Reported by retired pastor/teacher James McCutchan
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Aug 1, 2010 9:01 AM
Obama warns Abbas against
failure to resume direct talks
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) – US President Barack
Obama has warned Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas that failure
to resume direct peace talks with Israel could undermine US-Palestinian
ties, Palestinian officials said on Saturday.
Obama made the warning in a letter to Abbas but also pledged
to rally Arab, European and Russian support for the Palestinians
if direct negotiations resume, a Palestinian official told AFP
speaking on condition of anonymity.
"In the letter, President Barack Obama warned president
Mahmud Abbas that his refusal to enter into direct negotiations
with Israel next month will have consequences for American-Palestinian
relations," the official said.
The 16-point letter had a "carrot-and-stick approach,"
he added.
Obama stressed "it is high time to resume direct negotiations
with Israel" and told Abbas that Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu "is ready to resume direct negotiations."
The letter warned that "Obama will absolutely not accept
the rejection of his recommendation to move to direct negotiations
and that there will be consequences for such a rejection in the
form of a lack of trust in president Abbas and the Palestinian
side," the official said.
Obama pledged that his administration would work to extend a
partial Israeli moratorium on Jewish settlements due to expire
in September if Abbas resumes direct negotiations, he added.
"But in case of a refusal its assistance on that issue will
be very limited," he said, quoting from the letter in Arabic.
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat confirmed to AFP that
Abbas received a letter from the US president on July 16.
"The president received on July 16 a letter from Obama in
which he calls on the Palestinians to enter into direct negotiations
and that these negotiations will lead to the creation of an independent
Palestinian state," Erakat said.
In the letter Obama "assured Abbas that the US administration
will strive to put an end to (Jewish) settlements if direct peace
talks go underway but that its role would be less if this does
not happen," Erakat said.
The revelation comes after the Arab League agreed in principle
on Thursday to the resumption of direct Palestinian-Israeli peace
talks, stressing however that Abbas had the final word on when
they should start.
The Palestinian official who declined to be named said Obama
expects direct peace talks to begin at the onset of August and
to address thorny issues such as borders and Israeli-annexed
east Jerusalem.
Abbas, who is holding US-brokered indirect talks with Israel,
has conditioned going into face-to-face talks with Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a raft of demands rejected by
Israel.
He wants a complete end to settlement construction in east Jerusalem
and the West Bank, which Israel occupied in 1967, and has said
negotiations on a Palestinian state´s borders must be based
on the pre-1967 borders.
He has threatened to turn to the UN Security Council if there
is no progress on his demands by September, when the four-month
indirect talks with Israel are due to end. (Copyright ©
2010 Agence France Presse. 07/31/10)
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for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great
God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: (Titus 2:13).
"And
he (the beast) shall confirm (guarantee) the (Israeli) covenant with many for one week (seven yrs.)" [Daniel 9:27].
US: Direct talks to resume
Sept. 2
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
08/20/2010
WASHINGTON — Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to
resume direct negotiations in Washington early next month, US
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday, with a goal of
two sovereign states existing side by side in peace.
- Clinton made the announcement at the State
Department with special Mideast peace envoy George Mitchell at
her side.
- "As we move forward, it is important
that actions by all sides help to advance our effort, not hinder
it," Clinton said. "There have been difficulties in
the past; there will be difficulties ahead. Without a doubt,
we will hit more obstacles. The enemies of peace will keep trying
to defeat us and to derail these talks. But I ask the parties
to persevere."
- The office of Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu issued a statement Friday welcoming the US plan.
- "Reaching an agreement is a difficult
challenge but is possible," the Netanyahu statement said.
"We are coming to the talks with a genuine desire to reach
a peace agreement between the two peoples that will protect Israel's
national security interests, foremost of which is security."
- Clinton said the face-to-face talks are
to begin September 2 and she hoped that a comprehensive peace
agreement can be reached within one year.
- "We believe it can be done within
a year and that is our objective," Mitchell told reporters.
The US, he said, will offer "bridging proposals" designed
to advance the negotiations, but he was not specific.
- Mitchell said subsequent negotiating sessions
with Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
probably will be held in the Mideast, but he mentioned no specific
site.
- Also invited to attend the Washington
session are Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King
Abdullah II, "in view of their critical role in this effort,"
Clinton said.
- US President Barack Obama will hold one-on-one
talks with each of the four leaders, separately, on September
1, followed by a dinner with them, Clinton said.
- Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair,
the special representative of the "Quartet" of Mideast
peacemakers — the US, the UN, the European Union and Russia
— also has been invited to attend the dinner, she said.
- Clinton said she would then host the first
direct Israel-Palestinian negotiating session on September 2.
JESUS SAID, "WATCH
AND KNOW THE HOUR"
"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 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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- Sep 2, 2010 4:41 PM
As Middle East peace talks open, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
says these negotiations are the key to freeing Israelis, Palestinians
from "shackles of history."
- But she said the United States "cannot
and will not impose a solution" to the conflict.
- In his remarks, Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is prepared "to go a long
way in a short time" for peace. He said Israel is prepared
to make "painful sacrifices," but that a final agreement
must be built on "legitimacy and security."
- He tells Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas
that "I'm fully aware and respect your people's desire for
sovereignty." In return, Netanyahu says, Israel expects
Palestinians to "recognize Israel as the nation-state of
the Jewish people."
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- Update at 10:49 a.m. ET: Abbas says "what's
encouraging ... is that the road is clear in front of us."
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- Update at 10:51 a.m. ET: Abbas calls on
Israel to end all construction of settlements and to lift the
embargo on Gaza. He says the PLO is taking part in the talks
"with good intentions" and looks to start "a new
era" in relations between Israel and the Palestinians.
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- Update at 1:17 p.m. ET: Netanyahu and
Abbas held private, one-of-one meeting at the end of the first
round of direct negotiations, Special U.S. envoy George Mitchell
told reporters. He said talks began with a meeting of full delegations
from the United States, Israel and the Palestinians, moved on
to a smaller meeting between Netanyahu, Abbas, Mitchell and Clinton
in the secretary of State's office before the Israeli and Palestinian
leaders went off for one-on-one talks.
- Mitchell described the mood as "cordial
and positive" between the two leaders.
- He said the second round of direct talks
will be held Sept.14-15 in the region and will be held every
two weeks after that.
- Mitchell told reporters that the Israeli
and Palestinian leaders expressed their intent to approach the
negotiations "in good faith and with seriousness of purpose."
He said they also agreed that the ongoing talks "must be
kept private and treated with utmost sensitivity."
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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).
- Dividing the Jews´
Eternal Capital (New York Post
OP-ED by Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi 09/02/10)
By coming to peace talks ready to discuss any issue including
Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has followed
in the footsteps of other Israeli prime ministers in showing
he is serious about making peace with the Palestinians.
In a country deeply divided between religious and secular people,
no issue unites Israelis (and Jews around the world) like the
need to retain Jerusalem as their united, eternal and undivided
capital. It is a belief built on 3,000 years of history -- and
reinforced by bitter recent experience. Yet, in pursuit of peace,
Defense Minister Ehud Barak yesterday outlined an extensive plan
for how Jerusalem might be divided, as part of a comprehensive
Palestinian-Israeli accord.
Jerusalem was King David´s capital, the site of the First
and Second Temples. Its surviving remnant, the Western Wall,
remains the focus of daily prayer.
Even during long centuries of exile, a Jewish community held
on in Jerusalem, sometimes under great persecution.
Yet, from 1948 to 1967 when Jordan controlled East Jerusalem,
the city was divided by barbed wire and concrete barriers. Jews
were barred from their holy places. The Jordanians destroyed
58 synagogues and desecrated an ancient Jewish cemetery.
Christians, who also cherish Jerusalem, faced restrictions such
as strict limits on visitors, even at Christmas and Easter.
In contrast, Israel has always guaranteed free and safe access
to people of all faiths.
Despite all this, Barak, then prime minister, offered wide-ranging
concessions at Camp David in 2000. Recognizing that Palestinians
wished to make part of the city, which they call Al Quds, capital
of a new Palestinian state, he proposed to withdraw from some
Arab neighborhoods and grant autonomy to others. The Palestinians
would maintain control over their holy places and have "religious
sovereignty" over the Temple Mount -- if they were willing
to agree to a comprehensive peace accord that recognized Israel´s
right to exist as a Jewish state.
Barak´s offer included many other concessions of territory,
if none as symbolically powerful as Jerusalem. Yet the Palestinian
leader, the late Yasser Arafat, rejected the deal.
And quickly following the collapse of the Camp David talks was
the Second Intifada (uprising) -- during which Palestinian suicide
bombers time and again intentionally slaughtered civilians. In
all, more than 1,000 Israelis were killed in those terrible years.
Despite two terror attacks in two days this week, Israel stands
ready to make peace.
Once again, an Israeli leader is willing to go anywhere, anytime,
and discuss anything -- including Jerusalem. When will Palestinians
say yes to peace?
Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi is the founder & president of The
Israel Project, a nonprofit providing factual information about
Israel and the Middle East to media, policy makers and the public.(Copyright
2010 NYP Holdings, Inc. 09/02/10)
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Many prophecy students know Israel's soon-coming "covenant
with many" will never be implemented. Why not? The Bible
says:
"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).
Also, most prophecy students also know Israel will build a temple
and worship therein during the first half of the seven-year tribulation
very shortly after the "covenant with many" is confirmed
by the beast (king of the West). [Daniel 9:27].
It is inconceivable that the Arabs would ever agree to Israel's
building a temple in old Jerusalem, which is, they say, their
holy place. The militant Muslims won't even recognize Israel's
right to exist as a political state in "their holy land."
Something very dramatic will happen very shortly after the "covenant's" confirmation ceremony on the first day of the
tribulation. Something so dramatic that it will void the "covenant" and allow for Israel to immediately build a temple.
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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).
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for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great
God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: (Titus 2:13).
"And he (the
beast) shall confirm (guarantee) the (Israeli)
covenant with many for one week (seven yrs.)" [Daniel
9:27].
Israeli PM Netanyahu
seeks 'new solutions' to Palestinian conflict
From: NewsCore
September 06, 2010
ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today that
creative thinking was needed to end the decades-old Palestinian
conflict.
"We will need to think creatively, and in new ways, about
how to resolve complex problems," he told reporters at the
start of Israel's weekly cabinet meeting.
- "In order to reach practical solutions,
we will need to think about new solutions to old problems,"
the right-wing leader said, without unveiling specific proposals.
- The prime minister insisted that he was
"willing to achieve an historic compromise with our Palestinian
neighbours so long as it maintains the national interests of
the state of Israel with security first and foremost."
- The two sides relaunched direct peace
talks at a Washington summit on Thursday after a 20-month hiatus,
but the negotiations will face a major test later this month
when an Israeli settlement moratorium expires.
- Palestinians have threatened that the
peace process will come to an end if Israel does not renew the
partial freeze on settlement construction in the occupied West
Bank when it expires on September 26.
- Netanyahu, under pressure from right-wingers
to resume construction, has said settlements should be discussed
alongside other core disputes that have bedeviled past attempts
at peace, including the final status of Jerusalem and the fate
of Palestinian refugees.
- Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and
Netanyahu plan to hold twice-monthly talks starting with a September
14-15 meeting in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, which
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is due to attend.
- "We hope to bring [about] a Palestinian
state. If we fail to bring it now, then I think we'll go home,"
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said.
- He added that such a scenario would cause
the moderate Palestinian leadership to disintegrate, leaving
Islamist Hamas - sworn to the Jewish state's destruction - at
the head of the national movement.
- "If we have an agreement, [Hamas]
will disappear, and if we don't have an agreement, then we will
disappear," Erakat warned. "I really hope that we can
make it, God willing."
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- Review: The first day of the seven-year
tribulation is marked by a confirmation ceremony with much pomp
and ceremony celebrating Israel's "peace" covenant.
The Church will be caught up (raptured) immediately prior to
the confirmation ceremony as the Church Age does not enter the
seven-year tribulation.
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- "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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- “Kiss the Son,
lest he be angry and ye perish from the way” (Psalm 2:12).
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- What the Bible
Says, by Pastor Ed Rice
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- There is no chapter more
graphic nor vivid in portraying a nations sin than Ezekiel 16.
Although God aimed at Judah, He sure hits America squarely in
her heart. Elsewhere God also said:
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- “Son of man, these
men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock
of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of
at all by them?”
(Ezekiel 14:3) “They shall bear the punishment of their
iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the
punishment of him that seeketh unto him;” (Ezekiel 14:10)
“When the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously,
then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the
staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it”
(Ez. 14:13). ... “Though these three men, Noah, Daniel
and Job, were in it they should deliver but their own souls by
their righteousness, saith the LORD GOD” (Ez. 14:14).
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- With the assurance of
God's pending judgment against a nation that turned from their
founder, God pens chapter 16. Therein the graphic description
of Judah's harlotry would cause any modest human to blush, and
cause one who knows America's history and current plight, to
weep.
- America, haunted in its
feminized modernist churches, steeped in its cause of sodomy,
leisure in its slaying of innocent unborn babies for convenience,
and schooled in banning Jesus Christ the Creator and Savior from
its children, is ripe for judgment.
- We have few Noahs, Daniels,
or Jobs preaching righteousness in our streets.
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- “Though these
three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall
deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered,
but the land shall be desolate.” Please America, “Kiss
the Son, lest he be angry and ye perish from the way” (Psalm 2:12).
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he (the beast) shall confirm the
covenant with many for one week (seven years): and in the midst of the week he shall cause the
sacrifice and the oblation to cease....." (Daniel 9:27).
Obama: Israeli-Palestinian peace talks might focus first on
possible border
By Glenn Kessler - Friday, September 10, 2010
President Obama on Friday signaled that Israeli and Palestinian
negotiators might begin their peace talks by focusing on the
potential border between the two states in order to overcome
conflicts over Israeli settlement growth on the West Bank.
Describing his efforts to persuade Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu to extend the 10-month moratorium, which expires this
month, Obama told reporters during a news conference: "Ultimately,
the way to solve these problems is for the two sides to agree
what's going to be Israel, what's going to be the state of Palestine.
And if you can get that agreement, then you can start constructing
anything that the people of Israel see fit in undisputed areas."
- The borders-first approach has drawn increasing
attention from Middle East experts, and has been endorsed by
such Arab figures as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
- Then-President George W. Bush angered
Palestinians in 2004 when he gave then-Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon a letter stating that Israel could expect to keep
major settlement blocks as part as any peace deal, but increasingly
officials think that identifying up front the settlement areas
Israel could keep would reduce settlements as a source of tension
between the two sides.
- Still, the most contentious area of any
peace deal is likely to be the division of Jerusalem, where Israel
has claimed Palestinian areas within its municipal boundaries
and has surrounded the city with settlements. Jerusalem is expected
to be the last item the two sides tackle. Other important "final
status" issues include the right of return for Palestinian
refugees, or at least compensation for the loss of their homes,
as well as security and control of resources such as water.
- Obama launched new talks between Israeli
and Palestinian leaders this month, and Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton will travel to the Middle East next week to foster
a second round. The president acknowledged that "a major
bone of contention during the course of this month is going to
be the potential lapse of the settlement moratorium."
- U.S. officials originally hoped that the
talks would start at the onset of the moratorium, making it more
difficult for Israel to allow it to lapse if the talks were making
progress. But Palestinians balked at direct talks until recently,
and now the administration has only a few weeks to demonstrate
that the talks are a success. Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas has warned that he will terminate the discussions
if settlement construction begins again.
- Obama said he is making the case that
the settlement freeze should continue. "What I've said to
Prime Minister Netanyahu is that given, so far, the talks are
moving forward in a constructive way, it makes sense to extend
that moratorium so long as the talks are moving in a constructive
way," Obama said.
- But he noted that the prime minister faces
a "very difficult" political environment in Israel,
where members of his coalition have threatened to bring down
the government if settlement construction does not begin anew.
"One of the things that I've said to President Abbas is,
you've got to show the Israeli public that you are serious and
constructive in these talks so that the politics for Prime Minister
Netanyahu - if he were to extend the settlements moratorium -
would be a little bit easier," he said. End item. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- The confirmation ceremony signals the
first day of the seven-year tribulation. The Church will not
enter the tribulation. Based on past practice, the whole world
will see this event live on TV with much pomp and circumstance.
I get goose bumps just thinking about meeting our Lord and Savior
in the air!! Our Lord commands us to watch!
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- "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 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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(the beast)
shall
confirm the (Israeli) covenant with many for
one week (seven yrs.)"[Daniel 9:27].
Sep 17, 2010
AMMAN (AFP) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said
on Thursday that the Israeli and Palestinian leaders are committed
and serious about making peace, which is "within reach."
She was speaking in Amman after talks with Jordanian King Abdullah
II as this week´s thorny negotiations continue apace between
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian president
Mahmud Abbas.
"They are serious about this effort. They are committed.
They have begun to grapple with the hard but necessary questions,"
Clinton said of the two.
"With the commitment of an Israeli prime minister and a
Palestinian president who both embrace the goal of a two-state
solution, peace is once again within reach."
Speaking at a news conference with Jordanian counterpart Nasser
Judeh, she said Netanyahu and Abbas "can make the difficult
decisions necessary to resolve all the... issues within one year."
She added that she is "convinced that this is the time and
these are the leaders who can achieve the results we all seek,
two states, two peoples living in peace and security."
Clinton met Abbas earlier in Ramallah, and he publicly pledged
his support for the US-backed peace talks despite continuing
difficulties over the question of Jewish settlements in the occupied
West Bank.
Abbas said "conditions are difficult" but that "there
is no choice but negotiations."
Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina said the talks were "in-depth
and serious" and that the discussions would continue on
the sidelines of next week´s UN General Assembly meeting.
But a senior Palestinian official said the "gap remains
wide" on the settlements dispute despite Clinton´s
intervention during two days of talks in Egypt and Jerusalem.
The discussions "were difficult and made no progress,"
he said of a trilateral meeting in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
At that meeting Abbas again threatened to quit the peace talks
if Israel did not renew a moratorium on the construction of new
homes in West Bank settlements that expires at the end of the
month, a senior aide said.
Netanyahu has so far refused to extend the partial ban despite
the urging of US President Barack Obama, though he has hinted
he would confine building to major settlement blocs.
The Palestinians want to focus on reaching a deal on final borders
as a way of resolving the settlements dispute, and US mediators
have suggested a three-month extension of the moratorium to allow
for such a deal, the Palestinian official said on Thursday.
Some 500,000 Israelis live in more than 120 Jewish settlements
across the West Bank and east Jerusalem, territories expected
to form the bulk of a future Palestinian state.
US envoy George Mitchell said late on Wednesday that talks this
week had made "progress" on the settlements issue.
He also said the two leaders again tackled the issues at the
heart of their decades-old conflict -- Israel´s security,
the borders of a future Palestinian state, the fate of Palestinian
refugees and the status of Jerusalem.
"The two leaders are not leaving the tough issues to the
end of the process," Mitchell told reporters.
"We take this as a strong indicator that peace is possible
and of their desire to conclude an agreement."
Mitchell met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on
Thursday, and spoke of Washington´s desire for an "agreement
between Israel and the Palestinians, between Israel and Syria
and between Israel and Lebanon and the full normalisation of
relations between Israel and its neighbours."
Syria´s SANA news agency quoted Assad as telling him: "Peace
cannot last unless it restores full rights to their owners in
accordance with international resolutions."
In Cairo, Arab League chief Amr Mussa told Arab foreign ministers:
"Given that the essence of Israeli policies remains unchanged,
and despite the doubts of some about the goals of these negotiations,
we take the sage position of giving it a chance."
And Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said peace could be achieved
in half a year if Israel extended the settlement moratorium.
"What are three or for months, for the sake of the continuation
of the peace talks and for the sake of reaching an agreement
in three or six months," Mubarak said in an Israeli television
interview due to air on Saturday, extracts of which were carried
by state news agency MENA.
He called on Netanyahu to take the "difficult decision"
of freezing settlement construction, MENA said.
In Brussels, EU foreign ministers issued a statement urging Israel
to extend the moratorium.(Copyright © 2010 Agence France
Presse. 09/16/10)
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In the book of Revelation, chapter 13, some details are given
about the first beast, commonly known as the antichrist:
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- "And
it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over ALL
kindreds, and tongues, and NATIONS" (Rev.13:7).
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- It is an indisputable
Biblical fact that the U.S. will be under the authority of the
first beast as he will have authority over "ALL NATIONS."
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- Yes, the U.S. is still
A NATION. This means one of two things
must happen; either the U.S. will produce the beast, or will
be conquered by him. At this time the U.S. has the most powerful
military in the history of the world. For the first time in its
history, the U.S. has no formidable military foe. I repeat the
Scripture:
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- "And they worshipped the
dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the
beast, saying, who is like unto the beast? who is able to make
war with him" (Rev. 13:4). NOBODY!
"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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for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great
God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: (Titus 2:13).
- April 29, 2010
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- A Stranger in Our Midst
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- By Robert Weissberg, Professor of Political
Science - Emeritus at the University of Illinois , Urbana
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- As the Obama administration enters its
second year, I -- and undoubtedly millions of others -- have
struggled to develop a shorthand term that captures our emotional
unease. Defining this discomfort is tricky. I reject nearly the
entire Obama agenda, but the term "being opposed" lacks
an emotional punch. Nor do terms like "worried" or
"anxious" apply. I was more worried about America 's
future during the Johnson or Carter years, so it's not that dictionary,
either. Nor, for that matter, is this about backroom odious deal-making
and pork, which are endemic in American politics.
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- After auditioning countless political
terms, I finally realized that the Obama administration and its
congressional collaborators almost resemble a foreign occupying
force, a coterie of politically and culturally non-indigenous
leaders whose rule contravenes local values rooted in our national
tradition. It is as if the United States has been occupied by
a foreign power, and this transcends policy objections. It is
not about Obama's birthplace. It is not about race, either; millions
of white Americans have had black mayors and black governors,
and this unease about out-of-synch values never surfaced.
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- The term I settled on is "alien rule"
-- based on outsider values, regardless of policy benefits --
that generates agitation. This is what bloody anti-colonial strife
was all about. No doubt, millions of Indians and Africans probably
grasped that! expelling the British guaranteed economic ruin
and even worse governance, but at least the mess would be their
mess. Just travel to Afghanistan and witness American military
commanders' efforts to enlist tribal elders with promises of
roads, clean water, dental clinics, and all else that America
can freely provide. Many of these elders probably privately prefer
abject poverty to foreign occupation since it would be their
poverty, run by their people, according to their sensibilities.
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- This disquiet was a slow realization.
Awareness began with Obama's odd pre-presidency associations,
decades of being oblivious to Rev. Wright's anti-American ranting,
his enduring friendship with the terrorist guy-in-the-neighborhood
Bill Ayers, and the Saul Alinsky-flavored anti-capitalist community
activism. Further add a hazy personal background -- an Indonesian
childhood, shifting official names, and a paperless-trail climb
through elite educational institutions.
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- None of this disqualified Obama from the
presidency; rather, this background just doesn't fit with the
conventional political résumé. It is just the "outsider"
quality that alarms. For all the yammering about George W. Bush's
privileged background, his made-in-the-USA persona was absolutely
indisputable. John McCain might be embarrassed about his Naval
Academy class rank and iffy combat performance, but there was
never any doubt of his authenticity. Countless conservatives
despised Bill Clinton, but nobody ever, ever doubted his good-old-boy
American bonafides.
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- The suspicion that Obama is an outsider,
a figure who really doesn't "get" America , grew clearer
from his initial appointments. What "native" would
appoint Kevin Jennings, a militant gay activist, to oversee school
safety? Or permit a Marxist rabble-rouser to be a "green
jobs czar"? How about an Attorney General who began by accusing
Americans of cowardice when it comes to discussing race? And
who can forget Obama's weird defense of his pal Louis Henry Gates
from "racist" Cambridge , Massachusetts cops? If the
American Revolution had never occurred and the Queen had appointed
Obama Royal Governor (after his distinguished service in Kenya
), a trusted locally attuned aide would have first whispered
in his ear, "Mr. Governor General, here in America , we
do not automatically assume that the police were at fault,"
and the day would have been saved.
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- And then there's the "we are sorry,
we'll never be arrogant again" rhetoric seemingly designed
for a future President of the World election campaign.
"And
power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues and nations"
(Revelation 13:7)?
What made Obama's Cairo utterances so distressing was how they
grated on American cultural sensibilities. And he just doesn't
notice, perhaps akin to never hearing Rev. Wright anti-American
diatribes. An American president does not pander to third-world
audiences by lying about the Muslim contribution to America .
Imagine Ronald Reagan, or any past American president, trying
to win friends by apologizing. This appeal contravenes our national
character and far exceeds a momentary embarrassment about garbled
syntax or poor delivery. Then there's Obama's bizarre, totally
unnecessary deep bowing to foreign potentates. Americans look
foreign leaders squarely in the eye and firmly shake hands; we
don't bow.
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- But far worse is Obama's tone-deafness
about American government. How can any ordinary American, even
a traditional liberal, believe that jamming through unpopular,
debt-expanding legislation that consumes one-sixth of our GDP,
sometimes with sly side-payments and with a thin majority, will
eventually be judged legitimate? This is third-world, maximum-leader-style
politics. That the legislation was barely understood even by
its defenders and vehemently championed by a representative of
that typical American city, San Francisco , only exacerbates
the strangeness. And now President Obama sides with illegal aliens
over the State of Arizona , which seeks to enforce the federal
immigration law to protect American citizens from marauding drug
gangs and other miscreants streaming in across the Mexican border.
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- Reciprocal public disengagement from President
Obama is strongly suggested by recent poll data on public trust
in government. According to a recent Pew report, only 22% of
those asked trust the government always or most of the time,
among the lowest figures in half a century. And while pro-government
support has been slipping for decades, the Obama presidency has
sharply exacerbated this drop. To be sure, many factors (in particular
the economic downturn) contribute to this decline, but remember
that Obama was recently elected by an often wildly enthusiastic
popular majority. The collapse of trust undoubtedly transcends
policy quibbles or a sluggish economy -- it is far more consistent
with a deeper alienation.
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- Perhaps the clearest evidence for this
"foreigner in our midst" mentality is the name given
our resistance -- tea parties, an image that instantly invokes
the American struggle against George III, a clueless foreign
ruler from central casting. This history-laden label was hardly
predetermined, but it instantly stuck (as did the election of
Sen. Scott Brown as "the shot heard around the world"
and tea partiers dressing up in colonial-era costumes). Perhaps
subconsciously, Obama does remind Americans of when the U.S.
was really occupied by a foreign power. A Declaration of Independence
passage may still resonate: "HE [George III] has erected
a Multitude of new Offices [Czars], and sent hither Swarms of
Officers [recently hired IRS agents] to harass our People, and
eat out the Substance."
What's next? End item.
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"And
power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues and nations"
(Revelation 13:7)?
"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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- "It
is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes" (Psalm 118:9).
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- President´s socialist
takeover
- (WASHINGTON TIMES COMMENTARY) By Jeffrey
T. Kuhner 07/23/10)
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- President Obama has engaged in numerous
high crimes and misdemeanors. The Democratic majority in Congress
is in peril as Americans reject his agenda. Yet more must be
done: Mr. Obama should be impeached.
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- He is slowly - piece by painful piece
- erecting a socialist dictatorship. We are not there - yet.
But he is putting America on that dangerous path. He is undermining
our constitutional system of checks and balances; subverting
democratic procedures and the rule of law; presiding over a corrupt,
gangster regime; and assaulting the very pillars of traditional
capitalism. Like Venezuela´s leftist strongman, Hugo Chavez,
Mr. Obama is bent on imposing a revolution from above - one that
is polarizing America along racial, political and ideological
lines.
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- He has abused his office and violated
his oath to uphold the Constitution. His health care overhaul
was rammed through Congress. It was - and remains - opposed by
a majority of the people. It could only be passed through bribery
and political intimidation. The Louisiana Purchase, the Cornhusker
Kickback, the $5 billion Medicaid set-aside for Florida Sen.
Bill Nelson - taxpayer money was used as a virtual slush fund
to buy swing votes.
- Moreover, the law is blatantly unconstitutional:
The federal government does not have the right to coerce every
citizen to purchase a good or service. This is not in the Constitution,
and it represents an unprecedented expansion of power.
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- Yet Obamacare´s most pernicious
aspect is its federal funding of abortion. Pro-lifers are now
compelled to have their tax dollars used to subsidize insurance
plans that allow for the murder of unborn children. This is more
than state-sanctioned infanticide. It violates the conscience
rights of religious citizens. Traditionalists - evangelicals,
Catholics, Baptists, Muslims, Orthodox Jews - have been made
complicit in an abomination that goes against their deepest religious
values. As the law is implemented (as in Pennsylvania) the consequences
of the abortion provisions will become increasingly apparent.
The result will be a cultural civil war. Pro-lifers will become
deeply alienated from society; among many, a secession of the
heart is taking place.
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- Mr. Obama is waging a frontal assault
on property rights. The BP oil spill is a case in point. BP clearly
is responsible for the spill and its massive economic and environmental
damage to the Gulf. There is a legal process for claims to be
adjudicated, but Mr. Obama has behaved more like Mr. Chavez or
Russia´s Vladimir Putin: He has bullied BP into setting
up a $20 billion compensation fund administered by an Obama appointee.
In other words, the assets of a private company are to be raided
to serve a political agenda. Billions will be dispensed arbitrarily
in compensation to oil-spill victims - much of it to Democratic
constituents. This is cronyism and creeping authoritarianism.
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- Mr. Obama´s multicultural socialism
seeks to eradicate traditional America. He has created a command-and-control
health care system. He has essentially nationalized the big banks,
the financial sector, the automakers and the student loan industry.
He next wants to pass "cap- and-trade," which would
bring industry and manufacturing under the heel of big government.
The state is intervening in every aspect of American life - beyond
its constitutionally delegated bounds. Under Mr. Obama, the Constitution
has become a meaningless scrap of paper.
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- "And he (the beast) shall confirm the
(Israeli) covenant with many for one week (seven yrs.)"
(Daniel 9:27).
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- "And it was given
unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and
power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations"
(Revelation 13:7).
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- "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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THE 2010 TOP ANTI-ISRAEL LIES
- Date: Jan 26, 2011 12:43
PM
Published by the Simon
Wiesenthal Center,
(Adapted by FLAME) edited for length*
- LIE #1: Israel was
created by European guilt over the Nazi Holocaust. Why should
Palestinians pay the price? The Truth: Three
thousand years before the Holocaust, before there was a Roman
Empire, Israel's kings and prophets lived in Jerusalem. The whole
world knows that Isaiah did not speak his prophesies from Portugal,
nor Jeremiah his lamentations from France. Revered by its people, Jerusalem is mentioned in
the Hebrew scriptures 600 times—but not once in the Koran.
Throughout its 2,000-year
exile there was continuous Jewish presence in the Holy Land,
with the modern rebirth of Israel beginning in the 1800s. Reclamation
of the largely vacant land by pioneering Zionists blossomed.
The Jewish State was created by a two-thirds vote of the UN in
1947. Soon 800,000 Jews fleeing persecution in Arab countries
arrived. In ensuing decades, Israel absorbed a million immigrants
from the Soviet Union and thousands of Ethiopian Jews. Today,
far from being a vestige of European guilt or colonialism, Israel
is a diverse, cosmopolitan society, fulfilling the age-old dream
of a people's journey and 'Return to Zion'- their ancient homeland.
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- LIE #2: Had Israel
withdrawn to its June 1967 borders, peace would have come long
ago. The Truth:
Since 1967, Israel
has repeatedly conceded "land for peace." Following
Egyptian President Sadat's historic 1977 visit to Jerusalem and
the Camp David Peace Accords, Israel withdrew from the vast Sinai
Peninsula and has been at peace with Egypt ever since. In 1995,
Jordan signed a peace treaty with Israel but neither the Palestinians
nor 21 other Arab states have done so. In 1993, Israel signed
the Oslo Accords ceding administrative control of the West Bank
to the PA (formerly the PLO). The PA never fulfilled its promise
to end propaganda attacks and drop the Palestinian National Charter's
call for Israel's destruction. In 2000, Prime Minister Barak
offered Yasser Arafat full sovereignty over 97% of the West Bank,
a corridor to Gaza, and a capitol in the Arab section of Jerusalem.
Arafat said NO. In 2008, PA President Abbas nixed virtually the
same offer from Prime Minister Olmert. In 2005, Prime Minister
Sharon unilaterally withdrew from Gaza. Taken over by terrorist
Hamas, they turned dismantled Jewish communities into launching
sites for suicide bombers and 8,000+ rockets into Israel proper.
In 2010, Prime Minister Netanyahu renewed offers of unconditional
negotiations leading to a Palestinian State, but Palestinians
refused, demanding more unilateral Israeli concessions, including
a total freeze of all Israeli construction in East Jerusalem
and the West Bank.
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- LIE #3: Israel is
the main stumbling block to achieving a two-state solution.
The Truth:
The Palestinians themselves
are the only stumbling block to achieving a Two-State solution.
With whom should Israel negotiate? With his Palestinian Authority,
which continues to glorify terrorists and preaches hate in its
educational system and the media? With Hamas, whose Iranian-backed
leaders deny the Holocaust and use fanatical jihadist rhetoric
to call for Israel's destruction? Today, it is a simple fact
that while the State of Israel is prepared to recognize all Arab
States, secular or Muslim, these states adamantly refuse to recognize
Israel as a Jewish State and demand "the right of return"
of five million so-called Palestinian "refugees"—a
sure guarantee for Israel's demise.
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- LIE #4: Nuclear
Israel not Iran is the greatest threat to peace and stability.
The Truth: Though never acknowledged by Jerusalem,
it is generally assumed that Israel has nuclear weapons. But
unlike Pakistan, India, and North Korea, Israel never conducted
nuclear tests. In 1973, when its very survival was imperiled
by the surprise Egyptian-Syrian Yom Kippur attack, many assumed
Israel would use nuclear weapons—but it did not. Contrary
to public condemnations, many Arab leaders privately express
relief that Israeli nuclear deterrence exists. While Israel has
never threatened anyone, Tehran's mullahs daily threaten to "wipe
Israel from the map." The U.S. and Europe can afford to
wait to see what the Iranian regime does with its nuclear ambitions.
But Israel cannot. She is on the front lines and remembers every
day the price the Jewish people paid for not taking Hitler at
his word. Israel is not prepared to sacrifice another six million
Jews on the altar of the world's indifference.
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- LIE #5: Israel is
an Apartheid State deserving of International Boycott, Divestment
and Sanctions campaigns. The
Truth: On both sides of the Atlantic, church groups, academics
and unions are leading deceitful and often anti-Semitic boycott
campaigns demonizing what they call the Jewish "apartheid"
State. The truth is that unlike apartheid South Africa, Israel
is a democratic state. Its 20% Arab minority enjoys all the political,
economic and religious rights and freedoms of citizenship, including
electing members of their choice to the Knesset (Parliament).
Israeli Arabs and Palestinians have standing before Israel's
Supreme Court. In contrast, no Jew may own property in Jordan,
no Christian or Jew can visit Islam's holiest sites in Saudi
Arabia.
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- LIE #6: Israeli
policies are the cause of worldwide anti-Semitism.
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- LIE #7: The only
hope for peace is a single, bi-national state, eliminating the
Jewish State of Israel.
The Truth: The one-state
solution, promoted by academics, is a non-starter because it
would eliminate the Jewish homeland. However, the current pressures
on Israel are equally dangerous. In effect, the world is demanding
that Israel, the size of New Jersey, shrink further by accepting
a three-state solution: a PA state on the West Bank and a Hamas
terrorist state controlling 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza.
All this, as Hezbollah, Iran's proxy in Lebanon, stockpiles 50,000
rockets, threatening northern and central Israel's main population
centers. In 2010, most Middle East experts believe that the only
hope for enduring peace is two states with defined final borders.
But too many diplomats, pundits, academics and church leaders
ignore the fact that current polls show that while most Israelis
favor peace, most Palestinians continue to oppose it.
- FINAL COMMENT: Israel has been accused of causing
a “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza. This was also
not true as Israel handed over their own land once more in a
futile attempt for peace. Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz denounced
Goldstone's Report (a biased UN Report written by a rabid anti-Semite,)
as a modern "blood libel" accusing Israeli soldiers
of crimes they never committed.
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"And he (the beast) shall confirm (guarantee) the (Israeli)
covenant with many for one week (seven yrs.)" [Daniel
9:27].
U.S. supports Israel’s
security, Obama tells Jewish leaders
March 2, 2011
- Obama met Tuesday with
members of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish
Organizations.
- A statement issued by
the White House called the one-hour discussion "productive."
The statement said that Obama "reiterated America’s
unshakeable support for Israel’s security, opposition to
any effort to de-legitimize it or single it out for criticism,
and commitment to achieve a peace that will secure the future
for Arabs and Israelis alike."Obama, according to the statement,
"praised the core Jewish values of freedom and democracy,
human rights, and tikkun olam (to repair the world)."
- The president thanked
the Jewish community leaders for their support "to ensure
that America continues to out-educate, out-innovate, and out-build
the competition in order to win the future."
- The delegation also met
with Dennis Ross, the senior White House adviser on Middle East
peace issues; Dan Shapiro, senior director for the Middle East
and North Africa at the National Security Council; and David
Cohen, the Department of Treasury’s acting under secretary
for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, according to Haaretz.
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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).
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- "And he (the
beast) shall confirm the (Israeli) covenant with many
for one week (seven yrs.)"[Daniel 9:27].
PM likely to unveil diplomatic initiative in DC in May
- By HERB KEINON
03/03/2011
Ross meets Netanyahu, as efforts focused on keeping Quartet from
issuing statement tilting toward Palestinian demands.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's new diplomatic initiative
is likely to be unveiled in Washington in May, possibly during
an address to Congress.
- In the meantime, his envoy ? Yitzhak Molcho
? is expected to ask Qk Quartet representatives travelling to
Jerusalem next week to refrain from issuing statements fundamentally
changing the Quartet's position on the conflict, until Netanyahu
unveils his new initiative.
- Discussions are being held between Jerusalem
and Congressional representatives about organizing a speech in
Congress when Netanyahu goes to Washington to address the annual
AIPAC policy conference, scheduled to begin May 22.
- Netanyahu met Thursday with White House
senior advisor Dennis Ross, who is in the country with a team
of Middle East experts ? including Fred Hoff and Mara Rudmann
from US envoy George Mitchell's team ? for talks. Hoff is Mitchell's
speciaalist on Syria and Lebanon.
Ross and Hoff met Defense Minster Ehud Barak, whose influence
on Netanyahu is reportedly on the rise, and who is urging the
prime minister to place a new Israeli initiative on the international
agenda.
- Barak, in a Channel 10 interview, said
an initiative is essential to maintain Israel's position in the
world, ensure future US security assistance, and fend off delegitimization.
- While Barak said a major policy address
in the US by Netanyahu in May would be important, this was a
long way off, and there were immediate diplomatic challenges
for Israel on the immediate horizon.
- One such challenge is the Quartet principals
meeting scheduled for March 15 in Paris, to be attended by US
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, EU foreign policy chief Catherin
Ashton, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and UN General
Secretary Ban Ki-moon.
- Barak said that if that forum issued a
statement showing movement closer to the Palestinians position,
Israel would "be in a worse position. I think we have a
lot to lose from passivity." There is some concern that
the Quartet may come out and endorse a key Palestinians position
-- that a future state be along the 1967 lines.
- Both Netanyahu and Barak are demanding,
especially in light of the changes in the Arab world, that Israel
retain a security presence along the Jordan River.
- While Netanyahu is keeping details of
any new initiative very close to his chest, Barak hinted at a
direction, saying there was a widespread understanding of the
need to move ? in a phased, graduall manner ? toward an agreed
upon objective.
- Netanyahu did not shed any light on his
plan in a meeting Thursday with Swedish Foreign Minister Carl
Bildt.
- According to diplomatic officials, Bildt
brought a message that Netanyahu has heard from other European
leaders in recent days: the need solve the Palestinian issue
now to keep it from becoming an issue that could be used by Islamic
radicals to their advantage in any future election in Egypt or
other Arab states now going through an upheaval.
- While there is some speculation that Netanyahu
is interested in a Palestinian state within temporary borders,
with the final borders to be negotiated at a later date, others
believe that Netanyahu's plain entails a reiteration of the goal
of two states, and the announcement that the IDF will turn control
over all the major cities in the West Bank over to the PA, giving
them control over some 90 percent of the Palestinian population.
Under this plan, the IDF would no longer operate inside the cities,
except where in extraordinary circumstances.
"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 antichrist
beast) shall confirm (guarantee) the (Israeli) covenant with
many for one week (seven yrs.)" [Daniel 9:27].
U.K.: Mideast peace process
is too vital to fail over regional turmoil
Britain's Foreign Secretary Hague meets with Palestinian President
Abbas in London and demands both sides resume discussions and
seek a breakthrough on a permanent peace deal before end of 2011.
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- MARCH 9, 2011 - By The Associated Press
Britain warned on Tuesday of a risk that the Middle East peace
process could fall victim to the unrest sweeping the region if
Israel and the Palestinians don't return quickly to stalled talks.
- Foreign Secretary William Hague met with
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in London and demanded both
sides resume discussions and seek a breakthrough on a permanent
peace deal before the end of the year. End item ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Learned Christians know the first day
of the seven-year tribulation is indicated by an event (Daniel
9:27) and that the Church will not enter the seven-year tribulation.
The Church Age goes up to, but not into, the seven years of tribulation.
- "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" (I Thess. 4:16 & 17).
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- ISRAEL; THE FIG TREE
- March 10, 2011
"Now learn
a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and
putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise
ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near,
even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall
not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. Heaven and earth
shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away" (Matthew
24:32-35).
A rare history lesson: The truth about Israel and Palestine
Thursday, February 3, 2011 - Forbidden Table Talk by Bob Siegel
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- SAN DIEGO - February 3, 2011 - The verbalbal
battle over American Egyptian policy goes back and forth. Yes,
President Mubarak has ruled as a ruthless dictator. Yes, the
idea of overthrowing this man and replacing his rule with an
honest democracy sounds pleasant, but when the fine hand of Muslim
Brotherhood appears to be pulling the marionette strings, one
asks if Egypt’s potential revolution will simply pull people
out of the frying pan and into the fire. The Muslim Brotherhood,
for example, is not particularly shy about its goal of liquidating
Jewish inhabitants in the Holy Land.
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