Saturday, October 06, 2007

FORMER PA LEADER BOYCOTT SUMMIT

MUSLIM NATIONS

EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

WORLD TERRORISM

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

2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men

LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

Israel: US-sponsored talks have limits By AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press Writer Sun Oct 7, 7:58 AM ET

JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told his Cabinet on Sunday that an upcoming U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace conference would not replace direct negotiations with the Palestinians. He also said his talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have produced no agreements so far. Olmert and Abbas have met every few weeks in recent months in an effort to formulate a framework for full-fledged peace talks ahead of the international conference, expected to take place in Annapolis, Md., in late November.Israeli and Palestinian teams charged with drafting the document are to meet for the first time Monday, and next week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is to return to the region to assess progress.

At the start of Sunday's regularly scheduled Cabinet meeting, Olmert told ministers that his talks with Abbas have been mostly brainstorming and an attempt to understand the other's viewpoint.

There have been no agreements or deals, he said.

While the international conference is designed to promote peacemaking, it will in no way replace direct negotiations with the Palestinians, Olmert said.The U.S. has not yet set a date for the meeting or announced a list of participants. Palestinian negotiators have said they expect Rice to set a date after she visits the region.Participation by leading Arab countries is considered key to the conference's success.So far, regional powerhouse Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries without diplomatic ties with Israel have been reluctant to commit, first seeking proof that the meeting will address the core issues — final borders, the status of disputed Jerusalem, Israeli settlements and a solution for Palestinian refugees who lost their homes in the 1948 war that accompanied Israel's creation.

Olmert also told his Cabinet that any solution would be based on the U.S.-backed road map peace plan, a program that foundered shortly after it was presented in 2003, the Haaretz newspaper said. Both sides failed to carry out initial obligations under the three-phase plan, with Israel continuing to build in West Bank settlements and the Palestinians failing to disarm militants.
On Sunday, Palestinian militants fired a Russian-made rocket into southern Israel, causing no injuries but possibly signaling an escalation by armed groups in the Gaza Strip.In an interview published Saturday, the head of the Hamas government in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, urged Saudi Arabia and Egypt not to attend the conference, saying he did not expect the gathering to produce any results.The conference is aimed in part at giving Abbas an international boost of support in his rivalry with Hamas.The Islamic militant Hamas, which advocates Israel's destruction, wrested control of Gaza from Fatah security forces loyal to Abbas in mid-June. Abbas retaliated by expelling Hamas from government and setting up a Western-backed government that he says has authority over Gaza, but in practice has little influence there.

Former Palestinian PM Haniya calls for Arabs to boycott peace meeting Sat Oct 6, 8:31 AM ET

GAZA CITY (AFP) - Senior Hamas leader and former Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya has called on Arab countries to boycott a US-sponsored Middle East peace meeting due to be held next month.

We call on our Arab brothers, particularly the Saudi Arabian kingdom and Egypt, to reconsider any decision to participate in this conference, he said in an interview published on Saturday in Palestine magazine, which is close to the Islamist group.We do not put the slightest hope in this conference, he added, speaking out against any normalisation of relations with Israel.Hamas is considered a terrorist organisation by the United States, European Union and Israel because it refuses to renounce violence, recognise the Jewish state and respect past interim peace deals.

Haniya was speaking as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice prepares to visit the region next week to add her weight to preparations for the meeting, for which Washington has not yet issued invitations or settled on a precise date or venue.On Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas met for the fourth time in less than two months and told aides to start work on a joint document to serve as a basis for peace talks.Hamas seized power in the Gaza Strip in mid-June, ousting forces loyal to Abbas, who sacked Haniya as head of a national unity government and appointed a new cabinet.As a result, the Palestinian territories are effectively divided, as Fatah retains its power base in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Canada condemns remarks by Iranian president Sat Oct 6, 4:47 PM ET

OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada condemned Saturday new remarks by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who has vowed to liberate all of Palestine from Israel and questioned the scale of the Holocaust.
President Ahmadinejad's statement represents a wilful distortion of history and an attempt to prevent political reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians, Canadian Foreign Minister Maxine Bernier said in a statement.It is comments like these that make Iran a country of concern for the international community, the minister said.Canada continues to work to focus attention on the Iranian government's atrocious human rights record. To that end, Canada will once again be leading a resolution on Iran at the UN this autumn.

DETAILS KEPT QUIET

Details of Olmert-Abbas Meeting Kept Quiet
by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz OCT 6,07 INN


(IsraelNN.com) A meeting between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas in Jerusalem on Wednesday led to few official statements. After the meeting, it was announced only that PA and Israeli negotiators will meet in coming weeks to work out a joint position paper for the planned Middle East summit in November. Prime Minister Olmert initially held talks with Abbas in private, after which they were Abbas expressed dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Olmert's refusal to discuss a fixed timeline.joined by their respective negotiating teams.

Reports in the Arab media indicated that Abbas expressed dissatisfaction with Olmert's continued refusal to discuss a fixed timeline for the resolution of final-status issues. According to IDF Radio, Olmert insisted that the PA accept the Israeli and American position that rejects an Arab right of return to Israel and includes Israeli annexation of certain areas in Judea and Samaria. On Thursday, the PA's Minister of Information, Riyad Al-Malki, told reporters that a joint document outlining a framework for final status talks will be drafted before the US-sponsored Middle East summit in November. Al-Malki said a final status agreement could be reached within six months of the summit. This agreement, he added, would be brought before a follow-up meeting of the November summit's participants, as well as before the residents of the PA in the form of a referendum.

A senior PA figure and former PA prime minister, Ahmed Qurei, said it will not be easy for Olmert and Abbas to draft an agenda for final status talks before the summit. Qurei's cautious view was echoed by David Baker, a spokesman for the Israeli government. The issues that would have to be included in any final status accord, and about which there is little agreement, include bilateral borders, the status of Arab refugees in other countries, the status and future of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, and sovereignty in Jerusalem. The Hamas leadership of the PA, for its part, has rejected the idea of the November summit entirely. Spokesmen for the terrorist organization said the main purpose of the bilateral and multilateral meetings that include Israel is to prevent the resolution of what Hamas considers the fundamental issues.

Friday, October 05, 2007

ISR - ARA TO DRAFT DECLARATION

Israelis, Palestinians To Draft Declaration
Negotiators Will Detail Core Issues In Preparation for Peace Conference - By Scott Wilson
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, October 4, 2007; Page A16


JERUSALEM, Oct. 3 -- Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed Wednesday to begin work on a joint declaration setting out their positions on the core issues of their long conflict before a U.S.-proposed peace conference tentatively scheduled for next month.
Israeli and Palestinian negotiating teams will meet privately next week to begin the contentious drafting process, which for the first time in years will expose the extent of their disagreement on such issues as the shape of a future Palestinian state, the right claimed by Palestinian refugees to return to homes inside Israel, and the division of Jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who met here Wednesday for the latest in a series of confidence-building meetings, have disagreed on what standing the document should have in the international conference that President Bush proposed earlier this year. Olmert has favored drawing up a general declaration of principles, while Abbas has demanded a more detailed and binding document.

Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, said after Wednesday's meeting that the document would not be a peace agreement. But he said it must be substantive if it is to serve as the basis for final-status talks following the meeting. The Israelis and Palestinians have not held formal negotiations since January 2001. Our differences will materialize once we sit down, Erekat said. But it is time to finish this. It is time for decisions, not negotiations.The Bush administration has yet to set a date for the meeting or issue invitations to possible participants. Israel would like to see in attendance such regionally powerful Arab countries as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which do not have diplomatic relations with the Jewish state. Israeli and Palestinian officials have been working under the assumption that the meeting will be held in mid-November, perhaps at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis.

But the late start on drafting a document to guide the conference has put the timing in doubt. Abbas, leader of the secular Fatah party, has warned that unless he can return from the meeting able to show tangible progress toward the creation of a Palestinian state, the rival Hamas movement will gain political strength at his expense. Hamas, a radical Islamic movement classified as a terrorist organization by Israel and the United States, seized control of the Gaza Strip in June after routing Fatah forces there. Abbas immediately dissolved the power-sharing government that Hamas led, but the movement continues to run a parallel administration in the strip. Abbas has appointed a new government in the West Bank, envisioned as the other main territorial component of a future Palestinian state. Olmert has sought ways to improve Abbas's political standing, including freeing up hundreds of millions of dollars in Palestinian tax revenue that Israel froze after Hamas's January 2006 victory in parliamentary elections.

Olmert this week released 86 Palestinian prisoners, the majority of them Fatah members from the West Bank. Israel holds about 10,000 Palestinians in prison, and even moderate Palestinian leaders dismissed the release of less than 1 percent of them as virtually meaningless. David Baker, an Olmert spokesman, said Wednesday's meeting was conducive to future progress as the two sides prepare for the conference. Erekat, who has been involved in peace talks with Israel for decades, said the date of the meeting and the guest list will be determined by how much progress the negotiating teams make in the coming weeks. It's up to us now, he said.

Monday, October 01, 2007

BUSH KICKS OFF NOV SUMMIT

Inside Today's Bulletin
Bush Kicks Off November Middle East Summit (10/1/07)
By: David Bedein, The Bulletin


Jerusalem - U.S. administration sources confirm that President George W. Bush plans to launch his Middle East Summit on Nov. 15 at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., the 300-year-old city that once hosted the early days of the U.S. Continental Congress.
The choice of Nov. 15 coincides with the annual General Assembly of more than 3,000 well-organized Jewish community councils and Jewish federations from all over the United States, which convenes under the aegis of the United Jewish Communities. The General Assembly takes place this year in Nashville, Tenn., between Nov. 13 and Nov. 15.

Representatives of the Bush administration and the Israeli government are scheduled to address the UJC general assembly on Nov. 14. It is hoped that those speeches will generate grassroots enthusiasm amongst American Jews for the planned summit. As a matter of policy, the UJC promotes the policies of the government of Israel, no matter how unpopular the policies are in Israel itself or how unwise they may be. Throughout the 1990s, the UJC enthusiastically supported Israel's controversial initiatives with the PLO terror organization with great alacrity.

The UJC even decided to honor PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat with the Isaiah Peace Award in October 1999. Only after the UJC decision to bestow an award on Arafat was publicized prematurely did the UJC decide not to grant Arafat that award.Meanwhile, although the list of prospective invitees to the November Middle East Summit has not been finalized, assessments are that Syria will be invited and will send representatives to the conference. U.S. officials said they believed that Syria would try to exact a number of preconditions before announcing its acceptance of the invitation.
Aside from Syria, representatives from Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the Quartet-Russia, the European Union and the United Nations will also be invited.

The decision to invite Syria constitutes a reversal in U.S. foreign policy, since the administration has refused to engage in any contact with Damascus, which it has accused of being a member of the axis of evil and of sponsoring terrorism.The reason for the change in the American position apparently lies in the American recognition that it would be better for Syria to be part of the process than to have it try to torpedo it. American sources who were quoted by the wire services said that the decision to invite Syria was geared to spur the other Arab states to attend the conference. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas also asked to have Syria invited so as not to break Arab unity.

Regarding Saudi Arabia, the U.S. administration considers it to be of great importance to have the kingdom attend the conference and play an active role in it. Riyadh has yet to announce whether it intends to attend. What complicates matters is that Saudi Arabia remains in a formal and active state of war with Israel since 1948, having never agreed to any peace treaty (like Jordan and Egypt) or truce (like Syria and Lebanon).

Preparations for the conference are to begin next week. A sophisticated media center is being constructed to house the thousands of journalists who are expected to cover the conference. In public statements, administration spokesmen have been trying to lower expectations, but behind the scenes feverish efforts are being made to make the summit a grandiose and significant event, an event that will earn President Bush a few diplomatic points at the end of his term.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is going to chair the summit. However, President Bush intends to play an active and meaningful role in the talks. The assessment is that the president's expected presence will spur the invited countries to send high-ranking delegates.

King Abdullah of Jordan hinted this week that he intended to send his foreign minister to attend the conference. "Only if it becomes evident that the conference is going to deal with substantive issues and the final settlement will we agree to send a high-ranking delegation, which will be headed by the prime minister," he said.

Egypt has also hinted that it intended to dispatch its foreign minister to attend the Summit, but this weekend Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak held talks with the Saudi king about the possibility of raising the level of the delegation sent. Syria, if it accepts the invitation, is expected to send Foreign Minister Walid Muallem, who formerly served as its ambassador to the U.S.

Message To The Palestinians From Rice: Compliance Not A Priority
News analyst Aaron Lerner, director of Independent Media Research Associates, (www.imra.org.il), has analyzed Secretary Rice's recent statements and has discerned a policy shift in U.S. policy toward Palestinian Authority compliance and cooperation in the war on terror.

During Ms. Rice's remarks on Sept. 23, she at first said:
If you look at the phase-one commitments, it is very hard to imagine the establishment of a Palestinian state in which the phase-one commitments have not been realized or have not been carried through. And so, absolutely, those phase-one commitments have to be met.

But then she said: But it is absolutely the case that you're not going to be able to establish a Palestinian state if you don't have a commitment to end terror, if you don't have a commitment to end settlement activity, if you don't have a commitment to non-violence. All of those things have to be achieved.

Phase one of the road map requires the Palestinian Authority to implement a policy to crush terror. That policy has yet to be created or implemented .Mr. Lerner notes that Ms. Rice doesn't make it a red line. Instead the red line is commitment rather than action. While the road map spoke of action, Ms. Rice's red line appears to be only declarative in nature.

Ms. Rice repeats over and over that she envisions an independent, sovereign and armed Palestinian state to emerge from the November Middle East Summit. She downplays the Palestinian state's role in the war on terror.

Abbas Canard In 'Washington Post' Interview
On Saturday, on page B4 of the Washington Post, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was interviewed by the Washington Post's Lally Weymouth.

In answer to Ms. Weymouth's question Will Israelis agree to go to final-status talks when they are constantly threatened with attacks on their cities? Mr. Abbas answered, Last night, [our security forces] seized two rockets. We handed [them] over to the Israelis. We are very worried about these deeds and I think we can put an end to all this. Our security apparatus is ready to stop all kinds of violence.

However, Khaled Abu Toameh, Palestinian Affairs correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, reporting on the same day, uncovered Mr. Abbas' answer to be less than truthful: It later turned out that the 'rockets' were simple pipes that had been set up by children who were trying to imitate Hamas. In the assessment of Abu Toameh, Fatah managed to sell another hoax to reporters when it claimed that its security forces had discovered rocket launchers in Bethlehem that were directed against Jerusalem. Both Palestinian and Israeli security sources confirm that the Palestinian Authority did not seize any rockets or rocket launchers.

David Bedein can be reached at Media@actcom.co.il. His Web site is www.IsraelBehindTheNews.com - ©The Evening Bulletin 2007