JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T
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1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST
FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the
firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of
the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the
adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
EZEKIEL 39:1-2,11-17
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
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 (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) 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,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) 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.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
Ya’alon: Netanyahu was prepared to cede Jordan Valley-Likud party spars with former defense minister after he claims PM was willing to part with strategic area in peace deal-By Ilan Ben Zion July 27, 2016, 7:48 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon traded barbs with the Likud party Wednesday after claiming that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed to cede control over the Jordan Valley as part of a peace deal with the Palestinians. Netanyahu’s Likud party dismissed the allegation.In a speech at Bar Ilan University, Ya’alon said that unlike Netanyahu, “I wouldn’t give up complete Israeli control over the Jordan Valley and Jewish settlements in the West Bank and all of Jerusalem.”Throughout the last round of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians that ended in a stalemate in 2014, Netanyahu insisted that Israel maintain a long-term military presence in the Jordan Valley under any agreement with the Palestinians. But Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas publicly stated that he would only accept a three-year Israeli presence in the strategic region running along the border with Jordan.During the nine-month-long negotiations with the Palestinians, Ya’alon dismissed the American security proposal as “not worth the paper it’s written on” in a closed-door meeting with colleagues leaked to the press. “Only our continued presence in Judea and Samaria and on the Jordan River will ensure that Ben Gurion Airport and Netanya will not become targets for missiles from every which way,” he said at the time.“Among us on the right there are leaders today who would be satisfied with military presence alone,” he said. “Where have we come?”Ya’alon, a former IDF chief of staff and Netanyahu’s defense minister for over three years, until his dismissal earlier this year in a cabinet reshuffle, has since butted heads with his former political ally, throwing down the gauntlet earlier this summer with an announcement that he’d challenge Netanyahu for the premiership in the next elections.The Likud party shot back at its former senior member, saying, “This is the same [Ya’alon] who said over the course of a few months that Iran was a concern for the existence of Israel, and when the defense portfolio was taken from him he changed his version.“He’s prepared to say anything today for someone to remember he exists,” the party said in a statement. “We won’t be surprised if next week he says that Netanyahu accepted the Uganda Scheme and that thanks to him we remained in Israel, just to grab some more headlines.”The party was alluding to the plan in the early 1900s to establish a Jewish state in British East Africa instead of Ottoman Palestine, which was ultimately rejected by the Zionist Congress.Ya’alon shot back sardonically on Twitter, saying Netanyahu “accepted the Uganda Scheme, and only thanks to me we remained in Israel. Someone here is under pressure.”
Mashaal: Hamas is no IS, will accept state based on ’67 lines-Palestinian terror group’s political chief rejects terrorist label, even as he justifies rocket fire from civilian areas, demands ‘right of return’-By Times of Israel staff July 27, 2016, 3:07 pm
Khaled Mashaal does not believe that Hamas is a terrorist organization, and would be prepared to accept a Palestinian state along the pre-1967 lines with Jerusalem as its capital and with the “right of return” for Palestinian refugees, he told India’s English-language New Delhi Television (NDTV) station .Speaking from his home in Doha, Qatar in an interview aired on July 18, Mashaal stated that Hamas would accept a Palestinian state along 1967 borders.“We are keen to unify the Palestinian front, the Arab front and attract the support of the world for our rights. And that’s why we have agreed in consensus among us Palestinians on a national program that is supported by the Arabs on establishing a sovereign independent Palestinian state along the lines of the 1967 borders, with Jerusalem as the capital, with the right of return for the Palestinians in exile,” he said, according to a translation provided by NDTV. His statement contradicts the infamous Hamas charter, which states that the movement “strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine.” The Palestinian demand for a “right of return” for millions of Palestinians — refugees and their descendants — would also remake Israel’s demography and wipe out its Jewish majority, and as such is a demand flatly rejected by Israeli governments.Hamas, which is designated a terror group by Israel and the US, has been the de facto ruler of the Gaza Strip since it seized power in a bloody internecine battle against Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement in 2007.Mashaal rejected comparison to the Islamic State and dismissed claims that Hamas is a terrorist organization. There is, he said, a fundamental difference between “legitimate resistance” and terror on the basis of religion.“[Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu and the Israelis have always thrown those allegations against our people, since they are the real terrorists,” he said. “There is a vast difference between us as a national liberation movement, a legitimate resistance against [Israeli] occupation, which is a right reserved for all people under occupation in international law, in the divine faiths, in all human experience. We are against those random killing extremist movements who are killing on the basis of religion or faith or sect.”In the past, Mashaal has, however, praised terror numerous occasions, and as recently as last December reiterated that jihad is the only option available to his people.“The Palestinians have reached the realization that negotiations with the (Israelis) are useless,” he said during a visit to the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lampur on December 10. “The so-called peace process is futile. There is no peace. Only the path of jihad, sacrifice, and blood (will bear fruit).”In his recent interview, Mashaal also defended Hamas fighters’ practice in Gaza of using human shields and its habit of firing rockets from civilian areas indiscrimnately into Israel — most recently during the 2014 conflict with the IDF, known by Israelis as Operation Protective Edge.“Gaza is a very small area… condensed with its occupants,” he said. “The resistance has the right to choose places where they can cover up their defensive weaponry to respond to the aggression of the enemy.”Despite his ostensible willingness for compromise, Mashaal said that negotiations with Israel were currently doomed to fail due to Israeli intransigence.“The Palestinian Authority is negotiating. It has been engaging in this process for a long time,” he said. “But the Israelis are denying them that basis [for a deal]. That’s why the negotiation process has been useless. It’s just been a mirage for repression.”
Palestinians gear up to sue the UK – over 1917 Balfour Declaration-PA top diplomat tells Arab League that Britain is responsible for all ‘Israeli crimes’ committed since the end of the mandate in 1948-By Times of Israel staff and AFP July 25, 2016, 8:47 pm
The Palestinian Authority is preparing a lawsuit against the British government over the issuing of the 1917 Balfour Declaration that paved the way for the creation of the State of Israel.The PA’s Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki told Arab League leaders gathered in Mauritania Monday that London is responsible for all “Israeli crimes” committed since the end of the British mandate in 1948.Signed by British Foreign Secretary Lord Arthur James Balfour in 1917, the declaration was seen as giving the Zionist movement official recognition and backing on the part of a major power, on the eve of the British conquest of the then-Ottoman territory of Palestine.The decision, al-Malki said, “gave people who don’t belong there something that wasn’t theirs.”There was no immediate reaction from Britain.A report in the official Wafa news agency did not note where the PA plans to file the lawsuit.Last year, a group calling itself the Popular Palestinian Campaign to Sue the United Kingdom sued the UK in an Egyptian court.In 2008, a Palestinian youth group said it would attempt to sue the UK over the Balfour Declaration in Britain or in the ICC.It was not clear if either effort bore fruit.On Monday, the Arab League summit, despite splits over Iran and Turkey, was cut back to a single day due to the ongoing absence of the heavyweight leaders of Egypt and Saudi Arabia.Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi stayed at home because of “a busy domestic schedule” — amid unconfirmed reports of an assassination plot against him — while Saudi King Salman’s no-show was due to “health reasons,” an Arab League source told AFP.Mauritania’s head of state Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who is hosting the summit, slammed the “blind violence of terrorists,” as well as foreign interventions that feed instability in the Arab world.The Mauritanian president also called for fresh efforts to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying that regional instability would continue until the issue was settled.Arab foreign ministers meeting ahead of the summit on Saturday urged a “definitive solution” to the conflict and welcomed a French and Egyptian initiative to help revive dormant peace talks.Joshua Davidovich contributed to this report.
In Netanyahu’s new illustrated world, Israel has just five enemies-The PM this week prepared a map to show MKs how he sees Israel’s place among the nations. It makes for fascinating, and surprisingly optimistic, viewing-By Raphael Ahren July 27, 2016, 4:17 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu loves maps. Considering them a helpful tool to illustrate his view of global affairs, he often brings them along to public speeches, to briefings with the press and to hearings in the Knesset.“May I reveal to the members of the press that there is a big map in my office, and it’s been made bigger,” he said last week during a meeting with Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes in Jerusalem. “It used to be the Middle East. Now it encompasses a good chunk of the Eastern hemisphere.”The map of the world Netanyahu brandished Monday at the Knesset State Control Committee, where he defended his foreign policy record, offers some valuable insights into his view of Israel’s place among the family of nations. (A quarter-century ago, as he was rising to become the leader of the then-Likud opposition, Netanyahu published a book entitled, “A Place Among the Nations: Israel in the World.”) The map, a copy of which was made available to The Times of Israel, is meant to highlight positive trends in Israel’s foreign relations. It divides the world’s countries into different categories: those with which Jerusalem has “recently developed/upgraded” relations are marked in red; states that entertain “good relations” with Israel are in blue; and “overtly hostile enemy states” are in black. With the rest of the world, in green, “Israel does not have special relations,” according to the prime minister’s aides, who created the map especially for Monday’s Knesset session.The prime minister is widely regarded as having a fairly bleak outlook when it comes to the international community’s relations with Israel, or perhaps more accurately as regards the dependability of certain allies, but his new map actually belies this. Drawn up for the specific political purpose of asserting that global ties are flourishing under the current foreign minister (Netanyahu), the multi-colored message, overall, is that Israel has lots and lots and lots of friends. And, most remarkably, that even among those nations that might think of themselves as deeply hostile to the Jewish state, only very few are deemed to merit the black mark of a real enemy.The countries in red are those the prime minister sought to highlight as they ostensibly prove the success of his foreign policy. Those eye-catching red patches indicate improved ties with diplomatic and economic powerhouses such as Japan, China, Russia, South Korea, Singapore and India; increasing cooperation with Greece and Cyprus; normalization with Turkey; and robust ties with Azerbaijan, which Netanyahu plans to visit soon. A striking omission from this category is Egypt, which the map shows in green despite a noticeable rapprochement between Cairo and Jerusalem.Ten countries in Africa are colored red: Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, (states Netanyahu visited earlier this month) Tanzania (which recently announced its intention to open its first-ever embassy in Israel), Guinea (which last week re-established diplomatic ties with Jerusalem after a 49-year hiatus), Chad (where Foreign Ministry director-general Dore Gold visited last week), South Sudan, Zambia and Ivory Coast.In August 2015, Netanyahu declared Latin America to be “one of the main objectives of the State of Israel in the context of its efforts to develop markets that will contribute to increasing economic growth.” As things stand, on his map, only three countries there are marked red: Colombia, Paraguay and Argentina.Brazil, the world’s seventh largest economy — with which Israel seeks to further develop commercial ties, but with which it had a diplomatic falling out over the aborted appointment of ex-settler leader Dani Dayan — appears in green, signifying the absence of “special relations.”Mexico, Chile, Panama and South Africa — countries that have full diplomatic ties with Israel and significant Jewish communities — are likewise in green.There are plenty of obvious and some interesting inclusions among the countries colored blue on Netanyahu’s map, signaling “good relations” with Israel: The United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand (despite a recent diplomatic spat) and all of Europe — East and West — despite ongoing tension over the European Union’s critical approach to Israeli policies vis-a-vis the Palestinians and other differences.But two European countries are singled out as a little less friendly than the others: Sweden and Ireland appear in light blue, illustrating their particularly critical attitudes toward Israel. Sweden is the only Western European nation that recognized a Palestinian state, but what Ireland did to deserve a lighter shade of blue than similarly pro-Palestinian EU member states is somewhat unclear. (Denmark is also in light blue but this appears to be a technical error).“Today Israel is perceived more and more as an asset and an influencing element in the world because of our war on terror and our technological achievements,” Netanyahu told the State Control Committee on Monday.”We have achieved free trade with China, a 30 percent increase in trade with India, an agreement with Japan on protecting rigs, military coordination with Russia, initial ties with a host of African countries, heads of state visiting Israel for the first time, the normalization of ties with Turkey, and every week I meet with four heads of state. Israel’s foreign policy is a great success,” he declared.A map Netanyahu showed the 2015 AIPAC summit in Washington, DC, to illustrate Iran’s ‘tentacles of terror’-And what about those countries that do not perceive Israel as an asset and a positive influence? On his map, which he waved around several times during Monday’s two-hour session, only five countries are colored in black, thus identified as enemy states: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and North Korea. (Lebanon’s status is indiscernible). Perhaps most instructive about this category is those nations it does not include: Yemen, Saudi Arabia (both countries Israelis are forbidden by law from entering), Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Sudan, Pakistan, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Indonesia, Cuba, Venezuela and other states with which Israel does not have diplomatic ties.Thus one conclusion students of Netanyahu’s map might be forgiven for drawing is this: Israel has plenty of friends in the world — about 30 old friends, 20 new friends, countless of potential future friends — and very, very few enemies.
Sanders campaign chair: Bernie wants ‘fresh thinking’ on Israel-Palestinian conflict-After endorsing Hillary Clinton, Vermont senator seeks to give US policy on region ‘a new look,’ Jeff Weaver says-By Eric Cortellessa July 27, 2016, 6:01 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
PHILADELPHIA — Shortly after Bernie Sanders unequivocally endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at the party’s national convention Monday night, his campaign chair said the Vermont senator would continue to encourage “fresh thinking” on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.While the Sanders camp has taken steps in recent days to project an image of party unity and shepherd its grassroots base into the Clinton coalition for the general election, Jeff Weaver acknowledged that differences remained between the former rivals vis-a-vis the region, but that Sanders would “stress issues where they are very much together.”Sanders does not intend to highlight any variations between his camp’s stance on the Israel-Palestinian conflict and that of the former secretary of state during the coming five months, Weaver said, but would advocate the US policy take “a new look” on the enduring issue.“He knows we’ll have to work through this,” Weaver told The Times of Israel on Tuesday. “It’s a very difficult situation over there, obviously. It’s very complicated. And it’s a situation we’re going to have to work through.”During his speech here, Sanders tried to persuade his base to back Clinton in November by providing a litany of shared policy priorities, like expanding Americans’ access to healthcare, opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade accord and combating climate change.“If you look at one issue after the other issue in terms of who the candidate is that we need to lead this country, there is no debate,” Sanders told his supporters. “The choice in this campaign is very, very clear, and I think the overwhelming majority of my supporters will see it that way.”He did not mention matters of foreign policy; Weaver indicated that those differences were far less acute than Sanders’s differences with Republican nominee Donald Trump, which is what the self-avowed democratic socialist wants to highlight from now until November.He would, however, be willing to advocate his policy positions, but more likely so after Clinton secures the White House. “It’s a problem that needs a new look,” he said. “There hasn’t been a lot of progress in recent years, and I know that Sen. Sanders thinks we have to kick-start it, so I’m sure he’ll have that discussion with Sec. Clinton if there’s a time when he feels that’s appropriate.”During the primary, Clinton and Sanders clashed on the Israel issue, with Sanders accusing his former rival of not putting enough focus on the plight of the Palestinians in her speech at the AIPAC Policy Conference. “I heard virtually no discussion at all about the needs of the Palestinian people,” Sanders said. “Almost none in that speech.”They also differed on how to classify Israel’s military operations during the 2014 war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, with Sanders calling Israel’s conduct “disproportionate” and Clinton defending the Jewish state’s right to defend itself from indiscriminate rocket attacks.But none of those disputes have been on display between the two campaigns this week, as they have attempted to join forces, even after DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned amid an email scandal that proved a bias for Clinton during the primary and revealed internal deliberations over how to undermine Sanders’ candidacy.Weaver, for his part, said Sanders supporters should not linger on those revelations, despite his having accused the DNC of playing favorites for months.“Debbie Wasserman Schultz has resigned, it’s time to move on,” he said. “It’s time to unify the party and go out and beat Donald Trump. And that’s what we’re going to do.”
Protesters burn Israeli flag outside Democratic convention-Demonstrators in Philadelphia chant ‘Long live the intifada,’ also set light to pro-Bernie Sanders fliers-By AP July 27, 2016, 9:05 am-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
PHILADELPHIA — Protesters set an Israeli flag on fire and chanted “Long live the intifada” outside of the Democratic National Convention site in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, as others clashed with police.A woman wearing a black bandana on her face lit the flag on fire, as protests continued outside of the secure zone around the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. Someone stood nearby waving a Palestinian flag.Protesters also set alight pro-Bernie Sanders fliers that were hanging on steel fencing around the site.Meanwhile, die-hard Sanders loyalists demonstrated inside and outside the Wells Fargo Center, where the convention is taking place, and clashed with police after Hillary Clinton won the party’s presidential nomination Tuesday.Despite calls by the liberal Vermont senator for them to support the nominee, thousands of activists have taken to the streets during the convention to voice support for Sanders and his progressive agenda.Moments after Clinton became the first woman to ever be nominated for president by a major US political party, a large group of Sanders delegates and supporters exited the site to hold a sit-in inside a media tent. Some had their mouths taped shut. A few spontaneously sang the chorus of the folk song “This Land Is Your Land,” and a banner read “We the people.” They said they were holding a peaceful protest to complain about being shut out by the Democratic Party.“This was not a convention. This was a four-day Hillary party. And we weren’t welcome,” said Liz Maratea, a New Jersey delegate at the media tent protest. “We were treated like lepers.”In the streets outside, Sanders supporters who had spent the day protesting began facing off with police. Protesters began scaling eight-foot-high walls blocking off the secure zone around the arena parking lot, and several were detained. An officer sprayed one of the protesters.
Israeli archaeologist says he was attacked on Temple Mount-Two Jerusalem Islamic Waqf members arrested after clash with group visiting Jerusalem holy site-By Stuart Winer and Ilan Ben Zion July 27, 2016, 2:48 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Two members of the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf were arrested Wednesday after allegedly attacking Israeli archaeologist Zachi Dvira on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem.A group of six Israeli archaeologists were attacked by eight Waqf members as the they toured the holy site, the Hebrew language Ynet website reported. The clash began after the Israeli group refused to leave the compound when ordered to do so by the Waqf personnel.Dvira, who is in involved in the Temple Mount sifting project, told Ynet “it looked like the start of a lynching.” He was not injured in the assault.The two Waqf members were taken away for questioning by police.Israeli archaeologists say Waqf workers have carted off hundreds of tons of artifact-laden earth from the Temple Mount during renovations and construction work in the compound that also contains the al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock.A project, led by Dvira and others, to sift through debris dumped in the Kidron Valley outside the Old City has rescued many artifacts from the Second Temple and other periods.Jews regard the Temple Mount as their holiest site, where the First and Second Temple were located. Muslims call it the Noble Sanctuary and regard it as their third holiest site after Mecca and Medina. According to the existing arrangement, the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf, or trust, administers the Temple Mount complex.There have been frequent and often violent clashes between Arab protesters and Jews over Jewish rights to visit the site. Jews are not allowed to pray there, under arrangements agreed by Israel after it captured the area in the 1967 war.
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
EZEKIEL 39:1-2,11-17
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
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 (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) 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,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) 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.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
Ya’alon: Netanyahu was prepared to cede Jordan Valley-Likud party spars with former defense minister after he claims PM was willing to part with strategic area in peace deal-By Ilan Ben Zion July 27, 2016, 7:48 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon traded barbs with the Likud party Wednesday after claiming that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed to cede control over the Jordan Valley as part of a peace deal with the Palestinians. Netanyahu’s Likud party dismissed the allegation.In a speech at Bar Ilan University, Ya’alon said that unlike Netanyahu, “I wouldn’t give up complete Israeli control over the Jordan Valley and Jewish settlements in the West Bank and all of Jerusalem.”Throughout the last round of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians that ended in a stalemate in 2014, Netanyahu insisted that Israel maintain a long-term military presence in the Jordan Valley under any agreement with the Palestinians. But Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas publicly stated that he would only accept a three-year Israeli presence in the strategic region running along the border with Jordan.During the nine-month-long negotiations with the Palestinians, Ya’alon dismissed the American security proposal as “not worth the paper it’s written on” in a closed-door meeting with colleagues leaked to the press. “Only our continued presence in Judea and Samaria and on the Jordan River will ensure that Ben Gurion Airport and Netanya will not become targets for missiles from every which way,” he said at the time.“Among us on the right there are leaders today who would be satisfied with military presence alone,” he said. “Where have we come?”Ya’alon, a former IDF chief of staff and Netanyahu’s defense minister for over three years, until his dismissal earlier this year in a cabinet reshuffle, has since butted heads with his former political ally, throwing down the gauntlet earlier this summer with an announcement that he’d challenge Netanyahu for the premiership in the next elections.The Likud party shot back at its former senior member, saying, “This is the same [Ya’alon] who said over the course of a few months that Iran was a concern for the existence of Israel, and when the defense portfolio was taken from him he changed his version.“He’s prepared to say anything today for someone to remember he exists,” the party said in a statement. “We won’t be surprised if next week he says that Netanyahu accepted the Uganda Scheme and that thanks to him we remained in Israel, just to grab some more headlines.”The party was alluding to the plan in the early 1900s to establish a Jewish state in British East Africa instead of Ottoman Palestine, which was ultimately rejected by the Zionist Congress.Ya’alon shot back sardonically on Twitter, saying Netanyahu “accepted the Uganda Scheme, and only thanks to me we remained in Israel. Someone here is under pressure.”
Mashaal: Hamas is no IS, will accept state based on ’67 lines-Palestinian terror group’s political chief rejects terrorist label, even as he justifies rocket fire from civilian areas, demands ‘right of return’-By Times of Israel staff July 27, 2016, 3:07 pm
Khaled Mashaal does not believe that Hamas is a terrorist organization, and would be prepared to accept a Palestinian state along the pre-1967 lines with Jerusalem as its capital and with the “right of return” for Palestinian refugees, he told India’s English-language New Delhi Television (NDTV) station .Speaking from his home in Doha, Qatar in an interview aired on July 18, Mashaal stated that Hamas would accept a Palestinian state along 1967 borders.“We are keen to unify the Palestinian front, the Arab front and attract the support of the world for our rights. And that’s why we have agreed in consensus among us Palestinians on a national program that is supported by the Arabs on establishing a sovereign independent Palestinian state along the lines of the 1967 borders, with Jerusalem as the capital, with the right of return for the Palestinians in exile,” he said, according to a translation provided by NDTV. His statement contradicts the infamous Hamas charter, which states that the movement “strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine.” The Palestinian demand for a “right of return” for millions of Palestinians — refugees and their descendants — would also remake Israel’s demography and wipe out its Jewish majority, and as such is a demand flatly rejected by Israeli governments.Hamas, which is designated a terror group by Israel and the US, has been the de facto ruler of the Gaza Strip since it seized power in a bloody internecine battle against Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement in 2007.Mashaal rejected comparison to the Islamic State and dismissed claims that Hamas is a terrorist organization. There is, he said, a fundamental difference between “legitimate resistance” and terror on the basis of religion.“[Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu and the Israelis have always thrown those allegations against our people, since they are the real terrorists,” he said. “There is a vast difference between us as a national liberation movement, a legitimate resistance against [Israeli] occupation, which is a right reserved for all people under occupation in international law, in the divine faiths, in all human experience. We are against those random killing extremist movements who are killing on the basis of religion or faith or sect.”In the past, Mashaal has, however, praised terror numerous occasions, and as recently as last December reiterated that jihad is the only option available to his people.“The Palestinians have reached the realization that negotiations with the (Israelis) are useless,” he said during a visit to the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lampur on December 10. “The so-called peace process is futile. There is no peace. Only the path of jihad, sacrifice, and blood (will bear fruit).”In his recent interview, Mashaal also defended Hamas fighters’ practice in Gaza of using human shields and its habit of firing rockets from civilian areas indiscrimnately into Israel — most recently during the 2014 conflict with the IDF, known by Israelis as Operation Protective Edge.“Gaza is a very small area… condensed with its occupants,” he said. “The resistance has the right to choose places where they can cover up their defensive weaponry to respond to the aggression of the enemy.”Despite his ostensible willingness for compromise, Mashaal said that negotiations with Israel were currently doomed to fail due to Israeli intransigence.“The Palestinian Authority is negotiating. It has been engaging in this process for a long time,” he said. “But the Israelis are denying them that basis [for a deal]. That’s why the negotiation process has been useless. It’s just been a mirage for repression.”
Palestinians gear up to sue the UK – over 1917 Balfour Declaration-PA top diplomat tells Arab League that Britain is responsible for all ‘Israeli crimes’ committed since the end of the mandate in 1948-By Times of Israel staff and AFP July 25, 2016, 8:47 pm
The Palestinian Authority is preparing a lawsuit against the British government over the issuing of the 1917 Balfour Declaration that paved the way for the creation of the State of Israel.The PA’s Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki told Arab League leaders gathered in Mauritania Monday that London is responsible for all “Israeli crimes” committed since the end of the British mandate in 1948.Signed by British Foreign Secretary Lord Arthur James Balfour in 1917, the declaration was seen as giving the Zionist movement official recognition and backing on the part of a major power, on the eve of the British conquest of the then-Ottoman territory of Palestine.The decision, al-Malki said, “gave people who don’t belong there something that wasn’t theirs.”There was no immediate reaction from Britain.A report in the official Wafa news agency did not note where the PA plans to file the lawsuit.Last year, a group calling itself the Popular Palestinian Campaign to Sue the United Kingdom sued the UK in an Egyptian court.In 2008, a Palestinian youth group said it would attempt to sue the UK over the Balfour Declaration in Britain or in the ICC.It was not clear if either effort bore fruit.On Monday, the Arab League summit, despite splits over Iran and Turkey, was cut back to a single day due to the ongoing absence of the heavyweight leaders of Egypt and Saudi Arabia.Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi stayed at home because of “a busy domestic schedule” — amid unconfirmed reports of an assassination plot against him — while Saudi King Salman’s no-show was due to “health reasons,” an Arab League source told AFP.Mauritania’s head of state Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who is hosting the summit, slammed the “blind violence of terrorists,” as well as foreign interventions that feed instability in the Arab world.The Mauritanian president also called for fresh efforts to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying that regional instability would continue until the issue was settled.Arab foreign ministers meeting ahead of the summit on Saturday urged a “definitive solution” to the conflict and welcomed a French and Egyptian initiative to help revive dormant peace talks.Joshua Davidovich contributed to this report.
In Netanyahu’s new illustrated world, Israel has just five enemies-The PM this week prepared a map to show MKs how he sees Israel’s place among the nations. It makes for fascinating, and surprisingly optimistic, viewing-By Raphael Ahren July 27, 2016, 4:17 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu loves maps. Considering them a helpful tool to illustrate his view of global affairs, he often brings them along to public speeches, to briefings with the press and to hearings in the Knesset.“May I reveal to the members of the press that there is a big map in my office, and it’s been made bigger,” he said last week during a meeting with Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes in Jerusalem. “It used to be the Middle East. Now it encompasses a good chunk of the Eastern hemisphere.”The map of the world Netanyahu brandished Monday at the Knesset State Control Committee, where he defended his foreign policy record, offers some valuable insights into his view of Israel’s place among the family of nations. (A quarter-century ago, as he was rising to become the leader of the then-Likud opposition, Netanyahu published a book entitled, “A Place Among the Nations: Israel in the World.”) The map, a copy of which was made available to The Times of Israel, is meant to highlight positive trends in Israel’s foreign relations. It divides the world’s countries into different categories: those with which Jerusalem has “recently developed/upgraded” relations are marked in red; states that entertain “good relations” with Israel are in blue; and “overtly hostile enemy states” are in black. With the rest of the world, in green, “Israel does not have special relations,” according to the prime minister’s aides, who created the map especially for Monday’s Knesset session.The prime minister is widely regarded as having a fairly bleak outlook when it comes to the international community’s relations with Israel, or perhaps more accurately as regards the dependability of certain allies, but his new map actually belies this. Drawn up for the specific political purpose of asserting that global ties are flourishing under the current foreign minister (Netanyahu), the multi-colored message, overall, is that Israel has lots and lots and lots of friends. And, most remarkably, that even among those nations that might think of themselves as deeply hostile to the Jewish state, only very few are deemed to merit the black mark of a real enemy.The countries in red are those the prime minister sought to highlight as they ostensibly prove the success of his foreign policy. Those eye-catching red patches indicate improved ties with diplomatic and economic powerhouses such as Japan, China, Russia, South Korea, Singapore and India; increasing cooperation with Greece and Cyprus; normalization with Turkey; and robust ties with Azerbaijan, which Netanyahu plans to visit soon. A striking omission from this category is Egypt, which the map shows in green despite a noticeable rapprochement between Cairo and Jerusalem.Ten countries in Africa are colored red: Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, (states Netanyahu visited earlier this month) Tanzania (which recently announced its intention to open its first-ever embassy in Israel), Guinea (which last week re-established diplomatic ties with Jerusalem after a 49-year hiatus), Chad (where Foreign Ministry director-general Dore Gold visited last week), South Sudan, Zambia and Ivory Coast.In August 2015, Netanyahu declared Latin America to be “one of the main objectives of the State of Israel in the context of its efforts to develop markets that will contribute to increasing economic growth.” As things stand, on his map, only three countries there are marked red: Colombia, Paraguay and Argentina.Brazil, the world’s seventh largest economy — with which Israel seeks to further develop commercial ties, but with which it had a diplomatic falling out over the aborted appointment of ex-settler leader Dani Dayan — appears in green, signifying the absence of “special relations.”Mexico, Chile, Panama and South Africa — countries that have full diplomatic ties with Israel and significant Jewish communities — are likewise in green.There are plenty of obvious and some interesting inclusions among the countries colored blue on Netanyahu’s map, signaling “good relations” with Israel: The United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand (despite a recent diplomatic spat) and all of Europe — East and West — despite ongoing tension over the European Union’s critical approach to Israeli policies vis-a-vis the Palestinians and other differences.But two European countries are singled out as a little less friendly than the others: Sweden and Ireland appear in light blue, illustrating their particularly critical attitudes toward Israel. Sweden is the only Western European nation that recognized a Palestinian state, but what Ireland did to deserve a lighter shade of blue than similarly pro-Palestinian EU member states is somewhat unclear. (Denmark is also in light blue but this appears to be a technical error).“Today Israel is perceived more and more as an asset and an influencing element in the world because of our war on terror and our technological achievements,” Netanyahu told the State Control Committee on Monday.”We have achieved free trade with China, a 30 percent increase in trade with India, an agreement with Japan on protecting rigs, military coordination with Russia, initial ties with a host of African countries, heads of state visiting Israel for the first time, the normalization of ties with Turkey, and every week I meet with four heads of state. Israel’s foreign policy is a great success,” he declared.A map Netanyahu showed the 2015 AIPAC summit in Washington, DC, to illustrate Iran’s ‘tentacles of terror’-And what about those countries that do not perceive Israel as an asset and a positive influence? On his map, which he waved around several times during Monday’s two-hour session, only five countries are colored in black, thus identified as enemy states: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and North Korea. (Lebanon’s status is indiscernible). Perhaps most instructive about this category is those nations it does not include: Yemen, Saudi Arabia (both countries Israelis are forbidden by law from entering), Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Sudan, Pakistan, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Indonesia, Cuba, Venezuela and other states with which Israel does not have diplomatic ties.Thus one conclusion students of Netanyahu’s map might be forgiven for drawing is this: Israel has plenty of friends in the world — about 30 old friends, 20 new friends, countless of potential future friends — and very, very few enemies.
Sanders campaign chair: Bernie wants ‘fresh thinking’ on Israel-Palestinian conflict-After endorsing Hillary Clinton, Vermont senator seeks to give US policy on region ‘a new look,’ Jeff Weaver says-By Eric Cortellessa July 27, 2016, 6:01 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
PHILADELPHIA — Shortly after Bernie Sanders unequivocally endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at the party’s national convention Monday night, his campaign chair said the Vermont senator would continue to encourage “fresh thinking” on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.While the Sanders camp has taken steps in recent days to project an image of party unity and shepherd its grassroots base into the Clinton coalition for the general election, Jeff Weaver acknowledged that differences remained between the former rivals vis-a-vis the region, but that Sanders would “stress issues where they are very much together.”Sanders does not intend to highlight any variations between his camp’s stance on the Israel-Palestinian conflict and that of the former secretary of state during the coming five months, Weaver said, but would advocate the US policy take “a new look” on the enduring issue.“He knows we’ll have to work through this,” Weaver told The Times of Israel on Tuesday. “It’s a very difficult situation over there, obviously. It’s very complicated. And it’s a situation we’re going to have to work through.”During his speech here, Sanders tried to persuade his base to back Clinton in November by providing a litany of shared policy priorities, like expanding Americans’ access to healthcare, opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade accord and combating climate change.“If you look at one issue after the other issue in terms of who the candidate is that we need to lead this country, there is no debate,” Sanders told his supporters. “The choice in this campaign is very, very clear, and I think the overwhelming majority of my supporters will see it that way.”He did not mention matters of foreign policy; Weaver indicated that those differences were far less acute than Sanders’s differences with Republican nominee Donald Trump, which is what the self-avowed democratic socialist wants to highlight from now until November.He would, however, be willing to advocate his policy positions, but more likely so after Clinton secures the White House. “It’s a problem that needs a new look,” he said. “There hasn’t been a lot of progress in recent years, and I know that Sen. Sanders thinks we have to kick-start it, so I’m sure he’ll have that discussion with Sec. Clinton if there’s a time when he feels that’s appropriate.”During the primary, Clinton and Sanders clashed on the Israel issue, with Sanders accusing his former rival of not putting enough focus on the plight of the Palestinians in her speech at the AIPAC Policy Conference. “I heard virtually no discussion at all about the needs of the Palestinian people,” Sanders said. “Almost none in that speech.”They also differed on how to classify Israel’s military operations during the 2014 war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, with Sanders calling Israel’s conduct “disproportionate” and Clinton defending the Jewish state’s right to defend itself from indiscriminate rocket attacks.But none of those disputes have been on display between the two campaigns this week, as they have attempted to join forces, even after DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned amid an email scandal that proved a bias for Clinton during the primary and revealed internal deliberations over how to undermine Sanders’ candidacy.Weaver, for his part, said Sanders supporters should not linger on those revelations, despite his having accused the DNC of playing favorites for months.“Debbie Wasserman Schultz has resigned, it’s time to move on,” he said. “It’s time to unify the party and go out and beat Donald Trump. And that’s what we’re going to do.”
Protesters burn Israeli flag outside Democratic convention-Demonstrators in Philadelphia chant ‘Long live the intifada,’ also set light to pro-Bernie Sanders fliers-By AP July 27, 2016, 9:05 am-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
PHILADELPHIA — Protesters set an Israeli flag on fire and chanted “Long live the intifada” outside of the Democratic National Convention site in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, as others clashed with police.A woman wearing a black bandana on her face lit the flag on fire, as protests continued outside of the secure zone around the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. Someone stood nearby waving a Palestinian flag.Protesters also set alight pro-Bernie Sanders fliers that were hanging on steel fencing around the site.Meanwhile, die-hard Sanders loyalists demonstrated inside and outside the Wells Fargo Center, where the convention is taking place, and clashed with police after Hillary Clinton won the party’s presidential nomination Tuesday.Despite calls by the liberal Vermont senator for them to support the nominee, thousands of activists have taken to the streets during the convention to voice support for Sanders and his progressive agenda.Moments after Clinton became the first woman to ever be nominated for president by a major US political party, a large group of Sanders delegates and supporters exited the site to hold a sit-in inside a media tent. Some had their mouths taped shut. A few spontaneously sang the chorus of the folk song “This Land Is Your Land,” and a banner read “We the people.” They said they were holding a peaceful protest to complain about being shut out by the Democratic Party.“This was not a convention. This was a four-day Hillary party. And we weren’t welcome,” said Liz Maratea, a New Jersey delegate at the media tent protest. “We were treated like lepers.”In the streets outside, Sanders supporters who had spent the day protesting began facing off with police. Protesters began scaling eight-foot-high walls blocking off the secure zone around the arena parking lot, and several were detained. An officer sprayed one of the protesters.
Israeli archaeologist says he was attacked on Temple Mount-Two Jerusalem Islamic Waqf members arrested after clash with group visiting Jerusalem holy site-By Stuart Winer and Ilan Ben Zion July 27, 2016, 2:48 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Two members of the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf were arrested Wednesday after allegedly attacking Israeli archaeologist Zachi Dvira on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem.A group of six Israeli archaeologists were attacked by eight Waqf members as the they toured the holy site, the Hebrew language Ynet website reported. The clash began after the Israeli group refused to leave the compound when ordered to do so by the Waqf personnel.Dvira, who is in involved in the Temple Mount sifting project, told Ynet “it looked like the start of a lynching.” He was not injured in the assault.The two Waqf members were taken away for questioning by police.Israeli archaeologists say Waqf workers have carted off hundreds of tons of artifact-laden earth from the Temple Mount during renovations and construction work in the compound that also contains the al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock.A project, led by Dvira and others, to sift through debris dumped in the Kidron Valley outside the Old City has rescued many artifacts from the Second Temple and other periods.Jews regard the Temple Mount as their holiest site, where the First and Second Temple were located. Muslims call it the Noble Sanctuary and regard it as their third holiest site after Mecca and Medina. According to the existing arrangement, the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf, or trust, administers the Temple Mount complex.There have been frequent and often violent clashes between Arab protesters and Jews over Jewish rights to visit the site. Jews are not allowed to pray there, under arrangements agreed by Israel after it captured the area in the 1967 war.
