LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Rice heads to Mideast as peace process shows signs of life by Sylvie Lanteaume SEPT 18,07
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice heads to Jerusalem on Wednesday planning to capitalize on signs of life in Israeli-Palestinian dialogue to accelerate a Middle East peace conference. US President George W. Bush has called for the international conference, expected to be held in November, to jump-start Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.Although November is fast-approaching, the chief US diplomat has remained reticent on her goals for her sixth visit to the Middle East of this year.The previous trips raised expectations of a breakthrough that were never realized, and this time the State Department is being coy about whether Rice will hold a three-way meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and embattled Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.This time around, I think we will focus on having parallel meetings, Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs David Welch said Monday, while not ruling out a broader meeting with the main players.Israeli and Palestinian sources said Rice was due to meet Olmert on Wednesday, and Abbas on Thursday.Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat told AFP: We are attaching great importance to this visit.
President Abbas stresses that the roadmap and the Arab peace initiative are the framework (for the peace summit), and wants all the parties concerned to take part, he added.Olmert and Abbas have both reaffirmed their commitment to a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict, on the lines of the roadmap to peace envisaged by a quartet of diplomatic players including the United States.Washington is keen on getting Saudi Arabia -- its most influential ally in the Arab world -- to participate in the planning international gathering.Saudi Arabia does not recognize Israel, so having representatives of both sides in the same room would be a diplomatic coup for Rice.Riyadh has revived a plan first floated in 2002 for Arab states to recognize Israel, in return for the Jewish state returning all territories seized in the 1967 Six-Day War.Ahead of the Rice trip, a senior Israeli government official said that both sides would work very intensely in the coming weeks to try to reach an understanding, preferably before the summit.
But Abbas last week denied media reports that he and Olmert had been drafting an accord of principles ahead of the US-sponsored peace conference.According to an alleged copy of the Hebrew-language document, published on the Palestinian Maan news agency's website, a demilitarized Palestinian state would be created within 1967 borders, with Jerusalem as capital.In Washington, Welch said the US government had been encouraged by the appointment last week by Abbas and Olmert of negotiating teams ahead of the planned peace conference.This is a very important moment and we think we can make some progress here, he said, previewing Rice's visit to the region.
I think for the first time here for quite some time, I do feel there is an opportunity, with a little hard work... we can get in a way that looks a little bit better, the State Department official said. The peace process appears to have perked up since the Western-shunned Hamas movement took control of Gaza, leaving Abbas's fractured government based in the West Bank. The glue for a revived partnership is the understanding that the alternative is Hamas, which threatens Israelis and Palestinians alike, commented David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. But writing in Newsday, he warned that unrealistically high expectations for the November meeting could tragically trample whatever moves the parties do make.
Palestinian government seen needing $1.6 bln a year By Adam Entous
SEPT 18,07
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Western-backed government of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas estimates that it will need at least $1.62 billion in donor assistance per year to close its soaring budget gap, the World Bank said. In a bleak report to donors obtained by Reuters on Tuesday, the international lending agency said local revenues were not enough to sustain the government's wage bill and that there was little chance of improvement as long as Israel refused to lift restrictions on Palestinian travel and trade.The World Bank said 94 percent of the foreign aid needed by the Palestinian Authority would be used to cover recurring expenditures, including salaries, utility bills and social payments, leaving little money to fund development.The World Bank report was prepared for next week's meeting of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee, a major Palestinian donors' group. The meeting, which will lay the groundwork for a donors' conference in December, is part of a U.S.-led effort to bolster Abbas and the government he appointed in the occupied West Bank following Hamas's takeover of the Gaza Strip in June.
Western diplomats said Abbas's government, led by Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, would be able to cover this year's budget gap by using foreign aid and frozen tax revenues recently released by Israel.But the diplomats questioned Fayyad's ability to cover a fiscal hole estimated at $1.6 billion per year in the absence of a political breakthrough that will revive the Palestinian economy and bring in larger amounts of Arab aid.It's huge and we don't see how the Palestinian Authority can finance it, said one diplomat who monitors its funds.
PEACE CONFERENCE
U.S. President George W. Bush is expected to convene a conference on Palestinian statehood in November but it is unclear what will result from it.In April, Fayyad estimated that the Palestinian Authority would need at least $1.3 billion in international aid in 2007. Fayyad was serving at the time as finance minister of a unity government between Hamas and Abbas's secular Fatah faction.While foreign aid and tax funds started flowing again to the Palestinian Authority after the unity government ended in June, Western sanctions remain in place against the Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip, where economic conditions have deteriorated.Despite some initial steps by Fayyad to rein in spending, the World Bank said the government wage bill would exceed total revenues even after taking into account Israel's decision in June to hand over frozen tax funds.Fayyad's government has sought to reduce payroll by not paying workers hired by the Hamas-led government, but the World Bank said the prime minister may find it politically challenging to reduce the work force any further.It is unclear how Fayyad will be able to cover the government's energy and infrastructure needs long-term.
In Hamas-controlled Gaza, the economic crisis is more acute. Gaza's main border crossings have been closed to all but humanitarian supplies, prompting the suspension of up to 90 percent of the coastal territory's industrial operations.
The impacts of these closures will become more difficult to reverse, said the World Bank. It estimated that unemployment could reach the unprecedented level of 44 percent.Despite the embargo, Israeli, Palestinian and Western officials say Hamas has been able to bring in tenq of millions of dollars to fund its military and social programs.
