STAR OF DAVID BANNED FROM THE TEMPLE MOUNT

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

LUKE 1:31-32
32  He (JESUS) shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:(IN JERUSALEM)
33  And he shall reign over the house of Jacob (ISRAEL) for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.(THATS RULING FOREVER FROM JERUSALEM JESUS DOES)

ISAIAH 9:6-7
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:(JESUS 1ST COMING) and the government shall be upon his shoulder:(JESUS 2ND COMING AS RULING KING FROM JERUSALEM FOREVER AT THE END OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION) and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his (JESUS) government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David,( IN JERUSALEM) and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

THEY HATE THE STAR OF DAVID.SO LETS GIVE THEM 3.REPRESENTING THE TRINITY.THE FATHER,JESUS THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT.ONE GOD (3 OFFICES)

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Star of David Not Allowed on Temple Mount

Cops forced a Magen David Adom volunteer to remove his jacket with the organization’s emblem before entering the Temple Mount.-By Elad Benari-First Publish: 10/7/2013, 4:12 AM-Israelnationalnews

Temple Mount-Flash 90

A volunteer with the Magen David Adom first aid service was forced on Sunday to remove his jacket with the organization’s emblem before he was allowed to enter the Temple Mount. The emblem of Magen David Adom is a red Star of David.The volunteer, Yonatan Tal, recalled the incident in a conversation with Arutz Sheva."I went up to the Temple Mount as I usually do. The weather was cooler so I put on my jacket [with the Magen David Adom emblem],” said Tal, who pointed out that the compound had been packed with tourists. As his turn came to enter, recalled Tal, he was called aside by a police officer who ordered him to remove his jacket. When Tal asked why he had to remove his jacket in order to enter the Temple Mount, the officer argued that this was the procedure.Tal, who refused to accept this answer, demanded to know if there is a prohibition to ascend the Temple Mount while wearing a jacket. "He (the officer) tried to avoid answering the question, but in the end he had to admit that he was ordering me to take off the jacket because of the red Star of David that is sewn on it.”Tal noted that the order was puzzling, particularly because of the steps that had been taken by Magen David Adom to join the Red Cross and thereby receive international recognition. Furthermore, he noted, as a Magen David Adom volunteer who resides in the Judea and Samaria community of Beit Hagai, he often cooperates with the Red Crescent, yet is denied entry to the Temple Mount because he wears a jacket with Israel’s national symbol.Following the conversation with the officer, Tal told Arutz Sheva, he was forced to remove his jacket and only got it back when he left the compound. He called on Israelis to pressure the government to allow Jewish worship on the Temple Mount.

“If every one of us will devote one morning once a month and take the time to visit the Temple Mount, it will certainly change the situation and bring about a normal reality whereby Jews control the Temple Mount,” he said.Tal’s experience on the Temple Mount is another example of Israeli police capitulating to the demands of the Waqf, which was left in charge of the Temple Mount after Israel liberated it during the 1967 Six Day War.Police, in an attempt to appease the Waqf, limit the number of Jewish worshippers allowed on the Temple Mount at one time in order to prevent conflict with Muslim worshippers.Police often close the Mount to Jews in response to Muslim riots – despite evidence that Muslim riots have been planned in advance for the specific purpose of forcing Jews out. Prominent Israeli MKs, such as Moshe Feiglin and Zeev Elkin, have been forced to leave the Temple Mount due to fears of Muslim riots.The Waqf, meanwhile, has removed every sign of ancient Jewish presence at the site and consistently destroys Jewish antiquities on the compound in a direct violation of a ruling by the Supreme Court.

LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).

THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) 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 ANIMAL 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.

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

ISAIAH 33:8
8  The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

Labor MK: Likud should support its own PM on peace

Knesset peace caucus heads to Ramallah Monday for meeting with Abbas amid rising violence in West Bank

By Haviv Rettig Gur October 6, 2013, 6:00 pm 4-The Times of Israel

A group of 15 MKs from Labor, Shas and Hatnua will travel to Ramallah on Monday in an effort to boost support for ongoing peace talks, even as more hawkish MKs called those talks into question amid growing violence in the West Bank.The Ramallah-bound MKs are members of the Knesset Caucus to Resolve the Arab-Israeli Conflict, whose previous meeting in the Knesset in late July, together with Palestinian Authority representatives, marked the first time the Palestinian flag was raised in Israel’s parliament.“Our message to Abu Mazen [PA President Mahmoud Abbas] will be that there is a real opportunity here, that the Israeli side is ready and able to deliver peace,” caucus chair MK Hilik Bar (Labor) told The Times of Israel on Sunday. “We have a government that has promised to pursue the two-state solution and a majority in the Knesset for two states, despite the rhetoric on the right. We want to show Abu Mazen that we’ll do everything in our power to advance peace, and the Palestinian Authority has to do the same.”The visit was met with criticism Sunday in the wake of an alleged terror attack Saturday night in which a nine-year-old girl in Psagot was wounded over the weekend. That shooting was the latest in a series of violent incidents perpetrated by Palestinian assailants that included the killing of two IDF soldiers last month and violent demonstrations and rock-throwing incidents in East Jerusalem and several West Bank hot spots.At Sunday’s cabinet meeting, Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) called on Bar to cancel the Ramallah visit “in light of recent events.”Many officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, several Jewish Home MKs and Deputy Foreign Minister Ze’ev Elkin, pointed the finger at PA incitement and praise for terrorists as a cause underlying the spate of attacks.Bar said the visit would go ahead as scheduled. “Every single round of negotiations throughout this peace process, every attempt to bring peace, brought out terrorists and inciters and extremists who do their best to harm negotiations and peace. These people thrive on the conflict and survive through its continuation. That’s why the leaders have to be responsible and mature and try to overcome these setbacks and do everything to end this bloody conflict.”Added Bar: “We’re not achieving anything when we stop the negotiations because of these horrific, evil attacks. There have been attacks on Jews for decades. Only a final peace agreement that ends the conflict will end the attacks.”He said the delegation of MKs would challenge Abbas on the issue.Thirty-three MKs, or one-quarter of the Knesset, attended the July event, including many members from coalition parties.With the exception of Hatnua, no coalition MKs are joining Monday’s trip. Bar lamented that absence, especially the lack of Likud MKs.

“At the very least, I’d expect to see MKs from the Likud, the party of the prime minister who is leading the negotiations and has committed himself to two states,” he said. “I’m going to Ramallah as an opposition MK to strengthen the hand of our prime minister. Bibi [Netanyahu] once said in the Knesset, ‘Give peace a chance.’ I think that spirit should be reflected in the Likud, to show Israel is ready for peace. Even if these negotiations fail, it shouldn’t be because of Israel.”

PM gets angry with the Palestinians — in tone, not policy

To the satisfaction of the Israeli right, Netanyahu’s Bar-Ilan 2 speech sounded nasty, but there was no substantive change beneath the bitter rhetoric

By Raphael Ahren October 7, 2013, 1:20 am 9-The Times of Israel

When Dani Dayan, the international spokesman of the settler movement, really likes a speech by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, you know that something curious is going on. Dayan is hell-bent on preventing a Palestinian state while Netanyahu says he’s fully committed to a two-state solution. But moments after Netanyahu concluded a major foreign policy address Sunday evening, Dayan tweeted: “Probably the best speech by Netanyahu as PM.”Netanyahu’s unusually fiery speech, packed with history lessons that incriminated Palestinian leaders past and present, signaled a significant shift to the right. Hence Dayan’s delight. But it would be a mistake to understand the pugnacious rhetoric as a significant departure from his declared policies, as some analysts are doing.The prime minister was still at the podium — he opened a conference at Bar-Ilan University’s Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies — when the first pundits weighed in, saying that Netanyahu’s Sunday speech “wipes out” his original Bar-Ilan address. In June 2009, from the same podium, Netanyahu had for the first time accepted in principle a Palestinian state. “He more or less walked back the first Bar-Ilan speech tonight,” Haaretz diplomatic correspondent Barak Ravid opined.

There is a lot one can read into “Bar-Ilan 2,” but a fundamental shift in policy it was not.In “Bar Ilan 1,” after all, Netanyahu had already cited the recognition of Israel’s Jewish roots as one of the core conditions for his approval of a Palestinian state. “Even the moderates among the Palestinians are not ready to say the simplest things: The State of Israel is the national homeland of the Jewish People and will remain so,” he said four years ago. “The fundamental condition for ending the conflict is the public, binding and sincere Palestinian recognition of Israel as the national homeland of the Jewish People.”True, since June 14, 2009, Netanyahu has sometimes placed more stress on the security aspects of a future agreement with the Palestinians, but he never abandoned or even softened his demand for recognition of Jewish Israel. In his speech last Tuesday at the United Nations, the prime minister said very little about the Palestinian conflict, but that little included a passage in which he slammed the Palestinian leadership for being unwilling to “to offer the painful concessions they must make in order to end the conflict. For peace to be achieved, the Palestinians must finally recognize the Jewish state, and Israel’s security needs must be met.”In Bar-Ilan 2, Netanyahu focused on history, positing that the Jewish-Arab conflict began not in 1967 with the Six-Day War capture of the territories, but in 1921, when Palestinians attacked Jewish immigrants in Jaffa. He went even further back, talking at length about how the mufti of Jerusalem cooperated with the Nazis in the 1940s. He even made a not-so-subtle suggestion that the mufti was partially responsible for the extermination of European Jewry.And today, “the Palestinians must abandon their refusal to recognize the right of the Jewish people to have their national state,” Netanyahu said firmly, reiterating this demand several times, firmly placing it at the heart of the current peace negotiations.Yes, it has been a while since we heard Netanyahu come out so aggressively against the Palestinians. Last week at the White House, with President Barack Obama at his side, he merely said that “for peace to endure, it must be based on Israel’s capacity to defend itself, by itself,” without mentioning recognition. (Obama supports the requirement; “Palestinians must recognize that Israel will be a Jewish state,” the visiting president said in March in Jerusalem.) But Netanyahu’s speech Sunday did not mean to lay out new policies, neither toward the Ramallah nor toward Tehran. His demand of the Iranians — an end to all enrichment activity — repeated a position he has stated dozens of times, including at the UN last week, and again Sunday morning before the weekly cabinet meeting.Why the sudden belligerence? Several reasons. First of all, Netanyahu just returned from a busy week in the States. The anti-Iran rhetoric at the UN and the subsequent interview marathon were the easy part, but little attention has been paid to what he and Obama discussed concerning the Palestinian issue. (Obama recently announced that Washington’s foreign policy efforts will primarily “focus on two particular issues: Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.”) In his public remarks, the president said Monday that both Israelis and Palestinians have been engaging in “serious conversations,” yet warned that “we have a limited amount of time to achieve” a peace agreement. While officials in the Prime Minister’s Office say the meeting with Obama focused on the Iranian threat, well-informed sources have it that the president devoted at least half the time to the Palestinian issue, pressuring the Israeli leader to speed things up.The peace talks aren’t going well, and Obama — who had met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas just before seeing Netanyahu — reportedly told the prime minister to get with the program and start negotiating in earnest. The Palestinians complain about the slow pace of meetings and Israel’s refusal to make concrete proposals on a future map. Evidently the prime minister felt compelled to strike back Sunday night: It’s not Israel’s fault the talks are stuttering; it’s that Palestinian refusal to recognize the Jewish people’s right to be sovereign in their ancient homeland.Secondly, Netanyahu’s confrontational tone also needs to be seen in a local context: terror attacks are on the rise, and he is feeling the heat from his right flank. Earlier on Sunday, the prime minister condemned the “heinous attack” on a nine-year-old girl in the West Bank settlement of Psagot. “We discern an increase in terrorist attacks recently, and I must say that as long as the incitement continues in the official Palestinian media, the Palestinian Authority cannot avoid responsibility for these events,” he said.In light of this and the killings of two soldiers two weeks ago, several right-wing members of Netanyahu’s coalition, including from his Likud party, have demanded he halt the peace talks. At the very least, they’ve urged him to halt the phased release of Palestinian security prisoners that form part and parcel of the ongoing rounds of talks. Netanyahu knows he can’t do either of those things — not with Obama pushing for an accord within nine months. What he can do, however, is pander to the right with a speech blaming the Palestinians for most of what’s wrong. And that’s precisely what he did.

Netanyahu blames Mideast conflict on refusal to recognize Jewish state

In address at Bar-Ilan University, PM says lasting peace only possible if Palestinian leadership acknowledges Jewish sovereignty

By Times of Israel staff October 6, 2013, 9:56 pm 8-The Times of Israel

In a marked change in emphasis from a speech at the same podium four years ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday voiced doubt over the possibility of a two-state solution, citing the Palestinian leadership’s refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state.Speaking at the 20th anniversary ceremony of Bar-Ilan University’s Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, the prime minister placed blame for the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Ramallah’s refusal to come to terms with Israel as a Jewish state.

“The Palestinians must abandon their refusal to recognize the right of the Jewish people to have their national state,” he said.Netanyahu dismissed claims that Israel’s presence in the West Bank stood at the heart of the conflict, stating instead that as long as the Palestinians don’t internalize the Jewish state’s right to exist, there will not be peace.“In order for the process in which we find ourselves to be significant… in order for it to have a real chance of success,” he said, referring to the current rounds of negotiations begun this summer, “it’s necessary to hear the Palestinian leadership finally say that it recognizes the right of the Jewish people to a state of its own, which is the state of Israel.”“I hope that it shall be so, so that we can advance a real solution to the conflict,” continued Netanyahu.The prime minister stated that the conflict between the Jews and Arabs began not in 1967, when Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem in the Six Day War, but in 1921, when Palestinian Arabs attacked a building in Jaffa that housed Jewish immigrants.

He also called for Palestinians to give up on their demand for Palestinian refugees and their descendants to return to areas now inside Israel. ”The Palestinians must abandon their [demand for a] right of return,” he said.And he said any agreement would need to address Israel’s security needs. “After generations of incitement, we have no confidence that recognition [of Israel] will trickle down to the Palestinian people. Therefore, we need very strong security arrangements, and to go forward without blindness.”In 2009, also speaking at Bar-Ilan University, Netanyahu said that “if we get a guarantee of demilitarization, and if the Palestinians recognize Israel as the Jewish state, we are ready to agree to a real peace agreement, a demilitarized Palestinian state side by side with the Jewish state.”The speech was seen as a major milestone, marking the first time the prime minister openly endorsed a two-state solution.Israel and the Palestinians restarted peace talks in July, committing themselves to a US-brokered effort to reach a permanent accord within nine months, though officials said recently negotiations have become stuck over a number of issues, including land swaps and recognizing Israel as a Jewish state.Earlier Sunday, Palestinians in Ramallah held a rally calling for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to pull out of the talks. In Jerusalem, a number of Israeli politicians also called for Netanyahu to rethink negotiations after a suspected terror attack in the settlement of Psagot in which a 9-year-old girl was shot and slightly injured.

Palestinian rallying against peace talks in Ramallah Sunday. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/ Flash90)

Netanyahu also addressed the Iranian nuclear issue, reiterating his distrust of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s peace overtures to the West at the United Nations and saying Iran aspires “to rule the entire Middle East” and destroy the state of Israel.He repeated his insistence that Iran abandon its uranium enrichment capacity and dismantle its plutonium core, saying those apparatuses are “not necessary at all for [civilian] nuclear energy,” and that only a state seeking a bomb would refuse to give them up. 

Netanyahu Ties between Palestinian Leadership, Nazis

In a surprisingly powerful and frank speech, Prime Minister says conflict with Palestinians began in 1921, not 1967.-By Gil Ronen-First Publish: 10/6/2013, 9:41 PM-Israelnationalnews

Netanyahu at Bar Ilan-Flash 90

In a surprisingly powerful and frank speech at Bar Ilan University, delivered in a calm and almost informal manner, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu tied between the Palestinian national movement and the Nazi regime in Germany.At the heart of the oration was the determination that Arab rhetoric notwithstanding, the “territories” and “settlements” are not the heart of the territorial conflict between Jews and Arabs – but that the conflict stems from the historic refusal of the Arabs to accept a Jewish state.Netanyahu provided quotes and evidence showing that the supreme leader pf the Palestinian Arabs in the first half of the 20th century, Mufti Hajj Amin al-Husseini, was actively involved in encouraging Adolf Hitler and his henchmen in their project of annihilating the Jewish people.The Jewish-Palestinian conflict began, said the prime minister, in 1921, when Arabs attacked Beit Haolim in Yafo (Jaffa), which housed new Jewish immigrants. They murdered several Jews, including famed writer Yosef Haim Brenner."My own grandfather had arrived at Yafo, to the same house, one year earlier,” said Netanyahu. “This attack was not against territories or settlements,” he noted. “It was against the immigration of Jews to the Land of Israel.”The prime minister went on to list Arab pogroms against Jews in 1929 – when the Jewish community in Hevron was annihilated “with endless cruelty" – and later in 1936-39. In 1947, the Arabs refused to accept a partition plan that gave the Jews a state, he said. In 1967, again, Arab nations formed “a ring of strangulation” around Israel – but then, too, “there were no territories. There was no occupation. Unless Tel Aviv and Yafo are occupied.”
Moving on to the present day, Netanyahu noted that he recently heard Iran's representative “muttering half heartedly” about the crimes of the Nazis, and then going on immediately to say that the Jews must not be allowed to use the Nazi issue in order to commit crimes against the Palestinians.The historical truth is the opposite of this presentation, he said.He then began quoting numerous historical sources showing that the Mufti was “one of the initiators of the Holocaust of the Jews of Europe,” and that he was constantly encouraging the Nazi leadership to annihilate the Jews, throughout the war. He cited evidence that the Mufti even visited the gas chambers at Auschwitz with Adolf Eichmann."The Mufti is still a greatly admired figure in the Palestinian national movement," said Netanyahu. "These are the weeds that need to be uprooted," he said. "The root of the conflict is the deep resistance among a hard core of Palestinians to the right of the Jewish people to its own state in Israel."Netanyahu hinted that this is something that the Palestinian negotiators are unwilling to state in the current negotiations, and made it clear that unless they do so – the negotiations cannot succeed.
The Iranian fog
Regarding Iran's nuclear program, Netanyahu said: "The position of the international community should be like this: We are ready to reach a diplomatic solution but only one which dismantles Iran's ability to develop nuclear weapons.”He explained that nuclear disarmament means "no centrifuges for the enrichment of uranium and no plutonium reactor, and as long as Iran has not dismantled from its centrifuges and reactors – do not ease the sanctions. On the contrary – add to them.""The truth is simple and it cuts through the fog they are trying to spread around here,” he explained. “If they want peace they will agree. If they don't want peace, they won't agree. If they dismantle, they'll receive [an easing of sanctions] – if they don't, they won't."

Urging halt to Iran nuke program, Netanyahu signals discord with Obama

Speaking at weekly cabinet meeting, PM insists Tehran must not maintain any enrichment capacity; US would allow peaceful program

By Lazar Berman and AP October 6, 2013, 4:23 pm 5-The Times of Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Sunday for Iran to be kept from having any capability to enrich uranium, reiterating an Israeli demand that could put him on a collision course with US efforts to engage Tehran diplomatically.The statement, before a weekly cabinet meeting, came a day after the Prime Minister’s Office attempted to paint the US and Israel on the same page regarding Iran, after US President Barack Obama said the US estimate on a timeline for Iran to get a bomb was more conservative than Israel’s.

“Iran — which has violated all understandings and misled time and time again, which has declared its intention to destroy the State of Israel and, of course, has violated other decisions as well, and which leads terrorism on five continents — must not be allowed to have an enrichment capability,” Netanyahu declared. “This is the most important point.”The US and other world powers engaged in talks with Tehran over its nuclear program have signaled that they would accept some enrichment for civilian purposes as long as it was under international supervision. Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, a claim Israel and much of the West have rejected.Shortly after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s trip to New York in September, during which he met with Western diplomats on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, US Secretary of State John Kerry indicated that Iran could potentially preserve its enrichment capability for a peaceful program.“If it is a peaceful program, and we can all see that, the whole world sees that, the relationship with Iran can change dramatically for the better and it can change fast,” Kerry told CBS’s “60 Minutes.”In Sunday’s meeting, Netanyahu was clear in his position that sanctions must remain in full force until Iran is prevented from attaining nuclear weapons. “The sanctions on Iran are working,” he said. “They are very strong; they are a moment away from achieving their goal. The sanctions must not be eased before the goal of dismantling Iran’s enrichment capability, in effect, the ability to produce nuclear weapons, is achieved.”The US has vowed to keep sanctions in place until it sees action from the Iranian side, while Tehran has called for sanctions relief as a starting measure.On Saturday, daylight seemed to open between Washington and Jerusalem over the pace of Iran’s nuclear program, though sources in Jerusalem attempted to downplay the discord.Obama, in a wide-ranging interview with the Associated Press on Saturday, disclosed that US intelligence agencies believe Iran continues to be a year or more away from having the capability to make a nuclear weapon. Israel contends that Tehran is on a faster course and could be just months away from breakout capacity.An official in Netanyahu’s office said Saturday night that Obama and Netanyahu “see eye to eye on the need to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons.”“The critical time that the prime minister refers to is not the time for completing production of a nuclear bomb but rather the time needed for Iran to complete enriching uranium, which is the most important component in preparing a nuclear weapon,” he said regarding the time frame issue.“If Iran decides to complete enriching uranium it can do so within a few weeks of the start day,” he said on condition of anonymity, because he is not allowed to discuss the issue with the media.Israel views a nuclear-armed Iran as a threat to its very existence, citing Iran’s repeated calls for Israel’s destruction, its long-range missile program and its support for violent anti-Israel groups like the Hezbollah in Lebanon. Iran insists that its nuclear program is for civilian use.“There is no reason why Iran, which claims it wants nuclear energy just for peaceful purposes, should maintain the ability to enrich uranium, which allows for the development of material necessary for building a bomb,” the Israeli official said.Rouhani recently delivered a conciliatory speech at the United Nations in which he said Iran had no intention of building a nuclear weapon and declared his readiness for new negotiations with world powers.

At the end of the visit, Rouhani and Obama held a 15-minute phone call as the Iranian leader was traveling to the airport. It was the first conversation between the nations’ leaders in 34 years and raised hopes that a breakthrough on the nuclear issue could portend ties between the United States and Iran.Netanyahu has greeted Rouhani’s outreach with deep skepticism, expressing fears that Iran will use upcoming nuclear talks as a ploy to get the world to ease painful economic sanctions while secretly pressing forward with its nuclear program.On Friday, Netanyahu returned from the United States, where Iran was the main topic in talks with Obama and his address at the United Nations.