JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T
MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE
MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.
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(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).
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:(7 YEARS) 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 (PEACE TREATY) 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 ANIMAL 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 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
GENESIS 25:20-26
20 And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22 And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)
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.
Kerry: It's a Mistake for Israel to Demand Recognition-Secretary of State thinks it is a “mistake” for Israel to demand that the PA recognize it as a Jewish state in order to achieve peace.-By Elad Benari-First Publish: 3/14/2014, 1:13 AM-Israelnationalnews
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry thinks it is a “mistake” for Israel to demand that the Palestinian Authority (PA) recognize it as a Jewish state in order to achieve peace.“I think it's a mistake for some people to be raising it again and again as the decider of their attitude towards the possibility of a state and peace, and we've obviously made that clear," Kerry told the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on Thursday, when asked to clarify the official position of the Obama administration on the issue, according to the Breitbart website.He further said that the issue was resolved in 1947, when UN Resolution 181, which divided Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state, was passed. This resolution, said Kerry, referred to "Jewish state" several times.Kerry also said that former PA Chairman Yasser Arafat explicitly recognized Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state.Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has insisted that the PA recognize Israel as a Jewish state in order to reach a peace agreement, explaining that the Arabs’ refusal to recognize Israel stands at the heart of the conflict.PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has repeatedly insisted that the PA would not recognize Israel as a Jewish state and has also stressed that the future Palestinian state would not include the presence of a single Israeli – civilian or soldier.He stood his ground last Friday, saying during a meeting with Fatah youth activists that that there is "no way" he will recognize Israel as a Jewish state and accept a Palestinian capital in just a portion of eastern Jerusalem.On Sunday, he was backed by members of his Fatah party, who unanimously endorsed his rejection of demands to recognize Israel as a Jewish state.On Saturday, Kerry’s spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that the United States believes there is no need for the PA to recognize Israel as a Jewish state as part of a peace agreement.Psaki, who spoke to the PA-based Arabic-language Al-Quds newspaper, said, “The American position is clear, Israel is a Jewish state. However, we do not see a need that both sides recognize this position as part of the final agreement.”In contrast, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro recently declared that the PA will be obligated to recognize Israel as a Jewish state under the framework agreement that Kerry is planning to bring to the two sides.Breitbart, which reported Kerry’s comments from Thursday, pointed out two different occasions on which both Kerry and President Obama expressed support for Israel’s demand to be recognized as a Jewish state.In December 2013, on a visit to Israel, Kerry promised that he and Obama were committed to pursuing recognition of Israel as a "Jewish state" in a final agreement with the Palestinian Authority:“And I join with President Obama in expressing to the people of Israel our deep, deep commitment to the security of Israel and to the need to find a peace that recognizes Israel as a Jewish state, recognizes Israel as a country that can defend itself by itself, and that is an important principle with which the prime minister and the President and I are in agreement,” he said at the time.In March 2013, during a joint press conference with Netanyahu in Jerusalem, President Obama committed to pursuing a "Jewish state" as part of a peace agreement with Palestinians:“We also discussed the way forward to a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians. And I very much welcomed Bibi’s words before I spoke. I’ll be meeting with President Abbas tomorrow, and I will have more to say on this topic in the speech that I deliver to the Israeli people tomorrow. But for now, let me just reiterate that a central element of a lasting peace must be a strong and secure Jewish state, where Israel’s security concerns are met, alongside a sovereign and independent Palestinian state,” Obama said.
Gaza fighting unlikely to derail peace talks, officials say-Rocket fire strengthens Jerusalem’s demand for strong security arrangements, says deputy defense minister-By Raphael Ahren March 13, 2014, 5:18 pm 1-The Times of Israel
The recent escalation in violence between Israel and Gaza will likely not derail or even hamper Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, current and former Israeli officials said Thursday.“I don’t see a direct influence. There are other obstacles and challenges for the talks, but I think it only [shows] the demands on Israel in a different perspective,” Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon told The Times of Israel.While he personally opposes the release of Palestinian terrorists in the framework of the negotiations, Danon said he does not expect the recent events to impact the government’s decision on whether to go ahead with the fourth and final round of these releases, planned for March 29. Other ministers, though, do oppose the scheduled release.The Islamic Jihad terror group fired more than 60 rockets from Gaza at Israeli towns beginning Wednesday afternoon, leading the IDF to retaliate against terror-related targets in the coastal strip. On Thursday afternoon, Islamic Jihad announced that a truce had gone into effect and Israeli officials said quiet would be met with quiet.Danon said Wednesday’s heavy rocket fire should serve to illustrate Israel’s predicament to “our allies and friends, who are trying to push forward the negotiations,” and strengthen Israel’s position in the talks.
“They need to understand that there are other forces in the region,” he said, and thus even if Israel were able to reach an agreement with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, “we cannot ignore the current reality in Gaza… When we speak about security aspects and scenarios of instability in the region, and at the same time you have dozens of rockets trying to [harm] civilian population, it makes clear to our friends in Washington that we have a good reason to be worried about what would happen in the future in Judea and Samaria,” Danon added, using the Biblical name for the West Bank.A government official confirmed that Jerusalem currently has no plans to halt or reschedule the peace talks, acknowledging that Abbas and the PA cannot be blamed for the rocket fire. “We always knew that Abbas has next to no influence on what happens in Gaza,” the official said, speaking on a condition of anonymity.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s former national security adviser, Yaakov Amidror, also said the recent escalation will probably not disrupt the process.Amidror, a retired general who dealt mostly with military intelligence, said that the only connection between the situation in the South and the peace talks is that the massive rocket fire from Gaza proved how crucial ironclad security arrangements are in any peace agreement. Israel must be able to prevent weapons from being smuggled into the West Bank, “because the alternative is Gaza,” he said.Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, on the other hand, appeared to use the rocket fire from Gaza to agitate against the continuation of the peace talks. “Sderot and Ashkelon residents are still in their shelters. Yet there are those who think running away from Samaria so that the residents of Kfar Saba are in shelters too is the solution,” he posted on Facebook.The international community urged Israelis and Palestinians not to allow the recent events to derail the talks.“The calculations of those responsible for these acts of terrorism, who hope that these attacks will torpedo the difficult and still fragile peace process, must be proved wrong,” German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said. “The negotiations on peace in the Middle East are in a difficult phase. All sides need to make even greater efforts.”Middle East Quartet representative Tony Blair, speaking to British journalists after a meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron in Jerusalem, called for a “completely new strategy towards Gaza,” but indicated that the talks need to continue. “I don’t think even with those rocket attacks that should get in way of pursuing a political process and a political negotiation that allows, under the leadership of the United States, the two sides to come together and to try and describe an outline of what a two state solution looks like of how a Palestinian state is going to be and to operate and to function,” he said.Netanyahu has so far remained silent about the future of the peace talks, indicating, however, that they will proceed as planned. On Thursday, during a visit in a Jerusalem industrial zone together with Cameron, he denounced Abbas for failing to condemn the rocket attacks fired at Israel. “I say we want to move to a genuine peace. To move to a genuine peace, we have to be very clear on our condemnation of terror and our support for the right to defend ourselves against terror. That is a crucial component of peace,” Netanyahu said.A few hours later, Abbas did condemn the attacks coming out of Gaza. ”We condemn all military escalation, including rockets,” he said at a press conference in Bethlehem alongside Cameron.
Make unpopular moves for peace, Cameron urges from Bethlehem-British PM says he believes agreement between Israel and Palestinians possible; blasts humanitarian situation in GazaBy Adiv Sterman March 13, 2014, 6:38 pm 4-The Times of Israel
British Prime Minister David Cameron called on Israeli and Palestinian leaders to pursue peace talks and end their conflict, if necessary by carrying out “unpopular” measures.Speaking at a press conference Thursday with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem, Cameron said he believed peace was achievable, despite the many difficulties which still lay ahead of Abbas and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.“They both will have to take difficult and unpalatable and sometimes unpopular decisions for their constituencies in order to achieve that settlement, but I sense it’s possible,” Cameron said. “I’m not saying it’s definite or even probable, but it’s certainly possible.”He acknowledged that the two sides still had “serious disagreements” that would have to be tackled before a deal could be reached.Cameron condemned the downpour of rockets fired by Islamic Jihad from the Gaza Strip at southern Israel on Wednesday and Thursday, but also deplored the humanitarian situation in the Strip.“The situation in Gaza is unacceptable. There are 1.7 million people living in Gaza, a huge number are reliant for their life on food aid, there is extremely high unemployment, there is very low provision of healthcare.”Abbas too condemned the rocket fire, but implied that Israel’s airstrikes on the Strip were unjust as well. “We condemn all military escalation, including rockets,” Abbas said.The PA president went on to say that an escalation in the region would be detrimental to the peace process. “We still hope to reach an actual achievement from the talks during the prescribed period,” he said, according to news site Walla. Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are set to end next month, and US Secretary of State John Kerry is seeking both sides’ agreement to continue the negotiations on the basis of a new “framework” agreement.Abbas’s statements came hours after Netanyahu criticized him for initially condemning Israeli retaliatory airstrikes on the Strip, but not the original Islamic Jihad rocket fire from Gaza.On Wednesday, over 60 rockets were fired from Gaza at southern Israel, in the largest barrage since November 2012. Israel responded by striking 29 targets in Gaza from the air. Several more rockets were fired Thursday, prompting further IAF strikes, as a fragile ceasefire came into force.Cameron, who spoke in the Knesset and met with Netanyahu Wednesday, also visited Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity Thursday, before leaving the region.Times of Israel Staff contributed to this report
EU envoy to Israel: You shouldn’t have released prisoners-If Europe had advised Israel, says ambassador, it would have said freeze the settlements and negotiate on basis of pre-1967 lines
By David Horovitz March 14, 2014, 12:02 am 8-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
While praising Benjamin Netanyahu for being bold in his peace efforts and for seeking to prepare the Israeli public for compromise, the European Union’s ambassador to Israel said the prime minister had made the wrong decision in agreeing to release long-term Palestinian prisoners as part of the current negotiations.In an interview, Lars Faaborg-Andersen said that “had the EU been asked to advise Israel on which of the three positions [sought by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas] to accept as the basis for discussion — accepting to discuss [Palestinian statehood] on the [basis of the pre-] ’67 lines; accepting a settlement moratorium, or releasing 104 pre-Oslo prisoners — I know which two of those the EU would have pointed the Israeli government to take. You didn’t do that,” he said. “That’s your own sovereign choice. You also have to deal with the consequences.”Bolstering the critique, Faaborg-Andersen said, “The fact that these pre-Oslo prisoners are being released and coming back and being treated as heroes, is at the outset facilitated by you, because you are releasing them.”The ambassador was being interviewed (by this writer) at an event organized by the Europeans for Israel group, held Tuesday evening in the Jewish Agency building in Jerusalem. Robustly rejecting the notion that Europe was disproportionately critical of Israel, he said the EU had “basically only one quarrel with Israel as far as the peace process is concerned, and that is the settlements,” which he said were “particularly destructive for creating the kind of confidence and negotiating environment that is necessary to succeed.” The EU, he noted, considered settlements to be “illegal under international law and unhelpful on top of it.He likened ongoing settlement expansion during the peace process to “starting to eat a cake while you are discussing how to slice it,” and said the European public saw it as “a bit underhanded to continue expanding settlements in the territory which is subject to negotiations.”Israel, he advised, “would do itself a big service by putting a freeze on settlement expansion, particularly during a time of serious negotiation.”Faaborg-Andersen, who first came to Israel as a kibbutz volunteer in his youth and decades later as a senior Danish diplomat, drafted an initial version of the George W. Bush-era Road Map for peace when Denmark held the rotating presidency of the EU in 2002, called the prospects for an Israeli-Palestinian accord much better today than they had been then.Abbas is ‘a very old man and there is no certainty that he would be succeeded by anyone who has a similar commitment to a peaceful solution’He said there was a greater realization on both sides now of the need for a solution, and that “one needs to take the Palestinians at face value when they are saying they would like to have their own state.” However, no Palestinian leader wants to go “down in history as a traitor,” he said — though he later mused that “maybe ‘traitor’ is not a good word” — and Israel’s “best guarantee for security is to give the Palestinians a reasonable deal that will stick and will not immediately create dissatisfaction and frustration among the [Palestinian] public.”He said time had not been working in the Palestinians’ favor, and that the Palestinians bore much of the blame for this, noting that the original partition plan “was roughly a 50-50 sharing of the British Mandate” territory, and now the Palestinians were seeking statehood on 22%.Asked to address widespread Israeli concerns about Abbas’s credibility as a peacemaker, the danger of Islamic extremists taking control of the West Bank, and the genuine readiness of the Palestinians for abiding peace with Israel, Faaborg-Andersen said that with Abbas, “you know more or less what you have and what you would get.” But “he’s a very old man and there is no certainty that he would be succeeded by anyone who has a similar commitment to a peaceful solution.”
He said Abbas was not omnipotent and “needs to be cognizant of what the internal market in Palestine can bear in terms of a compromise. There are certain limits to what he would be able to accept.” Abbas “is accountable to a constituency, as politicians in this country are accountable to a constituency.”The ambassador offered several further reasons why Israel should “move decisively on this issue now,” including a “commonality of interests between Israel and some of the Sunni Muslim states” in confronting Hezbollah, Iran and other dangers. And he stressed Israel’s own “democratic, demographic challenge: Israel wanting to realize its aspiration as the home of the Jewish people and ensuring the self-determination of the Jewish people within the Israeli state.”He said he fully understood Israel’s security concerns, noted that “the EU wants Israel to live behind safe and defensible borders,” and suggested that international peacekeepers could play a role in the West Bank, notably on the potentially vulnerable border with Jordan. NATO peacekeeping forces in Afghanistan and other places had performed successfully against what he envisaged were far bigger challenges than such forces might face here. But in any event, he said, while the US and EU sought to help resolve security concerns, it was up to the parties themselves to find a solution.“The prime minister has put down some clear proposals on security; they are currently subject to discussion between the parties. There’s nothing wrong with that,” he said. “I don’t think it’s an insurmountable obstacle.” ‘We are not participating in paying any stipends or any kinds of salaries for martyrs or any of their families. One can argue that if [the PA] didn’t get our money, they wouldn’t be able to pay that money out of their pocket, but these are some of the things we have to live with.He argued that the rise of Hamas in Gaza stemmed “to a very large extent” from the fact that Israel had withdrawn in 2005 without an agreement. The unilateral withdrawal “allowed Hamas to step up as the big liberator,” he said. “That is a very bad precedent” and the reason “why we pin all our hopes” on a negotiated solution.The ambassador highlighted what he called the EU’s determination to help Israel in the peace effort, recalling that late last year, EU ministers “put on the table a very strong political signal to Israel. We said if the current negotiations are crowned with success, we are ready to provide Israel with a Special Privileged Partnership. This is no mean offer from the EU side. What we’re talking about is the next best thing to membership. It’s a status akin to Norway and Switzerland, across a gamut of areas — security, politics, economics, trade, science and technology, and so on. The message to Israel from our side is that you are not alone on this. There is an international community that is willing to back you and support you in this process because we know this is an existential decision that carries risks for you as well, and we would like to assist you as much as possible in trying to reduce these risks to a manageable and acceptable level.”Questioned on Abbas’s hardline positions at the negotiating table, including the demand for a right of return for Palestinian refugees, the ambassador noted that Abbas “got a lot of heat back home” for a 2012 Channel 2 interview in which he said in English that he did not feel he had the “right” to return to his town of birth, Safed, in northern Israel. He said Abbas and Netanyahu were “both being very bold,” in that they were “running into strong opposition on some of their views.”Netanyahu, he said, “is trying to prepare the Israeli public for a possible compromise.” Abbas “is trying to do the same thing,” he argued.Questioned about ongoing EU funding of the PA, even as it pays out large sums of money to jailed terrorists and to the families of dead terrorists, he said the EU did impose conditions on its funding, with “close monitoring and transparency” and that “problematic transactions” were followed up. “We are not participating in paying any stipends or any kinds of salaries for martyrs or any of their families,” he said. “One can argue that if [the PA] didn’t get our money, they wouldn’t be able to pay that money out of their pocket, but these are some of the things we have to live with.”He said the EU was providing about €1 billion a year to the “Palestinian state-building project” and had made clear to Abbas that “time is running out for them as well.” In the long-term, those funding levels would not be sustainable, he warned.The ambassador noted, however, that if the EU halted its funding, “the State of Israel would have to dole out considerably more money in order to keep peace and quiet on the West Bank.” He also hailed the security cooperation between Israel and the PA, that had provided Israel with the security it deserves in the West Bank.The relative economic prosperity in the West Bank “has put a considerable damper on discontent and therefore potentially also on violence,” he said. “I’m not sure that situation would necessarily prevail if one were to see a pulling out of donor funds from the area. Not that I’m saying you would have a third intifada or anything like that. But I think that the level of instability and the level potentially of violence would be higher.”Finally, asked about ostensible double standards in that the EU works with Morocco despite its occupation of the western Sahara and Turkey despite its presence in northern Cyprus, but will not work with Israeli institutions based in the territories, Faaborg-Andersen said “every legal situation is different. The situation as regards western Sahara and northern Cyprus cannot be directly compared to the situation in the West Bank.”Broadly speaking, the EU cooperates with Israel within the ’67 lines, he said. “The settlements are not part of Israel’s internationally recognized borders. Therefore they are excluded from our cooperation program.”He added, “We allow products from settlements to come onto the European market but they don’t enjoy the benefit of coming in at reduced customs rates or no customs rate because our agreement is with Israel. And since they don’t form part of Israel they don’t enjoy the customs preference that normal Israeli products are enjoying. If that’s called a boycott or considered a sanction, I must say I don’t understand it.”
Ministers cast doubt on looming prisoner release-Officials say they see move as ‘difficult’ and pointless unless Palestinians commit to continue talks-By AFP March 13, 2014, 4:48 pm 1-The Times of Israel
Ministers said Thursday that Israel would have difficulty approving a scheduled release of Palestinian prisoners if the Palestinian leadership refuses to extend peace talks beyond an April deadline.Israel committed to the release of 104 Palestinian prisoners in four stages when talks were launched in July. It has so far released 78 of those in three batches, with Palestinians demanding that the fourth — scheduled for later this month — include Arab Israelis as well.“As long as we don’t know what is happening — if the talks will be extended — it will be difficult for Israel to approve a move as dramatic as releasing Arab Israelis in the fourth tranche,” an aide to Science Minister Yaakov Peri quoted him as saying.After a three-year deadlock, the US brought the two sides back to the negotiating table with a nine-month time frame for an agreement.“Israel will have to be certain the talks are continuing to approve the fourth release,” said Peri, who used to head the Shin Bet internal security agency.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said: “We think the negotiations should be extended to the end of the year at least.”Asked in an interview with the Knesset television channel whether the government would approve the fourth prisoner release, Liberman said he didn’t “see any chance, if it’s not clear beforehand that the negotiations will continue till the end of the year.”“If there’s no change in tone and attitude, there’s no point in releasing them,” he said.US President Barack Obama is to host Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the White House on Monday after similar talks with Israeli Prime Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this month.“We hope that by the end of next week we will be informed that we’ve progressed from indirect negotiations through the Americans to direct talks,” Liberman said.Abbas has said the Palestinians will not agree to extend the negotiations without Israel releasing more prisoners and halting settlement construction in the occupied West Bank.
JOEL 3:2 (WW3 OCCURS WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED)
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 (ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(JERUSALEM)(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND BRINGS 3 DEAD BILLION IN WW3)
PSALMS 137:5-6
5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.(STROKE)
6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
ISAIAH 31:5
5 As birds flying,(WAR PLANES WITH BOMBS) so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem;(WITH PLANES) defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.(NUKE OR BOMB ISRAELS ENEMIES)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)
ZECHARIAH 14:1-4 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
PA: 'Allah Will Gather Israelis So We Can Kill Them'-Senior PA official calls Israelis 'advanced instrument of evil' with 'no belief, no principles,' on official PA TV.-By Ari Yashar-First Publish: 3/13/2014, 8:15 PM-Israelnationalnews
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YLJisx9sQE
A senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official appeared on PA TV on Wednesday, where he called Israelis "an advanced instrument of evil," claiming "Allah will gather them so that we can kill them."The official, Abbas Zaki, further opined Israelis "have no belief, no principles." He is a close associate of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas; last October he reportedly went to Syria as Abbas's personal representative, and he has spoken at public events representing Abbas's Fatah movement.Zaki's statements, translated by Palestinian Media Watch, can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YLJisx9sQE
The PA TV host speaking with Zaki claimed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had "failed in his attempt to stir up the media," referencing his exposure of the seized Iranian shipment of arms to Gaza on Monday.According to the host's theory, Netanyahu's "disappointment" in low world concern over the transfer of weapons to the terror group Hamas caused him to turn "to the option of bloodshed," a reference to the Tuesday IAF strike on Islamic Jihad terrorists in Gaza after they fired mortars at IDF soldiers.Zaki responded by saying Netanyahu "provoked an uproar," blaming Israel for the barrage of nearly 100 rockets fired from Gaza starting Wednesday and into Thursday."Don't tell anyone, we want to destroy Israel"This is not the first bombshell comment made by Zaki. In February he said on TV "none of us, especially in Fatah, has ruled out the military options" against Israel.Back in January, the Fatah man revealed on Syrian TV that any agreement Abbas reaches with Israel will merely be the "first stage" in destroying Israel.Zaki similarly revealed the not-so-secret intentions of the PA back in 2011, when he said "if Israel withdraws from Jerusalem, evacuates the 650,000 settlers, and dismantles the wall, what will become of Israel? It will come to an end."“If we say that we want to wipe Israel out...C'mon, it's too difficult. It's not [acceptable] policy to say so. Don't say these things to the world,” he warned. “Keep it to yourself.”
IAF Hits Seven Gaza Terror Targets-IAF aircraft hit seven terror targets in Gaza on, after rocket attacks continue despite "ceasefire."-By Elad Benari-First Publish: 3/14/2014, 12:42 AM-Israelnationalnews
Aircraft of the Israeli Air Force (IAF) attacked seven terror targets in Gaza on Thursday night, shortly after midnight.In a statement, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said that three targets in northern Gaza and four targets in southern Gaza were hit.“The IDF will not tolerate any attempt to harm Israeli citizens and IDF soldiers and will continue to act decisively and strongly against anyone who carries out terror activities against the State of Israel,” said the statement, which added that any Gaza rocket fire was the responsibility of the Hamas terror organization which rules the region.“The IDF is prepared to defend the citizens of Israel,” the statement said.The IDF airstrikes came after Gazan terrorists continued to fire rockets at southern Israel, even after the Islamic Jihad claimed that an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire would take effect at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday.As of Thursday night, at least nine rockets were fired on Israel's south from Gaza, a continuation of the escalated rocket barrage, in which roughly 100 rockets have been fired since Wednesday. The latest attack was recorded shortly after 11:00 p.m., when a rocket fired by Gaza-based terrorists exploded in an open area of the Eshkol Regional Council on Thursday evening.Most of the rockets exploded in open areas, several of them being shot down by the Iron Dome system which was stationed in Be'er Sheva and Sderot and which is designed to intercept rockets before they explode in populated areas.The rocket barrage has led Intelligence and Strategy Minister Yuval Steinitz and Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman to call for Israel to retake Gaza."Sooner or later we will have to take control of Gaza, in order to get rid of the Hamas regime,” Steinitz said. “We do not need to reoccupy it permanently, but we do need to remove from Gaza the option of firing rockets on us."
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(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).
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:(7 YEARS) 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 (PEACE TREATY) 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 ANIMAL 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 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
GENESIS 25:20-26
20 And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22 And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)
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.
Kerry: It's a Mistake for Israel to Demand Recognition-Secretary of State thinks it is a “mistake” for Israel to demand that the PA recognize it as a Jewish state in order to achieve peace.-By Elad Benari-First Publish: 3/14/2014, 1:13 AM-Israelnationalnews
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry thinks it is a “mistake” for Israel to demand that the Palestinian Authority (PA) recognize it as a Jewish state in order to achieve peace.“I think it's a mistake for some people to be raising it again and again as the decider of their attitude towards the possibility of a state and peace, and we've obviously made that clear," Kerry told the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on Thursday, when asked to clarify the official position of the Obama administration on the issue, according to the Breitbart website.He further said that the issue was resolved in 1947, when UN Resolution 181, which divided Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state, was passed. This resolution, said Kerry, referred to "Jewish state" several times.Kerry also said that former PA Chairman Yasser Arafat explicitly recognized Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state.Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has insisted that the PA recognize Israel as a Jewish state in order to reach a peace agreement, explaining that the Arabs’ refusal to recognize Israel stands at the heart of the conflict.PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has repeatedly insisted that the PA would not recognize Israel as a Jewish state and has also stressed that the future Palestinian state would not include the presence of a single Israeli – civilian or soldier.He stood his ground last Friday, saying during a meeting with Fatah youth activists that that there is "no way" he will recognize Israel as a Jewish state and accept a Palestinian capital in just a portion of eastern Jerusalem.On Sunday, he was backed by members of his Fatah party, who unanimously endorsed his rejection of demands to recognize Israel as a Jewish state.On Saturday, Kerry’s spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that the United States believes there is no need for the PA to recognize Israel as a Jewish state as part of a peace agreement.Psaki, who spoke to the PA-based Arabic-language Al-Quds newspaper, said, “The American position is clear, Israel is a Jewish state. However, we do not see a need that both sides recognize this position as part of the final agreement.”In contrast, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro recently declared that the PA will be obligated to recognize Israel as a Jewish state under the framework agreement that Kerry is planning to bring to the two sides.Breitbart, which reported Kerry’s comments from Thursday, pointed out two different occasions on which both Kerry and President Obama expressed support for Israel’s demand to be recognized as a Jewish state.In December 2013, on a visit to Israel, Kerry promised that he and Obama were committed to pursuing recognition of Israel as a "Jewish state" in a final agreement with the Palestinian Authority:“And I join with President Obama in expressing to the people of Israel our deep, deep commitment to the security of Israel and to the need to find a peace that recognizes Israel as a Jewish state, recognizes Israel as a country that can defend itself by itself, and that is an important principle with which the prime minister and the President and I are in agreement,” he said at the time.In March 2013, during a joint press conference with Netanyahu in Jerusalem, President Obama committed to pursuing a "Jewish state" as part of a peace agreement with Palestinians:“We also discussed the way forward to a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians. And I very much welcomed Bibi’s words before I spoke. I’ll be meeting with President Abbas tomorrow, and I will have more to say on this topic in the speech that I deliver to the Israeli people tomorrow. But for now, let me just reiterate that a central element of a lasting peace must be a strong and secure Jewish state, where Israel’s security concerns are met, alongside a sovereign and independent Palestinian state,” Obama said.
Gaza fighting unlikely to derail peace talks, officials say-Rocket fire strengthens Jerusalem’s demand for strong security arrangements, says deputy defense minister-By Raphael Ahren March 13, 2014, 5:18 pm 1-The Times of Israel
The recent escalation in violence between Israel and Gaza will likely not derail or even hamper Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, current and former Israeli officials said Thursday.“I don’t see a direct influence. There are other obstacles and challenges for the talks, but I think it only [shows] the demands on Israel in a different perspective,” Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon told The Times of Israel.While he personally opposes the release of Palestinian terrorists in the framework of the negotiations, Danon said he does not expect the recent events to impact the government’s decision on whether to go ahead with the fourth and final round of these releases, planned for March 29. Other ministers, though, do oppose the scheduled release.The Islamic Jihad terror group fired more than 60 rockets from Gaza at Israeli towns beginning Wednesday afternoon, leading the IDF to retaliate against terror-related targets in the coastal strip. On Thursday afternoon, Islamic Jihad announced that a truce had gone into effect and Israeli officials said quiet would be met with quiet.Danon said Wednesday’s heavy rocket fire should serve to illustrate Israel’s predicament to “our allies and friends, who are trying to push forward the negotiations,” and strengthen Israel’s position in the talks.
“They need to understand that there are other forces in the region,” he said, and thus even if Israel were able to reach an agreement with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, “we cannot ignore the current reality in Gaza… When we speak about security aspects and scenarios of instability in the region, and at the same time you have dozens of rockets trying to [harm] civilian population, it makes clear to our friends in Washington that we have a good reason to be worried about what would happen in the future in Judea and Samaria,” Danon added, using the Biblical name for the West Bank.A government official confirmed that Jerusalem currently has no plans to halt or reschedule the peace talks, acknowledging that Abbas and the PA cannot be blamed for the rocket fire. “We always knew that Abbas has next to no influence on what happens in Gaza,” the official said, speaking on a condition of anonymity.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s former national security adviser, Yaakov Amidror, also said the recent escalation will probably not disrupt the process.Amidror, a retired general who dealt mostly with military intelligence, said that the only connection between the situation in the South and the peace talks is that the massive rocket fire from Gaza proved how crucial ironclad security arrangements are in any peace agreement. Israel must be able to prevent weapons from being smuggled into the West Bank, “because the alternative is Gaza,” he said.Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, on the other hand, appeared to use the rocket fire from Gaza to agitate against the continuation of the peace talks. “Sderot and Ashkelon residents are still in their shelters. Yet there are those who think running away from Samaria so that the residents of Kfar Saba are in shelters too is the solution,” he posted on Facebook.The international community urged Israelis and Palestinians not to allow the recent events to derail the talks.“The calculations of those responsible for these acts of terrorism, who hope that these attacks will torpedo the difficult and still fragile peace process, must be proved wrong,” German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said. “The negotiations on peace in the Middle East are in a difficult phase. All sides need to make even greater efforts.”Middle East Quartet representative Tony Blair, speaking to British journalists after a meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron in Jerusalem, called for a “completely new strategy towards Gaza,” but indicated that the talks need to continue. “I don’t think even with those rocket attacks that should get in way of pursuing a political process and a political negotiation that allows, under the leadership of the United States, the two sides to come together and to try and describe an outline of what a two state solution looks like of how a Palestinian state is going to be and to operate and to function,” he said.Netanyahu has so far remained silent about the future of the peace talks, indicating, however, that they will proceed as planned. On Thursday, during a visit in a Jerusalem industrial zone together with Cameron, he denounced Abbas for failing to condemn the rocket attacks fired at Israel. “I say we want to move to a genuine peace. To move to a genuine peace, we have to be very clear on our condemnation of terror and our support for the right to defend ourselves against terror. That is a crucial component of peace,” Netanyahu said.A few hours later, Abbas did condemn the attacks coming out of Gaza. ”We condemn all military escalation, including rockets,” he said at a press conference in Bethlehem alongside Cameron.
Make unpopular moves for peace, Cameron urges from Bethlehem-British PM says he believes agreement between Israel and Palestinians possible; blasts humanitarian situation in GazaBy Adiv Sterman March 13, 2014, 6:38 pm 4-The Times of Israel
British Prime Minister David Cameron called on Israeli and Palestinian leaders to pursue peace talks and end their conflict, if necessary by carrying out “unpopular” measures.Speaking at a press conference Thursday with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem, Cameron said he believed peace was achievable, despite the many difficulties which still lay ahead of Abbas and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.“They both will have to take difficult and unpalatable and sometimes unpopular decisions for their constituencies in order to achieve that settlement, but I sense it’s possible,” Cameron said. “I’m not saying it’s definite or even probable, but it’s certainly possible.”He acknowledged that the two sides still had “serious disagreements” that would have to be tackled before a deal could be reached.Cameron condemned the downpour of rockets fired by Islamic Jihad from the Gaza Strip at southern Israel on Wednesday and Thursday, but also deplored the humanitarian situation in the Strip.“The situation in Gaza is unacceptable. There are 1.7 million people living in Gaza, a huge number are reliant for their life on food aid, there is extremely high unemployment, there is very low provision of healthcare.”Abbas too condemned the rocket fire, but implied that Israel’s airstrikes on the Strip were unjust as well. “We condemn all military escalation, including rockets,” Abbas said.The PA president went on to say that an escalation in the region would be detrimental to the peace process. “We still hope to reach an actual achievement from the talks during the prescribed period,” he said, according to news site Walla. Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are set to end next month, and US Secretary of State John Kerry is seeking both sides’ agreement to continue the negotiations on the basis of a new “framework” agreement.Abbas’s statements came hours after Netanyahu criticized him for initially condemning Israeli retaliatory airstrikes on the Strip, but not the original Islamic Jihad rocket fire from Gaza.On Wednesday, over 60 rockets were fired from Gaza at southern Israel, in the largest barrage since November 2012. Israel responded by striking 29 targets in Gaza from the air. Several more rockets were fired Thursday, prompting further IAF strikes, as a fragile ceasefire came into force.Cameron, who spoke in the Knesset and met with Netanyahu Wednesday, also visited Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity Thursday, before leaving the region.Times of Israel Staff contributed to this report
EU envoy to Israel: You shouldn’t have released prisoners-If Europe had advised Israel, says ambassador, it would have said freeze the settlements and negotiate on basis of pre-1967 lines
By David Horovitz March 14, 2014, 12:02 am 8-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
While praising Benjamin Netanyahu for being bold in his peace efforts and for seeking to prepare the Israeli public for compromise, the European Union’s ambassador to Israel said the prime minister had made the wrong decision in agreeing to release long-term Palestinian prisoners as part of the current negotiations.In an interview, Lars Faaborg-Andersen said that “had the EU been asked to advise Israel on which of the three positions [sought by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas] to accept as the basis for discussion — accepting to discuss [Palestinian statehood] on the [basis of the pre-] ’67 lines; accepting a settlement moratorium, or releasing 104 pre-Oslo prisoners — I know which two of those the EU would have pointed the Israeli government to take. You didn’t do that,” he said. “That’s your own sovereign choice. You also have to deal with the consequences.”Bolstering the critique, Faaborg-Andersen said, “The fact that these pre-Oslo prisoners are being released and coming back and being treated as heroes, is at the outset facilitated by you, because you are releasing them.”The ambassador was being interviewed (by this writer) at an event organized by the Europeans for Israel group, held Tuesday evening in the Jewish Agency building in Jerusalem. Robustly rejecting the notion that Europe was disproportionately critical of Israel, he said the EU had “basically only one quarrel with Israel as far as the peace process is concerned, and that is the settlements,” which he said were “particularly destructive for creating the kind of confidence and negotiating environment that is necessary to succeed.” The EU, he noted, considered settlements to be “illegal under international law and unhelpful on top of it.He likened ongoing settlement expansion during the peace process to “starting to eat a cake while you are discussing how to slice it,” and said the European public saw it as “a bit underhanded to continue expanding settlements in the territory which is subject to negotiations.”Israel, he advised, “would do itself a big service by putting a freeze on settlement expansion, particularly during a time of serious negotiation.”Faaborg-Andersen, who first came to Israel as a kibbutz volunteer in his youth and decades later as a senior Danish diplomat, drafted an initial version of the George W. Bush-era Road Map for peace when Denmark held the rotating presidency of the EU in 2002, called the prospects for an Israeli-Palestinian accord much better today than they had been then.Abbas is ‘a very old man and there is no certainty that he would be succeeded by anyone who has a similar commitment to a peaceful solution’He said there was a greater realization on both sides now of the need for a solution, and that “one needs to take the Palestinians at face value when they are saying they would like to have their own state.” However, no Palestinian leader wants to go “down in history as a traitor,” he said — though he later mused that “maybe ‘traitor’ is not a good word” — and Israel’s “best guarantee for security is to give the Palestinians a reasonable deal that will stick and will not immediately create dissatisfaction and frustration among the [Palestinian] public.”He said time had not been working in the Palestinians’ favor, and that the Palestinians bore much of the blame for this, noting that the original partition plan “was roughly a 50-50 sharing of the British Mandate” territory, and now the Palestinians were seeking statehood on 22%.Asked to address widespread Israeli concerns about Abbas’s credibility as a peacemaker, the danger of Islamic extremists taking control of the West Bank, and the genuine readiness of the Palestinians for abiding peace with Israel, Faaborg-Andersen said that with Abbas, “you know more or less what you have and what you would get.” But “he’s a very old man and there is no certainty that he would be succeeded by anyone who has a similar commitment to a peaceful solution.”
He said Abbas was not omnipotent and “needs to be cognizant of what the internal market in Palestine can bear in terms of a compromise. There are certain limits to what he would be able to accept.” Abbas “is accountable to a constituency, as politicians in this country are accountable to a constituency.”The ambassador offered several further reasons why Israel should “move decisively on this issue now,” including a “commonality of interests between Israel and some of the Sunni Muslim states” in confronting Hezbollah, Iran and other dangers. And he stressed Israel’s own “democratic, demographic challenge: Israel wanting to realize its aspiration as the home of the Jewish people and ensuring the self-determination of the Jewish people within the Israeli state.”He said he fully understood Israel’s security concerns, noted that “the EU wants Israel to live behind safe and defensible borders,” and suggested that international peacekeepers could play a role in the West Bank, notably on the potentially vulnerable border with Jordan. NATO peacekeeping forces in Afghanistan and other places had performed successfully against what he envisaged were far bigger challenges than such forces might face here. But in any event, he said, while the US and EU sought to help resolve security concerns, it was up to the parties themselves to find a solution.“The prime minister has put down some clear proposals on security; they are currently subject to discussion between the parties. There’s nothing wrong with that,” he said. “I don’t think it’s an insurmountable obstacle.” ‘We are not participating in paying any stipends or any kinds of salaries for martyrs or any of their families. One can argue that if [the PA] didn’t get our money, they wouldn’t be able to pay that money out of their pocket, but these are some of the things we have to live with.He argued that the rise of Hamas in Gaza stemmed “to a very large extent” from the fact that Israel had withdrawn in 2005 without an agreement. The unilateral withdrawal “allowed Hamas to step up as the big liberator,” he said. “That is a very bad precedent” and the reason “why we pin all our hopes” on a negotiated solution.The ambassador highlighted what he called the EU’s determination to help Israel in the peace effort, recalling that late last year, EU ministers “put on the table a very strong political signal to Israel. We said if the current negotiations are crowned with success, we are ready to provide Israel with a Special Privileged Partnership. This is no mean offer from the EU side. What we’re talking about is the next best thing to membership. It’s a status akin to Norway and Switzerland, across a gamut of areas — security, politics, economics, trade, science and technology, and so on. The message to Israel from our side is that you are not alone on this. There is an international community that is willing to back you and support you in this process because we know this is an existential decision that carries risks for you as well, and we would like to assist you as much as possible in trying to reduce these risks to a manageable and acceptable level.”Questioned on Abbas’s hardline positions at the negotiating table, including the demand for a right of return for Palestinian refugees, the ambassador noted that Abbas “got a lot of heat back home” for a 2012 Channel 2 interview in which he said in English that he did not feel he had the “right” to return to his town of birth, Safed, in northern Israel. He said Abbas and Netanyahu were “both being very bold,” in that they were “running into strong opposition on some of their views.”Netanyahu, he said, “is trying to prepare the Israeli public for a possible compromise.” Abbas “is trying to do the same thing,” he argued.Questioned about ongoing EU funding of the PA, even as it pays out large sums of money to jailed terrorists and to the families of dead terrorists, he said the EU did impose conditions on its funding, with “close monitoring and transparency” and that “problematic transactions” were followed up. “We are not participating in paying any stipends or any kinds of salaries for martyrs or any of their families,” he said. “One can argue that if [the PA] didn’t get our money, they wouldn’t be able to pay that money out of their pocket, but these are some of the things we have to live with.”He said the EU was providing about €1 billion a year to the “Palestinian state-building project” and had made clear to Abbas that “time is running out for them as well.” In the long-term, those funding levels would not be sustainable, he warned.The ambassador noted, however, that if the EU halted its funding, “the State of Israel would have to dole out considerably more money in order to keep peace and quiet on the West Bank.” He also hailed the security cooperation between Israel and the PA, that had provided Israel with the security it deserves in the West Bank.The relative economic prosperity in the West Bank “has put a considerable damper on discontent and therefore potentially also on violence,” he said. “I’m not sure that situation would necessarily prevail if one were to see a pulling out of donor funds from the area. Not that I’m saying you would have a third intifada or anything like that. But I think that the level of instability and the level potentially of violence would be higher.”Finally, asked about ostensible double standards in that the EU works with Morocco despite its occupation of the western Sahara and Turkey despite its presence in northern Cyprus, but will not work with Israeli institutions based in the territories, Faaborg-Andersen said “every legal situation is different. The situation as regards western Sahara and northern Cyprus cannot be directly compared to the situation in the West Bank.”Broadly speaking, the EU cooperates with Israel within the ’67 lines, he said. “The settlements are not part of Israel’s internationally recognized borders. Therefore they are excluded from our cooperation program.”He added, “We allow products from settlements to come onto the European market but they don’t enjoy the benefit of coming in at reduced customs rates or no customs rate because our agreement is with Israel. And since they don’t form part of Israel they don’t enjoy the customs preference that normal Israeli products are enjoying. If that’s called a boycott or considered a sanction, I must say I don’t understand it.”
Ministers cast doubt on looming prisoner release-Officials say they see move as ‘difficult’ and pointless unless Palestinians commit to continue talks-By AFP March 13, 2014, 4:48 pm 1-The Times of Israel
Ministers said Thursday that Israel would have difficulty approving a scheduled release of Palestinian prisoners if the Palestinian leadership refuses to extend peace talks beyond an April deadline.Israel committed to the release of 104 Palestinian prisoners in four stages when talks were launched in July. It has so far released 78 of those in three batches, with Palestinians demanding that the fourth — scheduled for later this month — include Arab Israelis as well.“As long as we don’t know what is happening — if the talks will be extended — it will be difficult for Israel to approve a move as dramatic as releasing Arab Israelis in the fourth tranche,” an aide to Science Minister Yaakov Peri quoted him as saying.After a three-year deadlock, the US brought the two sides back to the negotiating table with a nine-month time frame for an agreement.“Israel will have to be certain the talks are continuing to approve the fourth release,” said Peri, who used to head the Shin Bet internal security agency.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said: “We think the negotiations should be extended to the end of the year at least.”Asked in an interview with the Knesset television channel whether the government would approve the fourth prisoner release, Liberman said he didn’t “see any chance, if it’s not clear beforehand that the negotiations will continue till the end of the year.”“If there’s no change in tone and attitude, there’s no point in releasing them,” he said.US President Barack Obama is to host Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the White House on Monday after similar talks with Israeli Prime Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this month.“We hope that by the end of next week we will be informed that we’ve progressed from indirect negotiations through the Americans to direct talks,” Liberman said.Abbas has said the Palestinians will not agree to extend the negotiations without Israel releasing more prisoners and halting settlement construction in the occupied West Bank.
JOEL 3:2 (WW3 OCCURS WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED)
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 (ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(JERUSALEM)(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND BRINGS 3 DEAD BILLION IN WW3)
PSALMS 137:5-6
5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.(STROKE)
6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
ISAIAH 31:5
5 As birds flying,(WAR PLANES WITH BOMBS) so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem;(WITH PLANES) defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.(NUKE OR BOMB ISRAELS ENEMIES)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)
ZECHARIAH 14:1-4 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
PA: 'Allah Will Gather Israelis So We Can Kill Them'-Senior PA official calls Israelis 'advanced instrument of evil' with 'no belief, no principles,' on official PA TV.-By Ari Yashar-First Publish: 3/13/2014, 8:15 PM-Israelnationalnews
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A senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official appeared on PA TV on Wednesday, where he called Israelis "an advanced instrument of evil," claiming "Allah will gather them so that we can kill them."The official, Abbas Zaki, further opined Israelis "have no belief, no principles." He is a close associate of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas; last October he reportedly went to Syria as Abbas's personal representative, and he has spoken at public events representing Abbas's Fatah movement.Zaki's statements, translated by Palestinian Media Watch, can be seen here:
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The PA TV host speaking with Zaki claimed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had "failed in his attempt to stir up the media," referencing his exposure of the seized Iranian shipment of arms to Gaza on Monday.According to the host's theory, Netanyahu's "disappointment" in low world concern over the transfer of weapons to the terror group Hamas caused him to turn "to the option of bloodshed," a reference to the Tuesday IAF strike on Islamic Jihad terrorists in Gaza after they fired mortars at IDF soldiers.Zaki responded by saying Netanyahu "provoked an uproar," blaming Israel for the barrage of nearly 100 rockets fired from Gaza starting Wednesday and into Thursday."Don't tell anyone, we want to destroy Israel"This is not the first bombshell comment made by Zaki. In February he said on TV "none of us, especially in Fatah, has ruled out the military options" against Israel.Back in January, the Fatah man revealed on Syrian TV that any agreement Abbas reaches with Israel will merely be the "first stage" in destroying Israel.Zaki similarly revealed the not-so-secret intentions of the PA back in 2011, when he said "if Israel withdraws from Jerusalem, evacuates the 650,000 settlers, and dismantles the wall, what will become of Israel? It will come to an end."“If we say that we want to wipe Israel out...C'mon, it's too difficult. It's not [acceptable] policy to say so. Don't say these things to the world,” he warned. “Keep it to yourself.”
IAF Hits Seven Gaza Terror Targets-IAF aircraft hit seven terror targets in Gaza on, after rocket attacks continue despite "ceasefire."-By Elad Benari-First Publish: 3/14/2014, 12:42 AM-Israelnationalnews
Aircraft of the Israeli Air Force (IAF) attacked seven terror targets in Gaza on Thursday night, shortly after midnight.In a statement, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said that three targets in northern Gaza and four targets in southern Gaza were hit.“The IDF will not tolerate any attempt to harm Israeli citizens and IDF soldiers and will continue to act decisively and strongly against anyone who carries out terror activities against the State of Israel,” said the statement, which added that any Gaza rocket fire was the responsibility of the Hamas terror organization which rules the region.“The IDF is prepared to defend the citizens of Israel,” the statement said.The IDF airstrikes came after Gazan terrorists continued to fire rockets at southern Israel, even after the Islamic Jihad claimed that an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire would take effect at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday.As of Thursday night, at least nine rockets were fired on Israel's south from Gaza, a continuation of the escalated rocket barrage, in which roughly 100 rockets have been fired since Wednesday. The latest attack was recorded shortly after 11:00 p.m., when a rocket fired by Gaza-based terrorists exploded in an open area of the Eshkol Regional Council on Thursday evening.Most of the rockets exploded in open areas, several of them being shot down by the Iron Dome system which was stationed in Be'er Sheva and Sderot and which is designed to intercept rockets before they explode in populated areas.The rocket barrage has led Intelligence and Strategy Minister Yuval Steinitz and Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman to call for Israel to retake Gaza."Sooner or later we will have to take control of Gaza, in order to get rid of the Hamas regime,” Steinitz said. “We do not need to reoccupy it permanently, but we do need to remove from Gaza the option of firing rockets on us."
