Sunday, April 06, 2008

SACRIFICE DEMONSTRATION TODAY APR 6,08

REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE (THE EU DICTATORS TEMPLE)

REVELATION 11:1-2
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

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

REBUILT 4TH TEMPLE (THE TRUE MESSIAHS TEMPLE)

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

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

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

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

EZEKIEL 40 TO 48 IS THIS 4TH TEMPLE TO BIG FOR THE MOUNT I BELIEVE TO BE BUILT 25 MILES FROM JERUSALEM.

IN ISRAEL TODAY THEY ARE SACRIFICING A LAMB TO TEACH THE PEOPLE OF THE FUTURE SACRIFICES IN THE 3RD TEMPLE. HOW THE PASSOVER SACRIFICE IS DONE AND HOW THEY DESPARATELY NEED THE 3RD TEMPLE TO FULFILL THIS SACRIFICE TO THE GOD OF ISRAEL FOR ALL ISRAELS SAKE.

Sunday, April 06, 2008 by Staff Writer ISRAELTODAY
Jewish group to slaughter lamb in Passover sacrifice rehearsal


A Bible-adherent Jewish group on Sunday ritually slaughtered a young lamb in what is called a rehearsal for the renewal of the Passover sacrifice once the Jerusalem temple is rebuilt. The Temple Movement won approval to carry out the practice sacrifice from Israel's High Court on Friday after animal rights groups asserted that the lamb would be put through inhumane suffering. In its legal response, the Temple Movement explained that the slaughter would be carried out according to biblical standards, which is the same method used to slaughter lambs at kosher slaughterhouses around the country. The sacrifice and accompanying religious ceremonies were performed at a prominent yeshiva overlooking Jerusalem's Temple Mount, which is still occupied by several Muslim shrines.

TEMPLE INSTITUTES RESPONSE TO ANIMAL RIGHTS GROUP TRYING TO STOP THEM FROM SACRIFICING ON APRIL 6TH 2008

As reported by Israel National News, the Temple Institute has received a letter from the animal rights organization Tnoo Lachayot Lichyot (Let the Animals Live) protesting the Temple Institute's intentions to take part in a day long symposium to be held on April 6, (Rosh Chodesh Nisan). Likewise, the group is threatening to take legal action to prevent the participants of the symposium from carrying out an educational demonstration of the Passover sacrifice.
Below is the response of the Temple Institute:

Shalom Reuven Ladiansky, Chairman of Let the Animals Live,

We have received your letter stating your concerns, and begin by welcoming this opportunity for dialogue. As you know, the prohibition against tzar l'ba'alai chaim cruelty to animals is a Torah based principle. Torah strictly forbids both causing physical pain and/or psychological or emotional anguish to animals. Anyone who transgresses this prohibition is in violation of the trust and responsibility placed in him by G-d.

This trust is first articulated in Genesis 2:15: God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to work it and keep it. From this we learn that the Torah indeed empowers man to possess mastery over the natural world, but at the same time places upon man the responsibility to guard and protect nature.

The laws of kashrut and shechita (ritual slaughter) require that the slaughter of an animal, whether for personal consumption, or to be used as an offering in the Holy Temple, must be conducted employing certain methods and instruments in such a manner as to guarantee a painless and fear-free demise for the animal. Slaughter that fails to achieve either of these two goals is not kasher.

Concerning the specific case of the Passover lamb offering, one must be aware of the history of the offering, and of the intimacy and defining nature of the offering, in order to fully appreciate its centrality to the Jewish experience. The original Passover offering, commanded by G-d, literally to both mark and to precipitate the birth of the Jewish nation, while still in Egypt, was and remains an iconoclastic and liberating moment whose symbolic import is every bit as relevant today as it was some 3,500 years ago. To discuss the merits of the offering out of this context would both be a mockery of Torah and would render even a detached study void of meaning.

The Temple offerings, (the Passover offering included), were all conducted in the open light of day. Each animal was slaughtered by a priest properly trained to uphold both the technical requirements as mentioned above, and to also direct his heart toward his Creator and the Creator of the animal under his charge. The Temple Priests were masters of compassion, whose function was to perform their tasks while bearing in mind always the awesome responsibility with which they were trusted: the responsibility of life and death.

It is odious even to compare the Temple offerings to the present state of affairs throughout the world in which millions of cows are slaughtered in massive factories and ground into hamburger each and every day of the week in order to slake the appetite of homo sapiens the world over. It is noteworthy, perhaps, that many strict vegetarians are among those who yearn to perform and participate in the Passover offering and the consuming of the meat as part of the Torah prescribed Seder requirement, simply for the reason that this is what G-d requires of them. There is no conflict between a humane attitude toward all living things, and fulfilling one's privileges and obligations as a Jew to his or her Creator.

Finally, any discussion of the Passover offering would be incomplete if the social/national aspect of the offering is not also contemplated. The Passover offering is an obligation that touches all men, women and children of the Jewish nation. Each individual offering was eaten by groups of as many as thirty people or more. The poor, as is well known from the Passover Hagaddah, were also included. The Passover offering had to be eaten in Jerusalem. To this end, local Jerusalemites threw open their doors and courtyards to accommodate their fellow Jews who came from afar to celebrate. One can only imagine the overwhelming sense of unity and family, on the national level, that enveloped the people. And all this is centered around and made possible through the vehicle of the Passover lamb. This does not cheapen the life of the lamb. On the contrary, one can only marvel at the enabling power vested in this creature of G-d, and be grateful to Him for the life transforming gift He has granted us through the performing of the Passover offering.

Ultimately, the Passover offering remains, as it was that first Passover in Egypt, an expression of profound faith in G-d. By attaching ourselves to G-d we come to realize that it is His will, and not ours, that determines what is right and what is wrong. It is this attachment, and the ability to fulfill His expectations of us that informs the Passover offering with the power to set free. The Jewish compassion for all living things is likewise informed by our relationship with G-d, and is not the product of an anthropocentric humanism.

Reuven, I won't pretend that I have turned you into an advocate for the renewal of the Passover offering by my words above, which, in any case only touch upon the surface of the subject of the Passover offering. But before you press ahead with your plans to call for the upcoming symposium to be prevented from taking place, please allow for the fact that we who long to perform G-d's command and make the Passover offering this year, like you, hold dear, and consider holy, the life of each and every one of G-d's living creatures.

May we soon sit in unity as a people around our Passover offerings, in the homes and courtyards of Jerusalem, in the glow of the Holy Temple.

The meat from the lamb that is to be slaughtered at the symposium, (for educational purposes, not an actual Passover offering), is to be distributed to needy families.

Mideast peace will not come at any price: Abbas APR 6,08

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said on Sunday he would not accept a peace deal at any price a day before he was to meet Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for the first time since February. We are negotiating seriously and we are striving to arrive at a solution for all the final status issues, but it will not come at any price, Abbas told a meeting of local officials in the West Bank city of Ramallah.Abbas and Olmert are due to meet on Monday at the premier's residence in Jerusalem in a bid to bolster recently revived peace talks, officials said.The Palestinians cut contacts with Israel at the beginning of March after an Israeli military operation in Gaza killed more than 130 Palestinians, but US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice convinced him to restore contact just days later.Since then, negotiating teams, including senior officials from both sides, have met on several occasions but the two leaders have not had face-to-face talks since February 19.Senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said the two men would discuss a mutual ceasefire, the lifting of the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip and the implementation of the 2003 Middle East roadmap agreement.

Moves towards a peace have made little progress since being relaunched to great fanfare in the United States in November, with each side accusing the other of neglecting its obligations under an internationally-drafted peace blueprint.Israel has not implemented a single one of its obligations as specified in the roadmap. It has not halted the (growth of) settlements or freed prisoners or removed checkpoints, Erakat told AFP.An Israeli official told AFP that Olmert is looking forward to the renewal of talks.We want the Annapolis process to succeed and the meetings between the leaders will continue focusing on the crucial elements of the peace talks, the official said on condition of anonymity.

Israel reassures Syria, Lebanon over missile drill by Ron Bousso APR 6,08

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sought to reassure Syria and Lebanon on Sunday that the Jewish state was not looking to exacerbate tension along its northern border at the outset of a major missile attack exercise. The five-day nationwide exercise, simulating air and missile attacks on cities throughout the country -- including by non-conventional weapons -- began on Sunday, the army said.The goal of the exercise is to check the authorities' ability to carry out their duties in time of emergency and for preparing the home front for different scenarios, Olmert said at the start of a weekly cabinet meeting.There is nothing else hidden behind it. All the reports on tension in the north can be moderated and cooled down. We have no secret plans, he added.

Over the next few days emergency sirens will be sounded across the country and schoolchildren will practise entering shelters and protected spaces in the event of an attack by chemical or biological weapons.The emergency services will also, for the first time, broadcast tutorial videos on television explaining how to act during an attack.Olmert said he will also convene the security cabinet to simulate the process of decision-making in war time, as part of the lessons drawn from the 2006 war against Hezbollah in Lebanon.The prime minister and his staff will also practise working from an underground bomb shelter at the premier's Jerusalem office.

The planned exercise comes after local media last week reported heightened tensions along Israel's heavily-guarded border with Syria and just days after Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora put his armed forces on alert.Siniora also asked UN peacekeepers tasked with monitoring the border, to be careful that Israel will not use the manoeuvres to launch operations capable of increasing tension, a statement from his office said.Israel has repeatedly said the drills are purely aimed at preparing emergency services and civilians to respond to an attack.As far as I know the Syrians know this and there is no need to give the exercise a different interpretation, Olmert said.We are interested in negotiations for peace with the Syrians. They know exactly what our expectations are, we know their expectations, and if the circumstances allow this, that is where we would like to head, Olmert said.The last round of negotiations between the two neighbours, technically at war since 1948, broke down in 2000 over disagreements over the strategic Golan Heights plateau, which Israel seized in the 1967 war and annexed in 1981.

Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak earlier said that the northern front is particularly volatile, but we don't want any degradation and the other side knows it and we also think that the other side doesn't want a degradation.He added, however, that Israel was ready to confront any development.Barak said the exercises were primarily aimed at learning lessons from the war with Lebanon in 2006, during which more than 4,000 rockets fired by the Hezbollah militia slammed into northern Israel.An official investigation into the war harshly criticised Israel's military and political leadership for failing to protect civilians during the 34-day conflict.

Al Aqsa militants break out of West Bank prison Sat Apr 5, 5:54 AM ET

NABLUS, West Bank (AFP) - Twelve Palestinian militants escaped from a Palestinian-run prison in the northern West Bank city of Nablus overnight, Palestinian security officials said on Saturday. The detainees, members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, an armed group loosely tied to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party, were wanted by the Israeli army, the officials said.They had been detained in the Jneid prison under a July 2007 agreement with Israel that allows militants to surrender their weapons and serve a three-month period of detention in exchange for amnesty.We left the prison because of the aggression on the part of masked members of the national security forces against the detainees. There were scuffles and then we left, one of the detainees, Mahdi Abu Ghazaleh, told AFP.We gave up our weapons according to an agreement but we received nothing in return, he added.They told us if you give up your weapons and spend three months in jail, there will be an amnesty and the Israeli army will stop its operations in Nablus but nothing happened.Nablus governor Jamal al-Muhaisen urged the men to return to prison, saying their lives were in danger.They are out of prison now and their lives are in danger because of the Israelis. If they want to come back they are welcome but we won't let them move freely or carry weapons, Muhaisen told AFP.Fourteen members of the same militant group escaped from the prison on February 21 before turning themselves in the following day. They said the breakout was in protest at prison conditions and an Israeli decision to extend their detention from three months to six.

The once restive city of Nablus, which saw heavy fighting during the latest Palestinian uprising, is now the focus of a mounting security crackdown by Palestinian authorities as part of revived peace talks with Israel.In November, Abbas dispatched hundreds of police reinforcements to the city to rein in criminal gangs and armed factions, and late last month Israel approved the extension of the crackdown to the nearby city of Jenin.At the relaunch of peace talks at an international conference in the United States in November, the Palestinians undertook to improve security and Israel to freeze settlement activity.

Canada foreign minister condemns attack on group in Israel Fri Apr 4, 5:49 PM ET

OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier on Friday blasted a sniper attack on Canadian civilians visiting a town in southern Israel said to be under constant threat of rocket fire from Gaza. The Canada-Israel Committee delegation was in Sderot to familiarize themselves with goings-on in the region when an unidentified shooter fired at them, Bernier said.An Israeli security official was wounded in the attack, he said.Canada strongly condemns today's attack on a delegation visiting an observation point near Sderot, Bernier said in a statement.These attacks targeting civilians are unacceptable, and I wish a full recovery to Mati Gill, the bureau chief of the Israeli Public Safety Minister, who was wounded in the attack.Israel's army said an Israeli civilian also suffered a minor gunshot wound in the attack.

New global push sought to scrap chemical weapons Fri Apr 4, 7:43 AM ET

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Nations including Syria, Iraq and Israel should join a landmark pact for destroying stockpiles of chemical weapons as they serve hardly any security or strategic purpose, a watchdog agency said on Friday. Rogelio Pfirter, director-general at the Hague-based Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), made the appeal ahead of a review conference next week.So far 183 countries have ratified the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention banning the use, development, production, stockpiling and transfer of chemical weapons but the OPCW wants more states to join up.Chemical weapons basically terrorize civilians, they are of relatively little security or strategic use these days, Pfirter told Reuters in an interview.It is hard to see how these weapons can make any contribution to peace, he said.

Israel, Myanmar, Bahamas, Dominican Republic and Guinea-Bissau have signed up to the treaty but have not ratified it, the watchdog said. Iraq, Syria, Egypt, North Korea, Somalia, Lebanon and Angola have shunned it.Regional conflict and internal problems are among the major obstacles to these countries becoming members to the convention, said Pfirter.We hope these countries, irrespective of the fact they have a crisis there, will realize they should join, he said.He said officials from some of those countries will attend next week's review conference.We take it as a very good sign of continued interest in the convention.Since it signed up to the treaty, Russia has destroyed nearly a quarter of its stockpile and the United States close to 50 percent. The two countries have an extended 2012 deadline to destroy the rest of their stockpiles.

Asked if the two countries can meet their deadline, Pfirter said: At this stage, it would be very premature to speculate one way or other. One should continue to expect they will do anything possible to continue destruction of their stockpiles.Libya, a signatory to the pact since 2004 after it started emerging from international isolation by agreeing to halt its weapons programs, is expected to destroy its entire stockpile by 2011.(Reporting by Foo Yun Chee)

Friday, April 04, 2008

ISRAEL DISMANTLES 10 ROADBLOCKS

Israel army dismantles 10 West Bank roadblocks Thu Apr 3, 4:22 PM ET

JERUSALEM (AFP) - The Israeli army dismantled on Thursday 10 roadblocks in the West Bank, as part of a pledge to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to remove 50 in the occupied region, an army spokeswoman said. The roadblocks were removed from areas near the towns of Ramallah, Nablus, Qalqilya and Tulkarem in the north of the West Bank, the spokeswoman said.The army had said on Monday that it had removed a roadblock northeast of Ramallah.That announcement came a day after Rice secured a pledge from Israel to dismantle 50 West Bank checkpoint to improve the daily lives of Palestinians in order to bolster faltering peace talks formally revived in November.But Israel's decision was deemed insufficient by the Palestinian Authority.We welcome the removal of any checkpoint but what the Israelis have declared is nonsense and not useful, Hussein al-Sheikh, head of the Palestinian Authority's civil affairs department, said on Monday.The measure affects a fraction of the more than 500 roadblocks and checkpoints the army operates across the occupied West Bank, according to a UN tally.

Egypt allows Palestinians to cross back into Gaza Thu Apr 3, 1:31 PM ET

RAFAH, Egypt (Reuters) - Egypt temporarily opened a border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Thursday to allow around 200 Palestinians stranded in Egypt to return home, Egyptian security sources said.
Hamas militants blew a hole in the border in January, allowing Palestinians to flood into Egypt to seek relief from an Israeli blockade. The border has since been resealed, stranding hundreds of Palestinians inside Egypt.Many of the Palestinians, who returned home through the Rafah crossing, had been living with relatives in towns on Egypt's Sinai peninsula, the sources said.Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has said Egypt was working to lift the blockade of Gaza and reopen the Rafah crossing, where Hamas has demanded a key role. Hamas seized control of Gaza in June.The Egyptian government says it would like the Palestinian Authority, led by President Mahmoud Abbas, to take charge at the crossing point. Abbas and his Fatah group have little influence in Gaza.
(Reporting by Yusri Mohamed, writing by Will Rasmussen)

Israel plays down risk of conflict with Syria by Charly Wegman Thu Apr 3, 1:01 PM ET

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel on Thursday played down media reports of heightened tension along the Syrian border, insisting there was little likelihood of military confrontation between the two neighbours. Israel has no intention of attacking Syria, and the latter says only it is ready to respond to any attack, so the risk of a military confrontation is very low, said Deputy Prime Minister Haim Ramon.His comments came as Israeli newspapers splashed front-page stories claiming the military was on high alert after Syria reportedly boosted its deployment near the border and called up reserves.The Jerusalem Post said increased tension along the frontier, as well as in the Gaza Strip, led Defence Minister Ehud Barak to cancel a planned visit to Germany, though a spokesman said the decision was linked to a planned home front defence exercise next week.

Spokesman Shlomo Dror told AFP Syria has staged military manoeuvres and made other preparations for possible confrontation in the event Hezbollah seeks to avenge the February 12 killing in Damascus of its military leader Imad Mugnieh, which the Shiite militia blames on Israel.But Ramon, a close ally of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, said Hezbollah was well aware that if they react too strongly, we will also react harshly.I don't know if they will react or not, but we must do everything in our power to thwart such a retaliation and to thwart their ability to avenge, he said at a conference in Tel Aviv.President Shimon Peres blamed radical elements for seeking to fuel tension between the Jewish state and its northern border.

Israel said in the past and says today that it seeks peace. We have no intention of attacking Syria ... Syria is sending similar messages but there are radical elements trying to incite and raise tensions.Yediot Aharonot claimed there were increasing signs that an attack could take place soon.And the more these signs accumulate -- unusual movements, meetings between various figures, information from all sorts of sources -- the more the temperature rises, the daily wrote.The London-based Al-Quds al-Arabi reported on Wednesday that Syria had deployed three armoured divisions and nine infantry brigades near the border with Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, fearing Israeli infiltration.But General Dan Harel, Israel's deputy chief of staff, also dismissed the likelihood of confrontation with Syria.Neither of the two parties wants such a conflict, he said. But he added that Israel would respond with a heavy hand to any attack -- a warning top Israeli officials have voiced with increasing regularity over recent days.What is certain is that Israel is the most powerful country in the region and that our response to any aggression would be very tough, Harel said.Hirsh Goodman, of the Institute for National Security Studies, said the situation could easily get out of hand if a war of words escalates. Therefore, Israel and Syria are doing what they can to ease the tension, he told AFP.

Ramon stressed that Israel remained interested in holding talks with Damascus, but he did not have high hopes this would be possible soon.I believe, unfortunately, that the ability to hold talks with Syria, at least in the near future, is extremely limited if it exists at all, he said in Tel Aviv. Unfortunately that country is deeply anchored in its relations with the axis of evil of Iran and Hezbollah, he added. The last round of negotiations between the two neighbours, technically at war since 1948, broke down in 2000 over disagreements over the strategic Golan Heights plateau, which Israel seized in the 1967 war and annexed in 1981.

The reports of increased tension between the two countries coincided with an announcement that Israel will hold a large-scale home front defence exercise next week featuring scenarios in which chemical and biological missiles hit populated areas.

Israel to hand out gas masks to civilians Wed Apr 2, 7:46 AM ET

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel has decided to distribute gas masks to civilians, starting next year, to prepare for a possible non-conventional weapons' attack, public radio reported. Deputy defence minister Matan Vilnai announced the decision during a closed-door meeting between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and members of his security cabinet, the radio said.General Zeev Zuckran of Israel's emergency services told public radio there was no cause for alarm over the decision, which he stressed did not signal a deterioration of the security situation.Israeli authorities regularly warn of the risks of a non-conventional attack from Iran or Syria.Gas masks were distributed to the public during the 1991 Gulf War when Iraq fired Scud missiles at Israel, and again in the run up to the US-led assault on Iraq in 2003.Those masks were collected in 2006 for checks and to change the filters.Israeli media reports had said the country is planning another large-scale civil defence exercise next week.

Palestinian businesses look east to China By Wafa Amr
Tue Apr 1, 8:07 PM ET


HEBRON, West Bank (Reuters) - Faced with Israeli trade and travel restrictions, a stagnant economy and a flood of cheap imports from Asia, Palestinian businessmen are increasingly seeking their fortunes in China. Demand for Chinese visas among business owners in the occupied West Bank is so high that the Chinese consul regularly visits the city of Hebron to stamp their passports and circumvent an Israeli ban that prevents them from traveling to the embassy in Tel Aviv.Everybody is doing business in China, Khaled Oseily, businessman and mayor of Hebron, told Reuters. "The Chinese consul comes to Hebron and on one day issued some 600 to 700 visas to Hebronite businessmen.China began to open up its economy around 30 years ago, using cheap labor to produce and export huge volumes of inexpensive goods that have undercut local industries in many developing countries.

In Hebron, the largest Palestinian city famous for its leather and handmade ceramics, the wave of cheap Chinese goods was the last straw for businessmen already battling Israeli travel restrictions that inflate costs and hurt economic growth.Israel says its network of checkpoints and roadblocks that carve up the West Bank is needed for security reasons. Palestinians say they amount to collective punishment.On Sunday, Israel said it would remove about 50 dirt roadblocks in the West Bank and open a permanent checkpoint that obstructs the flow of travelers to the town of Jericho.Western and Palestinian officials said Israel had pledged in the past to remove West Bank barriers but failed to do so.Meanwhile, many Palestinians have turned to the import trade, traveling to China to buy cheap goods to sell at home.Increasingly, and amid doubts peace talks with Israel will yield a deal for an independent Palestinian state soon, they are opting to stay.

Economic conditions in Palestine are very bad, said Hazem Shyoukhi, a gift merchant from Hebron who moved to the eastern Chinese city of Yiwu in 2006 to start an export business.There (in Hebron) we conducted our business based on news reports, he told Reuters by phone from Yiwu. I had to listen to the newscast to check if there was a closure ... I worked under pressure merely to survive, so I decided to leave.

MADE IN CHINA

China, which since the end of the Cold War has turned to the Middle East for half of its oil imports, is not just linked to the region by trade. Beijing has sought a bigger political role in the Middle East and has appointed an envoy to the Arab-Israeli peace process.
Palestinian diplomat Ahmad Kayed, who lives in Beijing, said in the past 10 years, more than 200 Palestinian businessmen had settled in China, but thousands of other Palestinian and Arab businessmen were frequent travelers to Chinese cities for trade.Arabic restaurants, mosques and schools have opened throughout the vast country, he said.Palestinian imports of Chinese goods are (worth) more than $2 billion through direct trade by Palestinian businessmen or through Israel, said Kayed, head of Palestinian-Chinese trade relations at the Palestinian embassy in Beijing.Competition from cheaper Chinese goods has all but destroyed the manufacturing industry in the Palestinian territories, where the Made in China label is a common sight in shops.

The popular Crocs leisure shoes, made by U.S.-based Crocs Inc, sell for 280 shekels ($78) in Israel but in Hebron, the copycat Chinese-made version goes for just 13 shekels ($3.6). For five decades, Yasser Hirbawi was the only Palestinian manufacturer of the national black-and-white keffiyeh headdress, the symbol of Palestinian nationalism worn most famously by the late leader Yasser Arafat. Now, he wipes dust and cobwebs from an old weaving machine in his small, dark textile factory in Hebron. Two years ago I had to close down my factory because I couldn't compete with Chinese-made Hattas (keffiyehs) that sell for 40 percent less, said the 76-year-old, who himself wore a keffiyeh. Hebron mayor Oseily said competition from Chinese goods coupled with Israeli restrictions had forced about 200 shoe factories to close in the city, putting 17,000 out of work. He said more than 40 percent of people in the Hebron area were unemployed and called the 250 Israeli army roadblocks there a huge impediment to business.

WORK ETHIC

Thousands of miles away in Yiwu, a city of 2 million people in China's eastern Zhejiang province, 30-year-old Shyoukhi had a happier tale. Palestinian businessmen import everything from China. I even get orders to send Chinese-made Palestinian flags and the Palestinian keffiyehs, said Shyoukhi, whose export office does business with thousands of Palestinian and Israeli merchants. Yiwu has become a buzzing trading spot thanks to the influx of Middle Eastern money. It is now a hub for selling made-in-China Arabic products, like fashion clothing and religious artifacts. Every Friday, buyers from Lebanon, traders from Yemen and businessmen from Egypt, gather for their weekly prayers. At wholesale markets in the city, makeshift stalls are stacked with everything from toothbrushes to belts. Businessmen in Hebron have their business cards printed in English and Chinese, and many have even adopted Chinese names. Professor Wilfried Vanhonacker, who taught a course Doing Business in China at the Kellog-Recanati School of Business in Tel Aviv in February, said Hebronites needed to adapt to globalization or see their businesses die. Production has moved to China and it will be moving next to Vietnam. There are 1.3 billion people in China with an incredible work ethic ... This will continue, said Vanhonacker, dean of the Moscow School of Business Skolkovo and author of several books on China. In Hebron, Shehadeh Sammouh, once a small-time merchant, now owns a large store selling Chinese shoes, clothes, toys and household goods. He sells Chinese shoes for 70 percent less than a Hebron-made shoe. Customers demand the goods made in China because they look better and are cheaper, Sammouh said. (Additional reporting by Royston Chan in Yiwu; Editing by Clar Ni Chonghaile)

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

UN COMPLAIN COMPLAIN

SECOND ANGEL: TO DR DOCTORIAN

Then I saw that the second angel had a sickle in his hand, such as is used in harvesting. The second angel said, Harvest time has come in Israel and the countries all the way to Iran. I saw those countries in a few split seconds. All of Turkey and those
[inaudible;] countries that have refused me and refused my message of love shall hate each other and kill one another. I saw
the angel raise the sickle and come down on all the Middle East countries.I saw Iran, Persia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, all of Georgia - Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, all of Asia Minor - full of blood. I saw blood all over these countries. And I saw fire; Nuclear weapons used in many of those countries. Smoke rising from
everywhere. Sudden destruction - men destroying one another.

I heard these words, Israel, Oh Israel, the great judgment has come. The angel said, The chosen, the church, the remnant,
shall be purified. The Spirit of God shall prepare the children of God. I saw fires rising to heaven. The angel said, This is the
final judgment. My church shall be purified, protected and ready for the final day. Men will die from thirst. Water shall be
scarce all over the Middle East. Rivers shall dry up, and men will fight for water in those countries. The angel showed me that the United Nations shall be broken in pieces because of the crisis in the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.

WE GOT TO GET RID OF THIS GODLESS UN, ALWAYS AGAINST ISRAEL...REDICULAS.

UN agency lashes out at Israel over Gaza health by Patrick Moser APR 01,08

JERUSALEM (AFP) - The World Health Organization lashed out at Israel on Tuesday for denying or delaying travel permits for critically ill Gaza Strip residents, saying the right to health appeared to be optional for Palestinians. Ambrogio Manenti, who heads the WHO's West Bank and Gaza office, said case studies of patients who died while waiting for permits to travel to Israel for treatment show nonsense, inhumanity and, at the end, tragedy.The right to health appears to be optional for Palestinians, he added.

The UN agency cited the case of Amir al-Yazji, nine, who died of meningeal encephalitis at a hospital in Gaza in November after his family faced one hurdle after another to get a travel permit only to have authorities deny the documents to the ambulance team at the last minute.Tertiary health care is virtually unavailable in the Palestinian territories and a strict permit system limits patients' access to hospitals in Israel, the report said.But Israel says it issued more than 7,200 permits last year for patients to travel out of Gaza for medical reasons, and insists it gives high priority to patients who need treatment.The cases highlighted by the WHO study show critically ill patients and their families going through an often nightmarish process to obtain the permits, which in some cases are denied for security reasons.The situation is particularly acute in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, where Israel has imposed a crippling blockade since June, in what the Jewish state says is an attempt to halt rocket fire from the territory.The blockade has led to a sharp deterioration in access to health services and medicine, in what amounts to collective punishment of the weakest, the WHO report said.

Manenti said Amir is a case in point.

After the young boy was admitted to hospital on November 5, doctors ordered a computer-aided tomography as he did not respond to antibiotic treatment.But the CT scanner needed repairs, something that couldn't be done until November 10 due to a shortage of parts resulting from the closure of Gaza.After eventually finding a lesion on the anterior wall of the brain, doctors decided Amir needed specialist care in Israel.The boy's father obtained an urgent referral, but for days he could not get a permit for his son to go through the Erez crossing into Israel despite what he said were hundreds of phone calls.As Amir's condition deteriorated dramatically, authorisation eventually came through on November 18. But the doctor and two nurses who were to travel in the ambulance with the boy up to the crossing were denied access to Erez.

Five different teams ... were refused, the report said.

After one team finally got the green light, authorities gave the patient 15 minutes to get to Erez, but medical staff decided to wait until the next day since they needed one hour to ready the boy and the ambulance.At 7:45 am on November 19, Amir was dead. That, says Manenti, was one of several tragedies that could and should have been avoided.Between October 1 and March 2, 32 patients died in Gaza after the permits they requested were delayed or refused, the WHO said. The number of patients who were denied permits rose from just over three percent in January 2006 -- when the Islamist Hamas movement won Palestinian parliamentary elections -- to almost 36 percent in December 2007. From a health perspective this is something unacceptable. I think my organisation should stigmatise this behaviour, said Manenti. But Captain Shadi Yasin of the Israeli military liaison office for Gaza insisted the WHO report was completely wrong.Israel gives high priority for all urgently needed treatment in Israel and the West Bank for Gaza people and for the entry into Gaza of medicine and medical supplies, the spokesman said.

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;(FATHER OF THE ARABS-MUSLIMS) 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.

Anti-Islam film back on LiveLeak website Agence France-Presse First Posted 07:20:00 04/01/2008

THE HAGUE—The anti-Islamic film Fitna by far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders was back on Liveleak.com Monday three days after the British-based Internet site removed it following threats to staff.

In a statement dated Sunday and posted on the website, LiveLeak.com says it has been working on upgrading all security measures and offering better protection for staff and their families.With these measures in place we have decided to once more make this video live on our site. We will not be pressured into censoring material which is legal and within our rules, the website said.The film has already been seen by millions of viewers and is online in whole or in part on several other websites including YouTube.Liveleak was the first to release the film on Thursday. It has since provoked widespread condemnation, with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon calling it offensively anti-Islamic.Featuring shocking imagery of the attacks on New York in 2001 and Madrid in 2004 combined with quotes from the Koran, Islam's holy book, it has drawn outrage in some Muslim countries.Over the weekend there were protests in Indonesia and Pakistan and calls for a boycott of Dutch products in Jordan and Malaysia.

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.

Abbas in Saudi for talks on Mideast peace APR 01,08

RIYADH (AFP) - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas arrived in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for talks with King Abdullah on Middle East peace efforts and the recent Arab summit, the Palestinian ambassador in Riyadh said. The two will discuss Palestinian developments, chiefly the results of the meetings with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, as well as the outcome of the Arab summit held in Damascus on Saturday and Sunday, Jamal Shobaki told AFP.Abbas, a frequent visitor to Saudi Arabia, met with Rice in Jordan on Sunday and Monday, after which he announced he would resume talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert suspended seven weeks ago in protest at a deadly Israeli blitz on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.