academics who have a different opinion about the war.”Describing the proposed legislation as “part of an ongoing incitement and smear campaign of a McCarthyistic nature against the Israeli academy,” the Association of University Heads warned that, if passed, it would create “an atmosphere of whistleblowing and fear on academic campuses.”Since the beginning of the war, lawmakers have proposed several measures to police the educational system and restrict speech, prompting ACRI to caution in March that “the trends of silencing, harm to media outlets and journalists, and the intention to silence citizens who criticize the regime are intensifying.”Gavriel Fiske contributed to this report.
Over 60 PFLP operatives arrested in West Bank and Lebanon — IDF, Shin Bet-Authorities say key figures in terror group among those nabbed; PA says 2 dead in airstrike in Jenin area, plus 5 others killed in clashes with troops in northern West Bank-By ToI Staff 5 November 2024, 10:15 am
Over 60 operatives from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror group organization have been arrested in counterterror operations in the West Bank and Lebanon, the IDF and Shin Bet announced in a joint statement on Tuesday.Among those arrested in the West Bank was the head of the Women’s Committees Association of the PFLP, Abla Sa’adat, the wife of PFLP head Ahmad Sa’adat who has been jailed in Israel since 2006. In addition, Tahrir Badran Gaber, an activist from Ramallah was also detained, officials said.The Women’s Committees Association of the PFLP has been declared to be a terror organization by Israel.The IDF and Shin Bet said key figures who served as the heads of the PFLP in the West Bank were among those arrested, in addition to terrorists who operated in the field for the organization.The statement added that students at West Bank universities who were active members of PFLP cells at the educational institutions were also detained.Offices and businesses were raided and closed down by troops, including a printing press that produced inflammatory materials for the PFLP.The statement also said that the military has been acting against the terror group in Lebanon since the killing of the PFLP commander at the end of September. According to the military and Shin Bet, Nidal Abd al-Aal was involved in planning and advancing terror attacks in the West Bank.IDF announces West Bank airstrike; PA says two dead-Meanwhile, at least seven people were killed during an Israel Defense Forces raid and airstrikes in the West Bank on Tuesday, according to the Palestinian Authority health ministry, as the military targeted an armed terror cell in the Qabatiya area near Jenin.The PA ministry and Palestinian media reports said two people were killed in an airstrike on a vehicle in Qabatiya, while three were shot dead by troops there and two others were killed in a standoff with troops in the nearby Tammun area, north of Nablus.The Maan news agency claimed that an earlier drone attack in Tammun involved more than one missile and caused no injuries.An initial IDF statement announcing the airstrike in the Qabatiya area did not give further details.The strike came amid a military operation in Qabatiya that also reportedly saw a gun battle between troops and local operatives.The #IDF conducted a targeted strike on a terrorist cell in Qabatiya, a town in the #Jenin Governorate of the West Bank. Reports indicate at least two eliminations. pic.twitter.com/ZZAyd6Cv3h— War Monitor (@warmonitorME) November 5, 2024-Meanwhile, Border Police at a West Bank checkpoint in the Gush Etzion bloc stopped a wanted suspect carrying one million shekels in cash, Hebrew media outlets reported.Since October 7, troops have arrested some 5,250 wanted Palestinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,050 affiliated with Hamas.According to the Palestinian Authority’s health ministry, more than 716 West Bank Palestinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were gunmen killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops, or terrorists carrying out attacks.During the same period, 41 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another six members of the security forces were killed in clashes with terror operatives in the West Bank.The IDF has carried out more than 70 airstrikes in the West Bank since October 7, using drones, attack helicopters, and fighter jets.Emanuel Fabian contributed to this report.
Russia launches record 55 satellites, including 2 Iranian-made-by AFP Staff Writers.
Moscow (AFP) Nov 5, 2024-Russia launched 55 satellites into orbit on Tuesday, including two privately built Iranian devices, amid deepening ties between Moscow and Tehran.A Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Far East at 02:18 Moscow time (2318 GMT on Monday) carrying the satellites, Russia's Roscosmos space agency said.In total, Roscosmos said 51 Russian satellites, one Russian-Chinese device and a Russian-Zimbabwean satellite were put into orbit, as well as the two Iranian satellites.It said it was a "record number of Russian satellites simultaneously put into orbit."The two Iranian imaging and communications satellites -- Koswar and Hodhod -- were designed and built by Iran's Omid Faza Company, and are aimed to support environmental monitoring and communications in remote areas.Tehran said it was the first time Russia had launched privately built Iranian satellites.The two countries have deepened political, economic and military ties amid Russia's offensive in Ukraine and the war in the Middle East, raising concerns in the West.
Japan launches H3 rocket with defense satellite to boost secure communications by Riko Seibo.
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 05, 2024-Japan successfully launched its H3 rocket on Monday, carrying a defense communications satellite from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture. This launch is part of Japan's strategy to strengthen its secure communications network, specifically enhancing information-sharing capabilities among the nation's Self-Defense Forces.The H3 rocket, developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in collaboration with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, successfully deployed the satellite into its designated orbit shortly after liftoff. This mission underscores Japan's commitment to expanding its defense and communications infrastructure amid growing regional security concerns.The H3 series, which has faced numerous technical challenges, is poised to gradually replace the long-standing H2A rockets. Designed with greater payload capacity and reduced launch costs, the H3 is expected to be Japan's primary launch vehicle in the coming years, meeting both government and commercial needs. The H2A rockets, which have been in operation since 2001, are slated for retirement by the end of fiscal 2024, following the launch of H2A rocket No. 50, planned for March next year.H3 Rocket's Development and Recent Issues-The H3 program faced significant setbacks, notably during its inaugural launch attempt in March 2023. In this first attempt, the rocket's second stage failed to ignite after separation, forcing JAXA to destroy the vehicle mid-flight. This failure came as a disappointment to Japan's space sector, which had invested heavily in the H3's design as a next-generation workhorse for a variety of missions, from Earth observation to defense.The failure led to an extensive investigation by JAXA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with engineers identifying and addressing the issues that led to the ignition malfunction. The H3 resumed launches later in 2023 with modifications, successfully completing two missions this year before the current defense satellite launch. The recent successful launches mark a cautious yet optimistic turning point for the H3, which is expected to reduce Japan's reliance on imported rocket components and create a more resilient, cost-effective domestic launch system.Japan's Expanding Space Sector and Strategic GoalsJapan's space sector has grown steadily over recent decades, with JAXA playing a central role in advancing satellite, lunar, and planetary missions. With growing competition from other spacefaring nations and an increase in regional security needs, Japan's government has been increasingly focused on building an independent and robust space industry. Initiatives such as the Basic Space Plan aim to boost Japan's technological capabilities in space, emphasizing both scientific exploration and national security.Japan's launch sector, while not as high-frequency as those of the United States or China, has earned a reputation for reliability through the H2A and H2B rockets. These vehicles have launched critical payloads, including meteorological satellites, Earth observation missions, and components for the International Space Station. Japan's recent focus on the H3 reflects a push to modernize this fleet, aiming for an affordable, adaptable platform capable of launching diverse payloads in an increasingly competitive global launch market.As the H3 program moves forward, JAXA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries aim to position it as a cornerstone of Japan's space capabilities. Japan's ambitions include potential lunar exploration missions, deep-space probes, and strategic satellites that support national defense. Monday's launch signifies not only the growing reliability of the H3 but also Japan's determination to secure a more prominent position in the global space industry.
Impulse Space selected for HALO Program by Space Development Agency by Clarence Oxford.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 05, 2024-Impulse Space, a leader in in-space transportation solutions, has been chosen by the Space Development Agency (SDA) to join the initial Hybrid Acquisition for Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (HALO) vendor pool. Impulse now stands among 19 companies selected for this critical program, underscoring its capabilities in advanced space technologies and positioning it to compete for future prototype demonstration projects supporting national defense initiatives.The HALO program is a core component of the SDA's evolving Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA), a multilayered satellite network designed to enhance the resilience, flexibility, and capability of U.S. defense systems in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Aimed at creating a more distributed and robust satellite infrastructure, HALO's approach emphasizes interoperability and scalability, key to sustaining communications, intelligence, and navigation services even under contested or challenging conditions in space.Under the HALO framework, Impulse Space will have the opportunity to participate in end-to-end mission demonstrations. These missions could include satellite launches within 12 to 18 months of any awarded contracts, with a focus on reducing risk and demonstrating the feasibility of proliferating key technologies, such as tactical data links and optical communication channels, across an expanded network. Such capabilities are critical to enabling rapid data exchange and secure communications for military operations."We believe enhanced maneuverability and rapid repositioning will be important capabilities for a proliferated architecture," said Eric Romo, President and COO of Impulse Space. "We're looking forward to the opportunity to compete for these awards and are confident in our team's capability to deliver innovative solutions."Through HALO, the SDA is fostering a collaborative environment that leverages commercial expertise to accelerate the integration of advanced technologies within defense systems. By supporting multiple companies with varied approaches, the program aims to drive innovation and build a resilient and responsive satellite network that meets the dynamic requirements of national defense in space.
Radiation level of robot-retrieved Fukushima debris tested.
Tokyo, Nov 5 (AFP) Nov 05, 2024-Technicians tested the radiation level of debris from inside a damaged reactor at Japan's Fukushima plant on Tuesday after it was removed by a robot for the first time since the nuclear power station was hit by a tsunami in 2011.Plant operator TEPCO said over the weekend that it had succeeded in bringing a small amount of debris outside the containment vessel surrounding a reactor -- using specialised robots able to function around the high radiation levels inside.On Tuesday, Kuniaki Takahashi of TEPCO told reporters that they had measured the sample's radiation level and it was low enough to continue to the next stage of the complex process.Around 880 tons of extremely hazardous material remain, more than 13 years after a catastrophic tsunami caused by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake triggered one of the world's worst nuclear accidents.A trial removal of nuclear debris from the plant in northeastern Japan began in September, with the aim of studying a tiny sample for clues about conditions inside the reactors.Removing the debris from the reactors is regarded as the most daunting challenge in the decades-long decommissioning project due to radiation levels within.The company hopes to transport the sample to a research facility for further testing."We will move the debris into a box tomorrow for transportation... and then we will put it in a (special) container," Takahashi said."The retrieval will be complete after it is moved into the container," he said, adding that the timeframe for the next steps was unknown.Three of Fukushima's six reactors went into meltdown after the huge tsunami swamped the facility.Japan last year began releasing into the Pacific Ocean some of the 540 Olympic swimming pools' worth of reactor cooling water amassed since the disaster.The step has sparked a diplomatic row with China and Russia, both of which banned seafood imports, although Japan insists the discharge is safe, a view backed by the UN atomic agency.Beijing, however, said in September it would "gradually resume" importing seafood from Japan after imposing the blanket ban.
