GENESIS 11:1-9 King James Bible
1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.(today with interprters the world is one language again).
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.(notice the words let us)(todays world leaders, judges and men in power say let us also do our will not GODS WILL.)
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.(God warns us here once every nation is in unison no Sin will be out of mind. The world will deny theres a God and will think they have all the answers. Sounds like this Generation to me.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.(When Jesus returns to earth he will once again stop the Sinners and bring in righteousness to the World.)
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
THE ISRAELIS BELIEVE GOD SPLIT THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH INTO 70 NATIONS AND LANGUAGES. THIS IS INTERESTING THAT THE NEW WORLD ORDER (ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT IS COMING TOGETHER AND 70 NATIONS WILL BE AT THIS DONOR SUMMIT. AND SINCE THE BIBLE SAYS THE EU WILL LEAD THIS WORLD GOVERNMENT. BIBLE PROPHECY IS QUICKLY COMING TO PASS LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS WOULD HAPPEN. THE CULMINATION OF PROPHECY WILL BE LIKE A WOMAN IN LABOUR, THE PAIN STARTS OUT MINUTES BETWEEN LABOUR PAINS UNTIL WHEN THE CHILD COMES OUT THE PAIN IS INTENSE AND CONSTANT. THIS IS HOW LAST DAYS PROPHECIES WILL BE COMING TO PASS AFTER ISRAEL IS IN THEIR OWN LAND AND RECAPTURED JERUSALEM AS THEIR CAPITAL. SINCE 67 TILL NOW HAS BEEN 40 YRS A BIBLE GENERATION, AND THE BIBLE CLEARLY SAYS ALL PROPHECIES OF THE BIBLE WILL BE COMPLETED IN THE LAST GENERATION TO SEE ISRAEL IN THEIR OWN LAND AND IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM. ITS NO ACCIDENT THAT JERUSALEM IS BEING DIVIDED TO CAUSE WW3 TO OCCUR BECAUSE THE BIBLE HAS TO BE FULFILLED IN THIS FINAL GENERATION AND USHER IN THE MESSIAHS (JESUS) RETURN TO EARTH BODILY ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES WERE HE WAS TAKEN TO HEAVEN AFTER HIS RESURRECTION.
70 Nations at Day-Long Conference for Palestinian Stateby Hillel Fendel DEC 16,07
(IsraelNN.com) Representatives of some 70 nations and another 20 international delegations will convene in Paris on Monday in a one-day Conference of Donors for a Palestinian State. The goal is to raise hundreds of millions of dollars, or more, on behalf of a Palestinian state adjoining, crowding - and threatening - the State of Israel. The event is being held as a continuation of sorts of last month's Annapolis Summit, at which Israel and the Palestinian Authority agreed to begin final-status talks. The agreement flew in the face of the U.S.-sponsored Road Map plan, which specified that the PA must stop anti-Israel terrorism from within the areas under its control before final-status talks could begin.Among the international representatives taking part in the Monday conference in Paris are UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and Israel's Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. Quartet Middle East peace envoy Tony Blair, who recently stepped down as Britain's Prime Minister, will co-chair the event. Participating organizations include the European Commission, the Arab League, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and European and Arab financial funds. All 27 members of the European Union will be represented, as will be Middle East countries, the Group of Eight industrialized nations, Brazil, China, India and Norway.
Houses for Arabs - But Not for Jews
PA chairman Mahmud Abbas, who also heads the Fatah terrorist organization, is seeking $5.6 billion dollars over the coming three years for various needs of a state-in-the-making. Among them are thousands of Arab housing units to be built throughout Judea and Samaria - to which Israel has already reportedly agreed.
At the same time, Israel has imposed a ban - under American pressure - on Jewish construction in these areas.The PA is asking for money for development projects for education, health, business, and more. Some 30-40% of the projects are to be in Hamas-controlled Gaza, with guarantees to ensure that the funds do not reach Hamas. Such guarantees have been only partially effective in the past. Analysts expect a common thread to run through many of the speeches at the conference: Pressure and demands upon Israel to remove security checkpoints in Judea and Samaria. This, despite the fact that they actually aid the PA in fulfilling its commitment to fight terrorism; Israeli soldiers frequently detect would-be terrorists who attempt to smuggle weapons or explosives into Israel via the checkpoints.
The Dangers of a Palestinian State
Though it is the position of world opinion, the Bush Administration and Prime Minister Olmert's government that a Palestinian state is necessary, many analysts feel otherwise. Objections include military, religious and political considerations. Even Shimon Peres, in his book, Tomorrow is Now, resounding opposed a Palestinian state, writing, During a war, the borders of the Palestinian state will serve as an ideal springboard for mobile forces to immediately breach Israeli defenses towards the infrastructure vital to Israel's existence, to limit the freedom of action of the Israeli Air Force in Israeli skies, and to shed the population's blood through masses of artillery positions proximity to the border. In the absence of defensible borders, Israel will be annihilated in a war.Yitzchak Rabin wrote in his memoirs, Palestine will rise upon the ruins of the State of Israel.Shmuel Katz, co-founder of the Herut Party with Menachem Begin and an MK of the First Knesset, wrote, If the Arabs were given a state in a part of Palestine, they would surely accept it as the next of the 'phases' for attaining the rest of the country – which they have been forecasting for years. It would inevitably make a serious contribution to the grievous weakening of Israel, strategically and politically. It is illusory in the extreme – and shockingly misleading – to suggest that it will bring peace.
List of Donations to Palestinians
By The Associated Press – DEC 17,07
A look at the major donations given Monday at an international donors conference for the Palestinians. The total sum pledged was $7.4 billion from 2008 to 2010, surpassing the $5.6 billion sought.
Many donors were focusing their aid on 2008, leaving plans for later budget years up to future government decisions.The French Foreign Ministry said European countries accounted for 52 percent of donations, Arab nations 20 percent, North America countries and international organizations 11 percent each and all other countries 6 percent.
United States: $555 million for 2008, though about $400 million has not been approved by Congress.Arab League members: $1.3 billion over three years, including $500 million from Saudi Arabia and $300 million each from United Arab Emirates and Kuwait. European countries: more than $3 billion, including $650 million from the European Union alone in 2008, probably similar levels for 2009 and 2010.Key European donors include Britain, $500 million for three years, pledged with conditions; Norway, $420 million over three years; Spain, $360 million over three years; France and Sweden, $300 million each over three years; and Germany, $290 million over three years.Source: National governments and diplomats; the European Union; Palestinian Planning Minister Samir Abdullah.
Global donors pledge 7.4 bln dlrs for Palestinians by Christophe de Roquefeuil DEC 17,07
PARIS (AFP) - International donors pledged 7.4 billion dollars to the Palestinians Monday at a conference described by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as the last hope to save their government from bankruptcy. Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad had formally asked donors meeting in Paris for 5.6 billion dollars by 2010 to help fulfil his plan to develop a viable economy for a future state.The real winner is the Palestinian state, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told AFP as he announced that a total of 7.4 billion dollars (5.15 billion euros) had been promised.The pledges were made at a one-day conference convened to agree a package of aid to stabilise the Palestinian economy and shore up the peace process with Israel -- jumpstarted in the US city of Annapolis last month.
We see this conference as an important vote of confidence on the part of the international community, Fayyad said as the conference wrapped up.But Islamist group Hamas, which seized control of the Gaza Strip in June and was not invited to Paris or the Annapolis meeting, labelled it a dangerous conspiracy aimed at dividing the Palestinians.We support all forms of aid, financial or otherwise, to the Palestinian people. But the Paris conference is coating poison with honey and is a dangerous conspiracy, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhum said in a statement released in Gaza.Some humanitarian groups questioned the benefit of such a massive aid package.In London, the development charity Oxfam warned donors were pouring cash into a leaking bucket, arguing that aid efforts already in place were being seriously hampered by Israeli restrictions on movement.The challenge is to fix the leak, not pour faster... Due to Israel's movement restrictions and the blockade of Gaza, millions of dollars of aid for Palestinians are being lost, Oxfam's Middle East director Adam Leach said.But Tony Blair, Middle East envoy for the diplomatic Quartet, said the money would be used for building the capacity and the institutions for the (Palestinian) state.Over the next few months what we have got to show to people is that we are capable of making the difference on the ground, he said.Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas had earlier warned the almost 90 delegations that the West Bank and Gaza were facing a total catastrophe without their aid.
Pledges quickly came pouring in with Rice announcing a US donation of 555 million dollars for 2008, including 150 million dollars for budget support.The Palestinian Authority is experiencing a serious budgetary crisis. This conference is literally the government's last hope to avoid bankruptcy, Rice said.The European Commission pledged to donate 650 million dollars in aid for 2008 alone while Britain and Saudi Arabia announced three-year aid packages of 490 million dollars and at least 500 million dollars respectively.
Opening the conference earlier, French President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged 300 million dollars over three years. Germany promised 200 million dollars by 2010 and Sweden offered 300 million dollars in 2007 and 2008.Some 3.4 billion dollars of Monday's pledges was to go to the Palestinians in 2008, the first year of Fayyad's three-year recovery plan, a final statement at the end of the conference said. This support will be essential for accompanying the political process launched in Annapolis at the end of November, the statement added. As the conference kicked off, Abbas urged Israel -- represented by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni -- to freeze all settlement activity in the Palestinian territories to allow the newly-relaunched peace drive to gain a foothold.
I expect a complete halt of all settlement activities without exception, Abbas said, also calling for the dismantling of 127 wildcat settlements, the lifting of military checkpoints, a halt to construction of the separation barrier and prisoner releases.
Around 70 countries, as well as all the major international organisations, were attending the Conference of Donors for a Palestinian State, a month after Israel and the Palestinians relaunched negotiations frozen for seven years. The takeover of the Gaza Strip by Hamas, which won a majority in 2006 parliamentary elections, effectively split the Palestinian territories in half. Hamas -- pledged to Israel's destruction and shunned by the West -- rules in Gaza, while the Western-backed Abbas controls the West Bank.
Quartet concerned by Israeli expansion in east Jerusalem DEC 17,07
PARIS (AFP) - The Middle East Quartet expressed concern Monday about the extension of Israeli settlements in east Jerusalem, in a statement issued on the sidelines of a Palestinian donors' conference. The quartet expressed concern over the announcement of new housing tenders for Har Homa/Jabal Abu Ghneim, the statement said.Principals called for all sides to refrain from steps that undermine confidence and underscored the importance of avoiding any actions that could prejudice the outcome of permanent status negotiations, it said.The quartet is comprised of the EU, Russia, the United States and the UN.Two weeks ago Israel said it had invited bids to build more than 300 new housing units in Har Homa, a settlement in annexed east Jerusalem.The quartet also called for the removal of restrictions on Palestinian movement, in order to encourage the development of the economy.(The quartet) expressed urgent concern over the continued closure of major crossing-points, given their impact on the Palestinian economy and daily life, the statement said.
US security envoy to visit Israel Tuesday DEC 17,07
JERUSALEM (AFP) - US special envoy for Middle East security General James Jones is to visit Israel for talks on Tuesday, an Israeli official said. General Jones is coming to the region for 24 hours on Tuesday. He will meet Prime Minister (Ehud) Olmert, the official said.The role of his mandate is to indicate whether Israel and the Palestinans are carrying out their roadmap commitments, he added, referring to a an internationally drafted peace blueprint that has made next to no progress since its launch more than four years ago.The United States named Jones, a former NATO commander, as its Middle East security envoy on November 28, a day after Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed at a conference in Annapolis, Maryland, to revive the peace process after a seven-year freeze.He will work with Israelis and Palestinians on the full range of security issues, and he will work to strengthen security for both sides, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said at the time.
