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.GET
SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO
OTHER
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Palestinian victims describe being used as shields by Hamas
Members of a Gaza family whose farm was turned into a "fortress" by
Hamas fighters have reported that they were helpless to stop Hamas from
using them as human shields. They described how for years Hamas has used
their property and homes as shields for military installations from
which to launch rockets into Israel, dig tunnels and store arms.
According to the victims, those who tried to object were shot in the
legs by Hamas.
WHY IS OBAMA SUCH A ARAB-MUSLIM
SUPPORTER.AND WORSHIPS EVERY COMMUNIST MUSLIM LEADER THAT COMES TO THE
WHITE HOUSE.AND THIS IS THE REASON SO MANY AT THE WHITE HOUSE ARE
ARAB-MUSLIMS.
OBAMAS MAKEUP
50% ARAB
42% WHITE
08% BLACK
The following is the full text of the comments by Hamas
representative Fathi Hammad months before the war, articulating the
Hamas ideology to use civilians as human shields for Hamas fighters:"For
the Palestinian people death has become an industry, at which women
excel and so do all people on this land: the elderly excel, the Jihad
fighters excel, and the children excel. Accordingly [Palestinians]
created a human shield of women, children, the elderly and the Jihad
fighters against the Zionist bombing machine, as if they were saying to
the Zionist enemy: 'We desire death as you desire life.'"
ZEPHANIAH 2:1-7
1 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;
2
Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before
the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the
LORD’S anger come upon you.
3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the
earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek
meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’S anger.
4
For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive
out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.(ITS NO
ACCIDENT THAT IN THIS GAZA WAR ITS ASHKELON-ASHDOD AND THE MURDERER
HAMAS IN GAZA WERE MOST OF THE BOMBING ARE)(THIS IS PROPHECY COMING TO
PASS BIGTIME)
5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast,(GAZA) the
nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O
Canaan, the land of the Philistines,(PALESTINIANS) I will even destroy
thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.
6 And the sea coast (GAZA) shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
7
And the coast (GAZA) shall be for the remnant of the house of
Judah;(ISRAEL) they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon
shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit
them, and turn away their captivity.(BY THIS PROPHECY I PREDICT ISRAEL
WILL RETAKE GAZA SO ISRAELIS AROUND THE WORLD CAN IMMIGRATE THERE AND
BUILD HOMES AND LIVE)
ISAIAH 14:29-32
29 Rejoice not thou,
whole Palestina,(ARABS-PALESTINIANS) because the rod of him that smote
thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a
cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying
serpent.(BOMBS)(WARFARE)
30 And the firstborn of the poor shall
feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root
with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
31 Howl, O gate; cry, O
city; thou, whole Palestina,(ARABS) art dissolved: for there shall come
from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.
32
What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD
hath founded Zion,(JERUSALEM) and the poor of his people shall trust in
it.
IN DEPTH LOOK WERE RUSSIA-ARAB-MUSLIMS BURRIAL SPOT IN ISRAEL-JORDAN
http://philologos.org/bpr/files/h009.htm
2 PETER 3:8
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one
thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand
years as one day.
PSALMS 90:4
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
EVEN CREATION IS ONE THOUSAND YEARS IN JESUS SITE IS ONE DAY.SO ONE
DEAD ISRAELI TO ONE THOUSAND DEAD ENEMIES FITS RIGHT IN WITH
CREATION.THE WORLD GOES ON FOR 6 THOUSAND YEARS-THEN THE 7 THOUSANDTH
YEAR IS JESUS' RULE FROM JERUSALEM FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS-THEN
FOREVER.AND IN WAR IS THE SAME BY CREATION.FOR EVERY ONE DEAD
ISRAELI-ONE THOUSAND DEAD ENEMIES WILL OCCUR.
ISAIAH 30:17
17 A thousand will flee at
the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee away, till
you are left like a flagstaff on a mountaintop, like a banner on a
hill."
PSALMS 91:7
7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
LEVIDICUS 26:7-8
7 You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.
8
Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten
thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.
DEUTERONOMY 32:30
30
How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight,
except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
EZEKIEL 39:11-21
11 And it shall come to pass in that day,
that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA-ARAB-MUSLIMS) a place there of graves
in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it
shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog
and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of
Hamongog.(THE ARAB-MUSLIM-RUSSIA BURRIAL SPOT WILL BE EAST OF THE DEAD
SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to
them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing
through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the
face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall
they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a
man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have
buried it in the valley of Hamongog.
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every
feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves,
and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do
sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel,
that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the
princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all
of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall
see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon
them.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with
child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF
THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE
AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every
man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING
THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell
in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR
BRETHERN JEWS)
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH (BECAUSE OF SIN AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with
violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the
earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and,
behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
IS THIS TIME FOR ISRAEL TO GET SOME OF ITS PROMISED LAND BY GOD BY DESTROYING THE ARAB NATIONS AROUND ISRAEL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPXbRO9gfxY&list=UUkz3m787ygph7Uvjxzngl-g
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and
Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the
inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
And
here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either
through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and
only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this
land in the future.(ALL MOSTLY PSALMS 83 ARABS)
Egypt east of the
Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern
part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen
13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL
THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT
ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
SECOND ANGEL TO DR DOCTORIAN
The angel showed
me that the United Nations shall be broken in pieces because of the
crisis in the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.
Judaism:
Ki Tetsei: We Forget Amalek at Our Peril-The world would do well to
mirror the courage and decisiveness of the IDF in acting to “wipe out
the memory of Amalek from under the heavens.”Published: Thursday,
September 04, 2014 4:53 PM-Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Safran-ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWSWe
are incredible beings for so many reasons, perhaps none so much as our
ability to embody so many seeming contradictions with such ease. We are
both soul and flesh, corporeal and spirit. We are defined by our sense
of self, by our individuality, by the “I” yet we are lost unless that
“I” also exists as a “we”, unless we exist not just in the singular but
in the plural. We have the instincts of the brutes of the field but we
are also possessive of the ability to rise to the highest levels of
charity and grace.In the same way, each of us is granted at birth two
most precious – and seemingly contradictory – gifts, memory and
forgetfulness. Of these two, we often place the greater emphasis on
memory, for without memory, we simply do not exist in any way that makes
sense – personally or collectively. Who am I as an individual if not
the sum total of my experiences, which have meaning to me only by virtue
of my memory of them? As anyone who has ever visited or cared for an
Alzheimer’s patient knows only too well, when memories are gone or
inaccessible, the “self” too is gone. In a very significant way, we
cease to be if not for our memories.Memory. That most gracious of
gifts.Perhaps ISIS’s medieval cruelty has finally garnered the attention
of the civilized world to the immediate and ever-present danger of
Amalek.Or is it? As much as memory is the cornerstone upon which our
“self” is built; as much as it frustrates us to “lose” a name, or forget
where we left our car keys; as much as we covet the gift of true
memory, we should recognize that if we truly remembered everything we
would cease to be able to function. As much as we need to remember, we
also need to forget.If we remembered everything, we would not be able to
survive the memories of our early pains, our past humiliations,
yesterday’s insults and the embarrassments of our “trial and error” path
through life.It is a blessing to remember.It is an equal blessing to
forget.As in every contradiction that we embody, the difficulty is in
finding the meaningful balance between these two blessings, to find the
perfect balance between all we want and need to remember and all we want
and need to forget. There are times when we remember more than we care
to. There are other times when we forget more than we should; times
when we remember less than we desire, and forget less than we’d like.The
poet was on point when he wrote, “This world would be for us a happier
place and there would be less regretting if we would remember to
practice with grace the very fine art of forgetting.”Would that it
were! But that is the impetuous nature of these gifts; they are near
impossible to control. Given the importance of memory and forgetfulness
in our lives, it is small wonder that the Torah speaks to both.
Torah
relates four events that are always to be remembered.The Revelation at
Sinai must always be recalled and personally renewed. Sinai is both a
personal and a communal memory. However, its communal significance
evaporates into history without renewed personal relevance and meaning.
The punishment inflicted upon Miriam for speaking ill of her brother
must forever be remembered. In this instance, our recall helps us to
guard our tongues against the most insidious of communal crimes, the
crime of evil talk. This memory impels us to use our speech to uplift
rather than destroy.We are to remember the Sabbath. The apotheosis of
the week is the Sabbath. Our weekly activities are, in fact, activities
that drive us toward the Sabbath. We work for the Sabbath. We live
for the Sabbath. When we remember Shabbat on Monday and Wednesday, we
remember God, creation, revelation, the exodus from Egypt… all that is
holy. Thus, throughout the week, we declare that each day is the first,
or second, or third day towards the Sabbath. We remember! Finally, we
remember Amalek. Not just Amalek, the evil king, but Amalek, the evil
impulse within each and every human being.With these four explicit
commands to remember, the Torah emphasizes the importance of memory to
our individual and communal character. However, the Torah is also
cognizant that remembering is not always fully developed or refined.
Sometimes we simply can’t remember. Sometimes the gift of forgetfulness
dominates the gift of memory! Then what? Too often, remembering seems
to exist in opposition to forgetting. But the Torah’s goal in
remembering is not simply establishing an absence of forgetfulness.
The Torah never seeks the absence of something, rather the fullness of
something. The Torah asks for an active state of memory through an act
or a personal effort of memory. Truly recalling Sinai demands a
reliving of the event. Remembering Sinai can only be accomplished
through personal participation in Torah learning. In order to remember
Miriam’s transgression some have ordained that the verse detailing
Miriam’s punishment be recited daily after praying. The Ari noted that
in reciting the words L’hodot l’cha prior to the Sh’ma, one should
actually recall that one’s mouth was created not only to praise, but
also to refrain from lashon hara. In doing so, he actively recalls that
which occurred to Miriam.Remembering the Sabbath calls for a daily
declaration that today is the first or fourth day towards the Sabbath.
Or, on the weekdays if one acquired food or other goods that would be
appropriate or befitting for Shabbat, a declaration should be verbalized
– lich’vod Shabbat, “in honor of the Sabbath.”When asking us to
remember, the Torah does not rely on the whims and fragility of our
not-always-reliable gift of memory. Rather, the Torah seeks active
reinforcement, lest we forget. Active forgetfulness is harder to
achieve than passive remembering.Of these four commands to remember, the
first three bring with them grace and uplift. To remember the giving
of Torah, the Sabbath, even the need to refrain from speaking ill of
others all fill us with spiritual and social grace. However, the fourth
command, to remember evil, is a challenge.At the end of parashat Ki
Tetzei, before we are taught to recall the evil of Amalek, the Torah
sets the uncompromising standards of just and perfect weights and
measures. What is the connection? Rashi notes that “if you use false
weights and measures, then you must anticipate the provocation of the
enemy.” In other words, one can’t simply preach, teach, or recall that
one’s evil impulse and desire must be overcome. Passivity is no match
for our inner Amalek. Rather, he teaches, more than just remembering
through the absence of forgetfulness, one must act and react, with
honesty, integrity, with perfect and just weights and measures. It is
sometimes a burden to remember, but we can be sure that if we do not
remember the Amalek, the Amaek will remember us! It is an onerous burden
to have our days darkened by the recollection of evil. But looking
away, forgetting, is not an option. Evil is, as President Obama noted
in referring to ISIS, a cancer. It grows. It metastasizes. It never
sleeps. It never rests.We forget Amalek at our peril.The Torah teaches
that, “Amalek happened upon you on the way, and he struck those of you
who were hindmost, all the weaklings at your rear, when you were faint
and exhausted, and he did not fear God.” Devarim 25:18-Amalek takes the
hindmost first, but is never satisfied to stop there. As Pastor Martin
Niemoller wrote in response to the atrocities of the Holocaust:
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then
they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a
Jew.Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for
me.Eventually, Amalek comes for everyone.
Recently, we have been
witness to the gruesome, barbaric beheading of an American journalist,
James Foley, by the modern day Amalekits, ISIS. President Obama
acknowledged that ISIS has no place in the civilized world but he
emphasized that based on his understanding of history, “people like ISIS
will ultimately fail.”Perhaps. But only if we remember.When confronted
by Amalek, there is no place for hand-wringing or moralizing. There is
the absolute imperative to remember, for to “not remember”, to forget
is to look into the face of doom. We must remember so that we respond
to Amalek without hesitation or diplomatic niceties and “wipe out the
memory of Amalek from under the heaven - you shall not forget.”Those of
us whose families perished at the hands of another Amalek should never
be comforted by gentle words; no lesson about the curve of history
bending toward good should ease our concern. Amalek – evil – does not
simply disappear. United Nations blather will not diminish Amalek’s
gathering strength. Yes, Amalek will “fail”. Ultimately, Amalek will
always fail.But at what cost? If we wait until Amalek grows in strength,
the anguish and grief we endure will grow as well. The only modern day
approach to Amalek is the one demonstrated by the grandchildren of
those who experienced only too well what happened when the world chose
not to remember what Amalek does, the IDF.The world would do well to
mirror the courage and decisiveness of the IDF in acting to “wipe out
the memory of Amalek from under the heavens.” At the very least, the
“civilized world” should be rising as one, applauding the IDF.Instead,
we get handwringing. We hear urgent calls to stop the IDF and leave
Amalek to continue to metastasize.On his weekly blog (RabbiWein.com),
Rabbi Berel Wein, notes that, “In 1941, the Germans occupied the town of
Kelm in Lithuania. The town was famous in Jewish life because of the
presence there of a famed yeshiva that embodied mussar – Jewish holy
ethics and moral behavior towards man and God. The Germans destroyed the
entire town, executed its Jewish population and killed the students and
teachers at the yeshiva, burying many of them alive.“It was there, and
in other similar places as well, that good met evil head on. In the
short run, it appeared that Amalek triumphed. It may always appear that
evil wins out – witness our world of terror, genocide, fraud and
malevolent hypocrisy. But in the long run, it is good that triumphs and
survives.“Evil carries with it a very heavy price that consumes all
those associated with it. Amalek’s victories, vicious and
all-encompassing as they appear, are still only temporary. The Torah
tells us that the Lord fights Amalek, so to speak, ‘from generation to
generation.’” Evil never gives in.Perhaps ISIS’s medieval cruelty has
finally garnered the attention of the civilized world to the immediate
and ever-present danger of Amalek.Perhaps, the world will heed the words
of Prime Minister Netanyahu when he recently told his Cabinet, “Many
states in the region and in the West are beginning to understand that
this is a single front, that Hamas is ISIS and ISIS is Hamas. They act
in the same way. They are branches of the same poisonous tree. They are
two extremist Islamic terrorist movements that abduct and murder
innocents, that execute their own people, that shrink at nothing
including the willful murder of children. In recent days we heard from
Hamas spokesmen that they admit to what we have been saying all along,
that they murdered [the three Israeli teens] Eyal, Gilad and
Naftali.“Both movements are, in effect, making an effort to establish
Islamic rule, caliphates, without human rights, across wide areas, by
slaughtering minorities....With every passing day the world understands
more and more that Hamas operates like ISIS and that ISIS operates like
Hamas. The State of Israel will continue to stand alongside the
civilized world in its war against extremist and violent Islam.”Amalek
lives in our days. For students of history and Torah, this is no
surprise.
Netanyahu: Steven was Murdered Because He
Symbolized the West-PM Netanyahu sends condolences to the family of
journalist Steve Sotloff, who was beheaded by IS terrorists.By Hezki
Ezra-First Publish: 9/5/2014, 12:13 AM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWSPrime
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday sent his condolences to the
family of journalist Steve Sotloff, who was beheaded by terrorists from
the Islamic State.“Steven was murdered because for the terrorists he was
a symbol of the West – the same culture that extremist Islam wants to
eradicate,” Netanyahu said, speaking at an event marking the 40th
anniversary of the Yamam counter-terrorism police unit.“Extremist Islam
sees Israel, the U.S. and the free world as partners in liberal
democracy, which it would like to see gone from the world,” he
continued.“I think that there is the beginning of a certain waking up
and today many people around the world understand better than in the
past that the threats to Israel are the same threats to them and that
whoever does not nip these threats in the bud will, in the end, find
them in their own house," said Netanyahu.“Hamas, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda,
the Islamic State, Al-Nusra, Boko Haram and the like are all tentacles
of the violent Islamist terrorism which is full of hatred,” he said. “We
have seen it - one time the abduction and murder of young boys, one
time it is firing rockets indiscriminately on peaceful citizens, one
time it is the execution in the town square of people falsely accused of
having helped us during Operation Protective Edge, and now we also see
other cases, the entire world can see horrific acts of mass murders,
beheadings, and slitting of throats.”It was revealed on Wednesday that
Sotloff was also an Israeli citizen, who made aliyah to Israel in 2005
by himself, and studied at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC)
Herzliya.Sotloff’s family later said via a spokesman that Steve had been
“pulled by the Arab world” to “tell the stories of those who didn't
have anyone else to tell them.”“He was no war junkie, he did not want to
be a modern day Lawrence of Arabia. He merely wanted to give voice to
those who had none. Their story was Steve's story, he ultimately
sacrificed his life to tell their story,” family friend Barak Barfi
said.
Israel says it gagged reports captive Sotloff was its citizen-Reuters-By Dan Williams-SEPT 4,14-YAHOONEWSJERUSALEM
(Reuters) - Israel said on Thursday it had prevented local media from
reporting that slain U.S. journalist Steven Sotloff was also an Israeli
citizen, in a bid to reduce the risk to him after he was seized by
Islamist insurgents in Syria last year.Islamic State, a militant group
which has overrun large areas of Syria and Iraq, released a video this
week of Sotloff being beheaded, calling the execution retaliation for
U.S. air strikes. His Israeli dual nationality was made public after the
White House authenticated the footage.Sotloff immigrated in 2005 to
Israel, whose government became aware of his second citizenship "at an
early stage" of his captivity, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman
said."The censors issued a gag order against reporting that he was an
Israeli citizen. We are also in close touch with the United States on
this entire matter, both ISIS (Islamic State) and the journalist
Sotloff," he told Israel's Channel 10 TV.Israel's military censors are
empowered to preemptively block media stories deemed harmful to national
security.Lieberman sidestepped a question on whether Israel had tried
to rescue Sotloff, noting only that "there have been attempts, both
American and European, to free hostages. To my regret these attempts did
not succeed."Under Israeli law, citizens who travel to enemy states
such as Syria with second passports are subject to prosecution on their
return. If they fall captive, the Israeli government is not required to
take action for their repatriation, experts say."I know of no protocol
whereby Israel is compelled to get involved in such instances," said
Boaz Ganor, head of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism at
IDC Herzliya, a college near Tel Aviv where 31-year-old Sotloff had
studied.Ganor noted, however, that there could be case-by-case
exceptions such as Israel's 2004 release of Arab security prisoners in
exchange for Elhanan Tenenbaum, a retired Israeli army colonel who was
abducted by Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas while on an illegal trip to
Dubai. The bodies of three Israeli soldiers killed by Hezbollah were
also recovered in that deal.A senior Israeli official briefed on
intelligence affairs told Reuters he had no knowledge of any effort by
the government to rescue Sotloff, who was kidnapped in Syria in August
2013."But I do know that he shouldn't have gone to such places," said
the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.Sotloff had
contributed stories to several Israeli media outlets.Israel on Wednesday
officially outlawed Islamic State in what local television station
Channel 2 said was a response to Western intelligence reports that
several Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip had
joined the group.Lieberman said some among Israel's 20-percent Arab
minority had also shown solidarity with Islamic State."ISIS in not an
immediate military threat on Israel, but there is no doubt that the ISIS
ideology is spreading, and this is no less a dangerous matter. To my
regret we have already seen identification with ISIS and ISIS flags,
both within the State of Israel, in Arab Nazareth and in other places,"
he said.(Writing by Dan Williams; editing by Andrew Roche)
Palestinians put Gaza reconstruction cost at $7.8 billion-Reuters-SEPT 4,14-YAHOONEWS-By Noah BrowningRAMALLAH
West Bank (Reuters) - Rebuilding Gaza will cost $7.8 billion, the
Palestinian Authority said on Thursday, in the most comprehensive
assessment yet of damage from a seven-week war with Israel during which
whole neighborhoods and vital infrastructure were flattened.The cost of
rebuilding 17,000 Gazan homes razed by Israeli bombings would be $2.5
billion, the Authority said, and the energy sector needed $250 million
after the Strip's only power plant was destroyed by two Israeli
missiles."The attack on Gaza this time had no precedent, Gaza has been
hit with a catastrophe and it needs immediate help because many things
can't wait long," Mohammed Shtayyeh, a Palestinian economist and a
senior member of the West Bank's dominant Fatah party, told reporters in
Ramallah.Rebuilding Gaza would depend heavily on foreign aid and would
require an end to Palestinian rivalry and Israel opening its border
crossings, said Shtayyeh, who heads the Palestinian Economic Council for
Research and Development (PECDAR) which ran the survey.But none of the
factors mentioned by Shtayyeh appeared forthcoming. A donor conference
in Cairo has yet to be formally scheduled, Palestinian institutions
remain divided between Gaza and the West Bank and Israel has yet to
fundamentally ease the movement of people and goods at its Gaza
border.The PA's assessment also found that the Strip's education sector
would need around $143 million to get back on its feet. About half a
million children have been unable to return to their schools due to
damage or because the buildings are being used to house refugees.Over
106,000 of Gaza's 1.8 million residents have been displaced to U.N.
shelters and host families, the U.N. says.The remaining billions of
dollars in the PECDAR assessment, which was compiled by 13 experts
resident in Gaza and their research teams, were allocated to the
financial, health, agriculture, and transportation sectors, all of which
suffered widespread damage during the war.The assessment also earmarked
$670 million for an airport and sea port, which Shtayyeh said was a
Palestinian right, but Israel has so far rejected.Fighting between
Israel and the Islamist militant group Hamas in Gaza killed over 2,100
Palestinians, most of them civilians, along with 64 Israeli soldiers and
five civilians.A ground incursion and bombing from the land, air and
sea caused huge destruction in Gaza, while Palestinian rocket fire drove
many Israelis from border communities, hit Israel's summer tourism
revenues and briefly shut down its main airport.In the week since an
Egyptian-mediated ceasefire took hold on August 26, little progress has
been made in getting the rebuilding underway or settling the bitter
political rifts around Gaza.An international donor conference jointly
chaired by Egypt and Norway has yet to be formally scheduled, and Israel
has not fundamentally changed its curbs on the movement of people and
goods, especially crucial building materials, on Gaza's border.The
cash-strapped Palestinian Authority barely has enough money to pay its
own employees in the West Bank and has no immediate plans to pay
employees in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, despite a unity pact signed
between Fatah and Hamas in April."The Authority needs to be able to work
as an authority to become completely responsible for all aspects of
life in Gaza," Shtayyeh told reporters.(Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)