Friday, May 03, 2013

NO HARD CHOICE FOR ISRAEL-GOD PROMISES ISRAEL SYRIA AS PROMISED THEM

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

ISRAEL THERES NO NEED TO TAKE SIDES.GOD SAYS SYRIA IS YOUR PROMISED LAND.SO GOD WILL GIVE USE SYRIA.JUST GO GET IT.THAT WOULD ALSO STOP ASSAD FROM MURDERING ALL THE INNOCENT WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN SYRIA.SYRIA UNDER USE ISRAEL WOULD THEN BE PEACEFUL.UNLIKE ANY ARAB/MUSLIM COUNTRY.

Taking sides in Syria is hard choice for Israel

By Dan Williams
LOD, Israel (Reuters) - The dilemma Israel faces in trying to formulate a strategy on Syria two years into its civil war is symbolized by a case being heard in a small courtroom near Tel Aviv.The state is prosecuting an Arab Israeli who briefly joined the rebel forces fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad.Arrested after his return to Israel, Hikmat Massarwa, a 29-year-old baker, is accused of unlawful military training, having contacts with foreign agents and traveling to a hostile state.The trial hinges on the unanswered question of who, if anyone, Israel favors in the war and if the rebels will turn out to be friends or enemies.The prosecutor in Lod is trying to depict Massarwa as having aligned himself with foes of Israel, but Judge Avraham Yaakov is struggling for clarity. "There's no legal guidance regarding the rebel groups fighting in Syria," he told a recent hearing.Matters were simpler during the decades of unchallenged Assad family rule.Technically Israeli is at war with its northern neighbor. It captured the Golan Heights in the 1967 Middle East War, built settlements and annexed the land. But belligerence was rare and the borderland has remained largely quiet for decades.Assad's Syria is part of the so-called Axis of Resistance along with Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah, both arch enemies of the Jewish state. But Syria itself avoided open conflict.Israel was slow to welcome the uprising against Assad when it broke out in March 2011. Though some leaders now call for his overthrow, planners fret about what might follow."The question for us is no longer whether it is good or not if Assad stays in power, but how do we control our interests in this divided, murky situation which could last for decades," said Ofer Shelah of the Yesh Atid party, which is part of the government coalition.The dilemma has grown more acute since Islamist fighters linked to al-Qaeda assumed a prominent role in the rebels' battle plans.Israelis believe one in 10 of the rebels is a jihadi who might turn his gun on them once Assad is gone. They also worry that Hezbollah guerrillas allied to Assad could get hold of his chemical arsenal and other advanced weaponry.So Israel has acted with restraint on Syria - shooting at its troops across the occupied Golan Heights only when hit by stray fire and playing down an Israeli airstrike on a suspected Hezbollah-bound convoy in January.Officials say Israel has also been cool to Western proposals to increase aid to the Syrian rebels to help them match Assad's superior armed forces.One Israeli official told Reuters that he responds to any suggestions of a foreign military role with the question: "Do you really know on whose behalf you'll be intervening?"
MIXED MESSAGES
But with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presiding over a new, right-leaning coalition and the Israeli military stretched by keeping vigil over several fronts - including Islamist-ruled Egypt - the message has been far from uniform.Netanyahu may have contributed to this by framing Iran and its nuclear program as Israel's overriding regional concern, bolstering the case for removing Tehran's ally Assad.When an Israeli intelligence analyst said last week that Assad's forces had used chemical weapons, both the Netanyahu government and its foreign allies were blindsided, according to officials.Washington confirmed the Israeli assessment, thus posing a problem for U.S. President Barack Obama, who had said use of chemical arms would be a "red line".Israel's deputy foreign minister urged U.S. action in Syria - a call slapped down by more senior figures.
Israel's ambassador to Washington, Michael Oren, said it was not making any policy recommendations to Obama on Syria."We think this issue is very complex," he told Reuters.Several officials said Israel would be unlikely to attack Syria unilaterally unless it had evidence that chemical weapons had been handed over to Hezbollah.Lacking enough of the specialized ground troops that would be needed for a search-and-destroy sweep of chemical weapons, Israel would probably have to rely on aerial bombing.The Netanyhau government might even acquiesce if the rebels acquire the chemical weapons, on the assumption that the insurgents were mainstream Syrians keen to rebuild their country and loath to invite catastrophic war with Israel."If the jihadis get the chemical weapons, that's very bad, but there's still the hope that these people lack the hard-core military wherewithal, and required technical support in Syria, that would be required to use them," one Israeli official said.Indeed, Israeli planners are debating to what extent the radical Sunni Islamists fighting Assad could eventually constitute a direct threat to Israel.The chief military spokesman, Brigadier-General Yoav Mordechai, sounded the alarm last month by saying the "Global Jihad" - meaning al Qaeda and its affiliates - wielded the most clout on the Syrian-held side of the Golan Heights.Other Israeli authorities are more optimistic. The Mossad intelligence agency estimates that Syria's entrenched secularism will dilute enmity to Israel, according to one official."The Islamists there aren't all Salafists, and the Salafists aren't all al Qaeda, by any means," the official said."We may not make peace, but I think we might find some kind of dialogue, if only for the sake of mutual deterrence."Israel has given no indication that it already has contacts with Syria's opposition. But it has coordinated closely on security with Jordan, a supporter of some rebel factions.Back in Judge Yaakov's courtroom, the fate of Massarwa, who faces a maximum of 15 years in jail if convicted, rests on whether the state can prove there is danger to Israel from the Free Syrian Army unit he stayed with for a week in March.Massarwa's lawyer, Helal Jaber, hopes the logic of "my enemy's enemy is my friend" will win clemency for his client, who went to Syria via Turkey in search of a missing brother who had separately joined the rebels."The greatest democracies in the world, including the United States, are supporting the opposition to Assad," Jaber said. "So how can Israel fault someone for doing the same?"
(Additional reporting by Warren Strobel in Washington and Crispian Balmer in Jerusalem; Editing by Angus MacSwan)

Officer Wounded During PA Arab Riots-INN MAY 3,13


A Border Police officer was moderately wounded on Friday afternoon from a rock thrown by rioting Palestinian Authority Arabs in the Shomron village of Kadum.
About 100 demonstrators took part in the riot, throwing rocks at security forces who tried to disperse them using riot dispersal means. In a separate demonstration near the Binyamin region community of Neve Tzuf, some 50 PA Arabs threw rocks at security forces, who responded with riot dispersal means.

Hotovely: Terror Attack is Proof that Arabs Don't Want Peace

Deputy Transportation Minister says the attempted terror attack near Mitzpeh Yericho is proof that the PA is not interested in peace.
By Elad Benari-First Publish: 5/3/2013, 4:17 AM-Israelnationalnews

Tzipi Hotovely
Tzipi Hotovely-Flash 90
Deputy Transportation Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) said on Thursday night that the attempted terror attack near Mitzpeh Yericho is proof that the Palestinian Authority is not interested in reaching a peace agreement with Israel."The terrorist attack is another expression of the fact that the Palestinians do not want peace,” Hotovely said, adding, “The Arab League’s peace plan will not yield any results, just as similar initiatives have not achieved anything. The Palestinians and their leaders do not want peace, do not recognize the Jewish people's right to live here and the escalation proves it. Thank G-d this time it ended without casualties.”Thursday’s attack occurred when a terrorist opened fire at two people in Wadi Kelt, near Mitzpeh Yericho. The two were attacked as they sat in a car.The two people targeted, an Israeli woman from Mevaseret Tzion and a European tourist, were not hurt.The two told police that they had been touring the area when they noticed an Arab man nearby acting suspiciously. When they returned to their car, he attempted to shoot them. The IDF is investigating the incident.Earlier this week, Evyatar Borovsky of Yitzhar was killed in a stabbing attack at the Tapuach Junction.The relatives of Salam al-Zaghal, the terrorist who murdered Borovosky, have said they are proud of him and that he “did his duty toward the Palestinians who live under the aggression of the army and settlers.”On Tuesday, just hours after the killing, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party published a statement terming Al-Zaghal a “hero.”

05/ 3/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

Francis calls for peace and aid for refugees in the Middle East

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Lebanon's refugee drama
Lebanon's refugee drama

The Christian situation and the Syrian conflict were the focus of the Pope’s audience with Lebanese president Michel Sleiman

Alessandro Speciale VATICAN CITY He met Benedict XVI a few months ago to thank him for his trip to Lebanon in September 2012. But the Christian Lebanese president, Michel Sleiman, decided to return to Rome to meet Francis in the Vatican this morning, in the same week as Israeli president Shimon Peres is due to pay the Pope a visit.The meeting between the Argentinean pope and Sleiman – who was not able to attend the mass which celebrated the start of Francis’ Petrine ministry last 19 March, because he was not in the country – lasted 25 minutes and the two were assisted by an interpreter. The Prefect of the Papal Household, Mgr. Georg Gänswein, who returned to the Vatican with Benedict XVI yesterday, was also present.The Lebanese president gave Francis a 20th century icon of the Virgin Mary; in exchange, the new Pope gave him a silver and mother of pearl medallion. Sleiman was accompanied by an entourage of 11 people, including his wife, Wafaa.According to a Vatican Press Office statement, during the audience the two leaders said they hoped for the success of negotiations for the formation of a new government in Beirut. The new government “will face significant challenges on a national and international level.” Lebanon has been without a government since the end of March, after Prime Minister Najij Miqati handed in his resignation. This is second resignation handed in, in the past few months. The former prime minister’s coalition government split over differences in opinion regarding the organisation of the upcoming legislative elections.Sleiman and Francis also highlighted the importance of dialogue and collaboration between members of the various ethnic and religious communities that make society so rich and varied, in favour of the common good and the development and stability of the nation.”But the main focus of the audience was, naturally, the Syrian conflict and the tragic situation faced by thousands of refugees who have fled to Lebanon and neighbouring countries. Francis and Sleiman “called for further humanitarian aid with the support of the international community to help the suffering population.”

But in the Vatican there is fear of the repercussions the Syrian crisis could have on Lebanon’s domestic situation, especially on Christians. Last October, just one month after Benedict XVI’s visit to Lebanon, there was a serious bombing in Beirut’s Christian neighbourhood, leading to the death of the head of Lebanon’s secret services, the Lebanese Internal Security Forces (FSI), Wissam al Hassan.The Vatican statement said there was mention of “the delicate situation faced by Christians in the entire Middle East and the significant contribution they can make.” This was in light of the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation “Ecclesia in the Middle East”, which Ratzinger delivered on his visit to Lebanon. The Apostolic Exhortation “is an important reference point for Catholic communities and societies in the Region.” Finally, the two leaders wished for “a quick and fruitful resumption of negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. This is becoming increasingly necessary for peace and stability in the Region.”

05/ 2/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

The day two popes met in the Vatican

St. Peter's
St. Peter's

Benedict XVI has arrived in the Vatican

vatican insider staff vatican city After a brief 15-minute helicopter ride, Benedict XVI landed at the Vatican City heliport at 16:50. The short journey from the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo took place as scheduled. A crowd of faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square to watch the helicopter fly in.The Pope Emeritus was greeted by the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Angelo Sodano and the President fo the Governorate, Giuseppe Bertello. The Substitute Secretary of State, Mgr. Angelo Becciu the Vatican “foreign affairs minister”, Mgr. Dominique Mamberti and the Secretary General of the Governorate, Mgr. Giuseppe Sciacca, were also present.Once off the helicopter, Benedict XVI was driven to his new home at the Mater Ecclesiae monastery, where Pope Francis was waiting, to give him his usual warm welcome.