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.
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
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.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
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.
Palestinians say they will press on with UN bid
APBy MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH - Associated Press | AP – SEPT 7,11
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinians say a last-minute American effort has failed to stop them from moving ahead with their U.N. statehood bid.Two senior White House envoys met Wednesday with Palestinian officials and tried to persuade them to drop their plan to ask the U.N. this month to approve their independence and instead resume peace talks with Israel.A senior Palestinian official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to disclose the information, said the American envoys did not bring anything new concerning the peace process that would enable talks to resume.The Palestinians say they are turning to the U.N. after years of sporadic, and inconclusive, peace talks with Israel. The United States and Israel fiercely oppose the U.N. bid.
Palestinians deploy Obama speech in U.N. campaign
ReutersBy Tom Perry | Reuters – SEPT 7,11
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is an unlikely participant in a Palestinian campaign to drum up support for a bid to win U.N. recognition of their statehood -- a diplomatic move opposed by both his administration and Israel.But as part of an official media campaign begun this week, Palestinians have pulled from the archive some words spoken by Obama during the 2010 U.N. General Assembly, in which he alluded to the prospect of a Palestinian state joining the world body.When we come back here next year, we can have an agreement that can lead to a new member of the United Nations, an independent, sovereign state of Palestine living in peace with Israel, Obama says in his 2010 speech.Although described by U.S. officials as no more than an expression of hope, the Obama remarks are one factor cited by Palestinians when explaining their push for U.N. membership at this year's General Assembly, due to convene in a few weeks.If he said it, he must have meant it, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says during a 36-second radio spot.The ad is a reflection of Palestinian frustration with the Obama administration. The Palestinians feel Obama let them down, notably by failing to convince Israel to halt Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem -- part of the territories where they seek an independent state.Though the U.S. president's remarks were hedged, Abbas has described the statement as the Obama promise.Obama spoke just a few weeks after his administration had brokered a resumption of peace talks, which then collapsed a few weeks later over the settlement issue.The U.S. president's words are being used alongside excerpts of speeches by the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as part of the campaign. Verses penned by Mahmoud Darwish, the national poet who died in 2008, also feature.
The United States, Israel's closest ally, opposes the Palestinian U.N. initiative on the grounds that it is unhelpful to its Middle East diplomacy, which is still focused on bringing about a resumption of face-to-face peace talks.U.S. opposition in the Security Council will thwart any Palestinian bid for full U.N. membership, although the Palestinians could still secure an upgrade in their status to a non-member state by presenting a General Assembly resolution.We are reminding (Obama) of what he said in the United Nations in 2010,said Ahmad Zaki ElAreedi, director of Voice of Palestine radio, one of the Palestinian Authority-run institutions broadcasting the campaign.Western diplomats have pinned much of the blame for the moribund peace process on Israel, with Washington and European capitals roundly condemning a spurt of recent approvals for settlement building in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.While the United States has said it will side with Israel in the impending showdown in the United Nations, a big majority of U.N. members are likely to back the Palestinians.(Reporting by Tom Perry; editing by Crispian Balmer and Mark Heinrich)
Spain says supports Palestinian bid for statehood
ReutersBy Sonya Dowsett | Reuters – Sun, Aug 21, 2011
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain hopes a meeting of European Union foreign ministers on September 2 will bring progress toward the recognition of a Palestinian state, Minister of Foreign Affairs Trinidad Jimenez said.There's the feeling that now is the time to do something, to give the Palestinians the hope that a state could become reality, she said in an interview with El Pais newspaper published on Sunday.
We have to give them some signal, because if we don't it could generate great frustration for the Palestinian people.The meeting of EU foreign ministers in Sopot, Poland comes ahead of a United Nations General Assembly meeting later in September where President Mahmoud Abbas is seeking to upgrade the Palestinians' status, but is unlikely to emerge with full U.N. membership for his country.More likely is an upgrade of the Palestinian territories to become a non-member state from its current status as an observer. That would not need Security Council approval and would elevate the Palestinians' U.N. status to equal that of the Vatican.(Reporting by Sonya Dowsett; Editing by Jon Hemming)
Away from U.N. debate, Palestinian camp is on edge
Reuters By Tom Perry | Reuters – SEPT 7,11
JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - Once again, it can be easier to find a rifle than a job in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin.Residents say occasional bursts of gunfire in its narrow streets are an economic indicator as telling as any. Many see the renewed disorder as a consequence of despair.The scene of heavy fighting in 2002 during the last Intifada, or uprising, Jenin camp today challenges the picture of a West Bank prospering under the Palestinian Authority (PA), the Western-backed and internationally-funded government.Young men who fought in the last uprising have since emerged from Israeli prisons to bleak prospects. Their local standing as heroes has not helped them to find work. They hold the PA responsible and say their anger is growing.I live in total despair,said a 25-year-old ex-fighter jailed by Israel at the height of the Intifada and jobless since his release five months ago. To me, the whole world seems black.The camp's 16,000 people, mostly descendants of Palestinians dispossessed when Israel was created in 1948, live with memories of a violent past and little hope for a better future.Some view the camp as a ticking bomb, especially at a time when Palestinian belief in any chance of peace with Israel -- or the removal of half a million Israeli settlers in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, annexed by Israel in 1967 -- has dissolved.Plans by the Palestinian Authority leadership to press a claim to statehood at the United Nations in September offer something to talk about, but little more.Its consequences hard to fathom, the diplomacy planned for New York appears a world away from the daily worries of getting by and the tensions that have surfaced recently within the camp.
In Jenin camp, locals say small groups of masked men have reappeared in the streets, reviving memories of lawless armed gangs that roamed here during the last Intifada.
SHOOTING, ARSON
A few weeks ago, dozens of bullets were fired at a community services center. Separately, UNRWA, the U.N. agency which cares for Palestinian refugees, was forced to suspend its operations temporarily following threats to its staff. The car of one local notable who lives just outside the camp was torched.Adding to the pressures, Israeli security forces have stepped up raids and arrests in the camp in recent months as part of investigations into the killing in April of an Israeli actor and director who ran a community theater.I won't tell you the situation is out of control, but it is not under full control,said Atta Abu Irmaila, a local leader in Fatah, the ruling party in the West Bank led by PA President Mahmoud Abbas. Things are very difficult. If it stays like this, anything is possible.Addressing the camp from mosque minarets, community leaders recently appealed for an end to displays of arms by masked men.Palestinians who know the camp's politics attribute recent disturbances to individual rivalries rather than friction between factions such as Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad.Used to much worse, they say the trouble should not be overdrawn, but talk of tensions rooted in poverty -- at least some of the gunmen belong to the camp's jobless generation.A decade ago, the workforce of Jenin camp and the adjacent city of the same name would have found jobs in nearby Israel. That was before the last Intifada, when Israel identified Jenin as a hub for suicide bombings and shooting attacks.Its military response led to a 10-day assault in 2002 known among Palestinians as the Battle of Jenin.Today, tighter restrictions on access to Israel mean its labor market remains cut off to many. Veterans of the fighting also complain that the PA has failed to offer them employment.What's going on in the camp is because there is no work for the youth,said a 28-year old, a veteran of the fighting who was jailed by Israel for eight years and arrested recently by PA security forces on suspicion of opening fire in the camp.He was cleared of the charges. His treatment by the police has bred more resentment of the PA.When they come into the camp, they come in as if they are going into a war zone, he said. Like others, he would not give his name for fear that talking to the media would bring more police attention.I want to work. Tell me to demolish a mountain and I'll do it, said another Intifada fighter of the same age.We see that our children are going to be worse off than us. If things stay as they are, the pressure will generate an explosion,he said.
ANGER INSIDE
In a report issued in June, UNRWA highlighted a divergence between refugee and non-refugee prosperity in the West Bank, showing higher rates of unemployment among the refugees.Registered refugees account for close to 700,000 of the West Bank's Palestinian population of 2.4 million.Across the Palestinian workforce in the West Bank, one in four were unemployed, the report said.For the most vulnerable, UNRWA runs a job creation program that pays laborers $420 a month for short-term projects, such as building repairs. But it isn't enough to make Jenin prosper.By contrast, the city of Ramallah, the PA's administrative capital, has boomed, thanks in large part to injections of aid from international donors who have backed the PA's efforts to build institutions for statehood.Economic conditions have also improved in other West Bank towns, partly because Israel has relaxed some of the crippling restrictions on movement it imposed during the Intifada.The PA recognizes that Jenin needs more attention to remedy above average unemployment. The government is aware of the need to double the efforts,said Ghassan Khatib, PA spokesman.But the Authority faces an uphill struggle to win local confidence. Its economic policies are seen to be failing and its security forces are also looked upon with a degree of suspicion, their credibility undermined by repeated Israeli raids.Some question the Palestinian security forces' role when the Israeli army still acts as it pleases. Such sentiment generates warnings that the PA could be the focus of future anger.
I am the regional secretary general of Fatah but I do not work in politics. My job is social work,said Abu Irmaila. I cannot do politics -- I can't say: Come, there is a Fatah conference, or a march, or support the president, to someone who can't find food to eat.People are saying: We fought the Israelis, we offered martyrs and prisoners and our homes were destroyed. But you, oh Palestinian Authority, Fatah -- what have you done to us? he said.He believes trouble in Jenin camp could spark wider West Bank instability. If there is going to be an explosion in the country ... its starting point will be Jenin camp, he said.People have felt more hounded by the Israelis and the PA since the killing of Juliano Mer Khamis, the Israeli founder of the Freedom Theater, said Jacob Gough, who is now its director.Founded in 2006, the theater aims to provide a creative outlet for youths who have grown up through years of turbulence. There's a billiard hall, and there's us, said Gough.There's this anger inside and it's going to come out in certain ways. Some come to the theater, some go around with guns and shoot in the air,he said. People feel left out of society.(Editing by Alistair Lyon)
Palestinians resist US pressure on statehood bid
APBy MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH - Associated Press | AP – SEPT 7,11
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinians on Tuesday said they would not give in to American pressure to drop their bid for statehood at the United Nations, taking a tough position ahead of a meeting with a senior U.S. delegation.Two senior White House envoys, David Hale and Dennis Ross, arrived in the region on Tuesday for talks with Israel and Palestinian officials. The U.S. has been trying to persuade the Palestinians to drop their plan to ask the U.N. this month to approve their independence and instead resume peace talks with Israel.Yasser Abed Rabbo, a top adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said there was little the Americans could do to change the Palestinians' plans.We are going to the United Nations, regardless of objections or pressure, he said. Abbas is expected to meet with Hale on Wednesday. Ross, who is viewed by the Palestinians as pro-Israel, was not scheduled to attend the meeting.The comments signaled more frustration for President Barack Obama, who has made little progress in nurturing peace talks despite pledges to make Mideast diplomacy a priority.The Palestinians say they are turning to the U.N. after years of sporadic, and inconclusive, peace talks with Israel.
Israel captured the West Bank and east Jerusalem — areas claimed by the Palestinians — in the 1967 Mideast war. Both Israel and the U.S. oppose the U.N. initiative, saying peace can be reached only through negotiations. Israel has called for a resumption of talks without preconditions.The American team was meeting with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday.Barak's office said his discussions focused on the regional situation and strategy issues,including the Palestinians. He did not elaborate. There was no immediate comment from either Netanyahu's office or the Americans.Abbas confirmed this week that he has held secret talks with the Israeli president and defense minister in recent weeks, but was unable to reach any breakthrough.In a separate matter, an Israeli defense official said Tuesday that the military has temporarily suspended its contentious policy of demolishing illegally built Palestinian homes in the West Bank. The official said the order was issued after determining the policy is not equally enforced against illegally built Jewish settler homes.Palestinians have bitterly complained that demolitions are arbitrary and lopsided and that it's difficult for them to get Israeli construction permits.The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the order, which was issued in an internal memorandum. He didn't say how long the order would last.Also Tuesday, Netanyahu condemned the torching of a mosque in the West Bank earlier in the week, that came a few hours after the Israeli military dismantled structures in an unauthorized West Bank outpost. The name of the outpost, Migron, was spray painted on the mosque, suggesting the act was settler retaliation for the demolitions.Menachem Froman, a rabbi from the settlement of Tekoa who promotes coexistence between Palestinians and settlers, visited the mosque on Tuesday to reconcile between the two sides.In Gaza Tuesday, a Palestinian militant was killed by an Israeli missile as he fired rockets at southern Israel, Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Adham Abu Salmia said. The Israeli military said it hit militants firing mortars.Associated Press writer Amy Teibel in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
