Sunday, April 06, 2014

NETANYAHU-ISRAEL WANTS PEACE BUT NOT AT ANY PRICE

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.

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:(7 YEARS) 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)

JERUSALEM DIVIDED

GENESIS 25:20-26
20  And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21  And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22  And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23  And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24  And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25  And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26  And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)

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.

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.

DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).

ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

Knesset to hold special session on peace talks-MKs to convene Monday despite recess to discuss stalled negotiations and call for release of spy Jonathan Pollard-By Lazar Berman April 6, 2014, 2:03 pm 1-The Times of Israel

The Knesset will return from its spring recess Monday for a special session on the state of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.According to the Knesset website, more than 25 MKs requested the session, formally titled “The crisis in negotiations with the Palestinians.” The MKs will also debate “The failure of the government regarding the release of Jonathan Pollard.”The peace talks ground to a halt over the past two weeks as the Palestinian Authority refused to agree to a US framework agreement for further talks beyond the April 29 deadline for the negotiations, and Israel balked at releasing additional Palestinian prisoners convicted of terrorism as scheduled in late March in exchange for talks that were not likely to continue.Israeli ministers traded accusations recently, blaming rivals for the breakdown in the talks.Israel’s chief peace negotiator, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, on Saturday accused Bennett’s Jewish Home colleague, Housing Minister Uri Ariel, of deliberately working to “torpedo” her peace efforts with the Palestinians, and intimated that the United States was over-involved in the process, while more time needed to be spent in direct Israeli-Palestinian contacts.She also slammed Abbas for breaching their agreed negotiating framework, and sounded far from confident that the ruptured talks could be rescued.Ariel responded Saturday that the justice minister had “failed miserably and is now looking for anyone to blame except herself.”“I would suggest to minister Livni to adhere to the advice of the sages – silence is a measure of wisdom,” Ariel said in a statement.Still, peace talks could resume soon because both sides understand that this is the final opportunity to forge an agreement, a senior Israeli official told Yedioth Ahronoth Sunday.The current impasse raises the possibility that the Americans could withdraw support for the peace talks, so ”we have to find a way to not end these negotiations,” the source said, adding that the possibility of freeing Jonathan Pollard, which was raised last week as part of a package deal to entice the sides back to negotiations, was off the table for the moment.Since Wednesday, when the talks last stalled, there has been a flurry of high-level meetings aimed at restarting talks, but the ball remains in the Palestinians’ court, another senior Israeli source said. If the Palestinian Authority insists on the release of the fourth group of prisoners, intended as a confidence-building measure by Israel, there “will be a problem.”The source called on the Palestinians to be more flexible, but added that “it seems impossible” that the Palestinians will back down on their demand for the prisoner release, which Jerusalem has refused to go through with.The Knesset began its spring recess last month, which is set to continue until the start of the summer session on May 11.Gavriel Fiske and Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

EU backs Kerry’s Mideast push-European foreign ministers say peace talks are at a critical phase-By AFP April 5, 2014, 6:03 pm 8-The Times of Israel

ATHENS — European foreign ministers on Saturday said they fully supported efforts by US Secretary of State John Kerry to keep Middle East peace talks alive as tension mounted on both sides.“We support the efforts of Secretary of State Kerry,” EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton said at the close of a two-day meeting in Athens.Kerry has labored lately to bring Palestinians and Israelis back from the brink.On Friday he warned from Morocco that there were “limits” to the time and effort the United States could devote to the process “if the parties themselves are unwilling to take constructive steps.”But Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has rejected Kerry’s appeals to withdraw applications he signed on Tuesday to adhere to 15 international treaties in pursuit of recognition for the Palestinians’ promised state.And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has likewise ignored calls to refrain from hardline moves, and has reportedly asked his officials to draw up reprisals.“Kerry’s initiative is without doubt in a critical phase,” German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Saturday.“The radicals on both sides seem to start to prevail…we have to prevent that,” Steinmeier told reporters.

Bennett: Failed talks weren’t leading to peace-Economy minister urges Palestinians to carry out threat to turn to UN, where Israel can also pursue war crimes lawsuits-By Times of Israel staff April 6, 2014, 7:50 am

The stalled peace talks with the Palestinians are not leading to peace, but are driven merely by concerns that without talks the Palestinians will advance their recognition efforts at the UN, Economy Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) said on Sunday morning.“The negotiations ended because Abu Mazen [PA President Mahmoud Abbas] ended them already two weeks ago when he announced he would never even discuss recognition of Israel as a Jewish state,” Bennett said in an interview with Israel Radio. “And then [Abbas] applied unilaterally to the UN,” Bennett added, a reference to the Palestinian Authority’s filing of 15 applications to international treaties last month.The peace talks ground to a halt over the past two weeks as the Palestinian Authority refused to agree to a US framework agreement for further talks beyond the April 29 deadline for the negotiations, and Israel balked at releasing additional Palestinian prisoners convicted of terrorism in late March in exchange for continued talks that were not likely to continue.The collapse of the talks demonstrated that they were based on a wrong-headed “concept,” Bennett charged.“Every time, just to continue the negotiations that aren’t leading anywhere, we have to release more murderers and more murderers. And each time they say, ‘if you don’t negotiate we’ll go to the UN.’ There’s a concept here, a concept that is pervasive here in Israel in recent years, which says, ‘We have to give up more and more, and not for peace but just so the Palestinian won’t go to the UN.’“I disagree with this concept,” he added. “I say, if [Abbas] wants to go to the UN, I’ll buy him a ticket. And why? Because what he’ll find there are personal lawsuits for war crimes over his transfer of funds to Hamas which shoots rockets at us, and transfers of funds to the murderers of Israeli civilians.”Israel’s chief peace negotiator, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, on Saturday accused Bennett’s Jewish Home colleague, Housing Minister Uri Ariel, of deliberately working to “torpedo” her peace efforts with the Palestinians, and intimated that the United States was over-involved in the process, while more time needed to be spent in direct Israeli-Palestinian contacts.She also slammed Abbas for breaching their agreed negotiating framework, and sounded far from confident that the ruptured talks could be rescued.Looking weary and at times angry in a Channel 2 interview, Livni said Ariel had “deliberately” reissued housing tenders for 708 new homes in east Jerusalem’s Gilo neighborhood last Tuesday, at a highly sensitive moment in the peace efforts, “in order to torpedo what I am doing along with the prime minister” to try to advance peacemaking.Ariel “must be reined in,” she said.While she indicated that she placed overwhelming blame on the PA for the current crisis in the talks, Livni said that “announcements of settlement building will always mean blame is placed on us” for the failure to achieve peace. “The whole world will blame us.”Ariel responded Saturday that the justice minister had “failed miserably and is now looking for anyone to blame except herself.”“I would suggest to minister Livni to adhere to the advice of the sages – silence is a measure of wisdom,” Ariel said in a statement.Ariel said cabinet colleague Livni had been given “limitless authority to make peace, including the release of despicable murderers… Her sobs and moans over construction in Jerusalem and in Judea and Samaria are no more than crocodile tears of one who knew of (the plans) in advance, as did the Palestinians and the Americans.”Bennett defended Ariel on Sunday. “I suggest we don’t always blame ourselves. Even when we release murderers, that’s not enough for the other side. Sometimes it’s okay to just be on your own side.”

Netanyahu: Israel wants peace talks but 'not at any price'
1 hour ago-APR 6,14-YAHOONEWS


JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday Israel was willing to continue U.S.-brokered peace talks with the Palestinians but not "at any price".Speaking at a weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said Israel would respond with steps of its own if the Palestinians pressed ahead with unilateral actions toward statehood. He did not elaborate.Attempts by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to put peace talks back on track unraveled in the past week after the Palestinians signed 15 international conventions, mainly through the United Nations."By doing so, the Palestinians fundamentally violated the understandings that were reached through U.S. intervention," Netanyahu said in his first public remarks since the crisis erupted.President Mahmoud Abbas decided to sign the international conventions after Israel reneged on a pledge to free the last group of 104 Palestinian prisoners it agreed to release in the deal that led to the negotiations restarting nine months ago.Netanyahu continued: "They will achieve a state only through direct negotiations and not through empty proclamations or unilateral moves, which will only push a peace accord farther away.""Unilateral steps on their part will be answered with unilateral steps on our side. We are willing to continue negotiations, but we will not do so at any price."The talks have struggled since they began in July, stalling over Palestinian opposition to Israel's demand that it be recognized as a Jewish state, and over Israeli settlements, internationally deemed illegal, in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.U.S. envoy Martin Indyk was due to meet the chief Israeli and Palestinian negotiators on Sunday to try to salvage the process.(Reporting by Jeffrey Heller; Editing by Ori Lewis and Sonya Hepinstall)

Netanyahu: If PA acts unilaterally, so will we-Palestinians have no path to a state except through negotiations with Israel, prime minister tells cabinet-By Gavriel Fiske April 6, 2014, 12:07 pm 3-The Times of Israel

Unilateral steps by the Palestinians to harm Israel and achieve statehood will invite unilateral steps by Israel in response, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday morning.The Palestinians will achieve a state only through negotiations and not through “empty declarations or one-sided actions that only push a peace agreement further away,” Netanyahu said, speaking before the weekly cabinet meeting.“Unilateral actions from the Palestinians will be answered with unilateral actions from our side,” the prime minister added, and decried the Palestinian decision last week to apply for state-level membership in a group of international treaties and conventions.“Unfortunately… just when an agreement to continue the talks was getting close, the Palestinian leadership unilaterally applied to join 14 international bodies, violating the terms of the agreement that was reached,” the prime minister said.The Palestinians “have a lot to lose” from such one-sided actions, while for its part, Israel was not afraid of the threat of UN intervention, Netanyahu added.He said that Israel wants to continue the talks, but not at “any price.” Netanyahu noted that Israel has “made difficult moves” during the negotiations in an effort to create a framework to end the conflict while PA President Mahmoud Abbas has ruled out considering the central Israeli demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as “the Jewish state,” even though he knows this is necessary to end the conflict.Possible unilateral moves against the Palestinians are being discussed by the Israeli leadership, but no decisions have been made on implementing any of them, according to a Sunday Yedioth Ahronoth report. Some possibilities include revoking permission for Palestinians to farm some 14,000 dunams of agricultural land and bringing to a halt 19 previously approved building projects in Palestinian-controlled areas.More serious steps, political measures against the Palestinian leadership and economic sanctions, including the withholding of taxes collected by Israel, are being discussed but are unlikely to be implemented in the near future, the report said.

Israeli sources say peace talks could resume-American pressure could bring results, but fourth prisoner release could pose ‘a problem,’ official says-By Gavriel Fiske April 6, 2014, 12:10 pm-The Times of Israel

The sputtering Israeli-Palestinian peace talks could resume soon because both sides understand that this is the final opportunity to forge an agreement, Israeli sources close to the negotiations said Sunday.American pressure to continue the talks could convince the two sides to resume formal meetings, because “the sides understand that this is the last chance,” a senior Israeli official told Yedioth Ahronoth.The current impasse raises the possibility that the Americans could withdraw support for the peace talks, so ”we have to find a way to not end these negotiations,” the source said, adding that the possibility of freeing Jonathan Pollard, which was raised last week as part of a package deal to entice the sides back to negotiations, was off the table for the moment.Since Wednesday, when the talks last stalled, there has been a flurry of high-level meetings aimed at restarting talks, but the ball remains in the Palestinians’ court, another senior Israeli source said. If the Palestinian Authority insists on the release of the fourth group of prisoners, intended as a confidence-building measure by Israel, there “will be a problem.”The source called on the Palestinians to be more flexible, but added that “it seems impossible” that the Palestinians will back down on their demand for the prisoner release, which Jerusalem has refused to go through with.The peace talks ground to a halt over the past two weeks as the Palestinian Authority refused to agree to a US framework agreement for further talks beyond the April 29 deadline for the negotiations, and Israel balked at the release of additional Palestinian prisoners convicted of terrorism in exchange for continued talks that were not likely to continue.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

Livni slams housing minister for ‘torpedoing’ peace efforts-Israel’s chief negotiator also hints US is over-involved, doesn’t endorse Abbas as partner, can’t promise current crisis will be overcome-By Times of Israel staff April 5, 2014, 7:25 pm 54

Israel’s chief peace negotiator on Saturday accused one of her ministerial colleagues of deliberately working to “torpedo” her peace efforts with the Palestinians, and intimated that the United States was over-involved in the process, when more time needed to be spent in direct Israeli-Palestinian contacts.She also slammed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for breaching their agreed negotiating framework, and sounded far from confident that the ruptured talks could be rescued.Looking weary and at times angry in a Channel 2 interview, Livni said Housing and Construction Minister Uri Ariel had “deliberately” reissued housing tenders for 708 new homes in east Jerusalem’s Gilo neighborhood, at a highly sensitive moment in the peace efforts last Tuesday, “in order to torpedo what I am doing along with the prime minister” to try to advance peacemaking.Ariel, from the Orthodox-nationalist Jewish Home party, “must be reined in,” she said.While she indicated that she placed overwhelming blame on the PA for the current crisis in the talks, Livni said that “announcements of settlement building will always mean blame is placed on us” for the failure to achieve peace. “The whole world will blame us.”Livni, the justice minister from the center-left Hatnua Party, confirmed that she would be meeting her Palestinian counterpart Saeb Erekat on Sunday to try to revive the talks, and said she’d had “a very difficult” meeting with him, long into Thursday night, mediated by US special envoy Martin Indyk. The trio also met for hours, unproductively, on Wednesday night.She said she was “angry” that Abbas had “lost patience” after Israel delayed releasing a fourth and final group of longterm Palestinian terror convicts last weekend, and said he had “breached” their understandings by applying to join 15 UN and other international treaties. “We can’t just smile and move on,” she said.Asked repeatedly whether she had a formula for reviving the talks, Livni offered no specifics, but said she was “in the midst of the struggle… It’s complex… We have to try to find a way forward, while protecting Israel’s interests.”Long one of the most optimistic Israeli leaders as regards the prospects for progress with the Palestinians, Livni on Saturday sounded deeply downbeat. In answer to a repeated question, she did not endorse Abbas as a viable partner for a two-state solution, saying, “He’ll have to prove it… The test is still ahead of us.”And she did not offer a single example of progress made over the past eight months of negotiating, regretting that too much of the time had been spent in Israeli-American and Palestinian-American talks, rather than in direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. More bilateral Israeli-Palestinian contacts were needed, she said, including direct talks between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Abbas.“We worked hard with the United States” on the “framework” accord that Secretary of State John Kerry had tried, and thus far failed, to attain to govern ongoing negotiations. Kerry was “unbelievable,” she said. “There is no limit to the effort he makes.”Livni made clear that she would not be bolting the coalition over the collapse of peace talks. Indeed, she praised Netanyahu for having taken “very complicated decisions,” including over releasing terrorist convicts and constraining settlement expansion.Livni said it had been clear from the start that Israel would not free Israeli-Arabs, as demanded by the PA, in the canceled fourth group of prisoner releases, except in the context of a wider “package” — a reference to the deal that had been taking shape for the US to free American-Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, Israel to release more prisoners and restrict settlement building, and the Palestinians to commit to extended negotiations and no unilateral moves toward statehood. That package deal, which had been taking shape Tuesday, fell apart after Abbas signed the treaty applications. “The Palestinians decided not to wait any longer,” Livni said bitterly.

Saturday, April 05, 2014

SO CALLED PEACE TALKS REALLY ON THE ROCKS-GET OUT OF IT AMERICA NOW-LET THE EUROPEAN UNION LEAD THE TALKS

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)

JERUSALEM DIVIDED

GENESIS 25:20-26
20  And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21  And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22  And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23  And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24  And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25  And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26  And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)

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.

Israel, Palestinians, US to meet to revive talks-First meeting since Wednesday, to be held without Kerry, comes as Washington reviews its bid for a peace deal-By AFP April 5, 2014, 10:50 am 8-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

JERUSALEM — Israeli and Palestinian negotiators will meet jointly Sunday with US envoy Martin Indyk, as attempts continue to prevent the collapse of peace negotiations, officials close to the talks said.The first three-way meeting since Wednesday comes as Washington reviews its push for a peace deal after a spiral of tit-for-tat moves by Israel and the Palestinians took hard-won negotiations close to collapse.US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday there were “limits” to the time and energy Washington could devote to the process, adding it was time for a “reality check.”The same day Indyk met separately with chief Israeli negotiator, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, and her Palestinian counterpart, Saeb Erakat.Kerry, who has engaged in more than a year of intensive shuttle diplomacy, had spoken to both the Israeli and Palestinian leaders Thursday in a bid to bring the two sides back from the brink.But Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas rejected his appeals to withdraw applications he signed on Tuesday to adhere to 15 international treaties, a Palestinian official said.And Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ignored appeals to refrain from “unhelpful” tit-for-tat moves, asking officials to draw up a range of tough reprisals, Israeli media reported.Israel says Abbas’s move is a clear breach of promises made by the Palestinians when peace talks were relaunched in July to pursue no other avenues for recognition of their promised state.The Palestinians say Israel had already reneged on its own commitments by failing to release a fourth and final batch of Arab prisoners last weekend, and that the treaty move was their response.

Is Kerry’s Mideast ‘mission impossible’ over?-After sobering 12th trip to the region, US envoy’s gamble to achieve the dream of generations may be trumped-By JO BIDDLE April 5, 2014, 2:30 pm 1-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

WASHINGTON (AFP) — US Secretary of State John Kerry’s high-stakes gamble that he could finally achieve the dream of generations and bring peace to the Middle East seems to be collapsing as easily as a house of cards.Despite a dozen visits to Israel and the West Bank since he became US secretary of state 14 months ago and many more late-night meetings with his recalcitrant partners in capitals around the world, it appears after all that he may have been trumped.While there was always a certain hubris to his mission impossible, the political dangers facing wily Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu conspired this week with decades of pent-up anger among Palestinians to throw up the most serious crisis to the fragile peace negotiations since they resumed in July.Yet at the start of Kerry’s latest overseas trip, there was little to suggest he would return to the US 13 days later with his peace effort in trouble and a blunt admission that he and the White House needed to “evaluate” the next steps.Indeed, Kerry had not visited Israel in three months in a tacit recognition that each trip raised expectations and usually triggered some kind of provocative move from one of the parties.His monthly commute between Washington and Jerusalem had also begun to raise eyebrows with little tangible progress to show and an April 29 deadline looming.Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon had called Kerry “obsessive” and “messianic;” at home, some critics said he was “delusional.” All roads to Jerusalem are littered with past failed peace negotiations which have wound through places such as Madrid, Oslo and Camp David.But this time Kerry felt there was something within his grasp, a deal under which both sides would agree to keep talking into next year, as some of the nitty-gritty contours of a pact began to emerge.He deeply believes that a comprehensive peace treaty is the only way to secure Israel’s future and build a better tomorrow for Palestinians, with both peoples having suffered too much.So the 70-year-old former senator, the son of a diplomat, stepped willingly into the quagmire that is Middle East peace.He has invested huge amounts of energy, setting a punishing schedule which would defeat many half his age and remaining eternally optimistic and unflappable even after hours locked in tense negotiations.It was sobering therefore on Friday as he prepared to head home — after the Israelis canceled the last prisoner releases and the Palestinians said they would seek statehood at 15 agencies at the UN — that in a rare moment of frankness and frustration he admitted “it’s reality-check time.”“There are limits to the amount of time and effort that the United States can spend if the parties themselves are unwilling to take constructive steps in order to be able to move forward,” Kerry told reporters in Rabat.With the war in Syria, Iran’s nuclear program and the crisis in Ukraine, “we have an enormous amount on the plate,” he said.

No one walking away yet

Exactly what Kerry’s next move will be remains uncertain, and he has insisted that the negotiators remain at work on the ground.But it’s more than possible that he’ll give both sides a little space to figure out what they want to do, as he huddles with the White House.There will be another three-way meeting likely on Sunday in the region to assess the way forward, officials close to the talks say, and the US insists the negotiations are not dead.Only a few months ago, Kerry’s stock had been rising with his brand of face-to-face diplomacy winning praise.He had helped kick-start the peace talks after a three-year gap, sealed a deal with Russia to rid Syria of its chemical weapons, and negotiations with Iran over its suspect nuclear program had made the first progress in a decade.Now critics will be sharpening their pencils in glee.But he has three more years in office, and almost boundless patience.The White House Friday defended the “tireless” Kerry, saying his long-odds Middle East peace bid had not been a waste of time because the stakes were so high.But Josh Earnest, a White House spokesman, admitted that the chances of Kerry succeeding when he embarked on his Middle East peace quest a year ago had never been high.“I don’t know if people in Las Vegas are betting on these kinds of things these days, but I’m sure the odds… would be very long.”

Erekat: We Have Nothing to Lose-Chief PA negotiator declares that there are dozens of other institutions the PA could join if Israel fails to live up to its commitments.-By Elad Benari, Canada-First Publish: 4/4/2014, 9:31 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS

The chief Palestinian Authority (PA) negotiator said on Friday that the PA had nothing to lose by requesting to join international agencies.In fact, said Saeb Erekat, according to The Associated Press (AP), there are dozens of other institutions the PA could join if Israel fails to live up to its commitments."We signed 15 (conventions), but there are still 48 treaties, conventions and agencies that we have not signed yet," Erekat told journalists after meeting with American mediator Martin Indyk."If the Israelis release the 30 prisoners, we are committed not to join these agencies, treaties and conventions, but if they (the Israelis) don't, we have a free hand," he declared, according to AP."We don't have anything to lose," Erekat said, but suggested there's still a chance to salvage the negotiations.He made clear that the PA did not want to see U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's peace mission fail."The focus now is really, we want to avoid the crash (of the talks), we don't want to undermine the American efforts," said Erekat, adding that the PA’s next move depends on Israel.Erekat was speaking hours after Kerry said he would "evaluate" his next steps regarding the peace talks.I will be having conversations with the administration today, including the president, and we're going to evaluate exactly what is possible and what is not possible," he said."There are limits to the amount of time and effort that the United States can spend if the parties themselves are unwilling to take constructive steps," said Kerry, who added, "Both parties say they want to continue, neither party has said they want to call it off; but we're not going to sit there indefinitely, this is not an open-ended effort.”Kerry admitted on Thursday that there was little he could do to save the talks, saying "you can facilitate, you can push, you can nudge, but the parties themselves have to make fundamental decisions to compromise."Israel officially cancelled the fourth planned release of terrorists it had undertook to release as “gesture” to the PA, after the PA violated the conditions of the peace talks by unilaterally turning to the United Nations.The PA’s UN envoy has claimed that the PA is eligible to join up to 550 international treaties and conventions, including the International Criminal Court.(Arutz Sheva’s North American Desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)

PA: We Didn't Mean to Upset Kerry-Senior Fatah official Nabil Shaath tries to do damage control after Kerry says he will "evaluate" his next steps.-By Elad Benari, Canada -First Publish: 4/4/2014, 8:26 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS

The Palestinian Authority (PA) tried to do some damage control on Friday, after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he would "evaluate" his next steps regarding the peace talks.Senior Fatah official Nabil Shaath said Friday evening, according to Channel 2 News, that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas “did not mean to upset Kerry” when he  breached the conditions of the peace talks by applying to 15 UN agencies.Shaath said that the UN move was aimed against Israel and not against the Americans.“The Palestinian appeal to international institutions was meant to highlight Israel's failure to release the security prisoners," he said, adding that he believed Kerry will return to the region and continue his efforts to reach a peace agreement.“I believe that Kerry will be back because he has not yet abandoned the process," Shaath explained, adding, “We will continue negotiations as agreed and I hope the patience of Americans will end towards the Israelis, not towards the Palestinians.”Earlier Friday, Kerry declared he would be speaking with President Barack Obama about the future of the talks."I will be having conversations with the administration today, including the president, and we're going to evaluate exactly what is possible and what is not possible," he said."There are limits to the amount of time and effort that the United States can spend if the parties themselves are unwilling to take constructive steps," said Kerry, who added, "Both parties say they want to continue, neither party has said they want to call it off; but we're not going to sit there indefinitely, this is not an open-ended effort.”Kerry admitted on Thursday that there was little he could do to save the talks, saying "you can facilitate, you can push, you can nudge, but the parties themselves have to make fundamental decisions to compromise."Senior U.S. officials close to Kerry said Friday that he may give up on the peace talks soon, warning he has to "go out and own the failure," or risk "looking desperate."(Arutz Sheva’s North American Desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)

Kerry warns U.S. is evaluating role in Middle East peace talks
By Lesley Wroughton 10 hours ago-APR 5,14-Yahoonews


RABAT (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday that Washington was evaluating whether it was worth continuing its role in Middle East peace talks, signaling his patience with the Israelis and Palestinians was running out.There was a limit to U.S. efforts if the parties themselves were unwilling to move forward, Kerry said during a visit to Morocco after a week of setbacks."This is not an open-ended effort, it never has been. It is reality check time, and we intend to evaluate precisely what the next steps will be," Kerry said, adding he would return to Washington on Friday to consult with the Obama administration.Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are likely to meet on Sunday, together with U.S. envoy Martin Indyk, to discuss a possible way forward, a source familiar with the talks said.White House spokesman Josh Earnest acknowledged that President Barack Obama shared Kerry's frustration over "unhelpful" actions by both sides and the two men would discuss the path forward in the eight-month-old talks after the secretary of state's return to Washington.Kerry's decision to declare a time-out could be an attempt to pressure Israel and the Palestinians to soften their entrenched positions but, should that fail, it might mark the beginning of the end for his signature diplomatic initiative.By stepping away for now, Kerry is reminding the parties that he can ill-afford to focus endlessly on a fruitless Middle East peace process when other pressing international issues like the crisis in Ukraine demand more of this attention.Abandoning the peace effort, however, also has its risks. It could deal another blow to Obama's credibility in the Middle East, where he already faces criticism for a tepid response to Syria's civil war and to the military's takeover in Egypt."There's tremendous upheaval in the region and internationally right now. Do you want to add to it?" asked Dennis Ross, Obama's former top Middle East adviser. "We don't need to see something we've been investing in collapse."

'UNILATERAL STEPS'

The current phase of the Middle East peace process is not over, and it has broken down due to "unilateral steps" by both sides, Earnest said."It's time for the Israeli leaders and the leaders of the Palestinian people to spend some time considering their options at this point," he told reporters.The negotiations were catapulted into crisis at the weekend when Israel refused to act on a previously agreed release of Palestinian prisoners unless it had assurances the Palestinians would continue talks beyond an initial end-April deadline.Kerry flew to Jerusalem to try to find a solution. Just as he believed a convoluted deal was within reach, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed 15 international treaties, making clear he was ready to beat a unilateral path to world bodies unless he saw more movement from the Israelis.A senior Palestinian official, Nabil Shaath, told Reuters that Abbas had not intended to upset Kerry, but rather to shine a spotlight on Israel's failure to release the prisoners."I think (Kerry) will return because we have not abandoned the process," said the veteran negotiator, speaking in Ramallah, the Palestinians' administrative capital in the West Bank.
"We will continue these negotiations as we agreed, and I wish for once that America's patience runs out - with Israel and not the Palestinians," he said.

STRUGGLE

With each side looking to blame the other for the impasse, Israel's centrist finance minister, Yair Lapid, said he questioned whether Abbas wanted a deal, pointing to a lengthy list of Palestinian demands published on Maan news agency.These included lifting a blockade on the Gaza Strip, and freeing a group of high-profile prisoners, including Marwan Barghouti, jailed a decade ago over a spate of suicide bombings."(Abbas) should know that at this point in time his demands are working against him. No Israeli will negotiate with him at any price," said Lapid, one of the more moderate voices within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rightist coalition.Kerry has spent much of his first year as America's top diplomat invested in the Middle East peace process, and has visited the region more than a dozen times.He broke off twice from his current 12-day trip in Europe and the Middle East to see Israeli and Palestinian leaders in an effort to salvage the peace negotiations.The talks have struggled from the start, stalling over Palestinian opposition to Israel's demand that it be recognized as a Jewish state, and over the issue of fast-growing Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.Palestinians want an independent state in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem - lands captured by Israel in the 1967 war. While all parties say negotiations are the best path to peace, Palestinians say they may eventually resort to international bodies to force Israel to make concessions.(Additional reporting by Susan Heavey, Steve Holland and Matt Spetalnick in Washington and Noah Browning in Ramallah; Writing by Patrick Markey, Crispian Balmer and Matt Spetalnick; Editing by Tom Heneghan, Jason Szep and Mohammad Zargham)

Friday, April 04, 2014

POPE MEETS WITH THE QUEEN - BILL CLINTON BELIEVES ALIENS EXIST

FALSE POPE FROM THE VATICAN

REVELATION 13:11-13
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;(FALSE VATICAN POPE) and he had two horns like a lamb,(JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD) and he spake as a dragon.(HES SATANICALLY INSPIRED,HES A CHRISTIAN DEFECTOR FROM THE FAITH)
12 And he (FALSE RELIGIOUS LEADER) exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,(WORLD DICTATOR) and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.(THE WORLD DICTATOR CREATES A FALSE RESURRECTION AND IS CROWNED LEADER OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER).
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

REVELATION 17:1-5,9,15-18
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,(VATICAN IN POLITICS) and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman (FALSE CHURCH) was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,(VATICAN COLOURS)(ANOTHER REASON WE KNOW THE FALSE POPE COMES FROM THE VATICAN) and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.(THE VATICAN IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS OR MOUNTAINS)
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.(VATICAN-CATHOLICS ALL AROUND THE WORLD OVER 1 BILLION)
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

Queen meets Pope Francis for first time
By Jean-Louis De La Vaissiere 2 hours ago-APR 3,14-YahooNews


Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, exchange gifts with Pope Francis at the Vatican, Thursday, April 3, 2014. Queen Elizabeth II has come to Rome for lunch with Italy's president Giorgio Napolitano ahead of the British monarch's first meeting with Pope Francis. Before Francis, Elizabeth had met with four pontiffs, starting with Pope Pius XII in 1951, a year before her accession to the throne. (AP Photo/Stefano Rellandini, Pool)

Vatican City (AFP) - Queen Elizabeth II met Pope Francis for the first time on Thursday on a visit that coincides with the anniversary of the Falklands War and is also the 87-year-old monarch's first foreign trip since 2011.Dressed in lilac and clutching a bouquet of flowers, the queen smiled as she arrived at Ciampino airport, shaking hands with dignitaries on the red carpet.She and her husband Prince Philip then had lunch with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano at the Quirinale Palace, where they were greeted with a military salute and crowds of supporters, some waving Union Jack flags.Wearing one of her trademark hats decorated with flowers, and with a black purse over her arm to match her shoes, the monarch looked pleased to see the 88-year-old president.The British royals were then seen arriving at the Vatican for the private audience with Francis in a room next to the Paul VI auditorium in the Vatican, with hundreds of people cheering as their car drove in.The queen's talks with the Argentine pope come a day after the 32nd anniversary of the start of the Falklands War between Britain and Argentina and come amid thorny Anglican-Catholic relations.But British officials have played down the prospect of any contentious issues on the agenda as the queen, the "supreme governor" of the Church of England, holds talks with the head of the world's Catholics.Britain's ambassador to the Holy See Nigel Baker told Vatican radio that there had been "extraordinary" progress in Britain-Vatican and Anglican-Catholic relations since the Queen's coronation in 1952."She will want I think to understand from Pope Francis how he sees the role of faith in the world," he said.On the Falklands War, he said: "The Vatican has been clear with us, including in the last week and at a very senior level, that their long-standing position of neutrality on this issue remains in force".Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said the meeting was "very informal".Francis will be the fifth pope the queen has met, starting with Pius XII in 1951 when she was still a princess.She has also met John XXIII, John Paul II and pope emeritus Benedict XVI, who stepped down last year.

- 'White smoke over Falklands' -

The couple's last foreign trip was to Australia in 2011, and the one-day visit will last only a few hours, without much of the pomp usually associated with royal travel to avoid tiring the ageing royals.While the talks are likely to be purely formal, Anglican-Catholic ties are an issue because of resentment in Britain over the Vatican's move to bring conservative Anglican priests who dissented from the Church of England over female ordination.But relations between Pope Francis and the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the spiritual leader of the Church of England, are cordial and the two met in 2013 and are expected to hold talks later this year.The Anglican church, which separated from Rome in the 16th century, has around 80 million faithful compared with the world's 1.2 billion Catholics.Another potentially divisive issue is over the British-ruled Falkland Islands -- referred to in Argentina as the Malvinas -- to which Latin America's first pope has shown he is sensitive by once referring to them as "ours" before becoming pope.He also said Britain had "usurped" the islands.Francis last month met a group of 12 Argentine war veterans holding a placard for "peace in the South Atlantic" during a general audience in St Peter's Square.Argentine forces invaded the islands on April 2, 1982, but were forced to surrender in June after British forces recaptured them in fighting that left 649 Argentinians, 255 British and three islanders dead.Following Pope Francis's election last year, British Prime Minister David Cameron said he "respectfully" disagreed with the pope, after a referendum, also in 2013, in which 99.8 percent of Falkland Islanders voted in favour of remaining British."The white smoke over the Falklands was pretty clear," he quipped -- a reference to the smoke signal used by cardinals in the Sistine Chapel to show that a new pope has been elected.

Pope Francis Gives Queen Elizabeth Present for Prince George
By HAMISH MACDONALD | Good Morning America – APR 3,14-YahooNews


Pope Francis gave Queen Elizabeth a present for the future king, Prince George, in a brief and informal 30 minute audience at the Vatican today.The queen and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, was on the ground in Italy for less than five hours before returning to the United Kingdom on a private jet.It was the first time Queen Elizabeth met Pope Francis and she took with her on the plane home a gift for the royal grandson. Pope Francis handed the queen a precious stone globe with a cross on it for Prince George, who is about to depart on his first overseas trip to Australia and New Zealand.The queen was given an antique parchment, which dates back to May 1679 with an “Urbi et Orbi” message by Cardinal Cesare Facchinetti. The pope traditionally gives a "urbi et orbi" message - meaning "to the city and the world" - at Easter and Christmas. The queen gave the pope a hamper of what the Vatican said was "jams and drinks" produced on lands owned by the royal family. One of the drinks was a bottle of whiskey.As a pair, the queen and the pope are leaders to billions of people around the world.“If you think about it in terms of soft power then we’re talking about 3 billion people because the pope is the spiritual head of more than 1 billion Catholics around the world, and the queen of course is head of the Commonwealth and that’s 2 billion people,” said the Italian author and journalist Barbara Serra.This is the fifth time Queen Elizabeth II has met a pope in Rome, but this was her most informal visit ever. She wore no black veil, instead a lilac outfit and matching hat. By mutual request the was relaxed and "protocol-light," taking place in the pope’s study inside the 1970’s built Paul VI Hall, close to where he lives at the Vatican.The protocols of this visit are markedly different to a state visit, which would normally see such a meeting take place inside the Apostolic Palace.The only people present for this meeting were Pope Francis, Queen Elizabeth, the Duke of Edinburgh and a translator. Pope Francis speaks only “passing English” and is understood to have communicated via a translator.The meeting with Pope Francis marks the 100th anniversary of the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and the Holy See. Historically though, the Church of England has difficult relations with the Vatican, as a break-away from the Roman Catholic Church.Serra says Queen Elizabeth, who is 87 and Pope Francis, who is 77 are both charged with modernizing some of the world’s oldest institutions. Serra says “that will probably be quite an interesting exchange between the two. I think the Queen has managed to do that (modernize) here in the UK. I’m not sure the Pope has had the chance to do it yet.”It is increasingly rare for the queen to travel abroad indeed this is her first foreign trip in three years.The trip to Italy was planned for 2013, to meet the octogenarian President Giorgio Napolitano, who is said to have a friendly relationship with the British monarch. That trip was cancelled due to the queen’s ill-health before being reinstated this year.Today’s tour began with a private lunch at President’s official home, known as the Quirinal Palace. There was a group of 10 people seated for lunch, including the president and his wife, the queen and Duke of Edinburgh, along with the Italian Ambassador to the UK and his wife, the UK Ambassador to Italy and his wife, along with other senior level diplomats.-----Two of the world's most famous and powerful leaders are meeting in Rome today, when Queen Elizabeth meets Pope Francis in a private audience for the first time.As a pair, they are leaders to billions of people around the world. "If you think about it in terms of soft power then we're talking about 3 billion people because the pope is the spiritual head of more than 1 billion Catholics around the world, and the queen of course is head of the Commonwealth and that's 2 billion people," said the Italian author and journalist Barbara Serra.This is the fifth time Queen Elizabeth II has met a pope in Rome, but this will be her most informal visit ever. By mutual request the meeting will be relaxed and "protocol-light," taking place in the pope's study inside the 1970's built Paul VI Hall, close to where he lives at the Vatican.

President Obama Meets Pope Francis at the Vatican

The protocols of this visit are markedly different to a state visit, which would normally see such a meeting take place inside the Apostolic Palace. On previous trips to meet a pope, the queen, who is also the supreme guardian of the Church of England, has worn black. This time she will not.The only people present for this meeting will be Pope Francis, Queen Elizabeth, the Duke of Edinburgh and a translator. Pope Francis speaks only "passive English" and is expected to communicate in either Italian or Spanish via a translator.The meeting with Pope Francis marks the 100th anniversary of the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and the Holy See. Historically though, the Church of England has difficult relations with the Vatican, as a break-away from the Roman Catholic Church.Serra says Queen Elizabeth, who is 87, and Pope Francis, who is 77, are both charged with modernizing some of the world's oldest institutions. Serra says "that will probably be quite an interesting exchange between the two. I think the queen has managed to do that (modernize) here in the UK. I'm not sure the pope has had the chance to do it yet."The queen and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, touched down at Ciampino airport at 12:35 p.m. local time in a private jet. They will be on the ground in Italy for less than five hours before returning to the UK. It is increasingly rare for the queen to travel abroad. In fact, this is her first foreign trip in three years.The trip to Italy was planned for 2013, to meet the octogenarian President Giorgio Napolitano, who is said to have a friendly relationship with the British monarch. That trip was cancelled due to the queen's ill-health before being reinstated this year.Today's tour will commence with a private lunch at president's official home, known as the Quirinal Palace. There will be a group of 10 people seated for lunch, including the president and his wife, the queen and Duke of Edinburgh, along with the Italian Ambassador to the UK and his wife, the UK Ambassador to Italy and his wife, along with other senior level diplomats.

JUDE 6
6 And the (DEMONIC FALLIN) angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation,(HAD SEX WITH HUMANS) he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.(THATS OUR DAY NOW)(THESE GET LOOSED AT THE EUPHRATES TO KILL A THIRD PART OF MEN IN WW3).

REVELATION 12:3-4,9-10
3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
4 And his tail (SATANS)drew the third part of the stars of heaven,(1/3RD OF ANGELS FELL WITH SATAN AT THE FALL WHO ARE DEMONIC FALLIN ANGELS-DEMONS) and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman (ISRAEL) which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.(SATANS LAST HOLOCAUST TO TRY TO DESTROY ISRAEL FOREVER)
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

LUKE 10:18
18  And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.(FOR WANTING TO BE GOD-SATAN HAD AND HAS EYE AM TROUBLES)

ISAIAH 14:12-14
12  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13  For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14  I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)

Bill Clinton Wouldn't be Surprised if Aliens Exist
By Dan Good | ABC News Blogs – 6 hours ago-APR 3,14-YahooNews


Bill Clinton is intrigued by space aliens.The former United States president appeared on Wednesday's episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live." He ended up discussing, among other things, extraterrestrial life.Clinton admitted that soon after becoming president, he had his aides research Area 51, the Nevada military facility, "to make sure there was no alien down there." He was also interested in Roswell, N.M., the site of a reputed UFO sighting in 1947, which was celebrating its 50th anniversary during Clinton's presidency."I had all the Roswell papers reviewed - everything," he told Kimmel."If you saw that there were aliens there, would you tell us?" Kimmel asked."Yeah," Clinton said, nodding.Given the size of the universe, and the continued discovery of new planets, Clinton believes we're not alone."If we were visited someday I wouldn't be surprised," Clinton said. "I just hope it's not like 'Independence Day.'"Clinton went on to discuss some of the potential benefits to an alien invasion, framing his argument around the 1996 sci-fi disaster movie."It may be the only way to unite this increasingly divided world of ours … think about all the differences among people of Earth would seem small if we feel threatened by a space invader," Clinton said."That's the whole theory of 'Independence Day. Everybody gets together and makes nice."

Thursday, April 03, 2014

KICK KERRY AND ABBAS OUT OF THE FALSE PEACE PROCESS - ITS ISRAELS LAND ONLY

Palestinian U.N. moves designed to avoid U.S. retaliation
By Noah Browning 48 minutes ago-APR 3,14-Yahoonews


RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - When Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed onto 15 international conventions on Tuesday, he shocked the U.S. sponsors of troubled Middle East peace talks. But the move was carefully limited to avoid American retaliation.Abbas's action may have been designed more as a symbolic act of defiance to shore up his tenuous standing among Palestinians frustrated at the diplomatic impasse with Israel over their goal of statehood than a knife in the heart of peacemaking.As a non-member state in the United Nations, Palestinians can join 63 international agencies and accords. However, by only signing conventions dealing with social and human rights instead of seeking full membership in U.N. bodies, the Palestinians' foreign minister said they would not provoke U.S. sanctions."Frankly speaking, I don't expect any consequences coming from the U.S. Congress regarding this step at all," Riad al-Malki told reporters on Wednesday."We did not talk about us becoming members of the U.N. specialized agencies in order for the Congress to activate their decision. We are talking about and we are still talking about letters of submission to protocols and conventions, and that's it."Peace negotiations are near collapse amid mutual accusations of bad faith. In the latest such episode, Abbas inked the 15 conventions in search of more leverage against Israel after it refused to free a batch of Palestinian prisoners under terms of a previous agreement. Israel, in turn, said it would not release those detainees without a Palestinian commitment to continue negotiations beyond an initial end-of-April deadline.U.S. officials criticized what they called "unhelpful, unilateral actions" by both sides.Abbas's limited self-rule administration in the Israeli-occupied West Bank is dependent on U.S. support. Around $500 million in annual aid to the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority helps keep its bloated public sector and security forces afloat.But Congress has repeatedly docked payments as punishment for Palestinian political decisions it disagrees with, including an earlier bid for statehood recognition. A 1990 law also bars U.S. funding to U.N. bodies which recognize a Palestinian state.The law put the United States in the awkward position of losing its right to vote in the cultural and educational body UNESCO last year after Palestinians acceded to it in 2011.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pleaded with a congressional foreign affairs committee last month to reassess its U.N. divestment policies - a sign of how badly his State Department wishes to avoid diplomatic damage arising from Palestinian moves."On the next issue of the U.N. waiver, please, I've got to tell you, this is a very one-sided event against us...whether or not the United States loses its vote and gets punished for (Abbas) going (to U.N. agencies) is irrelevant to him. He'll go, because it's a tool for him to be able to do things he hopes that, you know, make life miserable for Israel," Kerry said."They'll go again if they think it's in their best interests. And who will pay the price? The United States of America. We won't be able to vote."

"CLEVER"

Palestinians seek an independent state in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem - lands captured by Israel in a 1967 war. While all parties say negotiations are the best path to peace, Palestinians say they may eventually resort to international bodies to force the militarily vastly more powerful Israel to make concessions for peace.The U.N. General Assembly voted to recognize Palestine as a non-member state in 2012, entitling them to join the accords which Abbas signed up on Tuesday, including conventions against discrimination against women and for the rights of disabled people as well as the Geneva Conventions.They burden the Palestinians with few binding commitments on their government, which has been accused of corruption and abuses of detainees and journalists.Nor do they court retaliation by immediately empowering them to lodge legal complaints against Israel or rattle U.S. foreign policy, a senior U.N. official told Reuters." The nuclear option for Abbas would be to go for the International Criminal Court and International Atomic Energy Agency. Those are the ones that matter," the official said."(The latest signing is) actually quite a clever move. Abbas is saying that the Palestinians want to be part of the global community and improve its state building mechanisms by signing up to a load of well-meaning conventions. He can turn around and say, 'Why should Israel feel threatened by us signing a convention protecting women's rights?'"Peace moves by Abbas, a veteran negotiator who has chosen diplomacy over the violent militancy espoused by his predecessors and Palestinian rivals such as the Islamist Hamas, which controls Gaza, have not been welcomed by his countrymen.Campaigns for recognition at the United Nations, while mostly symbolic, have been praised by many Palestinians.The 78-year old president - who saw his term expire over five years ago but remains in office because of a stalemate with Hamas over conditions for the next elections - may have been keen to shore up his appeal after Israel over the weekend failed to free a fourth and final group of over two dozen Palestinian prisoners as part of a pledge to restart peace talks last year."That's when he reached his endpoint and said, 'I've got to do another measure that's going to improve my popularity,' and going to the U.N. has so far been successful in terms of boosting his popularity," said Diana Buttu, a former legal adviser to Palestinian peace negotiators."But as a measure, it's a weak one. He didn't go all the way to hold Israel accountable and he didn't abandon negotiations."(Additional reporting by Crispian Balmer in Jerusalem, editing by Mark Heinrich)

Palestinian official: Talks can continue, but only on borders-As US battles to save peace process, senior Fatah negotiator says ‘door still open,’ challenges Israel to produce map based on pre-1967 lines-By Stuart Winer and Rebecca Shimoni Stoil April 3, 2014, 9:30 am 25-The Times of Israel

Palestinian negotiators would be willing to continue peace talks with Israel, but only to discuss defining the borders of a future state, a senior Palestinian official said in comments published Thursday.The statement by top Fatah official Mohammed Shtayyeh came as the US scrambled to keep talks alive after each side accused the other of making unilateral moves to torpedo negotiations over the last few days.Speaking to Sky News Arabic on Wednesday, Shtayyeh, who resigned as a member of the Palestinian negotiating team in December, said the Palestinians were prepared to give talks another chance during April, but should they fail, they will seek to join 63 international organizations including the International Criminal Court.Returning to the negotiations “will be on the border only,” he said, challenging Israel to present a map based on the 1967 lines.Shtayyeh said that serious talks about the borders, a core issue, would prove that Israel and the US are sincere about reaching an agreement.Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians were scheduled to last until late April, but broke down earlier in the week after Israel balked at releasing a fourth round of prisoners, which Ramallah says was agreed to before the talks.Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas responded on Tuesday by applying for membership in 15 international bodies, many of which are UN-related, seemingly contravening an agreement not to turn to the United Nations as long as talks continued.The moves drew harsh responses from the US, with the White House accusing the sides of taking “tit-for-tat actions.”US mediator Martin Indyk convened emergency talks late Wednesday night between the two sides’ chief negotiators, Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and the PA’s Saeb Erekat.There was no word on the outcome of the meeting as of Thursday morning.A source close to the talks quoted by the Walla news website said the chances of success were “slim, but we’ll keep trying.”Shtayyeh said that while Abbas’s dramatic televised signing of the applications to join 15 international agencies on Tuesday night was in response to Israel’s stalling over the fourth phase of a series of promised prisoner releases, the “door for negotiations was still open till the end of the month.”He blamed the cancellation of a visit to the region by US Secretary of State John Kerry on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s duplicity over the prisoner release, saying the prime minister had assured Kerry nine times that he would indeed release the prisoners, but then reneged on the assurance.Yasser Abed Rabbo, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s executive committee, endorsed the Palestinian condition that talks focus on defining the borders of a state, but warned against meaningless gestures.“We can’t return to the empty routine, a search for a framework for talks — this empty routine which is negotiating about negotiating,” he said on Wednesday, according to Reuters.Despite the move to join international agencies, Abed Rabbo insisted that Abbas remained committed to the US peace efforts.“The Palestinian leadership… wants the political process to continue. But we want a real political process, without tricks,” he said.Livni termed Abbas’s applications to join the 15 treaties and conventions, which were formally submitted to UN and other officials on Wednesday morning, “a breach of [his] commitment” not to apply to UN bodies while the negotiations were continuing. “It harms Palestinian interests,” she said of the move. “If they want a state, they must understand it must pass through the negotiating room.”Israeli officials were quoted earlier Wednesday saying Abbas had “torpedoed” a nascent, complex, three-way deal under which Israel would have freed a final batch of 26-30 long-term Palestinian terror convicts and also released 400 more Palestinian security prisoners not guilty of violent crimes, peace talks would have extended beyond the current April 29 deadline, and the US would have released American-Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.Still, Livni said she believed talks would continue despite the crisis. ”We repeat and pledge that we will continue to fight for peace and stand like a fortified wall against the extremists, in the government as well, who are attempting to pass extreme legislation,” she said.Deputy Foreign Minister Ze’ev Elkin lambasted Livni for meeting with Erekat, saying it was “a disgrace to the State of Israel.”“The time has come to stop being the go-to sucker of the Middle East,” he said. “I call on the prime minister and Minister Livni to end the entire negotiation process so long as Abbas doesn’t withdraw his request from the United Nations, and unilaterally implement the many measures Israel has in order to convince the Palestinian leadership that it doesn’t pay for them to fight us in the international arena.”State Department Deputy Spokeswoman Marie Harf refused to implicate Abbas’s move as the sole factor in Kerry’s decision to cancel his Wednesday meeting.Harf would not answer questions Wednesday as to whether the State Department had been warned before Abbas made his Tuesday treaties and conventions move.“Over the last 24 hours there have been unhelpful actions taken on both sides,” Harf said, described a growing “sense over the last 36 hours that we didn’t think it was a conducive environment for the secretary to travel there right now.”Harf said that the coming days represented a critical stage for the talks. “This is one of the points in which both sides must make tough choices,” Harf warned, adding that the two sides “have made courageous decisions in the past” but that “we can’t make the tough decisions for them, they need to do it for themselves.”Acknowledging that “it’s an easy story to write that making Middle East peace is hard,” Harf also emphasized that “talks are not at a dead end. There is still a chance to move the process forward.” During the past eight months, the negotiations had succeeded in “narrowing gaps” between the parties, she argued, but would not specify on which topics.Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, meanwhile, said he did not know “if this is a real crisis or an imagined one” but that ”the ball is in the Palestinians’ court.” Should the Palestinians choose not to resume negotiations, Israel need not run after them with conciliatory gestures, he said. ”If you don’t want negotiations, that’s your decision,” he said.Liberman also said he would not vote for any deal that included freeing Israeli-Arab prisoners, who were reportedly slated to be part of 104 freed in exchange for peace talks.Netanyahu issued no immediate official response to Abbas’s move. But unnamed officials in Jerusalem were quoted by Channel 2 news saying Abbas’s application to join the 15 international treaties and conventions represented a “major breach” of his understandings with Israel and the US over peace negotiations, and that it indicated that there was now “almost no chance” of a Pollard-for-prisoners deal enabling the continuation of peace talks.Netanyahu was reported by Channel 2 to have mustered a cabinet majority in the course of Tuesday for a Pollard-for-prisoners deal, and to have been “shocked” to see the televised ceremony in which Abbas signed off on the various letters of accession. Palestinian officials denied that applying to join the treaties and conventions marked a breach of understandings, and said the PA was committed to continuing talks until the April 29 deadline. “This is the fulfillment of Palestine’s right and has nothing to do with negotiations or the reaching of an agreement,” the PLO’s negotiations department said in a statement.AFP contributed to this report.

Canada's Trudeau Accuses Harper of Pandering to Jewish Vote-Liberal party leader claims Prime Minister supports Israel to gain Jewish votes, calls for better ties with Iran.-By Dalit Halevy, Ari Yashar-First Publish: 4/3/2014, 4:36 PM-Israelnationalnews

In advance of the upcoming 2015 Canadian prime ministerial elections, Liberal party leader Justin Trudeau has claimed that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's policies reflect an effort to pander to the Jewish vote. Trudeau accused Harper of pursuing a staunchly pro-Israel foreign policy so as to gain Jewish votes, during an interview last Thursday with the Farsi-language weekly newspaper Salaam Toronto. The paper is read by Iranian-Canadians, and is widely recognized as being supportive of the Liberal party."Until the prime minister was chosen to be prime minister, he practically didn't travel abroad, and his position on foreign policy was from the point of view of 'can it advance my election campaign or not,'" claimed Trudeau to the paper, reports Shalom Toronto."His (Harper's) position on issues tied to Israel or to the United Nations is very much based on what can affect his standing in the ballot box," charged Trudeau.The Liberal party leader attacked Harper further, saying the crisis in Ukraine troubled him because of the presence of a large Ukrainian community in Canada that is worried about the crisis. Trudeau claimed Harper's visit with Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird to Ukraine was meant as a photo opportunity to gain more votes.Trudeau attacked Baird as well, saying his trips abroad were used to represent his Conservative party, and not Canada. In doing so, the Liberal leader charged Baird with harming Canada's openness and accountability.

Supporting ties with Iran

Speaking to the Iranian-Canadian paper, Trudeau slammed Canada's tough stance on Iran's nuclear program, saying "the Iranian people are different from the Iranian government. The current Canadian government isn't going to the root of the issue at all and doesn't under this. The most obvious example of this was the decision last year to close the (Canadian) embassy (in Tehran)."The embassy was in fact closed in September, 2012. While Trudeau recognized the security concerns that led to the decision, he espoused an approach of dialogue "with regimes we have opposing opinions with." He argued for keeping open communications with Iran, ostensibly to protect Iranian-Canadians in the Islamic regime."My approach to Canada is different," argued Trudeau, saying after he became leader of the Liberal party he traveled to Washington DC and took positions that "surprised many." The Liberal leader, after accusing Harper of calculated political decisions, claimed he hadn't voiced his opposition to Harper's opinions earlier so as to preserve a unified Canadian voice in the international arena.Trudeau, who is leading in polls for the election race, has in recent months argued that Canada should take a more "balanced line" regarding the Middle East, potentially signifying a shift away from support for Israel.While Trudeau has accused Harper of playing a political game for support with local Jews, he himself has spoken in favor of drawing closer to the large Muslim population in Canada.

Palestinian envoy threatens Israel with ICC membership-Without progress on peace talks, Riyad Mansour says Ramallah will look to join further international treaties and UN agencies
By AP, AFP and Times of Israel staff April 3, 2014, 2:52 am


The Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations said his government may seek to join the International Criminal Court and more UN agencies if there is no progress in peace talks with the Israelis.Riyad Mansour told a news conference Wednesday that the 15 international conventions the Palestinians are seeking to join were just a first group, and more could follow depending on Israel’s actions.In a surprise move, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday resumed a campaign for further international recognition of a state of Palestine, signing applications for the Palestinians to join 15 international treaties and conventions.The Palestinians had promised to suspend such efforts during nine months of peace negotiations with Israel, which are scheduled to end on April 29, but Mansour said Israel failed to release Palestinian prisoners as promised.The UN confirmed Wednesday that its special envoy on Mideast peace, Robert Serry, had received requests from Palestinian officials to join the various international conventions and treaties.Once these applications have been officially received at the UN headquarters, “we will be reviewing them to consider the appropriate next steps,” said Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.The requests come as peace talks between the Palestinians and Israelis are floundering, with Israel making a new bid to expand settlements in East Jerusalem and the Palestinians taking fresh steps towards seeking recognition of their desired state.“We hope a way can be found to see the negotiations through,” UN spokesman Haq said, noting that Serry had met Wednesday with chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat and Israeli Justice Minister and chief negotiator Tzipi Livni.Envoys from the “quartet” — the US, EU, UN, and Russia — also spoke with the relevant parties by telephone, he said.But Mansour said the requests were “a formality” and that their membership in the treaties would come into effect “30 days after the Secretary-General receives the letter of accession.”“What we did is legal,” he insisted, saying “it is our right” to join UN treaties and agencies, since the Palestinians obtained the status of an observer state in November 2012.

The Palestinian Authority has also asked Switzerland if it can join the Fourth Geneva Convention from August 1949 and the first additional protocol. And it has asked the Netherlands if it can join the Hague Convention of 1907 on laws and customs governing war.“Our inclusion in the Geneva convention will be effective immediately because we are under occupation,” Mansour claimed, adding that these applications are just a first wave, with more coming depending on “the interest of the Palestinian people” as well as “the behavior of Israel.”US Secretary of State John Kerry, who cancelled plans to fly in for talks with Abbas in Ramallah after the PA leader signed the treaty applications on Tuesday night, telephoned Abbas on Wednesday and was reported to have asked him to “keep the doors of negotiations open.” The US State Department said that Kerry spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well as to the Palestinian leader on Wednesday morning.Kerry’s special envoy Martin Indyk, meanwhile, convened emergency talks Wednesday night between Livni and Erekat.Livni termed Abbas’s applications to join the 15 treaties and conventions, “a breach of [his] commitment” not to apply to UN bodies while the negotiations were continuing. “It harms Palestinian interests,” she said of the move. “If they want a state, they must understand it must pass through the negotiating room.”Israeli officials were quoted earlier Wednesday saying Abbas had “torpedoed” a nascent, complex, three-way deal under which Israel would have freed a final batch of 26-30 long-term Palestinian terror convicts and also released 400 more Palestinian security prisoners not guilty of violent crimes, peace talks would have extended beyond the current April 29 deadline, and the US would have released American-Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.Still, Livni said she believed talks would continue despite the crisis. “We repeat and pledge that we will continue to fight for peace and stand like a fortified wall against the extremists, in the government as well, who are attempting to pass extreme legislation,” she said.Deputy Foreign Minister Ze’ev Elkin lambasted Livni for meeting with Erekat, saying it was “a disgrace to the state of Israel.”“The time has come to stop being the go-to sucker of the Middle East,” he said. “I call on the prime minister and Minister Livni to end the entire negotiation process so long as Abbas doesn’t withdraw his request from the United Nations, and unilaterally implement the many measures Israel has in order to convince the Palestinian leadership that it doesn’t pay for them to fight us in the international arena.”State Department Deputy Spokeswoman Marie Harf said that she was not aware of the plans for Livni and Erekat to meet, and refused to implicate Abbas’s move as the sole factor in Kerry’s decision to cancel his Wednesday meeting.Harf had told reporters Tuesday that Kerry would still travel to the region, but shortly after she concluded her press briefing, overseas members of Kerry’s team confirmed that the trip had been canceled. Harf would not answer questions Wednesday as to whether the State Department had been warned before Abbas made his Tuesday treaties and conventions move.“Over the last 24 hours there have been unhelpful actions taken on both sides,” Harf said, described a growing “sense over the last 36 hours that we didn’t think it was a conducive environment for the secretary to travel there right now.”Similarly, Harf would not detail which Israeli actions the State Department defined as so “unhelpful” as to justify a cancellation of Kerry’s trip. Although the Palestinians had complained in recent days that Israel did not release prisoners last weekend as agreed, Kerry’s Tuesday morning meeting with Netanyahu went ahead as planned even after the proposed release date had passed.Harf said that the coming days represented a critical stage for the talks. “This is one of the points in which both sides must make tough choices,” Harf warned, adding that both sides “have made courageous decisions in the past” but that “we can’t make the tough decisions for them, they need to do it for themselves.”Acknowledging that “it’s an easy story to write that making Middle East peace is hard,” Harf also emphasized that “talks are not at a dead end. There is still a chance to move the process forward.” During the past eight months, the negotiations had succeeded in “narrowing gaps” between the parties, she argued, but would not specify on which topics.Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, meanwhile, said he did not know “if this is a real crisis or an imagined one” but that “the ball is in the Palestinians’ court.” Should the Palestinians choose not to resume negotiations, Israel need not run after them with conciliatory gestures, he said. “If you don’t want negotiations, that’s your decision,” he said.Liberman also said he would not vote for any deal that included freeing Israeli-Arab prisoners.Netanyahu issued no immediate official response to Abbas’s move. But unnamed officials in Jerusalem were quoted by Channel 2 news saying Abbas’s application to join the 15 international treaties and conventions represented a “major breach” of his understandings with Israel and the US over peace negotiations, and that it indicated that there was now “almost no chance” of a Pollard-for-prisoners deal enabling the continuation of peace talks.Netanyahu was reported by Channel 2 to have mustered a cabinet majority in the course of Tuesday for a Pollard-for-prisoners deal, and to have been “shocked” to see the televised ceremony in which Abbas signed off on the various letters of accession.Channel 2′s diplomatic correspondent Udi Segal said that Kerry, who claimed on Tuesday that Abbas had not breached peace understandings because he had not sought to join UN-related agencies, seemed to be trying to “whitewash” the PA president’s move. While Kerry claimed on Tuesday that “None of the agencies that President Abbas signed tonight involve the UN,” most of the treaties and conventions are in fact related to UN agencies.Israeli Middle East analyst Ehud Ya’ari noted that the Palestinians had “heavier” diplomatic weapons in their armory that they had not yet chosen to use. He described Abbas’s move as “muscle-flexing” in response to Israel’s failure to release the fourth and final group of Palestinian terror convicts who had been set to go free last weekend. Israeli officials had balked at a PA demand for several Israeli-Arabs to be included in that group, and also insisted that Abbas first commit to extending peace talks past April — a demand Abbas refused.

Frustrated Kerry urges leadership from Israel PM, Abbas-By Hazel Ward 16 minutes ago-APR 3,14-Yahoonews

Jerusalem (AFP) - A frustrated US secretary of state demanded Thursday action from recalcitrant Israeli and Palestinian leaders, saying it was time for them to demonstrate leadership in the crisis-hit peace talks.But John Kerry acknowledged in Algiers that negotiators from the two sides had made "progress" in lengthy overnight talks in Jerusalem, also attended by the Americans.More than a year of intensive Kerry shuttle diplomacy appeared to be on the brink of collapse this week after Israel announced a fresh wave of settlement tenders and the Palestinians resumed moves to seek international recognition for their promised state.Washington expressed disappointment, describing them as "unhelpful, unilateral actions," but insisted diplomacy still had a chance.Speaking Thursday morning during a visit to Algeria, Kerry threw down the gauntlet to both sides, telling them it was time for compromise at what he called a "critical moment" in the peace talks."You can facilitate, you can push, you can nudge, but the parties themselves have to make fundamental decisions to compromise," he said."The leaders have to lead, and they have to be able to see a moment when it's there," he added, showing signs of frustration after his months-long peace efforts appeared to be in tatters.But Kerry said negotiators had made progress in trying to chart a path forward during a meeting that ran until 4:00 am."There is still a gap and that gap needs to close fairly soon."- 'Progress, but gap remains' -Ahead of the talks between US special envoy Martin Indyk, chief Israeli negotiator Tzipi Livni and her Palestinian counterpart, Saeb Erakat, Kerry had spoken by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, a US official said.Kerry said he would speak to both leaders again on Thursday."We are urging them to find the compromise that is critical to being able to move forward," he said. "The fight right now, the disagreement.. (is about) what you need to do in order to be able to continue to negotiate."The current crisis was triggered by Israel's refusal to release 26 Palestinian prisoners at the weekend.In response the Palestinians formally requested accession to several international treaties in a bid to unilaterally further their statehood claim.The overnight marathon meeting "focused on the necessity of releasing the prisoners," a Palestinian official told AFP on condition of anonymity.The official said that the applications for accession to several international treaties were "irreversible”.Each side accused the other of violating undertakings given when the current talks were launched under Kerry's sponsorship last July.“The ball is in Israel’s court now. It should release the prisoners,” former Palestinian negotiator Mohammed Shtayeh told AFP.The moves dealt a hammer blow to Kerry's frenetic efforts to broker an extension of the negotiations beyond their original April 29 deadline.
Despite the treaty move, Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Malki insisted that Abbas remained committed to the US peace efforts."This action does not detract from the importance of negotiations. We are still committed to these talks," he said Wednesday after presenting the requests.UN Middle East peace envoy Robert Serry confirmed receiving them, with a spokesman for the secretary general saying they would review them to consider the "appropriate next steps."The first treaty the Palestinians applied to was the Fourth Geneva Convention, which holds huge symbolic importance as it provides the legal basis of their opposition to Israeli settlements in the occupied territories.In Israel, there was surprise and anger over the Palestinian move."The Palestinians have returned to a diplomatic intifada," one political official told Yediot Aharonot newspaper on Thursday, using the Arabic word for uprising.Pro-government Israel HaYom daily said security officials did not believe the Palestinians wanted a breakdown of the talks."The Palestinians currently have no vested interest in a breakdown of the negotiations. Messages in that vein were relayed in talks that were held between security officials from both sides," it said.It also said efforts were underway to compile a list of more prisoners who could be freed should the sides agree to extend the talks.It added that top officials agree that the potential repercussions for Israeli security interests of a collapse in talks "will be far greater than the price that Israel will be required to pay for extending the negotiations for another period of time."

Gaza Snipers Target IDF Civilian Workers-Shots fired at workers near security fence, damage caused but none injured. Worker shot to death just last December.-By Ari Yashar-First Publish: 4/3/2014, 5:38 PM-Israelnationalnews

Arab snipers in Gaza shot at IDF civilian workers working near the security fence on Thursday. None were injured in the attack, although engineering equipment was damaged by the gunfire.The shooting comes just three weeks after terrorists in Gaza unleashed a barrage of rockets on Israel, raining down at least 100 missiles in three days.The unprecedented escalation was the largest-scale attack since the 2012 Operation Pillar of Defense, and led to calls to retake Gaza by IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, as well as Intelligence and Strategy Minister Yuval Steinitz,and Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman.An IDF civilian worker, 22-year-old Salah Shukri Abu Latif from the Israeli Arab town of Rahat, was shot dead by Gaza snipers last December as he was working on the security fence, repairing damage caused by a record-breaking snowstorm.Since that incident, the Defense Ministry has forbidden all work on the fence without wearing full protective gear, including a helmet and ceramic bulletproof vests. Any workers not wearing the protective gear are to be sent home immediately and not employed by the IDF according to the new guidelines."Before that shooting, a citizen could have said that he couldn't work with the ceramic (vest) or the helmet, and they gave them a dispensation, but today there is an order that workers must be sent home even if they have to be paid money," noted a captain in the Gaza Division to Maariv.The captain added that "today, already in briefings we tell them (workers) that the first time they are caught without protective gear they simply will go home. It harms our work, but the Ministry of Defense has agreed to pay the price in order to protect the lives of the workers."