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: 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.
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).
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: 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.
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die).
Obama pledges to press Abbas on framework
Administration official says meeting between US president and Netanyahu was less contentious than previous encounters
March 5, 2014, 1:01 am
2-The Times of Israel
WASHINGTON — US President Barack
Obama committed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyau he would push
Palestinians to match any Israeli concessions as he seeks to negotiate a
framework for peace talks.A
senior Obama administration official told AFP that the issue of
US-brokered Israeli-Palestinian peace talks was the dominant topic in
the White House meeting between Obama and Netanyahu on Monday.Despite frank statements on Middle East
diplomacy before the meeting from both leaders, the talks were not as
contentious as some previous encounters between the two men, the
official told AFP Tuesday.
The talks took place as Obama seeks to bridge
gaps between Israelis and Palestinians in a bid to prolong the US-led
peace effort led by his Secretary of State John Kerry.Obama used the
meeting to underline how he saw
the US peace push as a key opportunity for both Netanyahu and the
Israeli people, the official said on condition of anonymity.Netanyahu
made clear to Obama that for the
talks to continue, Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas would have to be
prepared to make concessions. Obama undertook to push the Palestinian
leader, who will be in Washington in two weeks, as he had done to
Netanyahu, the official said.“It’s not as though the Palestinians are
going to get a pass,” the official said.Before the talks, Obama had said
bluntly in an
interview with a Bloomberg View columnist that he would make clear to
Netanyahu that time was of the essence in the US drive to agree on a
framework between the parties so that peace talks could continue beyond a
US-imposed end-of-April deadline.He paraphrased his message to
Netanyahyu as “If not now, when? And if not you, Mr. Prime Minister,
then who?”Netanyahu and Obama have in the past had a
testy relationship, and the Israeli leader spoke with clear emotion in a
photo op with Obama on Monday about the threat he perceives from Iran —
even as the US leader tries to conclude a nuclear weapons deal with
Tehran.White House officials have been candid about
admitting the differences between the two men in the past — but said the
tone of Monday’s talks was not unfriendly.“It was not a confrontational
meeting, it was not a difficult meeting,” the official said.When you see Iran building ICBMs, just remember America, that Scud's for you'
Netanyahu to Abbas: No excuses, recognize Jewish state now
Speaking at AIPAC conference, PM reiterates demand for Ramallah to show it’s serious, warns Iranian ICBMs will target US
March 4, 2014, 7:06 pm
10-The Times of Israel
WASHINGTON — Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas must recognize Israel as a Jewish
state to show he is serious about ending the conflict, Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu told some 14,000 activists at AIPAC’s annual policy
conference Tuesday.Delivering
the confab’s keynote address, Netanyahu called on Abbas to quit making
excuses over the key Israeli demand. During the speech, he also rejected
the idea of international peacekeepers in the Jordan Valley, and made a
case for upping pressure on Iran, saying any Iranian nuclear capability
would be a threat to the whole world.“It’s time for the Palestinians stop denying
history,” he said. “Just as Israel is prepared to recognize a
Palestinian state, the Palestinians must be prepared to recognize a
Jewish state.”Such a recognition would send a message to
Palestinians, he said, “to abandon the possibility of flooding Israel
with refugees or amputating parts of the Negev or Galilee.”
“Recognize the Jewish state. No excuses, no delays. It’s time,” he urged, directly addressing Abbas.
The comments came a day after US President Barack Obama told Netanyahu that the time for tough decisions had come.
Netanyahu said he sought a deal, but questioned the seriousness of the
Palestinians’ engagement.Netanyahu talked up the benefits of peace for
regional economic ties, focusing – not unlike Secretary of State John
Kerry in his Monday evening speech before AIPAC – on the benefits of
establishing formal ties with Gulf states. “The combination of Israeli
innovation and Gulf entrepreneurship will catapult the region forward,”
he explained.“I am prepared to make a historic peace with
our Palestinian neighbors, a peace that will end a century of conflict
and bloodshed,” Netanyahu said to a round of applause. “Peace would be
good for us and peace will be good for the Palestinians.”Thanking Kerry,
who he characterized as “the
secretary of state who never sleeps,” Netanyahu assured the audience
that a peace deal would have to be “anchored in security arrangements
and mutual recognition of two nation states.”The prime minister also
made clear that he
opposes any placement of long-term international peacekeeping forces
who, he said, “keep the peace only when there is peace, but when they’re
subjected to repeated attacks, those forces eventually go home.”He
cited international forces in the Sinai, southern Lebanon and the Golan
Heights, characterizing them as ineffective.Netanyahu devoted a large
chunk of his speech
to Iran’s nuclear program, saying letting Tehran keep any enrichment
capability would endanger the world.A final agreement with Iran must
require
Tehran to fully dismantle its nuclear capability, he said, warning the
audience that Iran’s current missile development had its sights on
America’s eastern seaboard.Netanyahu dismissed arguments that Iran wants
a
peaceful nuclear program, questioning why heavy water reactors, secret
nuclear sites closed to international inspections, and the development
of inter-continental ballistic missiles are necessary to a peaceful
program.The prime minister warned that Americans
should understand that such ICBM technology is meant to target far-flung
regions, like America’s East Coast, and not Israel – which can be
reached by weapons that Iran already possesses. “Those ICBMs aren’t
intended for us. When you see Iran building ICBMs, just remember
America, that Scud’s for you,” he quipped, referencing a beer ad
campaign.
The end game of negotiations, Netanyahu
reiterated, was “not just to prevent them from having that weapon, but
from having the capacity to make the weapon.” The distinction between
acquiring a weapon and possessing the capacity to build such a weapon
has emerged as a gaping divide between the Obama administration’s
position and that of the Israeli government.In order to achieve that, he said, a
negotiated solution must include dismantling – not just restricting
construction of — Iran’s heavy water reactor and underground enrichment
facility, and strip Iran both of its centrifuges that allow for the
enrichment of uranium as well as its standing stockpile of enriched
uranium. Leaving Iran with enrichment capacity, he warned, will allow it
to remain as a “threshold” nuclear power, “able to develop rapidly
nuclear weapons at a time when attention is focused elsewhere.”Iran, he said, was negotiating under bad
faith. He described Iran “wheeling out its smiling president and its
smooth-talking foreign minister,” but noted that at the same time
“Iran’s leaders say they won’t dismantle a single centrifuge and won’t
stop their missile program.”For the first part of his address, Netanyahu
contrasted Israel as a force for regional stability and humanitarian
relief, in comparison with Tehran as a destabilizing and immoral force.
He described visiting an IDF field hospital in the Golan Heights, set up
to receive some of the nearly 1,000 wounded Syrians who have come to
Israel seeking medical assistance.Netanyahu described a man and his gravely
wounded son, saying “I heard from them what all the Syrians who come to
be treated in Israel are saying. They say ‘all these years Assad lied to
us. He told us Iran is our friend and Israel is our enemy. But Iran is
killing us and Israel is saving us.”The Syrians, Netanyahu said, “discovered what
you’ve always known to be true. In a Middle East bludgeoned by barbarism
and butchery, Israel is humane, Israel is compassionate, Israel is a
force for good.”Netanyahu characterized the Israeli-Syrian
border as “the dividing line between decency and depravity, between
compassion and cruelty. On the one side stands Israel, animated by the
values we cherish, while on the other side of that moral divide, steeped
in blood and savagery, stand the forces of terror.”Netanyahu devoted the last third of his speech
to an assault on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which
he re-designated “Bigotry, Dishonesty and Shame” and re-characterized as
“simply the latest chapter in the long, dark history of anti-Semitism.”“Those who wear the BDS label should be
treated exactly as we treat any anti-Semite and bigot. They should be
exposed and condemned. The boycotters should be boycotted.”
Without getting personal, Netanyahu hits back at Obama
PM in AIPAC address argues extensively against White House thinking on Iran and Palestinians, while making just a single reference to the president
March 4, 2014, 7:22 pm
29-The times of Israel
WASHINGTON — Publicly savaged by
President Barack Obama for his settlement policies on Sunday, Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday opted for a firmly non-personal
response in a warmly received address to the AIPAC conference here. He
argued extensively for several positions directly at odds with those
held by the president, but did so without the direct targeting that
Obama had employed in his incendiary Bloomberg conversation published two days earlier.Obama, in the lengthy interview with Jeffrey Goldberg
that was released precisely as Netanyahu was flying in to meet with
him, had chosen to assail the prime minister for overseeing “aggressive
settlement construction,” indicated that Netanyahu’s positions on the
Palestinian conflict were threatening Israel’s wellbeing, and warned
that the US would find it increasingly difficult to defend Israel from
the international consequences.Netanyahu, having since joined the president in their latest public dialogue of the deaf at the White House on Monday,
opted to tell AIPAC Tuesday morning that he had held “very good
meetings” with Obama and other senior American leaders (the only time he
named Obama in the speech), insisted that he was ready to conclude “a
historic peace” with the Palestinians, and hailed the uniquely “precious
alliance” between the United States and Israel.He also chose to heap praise on Secretary of
State John Kerry, who must have been deeply dismayed by the president’s
decision to so openly question the policies of a prime minister he has
spent months gradually trying to win over, cosset and reassure.Kerry, who delivered a very long and
passionately friendly address to the AIPAC conference on Monday evening,
was hailed appreciatively by Netanyahu as “the secretary of state who
never sleeps” and with whom he has been working “literally day and
night” to advance the Israeli-Palestinian peace effort.
Strikingly, the issue of settlement building —
raised repeatedly by the president in his Sunday interview as the
apparent key obstacle to real progress and the key threat to Israel’s
future — received not a single mention in either Kerry’s address or
Netanyahu’s.Although Netanyahu eschewed direct
confrontation with Obama, he argued emphatically against the president’s
stances on both Iran and the Palestinians.Where Obama promises to ensure that Iran will
not obtain nuclear weapons, Netanyahu insisted that the challenge “is
not just to prevent them from having the weapon, but to prevent them
from having the capacity to make the weapon.”Where Obama says he can envisage Iran
retaining an enrichment capacity under a permanent accord on its nuclear
program, Netanyahu said that to allow this would be “a grave error.” It
would leave Iran as a threshold nuclear power, capable of breaking out
to the bomb when the world’s attention was focused elsewhere, and would
“open the floodgates” to nuclear proliferation. Seventeen countries
worldwide have peaceful nuclear programs, Netanyahu said, without
spinning centrifuges, heavy water reactors, subterranean nuclear
facilities and missile research. Iran wants to keep all of those
capacities, he said, because “Iran wants a military nuclear program.”He stressed that Israel backs a diplomatic
deal, provided it truly dismantles Iran’s military nuclear capabilities.
But he warned, as he has from the same podium in past years, that the
Jewish nation “will never be brought to the brink of extinction again”
and that he would do “whatever I must do to defend the Jewish state of
Israel.”Turning to the Palestinian issue, Netanyahu
set out an optimistic vision of thriving relations between Israel and
parts of the Arab world — citing the potential of a combination “of
Israeli innovation and Gulf entrepreneurship,” and declaring that
Israel’s water expertise could better the lives of hundreds of millions —
if only a deal could be done.But whereas Obama had touted Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas as a leader demonstrably “committed to
nonviolence and diplomatic efforts to resolve” the conflict, Netanyahu
was far more skeptical. He received a standing ovation when he called on
the Palestinians to “stop denying history” and urged Abbas to “recognize the Jewish state.”
If Abbas would only tell his people of the Jewish nation’s sovereign
rights, he could “finally make clear that you are truly prepared to end
the conflict. No excuses. No delays. It’s time.”And while Obama had openly wondered whether
Israel wanted to “resign” itself “to what amounts to a permanent
occupation of the West Bank,” and asserted that the US had developed a
security plan to “deal with potential threats to Israel,” Netanyahu
highlighted Israel’s ongoing security concerns in an “unraveling” Middle
East. Israel simply could not afford to bet its security “on our
fondest hopes.” It was, rather, Israel’s bitterly learned obligation to
prepare for the worst. If a peace deal could be signed, it would
certainly come under attack from extremists, and international forces
could not be trusted to secure Israel because they “go home” when under
repeated attack. Only “the brave soldiers” of the IDF could truly defend
Israel, he said.Netanyahu, who had looked tense and strained
at the White House on Monday, was in his element at the Washington
Convention Center. A couple of his jokes fell flat, and a couple of
anticipated crowd-pleasers did not produce the anticipated applause. On
one occasion he even asked the audience to applaud him.But overall, as is customary, the reception
for Netanyahu was markedly more enthusiastic than for any of the
conference’s other major speakers. His redefinition of the BDS (Boycott,
Divestment, Sanctions) movement as “Bigotry, Dishonesty and Shame,” and
his callout for Scarlett Johansson (who stood by SodaStream under BDS
pressure), garnered particular enthusiasm.Reading what Obama had said Sunday must have
come as quite a shock for Netanyahu — not because the president’s views
were unfamiliar to him, but because the president had chosen to air
them, in public, as his guest was on the way to meet him. At AIPAC on
Tuesday, Netanyahu set out his contrary positions with equal fervor, but
did so without getting personal.
Opposition head uncertain Netanyahu can bring peace
Issac Herzog responds to AIPAC speech, says he agrees on substance, but still skeptical PM can clinch a final deal
March 4, 2014, 10:28 pm
0-The Times of Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu’s Tuesday address at the AIPAC policy conference in Washington
drew little criticism from opposition chief Isaac Herzog for its
content, though the Labor Party chief said he took issue with the
speaker.Herzog
said Tuesday he supported the positions espoused by Netanyahu, in which
he called for a secure peace with the Palestinians and slammed the
movement to boycott Israel. However, the Knesset opposition head said he
had growing doubts that Netanyahu was the man to bring about a peace
deal with the Palestinians.“I agree with Prime Minister Netanyahu that
security arrangements are a critical condition for any agreement, but
believe less and less that he wants and is capable of being the one to
lead us to a political settlement,” Herzog said.Netanyahu gave full-throated support to making
peace with the Palestinians in his address, though he said it would
need to come with certain security guarantees and recognition from
Ramallah of Israel as a Jewish state.“I am prepared to make a historic peace with
our Palestinian neighbors, a peace that will end a century of conflict
and bloodshed,” Netanyahu said to a round of applause. “Peace would be
good for us and peace will be good for the Palestinians.”Netanyahu stressed the importance of keeping
an Israeli presence, rather than relying solely on international troops,
in areas that would be incorporated into a future Palestinian state.International forces “eventually go home,”
Netanyahu said. “So as long as the peace is under assault, the only
force that can be relied on to defend the peace and defend Israel is the
force defending its own home — the Israeli Army, the brave soldiers of
the IDF.”
In his speech, Netanyahu also attacked the
looming boycott threat, which is “on the wrong side of the moral divide”
and will fail due to increased international interest in Israeli
products and technologies.Herzog, however, took a less optimistic
approach. “I oppose with all my heart the boycott movement against
Israel, but unfortunately it has become a strategic threat to Israel and
political inactivity will only help its leaders,” he said.The Labor head has said before that he is
uncertain the prime minister has what it takes to make concessions with
the Palestinians that would lead to a final agreement.“I am not sure he (Netanyahu) has got the
mental willingness and capability of doing that,” Herzog told The
Associated Press in December. “And the same thing, I’m not sure whether
Abbas has it.”