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1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST
FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the
firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of
the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the
adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
Astrologer on Egypt TV predicts world’s end, chaos ensues-Show with sheikh and shamen descends into mayhem, with host trying to prevent footwear-related assault over apocalyptic prediction-By Times of Israel staff June 3, 2016, 10:12 pm
An Egyptian astrologer predicted the end of the world during a TV show, and was promptly attacked by a Muslim cleric who threw a pen at him and tried to beat him with his shoe.On Egypt’s Alhadas Elyoum chat show last week, Ahmad Shaheen said the world would end in 2037. Fellow guest Sheikh Mohammad Al-Mallah declared Shaheen a charlatan, accused him of claiming that he was a god, threw his pen at him, and tried to attack him with his shoe. The show was broadcast on May 27; the clip was posted and translated Friday by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).“If you are really clairvoyant, arrange for a car to run over me!” Mallah challenged Shaheen at one point.“There are certain parties who do not want what I predict to come true,” Shaheen said at the start of the clip. “Many things have been said about me – charlatan, quack, and so on, but I don’t care.”Mallah lashed out at Shaheen, screaming: “Everybody knows that you have declared yourself a god. You have said: ‘I am thy Lord.’ This is what you said.”Not true, retorted Shaheen.“You posted pictures on the internet and wrote that the Quran came down upon you.”Shaheen remained seated, saying that many people believe him — albeit not Mallah.“You are insolent! You are insolent!” the sheikh said, before hurling a pen at his adversary.When his host rebuked him, the cleric replied: “And I’ll beat him with my shoe too.”Mallah then rose, removed his shoe and tried to hit Shaheen with it, as the host acted as a buffer between the two men.“I swear by Allah I’m going to beat you with my shoe,” he said, while his host begged him to stop. “I swear by Allah, here is my shoe.”“This is your idea of an Islamic preacher?” Shaheen asked, remaining seated and calm amid the onslaught. “Call me whatever you like, but he is no Islamic preacher. He is the best example of the distortion of the image of Islam.”After several more minutes in which a screaming Mallah tried in vain to reach Shaheen, the show came to an end — with an apology from the host.
Bennett backs Palestinian autonomy ‘on steroids’-Jewish Home leader says he won’t allow Palestinian state on his watch, touts security cabinet achievements in recent coalition spat with Netanyahu-By Times of Israel staff June 4, 2016, 9:45 pm
Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett said Saturday that while he vehemently opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state, he does back the formation of “a Palestinian autonomy on steroids.”The education minister told Channel 2’s “Meet the Press” that such an agreement would include imposing full Israeli rule over Area C, which constitutes over 60 percent of the West Bank.Bennett has previously spoken of a “Stability Plan” in which Palestinians living in areas A (under full Palestinian control) and B (under joint Israel-Palestinian control) would govern themselves, without Israeli interference, but without true independence. Area C, which houses all Israeli settlements, would be annexed to Israel. The tens of thousands of Palestinians living in that region would be offered full Israeli citizenship, under the plan.In the interview, segments of which were aired on Thursday, Bennett said he was not opposed to holding talks and pursuing diplomacy with the Palestinians but warned that he would topple the Likud-led government if necessary in order to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state.Responding to recent promises made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman to pursue a peace agreement with the Palestinians, Bennet vowed that “as long as we are here [in the coalition], a Palestinian state will not be established… and Jerusalem will not be divided.”He added that his party would “stand as a fortified wall against historic mistakes,” making a reference to the Hebrew name of Operation Protective Edge, Israel’s 2014 conflict with Hamas in Gaza.He noted that Palestinian statehood was not part of the government’s policy guidelines as set down in last year’s coalition talks when Netanyahu sought to form his government after the elections.“We’re in a government that I insisted not have [the establishment of] a Palestinian state in its guidelines,” he said. “If we are talking about a return to the 1967 lines and the division of Jerusalem, I won’t just resign from the government, I’ll topple it.“We shouldn’t give up an inch of land, we shouldn’t give any land to the Palestinians,” he said emphatically.Bennett’s withdrawal of his eight-seat party from the coalition, which has a scant majority of 66-54, would effectively topple it.Likud efforts to bring in the largest opposition party, Zionist Union, into the coalition failed last month, with both sides blaming each other for the break down. Netanyahu has repeatedly called on the party’s leader, Isaac Herzog, to reconsider and join the government.Bennett said he was not opposed to the Zionist Union joining the coalition “as long as the government’s guidelines remain unchanged.”The minister also touted his “historical” achievements in a recent political struggle with Netanyahu, after his demand for an overhaul of the security cabinet briefly threatened to throw the coalition into crisis.His demand to appoint a military attaché to the cabinet was partially met by Netanyahu last week, when the two agreed to appoint the acting head of the National Security Council to the position. A committee will be formed to find a more permanent solution.“I improved the security of Israeli citizens and IDF soldiers,” he said Saturday. “In the last two wars the cabinet was blind. I won’t agree to that anymore and that is why I insisted [on the change].Bennet had demanded that an attaché provide ministers with real-time security updates, coordinate additional fact-finding visits to IDF bases and other military zones, and facilitate easier access to classified information.“I want an effective cabinet that investigates and asks questions,” he explained. “We all vote and send soldiers into battle and we need to be a professional body that knows what it’s doing.”
Israel to ease West Bank, Gaza movement during Ramadan-Measures include permits for Gazans to pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque, travel between Palestinian territories for family visits-By AFP June 3, 2016, 10:38 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Israel announced Friday it was relaxing restrictions on the movement of Palestinians to and from the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.The measures, similar to those of previous years, were announced by COGAT, the unit which manages civilian affairs in the West Bank under the auspices of newly appointed hardline Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman.Up to 500 people from the Gaza Strip will be allowed to attend Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem over the holy month, set to begin on Monday.In addition, 200 Gaza residents will be allowed to visit relatives in the West Bank during Ramadan, and 500 Palestinians from the West Bank will be authorized to visit family in Gaza, COGAT said.Israel will also allow 300 Palestinians living abroad to visit relatives in Gaza, and 500 West Bank Palestinians would be permitted to travel out of Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv.There will be additional allowances for the Muslim holidays which follow the end of Ramadan.The COGAT statement said the measures were “in line with the Israeli civil policy striving to improve the quality of life” for Palestinians and “maintaining freedom of religion.”Israel has been facing a wave of Palestinian attacks since October that cost hundreds of Palestinian and Israeli lives, triggered in part by tensions over Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest site, which sits atop the flashpoint Temple Mount, the site of the two Jewish temples in biblical times. Non-Muslims are allowed to visit the site, but not pray there.The attacks have largely abated, but a ban remains in place on Israeli lawmakers — both Muslim and Jewish — from visiting the site, to prevent tensions from flaring.But MKs from the Joint (Arab) List have informed the Knesset they intend to pray at the site during Ramadan, regardless of the ban.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
PA police push back protesters at Joseph’s Tomb-Crowd reportedly tried to set the Jewish shrine on fire after rumors spread of Palestinian teen’s death-By Times of Israel staff June 5, 2016, 4:45 am
Palestinian security forces managed to push back protesters who were advancing on the Joseph’s Tomb shrine late Saturday.According to Israeli media reports, the protesters tried to set the site on fire.The demonstration began Saturday night after the Palestinian Health Ministry reported that a wounded Palestinian teen, said to have been hurt by IDF fire on Thursday after allegedly trying to throw a firebomb at Jews praying at the site, had taken a turn for the worse in hospital.After rumors spread through the city that Jamal Dawiqat, 20, of the nearby Balata Refugee Camp, had died, protesters took to the streets, setting tires on fire and clashing with PA police.Palestinian forces surrounded the shrine and fired tear gas at the crowd, which soon dispersed.There were no immediate reports of injuries from the clashes.The Palestinian Health Ministry has reportedly denied the rumors of Dawiqat’s death.Earlier Saturday, shots were fired at an Israeli vehicle near Migdalim Junction in the northern West Bank.The shots reportedly came from cement trucks parked on the side of the road.No one was hurt in the attack.
US now hitting IS targets from Mediterranean Sea-Navy’s top admiral reveals aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman has joined campaign against jihadist group-By Robert Burns June 5, 2016, 3:42 am-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
SINGAPORE (AP) — The US Navy’s top admiral says the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman has begun launching airstrikes against the Islamic State group from the Mediterranean Sea.That opens a new direction of attack against the militants in Iraq and Syria.Adm. John Richardson said in an Associated Press interview Saturday that this unusual arrangement is a demonstration of the flexibility of naval power.The Navy for years positioned its carriers in the Persian Gulf to conduct airstrikes against targets in the Middle East.The Truman had been in the Gulf but in recent days moved into the eastern Mediterranean and resumed air operations.The Truman eventually will return to its home port at Norfolk, Virginia, and be replaced in the Gulf by the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.
UN, France slam Syria for refusing aid to besieged areas-Humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien looks to air drops to help some 350,000 people in areas blockaded by regime-By Edith M. Lederer June 5, 2016, 3:38 am-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Access to millions of Syrians in need of help is worsening as violence increases across the war-torn country, the UN humanitarian chief warned Friday, and the Security Council announced it will formally ask Damascus to allow air drops to besieged areas.Stephen O’Brien said he told a closed emergency council meeting that recent attacks “are creating new humanitarian emergencies and compounding the challenges” as access continues to be denied to some besieged locations where needs are most acute.The 5-year-old civil war in Syria has killed some 250,000 people, displaced millions and left vast swaths of the country in ruins, enabling the Islamic State extremist group to take control of large areas of the country. A Russia- and US-brokered truce began on Feb. 27, but fighting has continued to rage in many areas.While the United Nations continues to provide aid to millions of Syrians every month, O’Brien said it needs access and “the consent of the Syrian government and all necessary security guarantees, in order to conduct air drops.”The International Syria Support Group, a coalition of world powers known as the ISSG, had called for the UN World Food Program to unilaterally deliver food to besieged Syrians starting June 1 if access wasn’t granted by the government.France’s UN Ambassador Francois Delattre, the current Security Council president, said the UN “will ask Damascus to authorize humanitarian air drops to reach localities for which land access was denied by the Syrian regime.”He said Syria’s authorization of some aid convoys to besieged towns is “at best a drop in the ocean.”“We have not been fooled by the Syrian regime’s ploy to authorize certain convoys which turn out to be empty of food or medicine or both,” Delattre said. “There is a strong momentum here in the Security Council, a strong pressure on the Syrian regime, to say ‘enough is enough.'”Syria’s UN Ambassador Bashar Jaafari insisted that “humanitarian aid has never been denied by the Syrian government to any part of the country.” He dismissed “baseless allegations” by some council members that the government is hindering deliveries to certain areas and insisted the council meeting was an attempt “to demonize the government” and exert “political pressure” ahead of the next round of talks aimed at ending the war.Jaafari, Syria’s chief negotiator at the peace talks, refused to say whether Syria would authorize air drops.The Syrian government announced late Thursday that it approved the delivery of aid to 36 “restive areas” and partial deliveries to eight other areas in June.The United Nations had requested access to 34 locations to help 1.1 million people and Syria approved 23 requests in full and six partially, and rejected five, UN humanitarian spokeswoman Amanda Pitt said.O’Brien, the undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, said the UN needs “full approval” of its June request.That request included all 19 locations officially designated as besieged areas except Yarmouk, which is covered by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, and Deir el-Zour, which is under siege by Islamic State extremists and is already receiving airdrops, Pitt said.Of the 17 besieged locations that the UN sought to aid, Pitt said Syria approved 12 requests in full and three partially — Moadamiyeh, Daraya and Douna, where it approved medical assistance, school supplies and milk for children.Syria rejected UN requests to send aid to Zabadani, a mountain resort which has been besieged by government forces and Lebanon’s Hezbollah fighters since last year, and Waer, the last rebel-held neighborhood in the central city of Homs, Pitt said.O’Brien said the UN has been able to reach 40 percent of the 592,700 people in besieged areas. But he said only two besieged locations were reached by land in May, a sign of the potential importance of air drops, which are more difficult and costly.WFP said it is “activating” its air delivery plan following a request from the ISSG, which is led by the US and Russia. But it stressed the need for authorizations and funding first.The UN food agency said late Thursday that 15 besieged areas would require helicopter operations for air drops if land access is not granted. High-altitude air drops are taking place in Deir el-Zour and would be possible in two other villages, it said.Russia’s UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, Syria’s close ally, said Moscow is looking at “all possibilities” including air drops if they are effective. But he strongly criticized unnamed council members for trying to make humanitarian access a precondition for peace negotiations, calling this “an immoral position.”
Fire up the oven’: Neo-Nazis target Jewish candidate in California-Trump-supporting white supremacists use racist website to coordinate online attacks against Erin Schrode, 25, a candidate in California’s Democratic primary this week-By Times of Israel staff June 5, 2016, 6:46 am
Erin Schrode, 25, is hoping to become the Democratic candidate for Congress from California’s second district after the state’s Democratic primary this week.Schrode is also Jewish.This week, she says, she has seen a torrent of anti-Semitic abuse hurled at her online in a coordinated campaign on a neo-Nazi blog that has backed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.The attacks reflect “more and more anti-Semitism this election cycle,” Schrode told BuzzFeed.Late Saturday, she posted on Facebook some of the vitriol she has received.“Everyone knows it’s TIME for America’s first evil retarded teen cunt Congress kike!”“Fire up the oven!”“All would laugh with glee as they gang raped her and then bashed her bagel eating brains in.”Another comment, quoted by BuzzFeed, reads, “Get out of my country, kike. Get to Israel where you belong. That or the oven. Take your pick.”Her personal email, social media handles and cellphone number were posted to the Daily Stormer website, one of the most influential Neo-Nazi websites in the US, run by Trump backer Andrew Anglin.The result: “I woke up yesterday and today to hundreds of such vile messages,” Schrode said.“This unspeakable vitriol goes far beyond anti-Semitism. It is not merely an attack on me or on one people,” she wrote on Facebook, “but rather an attack on any individual or group who is targeted because of faith, race, nationality, gender, ability, orientation or other arbitrary classification.”She has reported the harassment to law enforcement agencies. “The FBI was contacted by multiple people on our behalf…. The local police will do extra patrols in the area. And they are well aware, should anything occur here,” she said.Schrode is not the only prominent American Jew to face a torrent of online abuse by racists claiming to support Donald Trump.The Anti-Defamation League established a task force last month to study the issue after large numbers of Jewish journalists faced abuse after criticizing Trump.The group is seeing “white supremacists coming out of the cracks in ways that are really quite frightening,” its director Jonathan Greenblatt told The Times of Israel in March.“I don’t know what’s in his head or in his heart,” said Greenblatt of Trump. “But I do know that he’s certainly pushing buttons that have been pushed before — whether he’s doing it with deliberate intention, or kind of slouching toward those things. Either way, the outcome is the same.”Trump has won the support of central figures in American white supremacist circles, including former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke.
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
Astrologer on Egypt TV predicts world’s end, chaos ensues-Show with sheikh and shamen descends into mayhem, with host trying to prevent footwear-related assault over apocalyptic prediction-By Times of Israel staff June 3, 2016, 10:12 pm
An Egyptian astrologer predicted the end of the world during a TV show, and was promptly attacked by a Muslim cleric who threw a pen at him and tried to beat him with his shoe.On Egypt’s Alhadas Elyoum chat show last week, Ahmad Shaheen said the world would end in 2037. Fellow guest Sheikh Mohammad Al-Mallah declared Shaheen a charlatan, accused him of claiming that he was a god, threw his pen at him, and tried to attack him with his shoe. The show was broadcast on May 27; the clip was posted and translated Friday by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).“If you are really clairvoyant, arrange for a car to run over me!” Mallah challenged Shaheen at one point.“There are certain parties who do not want what I predict to come true,” Shaheen said at the start of the clip. “Many things have been said about me – charlatan, quack, and so on, but I don’t care.”Mallah lashed out at Shaheen, screaming: “Everybody knows that you have declared yourself a god. You have said: ‘I am thy Lord.’ This is what you said.”Not true, retorted Shaheen.“You posted pictures on the internet and wrote that the Quran came down upon you.”Shaheen remained seated, saying that many people believe him — albeit not Mallah.“You are insolent! You are insolent!” the sheikh said, before hurling a pen at his adversary.When his host rebuked him, the cleric replied: “And I’ll beat him with my shoe too.”Mallah then rose, removed his shoe and tried to hit Shaheen with it, as the host acted as a buffer between the two men.“I swear by Allah I’m going to beat you with my shoe,” he said, while his host begged him to stop. “I swear by Allah, here is my shoe.”“This is your idea of an Islamic preacher?” Shaheen asked, remaining seated and calm amid the onslaught. “Call me whatever you like, but he is no Islamic preacher. He is the best example of the distortion of the image of Islam.”After several more minutes in which a screaming Mallah tried in vain to reach Shaheen, the show came to an end — with an apology from the host.
Bennett backs Palestinian autonomy ‘on steroids’-Jewish Home leader says he won’t allow Palestinian state on his watch, touts security cabinet achievements in recent coalition spat with Netanyahu-By Times of Israel staff June 4, 2016, 9:45 pm
Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett said Saturday that while he vehemently opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state, he does back the formation of “a Palestinian autonomy on steroids.”The education minister told Channel 2’s “Meet the Press” that such an agreement would include imposing full Israeli rule over Area C, which constitutes over 60 percent of the West Bank.Bennett has previously spoken of a “Stability Plan” in which Palestinians living in areas A (under full Palestinian control) and B (under joint Israel-Palestinian control) would govern themselves, without Israeli interference, but without true independence. Area C, which houses all Israeli settlements, would be annexed to Israel. The tens of thousands of Palestinians living in that region would be offered full Israeli citizenship, under the plan.In the interview, segments of which were aired on Thursday, Bennett said he was not opposed to holding talks and pursuing diplomacy with the Palestinians but warned that he would topple the Likud-led government if necessary in order to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state.Responding to recent promises made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman to pursue a peace agreement with the Palestinians, Bennet vowed that “as long as we are here [in the coalition], a Palestinian state will not be established… and Jerusalem will not be divided.”He added that his party would “stand as a fortified wall against historic mistakes,” making a reference to the Hebrew name of Operation Protective Edge, Israel’s 2014 conflict with Hamas in Gaza.He noted that Palestinian statehood was not part of the government’s policy guidelines as set down in last year’s coalition talks when Netanyahu sought to form his government after the elections.“We’re in a government that I insisted not have [the establishment of] a Palestinian state in its guidelines,” he said. “If we are talking about a return to the 1967 lines and the division of Jerusalem, I won’t just resign from the government, I’ll topple it.“We shouldn’t give up an inch of land, we shouldn’t give any land to the Palestinians,” he said emphatically.Bennett’s withdrawal of his eight-seat party from the coalition, which has a scant majority of 66-54, would effectively topple it.Likud efforts to bring in the largest opposition party, Zionist Union, into the coalition failed last month, with both sides blaming each other for the break down. Netanyahu has repeatedly called on the party’s leader, Isaac Herzog, to reconsider and join the government.Bennett said he was not opposed to the Zionist Union joining the coalition “as long as the government’s guidelines remain unchanged.”The minister also touted his “historical” achievements in a recent political struggle with Netanyahu, after his demand for an overhaul of the security cabinet briefly threatened to throw the coalition into crisis.His demand to appoint a military attaché to the cabinet was partially met by Netanyahu last week, when the two agreed to appoint the acting head of the National Security Council to the position. A committee will be formed to find a more permanent solution.“I improved the security of Israeli citizens and IDF soldiers,” he said Saturday. “In the last two wars the cabinet was blind. I won’t agree to that anymore and that is why I insisted [on the change].Bennet had demanded that an attaché provide ministers with real-time security updates, coordinate additional fact-finding visits to IDF bases and other military zones, and facilitate easier access to classified information.“I want an effective cabinet that investigates and asks questions,” he explained. “We all vote and send soldiers into battle and we need to be a professional body that knows what it’s doing.”
Israel to ease West Bank, Gaza movement during Ramadan-Measures include permits for Gazans to pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque, travel between Palestinian territories for family visits-By AFP June 3, 2016, 10:38 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Israel announced Friday it was relaxing restrictions on the movement of Palestinians to and from the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.The measures, similar to those of previous years, were announced by COGAT, the unit which manages civilian affairs in the West Bank under the auspices of newly appointed hardline Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman.Up to 500 people from the Gaza Strip will be allowed to attend Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem over the holy month, set to begin on Monday.In addition, 200 Gaza residents will be allowed to visit relatives in the West Bank during Ramadan, and 500 Palestinians from the West Bank will be authorized to visit family in Gaza, COGAT said.Israel will also allow 300 Palestinians living abroad to visit relatives in Gaza, and 500 West Bank Palestinians would be permitted to travel out of Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv.There will be additional allowances for the Muslim holidays which follow the end of Ramadan.The COGAT statement said the measures were “in line with the Israeli civil policy striving to improve the quality of life” for Palestinians and “maintaining freedom of religion.”Israel has been facing a wave of Palestinian attacks since October that cost hundreds of Palestinian and Israeli lives, triggered in part by tensions over Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest site, which sits atop the flashpoint Temple Mount, the site of the two Jewish temples in biblical times. Non-Muslims are allowed to visit the site, but not pray there.The attacks have largely abated, but a ban remains in place on Israeli lawmakers — both Muslim and Jewish — from visiting the site, to prevent tensions from flaring.But MKs from the Joint (Arab) List have informed the Knesset they intend to pray at the site during Ramadan, regardless of the ban.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
PA police push back protesters at Joseph’s Tomb-Crowd reportedly tried to set the Jewish shrine on fire after rumors spread of Palestinian teen’s death-By Times of Israel staff June 5, 2016, 4:45 am
Palestinian security forces managed to push back protesters who were advancing on the Joseph’s Tomb shrine late Saturday.According to Israeli media reports, the protesters tried to set the site on fire.The demonstration began Saturday night after the Palestinian Health Ministry reported that a wounded Palestinian teen, said to have been hurt by IDF fire on Thursday after allegedly trying to throw a firebomb at Jews praying at the site, had taken a turn for the worse in hospital.After rumors spread through the city that Jamal Dawiqat, 20, of the nearby Balata Refugee Camp, had died, protesters took to the streets, setting tires on fire and clashing with PA police.Palestinian forces surrounded the shrine and fired tear gas at the crowd, which soon dispersed.There were no immediate reports of injuries from the clashes.The Palestinian Health Ministry has reportedly denied the rumors of Dawiqat’s death.Earlier Saturday, shots were fired at an Israeli vehicle near Migdalim Junction in the northern West Bank.The shots reportedly came from cement trucks parked on the side of the road.No one was hurt in the attack.
US now hitting IS targets from Mediterranean Sea-Navy’s top admiral reveals aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman has joined campaign against jihadist group-By Robert Burns June 5, 2016, 3:42 am-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
SINGAPORE (AP) — The US Navy’s top admiral says the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman has begun launching airstrikes against the Islamic State group from the Mediterranean Sea.That opens a new direction of attack against the militants in Iraq and Syria.Adm. John Richardson said in an Associated Press interview Saturday that this unusual arrangement is a demonstration of the flexibility of naval power.The Navy for years positioned its carriers in the Persian Gulf to conduct airstrikes against targets in the Middle East.The Truman had been in the Gulf but in recent days moved into the eastern Mediterranean and resumed air operations.The Truman eventually will return to its home port at Norfolk, Virginia, and be replaced in the Gulf by the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.
UN, France slam Syria for refusing aid to besieged areas-Humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien looks to air drops to help some 350,000 people in areas blockaded by regime-By Edith M. Lederer June 5, 2016, 3:38 am-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Access to millions of Syrians in need of help is worsening as violence increases across the war-torn country, the UN humanitarian chief warned Friday, and the Security Council announced it will formally ask Damascus to allow air drops to besieged areas.Stephen O’Brien said he told a closed emergency council meeting that recent attacks “are creating new humanitarian emergencies and compounding the challenges” as access continues to be denied to some besieged locations where needs are most acute.The 5-year-old civil war in Syria has killed some 250,000 people, displaced millions and left vast swaths of the country in ruins, enabling the Islamic State extremist group to take control of large areas of the country. A Russia- and US-brokered truce began on Feb. 27, but fighting has continued to rage in many areas.While the United Nations continues to provide aid to millions of Syrians every month, O’Brien said it needs access and “the consent of the Syrian government and all necessary security guarantees, in order to conduct air drops.”The International Syria Support Group, a coalition of world powers known as the ISSG, had called for the UN World Food Program to unilaterally deliver food to besieged Syrians starting June 1 if access wasn’t granted by the government.France’s UN Ambassador Francois Delattre, the current Security Council president, said the UN “will ask Damascus to authorize humanitarian air drops to reach localities for which land access was denied by the Syrian regime.”He said Syria’s authorization of some aid convoys to besieged towns is “at best a drop in the ocean.”“We have not been fooled by the Syrian regime’s ploy to authorize certain convoys which turn out to be empty of food or medicine or both,” Delattre said. “There is a strong momentum here in the Security Council, a strong pressure on the Syrian regime, to say ‘enough is enough.'”Syria’s UN Ambassador Bashar Jaafari insisted that “humanitarian aid has never been denied by the Syrian government to any part of the country.” He dismissed “baseless allegations” by some council members that the government is hindering deliveries to certain areas and insisted the council meeting was an attempt “to demonize the government” and exert “political pressure” ahead of the next round of talks aimed at ending the war.Jaafari, Syria’s chief negotiator at the peace talks, refused to say whether Syria would authorize air drops.The Syrian government announced late Thursday that it approved the delivery of aid to 36 “restive areas” and partial deliveries to eight other areas in June.The United Nations had requested access to 34 locations to help 1.1 million people and Syria approved 23 requests in full and six partially, and rejected five, UN humanitarian spokeswoman Amanda Pitt said.O’Brien, the undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, said the UN needs “full approval” of its June request.That request included all 19 locations officially designated as besieged areas except Yarmouk, which is covered by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, and Deir el-Zour, which is under siege by Islamic State extremists and is already receiving airdrops, Pitt said.Of the 17 besieged locations that the UN sought to aid, Pitt said Syria approved 12 requests in full and three partially — Moadamiyeh, Daraya and Douna, where it approved medical assistance, school supplies and milk for children.Syria rejected UN requests to send aid to Zabadani, a mountain resort which has been besieged by government forces and Lebanon’s Hezbollah fighters since last year, and Waer, the last rebel-held neighborhood in the central city of Homs, Pitt said.O’Brien said the UN has been able to reach 40 percent of the 592,700 people in besieged areas. But he said only two besieged locations were reached by land in May, a sign of the potential importance of air drops, which are more difficult and costly.WFP said it is “activating” its air delivery plan following a request from the ISSG, which is led by the US and Russia. But it stressed the need for authorizations and funding first.The UN food agency said late Thursday that 15 besieged areas would require helicopter operations for air drops if land access is not granted. High-altitude air drops are taking place in Deir el-Zour and would be possible in two other villages, it said.Russia’s UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, Syria’s close ally, said Moscow is looking at “all possibilities” including air drops if they are effective. But he strongly criticized unnamed council members for trying to make humanitarian access a precondition for peace negotiations, calling this “an immoral position.”
Fire up the oven’: Neo-Nazis target Jewish candidate in California-Trump-supporting white supremacists use racist website to coordinate online attacks against Erin Schrode, 25, a candidate in California’s Democratic primary this week-By Times of Israel staff June 5, 2016, 6:46 am
Erin Schrode, 25, is hoping to become the Democratic candidate for Congress from California’s second district after the state’s Democratic primary this week.Schrode is also Jewish.This week, she says, she has seen a torrent of anti-Semitic abuse hurled at her online in a coordinated campaign on a neo-Nazi blog that has backed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.The attacks reflect “more and more anti-Semitism this election cycle,” Schrode told BuzzFeed.Late Saturday, she posted on Facebook some of the vitriol she has received.“Everyone knows it’s TIME for America’s first evil retarded teen cunt Congress kike!”“Fire up the oven!”“All would laugh with glee as they gang raped her and then bashed her bagel eating brains in.”Another comment, quoted by BuzzFeed, reads, “Get out of my country, kike. Get to Israel where you belong. That or the oven. Take your pick.”Her personal email, social media handles and cellphone number were posted to the Daily Stormer website, one of the most influential Neo-Nazi websites in the US, run by Trump backer Andrew Anglin.The result: “I woke up yesterday and today to hundreds of such vile messages,” Schrode said.“This unspeakable vitriol goes far beyond anti-Semitism. It is not merely an attack on me or on one people,” she wrote on Facebook, “but rather an attack on any individual or group who is targeted because of faith, race, nationality, gender, ability, orientation or other arbitrary classification.”She has reported the harassment to law enforcement agencies. “The FBI was contacted by multiple people on our behalf…. The local police will do extra patrols in the area. And they are well aware, should anything occur here,” she said.Schrode is not the only prominent American Jew to face a torrent of online abuse by racists claiming to support Donald Trump.The Anti-Defamation League established a task force last month to study the issue after large numbers of Jewish journalists faced abuse after criticizing Trump.The group is seeing “white supremacists coming out of the cracks in ways that are really quite frightening,” its director Jonathan Greenblatt told The Times of Israel in March.“I don’t know what’s in his head or in his heart,” said Greenblatt of Trump. “But I do know that he’s certainly pushing buttons that have been pushed before — whether he’s doing it with deliberate intention, or kind of slouching toward those things. Either way, the outcome is the same.”Trump has won the support of central figures in American white supremacist circles, including former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke.
