Reported by retired pastor/teacher James McCutchan
- "In the beginning
God created the heaven and the earth (Genesis 1:1).
To view some spectacular pictures of God's creation; with speakers
on, visit the website below:
http://www.greatdanepro.com/Blue%20Bueaty/index.htm
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THE TWO BEASTS
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- May 18, 2009
Many say the coming antichrist is a Jew. Many others say the
antichrist is a Gentile. The argument and confusion disappear
when one understands that there are two beasts. One is a Gentile,
the other is a Jew. Revelation 13:1-10 reveals the Gentile. Revelation
13:11-18) reveals the second beast, the Jew, who does the bidding
of the Gentile: "and
he excerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and
causeth the earth (the land; which is the land of Israel) and
them which dwell therin to worship the first beast, whose deadly
wound was healed" (Rev. 13:12).
"And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast
rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and
upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy"
(Revelation 13:1).
The word 'sea' is used in Scripture to indicate the Gentile nations.
The prophet Isaiah teaches this very clearly below:
"Then thou
shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and
be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted
unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee"
(Isaiah 60:5).
Therefore the beast out of the sea is a Gentile. Another beast
is to rise from the earth or the land of Israel.
"And I beheld
another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns
like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon" (Revelation 13:11).
The second beast is a Jew. More is written of the Jew in the
book of Daniel:
"And the king
shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and
magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things
against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation
be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire
of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above
all.
But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god
whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver,
and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
- Thus shall he do in
the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge
and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over
many, and shall divide the land for gain" (Daniel 11:36-39).
- "And the king
shall do according to his will." Here
we learn that this man is the king, which is the political head
of his country. Today, the political head of Israel is called
Prime Minister.
- "Neither shall
he regard the God of his fathers."
This Jew does not regard the God of his fathers which is Jehovah.
- "And shall divide
the land for gain" At this
very moment the Prime Minister of Israel is pressured to divide
the Promised Land of Israel and share it with the Palestinians.
Sad indeed!
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 Israeli
PM Netanyahu meets US President Obama, Monday, May 18, 2009
The Gentile beast and the Jewish king, also called the 'false
prophet,' will both come to know that Jesus Christ is KING OF
KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS:
"And the beast
was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles
before him, with which he deceived them that had received the
mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These
both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone"
(Rev. 19:20).
"I will also gather all nations, and will bring them
down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them
there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have
scattered among the nations, and parted my land" (Joel
3:2).
"It
is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes" (Psalm
118:9).
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- "And
he (the beast) shall confirm (guarantee) the covenant with many
for one week"(Daniel 9:27).
05/20/2009
U.S. pressing Israel for
gestures to Palestinians before June 4
By Aluf Benn and Barak Ravid
WASHINGTON - The United States expects Israel to make concrete
concessions to the Palestinians before U.S. President Barack
Obama's visit to Cairo on June 4, an American official said during
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington this
week.
- The cabinet is due to discuss the situation
in the Gaza Strip this Sunday, and one concession the U.S. would
like to see is for Israel to decide at this meeting to ease its
restrictions on imports and exports of goods to Gaza. It also
wants Israel to ease restrictions on movement in the West Bank.
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- The American official said this would
ease Obama's efforts to persuade Arab states to begin taking
steps toward normalization, without waiting for a full-fledged
Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement. To Netanyahu's pleasure,
Obama favors this idea, recognizing that it would soften Israeli
public opinion on the peace process. However, senior Saudi officials
have so far rejected outright the idea of gradual normalization,
American sources said.
The Saudis, for their part, have been pressing Obama to present
a detailed plan for an Israeli-Palestinian final-status agreement
and then urge the parties to begin negotiations on its implementation.
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- Senior Saudi officials have proposed that
Obama present a plan similar to that offered by former president
Bill Clinton - one that would call for an Israeli withdrawal
from almost all of the West Bank, a division of Jerusalem and
a complex arrangement on the refugees.
-
- Obama is slated to make a major speech
on his visit to Cairo next week. He was widely expected to outline
his plans for the peace process. However, senior American officials
told their Israeli colleagues this week that Obama will not present
a new peace plan in this speech. Rather, he will focus on extending
a hand to the Arab and Muslim world. Obama will outline the basic
principles of his policy on the peace process, the officials
said, but will not go into detail, nor will this be the focus
of the speech.
-
- One proposal that Netanyahu made, both
in his White House meeting with Obama on Monday and in earlier
meetings with the leaders of Egypt and Jordan, was that the Arab
states amend the Arab peace initiative to make it more attractive
to Israel and enable it to serve as a basis for negotiations
between Israel, the Palestinians and the Arab states. In private
conversations, however, the Saudis told American officials that
they oppose the idea of amending the initiative, and particularly
the idea of softening its proposal on the refugees.
- To Netanyahu, it is important that the
Arab initiative be a basis for negotiations rather than an ultimatum
- full withdrawal from the territories in exchange for normalization.
At his meetings in Washington, he said the general tenor of the
Arab initiative was acceptable, but he was not willing to sign
off on all its details.
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- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud
Abbas will visit Washington next week, and Obama is expected
to tell him that he should resume final-status negotiations with
Israel immediately and not set any preconditions for the talks.
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- On another issue, Obama told Netanyahu
at their meeting on Monday that Washington has no plans to change
its policy on Israel's nuclear program, according to an Israeli
source.
"Behold, I
shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all
be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last
trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised
incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible
must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality"
(I Corinthians
15:51-53).
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- JERUSALEM; A
BURDENSOME STONE
"And in that day will I make Jerusalem
a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves
with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the
earth be gathered together against it"
(Zechariah 12:3).
May 21, 2009 | Updated May 22, 2009
Netanyahu: Jerusalem will
never be divided
By ETGAR LEFKOVITS
- Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed
Thursday never to divide Jerusalem, and pledged to keep the capital
united under Israeli sovereignty.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu speaks at a Jerusalem Day ceremony,
Thursday.
 Photo: GPO
- "Jerusalem was always ours and will
always be ours. It will never again be partitioned and divided,"
Netanyahu said at the official state ceremony marking Jerusalem
Day and the reunification of the capital during the Six Day War
42 years ago.
- "Only under Israeli sovereignty will
united Jerusalem ensure the freedom of religion and freedom of
access for the three religions to the holy places," he added.
- The prime minister prefaced his remarks
with a reference to his meetings with US President Barack Obama
and other American officials earlier in the week, saying he had
made the same declarations during that trip.
- In an earlier address, President Shimon
Peres said that Jerusalem, while sacred to others, is the only
capital Israel and the Jewish people have ever known.
- "Jerusalem is held sacred by half
of mankind [but] it has been and always will be Israel's capital.
We never had another and it has never been the capital of any
other people." Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat lauded Netanyahu
for his opposition to divide Jerusalem. "With the world
examining us let it be said here: We will never divide Jerusalem,"
Barkat said.
- The annual ceremony, which was broadcast
live on some Israeli television and radio stations, took place
at Ammunition Hill, site of one of the bloodiest battles in the
city during the 1967 war.
- The hour-long event, which was open to
the public and bereaved family members, began on a temperate
spring evening under a crystalline blue sky with the lowering
of the Israeli flag to half mast, and the recital of kaddish
by a bereaved father.
- The ceremony, which included several musical
interludes, and the laying of memorial wreaths, concluded with
the singing of Israel's national anthem, Hatikva.
- Meanwhile, tens of thousands of flag-waving
Israelis marched to the Western Wall on Thursday in commemoration
of the reunification of the capital 42 years ago in the Six Day
War.
- Hundreds of east Jerusalem Arabs protested
the celebrations in the capital on Thursday. Demonstrators carrying
flags of the Palestinian Authority shouted slogans condemning
the Jewish occupation, as they call it, of the eastern part of
the city and the treatment of Israel towards Jerusalem's Arabs.
- Participants lambasted "the myth
of the city's unity" and said Israel must "awaken from
the fantasy of unity" of the capital. They said bringing
east Jerusalem under Israel rule in the wake of the Six Day War
was illegal and illegitimate. "Al-Quds [Jerusalem] is an
Arab city and the steps taken by the occupier in [managing] the
city are illegal," they said.
- Archbishop Atalla Hanna, one of the heads
of the Greek Orthodox Church in east Jerusalem, said during his
speech in the protest: "We tell the whole world today that
Al-Quds is ours and not the racists'. To whomever wants to hear
we say we are tied to Al-Quds in regard to our faith, history,
culture and values. This is our city, our capital, we are not
strangers and not passers-by here."
- "We own houses in the city, own lands
here and in the holy places," Hanna added. "If Israel
thinks a new Palestinian house in Al-Quds is illegal and should
therefore be destroyed, we say the presence of the occupation
is illegal and therefore it should pull back."
- Some 270,000 Arabs live in Jerusalem,
and make up 35 percent of the city's residents.
- Jerusalem Post staff contributed to this report.
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- In the East Jerusalem neighborhood of
Silwan, foreground, 88 buildings that house Palestinian families
are threatened by the proposed park. (By Sebastian Scheiner --
Associated Press)
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- May 27, 2009 5:53 PM
A COVENANT
WITH MANY:
Netanyahu: Arab states
should normalize Israel ties now
By Haaretz Service
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday urged Arab countries
to make immediate moves toward normalizing ties with Israel and
said he would offer concrete steps toward peace with the Palestinians.
- Netanyahu made the plea during a debate
in Knesset that came as he tries to balance international pressure
to make concessions to the Palestinians with internal calls from
within his hardline coalition not to budge.
- "We are prepared to make, and we
will make, concrete steps for peace with the Palestinians,"
he said. He said the Israeli government would abide by the terms
of past agreements signed with the Palestinians though it would
insist on reciprocity in future peace talks with the Palestinian
Authority.
- "My peace policy will bring results
faster than the government which was led by those sitting in
the opposition today," Netanyahu said. "We will insist
on reciprocity in talks with Palestinians," the premier
said, "in both the demands raised as well as their implementation."
- "We expect the Palestinians to make
such concrete steps as well. And it would be good if Arab countries
joined the peace effort and made concrete and symbolic steps
toward normalization with Israel, not later, but now," Netanyahu
added.
- The prime minister also said that he was
eager to advance economic initiatives in the agricultural field
for the Palestinian territories. His government would seek to
attract investments from the Gulf Arab states, Europe, and Asia
in an effort to boost the Palestinian economy, Netanyahu said.
- Netanyahu said that U.S. President Barack
Obama backed his idea for normalization, and called it a "new
and refreshing approach that totally matches our views."
- Netanyahu said the Obama administration
would also seek to advance "normalization" of ties
between Israel and Arab government.
- The prime minister, who was at the White
House last week, also said that he and Obama agree the Iranian
threat could create an opportunity to bring Arab countries together
in a coalition of moderates, Netanyahu said.
- The premier told lawmakers and ministers
that he had Obama had reached understandings on key defense issues
and that the U.S. administration accepted Israel's position on
Iran, the prime minister told the plenum.
- In reference to Iran, Netanyahu reiterated
the importance of "spotting dangers in advance.... Our nation
paid a huge price for failing to spot threats in advance,"
the premier said. "My job as premier is to protect the country's
existential interests."
- Netanyahu added that he was eager to "bring
Arab states into the circle of peace," a goal he says is
shared by the Obama administration.
- "Bringing Arab states into
circle of peace will strengthen Israel and bring security to
the Palestinians as well," Netanyahu said.
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NOTE: The Gentile beast of the West will guarantee Israel's "covenant with many."
"And he (the
beast) shall confirm the (Israeli)
"covenant with many" for one week (seven yrs.)"[Daniel
9:27].
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- A COVENANT WITH DEATH AND
HELL
"And
your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement
with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall
pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it" (Isaiah
28:18).
05/31/2009
Israel: U.S. demand for
settlement freeze 'not fair'
By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent
Tensions between Washington and Jerusalem are growing after the
U.S. administration's demand that Israel completely freeze construction
in all West Bank settlements. Israeli political officials expressed
disappointment after Tuesday's round of meetings in London with
George Mitchell, U.S. President Barack Obama's envoy to the Middle
East.
- "We're disappointed," said one
senior official. "All of the understandings reached during
the [George W.] Bush administration are worth nothing."
Another official said the U.S. administration is refusing every
Israeli attempt to reach new agreements on settlement construction.
"The United States is taking a line of granting concessions
to the Palestinians that is not fair toward Israel," he
said.
- The Israeli officials attributed the unyielding
U.S. stance to the speech Obama will make in Cairo this Thursday,
in which he is expected to deliver a message of reconciliation
to the Arab and Muslim worlds.
- Mitchell was joined at the London talks
by his deputy David Hale, Daniel B. Shapiro (the head of the
National Security Council's Middle East desk), and State Department
deputy legal adviser Jonathan Schwartz.
- The Israeli delegation consisted of National
Security Adviser Uzi Arad, Netanyahu diplomatic envoy Yitzhak
Molcho, Defense Ministry chief of staff Mike Herzog and deputy
prime minister Dan Meridor.
- Herzog spoke to Mitchell and his staff
about understandings reached by former prime ministers Ehud Olmert
and Ariel Sharon with the Bush administration on allowing continued
building in the large West Bank settlement blocs. He asked that
a similar agreement be reached with the Obama government.
- Meridor spoke of the complexities characterizing
the coalition headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and
said Washington's demands of a complete construction freeze would
lead to the dissolution of the Netanyahu government.
- The Israeli delegates were stunned by
the uncompromising U.S. stance, and by statements from Mitchell
and his staff that agreements reached with the Bush administration
were unacceptable. An Israeli official privy to the talks said
that "the Americans took something that had been agreed
on for many years and just stopped everything."
- "What about the Tenet Report, which
demanded that the Palestinians dismantle the terror infrastructure?"
said the official, referring to former CIA director George Tenet.
"It's unfair, and there is no reciprocity shown toward the
Palestinians."
- The Israeli envoys said the demand for
a total settlement freeze was not only unworkable, but would
not receive High Court sanction. Tensions reportedly reached
a peak when, speaking of the Gaza disengagement, the Israelis
told their interlocutors, "We evacuated 8,000 settlers on
our own initiative," to which Mitchell responded simply,
"We've noted that here."
- Defense Minister Ehud Barak will travel
to Washington today in an attempt to put further pressure on
the Obama administration.
- "We want to reach an agreement with
the United States on ways to advance the peace process,"
said a senior Jerusalem official. The U.S. stance, he said, "will
stall the process and bring about tension and stagnation, which
will hurt both Israel and the United States.
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NOTE: Don't worry Israel; President
Obama will guarantee your "covenant
with many." Sad indeed!!
"And he (the beast) shall confirm (guarantee)
the (Israeli) covenant with many for one week (seven
yrs.)" [Daniel 9:27].
"For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden
destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child;
and they shall not escape"
(I Thessalonians 5:3).
"Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but
we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an
eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the
dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal
must put on immortality"
(I Corinthians 15:51-53).
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- US PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
DELIVERS A SPEECH AT CAIRO UNIVERSITY
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- Thursday.June 4, 2009 -
 Photo:
AP - JERUSALEM POST.COM - I am honored to be in the timeless
city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions.
For over a thousand years, al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of
Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has
been a source of Egypt's advancement. Together, you represent
the harmony between tradition and progress. I am grateful for
your hospitality, and the hospitality of the people of Egypt.
I am also proud to carry with me the goodwill of the American
people, and a greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my
country: assalaamu alaykum.
- We meet at a time of tension between the
United States and Muslims around the world - tension rooted in
historical forces that go beyond any current policy debate. The
relationship between Islam and the west includes centuries of
co-existence and co-operation, but also conflict and religious
wars. More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that
denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a cold war
in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as
proxies without regard to their own aspirations. Moreover, the
sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many
Muslims to view the west as hostile to the traditions of Islam.
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OBAMA'S SPEECH ISRAEL REACTS
The president's tough stand against the further growth of Israeli
settlements on the disputed West Bank is prompting quick, strong
reaction from the Jewish state. "Hussein Obama gave priority
to Arab lies," declared a statement from an organization
of Israeli settlers -- Jews who are establishing communities
in territory claimed by the Palestinians --Â according
to a
report in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The settlers' statement
referred to the president by his Arabic middle name. Daniel Herschkowitz,
the chairman of Habayit Hayehudi, one of Israel's political parties,
shrugged off the president's remarks. "Israel is not America's
lackey," he said, according to a report in the Jerusalem
Post. But the paper reports that the speech is being better
received by leaders of Israel's opposition parties, who are citing
Obama's speech to critcize the policies of Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu. In the USA, Jewish Democrats are focusing
on the president's words of support for Israel. In a statement,
the National Jewish Democratic Council praised Obama for reiterating
the need for the Arab world to recognize Israel's right to exist.
"The President made very clear to the Arab world that he
was going to continue to prioritize Israel's peace and security,
and that the U.S. and Israel have an 'unbreakable' bond,"
said Ira N. Forman, chief executive of the council.
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- A COLLAGE PORTRAYING U.S. PRESIDENT OBAMA WEARING A KAFFIYEH
WHICH IS SET TO BE POSTED ACROSS ISRAEL BY RIGHTEST GROUP HAZIT
 Palestinians
like what they see from Obama
By Admin Wednesday, June 3, 2009 “Looks
like we finally have a friend in the White House"
A day before his reconciliation speech to the Muslim world in
Cairo, senior Palestinian officials on Wednesday said they like
what they have seen so far from US President Barack Obama. Obama
is determined to endear America to the Muslim world, and the
Palestinians are confident that effort will come at Israel’s
expense. “Looks like we finally have a friend in the White
House who is sympathetic to the Arab cause,” a Palestinian
cabinet minister told The Jerusalem Post. The minister said he
was following with “great satisfaction” the growing
rift between Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
A senior aide to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said the US
has always been the only country capable of imposing the two-state
solution on Israel, and looks like with Obama, there is finally
a president willing to use that power. Abbas returned from a
visit to Washington last week optimistic that Obama was going
to put an end to the Jewish presence in Judea, Samaria and the
eastern half of Jerusalem. Since then, Obama has put heavy pressure
on Israel to halt even natural growth of Jewish communities in
those areas.
- "It is
better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes"
(Psalm 118:9).
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Analysis: Obama's admirable, vital
new beginning... and unfortunate first misstep
By DAVID HOROVITZ
Jun 4, 2009 - Astutely invoking his own
personal Muslim background, and wrapping his challenge in words
of appreciation for Islam as a potential force for tolerance,
President Barack Obama nonetheless spoke harsh truths to the
Muslim world in Cairo on Thursday. And he was applauded.
Israeli Analyst Jonathan Spyer says Arab world encouraged by
Obama's speech
Offering, and demanding, a new beginning
in relations between Islam and the West, he appealed to a respect
for human life, which he said was common to all faiths but which
he stressed Muslim radicals have come to disregard. "We
will... relentlessly confront violent extremists who pose a grave
threat to our security. Because we reject the same thing that
people of all faiths reject: the killing of innocent men, women
and children," he said. And he was applauded.
This was, of course, only a first step. "No single speech
can eradicate years of mistrust," he noted. But one way
to measure the achievement even this single speech constituted
is to ask whether his predecessor could have conceived it, delivered
it and been cheered for it. The answer, three times, is no.
From the particular, partisan perspective
of the Netanyahu government, the content was as problematic as
would have been expected - no more so, but certainly no less.
There was the insistent reiteration of
the two-state vision, the repeated outlawing of even natural
growth in the settlements - albeit in a clause that was notable
for its plainly deliberate semantic complexity - and the outlining
of a future multi-faith Jerusalem. Here, Obama was setting out
traditional American policy - positions that accord with president
Bill Clinton's eleventh-hour effort to achieve a permanent agreement
in 2000, positions that were anathema then, and are anathema
now, to the Likud and the Right.
From the broader, non-partisan Israeli
perspective, it was heartening to hear the president tell the
Muslim world of America's "unbreakable bond" with our
country, and to hear him highlight the "cultural and historical
ties" at the heart of that relationship, rather than mere
cold, potentially transient, American interests.
It was good to hear him make clear that
the Arab League peace initiative was "an important beginning
but not the end of [Arab states'] responsibilities," and
to urge the Arab world "to recognize Israel's legitimacy"
and stop using the Arab-Israeli conflict as a pretext "to
distract the people of Arab nations from other problems."
Less encouraging was the strikingly brief portion of his speech
devoted to Iran. "When it comes to nuclear weapons, we have
reached a decisive point," he said, promisingly. But in
choosing to continue by asserting Iran's right to "access
peaceful nuclear power," he offered no reassurance to Arab
regimes panicked by Teheran's drive to the bomb, and absolutely
no reassurance to Israel.
Watching from here, his even-handed attribution
of blame for the failure of peace efforts to date was jarring
indeed. For more than 60 years," the president declared,
the Palestinian people "have endured the pain of dislocation.
Many wait in refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza and neighboring
lands for a life of peace and security that they have never been
able to lead."
To which most Israelis, having now witnessed
even Ehud Olmert's ultra-generous two-state terms being derisively
brushed aside by Mahmoud Abbas, would retort: "And whose
fault is that?"
But Obama used his platform, too, to insist
that "Palestinians must abandon violence. Resistance through
violence and killing is wrong and does not succeed." And,
seconds later, he repeated and elaborated: "It is a sign
of neither courage nor power to shoot rockets at sleeping children,
or to blow up old women on a bus. That is not how moral authority
is claimed; that is how it is surrendered."
He said this without including a parallel
criticism of Israel's military response to such killing. He said
this to a Muslim audience in Cairo.
Where he, terribly, missed a vital opportunity
from Israel's point of view, however, was in legitimizing our
Jewish nation-state solely on the basis of our people's persecution
through the centuries, which "culminated in an unprecedented
Holocaust."
Yes, of course, denying the Holocaust is
'baseless, ignorant and hateful." And yes, "threatening
Israel with destruction" does indeed serve "to evoke
in the minds of Israelis this most painful of memories while
preventing the peace that the people of this region deserve."
But our rights in this land are not predicated
solely, or even primarily, on the tragedies that have befallen
us during our history in exile. Those rights relate, rather,
to the fact that we were in exile - from this land, this historic
Jewish homeland. This is the only place on earth where the Jews
have ever been sovereign, the place we never willingly left,
the place to which we always prayed to return.
The culminating tragedy of the Holocaust
occurred only because we had been denied that rightful homeland.
Six million Jewish lives were lost because that legitimacy was
not internationally internalized in time. This president, in
that place, should have emphasized the point stressed the physical
root of our legitimacy to a Muslim world, and especially a Palestinian
populace, that overwhelmingly refuses to acknowledge it.
Instead, unfortunately, the president spoke
of the "displacement" of Palestinians "brought
by Israel's founding" (while making no mention of the Arab
world's rejection of the Arab entity that would have been simultaneously
created alongside us). In so doing, he reinforced the very portrayal
of Israel as a modern colonial upstart that Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
so cynically and strategically asserts.
- In so painstakingly calibrated an address,
delivered in so vital and urgent a cause, this was a stark failure,
and one Obama should himself recognize the need to rectify as
he translates his talk into action. For Muslim recognition of
our fundamental right to be here, precisely here, is central
to the president's admirable quest to make a better world, a
peaceful world, a new beginning.
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"Looking
for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great
God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: (Titus 2:13).
Obama hopeful of Mideast
peace progress this year
By David Alexander and Madeline Chambers
Reuters
Friday, June 5, 2009
DRESDEN, Germany (Reuters) - U.S. President
Barack Obama expressed hope on Friday of making serious progress
in Middle East peacemaking this year and said Israelis and Palestinians
had to "get serious" and make tough compromises.
On a visit to Germany, Obama repeated his
call for Israel to halt settlement expansion in the West Bank,
but he also pushed the Palestinians to improve security and pressed
Arab states to match any Israeli peace steps with confidence-building
gestures.
"The Palestinians have to get serious
about creating the security environment that is required for
Israel to feel confident. Israelis are going to have to take
some difficult steps," he said.
Obama, who sees Israeli-Palestinian progress
as crucial to repairing the U.S. image in the Muslim world, was
speaking a day after delivering a speech in Cairo in which he
offered Muslims a "new beginning" with the United States.
Germany is the third stop on a trip which
started in Saudi Arabia. On Saturday, he will attend commemorations
in France marking the 65th anniversary of the World War Two D-Day
landings in France.
"I am confident that if we stick with
it ... we can make some serious progress this year," Obama
said of the peace process at a news conference in Dresden with
German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
"The moment is now for us to act on
what we all know to be the truth, which is that each side is
going to have to make some difficult compromises."
After Dresden, Obama toured the site of
the Buchenwald concentration camp, paying homage to the victims
of the Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews died.
The visit will send a signal to Jerusalem
that while he did not visit Israel on his maiden trip to the
Middle East, its security is still central to U.S. foreign policy.
"To this day we know there are those
who insist the Holocaust never happened, a denial of a fact or
truth that is baseless, ignorant and hateful. This place is the
ultimate rebuke to such thoughts," Obama said, with Merkel
and camp survivors Elie Wiesel and Bertrand Herz standing behind
him.
UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY
Obama has made finding a solution to the
protracted Israeli-Palestinian conflict a top foreign policy
priority and has plunged into Middle East politics, often a quagmire
for his predecessors, early in his presidency.
Former President George W. Bush was seen
as taking a hands-off approach to Middle East peacemaking until
late in his administration. Muslims saw Bush as biased toward
Israel.
"I believe with the new U.S. administration,
with President Obama, there is a unique opportunity to see to
it that the negotiation process is revived," Merkel said.
Obama said he was concerned his recent
comments on the need for Israel to accept a Palestinian state
were getting a disproportionate amount of attention. Palestinians
needed to take steps, too, he said.
"We have still not seen a firm commitment
from the Palestinian Authority that they can control some of
the border areas that Israel is going to be concerned about if
there was going to be a two-state solution," he said.
If this was not solved, the Israelis would
have "trouble moving forward," Obama said.
He called on Arab states to "make
some hard choices" by opening up trade and offering diplomatic
exchanges with Israel if it made "tough commitments."
Until now, Arab states have said Israel must fulfill its obligations
under the 2003 "road map" peace plan before they will
reciprocate. End ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
NOTE:
The United States' plan for peace has been widely accepted internationally
as well as by the Israeli and Palestinian governments, which
would see two sovereign states existing beside each other in
the land God has promised to Israel.:
"There is a way
that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways
of death" (Proverbs
16:25).
"For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since
the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh
be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened"
(Matthew 24:21 & 22).
But the hope of the Church, which is the body and bride of Christ,
is to be caught up (raptured) to meet Christ in the air immediately
before the tribulation. There is an event that indicates the
first day of the tribulation:
"And he (the beast) shall confirm (guarantee)
the (Israeli) covenant with many for one week (seven
yrs.)" [Daniel 9:27].
One of these days, in the near future, we're going to hear that
an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians has been reached.
Also the date for a formal public confirmation ceremony will
be announced. Let's say for example, the confirmation ceremony,
with much pomp and circumstance, with the whole world watching,
is scheduled to convene on November 10. Based on past performance,
such as Israel's treaties with Egypt; Jordan; and the Oslo agreements,
the announcement of the public confirmation ceremony always came
several days in advance of the event. So, let's say that on or
about November 4, we hear that a confirmation ceremony is set
for November 10. We would then know that the Church would be
caught up to meet Christ in the air on November 9; as the Church
Age goes up to, but not into the tribulation. Then we'll be singing,
"Coming home, coming home, Lord I'm coming home." Amen!
"For the Lord
himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice
of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in
Christ shall rise first; then we which are alive and remain shall
be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord
in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore
comfort one another with these words" (I Thessalonians 4:16-18).
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"Looking
for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great
God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: (Titus
2:13).
Netanyahu 'determined to show
world he is not against peace'
Jun 8, 2009 10:17 AM
Prime minister not expected to use phrase
'two states for two peoples' at planned response speech following
Obama address in Egypt, but he will work hard to narrow the schism
over the settlements. 'Israel is adopting the principles of Obama's
vision,' PM's aides say
Roni Sofer Published: 06/08/09
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will
lay out his political stance on peace with the Palestinians in
a speech at Bar Ilan University next week. The speech comes as
a response to the historic address delivered by US President
Barack Obama in Egypt last week, officials close to the prime
minister said on Sunday.
"These issues aren't decided over
the course of a week, but the prime minister is adamant to make
clear to Israelis and to the world that Israel is not against
peace, and that it is willing to adopt the principles of Obama's
vision while maintaining Israel's security interests," the
sources said.
Those close to Netanyahu believe the prime
minister will not employ the 'two states for two peoples' terminology
which the US administration views as a litmus test. Netanyahu
is expected to try and abate the tensions that have arisen opposite
Washington over the settlement issue and express Israel's willingness
to tackle the illegal outposts in the West Bank.
The components of the prime minister's
speech are still under wraps as Netanyahu and his close advisors
are playing this one close to the chest. The speech is being
prepared alongside increased efforts to work out Netanyahu's
final stance on the key issues at hand – the Palestinian
conflict, the advancement of regional ties with moderate Arab
states, and the possible renewal of talks with Syria.
Discussions on these matters are occupying
most of the prime minister's time, and the time of his aides.
His top political advisors – Uzi Arad, Yitzhak Molcho and
Ron Dermer have been tasked with working the political content
into the speech.
Netanyahu will also meet with coalition
partners Avigdor Lieberman, Eli Yishai, and Daniel Hershkowitz
to get their input before working on the speech himself.
"It is
better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes"
(Psalm
118:9).
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"Looking
for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great
God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: (Titus 2:13).
Jerusalem Post
June 16, 2009
Analysis: Why was PA reaction
to Netanyahu's speech so harsh?
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
The Palestinian Authority leadership's
hysterical, hasty and clearly miscalculated response to Prime
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's speech at Bar-Ilan University on
Sunday night is likely to boomerang because it makes the Palestinians
appear as "peace rejectionists."
The PA, perhaps, has every right to be angry with Netanyahu's
statements. However, its leaders should have been more careful
in choosing the right words to express their sentiments.
Even before he completed his speech, several PA officials and
spokesmen used every available platform to declare their total
rejection of Netanyahu's ideas, especially with regards to the
establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state and recognition
of Israel as a Jewish state.
Some went as far as hurling personal insults
at Netanyahu, branding him a liar, a fraud and a swindler. Others
hinted at the possibility that, in the wake of his strategy,
the Palestinians would now have to resort to another intifada.
PA representatives are now saying that
Netanyahu "cannot even dream of finding one Palestinian
to talk to."
One senior official in Ramallah announced
shortly after the prime minister finished his address that the
Palestinians won't resume peace talks with Israel for at least
a thousand years.
The harsh response of the PA is the direct
result of high hopes that its leaders have pinned on the administration
of US President Barack Obama.
Reports about a looming crisis between the administration and
Netanyahu over the future of the Middle East peace process, combined
with Obama's conciliatory approach toward the Arab and Muslim
worlds, created the impression in Ramallah that the Israeli government
had no choice but to accept all the Palestinian demands.
Briefing reporters on the eve of Netanyahu's
speech, some of PA President Mahmoud Abbas's top aides predicted
that, in the wake of increased US pressure, Netanyahu would be
forced to give in, freezing settlement construction and accepting
the two-state solution.
That's why most of these aides expressed
surprise when they heard the prime minister's uncompromising
position on most of the sticking issues.
By completely rejecting Netanyahu's offer
of a demilitarized state and his demand to recognize Israel as
the homeland of the Jewish people, the PA leadership has climbed
a high tree from which it will find it difficult to climb down.
As in previous cases, this leadership has
chosen to look at the empty half of the glass.
The fact that Netanyahu is even prepared
to talk about a Palestinian state is in itself a major achievement.
And so what if the future state of Palestine doesn't have an
army and an air force? Why would Palestine need tanks and warplanes?
Don't the Palestinians already have enough security forces and
armed militias? Don't they already have enough ammunition and
rockets?
The future state of Palestine will have
to invest in government institutions and infrastructure instead
of weapons. The Palestinians need jobs and good government more
than they need an army and tanks.
True, Netanyahu's speech does not fulfill
the entire aspirations of the Palestinians. But it would have
been wiser for the PA leadership to also look at some of the
positive elements in the speech, such as Netanyahu's acceptance
of the idea of a Palestinian state.
Whether Palestine would be demilitarized
or not is an issue that the two sides could always continue to
discuss through negotiations. But the PA leadership has chosen
to say no to this idea, thus playing into the hands of those
who have long been arguing that the Palestinians never miss an
opportunity to miss an opportunity.
When Yasser Arafat accepted the "Gaza-Jericho
First" formula, he knew that he would subsequently receive
more territory in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip through negotiations.
Netanyahu has outsmarted the PA leaders
in Ramallah by dragging them into the debate over Israel's Jewish
character - a demand that the Palestinians have also totally
and vehemently rejected.
If anyone has reason to be worried about
Israel's desire to be a Jewish state, it's the 1.4 million Arab
citizens of the state. But this is an issue that should be solved
through dialogue between the Israeli establishment and the Arab
citizens. The Palestinians, after all, are fighting for separation
from Israel, while the Israeli Arabs are fighting for integration.
It's also unclear why PA representatives
are surprised to hear about the demilitarized state and Israel's
Jewish character. Former US president Bill Clinton also mentioned
the idea of creating a demilitarized state for the Palestinians,
as did all of Netanyahu's predecessors. And the demand that the
Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state is also not new.
Had the PA leadership responded positively
to any of Netanyahu's offers, or at least used a less harsh tone
in rejecting the entire speech, it's highly likely that they
would have triggered a political crisis in Israel - one that
would have even threatened the prime minister's coalition. PA
leaders and officials should have taken into account the fact
that a majority of Israelis - according to recent public opinion
polls - favor the two-state solution, regardless of Netanyahu's
stance on the issue.
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Note: Perhaps eventually, U.S. President
Obama "the anointed One," will offer to guarantee any
"peace" agreement even with military troops if necessary.
We watch!
"If therefore thou
shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt
not know what hour I will come upon thee" (Revelation 3:3)
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"For our conversation
is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord
Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be
fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working
whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself"
(Phil. 3:20
&21).
PEACE WITHIN REACH
Jun 19, 2009
"A historic settlement is within reach,"
Mubarak wrote in the Wall Street Journal. "Egypt stands
ready to seize that moment, and I am confident that the Arab
world will do the same."
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak called
Friday to determine the "contiguous" borders of a future
Palestinian state as the first priority of getting the Israeli
Palestinian peace process back on track.
In a piece entitled How to Achieve Israeli-Palestinian Peace
in Friday's Wall Street Journal, Mubarak opined that US President
Barack Obama's "seminal" address in Cairo earlier this
month has shown that "it is issues of politics and policy,
not a clash of values, that separate the Muslim world and America.
It is the resolution of these issues that will heal the divide."
"Among the host of challenges before
us," Mubarak continues, "it is the Palestinian issue
that requires the greatest urgency, given the precarious state
of the peace process after years of stalemate."
Mubarak reiterated the Arab world's commitment
to the Saudi peace initiative, citing the Beirut summit of 2002
where the initative was adopted by the Arab League.
Israel's "relentless settlement expansion,
which has seriously eroded the prospects for a two-state solution,"
must come to a stop if the peace initiative were to be successfully
implemented, as well as the closure of Gaza. The Palestinians,
Mubarak writes, must "continue to develop their institutional
capacity while overcoming their division to achieve their aspirations
for statehood."
The first priority, the Egyptian president
says, is "to resolve the permanent borders of a sovereign
and territorially contiguous Palestinian state, based on the
1967 lines, as this would unlock most of the other permanent
status issues, including settlements, security, water and Jerusalem."
"It is better
to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes" (Psalm 118:9).
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The Middle East in motion
(GUARDIAN UK COMMENT) Joschka
Fischer 06/20/09
"Looking
for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great
God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: (Titus 2:13).
Jun 20, 2009
Great speeches are all too often underestimated as being mere
words. In fact, they can have powerful consequences. This is
obviously the case with President Obama´s recent address
to the Muslim world in Cairo, because – mere coincidence
or excellent timing? – things in the Middle East have been
in flux ever since.
Since Obama´s Cairo speech, there have been elections in
Lebanon where, surprisingly, the alliance of pro-western parties
scored a clear victory against Hezbollah and its allies. Also
noteworthy in that election is that the losing side immediately
accepted defeat and that Syria is now obviously serious about
building a new rapport with Lebanon.
Iran´s recent "election" saw blatant manipulation
in favour of the incumbent president incite a democratic mass
uprising. One is astonished by the fact that Iran´s government
did not opt for transparency immediately, by promptly and comprehensively
providing the facts about the voting, facts that it alone possesses.
After all, if President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has genuinely won
by a margin of 2:1, there is nothing to fear. What is happening,
however, is precisely the opposite, and for this there is only
one explanation: the election was rigged.
The election fraud in Iran has caused a mass movement in the
country´s cities, which – this much is clear even
now – will fundamentally change the country. Indeed, either
the regime will resort to brute force to suppress the protests,
thus abandoning any pretense of democratic legitimacy in favor
of de facto military dictatorship, or it will find it impossible
to beat the subversive genie of democracy back into its bottle,
and Iran will increasingly open up and reform itself. In the
case of violent suppression, the west will find it a lot harder
to hold talks with Iran over its nuclear programme, because the
regime will be able to rely for its survival solely on isolation
and confrontation with the outside world. Moreover, talks with
the regime would give rise to substantial legitimacy problems
in the west.
The Islamic Republic will not be able to get away with the Chinese
option – to combine political suppression at home with economic
reform and greater openness to the outside world – because
its structures are too weak and brittle for this. The ruling
ideology, moreover, is unlikely to survive such a step unharmed.
Indeed, aside from matters of domestic policy and the issue of
internal freedom, the choice between the major candidates hinges
on the question of whether Iran should seek greater international
integration. Ahmadinejad stands for a policy of confrontation
and partial isolation; Mousavi stands for more openness. A policy
of opening the country would therefore quickly put the regime´s
existence at risk.
If Ahmadinejad prevails, the dilemma for the west will be that
it will have to deal with a regime discredited by election fraud,
but still indispensable for resolving almost all of the Middle
East´s important problems: Iran´s own nuclear programme
and the conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and
Palestine. Iran is also a key player in cooling the hot spots
in the Caucasus and Central Asia.
A regime in Tehran that must demonstrate external strength to
survive its shattered legitimacy at home would therefore make
the comprehensive, negotiated settlement that the west seeks
much more difficult and risky, if not impossible, to achieve.
Things have also started to move in a third area: the conflict
between Israel and the Palestinians. Obama hasn´t postponed
tackling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict until the end of his
second term in office. Instead, Obama has energetically confronted
the issue from the start. He also doesn´t shy away from
a limited conflict with Israel´s government concerning
the West Bank settlements.
The conditions for serious negotiations in the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, however, are anything but good, owing to a lack of
partners on both sides. Israel´s prime minister Binyamin
Netanyahu has now committed himself to a Palestinian state, and
the Hamas leadership, which rejects Israel´s right to exist,
has agreed to a Palestinian state within the borders prior to
5 June, 1967. But the provisos that each side would demand of
the other put into question the sincerity of their commitment
to a two-state solution.
Yet only a government of the Israeli right can end the expansion
of the settlements, and only Hamas can stop the violence against
Israel. These two questions – settlements and security –
will have to be simultaneously resolved in a practical manner
if the peace process is to be restarted.
If Obama wants to make serious progress in this conflict, he
will have to get the Netanyahu government and Hamas to negotiate.
This may seem impossible from today´s perspective, but
appearances can deceive. Such negotiations will be possible if
and when both sides – Israel and the Palestinians –
form governments of national unity.
Today´s flux in the Middle East is a highly ambivalent
affair, because the situation can improve or (more likely) deteriorate.
But one thing is certain: if the present impasse continues, the
situation will only get worse. So it is right to take the risks
that change requires. Copyright: Project Syndicate/Institute
of Human Sciences, 2009 (guardian.co.uk © Guardian News
and Media Limited 2009 06/20/09)
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Indeed, it seems the Sovereign God of the Universe has all the
right kings in the right places and at the right time and doing
the right things. Praise Him! Praise Him!
GOD IS SOVEREIGN
IN ADMINISTRATION
"And he (God)
removeth kings, and setteth up kings . . ." (Daniel 2:21).
"By me (God) kings reign, and princes decree justice. By
me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth"
(Proverbs 8:15 & 16).
"The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers
of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will" (Proverbs
21:1).
"For I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there
is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from
ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel
shall stand, and I will do all of my pleasure: . . . . . yea,
I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed
it, I will also do it" (Isaiah 46:9-11).
I watch the conservative Fox News Network and this past week
President Obama took a swipe at Fox News. Conservative Americans
see the stage being set for huge economic crisis, thus fearing
a socialist dictatorship. For Christians it's bitter-sweet.
For many years fundamental preachers have been saying, "If
God doesn't soon bring judgment upon the U.S.A., He'll have to
resurrect Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize to them." Judgment
is soon coming, not only on the U.S.A., but on the whole world.
We see political division manifested in the streets in Iran.
Angry Americans will also be protesting in the streets as the
government takes more and more control of America's businesses.
We are seeing the stage being set for the 'mark of the beast."
Americans already have seen a slight forerunner of this by a
previous Socialist president:
FORERUNNER TO THE
MARK OF THE BEAST
"And the third
angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship
the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead,
or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath
of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his
indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone
in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the
Lamb" (Revelation
14:9 & 10).
During the Great Depression in the
1930's, U.S. President F.D. Roosevelt instituted the National
Recovery Act hoping to stimulate the stagnant economy. Businesses
were strongly encouraged to comply with President Roosevelt's
National Recovery Act (NRA) and were to display the Blue Eagle
at their businesses, usually in a front window. Also, the American
people were exhorted by the government to patronize the businesses
displaying the Blue Eagle.
Blue Eagle
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NRA Blue Eagle
The Blue Eagle, a blue-colored representation of the American
"thunderbird,"
with outspread wings, was a symbol used in the United
States by companies to show compliance with the National
Industrial Recovery Act. It was proclaimed on July 20, 1933,
as the symbol of industrial recovery by Hugh
Samuel Johnson, the head of the National
Recovery Administration.[1][2][3]
The design was sketched by Johnson, and
based on an idea utilized by the War
Industries Board during World
War I.[1][3]
All companies that accepted President Franklin
D. Roosevelt's Re-employment Agreement or a special Code
of Fair Competition were permitted to display a poster showing
the Blue Eagle together with the announcement, "NRA Member.
We Do Our Part."[1][2][3] Consumers were exhorted to buy
products and services only from companies displaying the Blue
Eagle banner.[1][3] According to Johnson,
"When every American housewife understands
that the Blue Eagle on everything that she permits into her home
is a symbol of its restoration to security, may God have mercy
on the man or group of men who attempt to trifle with this bird."
[4]
On September 5, 1935, following the invalidation
of the compulsory code system, the emblem was abolished and its
future use as a symbol was prohibited.
In Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania in 1933, DeBenneville
"Bert" Bell formed a new National
Football League franchise to replace the defunct Frankford
Yellow Jackets, naming this team the Eagles
in recognition of the NRA (a name the team retains to the present).
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With each passing day we're more understanding
as to how Jeremiah felt in weeping for his fellow countrymen.
Indeed, it is bitter-sweet! Even so, come Lord Jesus! AMEN!
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GOD SAYS ISRAEL'S COMING COVENANT
IS:
"A COVENANT
WITH DEATH; AN AGREEMENT WITH HELL"
"And your covenant
with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell
shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through,
then ye shall be trodden down by it" (Isaiah 28:18).
06/27/2009
Blair: Netanyahu election
could be a blessing
By Haaretz Service and Reuters
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's election could prove a blessing,
since his right-leaning government could have the domestic support
to make concessions, Middle East envoy Tony Blair said Friday.
"I hope and believe Prime Minister
Netanyahu is sincere about wanting a Palestine state and wanting
to help create one. If he is, he could be in a strong position
to deliver it," Blair, who represents the Quartet of Middle
East mediators, told Reuters.
Netanyahu's assumption of power in March
sparked concerns that the Middle East peace process would stall
in light of his reluctance to back Palestinian statehood.
But world leaders have recently voiced optimism over the chances
of peace following a speech the premier delivered two weeks ago,
in which he declared support for a demilitarized Palestinian
state.
Blair, a former British prime minister,
added that a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
could be within reach if Israel compromises on issues such as
halting settlement expansion.
"There is a virtual consensus across
the international community not just as to what needs to happen,
but how...which was not the case a couple of years ago,"
he said.
"If Israel were to join that, we could
get an agreement and an agreement in my view that protects completely
the state of Israel."
A statement issued Friday by the Quartet, which includes the
United Nations, the United States, Russia and the European Union,
called for Israel to halt all settlement activities and for Palestinians
to combat violent extremism.
The group met on the sidelines of a G8
foreign ministers' meeting in northern Italy.
Direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians
could resume soon, Blair said, but the process was at a delicate
stage as foreign powers stepped up calls on Jerusalem to ensure
a Palestinian state would not be undermined by settlements.
Netanyahu, who heads a right-leaning coalition
that could be fractured if he agreed to a settlement halt, has
reiterated his intention to continue building within existing
settlements in the West Bank to accommodate the "natural
growth" of families.
Blair added: "The advent of the Obama
administration has given a new sense of energy and commitment
and to a certain extent hope... However, the challenges are still
there."
G8 urges Israel to halt settlement building
Earlier Friday, the world's richest nations
earlier called on Israel to halt construction in West Bank settlements,
including that which Jerusalem seeks to pursue to accommodate
natural growth.
U.S. envoy George Mitchell told a news
conference after the Quartet meeting in Italy that the United
States hoped Israelis and Palestinians would soon begin "meaningful
and productive" peace negotiations.
"We believe we are making progress
in these efforts and we hope very much to conclude this phase
of the discussions and to be able to move into meaningful and
productive negotiations in the near future," he said.
"We are now trying very hard to seize
the very favorably created political atmosphere, of Obama's election
to push the peace process forward," UN Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon told the conference.
The Group of Eight powers also deplored
violence in Iran after its disputed election on Friday and urged
Tehran to settle the crisis soon through democratic dialogue,
according to the final draft statement seen
by Reuters.
"We deplore post-electoral violence
which led to the loss of lives of Iranian civilians and urge
Iran to respect fundamental human rights including freedom of
expression...," G8 foreign ministers said in the statement.
The G8 called on all parties to "re-enter
direct negotiations on all standing issues consistent with the
roadmap" and it called for a freeze in settlement construction
in the West Bank.
"We also call on both parties to fulfill
their obligations under the road map, including a freeze in settlement
activity (as well as their 'natural growth') and an unequivocal
end to violence and terrorism," the statement read.
"We call on all parties to re-enter
direct negotiations on all standing issues consistent with the
road map, the relevant UNSC resolutions and the Madrid principles."
- Related articles:
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construction
- Netanyahu trying to reach deal on settlements with
U.S.
- Israel mulls temporary freeze on settlement construction
"It is
better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes"
(Psalm
118:9).
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"Looking
for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great
God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: (Titus 2:13).
Israel seeks Arab response
for settlement building freeze
-
- July 4, 2009
By Barak Ravid
The Barack Obama administration is continuing its efforts to
draft a comprehensive agreement for freezing West Bank settlement
construction and normalizing relations between Israel and the
Arab states.
- Meanwhile, Israeli officials told U.S.
envoy George Mitchell in recent weeks that Jerusalem is willing
to temporarily freeze settlement construction, but that the move
would be conditioned on substantive steps from the Arab side,
as well as guarantees from the United States.
"And he (the beast) shall confirm (guarantee)
the covenant with many for one week (seven yrs.)" [Daniel
9:27].
-
- Yesterday Obama sent a letter to King
Mohammed VI of Morocco expressing his hope and expectation the
Arab states will take steps to end Israel's "isolation"
in the Middle East, and that he hopes "Morocco will be a
leader in bridging gaps between Israel and the Arab world."
Israeli officials said yesterday they believe the United States
is seeking to encourage Morocco and the Persian Gulf states to
allow Israel to open diplomatic offices in their territory, and
to send their own diplomatic delegations to Israel.
- In his meeting with Mitchell, Barak encouraged
the envoy to engage in "shuttle diplomacy" between
Jerusalem and a number of Arab capitals to draft a regional peace
plan. Another proposal that emerged in the talks was the convening
of an international peace summit in the coming months on a "comprehensive
regional agreement" that would lay out the steps ahead for
both the Israeli and Arab sides.
- Israeli officials said the thrust of the
message delivered to Mitchell was "the length and breadth
of the temporarily building freeze will be in proportion to the
scope of the renewal of peace talks, and signals received from
the Arab states."
- Tomorrow Barak and Mitchell will meet
again in London to discuss solutions to the settlement issue
and steps to be taken by Arab states in return. Barak will be
joined by Yitzhak Molcho, a diplomatic adviser to Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu.
- At the center of the meeting will be the
fate of some 2,500 housing units currently being built in West
Bank settlements. Israel is prepared to announce a temporary
construction freeze of several months, but is seeking U.S. acquiescence
to complete building projects that have already begun.
- The talks are aimed at reaching an agreement
on the majority of issues that remain points of conflict between
Washington and Jerusalem, and to reach final understandings ahead
of Netanyahu's meeting with Mitchell in Jerusalem in two weeks.
"For the Lord
himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice
of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in
Christ shall rise first; then we which are alive and remain shall
be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord
in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore
comfort one another with these words" (I
Thessalonians 4:16-18).
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"And he (the beast) shall confirm
(guarantee) the covenant with many for one week (seven
yrs.)" [Daniel 9:27].
Negotiations in progress; over Jerusalem also!
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- "And in that day will I make Jerusalem
a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves
with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the
earth be gathered together against it" (Zechariah 12:3).
July 19, 2009 8:55 | Updated July 20, 2009
- 'Limits on settlement
freeze being set'
By JPOST.COM
STAFF
Jerusalem's decision to leak to the media US displeasure with
a plan to build a small housing complex in east Jerusalem was
designed to clarify to the Americans that construction in the
capital should not be lumped together with any limitations Israel
may agree to on building in the settlements, senior diplomatic
officials told The Jerusalem Post Sunday.
According to the officials, Israel was "defining the boundaries"
of where Israel would, and would not, agree to limitations on
its construction activity.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, responding to the reports
that Washington had asked Israel not to build 20 apartments in
the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in east Jerusalem, near Mount
Scopus and the National Police headquarters, said, "I would
like to reemphasize that united Jerusalem is the capital of the
Jewish people and of the State of Israel. Our sovereignty over
it cannot be challenged; this means - inter alia - that residents
of Jerusalem may purchase apartments in all parts of the city.
- "This has been the
policy of all Israeli governments and I would like to say that
it is indeed being implemented because in recent years hundreds
of apartments in Jewish neighborhoods and in the western part
of the city have been purchased by - or rented to - Arab residents
and we did not interfere," he said. "This says that
there is no ban on Arabs buying apartments in the western part
of the city and there is no ban on Jews buying or building apartments
in the eastern part of the city."
- Netanyahu said Jerusalem
was an open, undivided city "that has no separation according
to religion or national affiliation. We cannot accept the idea
that Jews will not have the right to live and purchase in all
parts of Jerusalem."
- The prime minister said
that just as there would be an international outcry if Jews were
prohibited from buying property in New York, London, Paris or
Rome, so too Jews should not be prohibited from buying property
in Jerusalem. "This has been the policy of Israeli governments
over the years and it is also the policy of our government,"
he said.
- Later in the day, at a
meeting of his inner cabinet, Netanyahu reportedly took the US
to task for making an issue of the project, asking what President
Barack Obama was thinking, and whether he really thought that
after Netanyahu built 20,000 homes in Jerusalem during his first
term as prime minister (1996-99), including starting the then
very controversial project in Har Homa, he would not build 20
more apartments now in the shadow of Mount Scopus.
- According to assessments
in Jerusalem, the Palestinians - concerned that Jerusalem and
Washington might find a compromise solution on construction in
the settlements - are looking for other issues they can raise
with the Americans, in the hope that the Obama administration
would continue to turn the diplomatic heat up on Israel.
- "The Palestinians
are riding the wave," one official said, adding that the
Palestinians generally raise these matters with the US and British
consulates in Jerusalem, with the hope that they will pass the
messages on to Washington and London, which will then pressure
Jerusalem.
- The official said it was
not clear what impact this issue would have on the negotiations
over US demands for a settlement freeze. While in recent days
there have been reports the sides were headed toward a compromise
agreement on the matter, one Israeli official said that while
there was "good will" on both sides, we are "not
there yet."
- The official said that
until now, Jerusalem had not been included in the areas discussed
regarding a construction freeze.
- US Mideast envoy George
Mitchell, heading the negotiations on this matter for Washington,
is expected to arrive next Sunday for another round of talks.
- Even as this story was
percolating in Israel on Sunday, Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton said in New Delhi that the administration was
trying to reach an agreement with Israel on settlements.
- "The negotiations
are intense. They are ongoing," she said.
- Meanwhile, Avi Diskin,
head of the Shin Bet (Israel
Security Agency),
told the cabinet that Israel had identified widespread activity
by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas to block land purchases
in east Jerusalem by Jews.
- In addition, Diskin said
that Egyptian cleric Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi of the Muslim
Brotherhood had allocated some $25 million for the purchase of
property and to build Hamas charitable institutions that would
expand the group's reach in Jerusalem.
- Diskin said that while
there has been a drop in terrorist activity both in the Gaza
Strip and the West Bank, there was a "steady trickle"
of foreigners into Gaza who were affiliated with the global Islamic
jihad movement.
- Likewise, he said, Hamas
continued to develop its armament capabilities inside Gaza, even
though the organization was not currently carrying out attacks.
End item. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- We well know the coming
"covenant with
many" will
be rendered void and the beast "guarantor" will come
down on the side of Israel. Already, according to the above article,
jihad terrorists are trickling into Gaza. They will never agree
with any covenant with Israel!! Terror attacks against Israel
will force U.S to Israel's side. Has not our God told us:
- "For when they
shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon
them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not
escape" (I Thessalonians 5:3).
- "And your covenant
with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell
shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through,
then ye shall be trodden down by it" (Isaiah 28:18).
"And when ye shall Jerusalem compassed with armies, then
know that the desolation thereof is nigh" (Luke 21:20).
"And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall
be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be
trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles
be fulfilled" (Luke 21:24).
But, the blessed hope of the true Church is:
"For the Lord
himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice
of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in
Christ shall rise first; then we which are alive and remain shall
be caught up together with them in the clouds" (I Thessalonians
5:3).
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will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all
that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though
all the people of the earth be gathered together against it"
(Zechariah 12:3).
Published: 07/22/09
- US Policy: Jews in
Eastern Jerusalem are Unwanted ‘Settlers’
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
The United States State Department made it clear Tuesday that
Jewish neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem are “settlements,”
which U.S. President Barack Obama has called “illegitimate."
U.S. officials previously have used the term “settlement”
to describe the Har Homa neighborhood, opposite the neighborhood
of Gilo on the southern end of Jerusalem. Like French Hill, Ramot
and eastern Talpiot, it was restored to Israel in the Six Day
War in 1967 and officially annexed to Jerusalem in 1980. Approximately
300,000 Jews live in these neighborhoods.
- The Obama administration has not stated
whether it makes a distinction between building in Har Homa and
the other neighborhoods.
Reporters covering the daily State Department press briefing
have recently asked tough-than-usual questions concerning what
they see as the United States trying to determine the future
borders of a Palestinian Authority state instead of allowing
Israel and the PA to negotiate directly.
- In Tuesday’s session, reporters peppered
State Department assistant spokesman Robert Wood with questions
on how the Obama administration can continue to insist on a halt
to all building for Jews in eastern Jerusalem as well as Judea
and Samaria in light of solid support from within Israel for
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
- Netanyahu told the Cabinet this week that
Israel has complete sovereignty over all of Jerusalem and decides
issues such as building permits. Deputy Foreign Minister Danny
Ayalon declared on Tuesday, “Israel will continue to operate
in accordance with its vital national interests... Our right
to rule and develop Jerusalem is irrefutable.”
- Even Intelligence Minister and Deputy
Prime Minister Dan Meridor, one of the most dovish Likud Knesset
Members, who previously has favored the idea of surrendering
the strategic Golan Heights to Syria, took up the cause for Jerusalem
Tuesday.
- He asserted that the U.S. is obligated
by informal commitments by former President George W. Bush, who
wrote to then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that large population
Jewish centers, such as Gush Etzion and Maaleh Adumim, will remain
part of Israel in any final agreement with the PA. Washington
recently has lumped eastern Jerusalem with Maaleh Adumim as “settlements.”
The Obama administration has rejected any commitment to the promises
because they were not part of a formal agreement.
- "It is of great importance to us
that what the [previous] U.S. administration agreed to is not
overlooked," Meridor told reporters. "This is how countries
take upon themselves obligations." He added that the “oral
understandings” are “binding on us and them.”
- Reporters at the State Department noted
Meridor’s and Ayalon’s statements, mentioning that
Ayalon said Israel must act in line with its national interests
and its rights in Jerusalem.
- Wood replied, “No one is asking Israel
to act outside its national security interests. What we’re
asking both parties to do is to fulfill the Roadmap obligations,”
although the American proposal does not state anything about
Israel’s unilaterally ceasing construction for Jews in eastern
Jerusalem or anywhere else.
- Israeli media jumped on Wood’s statement
that it is “premature” to talk about financial pressures
to force Israel to bend to American policies, but the context
of his comment was a direct reply to a question and was not a
hint that the Obama administration is considering such a step.
-
- “I think we’ve been very clear
with regard to settlements,” Wood said. “They need
to stop, and that includes natural growth. I don’t have
anything more to add to that. The Israelis are well aware of
our position. And we’ll obviously continue to have talks
with the Israelis on this subject and other issues, but our policy
remains the same.”
- U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell
is to arrive in the region later this week for more talks with
Israel and the PA on the issue of building for Jews in eastern
Jerusalem as well as Judea and Samaria on the west bank of the
Jordan River. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Editor's note: Don't worry Israel, "Messiah" Obama,
also called "the One," will guarantee a written agreement
for seven whole years! Won't that be nice!
- "And he (the beast)
shall confirm (guarantee) the covenant with many for one week
(seven yrs.)" [Daniel 9:27].
- And then:
- "For when they
shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon
them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not
escape" (I Thessalonians 5:3).
- "And your covenant
with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell
shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through,
then ye shall be trodden down by it" (Isaiah 28:18).
"It is better
to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes" (Psalm 118:9).
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- August 6, 2009
"For
as he thinketh in his heart, so is he" (Proverbs 23:7)
A person is indeed the product of their thoughts! There are secular
old sayings that also depict this Divine truth:
"A man is known
by the company he keeps" and "birds of a feather flock
together" and "actions speak louder than words."
Barack Hussein Obama was a member of a Marxist, racist, America
hating "Church" for twenty years. During the presidential
campaign we heard his pastor "Reverend" Wright say
countless times via television, "Not God bless America,
but God damn America!!!" And now it's becoming crystal clear
that Hussein Obama is no friend of Constitutional America, nor
Israel!!
Many believe President Obama is leading America toward a socialist
dictatorship!! We Christians know that it is God's time for that.
Also, the wrath of God abides upon a country that murders precious
unborn babies and homosexuals have the blessing of the U.S. government
as they "marry" one another (read Romans chapter one).
Therefore the U.S.A. is getting its just due. The U.S.A. that
I was born into and loved as a child is gone with the wind. I
am gravely saddened and I weep for my country and the world.
The anti-Christ dictator will confirm Israel's "covenant with many" for seven years. Many Americans are now
learning that Hussein Obama does not love America. Israelis are
also learning that he does not care for Israel. In his speech
given in Egypt, Obama clearly revealed to the Muslims that he
was their friend. A time of trouble is at hand:
"For then shall
be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of
the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those
days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but
for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened" (Matthew 24:21&22).
Why Won’t
Obama Talk to Israel? (NY) TIMES OP-ED)
By ALUF BENN TEL AVIV, ISRAEL 07/28/09)
In his global tours and TV appearances, President Obama has spoken
to Arabs, Muslims, Iranians, Western Europeans, Eastern Europeans,
Russians and Africans. His words have stirred emotions and been
well received everywhere.
But he hasn’t bothered to speak directly to Israelis.
And the effect? Six months into his presidency, Israelis find
themselves increasingly suspicious of Mr. Obama. All they see
is American pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to
freeze settlements, a request that’s been interpreted here
as political arm- twisting meant to please the Arab street at
Israel’s expense — or simply to express the president’s
dislike for Mr. Netanyahu.
This would seem counterproductive, given the importance the president
has placed on resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. If
Israel is part of the problem, it’s also part of the solution.
Yet so far, neither the president nor any senior administration
official has given a speech or an interview aimed at an Israeli
audience, beyond brief statements made at diplomatic photo ops.
The Arabs got the Cairo speech; we got silence.
This policy of ignoring Israel carries a price. Though Mr. Obama
has succeeded in prodding Mr. Netanyahu to accept the idea of
a Palestinian state alongside Israel, he has failed to induce
Israel to impose a freeze on settlements. In fact, he has failed
even to stir debate about the merits of one: no Israeli political
figure has stood up to Mr. Netanyahu and begged him to support
Mr. Obama; not even the Israeli left, desperate for a new agenda,
has adopted Mr. Obama as its icon.
As a result, Mr. Netanyahu enjoys a virtual domestic consensus
over his rejection of the settlement freeze. Moreover, he has
succeeded in portraying Mr. Obama as a shaky ally. In Mr. Netanyahu’s
narrative, the president has fallen under the influence of top
aides — in this case Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod —
whom the prime minister has called “self-hating Jews.”
Meanwhile, Mr. Netanyahu is the defender of national glory in
face of unfair pressure, someone who sticks to the first commandment
of Israeli culture: thou shalt never be the freier (that is,
the dupe).
So far, Israelis have embraced Mr. Netanyahu’s message.
A Jerusalem Post poll of Israeli Jews last month indicated that
only 6 percent of those surveyed considered the Obama administration
to be pro-Israel, while 50 percent said that its policies are
more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israeli. Less scientifically: Israeli
rightists have — in columns, articles and public statements
— taken to calling the president by his middle name, Hussein,
as proof of his pro-Arab tendencies.
What went wrong? Several explanations come to mind.
First, in the 16 rosy years of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush,
Israelis became spoiled by unfettered presidential attention.
Memories of State Department “Arabists” leading American
policy in the Middle East were erased. The White House coordinated
its policy with Jerusalem, and stayed out of the way when Israel
embarked on controversial military offensives in Lebanon and
Gaza. This approach infuriated America’s Arab and European
allies, which blamed Washington for one-sidedness — something
they were willing to forgive of Bill Clinton but not of George
W. Bush.
Mr. Obama came to office determined to repair America’s
broken alliances in Europe and the Middle East. One way to do
this — to prove that he was the opposite of his predecessor
— was to place some distance between Israel and himself.
Second, Mr. Obama’s quest for diplomacy has appeared to
Israelis as dangerous American naïveté. The president
offered a hand to the Iranians, and got nothing, merely giving
them more time to advance their nuclear program. In Israeli eyes,
he was humiliated by North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests.
And he failed to move Arab governments to take steps to normalize
relations with Israel. Conclusion: Mr. Obama is a softie, eager
to please his listeners and avoid confrontation with anyone who
is not Mr. Netanyahu.
Third, Mr. Obama seems to have confused American Jews with Israelis.
We are close emotionally and politically, but we are different.
We speak Hebrew and not English, we live in the Middle East and
have separate historical narratives. Mr. Obama’s stop at
Buchenwald and his strong rejection of Holocaust denial, immediately
after his Cairo speech, appealed to American Jews but fell flat
in Israel. Here we are taught that Zionist determination and
struggle — not guilt over the Holocaust — brought Jews
a homeland. Mr. Obama’s speech, which linked Israel’s
existence to the Jewish tragedy, infuriated many Israelis who
sensed its closeness to the narrative of enemies like Mahmoud
Ahmedinejad.
Fourth, as far as most Israelis are concerned, Mr. Obama has
made a mistake in focusing on a settlement freeze. For starters,
mainstream Israelis rarely have anything to do with the settlements;
many have no idea where they are, even when they’re a half-hour’s
drive from Tel Aviv.
More important: in the past decade, repeated peace negotiations
and diplomatic statements have indicated that larger, closer-to-home
settlements (the “settlement blocs”) will remain in
Israeli hands under any two-state solution. Why, then, insist
on a total freeze everywhere? And why deny with such force —
as the administration did — the existence of previous understandings
between the United States and Israel over limited settlement
construction? There is simply too much evidence proving that
such an understanding existed. To Israelis, the claim undermined
Mr. Obama’s credibility — and strengthened Mr. Netanyahu’s
position.
Perhaps there are good reasons behind Mr. Obama’s Middle
East policy. Perhaps the settlement freeze is in Israel’s
best interest. Perhaps the president is truly committed to Israel’s
long-term security and well-being. Perhaps his popularity in
the Arab street is the missing ingredient of peacemaking.
But until the president talks to us, we won’t know. Next
time you’re in the neighborhood, Mr. President, speak to
us directly. We will surely listen. Aluf Benn is the editor at
large of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. (Copyright 2009 The New
York Times Company 07/28/09)
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FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY
"For
as he thinketh in his heart, so is he" (Proverbs 23:7)
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- August 5, 2009
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- AMBASSADORS
OF CHRIST
REPRESENTING THE KINGDOM OF GOD TO THE WORLD
"No man that
warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that
he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier" (II Timothy 2:3 & 4).
"Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did
beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled
to God" (II Corinthians 5:20).
"For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may
speak boldly, as I ought to speak." (Ephesians 6:20).
We Christians who live in the United States are now witnessing
and experiencing "the beginning of sorrows." The Obama
administration is pushing hard for socialized health care. Most
red-blooded Americans do not want their doctor to be an employee
of the federal government.
When I began grammar school World War II was raging and my brother
was in the Marine Corp. Each and every day at school began with
each and every student standing beside our desks as we recited
the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States. We
then remained standing as we sang God Bless America.
One day as the final bell rang ending the day, I learned that
my brother was waiting in the hall for me. My hero was wearing
his dress uniform and as we walked to the car, several of the
older girls were whistling at my hero. I was so proud of my brother
and my country. I have been a red-blooded American patriot as
long as I can remember.
Then, in my thirty-fourth year on this earth, God called me out
of darkness into His glorious light. Now, as an ambassador of
Christ Jesus, my priorities have changed. My country has also
changed. Red-blooded Americans are becoming angrier by the minute
as they see President Obama wanting to be King Obama. They are
angry that he is taking the country into financial ruin and their
anger against socialized health care is intensifying by the moment.
Firm sides are forming and it's getting ugly! Danger lies ahead!
It's easy to imagine King Obama making people take a visible
mark to identify with him in order to buy or sell.
As I watched the news today I found myself becoming angry. King
Obama lashed out at the conservatives and the Fox News Network.
I said to my wife, "If I wasn't a Christian, I too would
be organizing demonstrations against Obama and his Socialism."
But, the Holy Spirit arrested me and called to mind the Scriptures
I've submitted above.
We know that dictatorship is coming to the U.S. and will affect
the whole world. Nothing or nobody can stop it. So, if you think
in the flesh as I did briefly today, just remember the Scripture
above and rejoice that we know where this is going and praise
the sovereign God of the universe that we have hope:
"Looking for that blessed
hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour
Jesus Christ: (Titus 2:13).
AMEN!
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"Looking
for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great
God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: (Titus 2:13).
- August 18, 2009
Obama encouraged by progress
in Israeli, Palestinian talks
By HILARY LEILA KRIEGER,
JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT WASHINGTON
US President Barack
Obama and Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak both spoke Tuesday of positive momentum developing in
the Israeli-Palestinian peace process after months of disputes
and setbacks.
US President Barack Obama
meets with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Tuesday in the Oval
Office of the White House in Washington.
Photo: AP
"There has been movement in the right direction," Obama
told reporters as he stood beside Mubarak, during the latter's
first visit to the White House since 2002. "I'm encouraged
by some of the things I'm seeing on the ground."
- He was responding to a question concerning
reports that Israel has stopped approving new construction in
the West Bank, and also spoke about the growth in the Palestinian
economy and improvement in security efforts by the Palestinian
Authority.
- "All of this is creating a climate
in which it's possible for us to see some positive steps and
hopefully negotiate towards a final resolution of these longstanding
issues," Obama said. "It's going to require a lot of
hard work, and the United States is committed to being a partner
in this process." Mubarak pointed to ongoing conversations
he's had with the Israeli leadership recently.
- "We are speaking in a good manner
and we are moving into the right direction," he said, though
he stressed that it was essential for talks between Israelis
and Palestinians to begin.
- "If negotiations start, this will
lead to the Arab states to support the peace process and to move
it forward, because I can tell you that the Arab people are fed
up with the length that this issue has taken, and the issue of
the displaced people," he said. "So I believe if the
two parties sit down, this will lead to have Arab states support
moving the peace process forward."
- The Obama administration, however, has
been insisting that Arab nations, as well as Israelis and Palestinians,
take steps from the outset to help create conditions for productive
negotiations to occur. The Egyptian formulation - as well as
others expressed in recent weeks by Arab leaders - seemed to
oppose that strategy.
- In a press briefing conducted in Arabic
on Monday, Mubarak spokesman Suleiman Awad said that "we
have a public opinion that we ought to respect, don't ask us
more than we are able to give or bear."
- He added that "other Arab countries
can take some steps, but only if Israel stops settlements and
takes the initiative to resume negotiations... The ball is in
Israel's court."
- Egypt already has a peace treaty with
Israel, so the steps toward normalization under consideration
- including opening trade offices, allowing Israeli planes overflight
rights and granting Israelis visas - would be relevant for other
states.
- At the same time, Awad said that the Obama
efforts are bearing fruit, with movement towards a formal presentation
of an American initiative, set to be unveiled in September.
- "There is an American peace plan
shaping up and will be ready next month as we have been told,"
he said.
- US officials have indicated that US Middle
East envoy George Mitchell is nearing the conclusion of his consultations
with the various parties and looking to unveil the steps agreed
to by each as part of a formal kick-off of new negotiations.
- The launch of the process is likely to
take place at an international conference of some sort, though
no final decision has been made.
- In an interview with PBS over the weekend,
Mubarak had said that his country was working hard to secure
the release of captured IDF soldier Gilad Schalit, who he called
"our prisoner." He noted that German mediators were
also involved in the effort.
- However, he said that Israeli "terms
and conditions" were getting in the way of progress.
- "The deal or the agreement was to
take care of Schalit and that Israel would release a number of
prisoners, and when this is done we will hand over Schalit to
the Israelis," Mubarak told the US television station. "We
are still following this. Our intelligence organization is working
on that, and we still have hope to conclude this on a good note."
- The Egyptian president also seemed to
speak against recent US demands that Israel halt all settlement
construction in the West Bank.
- When asked whether such building had to
stop to secure a peace agreement between Israel and the Arab
world, Mubarak told the US television station, "Instead
of saying stopping more settlements [sic] - and we heard this
many times, now for over 10 years, and [they] never come to a
stop - what I can say is that we have to consider the whole issue
holistically, to negotiate on the final resolution.
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-
- THE WRATH OF GOD IS UPON AMERICA
(18) "For the
wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness
and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
(19) Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them;
for God hath shewed it unto them.
(20) For the invisible things of him from the creation of the
world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are
made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without
excuse:
- (21) Because that,
when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were
thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish
heart was darkened.
- (22) Professing themselves
to be wise, they became fools,
- (23) And changed the
glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible
man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
- (24) Wherefore God
also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own
hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
- (25) Who changed the
truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature
more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
- (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.
- (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:
- (32) Who knowing the
judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy
of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that
do them.
- (Romans 1:18-32)
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- THAT WHICH IS BAD NEWS FOR THE WORLD IS
GOOD NEWS FOR THE CHRISTIAN AS WE ARE:
"Looking for
that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God
and our Saviour Jesus Christ: (Titus 2:13).
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August 18, 2009
Hawk
In this age of a $quadrillion in derivatives, so called insurance
policies, but better likened to a Las Vegas poker game, the American
Dream is built of nothing much it seems but a house of cards
and endless Debt buttressed by phony economic statistics, cooked
books, and continued loss of jobs, homes, businesses, net worth,
and liberty. Plunge Protection Team pump jobs on the stocks,
Dollar collapse fears, manipulated hold downs on the Precious
Metals Futures, and TARP-TALF-FED extraordinary thievery of close
to $24.7 Trillion without transparency going to Foreign Banks
owned by Illuminati luciferian GLOBALISTS who are the Receivers
of the Bankruptcy of 1933 of the corporate entity UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA and probably the current one of 2008 which has not
been officially declared.
- Although no definite evidence of the exact
date for a Bank Holiday or shutdown, where perhaps a new devalued
currency would be put into place in the U.S. exists, there has
been plenty of warning from some stellar Financial Newsletters
like Harry Schultz' and Bob Chapman's International Forecaster
that there is high likelihood that one might occur somewhere
between 8/26/09 and the end of October 2009. The warning from
Mr. Schultz indicates to watch for the FDIC 2nd Quarter Report
to come out 8/25 and that because of the implications of the
real condition of the Banks to be ready for possible closure
of the Banks from 8/26 onward. These warnings in and of themselves
by these two top prognosticators of financial and economic trends
are dire, but they also have been followed by a great deal of
ancillary information and evidence that has come to the Q-files
from a myriad of Banking, Bank IT personnel, Intel sources, and
even a Tennessee State website for their Financial Institutions
Department. Thus, with a preponderance of corroboration of these
sources of information, the weight must err on the side of sounding
a Watchman's Warning to the people to prepare for such an event.
- DRAFTS OF LETTERS LEAKED -EXECUTIVE ORDERS?
FOR THE REST OF THE STORY:
http://stevequayle.com/News.alert/08_Hawk/090818.bank.run.html
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- I HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE BANK CLOSINGS FROM
SEVERAL SOURCES AND KEEP THINKING IT CAN'T BE BUT IT KEEPS COMING.
IT'S BEST, IF YOU HAVE MONEY IN THE BANK OR GOLD IN A LOCK BOX,
TO TAKE EVERYTHING OUT OF THE BANK.
IT'S NOT EASY TO GET CASH OUT. MY BANK ADVISED ME TO CALL THEM
A DAY AHEAD OF TIME SO THEY CAN HAVE THE CASH ON HAND WHEN YOU
WITHDRAW.
GET SOME OUT EVERY DAY TILL ITS OUT. IF THE BANK CLOSES IT'S
TOO LATE. TRY TO GET IT OUT BEFORE THESE DATES MENTIONED JUST
TO BE ON THE SAFE SIDE, NOT THAT OUR MONEY IS SAFE. IN EUROPE
GERMANS ARE STILL SPENDING MARKS EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE CHANGED
THE MONEY TO EUROS.
THERE HAVE BEEN OVER 60 (+ hundreds of their subsidiaries) BANK
CLOSINGS (BANKRUPTSIES). THE FIDC IS BANKRUPT AS WELL. THAT'S
THE INSURANCE CO. THAT IS SUPPOSED TO INSURE UP TO $250,000.
Cephas Ministry
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- Bloomberg stating FDIC going bankrupt
will cause a bank run
March 4, 2009
Name the last recession you can think of where the FDIC was screaming
bankruptcy? Bloomberg’s article today is stating that the
FDIC may go bankrupt this year has the very real potential to
cause bank runs. Evidently the FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair said
the deposit insurance fund could go bankrupt amid a surge in
bank failures, as she responded to an industry outcry against
new fees approved by the agency.
- “Without these assessments, the deposit
insurance fund could become insolvent this year,” Bair wrote
in a March 2 letter to the industry.
http://www.tribbleagency.com/?p=4394
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- The FDIC is Bankrupt, Officially
August 18th, 2009 12:53 am | by Jake4Constitution | Published
in Bailouts. 68965 Responses http://libertymaven.com/2009/08/18/the-fdic-is-bankrupt-officially/6896/
- The+FDIC+is+Bankrupt%2C+Officially2009-08-18+04%3A53%3A08Jake4Constitution
Since last year, I have been closely following the FDIC’s
DIF fund (Deposit Insurance Fund). Starting at $53 billion in
2008, the DIF has dwindled down to…. zero.
by Jake Towne, the Champion of the Constitution
Originally published on August 17, 2009 on http://towneforcongress.com/economy/the-fdic-is-bankrupt
http://libertymaven.com/2009/08/18/the-fdic-is-bankrupt-officially/6896/
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tonight «
Bankrupt: BBVA gets its FDIC-seized assets
Guaranty is bankrupt: BBVA gets its FDIC-seized assetsPosted
by Edward Harrison on 21 August 2009 at 7:11 pm
21 August - It’s official: Guaranty Bank is the second-largest
bank seized by the FDIC in 2009. BBVA, through its American subsidiary
Compass, is increasing its profile in the US. And now it can
do so, not only through merger, but through FDIC asset seizure
too. Here is the announcement that was leaked just yesterday:
Guaranty Bank, Austin, TX was closed today by the Office of Thrift
Supervision, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(FDIC) as receiver. To protect the depositors, the FDIC entered
into a purchase and assumption agreement with BBVA Compass, Birmingham,
Alabama, to assume all of the deposits of Guaranty Bank, excluding
those from brokers.
Guaranty Bank had 103 branches in Texas and 59 branches in California.
Former branches of Guaranty Bank will reopen during normal banking
hours starting tomorrow as branches of BBVA Compass. Depositors
of Guaranty Bank will automatically become depositors of BBVA
Compass. Depositors will continue to be insured by the FDIC,
so there is no need for customers to change their banking relationship
to retain their deposit insurance coverage. Customers should
continue to use their existing branches until BBVA Compass can
fully integrate the deposit records of Guaranty Bank.
This evening and over the weekend, depositors of Guaranty Bank
can access their money by writing checks or using ATM or debit
cards. Checks drawn on the bank will continue to be processed.
Loan customers should continue to make their payments as usual.
As of June 30, 2009, Guaranty Bank had total assets of approximately
$13 billion and total deposits of approximately $12 billion.
In addition to assuming all of the deposits of the failed bank,
BBVA Compass agreed to purchase $12 billion of the failed bank’s
assets. The FDIC will retain the remaining assets for later disposition.
The FDIC and BBVA Compass entered into a loss-share transaction
on approximately $11 billion of Guaranty Bank’s assets.
BBVA Compass will share in the losses on the asset pools covered
under the loss-share agreement. The loss-sharing arrangement
is projected to maximize returns on the assets covered by keeping
them in the private sector. The agreement also is expected to
minimize disruptions for loan customers.
BBVA Compass will purchase all deposits, except about $344 million
in brokered deposits, held by Guaranty Bank. The FDIC will pay
the brokers directly for the amount of their funds. Customers
who placed money with brokers should contact them directly for
more information about the status of their deposits.
Customers who have questions about today’s transaction can
call the FDIC toll-free at 1-800-760-3641. The phone number will
be operational this evening until 9:00 p.m., Central Daylight
Time (CDT); on Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., CDT; on
Sunday from noon to 6:00 p.m., CDT; and thereafter from 8:00
a.m. to 8:00 p.m., CDT. Interested parties can also visit the
FDIC’s Web site at http://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/guaranty-tx.html.
The FDIC estimates that the cost to the Deposit Insurance Fund
(DIF) will be $3 billion. BBVA Compass’s acquisition of
all the deposits was the "least costly" resolution
for the FDIC’s DIF compared to alternatives. Guaranty Bank
is the 81st FDIC-insured institution to fail in the nation this
year, and the second in Texas. The last FDIC-insured institution
closed in the state was Millennium State Bank of Texas, Dallas,
July 2, 2009.
See posts relating to your search
Seven more bank failures brings total to 64
In truth this is really two failures, but one had six subsidiaries
so it counts as seven. Here are the...Westsound Bank seized by
FDIC
The loss rate here is about 30%, $100 million on $334 million
in assets. Here is the FDIC press release: Westsound...FDIC Friday
Night Special: First National Bank of Anthony
This is number 40 (earlier the headline read First National Bank
of Kansas, but has since been corrected). First National Bank...FDIC
Friday Night Special: American Southern Bank
I have highlighted the area that shows the estimated cost to
taxpayers below. See the FDIC website for more details: American...Independence
Weekend Massacre: 7 banks seized
Wow. The Feds sure know how to celebrate Independence Day. I
went out for a couple of hours and four...Related posts:
•Westsound Bank seized by FDIC
•Five banks seized in FDIC Friday night special
•FDIC Friday Night: Silverton Bank is seized
•FDIC moves in at Great Basin Bank
•FDIC Friday Night Special: Lincolnwood
http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2009/08/
- guaranty-is-bankrupt-bbva-gets-its-fdic-seized-assets.html
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- The FDIC Is Broke - Now What?
- Monday, August 17, 2009, 5:13 pm, by cmartenson
This blog post is the most recent Martenson Report, which I am
now making available for wider distribution. I believe this needs
to be read and understood by as many people as possible.
http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/fdic-broke-now-what/25274
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- Failed Bank List
The FDIC is often appointed as receiver for failed banks. This
page contains useful information for the customers and vendors
of these banks. This includes information on the acquiring bank
(if applicable), how your accounts and loans are affected, and
how vendors can file claims against the receivership. Failed
Financial Institution Contact Search displays point of contact
information related to failed banks.
http://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html
"Looking for that
blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and
our Saviour Jesus Christ:
(Titus 2:13).
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- August 24, 2009
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"And in that
day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people:
all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though
all the people of the earth be gathered together against it" (Zechariah 12:3).
Bibi: Israel-PA Talks
by October
by Maayana Miskin
(IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the Cabinet
at the weekly cabinet meeting Sunday that he will restart talks
with the Palestinian Authority in the near future. Netanyahu
said talks could resume by the end of September.
His announcement came shortly before a scheduled meeting with
United States Middle East envoy George Mitchell in Britain. Netanyahu
expressed optimism regarding the meeting with Mitchell. Talks
with the U.S. are taking place in a “positive atmosphere,”
he said. While Israel and America have yet to reach complete
agreement, “we are attempting to close the gaps,” he
told the cabinet.
- Relations between Israel and the U.S.
were tense earlier in the year as American officials pushed Israel
to forbid Jews to build in Judea, Samaria and parts of Jerusalem,
while Israeli officials insisted that building be allowed to
continue. Netanyahu has apparently solved the problem by giving
in to the American request, and freezing construction in Judea
and Samaria communities housing a total of approximately 350,000
Jews.
Despite the building freeze, and Netanyahu's stated hope of returning
to the negotiating table, PA leaders said Sunday that the return
to Israel-PA talks was not at all certain. Saeb Erekat, a senior
PA negotiator, accused Netanyahu of “undermining and frustrating
efforts” to reach a deal and "threatening the two-state
solution" by allowing Jews to continue to build throughout
Jerusalem.
- The PA rejects Israel's sovereignty in
Jerusalem neighborhoods that fell under Jordanian control between
1948 and 1967, and insists that those areas be given to the PA
as the capital of a new Arab state. The fact that Jews continue
to live and build in those neighborhoods thwarts the peace process,
Erekat claimed.
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It is quite plausible the
United States has elected its last president
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- "And he
(the beast) shall confirm
the (Israeli) covenant with many for one week (seven
yrs.)"
(Daniel 9:27).
COULD THIS BE THAT MAN??
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Retired pastor/teacher
JamesMcCutchan
- jmccutchan@aol.com
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