And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either
through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and
only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this
land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
By David Lev First Publish: 1/24/2013, 2:05 PM-Israelnationalnews
By David Lev First Publish: 1/24/2013, 11:32 AM-Israelnationalnews
According to the near final results of the votes of soldiers,
diplomats, and prisoners that were being tallied Thursday morning,
Jewish Home will be awarded a
12th Knesset seat, making it the fourth largest faction in the Israeli
parliament. The seat will come at the expense of Arab party Ra'am-Ta'al,
which goes down to four seats.With the twelfth seat, Bayit Yehudi, the
representative party of the National Religious sector, matches the
sector's historic record number of Knesset seats, achieved in 1977, when the National Religious Party received 12 Knesset seats.
At that time, there was no Shas party, which was one of the main
reasons for the party's going down in the following elections, so that
the return to 12 seats is really a significant upward shift..
By Chana Ya'ar First Publish: 1/24/2013, 10:46 AM-Israelnationalnews
Several records were broken in this year's national elections, among
them the number of complete newcomers to the Knesset -- 50 -- and the
rise in religiously-observant lawmakers, and women.
Among the 53 new lawmakers joining the 19th Knesset this year, nearly a third – 38 -- are observant members, a jump from 28 religious MKs in the prior session.In addition, 26 women have joined Israel’s new parliament, another record-setting increase from 21 in the 18th Knesset.Women will now comprise 23 percent of the 19th Knesset – a statistic that outstrips the United States, where only 18 percent of the nation’s Congress are women, despite the record-setting membership of 98 female lawmakers on Capitol Hill.Veteran MK Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) is also a religiously observant Jew, and will undoubtedly find herself quite busy in helping to acquaint her peers with the "unspoken codes" she learned in her own first term in office.It is important to realize, however, that four parties – Likud (without Yisrael Beytenu), Labor, Bayit Yehudi and Meretz actually set quotas and set aside specific slots for female representation on their lists.Both hareidi-religious Jewish parties – United Torah Judaism and Shas – did not allow women to run on their lists at all.There were also no realistic places on the lists for women on the Jewish-Arab Hadash and Israeli Arab UAL-Ta’al lists.A sampling of the new faces includes:Ayelet Shaked, (Bayit Yehudi) former bureau manager for then-opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu (Likud) and chairwoman and founding member of the My Israel Movement together with Bayit Yehudi chairman Naftali Bennett.Yael German, former Mayor of Herzliya,Penina Tamnu-Shata, (Yesh Atid), attorney, first female MK of Ethiopian origin,Yifat Kariv (Yesh Atid), City Councilmember, Hod HaSharon
"EQUAL BURDEN"
Lulled by pre-election opinion polls, Netanyahu may have assumed he could coast back to power at the head of a right-wing coalition enthused by his mission to halt Iran's nuclear drive and eager to settle more Jews in the occupied West Bank.But his Likud party and Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu lost 11 of the seats they had won at the last election in 2009, punished by voters more preoccupied with problems of daily life.
Lieberman said he and Netanyahu shared with Lapid and Naftali Bennett, leader of a new far-right party, the goals of "equal burden, living costs and affordable housing".But Lieberman told Army Radio reaching a similar consensus on foreign policy might prove elusive. "We can start with diplomacy, but that will impair the government's functioning," he said. "This government must focus on domestic issues."In its first reaction to the election, the United States, Israel's chief ally, renewed a call for resuming stalled peace talks with the Palestinians, but huge obstacles remain, even if the next Israeli government gains a more moderate flavor.
Yasser Abed Rabbo, a member of the PLO executive committee, said Palestinian leaders were watching for change after a vote that had given Israel a "new and different opportunity".He told reporters any renewed talks must be based on creating a Palestinian state on the pre-1967 war lines."We are not ready to be part of the process of more political theatre or to give cover for government policy which represents the same policies as the last one, while settlements continue and we experience daily killing and repression."
U.S.-brokered peace talks broke down in 2010 amid mutual acrimony. Since then Israel has accelerated construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem - land the Palestinians want for their future state - much to the anger of Western partners.
RAZOR-THIN
Complicating Netanyahu's quest for a workable coalition is the difficulty of reconciling the demands of a dozen factions in parliament, where those on the right hold a razor-thin edge.Lapid, a former TV anchorman who only founded his Yesh Atid (There is a Future) party a year ago, seeks to end exemptions from military service for Israel's 10 percent minority of ultra-Orthodox Jews who also receive generous state benefits.
Those privileges were extracted from successive governments by religious parties such as Shas and the United Torah Party in exchange for their backing. The two parties have a combined total of 18 seats in parliament, and Netanyahu is likely to want to include at least one of them for a broad-based coalition.
He may also turn to the hardline Jewish Home group led by his former protege Bennett, a millionaire software entrepreneur, which won a projected 12 seats."Jewish Home can certainly be one of the desired partners in the new coalition," Likud lawmaker Zeev Elkin told Israel Radio.However, Bennett has denounced the idea of Palestinian statehood and advocates annexing swathes of the West Bank, putting him at odds with Lapid, who wants "divorce" talks with the Palestinians to end the decades-old Middle East conflict.The Labour party, which came third with 15 seats after putting economic and social issues at the forefront of its campaign, not the Middle East peacemaking it once championed, has vowed not to join any Netanyahu-led coalition.Once official results are announced on January 30, President Shimon Peres will ask someone, almost certainly Netanyahu, to try to form a government, a process that may take several weeks.
(Reporting by Jerusalem bureau; Editing by Peter Graff)
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
Likud Activist: Judea and Samaria Still Supports Likud
A
Likud activist in Judea and Samaria on Thursday rejected claims that
there had been a drop in support for the party in the region
Likud members-Flash 90
A Likud activist who works on behalf of the party in Judea and
Samaria on Thursday rejected claims that there had been a drop in
support for the party in the region – and in fact, the situation was
just the opposite, with levels of support rising for the party in Judea
and Samaria.Rabbi Yehuda Glick said that in 90% of localities in Judea and Samaria, there were more votes cast
for the Likud than there were Likud party members. There had been
concern among some Likud activists in Judea and Samaria that many Likud
members who had joined as part of the Manhigut Yehudit movement to vote
in the Likud primaries would vote for Jewish Home or Otzma LeYisrael in the general election.
But according to Glick, in the vast majority of cities and towns all
Likud members voted for the party, with many others joining them.As far
as the small minority of towns where Likud membership exceeded the
number of votes for the party in the general election,
Glick said that they were generally very small towns where many of the
Likud members were soldiers who were on active duty, and had voted on
their bases or at other polling stations.Glick, himself a member of the
Likud,
attributed the perceived “crisis” in relations between residents of
Judea and Samaria and the party to actions
by the Likud itself. “For example, there was tension in Beit El, where
the Likud attacked the rabbinical leadership. Despite this, though, the
Likud got a healthy turnout there, proving that the relationship between
the party and residents of Judea and Samaria is sill healthy.”
12th Jewish Home Seat Smashes 'Equality' of Left and Right Blocs
According
to the near final results of the elections, Jewish Home will be awarded
a 12th Knesset seat, making it the 4th largest party
Shuly Muallem-Ro'i Edot
With the extra seat, the traditional “right-left” balance now falls on the side of the traditional right parties. Altogether, the Likud, Jewish Home, Shas, and United Torah Jewry have 61 Knesset seats
between them. In recent days, media pundits had been promoting the idea
that there was a 60-60 deadlock between left and right, but that
included the Arab parties, who have never been in a coalition and are 11
of the so-called "left-bloc" seats.The illusion of a deadlock was broken
Wednesday night, when Yair Lapid stated categorically that he did not
consider himself a member of the “left bloc,” and that he would not join
a bloc along with Arab MK Hanin Zoabi – who participated in the 2010
flotilla in which Hamas-allied terrorists attacked IDF soldiers - and
would not stand in the way of a government to be formed by Binyamin
Netanyahu, as Tsippi Livni and Shelly Yechimovich of Labor had pledged
to do.The twelfth Jewish Home MK is Shuly
Muallem, a resident of Gush Etzion and the widow of IDF officer Moshe
Muallem, who was killed in a tragic IDF helicopter accident in 1997.
Muallem is the deputy chairperson of the IDF Widows and Orphans
Organization. Speaking to Arutz Sheva
Thursday, Muallem said that “it was the votes of the soldiers that got
me into the Knesset. As a widow of an IDF officer, I pledge to continue
my activities on behalf of soldiers, and ensure that all Israeli share in the burden of serving and defending the country.”
19th Knesset Record-Breaker for Women, Religious MKs
Israel’s
new parliament will see more female Knesset members time around than
previously -- another record-breaker for this election.
Ayelet Shaked-Moti Kikayon
Among the 53 new lawmakers joining the 19th Knesset this year, nearly a third – 38 -- are observant members, a jump from 28 religious MKs in the prior session.In addition, 26 women have joined Israel’s new parliament, another record-setting increase from 21 in the 18th Knesset.Women will now comprise 23 percent of the 19th Knesset – a statistic that outstrips the United States, where only 18 percent of the nation’s Congress are women, despite the record-setting membership of 98 female lawmakers on Capitol Hill.Veteran MK Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) is also a religiously observant Jew, and will undoubtedly find herself quite busy in helping to acquaint her peers with the "unspoken codes" she learned in her own first term in office.It is important to realize, however, that four parties – Likud (without Yisrael Beytenu), Labor, Bayit Yehudi and Meretz actually set quotas and set aside specific slots for female representation on their lists.Both hareidi-religious Jewish parties – United Torah Judaism and Shas – did not allow women to run on their lists at all.There were also no realistic places on the lists for women on the Jewish-Arab Hadash and Israeli Arab UAL-Ta’al lists.A sampling of the new faces includes:Ayelet Shaked, (Bayit Yehudi) former bureau manager for then-opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu (Likud) and chairwoman and founding member of the My Israel Movement together with Bayit Yehudi chairman Naftali Bennett.Yael German, former Mayor of Herzliya,Penina Tamnu-Shata, (Yesh Atid), attorney, first female MK of Ethiopian origin,Yifat Kariv (Yesh Atid), City Councilmember, Hod HaSharon
Karin Elharar, attorney Ruth Calderon, Jewish educator,Orit Strook, (Bayit Yehudi), chairwoman, Yesha Human Rights Organization,Michal Rozin, former CEO of the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel.
Israeli voters force Netanyahu to seek centrist partner
By Alistair Lyon | Reuters – 1 hr 25 mins ago JAN 24,13
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's next government must heed voters and devote itself to bread-and-butter issues, not thorny foreign policy
problems such as Iran's nuclear plans and the Palestinian conflict,
senior politicians said on Thursday.Israelis worried about housing,
prices and taxes have reshaped parliament, forcing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to woo their centrist champion as his main coalition partner.
Final results from the January 22 national election
were due later on Thursday, but were not expected to differ
significantly from published projections.Defense Minister Ehud Barak
told CNN that voters had imposed new constraints on the next government."It will be much more balanced, probably limited,
cannot do whatever it wants and will have to take into account the
growing pressure from within to focus on many internal issues," he said.Yair Lapid, the surprise success of Tuesday's ballot, stormed to second place with 19 seats in the 120-member assembly against 31 for Netanyahu's alliance of his Likud party ultra-nationalists led by former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.Formal coalition talks have yet to begin, but Netanyahu swiftly adopted chunks of Lapid's
election platform as his own after the poll, keen to seal a deal that
would create a solid base of 50 seats before drawing in other partners
from the right or centre needed for a stable ruling majority.Lapid said
"color had returned to the cheeks" of Israelis following the vote,
adding that he was happy Netanyahu
had now embraced his party's themes of "equal sharing of the burden"
and helping the middle class, especially with housing and education."Equal sharing" is political code for meeting the
complaints of secular tax-payers about the concessions given to the
ultra-Orthodox, whose menfolk study in Jewish seminaries, often on state
stipends, and who are not drafted into the army."EQUAL BURDEN"
Lulled by pre-election opinion polls, Netanyahu may have assumed he could coast back to power at the head of a right-wing coalition enthused by his mission to halt Iran's nuclear drive and eager to settle more Jews in the occupied West Bank.But his Likud party and Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu lost 11 of the seats they had won at the last election in 2009, punished by voters more preoccupied with problems of daily life.
Lieberman said he and Netanyahu shared with Lapid and Naftali Bennett, leader of a new far-right party, the goals of "equal burden, living costs and affordable housing".But Lieberman told Army Radio reaching a similar consensus on foreign policy might prove elusive. "We can start with diplomacy, but that will impair the government's functioning," he said. "This government must focus on domestic issues."In its first reaction to the election, the United States, Israel's chief ally, renewed a call for resuming stalled peace talks with the Palestinians, but huge obstacles remain, even if the next Israeli government gains a more moderate flavor.
Yasser Abed Rabbo, a member of the PLO executive committee, said Palestinian leaders were watching for change after a vote that had given Israel a "new and different opportunity".He told reporters any renewed talks must be based on creating a Palestinian state on the pre-1967 war lines."We are not ready to be part of the process of more political theatre or to give cover for government policy which represents the same policies as the last one, while settlements continue and we experience daily killing and repression."
U.S.-brokered peace talks broke down in 2010 amid mutual acrimony. Since then Israel has accelerated construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem - land the Palestinians want for their future state - much to the anger of Western partners.
RAZOR-THIN
Complicating Netanyahu's quest for a workable coalition is the difficulty of reconciling the demands of a dozen factions in parliament, where those on the right hold a razor-thin edge.Lapid, a former TV anchorman who only founded his Yesh Atid (There is a Future) party a year ago, seeks to end exemptions from military service for Israel's 10 percent minority of ultra-Orthodox Jews who also receive generous state benefits.
Those privileges were extracted from successive governments by religious parties such as Shas and the United Torah Party in exchange for their backing. The two parties have a combined total of 18 seats in parliament, and Netanyahu is likely to want to include at least one of them for a broad-based coalition.
He may also turn to the hardline Jewish Home group led by his former protege Bennett, a millionaire software entrepreneur, which won a projected 12 seats."Jewish Home can certainly be one of the desired partners in the new coalition," Likud lawmaker Zeev Elkin told Israel Radio.However, Bennett has denounced the idea of Palestinian statehood and advocates annexing swathes of the West Bank, putting him at odds with Lapid, who wants "divorce" talks with the Palestinians to end the decades-old Middle East conflict.The Labour party, which came third with 15 seats after putting economic and social issues at the forefront of its campaign, not the Middle East peacemaking it once championed, has vowed not to join any Netanyahu-led coalition.Once official results are announced on January 30, President Shimon Peres will ask someone, almost certainly Netanyahu, to try to form a government, a process that may take several weeks.
(Reporting by Jerusalem bureau; Editing by Peter Graff)
Pope on social networking: the virtual is real
By | Associated Press – 51 mins ago JAN 24,13
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI put church leaders on notice Thursday, saying social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter aren't a virtual world
they can ignore, but rather a very real world they must engage if they
want to spread the faith to the next generation.The 85-year-old
Benedict, who tweets in nine languages, used his annual message on social communications
to stress the potential of social media for the church as it struggles
to keep followers and attract new ones amid religious apathy,
competition from other churches and scandals that have driven the
faithful away.Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli,
head of the Vatican's communications office, cited a 2012 study
commissioned by U.S. bishops that found that 53 percent of Americans
were unaware of any significant presence of the Catholic Church online.
Other studies, Celli said, made clear that the "millennial generation" of people born after 1982 use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube far more than their parents as primary sources of information, entertainment and sharing political views and community issues."The digital environment is not a parallel or purely virtual world, but is part of the daily experience of many people, especially the young," Benedict said in his message. "Social networks are the result of human interaction, but for their part they also reshape the dynamics of communication which builds relationships: a considered understanding of this environment is therefore the prerequisite for a significant presence there."Benedict himself still writes longhand, but he is a superstar online, with 2.5 million Twitter followers, nearly 11,000 of them following his Latin tweets alone. And under his pontificate, the Holy See has greatly increased its presence online, with YouTube channels, papal apps and an online news portal www.news.va that gathers all Vatican information in one place.But the digital exposure hasn't come without risk or criticism: In the days after the Vatican announced that Benedict would respond to questions about faith on his first tweets from his (at)Pontifex handle last month, the Vatican was bombarded with threats of "Twitter bombs" from critics trying to scare the pope away from the online social forum."Leaving would've been a mistake," said Monsignor Paul Tighe, the No. 2 in the Vatican's social communications office. "It wouldn't have been fair to abandon all the people who joyfully welcomed the pope's message."Celli acknowledged that much of the pope's message this year repeated exhortations from previous years about the need for respectful dialogue online, for users to present themselves authentically and to listen, not just preach."At first look it could look like reheated soup," Celli conceded. But he said that sometimes messages need repeating, particularly in the 2,000-year-old Catholic Church. "I don't want to make any particular revelations here, but don't believe that everything that is said is absorbed at the ecclesial level."Celli noted, for example, that at a recent Vatican meeting of the world's bishops on spreading the faith, the recommendations for the church's social communications strategy "could have been written 30 years ago.""That means that he who is intervening doesn't have the perception of what is happening today, in the sphere of social networking," Celli said. "That's a problem for us."___Follow Nicole Winfield at www.twitter.com/nwinfield
Other studies, Celli said, made clear that the "millennial generation" of people born after 1982 use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube far more than their parents as primary sources of information, entertainment and sharing political views and community issues."The digital environment is not a parallel or purely virtual world, but is part of the daily experience of many people, especially the young," Benedict said in his message. "Social networks are the result of human interaction, but for their part they also reshape the dynamics of communication which builds relationships: a considered understanding of this environment is therefore the prerequisite for a significant presence there."Benedict himself still writes longhand, but he is a superstar online, with 2.5 million Twitter followers, nearly 11,000 of them following his Latin tweets alone. And under his pontificate, the Holy See has greatly increased its presence online, with YouTube channels, papal apps and an online news portal www.news.va that gathers all Vatican information in one place.But the digital exposure hasn't come without risk or criticism: In the days after the Vatican announced that Benedict would respond to questions about faith on his first tweets from his (at)Pontifex handle last month, the Vatican was bombarded with threats of "Twitter bombs" from critics trying to scare the pope away from the online social forum."Leaving would've been a mistake," said Monsignor Paul Tighe, the No. 2 in the Vatican's social communications office. "It wouldn't have been fair to abandon all the people who joyfully welcomed the pope's message."Celli acknowledged that much of the pope's message this year repeated exhortations from previous years about the need for respectful dialogue online, for users to present themselves authentically and to listen, not just preach."At first look it could look like reheated soup," Celli conceded. But he said that sometimes messages need repeating, particularly in the 2,000-year-old Catholic Church. "I don't want to make any particular revelations here, but don't believe that everything that is said is absorbed at the ecclesial level."Celli noted, for example, that at a recent Vatican meeting of the world's bishops on spreading the faith, the recommendations for the church's social communications strategy "could have been written 30 years ago.""That means that he who is intervening doesn't have the perception of what is happening today, in the sphere of social networking," Celli said. "That's a problem for us."___Follow Nicole Winfield at www.twitter.com/nwinfield
