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.
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)
WAR WITH IRAN - DAY 44 APR 12,26 - NO DEAL WITH THE IRANIAN DEATH (MAHDI) CULT.GO GETEM USA,ISRAEL THE CHAMPS.
THE
NEXT US-ISRAEL HIT ON IRAN SHOULD BE VERSE 37. ALL OFFENSIVE NUKE SITES
MISSLES,DRONES,AND OF COURSE KHEMENI AND THE IRGC GUARDS.THEN AFTER
IRANS REGIME CHANGE. MUSLIMS COME TO JESUS BY THE MILLIONS.
JEREMEIAH 49:32-39 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITES AND ALL OFENSIVE WEAPONS DESTROYED IN IRAN)
Jeremiah 49:32-39
32
Their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a
spoil: and I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners [of
their hair] cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of
them, says Yahweh.
33 Hazor shall be a dwelling-place of jackals, a
desolation forever: no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of
man sojourn therein.(Location & Size: It was strategically located
along the Via Maris (Way of the Sea), a major trade route connecting
Egypt with Syria and Mesopotamia.)
34 The word of Yahweh that came to
Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam,(IRAN) in the beginning of the
reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
35 Thus says Yahweh of
Hosts: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRANS OFFENSIVE WEAPONS)
the chief of their might.(MISSLES AND NUKE SITES)
36 On Elam (IRAN)
will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of the sky, and will
scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation where
the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(SINCE 1979 IRANIANS HAVE GOTTIN OUT
OF IRAN BECAUSE OF KHEMENI AND HIS APOCOPOLIPTIC DEATH CULT
BELIEF-BLACK HATER 12ERS)
37 I will cause Elam (IRAN) to be dismayed
before their enemies, and before those who seek their life;(ISRAEL THE
LITTLE SATAN AND THE U.S THE BIG SATAN) and I will bring evil on them,
(MISSLES) even my fierce anger,(FIRE) says Yahweh; and I will send the
sword after them,(IRANS OFFENSIVE WEAPONS) until I have consumed them;
(DESTROYED THEM ALL NUKE SITES,MISSLES ETC)
38 and I will set my
throne in Elam,(IRAN WILL BECOME A CHRISTIAN NATION) and will destroy
from there king (KHEMENI, ISLAM) and princes, says Yahweh.(IRANIAN ARMY
GUARDS)
39 But it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring
back the captivity of Elam,(IRAN) says Yahweh.(WERE IN THE LATTER DAYS
NOW)
WHEN ARE THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL IN THE SPRING TIME.(GET READY ISLAM TO BE BIRD SEED FOR THESE BIRDS)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m0bXU5Xqc5M
The
500 million migratory birds in Israel during the spring arrive from
Africa and head toward Europe and Asia, with the peak migration
occurring in March and April. While migration starts in late February,
the most intense movements, particularly of birds of prey, storks, and
pelicans, occur during the third week of March and continue into April.
Key Details on the Spring Migration
Peak Period: Mid-March through April.
Main
Migration Route: The birds use the Great Rift Valley, which includes
the Hula Valley and Eilat, acting as a "bottleneck" where millions of
birds fly through the narrow land bridge.
Best Spots: The Hula Lake
Park (Northern Israel) and the Eilat Birding Center (Southern Israel)
are primary locations for observing the migration.
Key Species:
Hundreds of thousands of white storks, along with black kites, raptors,
and pelicans, pass through over these months.
uration: The spring migration runs from late February and continues into June, though the heaviest traffic is in March/April.
The
500 million migratory birds fly over Israel in the fall between late
August and mid-December. The peak migration period for the autumn, when
the highest volume of bird traffic occurs, is typically October and
November.
Key Fall Migration Details
Location: The Hula Valley (Agamon Hula Park) in northern Israel is the premier spot to witness this phenomenon.
Timing: Migration starts as early as late June with some waders, but intensifies from mid-August through November.
Peak Festival: The "Annual Hula Valley Bird Festival" is usually held in November to align with the peak migration traffic.
Key
Species: Many birds of prey (raptors), including honey buzzards and
steppe eagles, cross during this time, along with massive flocks of
storks and cranes.
While roughly 500 million birds pass through in
the autumn on their way to Africa, the same number crosses again in the
spring (mid-February to May) on their way back to Europe and Asia.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23
Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they
have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the
sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24
Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath
seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in
travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26
Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of
war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I
will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it
shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN
DAMASCUS)
Netanyahu says campaign against Iran ‘not over,’ touts
‘historic achievements’In 2nd recent statement, PM argues Iran would’ve
had nukes if Israel and US didn’t attack; opposition heads say war goals
unfulfilled: ‘When you win, you don’t need to declare it every few
days’By Lazar Berman and Jeremy Sharon-Today, 4:13 am-APR 12,26
Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu contended in a video statement Saturday
evening that the campaign against Iran “is not over,” in a video
statement that repeated many of his previously stated arguments about
the achievements in the recent US-Israeli war.The statement drew
criticism from the opposition, whose leaders said the war had failed to
achieve its stated objectives.Netanyahu claimed in his video that
Iranian propaganda minimizing Israel’s achievements “is echoed in our
media, and the propaganda of our political rivals is echoed in
Iran.”Highlighting Israel’s “historic achievements” thus far and using a
map of the Middle East with the Iranian axis highlighted in red as a
prop, Netanyahu said that “they wanted to strangle us, and we are
strangling them.”“We hit them, we still have more to do,” he
said.Netanyahu said that Israel “broke the barrier of fear” by striking
Iran last June.He obliquely criticized Israel’s intelligence agencies —
and again sought to absolve himself of blame — over the October 7, 2023,
Hamas-led attack, stressing that in June 2025, “this time, precise
intelligence reached me on time.”The premier said he decided to go to
the second war with Iran in February because the Islamic Republic “was
very close to achieving a nuclear weapon” and to gaining the ability to
produce thousands of missiles.If Israel hadn’t attacked Tehran “would
already have a nuclear weapon,” he claimed, citing intelligence last
year that Iran was preparing to turn its enriched uranium into a nuclear
weapon.“The moment we received that intelligence, we went into action,”
he said.Netanyahu added that only months later, he received new
intelligence that Iran wanted to expand its missile and nuclear
projects, and bury them deep underground.Israel killed eight nuclear
scientists dealing with weaponization during the recent war, he said,
adding that Israel also destroyed the heavy water reactor in Arak and
Iran’s centrifuge production and uranium lines.“We succeeded in smashing
its nuclear program, in smashing its missile program,” he
asserted.Beyond “smashing” its nuclear and missile programs, Israel also
wanted to “smash the Iranian regime,” he said, in order to bring it “to
its weakest point” since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.He said Israel had
“massive achievements” in Operation Roaring Lion, claiming that Iran
was “begging for a ceasefire, there are internal disputes among the
leadership… We see their growing difficulty in meeting citizens’
demands.”Turning to the fight against Iran’s terror proxies, Netanyahu
boasted once again that Israel created security zones in Gaza, Syria and
Lebanon.“We will deal with” Hamas in Gaza, he promised.Israel is also
dealing with the missiles that Hezbollah still has, said
Netanyahu.Hezbollah had allegedly planned for “thousands of Radwan
terrorists to covertly reach the border, invade and conquer the
Galilee.”“We are still fighting them, it’s not over,” he said.Netanyahu
said that Lebanon had asked Israel several times over the past month to
begin direct peace talks.“I approved it,” he said — following reports
that he only did so under heavy international pressure, including from
US President Donald Trump — adding that there are two conditions:
disarming Hezbollah, and a “real peace agreement” that will last for
generations.He asserted that other countries were also reaching out to
Israel.Opposition leaders slammed the premier, asserting that he had
failed to achieve the war aims he himself set out.“Netanyahu is under
pressure, because he knows the goals of the war [against Iran] were not
achieved,” wrote The Democrats party leader Yair Golan on X.“When you
are victorious and win, you don’t need to declare every few days that
you were victorious and won,” he quipped.Opposition Leader Yair Lapid
made similar comments, stating that “Netanyahu once again is taking
pride in the accomplishments of the army, so that we forget his total
failure.”“He did not achieve any of the war aims that he himself
defined,” added Lapid. “The entire people of Israel salutes our security
services and is waiting for the moment when we will have leadership
that is able to win wars and not steal money from Israeli citizens while
they are in bomb shelters.”The latter part was a reference to hundreds
of millions of shekels the government has allocated to ultra-Orthodox
needs, which has drawn intense criticism as the community continues to
oppose sending its men to military service.
Vance leaves Pakistan after impasse in negotiations with Iran-By AP Today, 5:56 am-APR 12,26
Vice
President JD Vance boards his government plane at 7:08 a.m. local time
in Islamabad, departing Pakistan after he said that Iran declined to
back down on developing a nuclear weapon, preventing a deal.That’s
according to a reporter traveling with Vance.The war with Iran started
at the end of February and the extensive talks ended after 21 hours. The
US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire on April 7 for negotiations.
Pakistan calls on Iran and US to keep the ceasefire after Islamabad talks end without agreement-By AP-APR 12,26
Pakistan’s
Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar calls on Iran and the United States to keep
their commitment to maintain a ceasefire after the countries ended
historic, face-to-face talks without an agreement.“It is imperative that
the parties continue to uphold their commitment to ceasefire,” Dar says
in remarks at the end of the talks, according to a statement released
by his office.Pakistan will continue to play a mediating role and try to
facilitate dialogue between Iran and the US in coming days, he says.
Iran foreign ministry: No one thought a deal could be reached in a single session-By AFP-APR 12,26
Iran’s
foreign ministry says no one had held any expectation that talks with
the United States could have reached an agreement within one session
after the negotiations in Islamabad stalled.“Naturally, from the
beginning we should not have expected to reach an agreement in a single
session. No one had such an expectation,” ministry spokesperson Esmaeil
Baqaei says, according to state broadcaster IRIB.He says Tehran is
“confident that contacts between us and Pakistan, as well as our other
friends in the region, will continue.”
US-Iran talks extend into
the night as Trump claims ‘no difference’ to him if deal reached-Tehran
claims ‘serious disagreements’ remain after more than 15 hours of
negotiations, as president insists Washington has won ‘regardless’ of
outcome in Pakistan-By Agencies Today, 1:19 am-APR 12,26
US
President Donald Trump said Saturday he was not bothered about the
outcome of US-Iran talks in Pakistan, insisting the United States had
come out ahead from the war, even negotiations aimed at securing a deal
to end the six-week war between the two countries before a two-week
ceasefire expires continued into the night.The talks in Islamabad
stretched into the early hours of Sunday morning following over 15 hours
of marathon negotiations, even as Iran warned that Washington was
making “excessive demands” over the Strait of Hormuz that could
undermine Pakistan’s peacemaking efforts.Iran’s semi-official Tasnim
news agency said after 3 a.m. local time that the third round had ended,
saying “serious disagreements” still remained. State TV reported that
negotiations would continue on Sunday, and Tehran’s government said the
negotiations would continue despite the remaining differences.However, a
White House official briefed reporters around 5 a.m. Islamabad time
that the talks were ongoing: “15 hours and counting.”The trilateral
direct negotiations were taking place with host Pakistan in Islamabad, a
senior White House official said, a departure from recent practice
where both sides held talks via a mediator while seated in separate
rooms.The US delegation was being led by Vice President JD Vance,
special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, making
it the highest level of American contact since the 1979 Islamic
Revolution.The Iranian delegation, composed of more than 70 members, was
being led by parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, joined by
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.Security was tight in the Pakistani
capital on Saturday, with a heavy police and paramilitary presence on
the streets and road diversions around the “red zone” where government
and diplomatic buildings are located.A Pakistani official told AFP that
talks were “progressing in the right direction” after two rounds.“I can
say that discussions are moving positively and the overall atmosphere is
cordial,” said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.But as
the third round began, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency reported
that it appeared to be the “last opportunity” to reach a common
framework, due to the “excessive US demands.”Shortly after this
assessment from the Iranian news outlet, Trump told reporters in the US
that “whether we make a deal or not makes no difference to me.”“The
reason is because we’ve won,” he said. “We’re in very deep negotiations
with Iran. We win regardless. We’ve defeated them militarily.”‘Clearing
out’The president also repeated his earlier statement that the US had
started “clearing out” the Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fifth of
the world’s crude passes in peacetime.The US military said earlier on
Saturday that two US Navy warships had passed through the key waterway
to begin clearing it of mines.“We have minesweepers out there. We’re
sweeping the strait,” Trump said.“We’ll open up the strait even though
we don’t use it, because we have a lot of other countries in the world
that do use it that are either afraid or weak or cheap,” the US
president said.The Iranian military denied that any American vessels had
entered the waterway.The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, citing
data by Lloyd’s List Intelligence, that 100 ships have crossed the
strait over the past month. The outlet said, citing unnamed brokers and
ship owners, that non-Iranian vessels have been negotiating toll
payments with Iranian authorities that can go up to $2 million for a
single ship.Iran has said that any agreement to end the war must include
the unfreezing of sanctioned Iranian assets as well as an end to
Israel’s war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, which Vance has said will not
be up for discussion in Islamabad.Iranian state television’s
correspondent at the talks said progress had been made on these issues,
giving Iran the confidence to proceed. A US official denied reports that
Washington had agreed to unfreeze Iran assets held in Qatar.Despite the
purported progress, the warring parties made no attempt to hide their
mutual suspicion.“Our experience in negotiating with the Americans has
always been met with failure and broken promises,” Ghalibaf said,
shortly after landing in Pakistan.The Iranian delegation arrived on
Friday dressed in black in mourning for former supreme leader Ali
Khamenei and others killed in the war. They carried shoes and bags of
some students killed during the US bombing of a school next to a
military compound, the Iranian government said.‘Make or break’Vance said
before leaving the US that if the other side was “willing to negotiate
in good faith, we’re certainly willing to extend the open hand.”But he
said the negotiating team would not be receptive “if they’re going to
try to play us,” he added.The ceasefire is already under strain, notably
from Israel’s continued strikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon, which Iran and
Pakistan insist is covered under the current truce, while Israel and
the US saying otherwise.Lebanese authorities said Israeli strikes on the
country’s south on Saturday killed 18 people, bringing the total death
toll from Israeli strikes since the war broke out past 2,000, although
they did not differentiate between combatants and civilians.Reflecting
the high stakes, Tehran residents told the Associated Press they were
skeptical yet hopeful about the talks after weeks of airstrikes left
destruction across their country of some 93 million people.“Peace alone
is not enough for our country because we’ve been hit very hard, there
have been huge costs,” 62-year-old Amir Razzai Far said.A 30-year-old
resident of the Iranian capital told AFP he was skeptical negotiations
would be successful, describing most of what Trump says as “pure noise
and nonsense.”The negotiations will be closely watched by other key
regional players, with Egypt and Turkey having helped with mediation,
along with China, the source said.
US says Navy destroyers
working to de-mine Strait of Hormuz-CENTCOM says additional forces to
join efforts in coming days; Iranian outlets dismiss ‘fake news’ after
Trump says all of Iran’s mining boats are ‘lying at the bottom of the
sea’By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies 11 April 2026, 10:41 pm
The US
military said on Saturday that it had begun a mine-clearing operation
in the Strait of Hormuz, with two US warships passing through the key
waterway.In a post on X, the US Central Command said two US Navy missile
destroyers, USS Frank E. Peterson and USS Michael Murphy, “transited
the Strait of Hormuz and operated in the Arabian Gulf as part of a
broader mission to ensure the strait is fully clear of sea mines
previously laid by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.”Admiral
Brad Cooper, the head of Central Command, said in a statement: “Today,
we began the process of establishing a new passage and we will share
this safe pathway with the maritime industry soon to encourage the free
flow of commerce.”CENTCOM said that additional US forces, “including
underwater drones, will join the clearance effort in the coming
days.”Earlier on Saturday, US President Donald Trump posted on social
media that the United States military has started to clear the strait,
and that all of Iran’s minelaying ships had been sunk.“We’re now
starting the process of clearing out the Strait of Hormuz,” Trump wrote
in a Truth Social post, adding that “all 28” of Iran’s “mine dropper
boats are also lying at the bottom of the sea.”Trump’s comments were
dismissed by Iran’s state-affiliated Nournews, which claimed that it was
“fake news.”A Pakistani source also denied that any US vessel had
passed through the waterway.Trump has repeatedly said that American
forces have destroyed Iran’s navy and air force while crippling its
ballistic missile and nuclear programs.But fear of Iranian attacks on
shipping over the past several weeks has effectively closed the Strait
of Hormuz, a critical conduit for global oil supplies. Throttling the
strait has disrupted global energy markets.US gasoline prices have
spiked even though most of the oil that flows through the waterway does
not go to the United States.Representatives from the US and Iran began
talks hosted by Pakistan in Islamabad on Saturday amid a fragile
ceasefire in the conflict.The direct talks on Saturday were held between
US Vice President JD Vance, special envoy Steve Witkoff and President
Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and Iranian Parliamentary
Speaker Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
Pakistan’s army chief was also present.Britain’s Financial Times
newspaper reported that the talks briefly hit a stalemate over the
status of the Strait of Hormuz, but Pakistani officials later said that
the delegations had reconvened for a second round of negotiations later
in the evening.
NYT: Hormuz still shut because Iran can't find
own mines-US intel said to assess Iran can recover underground
launchers, fire thousands of missiles-Officials concerned Iran will
rebuild ballistic capabilities during truce, WSJ says; CNN reports that
US intelligence indicates China preparing to ship air defense systems to
Iran By ToI Staff 11 April 2026, 12:18 pm
US officials assess
that Iran retains thousands of missiles it can fire by recovering
launchers buried underground, and they are concerned Iran will work to
rebuild its ballistic capabilities during the break in the fighting with
the US and Israel, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.An Israeli
official cited by the Kan public broadcaster also said Iran was
deploying bulldozers to repair entrances to underground missile storage
facilities that had been struck by the Israel Defense Forces.The damage
that the US and Israel have inflicted on Iran “is not irreparable, and
in the absence of a significant agreement, the IDF will have to go back
to [fight] Iran,” the unnamed Israeli official was quoted as saying.The
US and Israel launched a bombing campaign on Iran on February 28 in a
bid to destabilize its regime and destroy its ballistic missile and
nuclear programs. Iran responded with missile and drone strikes across
the region.US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters this week
that the bombing campaign had “functionally destroyed” Iran’s missile
program and rendered its military “combat ineffective for years to
come.”However, US officials cited by the Wall Street Journal said Iran
could dig out or fix many of the launchers that were damaged or buried
underground in the US-Israeli bombing campaign.Iran also has thousands
of medium- and short-range ballistic missiles that it can retrieve from
storage spaces above and below ground, despite about half of its
existing stockpile being used up or destroyed in strikes, according to
US and Israeli officials cited by the Journal.Additionally, Iran still
has a small stockpile of cruise missiles that it could fire at ships in
the Persian Gulf or US troops who try to seize the Strait of Hormuz,
said US officials cited by the Journal.Furthermore, US officials told
the Journal, while over half of Iran’s drone stockpile has been used up
or destroyed in strikes, it could buy more from Russia.According to the
IDF, Israel destroyed about 200 of Iran’s estimated 470 ballistic
missile launchers, and another 80 were deemed inoperable after the
entrances to their underground storage facilities were struck.The IDF
has said the most significant blow of the bombing campaign was to Iran’s
weapons production industry, and that Iran cannot currently produce any
more missiles.The Wall Street Journal said Iran will have to rely on
Russia and China to rebuild its missile program.That assessment
dovetailed with a CNN report that indicated China was working to ship
air defense systems to Iran amid the two-week ceasefire with Israel and
the US.Citing three people familiar with recent intelligence
assessments, CNN reported Saturday that US intelligence indicates China
is preparing to deliver to Iran shoulder-fired anti-air missile systems
known as MANPADs.Two of the unnamed sources were cited saying China was
working to route the shipments through third countries to mask their
origin.In a statement to CNN, a spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in
Washington denied the claims and said, “China has never provided weapons
to any party to the conflict.”“We urge the US side to refrain from
making baseless allegations,” said the spokesperson. “We hope that
relevant parties will do more to help de-escalate tensions.”China is a
major importer of Iranian oil and reportedly applied last-minute
pressure to secure the two-week ceasefire in Iran.NYT: Iran can’t find
and remove its mines in Hormuz-Iran cannot reopen the Strait of Hormuz
for shipping because it’s unable to find and remove all the mines it
placed in the waterway throughout the war, according to US officials
cited by The New York Times on Saturday.Announcing the truce on
Wednesday, US President Donald Trump had said it was conditioned on Iran
reopening the strait, whose closure has choked off close to a fifth of
the world’s oil shipments. Indirect US-Iran peace talks were set to
begin in Islamabad on Saturday.US officials told the Times that apparent
safe routes through the mines provided by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps were limited due to Tehran’s careless mining of the
strait.The report noted that both the US and Iran lack the capabilities
to remove nautical mines. Some mines, according to the report, are also
able to drift, while it is unclear whether Iran documented each mine it
placed in the waterway.The US has claimed that the strait was opened up
already on Wednesday, denying reports that Iran was holding up much of
the traffic and charging a toll.Over the past few days, Trump appeared
to acknowledge that Iran was in fact blocking ships from using the
channel, with the president issuing a series of Truth Social posts
threatening Iran.Tehran has pledged to continue blocking traffic until
Israel stops striking its Lebanese terror proxy Hezbollah, which Iran
and Pakistani mediators say was supposed to be part of the ceasefire.
The US has said there was a “legitimate misunderstanding” on that issue,
while insisting that it never agreed to include Lebanon in the
truce.Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian and Reuters contributed to this
report.
Iran’s supreme leader has disfiguring facial wounds and
may have lost a leg, sources say-Individuals close to Mojtaba Khamenei’s
inner circle say he’s mentally sharp, engaged in decision-making,
meeting with officials via audio conferencing; US intel said to believe
he lost limb on war’s 1st day-By Reuters 11 April 2026, 9:56 am
Iran’s
new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is still recovering from severe
facial and leg injuries suffered in the airstrike that killed his father
at the beginning of the war, three people close to his inner circle
told Reuters.Khamenei’s face was disfigured in the attack on the supreme
leader’s compound in central Tehran and he suffered a significant
injury to one or both legs, all three sources said.The 56-year-old is
nonetheless recovering from his wounds and remains mentally sharp,
according to the people, who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive
matters. He is taking part in meetings with senior officials via audio
conferencing and is engaged in decision-making on major issues including
the war and negotiations with Washington, two of them said.The question
of whether Khamenei’s health allows him to run state affairs comes with
high-stakes peace talks with the United States opening in the Pakistani
capital Islamabad on Saturday.The accounts of the people close to
Khamenei’s inner circle provide the most detailed description of the
leader’s condition for weeks. Reuters couldn’t independently verify
their descriptions.Khamenei’s whereabouts, condition and ability to rule
still largely remain a mystery to the public, with no photo, video or
audio recording of him published since the air attack and his subsequent
appointment as his father’s replacement on March 8.Iran’s United
Nations mission did not respond to Reuters questions about the extent of
Khamenei’s injuries or the reason he has not yet appeared in any images
or recordings.Khamenei was wounded on February 28, the first day of the
war launched against the regime by the US and Israel, in the attack
that killed his father and predecessor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had
ruled since 1989. Mojtaba Khamenei’s wife, brother-in-law and
sister-in-law were among other members of his family killed in the
strike.There has been no official Iranian statement on the extent of
Khamenei’s injuries. However, a newsreader on state television described
him as a “janbaz,” a term used for those badly wounded in war, after he
was named supreme leader.The accounts of Khamenei’s injuries tally with
a statement made by US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on March 13
when he said that Khamenei was “wounded and likely disfigured.”A source
familiar with US intelligence assessments told Reuters that Khamenei was
believed to have lost a leg.The CIA declined to comment on Khamenei’s
condition. The Israeli prime minister’s office didn’t respond to
questions.Alex Vatanka, senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, said
that, regardless of the severity of his injuries, it was unlikely the
new and inexperienced leader would be able to command the overarching
power wielded by his father. While he is seen to represent continuity,
it could take years for him to build up the same level of automatic
authority, Vatanka added.“Mojtaba will be one voice but it will not be
the decisive one,” he said. “He needs to prove himself as the credible,
powerful, overriding voice. The regime as a whole has to make a decision
in terms of where they are going to go.”One of the people close to
Khamenei’s circle said images of the supreme leader could be expected to
be released within one or two months and that he might even appear in
public then, although all three sources stressed he would only emerge
when his health and the security situation allowed.‘We don’t know much
about his world view’In Iran’s theocratic system of rule, ultimate power
is meant to be wielded by the supreme leader, a venerable Shi’ite
Muslim cleric appointed by an assembly of 88 ayatollahs. The leader
oversees the elected president while directly commanding parallel
institutions including the Revolutionary Guards, a powerful political
and military force.Iran’s first supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini, enjoyed unquestioned authority as the charismatic leader of
the revolution and the most learned cleric of his day.His successor, Ali
Khamenei, was a less revered cleric but had served as Iran’s president.
He spent decades cementing his authority after his appointment in 1989,
partly through promoting the power of the Revolutionary Guards.His son
Mojtaba does not command absolute power in the same way, senior Iranian
sources have previously told Reuters. The Revolutionary Guards, who
helped steer him into the top job after his father’s assassination, have
emerged as the dominant voice on strategic decisions during the war.
Iran’s UN mission didn’t respond to questions about the power wielded by
the Guards and the new supreme leader.As an influential figure in his
father’s office, Khamenei had previously spent years involved in
exercising power at the top levels of the Islamic Republic, officials
and insiders have said, building ties with senior Guards figures.While
he is widely seen as likely to continue his father’s hardline approach
due to his links to the Guards, we don’t know much about his world view,
said Vatanka at the Middle East Institute.Khamenei’s first apparent
communication with Iranians as supreme leader came on March 12, saying
in a written statement read out by a television news presenter that the
Strait of Hormuz should stay closed and warning regional countries to
shut US bases.His office has since issued a few other brief written
statements from him, including on March 20, when he welcomed in the
Persian new year, which he named the “year of resistance.” Public
statements of policy on Iran’s war stance, its approach towards
diplomacy, neighbors, ceasefire negotiations and domestic unrest, have
been made by other senior officials.‘Where is Mojtaba?’ memes circulate
onlineKhamenei’s absence is widely discussed on Iranian social media and
in messaging app groups, when the country’s patchy internet allows,
with conspiracy theories widespread about his condition and who is
running the country.One popular meme circulating online is a picture of
an empty chair under a spotlight with the slogan “Where is
Mojtaba?”However, some government supporters, including a senior member
of the Basij militia, a volunteer paramilitary group run by the
Revolutionary Guards, said that it was important for Khamenei to keep a
low profile, given the threat posed by waves of US and Israeli
airstrikes that have already wiped out much of the country’s
leadership.A lower-ranking Basij member agreed.“Why should he appear in
public? To become a target for these criminals?” Mohammad Hosseini, from
the city of Qom, said in a text message.Times of Israel staff
contributed to this report.
PROOF HALF ON EARTH DIE DURING THE 7
YR TRIBULATION PERIOD (8 BILLION ON EARTH) (DO NOT EVER LISTEN TO
ANYBODY THAT SAYS THE WORLD IS ENDING.ITS NEVER GONNA HAPPEN-4 BILLION
WILL BE LEFT ON EARTH TO GO INTO JESUS" 1000 YEAR RULE)(THAT DOES NOT
SOUND LIKE THE END OF THE WORLD TO ANY ONE, DOES IT-NOT ME.THE EARTH IS
JUST RENOVATED.NEVER ENDED.
REVELATION 6:7-8 (8 BILLION- 2 BILLION = 6 BILLION)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8
And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that
sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given
unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 BILLION) to kill with
sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE
DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
REVELATION 9:15,18 (6 BILLION - 2 BILLION = 4 BILLION)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,
18
By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the
fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their
mouths.(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS)
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE
17:34-37 (8 TOTAL BILLION - 4 BILLION DEAD IN TRIB = 4 BILLION TO JESUS
KINGDOM) (HALF DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD JUST LIKE THE
BIBLE SAYS)(GOD DOES NOT LIE)(AND NOTICE MOST DIE IN WAR AND
DISEASES-NOT COMETS-ASTEROIDS-QUAKES OR TSUNAMIS)
34 I tell you, in
that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN
WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.(half earths population 4
billion die in the 7 yr trib)
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37
And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto
them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered
together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against
Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten
by the birds).THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-NOT RAPTURE
SCRIPTURES.BECAUSE NOT HALF OF PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.AND THE
CONTEXT IN LUKE 17 IS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION OR 7 YR TREATY PERIOD.WHICH
IS JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH.NOT 50% RAPTURED TO HEAVEN.
MATTHEW 24:37-42 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe
entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
WORLD TERRORISM
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.(CAN YOU SAY
TORNADOES,HURRICANES,VOLCANOES,EARTH QUAKES,LANDSLIDES,FLASH
FLOODING,EXPLOSIONS,SNOW STORMS,THEN FINALLY NUKESAND ANY OTHER
JUDGEMENTS THE EARTH CAN VOMIT THE SINNERS OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH
WITH.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and
kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there
shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and
troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11
And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE
SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great
signs shall there be from heaven.
2 Peter 3:6-7 Amplified Bible (AMP) (HOT SUN, NUKES ETC)
6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed.
7
By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire,
being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
LUKE 21:25-26
25
And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in
the moon,(MAN ON THE MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the
stars;(ASTEROIDS-PROPHECY SIGNS) and upon the earth distress of nations,
with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE
WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for
fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things
which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven
shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
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-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) 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)
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)
JOHN 16:2
2
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that
whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM
MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
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.
Joel 3:2-King James Version (YOU DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN
HALF - YOUR POKING GOD IN THE EYE - GOD SAYS AN EYE FOR AN EYE AND A
TOOTH FOR A TOOTH- YOU WANNA DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN HALF - HALF OF EARTHS
POPULATION 4 BILLION DIE ON EARTH.
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 and for my heritage Israel, whom they have
scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
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.
As Turkey reportedly seeks to jail them, Israeli
leaders blast Erdogan for ‘massacring Kurds’Netanyahu accuses Turkish
president of accommodating Iran’s terror proxies; Katz calls him a
‘paper tiger’; Ben Gvir tells him: ‘F*** you’By Lazar Berman,ToI Staff
and AFP Today, 5:43 am-APR 12,26
Israeli leaders lashed out
Saturday at Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after prosecutors in
Turkey reportedly filed indictments against 35 top officials, including
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seeking a total of more than 4,500
years in prison.In response, Netanyahu accused Erdogan of massacring
Kurds in his own country.
“Israel under my leadership will continue
to fight Iran’s terror regime and its proxies, unlike Erdogan who
accommodates them and massacred his own Kurdish citizens,” he wrote on
X.According to reports in Turkey, prosecutors are seeking up to 4,596
years behind bars in total for officials including Netanyahu, Defense
Minister Israel Katz, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, IDF
Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir.They are accused of alleged crimes
against humanity and genocide, as well as of stopping the Sumud flotilla
from reaching Gaza in 2025 and abusing its participants.Katz also
lashed out at Erdogan on X, calling him a “paper tiger.”“Erdogan, who
did not respond to missile fire from Iran into Turkish territory and has
proven to be a paper tiger, is now fleeing into the realm of
antisemitism and calling for show trials in Turkey against Israel’s
political and military leadership,” he said.“What an absurdity. A man of
the Muslim Brotherhood, who massacred the Kurds, accuses Israel —
defending itself against his Hamas allies — of genocide,” Katz added.
“Israel will continue to defend itself with strength and determination —
and he would do well to remain silent.”The ultranationalist Ben Gvir,
known for his firebrand style, was more concise and less
diplomatic.“Erdogan, do you understand English?” he tweeted in Hebrew,
before adding, in English: “Fuck You.”Turkey’s Foreign Ministry replied
to Netanyahu with a statement, calling the premier “the Hitler of our
time.”Regarding the Social Media Post by Israeli Prime Minister
Netanyahu https://t.co/CMg9hJzc1h pic.twitter.com/LOLDqOZpH3 — Turkish
MFA (@MFATurkiye) April 11, 2026-Turkey, while a fierce critic of
Israel, joined diplomatic efforts with Egypt and Pakistan to reach a
ceasefire in the conflict.Shortly after the United States and Iran
agreed to a ceasefire last week, Erdogan warned US President Donald
Trump of “possible provocations and sabotage” that could undermine the
agreement, without specifying who might threaten the deal.During his
phone call with Trump, Erdogan also urged that the truce “not be
compromised under any circumstances,” saying Ankara would offer its full
support to ensure as much.
Soldiers destroyed bomb-making lab in West Bank’s Tulkarem, military says-By Emanuel Fabian-Today, 8:11 am-APR 12,26
IDF
troops destroyed a bomb-making lab during a raid over the weekend in
the West Bank’s Tulkarem camp, the military says.The IDF says troops
raided the site on Friday following “intelligence indications.”The
soldiers found some 200 pipe bombs and other improvised explosive
devices made out of fire extinguishers, along with gas cylinders and
some 50 kilograms of explosive material, according to the military.
IDF says it struck a locked and loaded Hezbollah rocket launcher in south Lebanon overnight-By Emanuel Fabian-APR 12,26
Overnight,
the Israeli Air Force struck a primed Hezbollah rocket launcher in
southern Lebanon, the military says.According to the IDF, the launcher
in the Jouaiya area was ready for an attack on Israel, and was destroyed
before Hezbollah could use it.
Several Gazans said killed in IDF
strikes; soldier seriously hurt in operational accident-Military says
it struck operatives planning attacks against troops; soldier
hospitalized following mishap-By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies 11 April
2026, 11:58 pm
At least 10 Palestinians were reported killed in
Israeli strikes on Friday night and Saturday, with the Israel Defense
Forces saying they included several terror operatives.Meanwhile, an
Israeli soldier was severely wounded in an “operational accident” in the
central Gaza Strip on Saturday, the military announced. The incident
occurred during bulldozing work in the area. The military said the
soldier was taken to a hospital in serious condition and his family was
notified.In southern Gaza, the IDF killed Mahmoud Barim, a member of the
Mujahideen Brigades terror group, who the military said had been
carrying out surveillance on troops and “possessed a large amount of
weaponry.In northern Gaza, the IDF killed Ahmad Muhammad Saleh, a member
of Hamas’s elite Nukhba Force, “who had advanced several terror attack
plans against IDF troops,” the military said.The strike targeting Saleh
also killed several more Hamas operatives, it added, saying: “The
terrorists posed a real threat to IDF troops and were eliminated in
precise strikes.”On Saturday, the IDF said troops stationed in northern
Gaza killed a Palestinian terror operative who crossed the ceasefire
line.The operative approached reservists of the 205th “Iron Fist”
Armored Brigade “in a manner that posed an immediate threat,” the
military said, adding that the troops “eliminated the terrorist to
remove the threat.”Additionally, the Hamas-run Gaza civil defense
service said that Israeli airstrikes in the Palestinian territory had
killed seven people overnight into Saturday.Mahmoud Bassal, spokesman
for the group, which operates under the authority of the Hamas terror
group, said an Israeli drone had fired two missiles close to a police
post in the Al-Bureij refugee camp.In addition to the seven dead, he
said, several more people were wounded, four of them critically.The
Al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza said Saturday that it had received six
bodies and seven wounded, “including four in a critical condition
because of direct impacts to the face, torso and other parts of the
body.”The nearby al-Awda hospital said it had received one fatality and
two wounded.The figures did not distinguish between combatants and
civilians.In response to a query by The Times of Israel, the military
said it had struck an armed cell of Hamas gunmen whose members had
“approached the Yellow Line” and planned to carry out an “imminent”
attack on Israeli forces stationed in the area.Hamas and Israel have
traded blame for violations of the ceasefire agreed last October, which
halted two years of full-blown war.The Gaza health ministry, which is
controlled by Hamas, says Israeli fire has killed at least 700 people
since the ceasefire began, though it does not differentiate between
civilians and combatants. The figures cannot be independently
verified.Four IDF soldiers have been killed in attacks by Gazans over
the same period. A fifth soldier was killed in a friendly fire incident.
UK
police arrest over 500 at London demonstration for Palestine Action
support-Metropolitan Police return to mass arrest policy as government
appeals court ruling against group’s ban; protesters defy order, say
legal ‘flip-flop’ does not affect ‘morals’By Agencies 11 April 2026,
9:42 pmUpdated: Today, 4:17 am
LONDON — Police in London on
Saturday arrested over 500 pro-Palestinian protesters at a demonstration
in support of the banned anti-Israel group Palestine Action.Officers
carried away activists, to cheers and clapping from other demonstrators
who gathered for the sit-down demonstration in the capital’s Trafalgar
Square.The protesters held placards in support of the banned group
Palestine Action, making them liable for arrest.Palestine Action was
proscribed as a terrorist organization last July, making it a criminal
offense to belong to or support the group, punishable by up to 14 years
in prison. In subsequent protests, police arrested nearly 3,000 people
for alleged support of the banned group.Palestine Action has carried out
acts of “direct action” at military and industrial sites in the UK
since the group’s formation in 2020, including breaking into facilities
owned by Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems UK and damaging
Royal Air Force planes at a base in England.Six Palestine Action
activists are facing a retrial on a number of charges relating to a 2024
raid on Elbit’s UK factory, after they were acquitted of the charge of
aggravated burglary earlier this month. The retrial will concern
criminal charges on which the jury failed to reach verdicts. It is due
to take place in February 2027.The initial verdict on the raid, in which
a police officer’s spine was allegedly fractured in a filmed
sledgehammer attack by an activist, drew criticism from police,
lawmakers and Jewish communal groups.Officials say Palestine Action’s
activities have caused millions of pounds in damage that affects
national security.In mid-February, the High Court in London upheld a
challenge to the ban, saying it had interfered with the right to freedom
of speech.London’s Metropolitan Police paused arrests in the wake of
the High Court ruling before announcing in late March that it would
resume them after the government was allowed to appeal the
decision.BREAKING: Mass arrests under the Terrorism Act in Trafalgar
Square, as hundreds defy the ban on Palestine Action.The police are
knowingly unlawfully arresting peaceful protestors for holding placards
which say:"I oppose genocide – I support Palestine Action"
pic.twitter.com/94jok20GG2 — Defend Our Juries (@DefendOurJuries) April
11, 2026-“It’s really important to continue to show up,” said Freya, 28,
manager of a London environmental organization, one of those sitting
towards the front of the crowd of protesters. “The government might
flip-flop in their legal argument, but the morals of these people (here)
do not change.”Posting on X, London’s Metropolitan Police said by early
evening they had made 92 arrests of people aged between 27 and 82, with
the protesters still in place.‘Misguided crackdown’Since the ban on
Palestine Action was imposed, thousands have been arrested, mainly for
carrying placards defending it. Hundreds of people are facing charges
under the UK’s terrorism act.Another protester, Denis MacDermot, 73,
from Edinburgh, said he had been arrested before and had no hesitation
about turning out again.“I’m a supporter of these great people,” he
said, waving towards other protesters, adding that if the court process
was definitive, “there would be no need for all this.”Protest organizers
Defend Our Juries said around 500 people had taken part in Saturday’s
demonstration, protesting “the UK Government’s complicity in Israel’s
genocide in Gaza and the misguided crackdown on peaceful protest at
home.”Police were “choosing to make arrests despite the government’s ban
on the group being ruled unlawful by the High Court, and leading
lawyers warning that any arrests would be unlawful,” it added in a
statement.The ban, which put Palestine Action on a blacklist that also
includes Islamic terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, has sparked a
severe backlash.A judge has put on hold all trials of people charged
with supporting Palestine Action, scheduling a blanket review of cases
for July 30.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
IDF
and Hezbollah trade strikes, rockets as Israel and Lebanon gear up for
direct talks-Military says it struck over 200 targets in past day, with 2
soldiers wounded in south Lebanon combat; 10 Lebanese said killed in
IDF strikes; Hezbollah blasts negotiations By Emanuel Fabian,Agencies
and ToI Staff 11 April 2026, 7:28 pm
Israel and Hezbollah traded
fire throughout Saturday, with the Israel Defense Forces striking
hundreds of targets in Lebanon and the Iran-backed terror group
launching dozens of rockets and drones at northern Israel.The fighting
in Lebanon continued as Jerusalem and Beirut geared up for direct peace
talks, which are slated for Tuesday in Washington.The Israeli and
Lebanese ambassadors to the US, who will represent their respective
sides during the talks, held a first direct phone conversation on
Friday, during which the Israeli envoy said that Jerusalem is not
prepared to cease fighting against Hezbollah, despite reported pressure
from the US to do so.There were no reports of injuries as a result of
Hezbollah’s rocket and drone fire on Israel on Saturday, which caused
minor property damage.One Hezbollah drone struck a building in the
northern border community of Shlomi. Several more drones were
intercepted, the military said.More than 30 rockets were also launched,
though most were intercepted, and some were allowed to hit open areas
across the Galilee, including near the cities of Safed and Karmiel, the
IDF said.Footage shows a Hezbollah drone being shot down over the
Western Galilee earlier today. pic.twitter.com/BWerGhSCu5 — Emanuel
(Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) April 11, 2026-According to the Israeli
military, two soldiers were moderately wounded in combat with Hezbollah
in southern Lebanon on early Saturday morning.In Lebanon, 10 people,
including three emergency workers, were killed by Israeli strikes on the
south, according to the country’s health ministry.The ministry said
three deadly strikes hit locations in the Nabatiyeh district, with the
dead including a member of the Lebanese civil defense and two paramedics
from the Hezbollah-affiliated Islamic Health Committee. It decried what
it said was Israel’s “systematic” targeting of emergency
workers.According to the IDF, the Israeli Air Force struck some 200
targets Friday night and Saturday. The targets included Hezbollah
infrastructure and rocket launchers, the army said.“The Air Force
continues to strike the infrastructure of the Hezbollah terror
organization and to assist the activity of ground forces operating in
southern Lebanon,” the IDF said in a statement.“In addition, the IDF
continues to strike launchers to thwart fire toward Israeli civilians,”
the military added.Notably, the IDF has not conducted any strikes
against Hezbollah in Beirut since Wednesday night, amid reports of US
pressure on Israel to limit attacks on the terror group as it attempts
to advance negotiations with Tehran.Lebanese state media also reported
on Israeli ground operations in more than a dozen locations in south
Lebanon, where five IDF divisions are currently deployed.According to
the IDF, two soldiers of the Paratroopers Brigade were moderately
wounded during a clash with Hezbollah gunmen in southern Lebanon on
Saturday.The pair was hit by shrapnel amid an exchange of fire with
Hezbollah gunmen. They were taken to a hospital and their families were
notified, the army addedAccording to the IDF, the paratroopers had
raided several Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon, and at one building,
they encountered several Hezbollah operatives.The paratroopers directed
an Israeli Air Force drone, which struck and killed at least two of the
gunmen, the military said, publishing footage from the incident.The IDF
said the troops later located weapons used by the operatives, and
separately found another cache of Hezbollah weapons.Hezbollah MP: Direct
talks a ‘blatant violation’ of law-As combat between Israel and
Hezbollah continued, Israel’s Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter told
his Lebanese counterpart during their first-ever phone call on Saturday
that Israel is not prepared to cease fighting against the Iran-backed
group, even as it prepares to negotiate a potential peace deal with
Beirut.The US is reportedly urging Israel to halt the fighting against
Hezbollah before the first-ever public meeting between envoys from
Jerusalem and Beirut on Tuesday. Lebanon has argued that a ceasefire
should be a precondition of the meeting.Beirut is seeking the withdrawal
of Israeli troops from Lebanese territory, while Israel has framed the
talks as a step towards formally establishing peace with Lebanon, with
which it has technically been at war for decades.Reacting to the
imminent talks, Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah said the government’s
decision to hold direct talks with Israel was “a blatant violation of
the [national] pact, the constitution and Lebanese laws.”The move
“exacerbates domestic divisions at a time when Lebanon most needs
solidarity and internal unity to face Israel’s aggression and preserve
civil peace,” he added in a statement.He went on to say the government
“has failed to protect its people and cannot be trusted to safeguard
national sovereignty.”Ali Akbar Velayati, an adviser to Iran’s supreme
leader, also chimed in on the talks, saying on X that Lebanese Prime
Minister Nawaf Salam “should know that ignoring the unique role of the
resistance and the heroic Hezbollah will expose Lebanon to irreparable
security risks.”“Lebanon’s stability rests exclusively on cohesion
between the government and the resistance,” he said.Grief in Lebanon as
war drags on-In the coastal city of Sidon, meanwhile, hundreds of people
attended a funeral procession on Saturday for 13 state security
personnel who were killed the day before when Israeli strikes hit near
their office in Nabatiyeh in the south.Loved ones grasped at the
coffins, each bearing the Lebanese flag, while others wept
inconsolably.“Who will bring my husband back? Who will give my children
their father back?” screamed the wife of one of the dead.Addressing the
authorities, another angry, grief-stricken mourner said: “You left them
there to die, and now you’re holding ceremonies for them?”The IDF said
late Friday that it was investigating the incident. The military said it
had targeted buildings used by Hezbollah “for military activity,” and
that it was aware of reports of casualties among Lebanon’s security
forces.“The incident is under review,” the IDF added.Lebanon’s health
ministry says Israeli attacks have killed over 1,800 people since
hostilities escalated on March 2, in tolls that do not differentiate
between fighters and civilians. According to IDF tallies released
Friday, more than 1,400 Hezbollah operatives have been killed over the
same period.
FINALLY THE EUROPEAN UNION IS TALKING ABOUT HAVING THEIR OWN ARMY.AND IT MUST HAPPEN.
REVELATION 19:16-21
16
And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of
Kings, And Lord Of Lords.(JESUS RETURNG TO EARTH LITERALLY ON A WHITE
HORSE WITH THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS 7 YEARS EARLIER)
17 And I saw an
angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all
the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves
together unto the supper of the great God;
18 That ye may eat the
flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men,
and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of
all men, both free and bond, both small and great.(2ND TIME GOD-JESUS
TELLS THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS TO GET READY TO EAT HUMAN
FLESH.THE FIRST TIME WAS WHEN GOD TOLD THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING
BIRDS-TO EAT RUSSIA,GERMAN,ARAB, MUSLIM BODIES FOR 7 MONTHS IN EZEK 38 @
39.
19 And I saw the beast,(E.U WORLD LEADER) and the kings of the
earth, and their armies,(HERE IT SAYS THE E.U WILL HAVE ITS OWN ARMY)
gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, (JESUS)
and against his army.(RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
20 And the beast (E.U
WORLD LEADER) was taken, and with him the false prophet (POPE FRANCIS)
that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had
received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image.
These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21
And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the
horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were
filled with their flesh.
Zephaniah 2:1-15
1 Gather together, yes, gather,O shameless nation,
2
before the decree takes effect[a] -before the day passes away like
chaff—before there comes upon you the burning anger of the Lord, before
there comes upon you the day of the anger of the Lord.
3 Seek the
Lord, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands;[b] seek
righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of
the anger of the Lord.
4 For Gaza shall be deserted, and Ashkelon
shall become a desolation; Ashdod's people shall be driven out at noon,
and Ekron shall be uprooted.
5 Woe to you inhabitants of the
seacoast, you nation of the Cherethites! The word of the Lord is against
you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; and I will destroy you until no
inhabitant is left.
6 And you, O seacoast, shall be pastures, with meadows[c] for shepherds and folds for flocks.
7
The seacoast shall become the possession of the remnant of the house of
Judah, on which they shall graze, and in the houses of Ashkelon they
shall lie down at evening. For the Lord their God will be mindful of
them and restore their fortunes.
8 “I have heard the taunts of Moab
(JORDAN) and the revilings of the Ammonites, how they have taunted my
people and made boasts against their territory.
9 Therefore, as I
live,” declares the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall become
like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles
and salt pits, and a waste forever.The remnant of my people shall
plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”
10 This shall be their lot in return for their pride, because they taunted and boasted against the people of the Lord of hosts.
11
The Lord will be awesome against them; for he will famish all the gods
of the earth, and to him shall bow down, each in its place, all the
lands of the nations.
12 You also, O Cushites, shall be slain by my sword.
13
And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy
Assyria,(SYRIA) and he will make Nineveh a desolation, a dry waste like
the desert.
14 Herds shall lie down in her midst, all kinds of
beasts;[d] even the owl and the hedgehog[e] shall lodge in her
capitals; a voice shall hoot in the window; devastation will be on the
threshold; for her cedar work will be laid bare.
15 This is the
exultant city that lived securely, that said in her heart, “I am, and
there is no one else.” What a desolation she has become, a lair for wild
beasts! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.Sa'ar: No
free meals; talks possible if more hostages freed Israel halts aid into
Gaza, citing Hamas refusal to extend first phase of truce
Footnotes-a
-Zephaniah 2:2 Hebrew gives birth, b-Zephaniah 2:3 Or who carry out his
judgment, c-Zephaniah 2:6 Or caves, d-Zephaniah 2:14 Hebrew beasts of
every nation, e-Zephaniah 2:14 The identity of the animals rendered owl
and hedgehog is uncertain
DANIEL 2:37-45
37 Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
38
And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and
the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made
thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.
39 And after
thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third
kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
40 And
the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh
in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these,
shall it break in pieces and bruise.
41 And whereas thou sawest the
feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom
shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron,
forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
43
And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle
themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to
another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
44 And in the days of
these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never
be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it
shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand
for ever.
45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of
the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the
brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known
to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is
certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
DANIEL 7:17-26
17 These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.
18 But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.
19
Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from
all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his
nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue
with his feet;
20 And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of
the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn
that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was
more stout than his fellows.
21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
22
Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of
the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
23
Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,
which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole
earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the
ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and
another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first,
and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words
against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High,
and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his
hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
THE WORLD IN 10 WORLD TRADE BLOCS LEAD BY THE EUROPEAN UNION THE WORLD LEADER, NOT AMERICA.I PREDICT.
THE EUROPEAN UNION AND REVIVED ROMAN WORLD GOVERNMENT
DANIEL 2:31-33,36-43, DAN 7:3-8,17
First From Daniel Chapter 2
1 EGYPT
2 ASSYRIA
3 BABYLON (HEAD OF GOLD) DAN 2:31-32,36-38, DAN 1:1
4 MEDO-PERSIANS (CHEST & ARMS OF SILVER) DAN 2:32,39, DAN 9:1
5 GREECE (WAIST & HIPS OF BRONZE) DAN 2:32,39, DAN 11:2
6 ROME (2 LEGS OF IRON) DAN 2:33,40, ROM 1:6
7 REVIVED ROME (EU) (FEET IRON & CLAY) DAN 2:33,41-43,10 TOES
Now From Daniel Chapter 7
1 EGYPT
2 ASSYRIA
3 BABYLON (LION WITH EAGLES WINGS) DAN 7:4, DAN 1:1
4 MEDO-PERSIANS (BEAR ON HIND LEGS) DAN 7:5, DAN 9:1
5 GREECE (LEOPARD 4 WINGS, 4 HEADS) DAN 7:6, DAN 11:2
6 ROME (HUGE IRON TEETH) DAN 7:7 (10 HORNS), ROM 1:6
7 REVIVED ROME (EU) DAN 7:8,19-20,23-25 10 HORNS, 10 KINGS
REV
17:9,12, 10 HORNS, 10 KINGS, 7 HILLS ROME. REV 13:1 BEAST WITH 7 HEADS.
THE E.U LEADER OF WORLD GOVERNMENT DAN 2:40-45, 7:7-8,23-25,27, 8:23,
REV 13:3,7,8,12,14,16
REVELATION 17:10-12
10 And there are
seven kings (7TH WORLD EMPIRE IN HISTORY) five are fallen, (EGYPT,
ASSYRIA, BABYLON,:MEDO-PERSIAN,GREECE and one is,(IN POWER IN JOHNS
DAY-ROME) and the other is not yet come; and when he
cometh,(FUTURE-REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE-EUROPEAN UNION TODAY) he must
continue a short space.(7 YEARS OF WORLD DOMINATION-BUT 3 1/2 YEARS OF
NEW WORLD ORDER OR ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT)
12 And the ten horns (10
WORLD TRADE BLOCS OR REGIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which
have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour
with the beast.
REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (10
WORLD TRADE BLOCS-NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have
received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the
beast.
13 These have one mind,(WORLD SOCIALISM) and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
We
shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only
question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or
consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February
1950
Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in
1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a
man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection
to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten
to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept
him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.
DICK
MORRIS-This truly creates a global economic system. From now on, don’t
look to Washington for the rule making, look to Brussels.
THE CLUB OF ROME FOUNDER AURELIO PECCEI WANTS THE WORLD IN 10 REGIONAL TRADING BLOCKS.
REVELATION 16:1-2
1
And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels,
Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the
earth.
2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth;
and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the
mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16
And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor,
free and bond, (SLAVE) to receive a mark in their right hand, or in
their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the
beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred
threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
I KNOW THIS MARK WILL
BE A MICROCHIP IMPLANT UNDER THE SKIN. LETS LOOK UP WHAT THE WORD MARK
SAYS IN REVELATION 13:16-18, 14:9,11, 15:2, 16:2, 19:20, 20:4-ALL THESE
VERSES FROM THE BOOK OF REVELATION SPEAK OF THIS DICTATORS MARK. NOW
LETS SEE WHAT IT MEANS FROM STRONGS EXAUSTIVE CONCORDANCE OF THE BIBLE.
UNDER MARK PAGE 684.MARK UNDER MARK. THE OLD TESTAMENT IS UNDER HEBREW
AND THE NEW TESTAMENT IS UNDER GREEK. SO WHEN WE LOOK UNDER REVELATION
13:16-17 WE SEE IT IS UNDER GREEK, SO WE GO TO GREEK IN THE BACK SECTION
AND GO TO 5480 TO SEE WHAT IT SAYS THIS MARK WOULD BE. SO LETS GET TO
IT.MARK IN STRONGS GREEK 5480 XAPAYUA CHARAGMA, KHAR-AG-MAH: FROM THE
SAME AS 5482: A SCRATCH OR ETCHING, I.E STAMP (AS A BADGE OF SERVITUDE),
OR SCULPTURED FIGURE-(STATUE):-GRAVEN, MARK FROM 5482 XAPAE CHARAX,
KHAR-AX; FROM XAPAOOW CHARASSO (TO SHARPEN TO A POINT; AKIN TO 1125
THROUGH THE IDEA OF SCRATCHING); A STAKE, I.E (BYIMPL.) A PALISADE OR
RAMPART (MILITARY MOUND FOR CIRCUMVALLATION IN A SIEGE): - TRENCH FROM
1125 YPAPOE GRAPHO, GRAF-0; A PRIM. VERB; TO "GRAVE", ESPEC. TO WRITE;
FIG. TO DESCRIBE:-DESCRIBE, WRITE (-ING, -TEN).G5516-GO TO G4742-666 -
STRONGS NT 4742: στίγμα - στίγμα, στιγματος, τό (from στίζω to prick;
(cf. Latinstimulus, etc.; German stechen, English stick, sting, etc.;
Curtius, § 226)), a mark pricked in or branded upon the body. According
to ancient oriental usage, slaves and soldiers bore the name or stamp of
their master or commander branded or pricked (cut) into their bodies to
indicate what master or general they belonged to, and there were even
some devotees who stamped themselves in this way with the token of their
gods (cf. Deyling, Observations, iii., p. 423ff); hence, τά στίγματα
τοῦ (κυρίου so Rec.) Ἰησοῦ, the marks of (the Lord) Jesus, which Paul in
Galatians 6:17 says he bears branded on his body, are the traces left
there by the perils, hardships, imprisonments, scourgings, endured by
him for the cause of Christ, and which mark him as Christ's faithful and
approved votary, servant, soldier (see Lightfoots Commentary on
Galatians, the passage cited). (Herodotus 7, 233; Aristotle, Aelian,
Plutarch, Lcian, others.)
THE INVENTOR OF THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT-CARL SANDERS MICROCHIP ENGINEER LEADER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgH9D6n4ZWo
THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT IN YOUR RIGHT HAND OR FOREHEAD.
LEVETICUS 19.28
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
HERES WHAT THE WORLD WOULD LOOK LIKE (SINCE THERE WILL BE WORLD GOVERNMENT IN THE FUTURE)-UPDATED VERSION (10 WORLD TRADE BLOCS)
01 CANADA, U.S.A, MEXICO
02 EUROPEAN UNION,WESTERN EUROPE
03 JAPAN
04 AUSTRALIA,NEW ZEALAND, S AFRICA, ISRAEL AND PACIFIC ISLANDS
05 EASTERN EUROPE
06 SOUTHERN, CENTRAL AND LATIN AMERICAS
07 NORTH AFRICA, AND MIDEAST (MOSLEMS)
08 CENTRAL AFRICA
09 SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
10 CENTRAL ASIA
THE
CLUB OF ROME WANTS A WORLD CHARISMATIC DICTATOR (EITHER RELIGIOUS,
POLITICAL OR SCIENTIFICAL) TO HEAD THIS WORLD GOVERNMENT. REV 13:3,7-8,
DAN 7:23-24
WORLD POWERS IN THE END TIME
NORTH - RUSSIA EZEK 38:1-2, 39:1-2
SOUTH - EGYPT DAN 11:42
EAST - CHINA DAN 11:44,REV 16:12
WEST - EUROPEAN UNION DAN 7:23-24 (NOT THE U.S.A)
http://israel7777777.blogspot.ca/2012/03/10-world-trade-blocs-one-world.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2006/09/how-eu-takes-world-control.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2012/05/one-world-religion-crislam.html
FINALLY THE EUROPEAN UNION IS TALKING ABOUT HAVING THEIR OWN ARMY.AND IT MUST HAPPEN.
REVELATION 19:16-21
16
And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of
Kings, And Lord Of Lords.(JESUS RETURNG TO EARTH LITERALLY ON A WHITE
HORSE WITH THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS 7 YEARS EARLIER)
17 And I saw an
angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all
the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves
together unto the supper of the great God;
18 That ye may eat the
flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men,
and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of
all men, both free and bond, both small and great.(2ND TIME GOD-JESUS
TELLS THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS TO GET READY TO EAT HUMAN
FLESH.THE FIRST TIME WAS WHEN GOD TOLD THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING
BIRDS-TO EAT RUSSIA,GERMAN,ARAB, MUSLIM BODIES FOR 7 MONTHS IN EZEK 38 @
39.
19 And I saw the beast,(E.U WORLD LEADER) and the kings of the
earth, and their armies,(HERE IT SAYS THE E.U WILL HAVE ITS OWN ARMY)
gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, (JESUS)
and against his army.(RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
20 And the beast (E.U
WORLD LEADER) was taken, and with him the false prophet (POPE FRANCIS)
that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had
received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image.
These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21
And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the
horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were
filled with their flesh.
COUNCIL FOR EUROPE ON DEFENCE
https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/document/download/6d6f889c-e58d-4caa-8f3b-8b93154fe206_en?filename=SAFE%20Regulation.pdf
Hungarians
vote in landmark election closely watched by EU, Russia, US,
Israel-Orban, in power since 2010, faces voter discontent over stagnant
economy; rival Magyar ahead in polls, but outcome up in the air; Israeli
diplomat endorses Orban on X, then deletes post By Reuters and ToI
Staff Today, 7:00 am-APR 12,24
BUDAPEST — Hungarians vote on
Sunday in an election that could end Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s
16-year hold on power, rattle Russia and send shockwaves through
right-wing circles across the West, including US President Donald
Trump’s White House and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu.Orban, a eurosceptic nationalist, has carved out a model of an
“illiberal democracy” seen as a blueprint by Trump’s Make America Great
Again (MAGA) movement and its admirers in Europe.But many Hungarians
have grown increasingly weary of Orban, 62, after three years of
economic stagnation and soaring living costs as well as reports of
oligarchs close to the government amassing more wealth.Opinion polls
over the last two weeks have shown Orban’s Fidesz party trailing Peter
Magyar’s upstart center-right opposition Tisza party by 7-9 percentage
points, with Tisza at around 38-41 percent.Voting in the election for
the 199-seat parliament started at 6 a.m. local time (0400 GMT) and is
due to close at 7 p.m.The vote is being closely watched in Brussels,
with many EU peers criticizing Orban, a friend of Russian President
Vladimir Putin and a close Trump ally, over what they say is an erosion
of Hungary’s democratic rule, media freedom and minority rights.For
Hungary’s eastern neighbor Ukraine, an Orban defeat could mean the
unblocking of a 90-billion-euro ($105 billion) European Union loan vital
for Kyiv’s war effort. It would also deprive Russia of its closest ally
in the EU.But Trump and Netanyahu are hoping for a win for their ally,
with the Israeli leader heaping praise on Orban last month, and the US
president saying Friday that he is ready to take steps to strengthen
Hungary’s economy if Orban wins.In a highly unusual move, Israel’s
Ambassador to Singapore Eli Vered Hazan openly endorsed Orban in a post
on X on Saturday, wishing him luck in the election and highlighting his
support for Israel “unlike decadent European politicians,” Trump’s
support for him, and his “saving Europe from itself.”After the post drew
much criticism, Vered Hazan deleted it.Orban has cast the election as a
choice between “war and peace.” During campaigning, the government
blanketed the country with signs warning that Tisza leader Magyar would
drag Hungary into Russia’s war with Ukraine, something he strongly
denies.“I am looking forward to Sunday’s election with the best hope,”
Orban told supporters in his birthplace Szekesfehervar.“If we know
ourselves well, if we know our country well and if we know our own
people well, then I must say Hungarians will vote for safety on Sunday,”
he added.Public discontent-Orban has won public endorsements from the
Trump administration — culminating in a visit to Budapest by US Vice
President JD Vance last week — as well as from the Kremlin and far-right
leaders in Europe.But his campaign has been shaken by media reports
alleging that his government colluded with Moscow. Orban, who denies any
wrongdoing, says his goal is to protect Hungary’s national identity and
traditional Christian values within the EU and its security in a
dangerous world.Meanwhile, former Orban loyalist Magyar, 45, has tapped
into discontent over alleged state corruption and falling living
standards, with young voters particularly eager for change.“I am very
excited but also very scared,” said Kriszta Tokes, a 24-year-old who
sells postcards and trinkets in Budapest. “I know that my future depends
on this,” she said, adding that she plans to leave Hungary if Orban
wins.While Orban’s party has done good things “on paper,” Tokes said,
referring to massive fiscal handouts he has provided to shore up
support, she believed young people were struggling more than the
government realized.To address a popularity rating of just 8% among
under-30s, Orban has scrapped income tax for the youngest workers and
launched a subsidized mortgage scheme to help first-time buyers onto the
housing ladder amid the EU’s steepest rise in house prices under his
rule.But Magyar’s offer of change appears to resonate more.In a final
push in the eastern town of Miskolc on Friday, Magyar said: “This will
be a referendum… about our country’s place and our country’s
future.”Analysts caution that the outcome of the vote remains uncertain,
citing the number of undecided voters, a redrawing of the electoral map
in favor of Fidesz and a high proportion of ethnic Hungarians in
neighboring countries, who mostly support the ruling party.They say
anything from a Tisza supermajority — able to change the constitution —
to a Fidesz majority is possible.If Tisza does win, unwinding the legal
and institutional changes Orban has made may prove a daunting task for a
new government if it has a simple majority in parliament.
'Five
children out of seven died before they turned four'2,500-year-old infant
mass grave cracks open enigma of biblical-era baby
burials-Archaeologists found the remains of dozens of children under the
age of two deposited in a water reservoir of the ancient Judean town, a
new study has revealed By Rossella Tercatin-11 April 2026, 11:25 am
It
was like a scene from a horror film: Archaeologists excavating an
ancient biblical site uncovered a two-meter deep cache of human bones.
Noting their small size, however, they realized that this must be a mass
grave for children. Cue the sinister soundtrack.Prof. Oded Lipschits of
Tel Aviv University and his team had been excavating at the ancient
site of Tel Azekah for about two years when, in 2013, they came across
the ancient water reservoir.At the deeper, more ancient levels, the
archaeologists found what is to be expected in such structures — pottery
vessels used to draw water. But closer to the surface, they were
stunned to find hundreds of small human bones.“We excavated very
carefully and very slowly, we collected every piece of bone and every
item, we documented every centimeter of the area, but we didn’t really
understand what we found,” Lipschits told The Times of Israel over the
telephone. “It took me some years to be brave enough to investigate this
discovery.”Located in the Shephelah (or Judean Lowlands), some 30
kilometers southwest of Jerusalem, Tel Azekah presents rich remains that
attest to its occupation for thousands of years, dating back to the
Early Bronze Age around 3,500 years ago. It is also mentioned in the
Bible as the location of the iconic battle between David and the
Philistine giant Goliath (Samuel I 17:1).With plenty of less gruesome
finds to investigate, the researchers did not return to examine the bone
trove until 2020. After several years, the mass grave has been revealed
to the public for the first time in a study published in the Palestine
Exploration Quarterly journal at the end of last month.In the study, the
authors documented a minimum of 68 and up to 89 individuals, 90% of
whom were under five years old and 70% under two years old. The bodies
were deposited there over a period of about 100 years, between the 6th
and the 5th centuries BCE, at the beginning of the Persian period, when
Tel Azekah was a Judean town.According to Lipschits, the infant mass
grave, the first of this kind uncovered in Israel, sheds unprecedented
light on possible burial practices for young children who, given their
age and the high mortality rate, might not have been considered eligible
for an individual grave.“[Archaeologists] who have excavated cemeteries
from the Iron Age [1200-586 BCE] and the Persian period [586-333 BCE],
have usually not found babies,” said Lipschits. “Now, we might have
found the solution [to this enigma].”A century of baby burials-Hila May,
an expert in Anatomy and Anthropology at TAU who joined the research
and co-authored the paper, said she had never seen an assemblage of so
many bodies together.“We estimated the number of individuals and their
age by counting the bones and measuring their size,” she told The Times
of Israel over the telephone.While the bodies are assumed to have been
deposited (or possibly thrown) in the cistern intact, the bones were
scattered and were not preserved as intact or partially intact
skeletons.According to May, it is normal for bones to disarticulate,
even in more organized graves, especially in young children, whose
skeletons have more cartilage and therefore tend to disarticulate more
easily.Asked whether the remains presented any sign to decipher the
cause of death, May said they did not.“When you see a mass grave, there
are several possible reasons for many individuals in one burial,” she
explained.“It could be that a disease killed a lot of people at once,
and it won’t show in the bones,” she added. “However, here I doubt it
was a disease, because from the archeological work, we know that this
hole was used for a century, suggesting it was not a specific disease
killing many at once.”May also explained that it was unlikely that the
children died of a violent death or in a massacre, as it would likely
show in at least some of the bones.Both Lipschits and May said that the
most likely explanation lies in the high mortality rate among young
children, for whom any cold or wound could represent a possible cause
for death at the time.Biblical insights into parental love-Lipschits
pointed out that the Bible, as well as sources and archaeological
evidence from other ancient cultures, indicate that children who were
not yet weaned were not considered full people, likely because of the
low chance of surviving infancy.“Four or five children out of seven died
before they turned four,” Lipschits said.Lipschits explained that the
fact that infants died so frequently or that, if their hypothesis is
correct, they were deposited in a mass grave as opposed to being
carefully buried, does not mean that parents did not love them.The
expert recalled the story of the prophet Samuel as narrated at the
beginning of the biblical book named after him.Childless Hannah prays
for a son, vowing to devote his life to God if she were given one. God
listens to her prayer, Hannah gets pregnant, and gives birth to a boy.
The mother then keeps little Samuel with her until he is weaned and only
then, after a big celebration, brings the boy to the sanctuary in
Shiloh (Samuel I 1:22-25).“Hannah gets permission from her husband to
continue breastfeeding Samuel and keeps him with her until he is weaned,
only then she brings him to the temple, and he can stay there,”
Lipschits. “He did not have his own identity before that.”Lipschits
noted that, in ancient times, children were breastfed for longer than in
the modern era. It was not uncommon to breastfeed a child until age
three.The professor recalled that in Genesis, Abraham also organizes a
large celebration after his son Isaac is weaned, indicating the
importance of the step (Genesis 21:8).Lipschits also excluded the
possibility that the children in Tel Azekah were intentionally buried as
human sacrifice, a practice that was common among the Phoenicians and
other populations at the time.“Usually, [in child sacrifice] the bones
were burned and put in a jar,” he said. “In this case, the bodies were
untouched.”May largely agreed, explaining that usually the practice
entailed more elaborate burials than just depositing a body
somewhere.Clear dating and cultural context-While many unresolved
mysteries surrounding the mass grave remain, Lipschits said the dating
is very clear.“The water reservoir was probably in use in the Middle
Bronze Age, around the middle of the 2nd millennium BCE, and remained in
use until the end of the Iron Age,” he explained. “We know it because
at the bottom of the reservoir, we found about half a meter of broken
vessels from the late Iron Age. Usually, the cistern would be cleaned
once every two years or so, but in this case, it was not, and this is a
sign that it went out of use.”Above the pottery, the archaeologists
uncovered a layer of some 20 centimeters of dirt, which suggests that
the reservoir was abandoned for a few decades, and on top of that, two
meters of remains from the Persian period, including the bones, more
pottery, stone objects, and jewelry.“The [cistern] was sealed in the
Hellenistic period [333-63 BCE], so the dating is quite clear,”
Lipschits said.Radiocarbon dating was also used on samples from the
structure, according to the archaeologist. The analysis confirmed the
assessments based on pottery and stratigraphy. According to Lipschits,
there is no doubt that the settlement in Tel Azekah at the time was
Judean.“The material culture is very much the same as that in
Jerusalem,” he said, referring to the objects and architecture
testifying to daily life at Tel Azekah.Lipschits explained that his team
has uncovered many remains from the Persian period at the site,
including houses, agricultural installations, animal bones, and
more.Hauling dirt out of the excavation site at Tel Azekah before dawn
in an undated picture. (Shmuel Bar-Am)-In 586 BCE, the Babylonians
conquered Judah, destroying Jerusalem and the First Temple. According to
the Bible, the Judeans who were not killed were driven into
exile.“Nowadays, we know most of Judeans continue to live in Judah, even
during the exilic period,” said Lipschits. “I assume that those [in Tel
Azekah] were Judeans who continued to live in the area.”Judean DNA on
the way? According to May, only the DNA tests they are currently
performing will provide conclusive evidence of the bodies’ ethnicity.“As
a biologist, I feel that only when we have the DNA results will we be
able to say who these people were,” she said.May explained that
nowadays, several laboratories worldwide, including in Israel, hold DNA
samples from different populations, allowing researchers to compare test
results and thereby determine the origin of the individuals tested.In
Israel, extracting DNA from ancient remains has traditionally been very
challenging, given the deterioration of the remains due to weather, but
in recent years, technological advances have increasingly enabled
scientists to obtain DNA from early sites, according to May.In Tel
Azekah, the researchers managed to extract DNA from several
individuals.“We cannot say how many exactly yet, but we have a good
number of samples,” May said.“We have many other open questions that we
need to answer, such as what the children’s gender was and whether they
were part of the same extended family,” May said.The scientists are also
looking into the few adult individuals found in the cistern and whether
they were related to the children or belonged to a separate ethnic
group, possibly buried there as a sign of lower status.According to
Lipschits, the discovery of the mass grave opens new avenues for
investigating infant burials.“We have a mystery regarding what happened
to babies who died in the Iron Age, and from my perspective, this is
only the beginning of new research,” he said. “Archaeologists,
anthropologists, and biblical scholars can now continue to work on
it.”For their part, the team at Tel Azekah is working to find the
cemetery or burial area for the rest of the settlement’s population
during the Persian period.“Burials are one of the [subjects] we are
focusing on now,” Lipschits said. “Usually, burials were located outside
of the sites. So now we are expanding our [area of] research to find
them.”
A perfect mission’: NASA celebrates as Artemis II
astronauts return to Earth-All four crewmembers capable of walking
unassisted when they reach recovery ship after splashdown; space agency
hopes to put boots on the lunar surface as soon as 2028 By AFP 11 April
2026, 3:02 pm
An elated NASA late Friday was celebrating its
successful voyage around the Moon, after four astronauts safely returned
to Earth having completed the first lunar flyby in more than 50
years.The NASA spacecraft carrying four astronauts — three Americans and
one Canadian — splashed down without a hitch off the California coast,
capping the US space agency’s crewed test mission that returned with
spectacular images of the Moon.“What a journey,” said mission commander
Reid Wiseman, who reported that the crewmembers — himself along with
Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Jeremy Hansen — were “stable” and
“green.”“They’re in great condition, that’s what that means,” said Rob
Navias, the NASA public affairs official who narrated their return on
the agency’s livestream.Following an expected but nerve-wracking
communications blackout during their high-stakes re-entry, Wiseman’s
voice triggered relief that the astronauts were well on their way back
home.“We have you loud and clear,” he said following a voice check from
mission control in Houston.NASA personnel and the US military helped
extract the astronauts from the bobbing capsule — to the applause of
those watching from mission control.By late Friday, helicopters had
lifted the astronauts to a recovery ship off the Pacific coast near San
Diego, where they all proved capable of walking unassisted.NASA
administrator Jared Isaacman called the voyage “a perfect
mission.”“We’re back in the business of sending astronauts to the Moon,”
he said, and “this is just the beginning.”‘A great day’As the
astronauts returned to Earth, their spacecraft reached maximum speeds
more than 30 times the speed of sound, and faced searing temperatures
around half as hot as the surface of the Sun.It was a key test of their
heat shield, which in an earlier trial uncrewed mission had faced
complications that they attempted to mitigate this time around by
shifting the return trajectory.“If you didn’t have anxiety bringing this
spacecraft home, you probably didn’t have a pulse,” said flight
director Rick Henfling.But the Artemis II re-entry was smooth
sailing.The Orion capsule will now be painstakingly examined to assess
how it fared.US President Donald Trump praised the astronauts for their
“spectacular” trip and said he “could not be more proud” — while wasting
no time in looking ahead to the eventual goal of sending missions even
further into space.“Next step, Mars!” he wrote on social media.Artemis
II was the inaugural crewed mission of NASA’s program aiming to install a
sustained presence on the Moon, including the eventual construction of a
base that could be used for further exploration, including to
Mars.‘Fresh confidence’From liftoff to splashdown, the trip clocked in
at nine days, one hour, 31 minutes and 35 seconds — though NASA rounds
up and calls it a 10-day mission.It began with a dramatic launch from
Florida on April 1, and was studded with firsts, records and
extraordinary moments.The four astronauts become the first humans to
travel furthest away from the Earth, at 252,756 miles (406,771
kilometers).NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander, left, and
CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, Artemis II mission
specialist, are seen sitting on a Navy MH-60 Seahawk on the flight deck
of USS John P. Murtha after they were extracted from their Orion
spacecraft after splashdown, April 10, 2026, in the Pacific Ocean off
the coast of California (NASA/Bill Ingalls)-While hurtling through deep
space and zipping around the Moon, they took thousands of photographs,
amassing a stunning portfolio of images that captivated people on
Earth.They also witnessed a solar eclipse along with extraordinary
meteorite strikes on the lunar surface.Several achievements added to the
voyage’s historic nature: Glover was the first person of color to fly
around the Moon, Koch was the first woman and Canadian Hansen the first
non-American.Astronomer Derek Buzasi of the University of Chicago called
the mission “an almost flawless success.”“I admit to having had my
doubts about the Artemis program, but now I have fresh confidence in our
next steps as we go back to the Moon to stay,” he told AFP.‘Eye on the
prize’NASA is hoping it can put boots on the lunar surface as soon as
2028 — the final full year of Trump’s second White House term.Experts,
however, have voiced skepticism that the lunar landers being developed
by SpaceX and Blue Origin, companies owned by billionaires Elon Musk and
Jeff Bezos, respectively, will be ready in time.China, meanwhile, is
forging ahead with its own effort targeting 2030 to put astronauts on
the Moon.In the meantime, NASA is hoping to capitalize on the Artemis II
mission’s success to drum up excitement about space exploration.Clayton
Swope, a space policy expert at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies, told AFP that the mission stands as “proof that
when America keeps its eye on the prize, it can still do very great
things.”
