RICE STUCK ON PALESTINIAN STATE

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

DANIEL 9:27
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

DANIEL 8:25
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.

DANIEL 11:39
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.

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

TAKE NOTICE WHAT VERSE 14 SAYS YES ITS JERUSALEM THATS DIVIDED.THATS WHY GOD IS SO MAD AND WW3 RESULTS BECAUSE OF IT. IN DANIEL CHAPTERS 2 + 7 IT SAYS THE EU WILL BE THE LAST DAYS POWER AND IN DANIEL 9:24-27 IT INVOLVES ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM. YOU COULD NOT DIVIDE JERUSALEM IF IT WAS NOT IN ISRAELS HANDS, THATS WHY THE LAST DAYS COUNTDOWN STARTED WITH ISRAEL BECOMING A NATION AND RECAPTURING JERUSALEM IN THE SIX DAY WAR. JERUSALEM IS THE KEY. BECAUSE JERUSALEM WILL BE TROUBLSOME AND A CUP
OF TREMBLING IN THESE LAST DAYS.

ZECHARIAH 12:1-3
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

Rice says need to keep focus on Palestinian state By Wafa Amr 1 hour, 1 minute

RAMALLAH (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Tuesday there was a need to remain focused on establishing a Palestinian state alongside Israel despite the crisis in Lebanon. Rice met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after visiting Lebanon and Israel, where she discussed the two weeks of fighting with Hizbollah guerrillas that have opened up a
second front for Israel, already fighting in Gaza for a month.

Even as the Lebanon situation is resolved, we must remain focused on what is happening here, in the Palestinian territories,Rice told a news conference.On our desires to get back to ... (the) vision of two states living side by side in peace.

Israeli-Palestinian relations hit a new low last month when gunmen from the Gaza Strip, including militants from the governing Hamas Islamist movement, killed two soldiers in Israel and abducted a third.That prompted an Israeli offensive which has left 121 Palestinians dead, but failed to secure the soldier's release or halt rocket fire by militants. The fighting in Gaza has been overshadowed by the war in Lebanon.A senior Palestinian official said Rice had told Abbas, a moderate, that Washington wanted to see a change in the Hamas government, which is under a U.S.-led aid embargo to force it to recognize Israel, renounce violence and accept peace deals.

She also told Abbas to use his authority to restore calm so that a political settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could be discussed when the Lebanon crisis is over.

THREAT

If the Palestinians don't change the government and don't achieve calm, the Palestinians will be ignored,the official said. There was no immediate U.S. comment.Abbas, who has been struggling to salvage peacemaking amid resistance from Hamas, voiced hope that the Israeli soldier would be returned by the militants and Israel would be prompted to release Palestinian prisoners.

We ... will exert maximum effort to revive the peace process and to guarantee the release of the soldier,he said.We hope that Israel will realize the suffering of 10,000 Palestinian families whose sons and daughters are in Israeli jails.Israel, which abandoned Gaza in 2005 after a 38 years of occupation, has ruled out any prisoner swap, although Germany, which helped negotiate an exchange of prisoners in 2004, said on Monday it was hopeful for the release of the soldier.A Palestinian official said Abbas told Rice that a more fanatical group might emerge in Lebanon if Hizbollah is cowed, noting that when Israel pushed out Palestinian guerrillas from Lebanon in the 1980s they were replaced by Hizbollah.

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas dismissed calls by Rice for a new Middle East of peace and democracy.It seems that the new Middle East from the American perspective begins with the destruction of Lebanon and by killing the biggest number of Palestinians, Haniyeh said.(Additional reporting by Sue Pleming)