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.
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).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
Knesset to hold special session on peace talks-MKs to convene Monday despite recess to discuss stalled negotiations and call for release of spy Jonathan Pollard-By Lazar Berman April 6, 2014, 2:03 pm 1-The Times of Israel
The Knesset will return from its spring recess Monday for a special session on the state of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.According to the Knesset website, more than 25 MKs requested the session, formally titled “The crisis in negotiations with the Palestinians.” The MKs will also debate “The failure of the government regarding the release of Jonathan Pollard.”The peace talks ground to a halt over the past two weeks as the Palestinian Authority refused to agree to a US framework agreement for further talks beyond the April 29 deadline for the negotiations, and Israel balked at releasing additional Palestinian prisoners convicted of terrorism as scheduled in late March in exchange for talks that were not likely to continue.Israeli ministers traded accusations recently, blaming rivals for the breakdown in the talks.Israel’s chief peace negotiator, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, on Saturday accused Bennett’s Jewish Home colleague, Housing Minister Uri Ariel, of deliberately working to “torpedo” her peace efforts with the Palestinians, and intimated that the United States was over-involved in the process, while more time needed to be spent in direct Israeli-Palestinian contacts.She also slammed Abbas for breaching their agreed negotiating framework, and sounded far from confident that the ruptured talks could be rescued.Ariel responded Saturday that the justice minister had “failed miserably and is now looking for anyone to blame except herself.”“I would suggest to minister Livni to adhere to the advice of the sages – silence is a measure of wisdom,” Ariel said in a statement.Still, peace talks could resume soon because both sides understand that this is the final opportunity to forge an agreement, a senior Israeli official told Yedioth Ahronoth Sunday.The current impasse raises the possibility that the Americans could withdraw support for the peace talks, so ”we have to find a way to not end these negotiations,” the source said, adding that the possibility of freeing Jonathan Pollard, which was raised last week as part of a package deal to entice the sides back to negotiations, was off the table for the moment.Since Wednesday, when the talks last stalled, there has been a flurry of high-level meetings aimed at restarting talks, but the ball remains in the Palestinians’ court, another senior Israeli source said. If the Palestinian Authority insists on the release of the fourth group of prisoners, intended as a confidence-building measure by Israel, there “will be a problem.”The source called on the Palestinians to be more flexible, but added that “it seems impossible” that the Palestinians will back down on their demand for the prisoner release, which Jerusalem has refused to go through with.The Knesset began its spring recess last month, which is set to continue until the start of the summer session on May 11.Gavriel Fiske and Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
EU backs Kerry’s Mideast push-European foreign ministers say peace talks are at a critical phase-By AFP April 5, 2014, 6:03 pm 8-The Times of Israel
ATHENS — European foreign ministers on Saturday said they fully supported efforts by US Secretary of State John Kerry to keep Middle East peace talks alive as tension mounted on both sides.“We support the efforts of Secretary of State Kerry,” EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton said at the close of a two-day meeting in Athens.Kerry has labored lately to bring Palestinians and Israelis back from the brink.On Friday he warned from Morocco that there were “limits” to the time and effort the United States could devote to the process “if the parties themselves are unwilling to take constructive steps.”But Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has rejected Kerry’s appeals to withdraw applications he signed on Tuesday to adhere to 15 international treaties in pursuit of recognition for the Palestinians’ promised state.And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has likewise ignored calls to refrain from hardline moves, and has reportedly asked his officials to draw up reprisals.“Kerry’s initiative is without doubt in a critical phase,” German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Saturday.“The radicals on both sides seem to start to prevail…we have to prevent that,” Steinmeier told reporters.
Bennett: Failed talks weren’t leading to peace-Economy minister urges Palestinians to carry out threat to turn to UN, where Israel can also pursue war crimes lawsuits-By Times of Israel staff April 6, 2014, 7:50 am
The stalled peace talks with the Palestinians are not leading to peace, but are driven merely by concerns that without talks the Palestinians will advance their recognition efforts at the UN, Economy Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) said on Sunday morning.“The negotiations ended because Abu Mazen [PA President Mahmoud Abbas] ended them already two weeks ago when he announced he would never even discuss recognition of Israel as a Jewish state,” Bennett said in an interview with Israel Radio. “And then [Abbas] applied unilaterally to the UN,” Bennett added, a reference to the Palestinian Authority’s filing of 15 applications to international treaties last month.The peace talks ground to a halt over the past two weeks as the Palestinian Authority refused to agree to a US framework agreement for further talks beyond the April 29 deadline for the negotiations, and Israel balked at releasing additional Palestinian prisoners convicted of terrorism in late March in exchange for continued talks that were not likely to continue.The collapse of the talks demonstrated that they were based on a wrong-headed “concept,” Bennett charged.“Every time, just to continue the negotiations that aren’t leading anywhere, we have to release more murderers and more murderers. And each time they say, ‘if you don’t negotiate we’ll go to the UN.’ There’s a concept here, a concept that is pervasive here in Israel in recent years, which says, ‘We have to give up more and more, and not for peace but just so the Palestinian won’t go to the UN.’“I disagree with this concept,” he added. “I say, if [Abbas] wants to go to the UN, I’ll buy him a ticket. And why? Because what he’ll find there are personal lawsuits for war crimes over his transfer of funds to Hamas which shoots rockets at us, and transfers of funds to the murderers of Israeli civilians.”Israel’s chief peace negotiator, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, on Saturday accused Bennett’s Jewish Home colleague, Housing Minister Uri Ariel, of deliberately working to “torpedo” her peace efforts with the Palestinians, and intimated that the United States was over-involved in the process, while more time needed to be spent in direct Israeli-Palestinian contacts.She also slammed Abbas for breaching their agreed negotiating framework, and sounded far from confident that the ruptured talks could be rescued.Looking weary and at times angry in a Channel 2 interview, Livni said Ariel had “deliberately” reissued housing tenders for 708 new homes in east Jerusalem’s Gilo neighborhood last Tuesday, at a highly sensitive moment in the peace efforts, “in order to torpedo what I am doing along with the prime minister” to try to advance peacemaking.Ariel “must be reined in,” she said.While she indicated that she placed overwhelming blame on the PA for the current crisis in the talks, Livni said that “announcements of settlement building will always mean blame is placed on us” for the failure to achieve peace. “The whole world will blame us.”Ariel responded Saturday that the justice minister had “failed miserably and is now looking for anyone to blame except herself.”“I would suggest to minister Livni to adhere to the advice of the sages – silence is a measure of wisdom,” Ariel said in a statement.Ariel said cabinet colleague Livni had been given “limitless authority to make peace, including the release of despicable murderers… Her sobs and moans over construction in Jerusalem and in Judea and Samaria are no more than crocodile tears of one who knew of (the plans) in advance, as did the Palestinians and the Americans.”Bennett defended Ariel on Sunday. “I suggest we don’t always blame ourselves. Even when we release murderers, that’s not enough for the other side. Sometimes it’s okay to just be on your own side.”
Netanyahu: Israel wants peace talks but 'not at any price'
1 hour ago-APR 6,14-YAHOONEWS
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday Israel was willing to continue U.S.-brokered peace talks with the Palestinians but not "at any price".Speaking at a weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said Israel would respond with steps of its own if the Palestinians pressed ahead with unilateral actions toward statehood. He did not elaborate.Attempts by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to put peace talks back on track unraveled in the past week after the Palestinians signed 15 international conventions, mainly through the United Nations."By doing so, the Palestinians fundamentally violated the understandings that were reached through U.S. intervention," Netanyahu said in his first public remarks since the crisis erupted.President Mahmoud Abbas decided to sign the international conventions after Israel reneged on a pledge to free the last group of 104 Palestinian prisoners it agreed to release in the deal that led to the negotiations restarting nine months ago.Netanyahu continued: "They will achieve a state only through direct negotiations and not through empty proclamations or unilateral moves, which will only push a peace accord farther away.""Unilateral steps on their part will be answered with unilateral steps on our side. We are willing to continue negotiations, but we will not do so at any price."The talks have struggled since they began in July, stalling over Palestinian opposition to Israel's demand that it be recognized as a Jewish state, and over Israeli settlements, internationally deemed illegal, in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.U.S. envoy Martin Indyk was due to meet the chief Israeli and Palestinian negotiators on Sunday to try to salvage the process.(Reporting by Jeffrey Heller; Editing by Ori Lewis and Sonya Hepinstall)
Netanyahu: If PA acts unilaterally, so will we-Palestinians have no path to a state except through negotiations with Israel, prime minister tells cabinet-By Gavriel Fiske April 6, 2014, 12:07 pm 3-The Times of Israel
Unilateral steps by the Palestinians to harm Israel and achieve statehood will invite unilateral steps by Israel in response, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday morning.The Palestinians will achieve a state only through negotiations and not through “empty declarations or one-sided actions that only push a peace agreement further away,” Netanyahu said, speaking before the weekly cabinet meeting.“Unilateral actions from the Palestinians will be answered with unilateral actions from our side,” the prime minister added, and decried the Palestinian decision last week to apply for state-level membership in a group of international treaties and conventions.“Unfortunately… just when an agreement to continue the talks was getting close, the Palestinian leadership unilaterally applied to join 14 international bodies, violating the terms of the agreement that was reached,” the prime minister said.The Palestinians “have a lot to lose” from such one-sided actions, while for its part, Israel was not afraid of the threat of UN intervention, Netanyahu added.He said that Israel wants to continue the talks, but not at “any price.” Netanyahu noted that Israel has “made difficult moves” during the negotiations in an effort to create a framework to end the conflict while PA President Mahmoud Abbas has ruled out considering the central Israeli demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as “the Jewish state,” even though he knows this is necessary to end the conflict.Possible unilateral moves against the Palestinians are being discussed by the Israeli leadership, but no decisions have been made on implementing any of them, according to a Sunday Yedioth Ahronoth report. Some possibilities include revoking permission for Palestinians to farm some 14,000 dunams of agricultural land and bringing to a halt 19 previously approved building projects in Palestinian-controlled areas.More serious steps, political measures against the Palestinian leadership and economic sanctions, including the withholding of taxes collected by Israel, are being discussed but are unlikely to be implemented in the near future, the report said.
Israeli sources say peace talks could resume-American pressure could bring results, but fourth prisoner release could pose ‘a problem,’ official says-By Gavriel Fiske April 6, 2014, 12:10 pm-The Times of Israel
The sputtering Israeli-Palestinian peace talks could resume soon because both sides understand that this is the final opportunity to forge an agreement, Israeli sources close to the negotiations said Sunday.American pressure to continue the talks could convince the two sides to resume formal meetings, because “the sides understand that this is the last chance,” a senior Israeli official told Yedioth Ahronoth.The current impasse raises the possibility that the Americans could withdraw support for the peace talks, so ”we have to find a way to not end these negotiations,” the source said, adding that the possibility of freeing Jonathan Pollard, which was raised last week as part of a package deal to entice the sides back to negotiations, was off the table for the moment.Since Wednesday, when the talks last stalled, there has been a flurry of high-level meetings aimed at restarting talks, but the ball remains in the Palestinians’ court, another senior Israeli source said. If the Palestinian Authority insists on the release of the fourth group of prisoners, intended as a confidence-building measure by Israel, there “will be a problem.”The source called on the Palestinians to be more flexible, but added that “it seems impossible” that the Palestinians will back down on their demand for the prisoner release, which Jerusalem has refused to go through with.The peace talks ground to a halt over the past two weeks as the Palestinian Authority refused to agree to a US framework agreement for further talks beyond the April 29 deadline for the negotiations, and Israel balked at the release of additional Palestinian prisoners convicted of terrorism in exchange for continued talks that were not likely to continue.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
Livni slams housing minister for ‘torpedoing’ peace efforts-Israel’s chief negotiator also hints US is over-involved, doesn’t endorse Abbas as partner, can’t promise current crisis will be overcome-By Times of Israel staff April 5, 2014, 7:25 pm 54
Israel’s chief peace negotiator on Saturday accused one of her ministerial colleagues of deliberately working to “torpedo” her peace efforts with the Palestinians, and intimated that the United States was over-involved in the process, when more time needed to be spent in direct Israeli-Palestinian contacts.She also slammed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for breaching their agreed negotiating framework, and sounded far from confident that the ruptured talks could be rescued.Looking weary and at times angry in a Channel 2 interview, Livni said Housing and Construction Minister Uri Ariel had “deliberately” reissued housing tenders for 708 new homes in east Jerusalem’s Gilo neighborhood, at a highly sensitive moment in the peace efforts last Tuesday, “in order to torpedo what I am doing along with the prime minister” to try to advance peacemaking.Ariel, from the Orthodox-nationalist Jewish Home party, “must be reined in,” she said.While she indicated that she placed overwhelming blame on the PA for the current crisis in the talks, Livni said that “announcements of settlement building will always mean blame is placed on us” for the failure to achieve peace. “The whole world will blame us.”Livni, the justice minister from the center-left Hatnua Party, confirmed that she would be meeting her Palestinian counterpart Saeb Erekat on Sunday to try to revive the talks, and said she’d had “a very difficult” meeting with him, long into Thursday night, mediated by US special envoy Martin Indyk. The trio also met for hours, unproductively, on Wednesday night.She said she was “angry” that Abbas had “lost patience” after Israel delayed releasing a fourth and final group of longterm Palestinian terror convicts last weekend, and said he had “breached” their understandings by applying to join 15 UN and other international treaties. “We can’t just smile and move on,” she said.Asked repeatedly whether she had a formula for reviving the talks, Livni offered no specifics, but said she was “in the midst of the struggle… It’s complex… We have to try to find a way forward, while protecting Israel’s interests.”Long one of the most optimistic Israeli leaders as regards the prospects for progress with the Palestinians, Livni on Saturday sounded deeply downbeat. In answer to a repeated question, she did not endorse Abbas as a viable partner for a two-state solution, saying, “He’ll have to prove it… The test is still ahead of us.”And she did not offer a single example of progress made over the past eight months of negotiating, regretting that too much of the time had been spent in Israeli-American and Palestinian-American talks, rather than in direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. More bilateral Israeli-Palestinian contacts were needed, she said, including direct talks between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Abbas.“We worked hard with the United States” on the “framework” accord that Secretary of State John Kerry had tried, and thus far failed, to attain to govern ongoing negotiations. Kerry was “unbelievable,” she said. “There is no limit to the effort he makes.”Livni made clear that she would not be bolting the coalition over the collapse of peace talks. Indeed, she praised Netanyahu for having taken “very complicated decisions,” including over releasing terrorist convicts and constraining settlement expansion.Livni said it had been clear from the start that Israel would not free Israeli-Arabs, as demanded by the PA, in the canceled fourth group of prisoner releases, except in the context of a wider “package” — a reference to the deal that had been taking shape for the US to free American-Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, Israel to release more prisoners and restrict settlement building, and the Palestinians to commit to extended negotiations and no unilateral moves toward statehood. That package deal, which had been taking shape Tuesday, fell apart after Abbas signed the treaty applications. “The Palestinians decided not to wait any longer,” Livni said bitterly.
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.
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).
ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
Knesset to hold special session on peace talks-MKs to convene Monday despite recess to discuss stalled negotiations and call for release of spy Jonathan Pollard-By Lazar Berman April 6, 2014, 2:03 pm 1-The Times of Israel
The Knesset will return from its spring recess Monday for a special session on the state of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.According to the Knesset website, more than 25 MKs requested the session, formally titled “The crisis in negotiations with the Palestinians.” The MKs will also debate “The failure of the government regarding the release of Jonathan Pollard.”The peace talks ground to a halt over the past two weeks as the Palestinian Authority refused to agree to a US framework agreement for further talks beyond the April 29 deadline for the negotiations, and Israel balked at releasing additional Palestinian prisoners convicted of terrorism as scheduled in late March in exchange for talks that were not likely to continue.Israeli ministers traded accusations recently, blaming rivals for the breakdown in the talks.Israel’s chief peace negotiator, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, on Saturday accused Bennett’s Jewish Home colleague, Housing Minister Uri Ariel, of deliberately working to “torpedo” her peace efforts with the Palestinians, and intimated that the United States was over-involved in the process, while more time needed to be spent in direct Israeli-Palestinian contacts.She also slammed Abbas for breaching their agreed negotiating framework, and sounded far from confident that the ruptured talks could be rescued.Ariel responded Saturday that the justice minister had “failed miserably and is now looking for anyone to blame except herself.”“I would suggest to minister Livni to adhere to the advice of the sages – silence is a measure of wisdom,” Ariel said in a statement.Still, peace talks could resume soon because both sides understand that this is the final opportunity to forge an agreement, a senior Israeli official told Yedioth Ahronoth Sunday.The current impasse raises the possibility that the Americans could withdraw support for the peace talks, so ”we have to find a way to not end these negotiations,” the source said, adding that the possibility of freeing Jonathan Pollard, which was raised last week as part of a package deal to entice the sides back to negotiations, was off the table for the moment.Since Wednesday, when the talks last stalled, there has been a flurry of high-level meetings aimed at restarting talks, but the ball remains in the Palestinians’ court, another senior Israeli source said. If the Palestinian Authority insists on the release of the fourth group of prisoners, intended as a confidence-building measure by Israel, there “will be a problem.”The source called on the Palestinians to be more flexible, but added that “it seems impossible” that the Palestinians will back down on their demand for the prisoner release, which Jerusalem has refused to go through with.The Knesset began its spring recess last month, which is set to continue until the start of the summer session on May 11.Gavriel Fiske and Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
EU backs Kerry’s Mideast push-European foreign ministers say peace talks are at a critical phase-By AFP April 5, 2014, 6:03 pm 8-The Times of Israel
ATHENS — European foreign ministers on Saturday said they fully supported efforts by US Secretary of State John Kerry to keep Middle East peace talks alive as tension mounted on both sides.“We support the efforts of Secretary of State Kerry,” EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton said at the close of a two-day meeting in Athens.Kerry has labored lately to bring Palestinians and Israelis back from the brink.On Friday he warned from Morocco that there were “limits” to the time and effort the United States could devote to the process “if the parties themselves are unwilling to take constructive steps.”But Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has rejected Kerry’s appeals to withdraw applications he signed on Tuesday to adhere to 15 international treaties in pursuit of recognition for the Palestinians’ promised state.And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has likewise ignored calls to refrain from hardline moves, and has reportedly asked his officials to draw up reprisals.“Kerry’s initiative is without doubt in a critical phase,” German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Saturday.“The radicals on both sides seem to start to prevail…we have to prevent that,” Steinmeier told reporters.
Bennett: Failed talks weren’t leading to peace-Economy minister urges Palestinians to carry out threat to turn to UN, where Israel can also pursue war crimes lawsuits-By Times of Israel staff April 6, 2014, 7:50 am
The stalled peace talks with the Palestinians are not leading to peace, but are driven merely by concerns that without talks the Palestinians will advance their recognition efforts at the UN, Economy Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) said on Sunday morning.“The negotiations ended because Abu Mazen [PA President Mahmoud Abbas] ended them already two weeks ago when he announced he would never even discuss recognition of Israel as a Jewish state,” Bennett said in an interview with Israel Radio. “And then [Abbas] applied unilaterally to the UN,” Bennett added, a reference to the Palestinian Authority’s filing of 15 applications to international treaties last month.The peace talks ground to a halt over the past two weeks as the Palestinian Authority refused to agree to a US framework agreement for further talks beyond the April 29 deadline for the negotiations, and Israel balked at releasing additional Palestinian prisoners convicted of terrorism in late March in exchange for continued talks that were not likely to continue.The collapse of the talks demonstrated that they were based on a wrong-headed “concept,” Bennett charged.“Every time, just to continue the negotiations that aren’t leading anywhere, we have to release more murderers and more murderers. And each time they say, ‘if you don’t negotiate we’ll go to the UN.’ There’s a concept here, a concept that is pervasive here in Israel in recent years, which says, ‘We have to give up more and more, and not for peace but just so the Palestinian won’t go to the UN.’“I disagree with this concept,” he added. “I say, if [Abbas] wants to go to the UN, I’ll buy him a ticket. And why? Because what he’ll find there are personal lawsuits for war crimes over his transfer of funds to Hamas which shoots rockets at us, and transfers of funds to the murderers of Israeli civilians.”Israel’s chief peace negotiator, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, on Saturday accused Bennett’s Jewish Home colleague, Housing Minister Uri Ariel, of deliberately working to “torpedo” her peace efforts with the Palestinians, and intimated that the United States was over-involved in the process, while more time needed to be spent in direct Israeli-Palestinian contacts.She also slammed Abbas for breaching their agreed negotiating framework, and sounded far from confident that the ruptured talks could be rescued.Looking weary and at times angry in a Channel 2 interview, Livni said Ariel had “deliberately” reissued housing tenders for 708 new homes in east Jerusalem’s Gilo neighborhood last Tuesday, at a highly sensitive moment in the peace efforts, “in order to torpedo what I am doing along with the prime minister” to try to advance peacemaking.Ariel “must be reined in,” she said.While she indicated that she placed overwhelming blame on the PA for the current crisis in the talks, Livni said that “announcements of settlement building will always mean blame is placed on us” for the failure to achieve peace. “The whole world will blame us.”Ariel responded Saturday that the justice minister had “failed miserably and is now looking for anyone to blame except herself.”“I would suggest to minister Livni to adhere to the advice of the sages – silence is a measure of wisdom,” Ariel said in a statement.Ariel said cabinet colleague Livni had been given “limitless authority to make peace, including the release of despicable murderers… Her sobs and moans over construction in Jerusalem and in Judea and Samaria are no more than crocodile tears of one who knew of (the plans) in advance, as did the Palestinians and the Americans.”Bennett defended Ariel on Sunday. “I suggest we don’t always blame ourselves. Even when we release murderers, that’s not enough for the other side. Sometimes it’s okay to just be on your own side.”
Netanyahu: Israel wants peace talks but 'not at any price'
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday Israel was willing to continue U.S.-brokered peace talks with the Palestinians but not "at any price".Speaking at a weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said Israel would respond with steps of its own if the Palestinians pressed ahead with unilateral actions toward statehood. He did not elaborate.Attempts by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to put peace talks back on track unraveled in the past week after the Palestinians signed 15 international conventions, mainly through the United Nations."By doing so, the Palestinians fundamentally violated the understandings that were reached through U.S. intervention," Netanyahu said in his first public remarks since the crisis erupted.President Mahmoud Abbas decided to sign the international conventions after Israel reneged on a pledge to free the last group of 104 Palestinian prisoners it agreed to release in the deal that led to the negotiations restarting nine months ago.Netanyahu continued: "They will achieve a state only through direct negotiations and not through empty proclamations or unilateral moves, which will only push a peace accord farther away.""Unilateral steps on their part will be answered with unilateral steps on our side. We are willing to continue negotiations, but we will not do so at any price."The talks have struggled since they began in July, stalling over Palestinian opposition to Israel's demand that it be recognized as a Jewish state, and over Israeli settlements, internationally deemed illegal, in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.U.S. envoy Martin Indyk was due to meet the chief Israeli and Palestinian negotiators on Sunday to try to salvage the process.(Reporting by Jeffrey Heller; Editing by Ori Lewis and Sonya Hepinstall)
Netanyahu: If PA acts unilaterally, so will we-Palestinians have no path to a state except through negotiations with Israel, prime minister tells cabinet-By Gavriel Fiske April 6, 2014, 12:07 pm 3-The Times of Israel
Unilateral steps by the Palestinians to harm Israel and achieve statehood will invite unilateral steps by Israel in response, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday morning.The Palestinians will achieve a state only through negotiations and not through “empty declarations or one-sided actions that only push a peace agreement further away,” Netanyahu said, speaking before the weekly cabinet meeting.“Unilateral actions from the Palestinians will be answered with unilateral actions from our side,” the prime minister added, and decried the Palestinian decision last week to apply for state-level membership in a group of international treaties and conventions.“Unfortunately… just when an agreement to continue the talks was getting close, the Palestinian leadership unilaterally applied to join 14 international bodies, violating the terms of the agreement that was reached,” the prime minister said.The Palestinians “have a lot to lose” from such one-sided actions, while for its part, Israel was not afraid of the threat of UN intervention, Netanyahu added.He said that Israel wants to continue the talks, but not at “any price.” Netanyahu noted that Israel has “made difficult moves” during the negotiations in an effort to create a framework to end the conflict while PA President Mahmoud Abbas has ruled out considering the central Israeli demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as “the Jewish state,” even though he knows this is necessary to end the conflict.Possible unilateral moves against the Palestinians are being discussed by the Israeli leadership, but no decisions have been made on implementing any of them, according to a Sunday Yedioth Ahronoth report. Some possibilities include revoking permission for Palestinians to farm some 14,000 dunams of agricultural land and bringing to a halt 19 previously approved building projects in Palestinian-controlled areas.More serious steps, political measures against the Palestinian leadership and economic sanctions, including the withholding of taxes collected by Israel, are being discussed but are unlikely to be implemented in the near future, the report said.
Israeli sources say peace talks could resume-American pressure could bring results, but fourth prisoner release could pose ‘a problem,’ official says-By Gavriel Fiske April 6, 2014, 12:10 pm-The Times of Israel
The sputtering Israeli-Palestinian peace talks could resume soon because both sides understand that this is the final opportunity to forge an agreement, Israeli sources close to the negotiations said Sunday.American pressure to continue the talks could convince the two sides to resume formal meetings, because “the sides understand that this is the last chance,” a senior Israeli official told Yedioth Ahronoth.The current impasse raises the possibility that the Americans could withdraw support for the peace talks, so ”we have to find a way to not end these negotiations,” the source said, adding that the possibility of freeing Jonathan Pollard, which was raised last week as part of a package deal to entice the sides back to negotiations, was off the table for the moment.Since Wednesday, when the talks last stalled, there has been a flurry of high-level meetings aimed at restarting talks, but the ball remains in the Palestinians’ court, another senior Israeli source said. If the Palestinian Authority insists on the release of the fourth group of prisoners, intended as a confidence-building measure by Israel, there “will be a problem.”The source called on the Palestinians to be more flexible, but added that “it seems impossible” that the Palestinians will back down on their demand for the prisoner release, which Jerusalem has refused to go through with.The peace talks ground to a halt over the past two weeks as the Palestinian Authority refused to agree to a US framework agreement for further talks beyond the April 29 deadline for the negotiations, and Israel balked at the release of additional Palestinian prisoners convicted of terrorism in exchange for continued talks that were not likely to continue.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
Livni slams housing minister for ‘torpedoing’ peace efforts-Israel’s chief negotiator also hints US is over-involved, doesn’t endorse Abbas as partner, can’t promise current crisis will be overcome-By Times of Israel staff April 5, 2014, 7:25 pm 54
Israel’s chief peace negotiator on Saturday accused one of her ministerial colleagues of deliberately working to “torpedo” her peace efforts with the Palestinians, and intimated that the United States was over-involved in the process, when more time needed to be spent in direct Israeli-Palestinian contacts.She also slammed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for breaching their agreed negotiating framework, and sounded far from confident that the ruptured talks could be rescued.Looking weary and at times angry in a Channel 2 interview, Livni said Housing and Construction Minister Uri Ariel had “deliberately” reissued housing tenders for 708 new homes in east Jerusalem’s Gilo neighborhood, at a highly sensitive moment in the peace efforts last Tuesday, “in order to torpedo what I am doing along with the prime minister” to try to advance peacemaking.Ariel, from the Orthodox-nationalist Jewish Home party, “must be reined in,” she said.While she indicated that she placed overwhelming blame on the PA for the current crisis in the talks, Livni said that “announcements of settlement building will always mean blame is placed on us” for the failure to achieve peace. “The whole world will blame us.”Livni, the justice minister from the center-left Hatnua Party, confirmed that she would be meeting her Palestinian counterpart Saeb Erekat on Sunday to try to revive the talks, and said she’d had “a very difficult” meeting with him, long into Thursday night, mediated by US special envoy Martin Indyk. The trio also met for hours, unproductively, on Wednesday night.She said she was “angry” that Abbas had “lost patience” after Israel delayed releasing a fourth and final group of longterm Palestinian terror convicts last weekend, and said he had “breached” their understandings by applying to join 15 UN and other international treaties. “We can’t just smile and move on,” she said.Asked repeatedly whether she had a formula for reviving the talks, Livni offered no specifics, but said she was “in the midst of the struggle… It’s complex… We have to try to find a way forward, while protecting Israel’s interests.”Long one of the most optimistic Israeli leaders as regards the prospects for progress with the Palestinians, Livni on Saturday sounded deeply downbeat. In answer to a repeated question, she did not endorse Abbas as a viable partner for a two-state solution, saying, “He’ll have to prove it… The test is still ahead of us.”And she did not offer a single example of progress made over the past eight months of negotiating, regretting that too much of the time had been spent in Israeli-American and Palestinian-American talks, rather than in direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. More bilateral Israeli-Palestinian contacts were needed, she said, including direct talks between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Abbas.“We worked hard with the United States” on the “framework” accord that Secretary of State John Kerry had tried, and thus far failed, to attain to govern ongoing negotiations. Kerry was “unbelievable,” she said. “There is no limit to the effort he makes.”Livni made clear that she would not be bolting the coalition over the collapse of peace talks. Indeed, she praised Netanyahu for having taken “very complicated decisions,” including over releasing terrorist convicts and constraining settlement expansion.Livni said it had been clear from the start that Israel would not free Israeli-Arabs, as demanded by the PA, in the canceled fourth group of prisoner releases, except in the context of a wider “package” — a reference to the deal that had been taking shape for the US to free American-Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, Israel to release more prisoners and restrict settlement building, and the Palestinians to commit to extended negotiations and no unilateral moves toward statehood. That package deal, which had been taking shape Tuesday, fell apart after Abbas signed the treaty applications. “The Palestinians decided not to wait any longer,” Livni said bitterly.
