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.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 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)
DISEASES-ANIMAL TO HUMAN ( 500 million DEAD )
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8
And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that
sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given
unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 billion) of (8 billion)
to kill with sword,(WEAPONS)(500 million) and with hunger,(FAMINE)(500
million) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES)(500 million) and with the
beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE)(500 million).
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH IN NOAHS DAY(BECAUSE OF SIN,VIOLENCE AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with
violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the
earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and,
behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
HOSEA 4:1-3
1
Hear the word of the LORD, ye chil dren of Israel: for the LORD hath a
controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth,
nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.2 By swearing, and lying,
and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and
blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one
that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and
with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be
taken away.
DEUTORONOMY 28:22-24
22 The LORD shall smite thee
with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and
with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with
mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
AS OF OCTOBER 03,20-THERE ARE 1,029,128 DEATHS OF THE 34,650,936 COVID-19 CASES WORLDWIDE.
Trump
adviser says it’s serious, president has some trouble breathing –
report-2nd unnamed official tells CNN situation not deteriorating; third
anonymous official says US president is currently okay but there are
worries it could change quickly-By TOI staff and Agencies-OCT
3,20-Today, 1:03 pm
Unnamed sources told CNN on Saturday that
there were real concerns about US President Donald Trump’s health, with
one saying that the American leader was having some trouble
breathing.“This is serious,” the adviser added.A second source familiar
with the situation said that Trump was “OK for now, but our fear is that
things can change quick.”However, a third official told the outlet that
there was no need for alarm because the president’s situation was not
deteriorating.Just a month before the presidential election, Trump’s
revelation that he was positive for the virus came by tweet in the early
hours of Friday after he had returned from a political fundraiser.He
had gone ahead to the event, saying nothing to the crowd though knowing
he had been exposed to an aide with the disease that has infected
millions in America and killed more than a million worldwide.Marine One
with US President Donald Trump aboard leaves the White House to go to
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after he tested positive
for COVID-19, October 2, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex
Brandon)-The comments from the anonymous officials came after the White
House said Trump’s expected stay of “a few days” at Walter Reed National
Military Medical Center was precautionary and that he would continue to
work from the hospital’s presidential suite, which is equipped to allow
him to keep up his official duties.Trump walked out of the White House
Friday evening wearing a mask and gave a thumbs-up to reporters but did
not speak before boarding Marine One. Members of the aircrew, Secret
Service agents, and White House staff wore face coverings to protect
themselves from the president onboard the helicopter.In a video taped
before leaving for Walter Reed, Trump said, “I think I’m doing very
well, but we’re going to make sure that things work out.” He remained
fully president, all authority intact.“Going well, I think! Thank you to
all. LOVE!!!” he wrote in his first tweet from the hospital Friday
night.
US President Donald Trump, center, stands with Judge Amy Coney
Barrett as they arrive for a news conference to announce Barrett as his
nominee to the Supreme Court, in the Rose Garden at the White House,
September 26, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)-First lady
Melania Trump also tested positive, the president said, and several
others in the White House have, too, prompting concern that the White
House or even Trump himself might have spread the virus further. He said
in his video that his wife was doing very well.Several administration
officials pointed to the Saturday Rose Garden announcement of Trump’s
nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court as the
possible connection between cases that spanned Washington Friday.
8
months into pandemic, Israel is readying makeshift morgues. How did it
happen? Political wranglings and a distracted PM, quick reopenings of
economy and schools, ultra-Orthodox continuing to gather — all combined
with Israeli desire not to be the only sucTBy Marcy Oster and Gabe
Friedman-OCT 3,20-Today, 12:45 pm
JTA — Israel has been known as a
country that can rise to face a crisis — usually of the military kind —
quickly and efficiently.The country’s response to the coronavirus
pandemic in its early months garnered international praise, and Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at one point boasted that “the world is
learning from us.”But now Israel has become the world’s foremost
cautionary tale, stuck in one of the worst second waves of cases on the
planet, one that is showing no evidence of slowing down.On Thursday
morning, the country’s health ministry reported a record high of nearly
9,000 COVID-19 cases in the previous 24 hours — the equivalent of well
over 300,000 in the United States.A refrigerated shipping container
prepared by the Haifa Chevra Kadisha burial society for holding bodies
of coronavirus patients ahead of an expected spike in the pandemic’s
death toll, September 22, 2020. (Channel 13 screen capture)-Hospitals
are filled to capacity and threatening to close, and the government has
significantly tightened a second lockdown that began on the Rosh
Hashanah holiday. Israelis are now limited to traveling just over a half
mile from their homes.It gets more gruesome: Last week, Israeli media
reported that Haifa’s chevra kadisha, or ritual burial society, was
preparing refrigerated shipping containers in which to store the bodies
of the dead until they could be buried, and that other cities were
preparing to do the same.How did Israel get here? There are many
factors.A weak government could not act decisively.In March, Benny
Gantz, the man who came close to unseating Netanyahu in three
consecutive elections in less than a year, laid down his proverbial arms
and struck a deal with Netanyahu to finally form a government
coalition. Gantz, who some called patriotic and others called
politically naive, deemed it an “emergency” unity government and said it
would “fight the coronavirus and look out for all Israeli citizens.”In
the end, it has done neither effectively.Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, right, and Defense Minister Benny Gantz hold a press
conference in Tel Aviv on July 27, 2020. (Tal Shahar/Pool/Flash90)-The
two main sides of the government — Netanyahu’s Likud Party and Gantz’s
Blue and White coalition, which has splintered and shrunk after his deal
with Netanyahu — have been working at cross-purposes from the start.
They have argued over almost every aspect of government and haven’t been
able to pass a national budget for 2020 — which is of course
three-quarters over.If a budget isn’t approved by December 23, another
round of elections will be triggered. And Netanyahu isn’t exactly
against this, for a couple of reasons. In the deal that he signed with
Gantz, he agreed to step down to allow Gantz to become prime minister
after 18 months. Netanyahu would love for the deal to not last that
long, and to keep his grip on the role.Gantz’s coalition, as mentioned,
is also in pieces, leaving less in Netanyahu’s way when it comes to
significantly consolidating his power in the next election.Meanwhile,
the ineffective government has not filled several top civil servant
positions, including the state prosecutor and the chief of police.
Coronavirus czar Ronni Gamzu was appointed without the basic authority
that he needs to implement his programs, and his plans have been
weakened by the government’s constant bending to pressure from different
sectors of the public.“The same government that appointed [Gamzu] has
no problem with subverting or eroding some of his main recommendations
and to water them down,” said Yohanan Plesner, president of the Israel
Democracy Institute.Rather than operating as it should, the coalition is
in many ways acting like an interim government and is operating as if
it is “sliding toward an election campaign,” Plesner added.Protestors
block a road as they demonstrate against Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on September 30, 2020. (Miriam
Alster/Flash90)-Netanyahu’s eyes were elsewhere, even amid protests at
home.Israel began coming out of its first lockdown in early May, opening
businesses, restaurants and schools. It had four months to prepare for
the challenges of any second wave.But besides the domestic politicking,
Netanyahu was also preoccupied with bigger moves that he knew would add
to his diplomatic legacy. He flirted with the idea of annexing parts of
the West Bank by July 1, an idea that drew criticism from an unusually
wide range of stakeholders — including the Trump administration and even
some settlers, whom Netanyahu has successfully courted for years.Then
in the fall, with the help of the Trump team, Israel signed
normalization deals with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, two of
Israel’s Arab neighbors. Netanyahu attended a signing ceremony for the
so-called Abraham Accords in Washington, DC, just days before the
beginning of Israel’s second lockdown went into effect, giving him just
the right visuals to mount a new election campaign, whenever relevant.IN
this September 15, 2020 file photo, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
left, US President Donald Trump, Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin
Ahmed Al Khalifa and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin
Zayed al-Nahyan pose for a photo on the Blue Room Balcony after signing
the Abraham Accords during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White
House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)-There would, of
course, be competing visuals from the anti-Netanyahu protests that grew
over the course of the summer and fall.Critics of the prime minister
gathered outside his Jerusalem home weekly to call attention to his poor
handling of the coronavirus crisis and his governing while under
indictment for corruption. The protests grew to include disparate
segments of Israeli society and at times resulted in violent clashes
between police and protesters.This week, the government enacted steep
restrictions on protests as part of its pandemic response, effectively
ending the weekly public display of resistance.The economy opened too
quickly-The seemingly successful quick reopening of Israel’s economy
that drew so much praise proved to be dangerous, and all sides of the
government have admitted it.Israel began coming out of its first
lockdown in late April. Some retail outlets were allowed to open, with a
limited number of customers at a time. Schools then reopened, followed
by hotels, malls and gyms, then restaurants, cultural venues and event
halls, all operating at less than full capacity.But by July, some
restrictions — including on gyms, public pools, event halls, bars, clubs
and cultural shows — were reimposed as coronavirus cases began rising
again. Israelis had headed to beaches and restaurants, unmasked, too
early, encouraged by a government that figured it had conquered the
virus.People sitting at a restaurant at the Carmel market in Tel Aviv on
May 26, 2020. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)-In the hours before the start of
Yom Kippur, Netanyahu acknowledged that the country opened too fast
after the first lockdown. “Did we make mistakes in the past? Of course,”
Netanyahu said in a Hebrew video posted on social media. “Our decision
to open event halls was too fast. Perhaps also the decision to reopen
all schools.”Gantz agreed, saying that the country was also too slow to
implement widespread contact tracing. On Saturday night in an interview
on Channel 12’s “Meet the Press” show, Gantz apologized, saying the
government had been too involved in political squabbles to get their
jobs done.Despite the now out-of-control COVID caseload, there is still
opposition to the second strict lockdown — from Gamzu, the coronavirus
czar himself.Gamzu said last week that he preferred the idea of “a
slight tightening of the lockdown, to prevent serious damage to the
economy.” By that night, he called the government’s decision to
implement a total lockdown “disgusting,” added that he would have to
take an “anti-nausea pill.”-Schools continue to be a culprit-When
Israeli schools reopened for the first time in May, things did not go
very well.The announcement that schools were opened came out days before
the planned reopening date. A patchwork of policies and guidelines left
administrators scrambling. Hundreds of teachers, students, and their
relatives contracted the virus quickly. In less than two weeks, dozens
of cities shut down their school systems.Still, with many Israeli
parents sick of home schooling and supervising, clamoring to send their
children back to school, Education Minister Yoav Gallant insisted in
July that the next school year should start on time on September 1 — and
it did, despite widespread objections from teachers.Jerusalem’s mayor
meets with young Israeli twins going into first grade at a school in
Jerusalem on September 1, 2020 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)-That didn’t
last long either. Almost immediately, outbreaks were associated with
schools, and classes, grades, and even entire schools were sent into
quarantine.Even as students were lumped into “capsules” to limit
exposure to each other, teachers moved between capsules, potentially
spreading disease between them. (The country had too few teachers to
reduce class sizes and had tried to mount a rapid hiring effort.) The
situation became so acute that schools ended up closing before the
general lockdown on Rosh Hashanah.The emphasis on getting students back
to school meant that little attention had been given to what would
happen if they needed to learn from home again.“I believe that we made a
mistake and missed an opportunity to develop the distance learning
components,” said Zimra Vigoda, a parent whose daughter’s school
switched to virtual learning earlier in September when there were too
few unexposed teachers to operate in person.“The administration and
teachers worked hard to develop the pod-based learning and added a
multitude of interesting courses but, here in Israel, the land of
apparent perpetual optimism, nobody, including myself, really wanted to
believe that in-person learning would not be possible this year,” Vigoda
said.The ultra-Orthodox have shaped the response-Last month, the
government flagged some 40 cities and towns, most of them ultra-Orthodox
and Arab, as “red light” communities — or areas with higher infection
rates that would be hit with individualized and stricter restrictions
than the rest of the country. This “traffic light” system of
categorization has been used successfully in other countries, and Gamzu
is a proponent of it.But after Orthodox religious politicians threatened
to abandon Netanyahu and his government coalition over the red light
rules, which would have included a strict lockdown, the communities
instead only received night-time curfews.Ultra-Orthodox Jews pray for
forgiveness (Selichot) at the burial site of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in
Meron, northern Israel, September 12, 2020 (David Cohen/Flash90)-The
incident highlighted how important the haredi Orthodox have become to
Netanyahu politically and how he is willing to bend the rules for them.
It also displayed how COVID-19 has spread further in some Orthodox
communities, where continuing to gather in large groups to pray and
celebrate has trumped precaution.It’s a trend in Orthodox communities
around the world, including Brooklyn, where local authorities have
threatened to crack down in heavily Orthodox neighborhoods where
infection rates are high.A symbol of this tension has been Yaakov
Litzman, the haredi former health minister. He resigned that position in
April, after reports claimed he contracted the virus from attending a
prayer group that his ministry had banned. Litzman became housing
minister, but he resigned that post as well in protest over the new
lockdown restrictions imposed on Rosh Hashanah in time for High Holiday
prayer services.Shas party chairman and Interior Affairs Minister, Aryeh
Deri, left, speaks with United Torah Judaism party leader, then health
minister, Yaakov Litzman in the Knesset, March 4, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/
Flash90)-Not all haredi Orthodox have been anti-social distancing,
however — for example, Aryeh Deri, Israel’s interior minister who also
heads the Sephardic Orthodox Shas Party, compared ignoring the lockdown
rules to murder earlier this month. And the Shas Council of Torah Sages
on Tuesday called for prayer services to be held outside only and
according to current coronavirus regulations.Right now, haredi Israelis
make up 40% of new cases, despite amounting to just 12% of the
population. That proportion has continued to generate criticism from
more secular Israelis about why the entire country is under lockdown.
But even without those cases, the country would have an infection rate
that exceeds what public health experts say is safe.“Don’t call me a
freier” — the psychology of Israelis-The word “freier” in Hebrew roughly
translates to “sucker” — someone who gets taken advantage of. Avoiding
being a freier is a top priority in Israeli culture these days — a
concept that is a far cry from the socialist kibbutz culture that
reigned in the country’s early days.In the context of the pandemic and
social distancing, the anti-freier line of thinking goes: Why should I
adhere to the coronavirus restrictions when I see my neighbors and
friends flouting the rules? Why should they enjoy the opened economy and
life without a mask, and not me? People, some of them wearing face
masks, shop at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem on September 25,
2020, during a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)That culture may be hurting Israel’s ability to
contain the virus. In Haaretz, Anshel Pfeffer wrote that Israelis have
been “too busy looking at other sectors and demanding ‘equal’ rights to
be infected.” In the Jerusalem Post, Liat Collins wrote, “Now is the
time to fear the spread of corona, not the Israeli fear of being
considered a ‘freier.’”There’s also the psychological downside of that
successful reputation for rising to meet a crisis. More Israelis have
died of COVID-19 than from terror attacks, but with sickness and death
hidden away inside hospitals, the pandemic is not eliciting the same
reaction.“Israelis can sometimes be a little bit too resilient,” said
Alison Kaplan Sommer, a journalist at Haaretz, during a recent panel
discussion. “Our fear threshold is very high. We lived through all of
these traumas and all of these wars and that’s damaged us in our ability
to take this virus seriously. … The national psychology is a big part
of the story.”
'I can’t say I embraced this visit with both
hands'How Greek Jews solved ‘dilemma’ of Pompeo’s visit to Thessaloniki
on Yom Kippur-On the holiest day of the year, Chief Rabbi Aharon Israel
managed a brief visit with the US secretary of state, a strong supporter
of his community, without breaking Jewish law-By Cnaan Liphshiz
Today, 5:45 am
JTA — Any other day of the year would have been
easier for the head rabbi of Thessaloniki, Greece, to welcome Mike
Pompeo for a visit.The US Secretary of State’s schedule for a whirlwind
tour of southern Europe this week left only Monday open, which happened
to be Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. But for
Thessaloniki’s head rabbi Rabbi Aharon Israel, the opportunity was too
important to pass up.Thessaloniki’s Jews have for decades lobbied for
greater recognition of their community’s Holocaust tragedy, which many
feel is relatively unknown despite its monumental scale. The city’s
Jewish population went from over 55,000 to 2,000 during World War II.A
visit from a high-profile US leader helps amplify the narrative.“It was a
dilemma because the immediate reaction to such a request is: ‘Sorry, we
can’t do it,’” said Israel, an Israeli who has been serving in
Thessaloniki for about seven years. “I can’t say I embraced this visit
with both hands. I consulted other rabbis and came to the conclusion we
should not say no.”US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife,
Susan, left, visit the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki, Greece with
members of the local Jewish community, September 28, 2020. (Giannis
Papanikos/AFP via Getty Images/ via JTA)-The visit by Pompeo and his
wife Susan lasted only about 20 minutes. The Pompeos were given a tour
of the small Thessaloniki Jewish museum, and while there were no
speeches, the event ended with a soprano performing a liturgical song in
Ladino with verses from Psalm 22, a lamentation that begins with the
words: “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me.”Orthodox Jewish law
forbids Jews from undertaking any labor on Yom Kippur, even carrying
objects. It is a day of introspection and reverence that is incompatible
with both the logistics and atmosphere of a state visit, Israel
admitted.In the end, Israel said the event occurred during a break in
the community’s Yom Kippur prayers and resulted in no violations of
Jewish law. The US embassy in Athens had originally asked if Pompeo
could visit the local synagogue, but that would have been too much of a
disturbance, Israel said, so they diverted the visit to the museum.“I
could see Secretary Pompeo was deeply moved by the event, and we in turn
were moved by the fact that it was obviously important for him to visit
the community,” he said.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Rabbi
Aharon Israel at a synagogue in Thessaloniki, Greece, June 15, 2017.
(Amos Ben-Gershom)A State Department official told JTA that the event
was at the community’s invitation.“Secretary Pompeo recognized the
Holiest Day of the Jewish year together with the leaders of the Jewish
Community of Greece at their invitation,” the spokeswoman
said.Illustrative: President Reuven Rivlin attends a foundation
stone-laying ceremony for a Holocaust museum in the Greek city of
Thessaloniki on January 30, 2018. (Haim Zach / GPO)-“A soprano sang a
liturgical song in Ladino in the museum’s Hall of Names, commemorating
both the rich history of this Sephardic Jewish community as well as the
horror of the loss of 94 percent of the Jewish population of
Thessaloniki in the Holocaust,” she said. “The event also honored the
memory of Jews who were persecuted through the millenia, as well as
Thessaloniki’s Jews who were systematically rounded-up and deported by
the Nazis to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps was appropriately
commemorated as well.”Refusing Pompeo would have raised the possibility
of offending the Trump administration, which has earned high praise from
many in the Greek Jewish community for a series of pro-Israel
diplomatic moves, including recognizing Jerusalem as the country’s
capital.“Secretary Pompeo knows all about Yom Kippur and yet if we would
have passed up the opportunity to visit him after everything he’s done
for the Jewish people and Israel, I believe he would have been offended
in some place,” Israel said.Before the war, Thessaloniki’s population
was almost one-third Jewish. The city, including parts of its iconic
port, shut down on Jewish holidays and the weekly Sabbath. It was a hub
for Jewish commerce, scholarly activity, labor and philosophy. But the
community was wiped out ruthlessly and speedily in 1943.Thessaloniki’s
Jews were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in railway cars like this one,
currently on display at the city’s Railway Museum. (Gavin
Rabinowitz/JTA)-“For decades, there was an attitude in the city,
including by mayors, to pretend like this never existed. Like this was
something they wanted erased from the city’s history,” said Larry
Sefiha, the vice president of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki, a
nonprofit that represents the 1,200-odd Jews who live in Thessaloniki
today.It made the city more introverted, and it meant that the
catastrophe of Thessaloniki was far less known than places like Babyn
Yar, although it was just as bloody, he said.Only three years ago, David
Saltiel, the president of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki, finally
succeeded in his years-long lobbying effort to get Aristotle University
of Thessaloniki to construct a monument acknowledging the fact that the
school was partly built on a Jewish cemetery that was razed during the
Holocaust.The monument was one of several gestures led by Yiannis
Boutaris, the previous mayor of Thessaloniki, who local Jews hold in
high esteem for his efforts to commemorate the Holocaust and the city’s
Jewish history.Thessaloniki residents and visitors march in remembrance
of the more than 50,000 Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II, on
Saturday, March 16, 2013. Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris is seen
holding a paper, to the right of the banner. (photo credit: courtesy
World Jewish Congress/Michael Thaidigsmann)-Israel pointed out that
visits by people of Pompeo’s caliber are rare in Thessaloniki. In 2013, a
sitting Greek prime minister became the first in over a century to
visit the city’s synagogue.“When our friends, people like Secretary
Pompeo, want to visit, it is important we receive them not only for our
relationship with them, but for our relationship with the outside world,
because when they see that people like Mr. Pompeo cares, they will also
care,” Israel said.Rabbi Yoel Kaplan, the emissary to Thessaloniki of
the Chabad Hasidic movement, declined to comment on the Yom Kippur event
except to say: “I wasn’t there because I was at synagogue all
day.”Victor Eliezer, secretary-general of the Central Board of Jewish
Communities in Greece, said the event had a historical justification“To
tell people about the souls that were murdered here is to help rescue
their souls,” Eliezer said. “That’s worth the inconvenience.”
Joint
meals, mass prayers: Scattered reports of Haredim defying rules on
Sukkot-20 synagogues said shut down in Bnei Brak ahead of holiday;
pictures on social media appear to show mass gatherings going ahead with
little police interference-By TOI staff-oct 3,20-Today, 4:34 pm
New
reports surfaced over the weekend of virus restrictions being ignored
in ultra-Orthodox communities at the start of the Sukkot holiday, with
only limited police enforcement.“Thousands make their way to the
Hassidic synagogues for mass holiday prayers to be held as usual. In
case you’re wondering, not a single police officer is in sight,” Haredi
journalist Yisrael Frey tweeted on Friday.The social media post was
accompanied by photos of ultra-Orthodox men and children dressed in
festive clothes. There was no location given for the pictures, which did
not themselves show large gatherings.In response to the tweet, Meretz
party leader MK Nitzan Horowitz said that “anyone who allows this — with
encouragement or by turning a blind eye, and prevents enforcement — is
the true hater of the ultra-Orthodox.”????? ????? ?? ???? ???? ?????
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(@freyisrael1) October 2, 2020-A reporter for the Ynet news site said
police entered three celebratory meals held against the rules in the
Jerusalem ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim on Friday night,
but left without doing anything.The journalist said in a tweet that
police officers spoke with local leaders, but then returned to their
positions outside the neighborhood. There was no comment from police on
the matter. ???? ??? ????? ??????? ?? ?????? ?????????. ??? ????? ????
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(@liran__tamari) October 2, 2020-Additionally, Channel 12 news reported
that police carried out an operation in the predominantly ultra-Orthodox
city of Bnei Brak on Friday afternoon, in which more than 20 synagogues
were shut down.The report said dozens of fines were issued to
worshipers in the city, as well as to businesses operating in
contravention of regulations and people not wearing masks in
public.Criticism of the ultra-Orthodox community has been growing in
recent days, with widespread reports showing a significant number are
disregarding lockdown restrictions during the High Holiday season,
including by continuing to host mass gatherings.The ultra-Orthodox are
far from the only ones to break the convoluted rules of Israel’s rather
loose second lockdown, but have largely been responsible for the more
egregious gatherings in recent weeks, and are currently the single most
affected population in the country.Haredim account for a
disproportionate number of Israel’s disastrous infection rate — some 40
percent of new cases, according to figures released Thursday. The
ultra-Orthodox make up some 12% of Israel’s population.Ultra-Orthodox
Jews, many without face masks, in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea
Shearim, October 2, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)-Numerous large
sukkahs, temporary structures used by Jews during the Sukkot holiday,
capable of holding hundreds of people, have been constructed in
Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood.Ministers have approved fines of
NIS 500 ($145) for anyone caught in a sukkah that is not their own.
Israelis are also forbidden from hosting non-nuclear family members in
their homes during the holiday.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
indicated to ultra-Orthodox leaders ahead of the holiday that their
community would not receive special treatment in his government’s
crackdown against violators of coronavirus rules.“There will not be
relief [from restrictions],” Netanyahu said in a conference call with
Haredi lawmakers along with the mayors of Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, Modi’in
Illit, Rechasim, Beitar Illit and Elad, all communities with majority
Haredi populations.Read: Is ultra-Orthodox ideological disobedience
fueling Israel’s soaring virus rate?Meanwhile, the Ynet news site
reported on Friday that over 1,500 yeshiva students of the Gur Hasidic
sect have tested positive for COVID-19 after spending the High Holidays
together in the bloc’s main study hall in Jerusalem. Those 1,500
students made up 70 percent of a group that spent the holiday period
together in order to be closer to the sect’s leading rabbi, Yaakov Aryeh
Alter.Yaakov Litzman, top left, and Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Alter of the Gur
Hassidic Dynasty, second left, attend a rally of the United Torah
Judaism party in Jerusalem, April 8, 2019. Noam Revkin
Fenton/Flash90)-On Thursday, President Reuven Rivlin made an “emergency”
visit to a top ultra-Orthodox rabbi, Shalom Cohen, urging him to
encourage his followers to obey COVID-19 restrictions as Haredi
communities continue to be among the hardest hit by the virus in
Israel.Rivlin’s visit to Cohen came as a number of prominent rabbis said
they supported calls to obey coronavirus regulations amid the growing
crisis.On Thursday, Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Aryeh Stern issued a ruling
calling on the public to adhere to Health Ministry instructions and
refrain from holding mass gatherings over the Sukkot holiday. Stern
called on Jerusalem residents to act with consideration for their
neighbors’ safety.Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky at his home in the central city
of Bnei Brak on September 22, 2020. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)-Rabbi Chaim
Kanievsky and Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, the leaders of the Lithuanian
ultra-Orthodox community in Israel, with hundreds of thousands of
followers, on Wednesday also issued a call to favor outdoor
prayer.Kanievsky himself tested positive for the virus on Friday,The
diagnosis came just two days after the Haaretz daily reported Kanievsky
violated quarantine, hosting visitors at his home in Bnei Brak following
Yom Kippur, despite being required to self-isolate due to his exposure
to a confirmed coronavirus carrier — his driver.The crisis in the
ultra-Orthodox communities is a major concern for health officials, who
ascribe the high over-representation of ultra-Orthodox Jews among new
infections in Israel to holiday gatherings, crowding in yeshiva
educational institutions, and dense living conditions.
13 Thou shalt not kill.(Murder)(THAT INCLUDES ABORTION)
MATTHEW 18:6
6
But whoso shall offend (HURT) one of these little ones (CHILDREN) which
believe in me,(JESUS) it were better for him that a millstone were
hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the
sea.(THATS THE DEATH PENALTY FOLKS)
EXODUS 21:12
cv12 He that smiteth (MURDER)a man,(OR BABY) so that he die, shall be surely put to death.(THATS THE DEATH PENALTY PEOPLE)
REVELATION 9:20-21
20
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet
repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship
devils,(OCCULT) and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and
of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
21 Neither
repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries,(DRUG ADDICTIONS)
nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE) nor of their
thefts.(STEALING)
PROOF HALF ON EARTH DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD (8 BILLION ON EARTH)
REVELATION 6:7-8 (8 BILLION- 2 BILLION = 6 BILLION)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8
And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that
sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given
unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 BILLION) to kill with
sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE
DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
REVELATION 9:15,18 (6 BILLION - 2 BILLION = 4 BILLION)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,
18
By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the
fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their
mouths.(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS)
HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
LUKE
17:34-37 (8 TOTAL BILLION - 4 BILLION DEAD IN TRIB = 4 BILLION TO JESUS
KINGDOM) (HALF DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD JUST LIKE THE
BIBLE SAYS)(GOD DOES NOT LIE)(AND NOTICE MOST DIE IN WAR AND
DISEASES-NOT COMETS-ASTEROIDS-QUAKES OR TSUNAMIS)
34 I tell you, in
that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN
WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.(half earths population 4
billion die in the 7 yr trib)
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37
And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto
them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered
together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against
Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten
by the birds).THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-NOT RAPTURE
SCRIPTURES.BECAUSE NOT HALF OF PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.AND THE
CONTEXT IN LUKE 17 IS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION OR 7 YR TREATY PERIOD.WHICH
IS JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH.NOT 50% RAPTURED TO HEAVEN.
MATTHEW 24:37-42 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe
entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40
Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3
JUDGEMENT) and the other left.41 Two women shall be grinding at the
mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)(NUKED BY SNEAK ATTACK FROM RUSSIA)
IN
REVELATION 17 & 18 IS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE RELIGIOUS AND
POLITICAL BABYLONS.IF YOU CAN NOT DECERN BETWEEN THE 2 BABYLONS IN REV
17 & 18.YOU WILL JUST THINK THEIR BOTH THE SAME.BUT NO-THERES A
RELIGIOUS BABYLON (THE VATICAN IN REV 17)(AND THE POLITICAL BABYLON IN
REV 18 (AMERICA OR NEW YORK TO BE EXACT)
ISAIAH 34:10
10 It
(AMERICA-POLITICAL BABYLON) shall not be quenched night nor day; the
smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it
shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
JEREMIAH 51:29-32 (CYBER ATTACK 1ST)
29
And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD
shall be performed against Babylon,(AMERICA-NEW YORK) to make the land
of Babylon (AMERICA) a desolation without an inhabitant.
30 The
mighty men of Babylon (AMERICA) have forborn to fight, they have
remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women:
they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
031 One
post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to
shew the king of Babylon (NEW YORK) that his city is taken at one end,
32
And that the passages are stopped,(THE WAR COMPUTERS HACKED OR EMP'D)
and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are
affrighted.(DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO)
COMPLETE SILENCE AFTER AN EMP GOES OFF
REVELATION 8:1
1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3
For out of the north (RUSSIA) there cometh up a nation against her,
which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they
shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a
snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon,(AMERICA) and thou
wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast
striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK CYBER,EMP ATTACK,THEN NUKE
ATTACK ON AMERICA)
Suspect arrested in ramming of volunteer
police officer in northern village-Police say suspect surrendered at
Afula police station; injured man remains in moderate to serious
condition after he was hit by car on Tuesday during arrest operation-By
TOI staff-OCT 3,20-Today, 12:40 pm
Police announced on Saturday
that the suspect in the ramming of a volunteer police officer earlier
this week was arrested after he surrendered himself.The unnamed
volunteer officer, said to be in his 50s, remained in a moderate to
serious condition Saturday after he was rammed by the vehicle while
assisting in an operation to carry out an arrest in the northern village
of Daburiyya on Tuesday.The suspect fled the scene and was the target
of a manhunt until he arrived at the Afula police station around
midnight on Friday night.Police said the suspect would appear in court
on Saturday evening for a hearing on the extension of his remand.
Bipartisan bill proposed to give Israel veto on US arms sales to Middle
East-Legislation would require US president to consult with Jerusalem to
ensure qualitative military edge concerns are settled; proposal comes
ahead of planned sale of F-35s to UAE-By Ron Kampeas-OCT 3,20-Today,
8:59 am
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A bipartisan bill introduced in the
House of Representatives would enhance protections for Israel’s
qualitative military edge to include an effective Israeli veto on US
arms sales to the Middle East.The bill “would require the President to
consult with the Israeli government to ensure [qualitative military
edge] concerns are settled” when it comes to arms sales to Middle
Eastern countries, said the news release Friday announcing its
introduction the previous day. The release came from the office of the
bill’s lead sponsor, Illinois Democrat Rep. Brad Schneider.Existing law
already guarantees Israel a qualitative military edge in the Middle
East, but Congress — not Israel — is the arbiter of whether an arms sale
meets QME standards.Most of the sponsors are Democrats, including a
number of Jewish lawmakers, among them Schneider, Elaine Luria of
Virginia, Max Rose of New York, Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey, and Ted
Deutch and Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida.Democratic Illinois
Representative Brad Schneider. (Courtesy/JTA)-Jewish Democrats expressed
alarm after it was revealed that, parallel with the US-brokered
normalization deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, the
Trump administration was negotiating the sale of state-of-the-art F-35
stealth combat jets to the UAE.Israel opposes the sale.AIPAC, the
prominent Israel lobby, supports the new measure.
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
11:21-2321 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.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall
be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have
fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they
stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,
and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall
come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be
among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his
neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his
neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)
‘We need Israel’: Top
official says Sudan will have some ties with Jerusalem-Deputy head of
state Gen. Mohammad Hamdan Daglo suggests relations will stop short of
full normalization, indicates split with civilian leaders-By Aaron
Boxerman-oct 3,20-Today, 3:16 am
A senior Sudanese leader said
Friday that his country would likely soon establish ties of some nature
with Jerusalem, saying that Khartoum needed Israel and would benefit
from relations.“Israel is developed. The entire world works with Israel.
For development, for agriculture — we need Israel,” Sudanese deputy
head of state Gen. Mohammad Hamdan Daglo, known popularly as Hemedti,
told Sudan24 TV in Juba.However, Daglo said the ties would fall short of
full normalization, out of solidarity with the Palestinians.“We’re not
scared of anyone. But these will be relations, not normalization.
Relations, not normalization. Okay? We’re following this line,” Daglo
said, without giving a timeframe or specifying what, exactly, the
difference between relations and normalization would be.Daglo’s remarks
come against the background of a United States-led efforts to pressure
Sudan into normalizing ties with Israel in exchange for a commitment of
financial aid and its removal from a US blacklist of state sponsors of
terror; its position on the blacklist subjects it to crippling economic
sanctions.If Sudan does establish open relations with Israel, it would
become the third country to make an agreement with the Jewish state in
the past month. The United Arab Emirates — one of Sudan’s key patrons —
and Bahrain signed normalization agreements with Israel in mid-September
as part of the US-mediated Abraham Accords.Israeli officials have long
expressed a wish for better relations with Khartoum, the birthplace of
the Arab League’s famous 1967 resolution against peace and normalization
with Israel. The administration of US President Donald Trump, for its
part, has reportedly sought to achieve another foreign policy win before
the upcoming presidential elections in November.Negotiations held in
Abu Dhabi last week seeking a breakthrough on normalization seemingly
bore little fruit. The Sudanese delegation, led by head of state Gen.
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, called the talks “frank and honest” but did not
elaborate on their content.Daglo is al-Burhan’s deputy — one of the most
powerful and feared figures in Sudan. Since 2013, he has commanded a
paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces: a coalition of
militias known as Janjaweed, who became internationally notorious for
their complicity in the genocide in Darfur.In this photo from July 17,
2019, Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo signs a power sharing document with
Sudan’s pro-democracy movement and the ruling military council in
Khartoum, Sudan. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Hjaj, File)-Daglo’s comments,
however, could indicate that it is still possible that Sudan might
establish open ties with Israel in the coming days. Daglo said that it
was clear to the Sudanese leadership that exiting the US State Sponsors
of Terror list was conditional on establishing ties with Israel.“It’s
true, the Palestinian cause is important, and we ought to stand with the
Palestinian people,” Daglo said, stressing that Sudan was still
committed to the establishment of a Palestinian state.But he suggested
that ultimately Sudan would have to think of its own “pockets,” given
the difficult economic situation in the country. “Whatever the interest
of Sudan is, we shall pursue it,” Daglo vowed.While declining to call
open relations with Israel “normalization,” Daglo told Sudan24 that
Sudan would benefit from ties with the Jewish state.“We’re not talking
about normalization. We’re talking about relations. And these are
relations from which we will benefit; this will be done with the consent
and consultation of all parties,” Daglo said.The interviewer asked
Daglo how he planned to overcome the insistence by civilian government
officials, including Sudanese Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok, that the
transitional government did not have a mandate to normalize with
Israel.Sudan’s new Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok speaks during a press
conference in Khartoum, Sudan, Wednesday, August 21, 2019. (AP)-“There
are some political factions which…” the interviewer said, before Daglo
interrupted him.“The political factions aren’t the Sudanese people,
right? Let’s do a survey. What’s the problem? We’re for democracy. We’re
for a diversity of opinions, no problem. Let’s do a survey,” Daglo
said.Daglo’s comments could indicate a serious split between the
military and civilian players in Sudan’s fragile transitional
government.In 2019, millions of Sudanese citizens demonstrated in the
streets against the 30-year-long reign of dictator Omar al-Bashir. After
months of protest and attempts by security forces to quell the
protests, al-Bashir’s government finally collapsed.In the aftermath, a
transitional Sovereignty Council comprising both military veterans and
civilian revolutionaries took charge of the country. Al-Burhan is set to
lead the council until 2021, when a civilian is expected to take his
place.Al-Burhan’s civilian counterpart, Abdalla Hamdok, has been
considerably more hesitant to normalize. Hamdok has repeatedly insisted
that his government does not have a mandate to negotiate relations with
Israel.The question of normalization, Hamdok said at a press conference
in Khartoum in August, required “a deep discussion [in Sudan’s]
society.”
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