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).
COVID 19 WORLD TOTALS AS OF SAT DEC 12, 2020. CASES - 71,833,849 AND DEATHS - 1,607,941
TRUMP: 1ST SHOTS TO BE ADMINISTERED 'IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS'-US approves emergency use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in bid to end pandemic-FDA gives final go-ahead for nation’s first inoculation in major turning point against virus; Israel expected to follow US lead on approval, has purchased millions of doses-By TOI STAFF and AGENCIES-DEC 12,20-Today, 4:38 am
WASHINGTON — The US gave the final go-ahead Friday to the nation’s first COVID-19 vaccine, marking what could be the beginning of the end of an outbreak that has killed nearly 300,000 Americans.Shots for health workers and nursing home residents are expected to begin in the coming days after the Food and Drug Administration authorized an emergency rollout of what promises to be a strongly protective vaccine from Pfizer Inc. and its German partner BioNTech.Initial doses are scarce and rationed as the US joins several other countries that have approved the vaccine in scrambling to inoculate as many people as possible ahead of a long, grim winter. It will take months of work to tamp down the coronavirus that has surged to catastrophic levels in recent weeks and already claimed 1.5 million lives globally.Israel is expected to follow suit and approve the Pfizer vaccine for use following the FDA decision.After the vaccine won a critical endorsement Thursday from an FDA panel of outside advisers, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said it was “huge news for Israelis,” and said he’d instructed ministry officials “to review the approval and present their recommendations in the coming days.”Israel has agreed to purchase millions of vaccines from Pfizer, and according to some reports, could receive up to four million doses by the end of the month. First deliveries of hundreds of thousands of vials arrived on Wednesday and Thursday.Edelstein said the Health Ministry was continuing extensive preparations for the massive vaccination operation that is scheduled to begin on December 27, with some 60,000 vaccinated every day.Israel also has agreements with Moderna and AstraZeneca and is producing its own homegrown vaccine.Five countries have approved the vaccine in addition to the US — the UK, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Canada.US President Donald Trump said the US will start administering the vaccine immediately.“The first vaccine will be administered in less than 24 hours,” Trump said in a televised address released on Twitter.“Through our partnership with FedEx and UPS, we have already begun shipping the vaccine to every state and zip code in the country,” he said, adding that governors would decide who would receive the shots first in their states.“We want our senior citizens, health care workers and first responders to be first in line,” said Trump. “This will quickly and dramatically reduce deaths and hospitalizations.”pic.twitter.com/ofLq3OMicv-— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 12, 2020-While the FDA decision came only after public review of data from a huge ongoing study, it has also been dogged by intense political pressure from the Trump administration, which has accused the agency of being too slow and even threatened to remove FDA chief Stephen Hahn if a ruling did not come Friday.The move sets off what will be the largest vaccination campaign in US history — but it also has global ramifications because it’s a role model to many other countries facing the same decision.The world desperately needs multiple vaccines for enough to go around, and the Pfizer-BioNTech shot is the first based on rigorous scientific testing to emerge from that worldwide race — a record-setting scientific achievement that shaved years off the usual process“I don’t think you would have found a scientist on this planet that would have predicted this 11 months ago,” said Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine expert at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia who advises the FDA.Margaret Keenan, center, 90, is applauded by staff as she returns to her ward after becoming the first person in the UK to receive the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine at University Hospital in Coventry, central England, December 8, 2020 (Jacob King/Pool/AFP)-The US is considering a second vaccine, made by Moderna Inc., that could roll out in another week. In early January, Johnson & Johnson expects to learn if its vaccine is working in final testing.Europe is set to make its own decision on the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna shots later this month, an important step as some other candidates that multiple countries were anxiously awaiting have hit roadblocks. Friday, Sanofi and GSK announced a months-long delay after early tests showed their vaccine didn’t work well enough in older adults.And China and Russia didn’t wait for final-stage tests before beginning vaccinations with some homegrown shots.About 3 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are expected in the first shipments around the country, according to officials with Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s vaccine development program. A similar amount is to be held in reserve for those recipients’ second dose.A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee is poised to recommend who’s first in line. Expected to follow health workers and nursing homes are other essential workers, older adults and people at high risk because of other health problems. US authorities don’t expect enough for the general population before spring, and that’s assuming there are no manufacturing glitches.A coronavirus tester speaks to a patient at a mobile testing location in Auburn, Maine, Dec. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)-In a still unfinished study of nearly 44,000 people, the FDA found the vaccine was safe and more than 90% effective across recipients of different ages, including older adults, races and those with health problems that put them at high risk from the coronavirus.Emergency use means the vaccine still is experimental. Most important for would-be recipients to know:Some protection begins after the first dose, but it takes a second dose three weeks later for full protection. It’s unclear how long protection lasts.The vaccine protects against COVID-19 illness, but no one yet knows if it can stop the silent, symptomless spread that accounts for roughly half of all cases. The ongoing study will attempt to answer that but for now, the vaccinated still will need to wear a mask and keep their distance.Expect a sore arm and some flu-like symptoms such as fever, fatigue, headache and chills after the second dose. While uncomfortable, those reactions only last about a day. “That’s just your immune system working. It’s a good thing,” Offit said.Authorities are investigating several allergic reactions reported in Britain by people with a history of severe allergies. Offit said it is routine in the US for the vaccinated to stick around for a half-hour so they could get prompt treatment if such reactions appear.If emergency use of Moderna’s vaccine is also authorized, the US expects to vaccinate 20 million people by the end of December. They hope to have enough for another 30 million people in January and 50 million in February.Getting shots into arms is the big challenge, especially as a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found only half of Americans want the vaccine when it’s their turn. About a quarter say they won’t get it and the rest aren’t sure.Political interference has complicated health authorities’ message that the testing was rigorous and cut no corners.Trump bashed the FDA, again, Friday for taking too long, complaining that the agency “is still a big, old slow turtle.” One of his deputies even pressed Hahn to clear the shots by the end of the day or face possible firing, two administration officials said.The FDA is unique in analyzing drugmakers’ raw data, a process that takes longer than many other countries’ regulatory reviews. In addition, the FDA insisted that large COVID-19 vaccine studies track at least half the participants for two months to look for side effects, a time period when historically any vaccine problems appear.
VACCINATION DRIVE SET TO BEGIN DEC. 27, WITH 60,000 PER DAY-After FDA approval, virus czar urges all Israelis to get COVID vaccine-Nachman Ash says immunization ‘is our chance to get out of this pandemic’; daily infection numbers at over 1,800 for third consecutive day-By TOI STAFF-DEC 12,20-Today, 5:05 pm
Coronavirus czar Nachman Ash on Saturday urged all Israelis to get vaccinated against COVID-19, after US regulators granted emergency approval for Pfizer’s vaccine.“I again call on everyone to be immunized when the vaccines arrive in the coming days. This is our chance to get out of this pandemic. Everyone go out to get vaccinated,” Ash said during a visit to the northern Druze town of Daliyat al-Karmel.Ash expressed hope a “significant mass” of vaccines would arrive this month and said he reviewed all the data from the trials on Pfizer’s vaccine, which the US firm developed with its German partner BioNTech.“The figures are very good. This clearly shows that the vaccine is very effective,” he said.Chezy Levy, the director-general of the Health Ministry, signalled Israel could approve the vaccine for use in the coming days.“A few more regulatory things need to be determined regarding the vaccines that arrived her and we’re preparing to begin vaccinating in the coming days, maximum next week,” Levy told Army Radio.He predicted that if Israelis soon begin to get vaccinated, “I’m convinced that by the summer everyone will immunized.”Levy also called on the public “not to depend on the vaccine” and relax their adherence to Health Ministry guidelines.Israel has agreed to purchase millions of vaccines from Pfizer, with the first batch touching down at Ben Gurion Airport on Wednesday. Officials have said the vaccine drive will begin on December 27, with 60,000 people being inoculated per day, although there have also been reports that Israel will try to bring that start date forward.The country has been grappling with rising infection numbers with officials weighing plans — and then backing down — to tighten restrictions.Daily infection numbers were at 1,818 on Friday, the Health Ministry said Saturday, with the daily caseload topping 1,800 for a third consecutive day.As of late Saturday, there were 17,180 active cases, 331 people were in serious condition, 123 of them on ventilators. Over 77,000 tests were conducted on Friday, with 2.3 percent returning positive. Any rate above 1.0 indicates the spread of the pandemic is accelerating.The death toll in Israel since the start of the pandemic stood at 2,979.After the vaccine won a critical endorsement Thursday from an FDA panel of outside advisers, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said it was “huge news for Israelis,” and said he’d instructed ministry officials “to review the approval and present their recommendations in the coming days.”The Health Ministry said Thursday medical workers would be first to receive the vaccine, followed by the elderly.But Channel 12 also said Levy was looking at the possibility of not closely policing the order of vaccination, as the public may at first be hesitant to get inoculated. If the ministry has enough doses and not enough public interest, officials may simply allow anyone who wishes to be vaccinated, the report said.The network also reported Thursday that the Health Ministry is weighing restricting travel and access to certain public venues for Israelis who refuse to be vaccinated against COVID-19.The proposal, which could encourage Israelis reluctant to be vaccinated to do so, is expected to encounter legal challenges if adopted.
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
12 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)
Jews to the grave: Man shouts anti-Semitic slogan as he topples Kiev menorah-Ukrainian Jewish community said to ask police to investigate incident as hate crime; man said to have returned the next day to repeat the act, but found menorah welded to ground-By TOI STAFF-DEC 12,20-Today, 2:36 pm
A man was filmed shouting an anti-Semitic phrase as he toppled a giant communal menorah on Thursday that was installed in the Ukrainian city of Kiev ahead of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah.“Ukrainians, we are a force. The Jews to the grave,” shouted the man named by the Jewish community as known anti-Semitic activist Andriy Rachkov, the Ynet news site reported.I want to “show everyone how to treat foreigners who are occupying and taking over the country,” the man shouted at the start of the video of the incident which circulated on social media.The news site said that Rachov had himself initially published the video, which was later taken down by technology companies.Representatives of the Jewish community have reportedly asked Ukrainian police to investigate the incident as a hate crime, saying that Rachkov returned a day later to try to knock over the menorah for a second time, but was unable to as it had been welded to the ground in the interim.At the start of the year, a Jewish organization in Ukraine said the number of anti-Semitic incidents dropped by 27 percent from 2018 to 2019. However, the figures were disputed by other Jewish organizations.
Belgian court reverses virus ban on houses of worship, following Jewish petition-Nation has world’s highest reported death rate from COVID-19 per million inhabitants; Jewish umbrella group welcomes ruling, saying restrictions unfair if museums, pools are open-By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ-Today, 8:25 am
JTA — A petition by several Orthodox Jews from Antwerp has prompted Belgium’s highest court to end the government’s ban on gatherings at houses of worship to curb the spread of the coronavirus.Belgium, a nation of 11 million, has the world’s highest death rate per million inhabitants of the coronavirus, with more than 17,500 dead.The ruling Tuesday by the Council of Stater, a federal constitutional court, was on a petition filed by David Braun, a Jewish lawyer from Antwerp, and several other members of synagogues in that city for an injunction against an emergency measure that said up to five people may gather at a house of worship for wedding and funerals.In Orthodox Judaism, a minyan, a quorum of at least 10 Jewish men, is required for some key prayers.The court ruled that “there is a disproportionate limitation of the freedom of worship because the government has not provided solutions for the collective exercising of worship.” Providing such solutions “at minimum level would involve exceptions and other stipulations, possibly upon demand in an agreed upon place and time.”The voiding of the measure applies to all houses of worship.The Forum of Jewish Organizations in the Flemish Region welcomed the ruling.“The fact that non-essential shops, museums and swimming pools were opened whereas houses of worship needed to remain closed was unacceptable,” the umbrella group said in a statement.
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 AM
White House notifies Congress of planned $1b weapons sale to Morocco-Potential deal includes four MQ-9B drones, precision-guided munitions, Reuters reports; notice comes day after US-brokered normalization deal between Jerusalem, Rabat-By TOI STAFF-DEC 12,20-Today, 1:21 am
The White House notified Congress on Friday of potential weapons sales to Morocco worth $1 billion, a day after announcing the Trump-brokered normalization agreement between Jerusalem and Rabat.The deal includes four MQ-9B SeaGuardian drones and precision-guided munitions, the Reuters news agency reported, citing “sources familiar with the notification.”The weapons sale can be blocked by Congress, but lawmakers are not expected to prevent the deal from going through, two sources said.On Thursday, Reuters said the US was on the verge of reaching an agreement with Morocco on the drone sale. Three sources with knowledge of the negotiations did not indicate whether the sale was directly tied to the normalization announcement.Some of the other weapons included in the deal are Hellfire, Paveway and JDAM precision-guided munitions, the report said.The US State Department has authorized the sale of the drones, but it was unclear whether Washington would allow them to be exported with weapons attached.On Thursday, US President Donald Trump announced via Twitter that Morocco had decided to normalize ties with Israel after the US agreed to recognize Rabat’s sovereignty over the disputed territory of Western Sahara. Morocco becomes the fourth country to take such a step in four months, following the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan.The timing of the drone sale to Morocco was noticeably similar to that of the $23 billion US arms sale to the UAE after Abu Dhabi signed a US-brokered normalization deal with Israel in September. Within days, reports began emerging of negotiations for the UAE’s purchase of F-35 advanced fighter jets and Reaper drones. Less than two months later, the Trump administration formally notified Congress of its planned weapons sale to Abu Dhabi.On the record, the three countries have insisted that the arms deal was not part of negotiations that brought about the so-called Abraham Accords.But Trump officials have acknowledged that the agreement put the UAE in a better position to receive such advanced weaponry, and a source with direct knowledge of the talks told The Times of Israel that both the US and Israel knew that the arms deal was “very much part of the deal.”Morocco is seen to have negotiated a major diplomatic win out of the US as part of the normalization deal in convincing Washington to recognize Rabat’s sovereignty over Western Sahara.The US is also considering investing up to $3 billion in Moroccan institutions following the deal, The New York Times reported Thursday. A senior Trump administration official cited by the report said it was not linked to the Israel normalization agreement.The developments are in line with the Trump administration’s apparent transactional approach to regional peacemaking. In addition to the UAE weapons deal, Sudan said it agreed to ties with Israel in exchange for removal from the US terror blacklist, badly needed aid and access to global financial institutions. Sudan confirmed in October the linkage between the agreement to normalize and the benefits provided by the US, after initially denying it.
Iran’s options to hit Israel for nuke chief’s killing reach far beyond Hezbollah-The Lebanese terror group may be keen to stay out of the fight, but precision rocket tech is reaching Gaza, and accurate cruise missiles are within the grasp of groups in Iraq-By AVI ISSACHAROFF -DEC 1220-Today, 5:39 am
Two weeks have passed since the mysterious assassination outside Tehran of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, long regarded by Israel and the US as the head of Iran’s rogue nuclear weapons program. A number of versions of what actually happened during the few minutes of the shooting attack have come out since then, some of which seem taken directly from Hollywood.According to the official Iranian version, a satellite-operated machine gun opened fire at Fakhrizadeh, killing him and several of his bodyguards. Other unconfirmed reports have claimed there was a shootout involving several gunmen, though all versions agree there was also an explosion, the purpose and timing of which is disputed.Although Israel has not officially taken responsibility, Iran has blamed the Jewish state, whose security establishment is now trying to figure out if, and how, Iran will react to the assassination.Initial alerts warned of attacks against Israelis in the Gulf’s United Arab Emirates or Bahrain (which has a distinct Shi’ite majority, like Iran), countries with which Israel only recently established ties. Alternative scenarios are of attacks against Israeli targets in other countries, similar to the deadly attacks in Buenos Aires during the 1990s in retaliation for the assassination of Abbas al-Musawi, one-time leader of the Iran-backed Lebanese terror group Hezbollah.Yet these are not the only options for Iranian retaliation. Currently, Tehran has quite a few allies in the region standing by to offer immediate assistance should Iran require it. Is a precision-guided missile attack from Gaza an impossible scenario? How about cruise missiles launched from Western Iraq, where Iran-backed militias operate, in a repeat of the Gulf War and its notoriously imprecise Scud missile attacks on Israel — but this time with far more accurate targeting? Tehran now has the ability to react through such means.The Iranian threat from Gaza, and beyond-In Gaza, for example, the Iranian regime has been investing a lot of time and money to develop the Islamic Jihad terror group’s military capabilities. The organization’s operatives are sent to training camps throughout the Middle East where they are schooled in various military skills, from urban warfare to launching precision-guided missiles.They are also taught how to self-produce more accurate rockets; the technology required used to be extremely sophisticated and advanced, but nowadays is relatively easy to acquire. The actual components required for accuracy are not bulky or heavy — smuggling a handful of computer chips can help produce an entire array of precision-guided missiles. It isn’t clear what level of accuracy the Gazan terrorist organizations are capable of right now, but there is no doubt that the utmost efforts are being invested by Hamas and Islamic Jihad to acquire such capabilities.Not so long ago, the scenario of a cruise missile or precision-guided rocket attack against Israel from Gaza, guided and directed by Iran, seemed completely far-fetched. But Iran demonstrated the ability to carry out advanced attacks on September 14, 2019, when it used unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and cruise missiles to attack the Aramco oil-processing facilities in Abqaiq and Khurais in Saudi Arabia. The attack, launched from Yemen, was in revenge for Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the war against the Houthis rebels in that country.In other words, the Iranians are now capable of accurate long-distance attacks using a range of weapons. And the lack of any American, Saudi, or Western reaction to that September attack may have whet Iran’s appetite to try these weapons out again.Last month the Houthis launched another cruise missile attack on Saudi Arabia and threatened to one day fire at Israel’s southern resort city of Eilat. But if Tehran decides to use a cruise missile attack to react to Fakhrizadeh’s assassination, it probably won’t be from Yemen, and certainly not from Lebanon. Gaza’s abilities in the field are currently limited, though it is possible Islamic Jihad could be tempted to have a go — thus dragging all of Gaza into a war in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak and a failing economy.However, the most likely option for a cruise missile revenge attack would be from Western Iraq. Iran manages a wealth of Shi’ite militias in the area, under the tutelage of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Quds Force headed by Esmail Qaani, who replaced the slain Qassem Soleimani. Such an attack on Israel would leave the decision-makers in Jerusalem without a return address. The question is whether these militias have the ability to carry out such an operation.Generally speaking, Iranian influence in the area is pretty extensive, even though it is not yet at the scope and rate Tehran is aiming for. Twenty-five years ago the only export of Iran’s Islamic revolution was Hezbollah in Lebanon. Today, Iranian fingerprints can be found throughout the region: Yemen, of course, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and even Bahrain.The Shi’ite militias include not only Iraqis and Iranians, but also mercenaries from Afghanistan and Pakistan, who were shipped in to fight the Islamic State group in the Syrian civil war and remained, highly motivated to face the familiar old enemy – Israel.Staying within boundaries, for now--he Iranian nuclear project, despite Fakhrizadeh’s demise and despite a mysterious explosion in the uranium enrichment facility in Natanz earlier this year, is far from grinding to a halt. This week The New York Times reported that massive work is being carried out in Natanz, most likely in order to move the entire facility underground.The Trump administration’s decision to exit the nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers also did not slow down the Iranian project – just the opposite. The Iranians are already deliberately exceeding the limitations placed on them under that agreement to prove they do not cave to American pressure. Some analysts say that the time Iran would need to break out and acquire a nuclear bomb has now been reduced from a year to just six months.It should be noted, though, that Tehran is not going ahead with the military nuclear track and is being extremely careful not to cross certain boundaries. Iran has continued to enrich larger amounts of uranium than it is permitted. According to data from the Israeli side, Tehran has some two tons of uranium at an enrichment purity of 4.5 percent, yet this level of enrichment is still considered permissible and suitable for civilian purposes and not at – or even close to – weapons-grade enrichment.In the meantime, there is also no sign that Iran’s plan of entrenching itself in Syria has been especially successful. This is both good news and bad news.The bad news is that Iran is not planning on quitting Syria. Just this week Iranian President Hassan Rouhani met with Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad and announced that his country will continue to support Syria and its people in their confrontation with the Zionists. The bombs discovered several weeks ago on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights border with Syria indicate that Iran and its emissaries – sometimes through Syrian/Lebanese/Shi’ite militias – are continuing their efforts to strike at Israeli targets.The good news is that no increased Iranian presence has been identified in Syria. In fact, Iran has recently reduced its presence in Syria.WARY Hezbollah-The crucial question still left unanswered is Hezbollah’s role in an Iranian retaliation, if there will be one at all.The organization remains Israel’s greatest threat. Only this week the Institute for National Security Studies published a comprehensive study of the next battle in the north of Israel. The document includes a pretty realistic scenario of Israel coping with hundreds of rocket attacks a day, including precision-guided missiles, which will be launched not only from Lebanon but also from Western Iraq and possibly also from Syria. This battle will be different to any we have previously known and the threat to the Home Front will be especially great.That scenario is still quite some way away. Currently, Hezbollah is very careful to avoid any escalation along the border between Israel and Lebanon. It is even taking its time retaliating against the killing of one of its men in an Israeli attack in Syria, possibly because it understands the implications of such a move — meaning, the fear of all-out war is a deterrent on Hezbollah’s side as well.Possibly more than anything else, the negotiations between Israel and Lebanon concerning the maritime boundaries between the two states prove that even an extreme Shi’ite organization, one constantly calling for the destruction of the “Zionist entity,” understands that there are certain advantages to doing business with the “Zionist enemy.” Only a few short years ago Hezbollah most probably would not have permitted the Lebanese government to conduct any discussions at all with Israel. Yet here Hezbollah is not calling a halt to the talks. It may be criticizing them to a certain extent, but no more than that.A deal with Israel regarding the drawing of the maritime border could mean billions of dollars from offshore gas that Lebanon is desperate for. This is a bankrupt state in a very difficult political situation. The combination of a global pandemic, the national disaster of the Beirut port explosion, the political dead-end and the increasing enmity among the different religious sectors, all contribute to the feeling – in Hezbollah as well – that war against “the Jews” is something to avoid at this stage.In the meantime, the talks are continuing even though recently the American go-between has been doing a lot of to-ing and fro-ing, as both sides are avoiding holding their fourth meeting. Also, the Lebanese have attempted to draw the border significantly southwards from its estimated location, causing Israel to retaliate by drawing the border much higher north. Still, both sides remain committed to these talks and it is clear that Lebanon wants an agreement, even more than Israel.
Chemical weapons watchdog criticizes Syria for failing to declare facility-Russia accuses organization of ‘political crusade’ against its close ally during clash at UN Security Council meeting-By EDITH M. LEDERER-DEC 12,20-Today, 12:04 pm
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The global chemical weapons watchdog criticized Syria for failing to declare a chemical weapons production facility and respond to 18 other issues, while Russia accused the watchdog of conducting a “political crusade” against its close ally, the Syrian government.The clash Friday came at the UN Security Council’s monthly meeting on Syria’s chemical weapons, where the director-general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Fernando Arias, briefed members for the first time since May and was pummeled with questions from Russia’s UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia.Arias said seven years after Syria joined the Chemical Weapons Convention in 2013, its initial chemical declaration has unresolved “gaps, inconsistencies, and discrepancies” and “still cannot be considered accurate and complete.”He told the virtual meeting that one of the 19 outstanding issues is a chemical weapons production facility that President Bashar Assad’s government said was never used to produce weapons, but where the OPCW gathered material and samples indicating “that production and/or weaponization of chemical warfare nerve agents took place.”Spanish Fernando Arias, Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) speaks to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during their talks in Moscow, Russia, April 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)-Arias said the OPCW had requested Syria to declare the exact types and quantities of chemical agents at the site, but got no response.Britain’s new UN ambassador, Barbara Woodward, said another unresolved issue in Syria’s declaration is the thousands of munitions and hundreds of tons of chemical agents that Syria has not accounted for.A joint UN-OPCW investigative mechanism accused Syria of using chlorine and the nerve agent sarin during its civil war, while the Islamic State group was accused of using mustard gas twice in 2015 and 2016.In April this year, an OPCW investigation blamed the Syrian air force for a series of chemical attacks using sarin and chlorine in late March 2017 on the central town of Latamneh. Arias said in late October that Syria failed to meet a 90-day deadline set in July to declare the weapons used in the attacks on Latamneh and to disclose its chemical stocks.France, backed by over 40 countries, has proposed that the OPCW suspend Syria’s “rights and privileges,” which would include its voting rights in the OPCW, for failing to meet the July deadline. The OPCW’s 193 member states are expected to take up the proposal at their spring 2021 meeting.Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia speaks during a Security Council meeting on the situation in Syria, Oct. 24, 2019 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)-Russia’s Nebenzia accused the OPCW of backing Western nations who tried “in vain” to topple Assad’s government with the help of opposition groups. “And they maintain this anti-Syrian narrative despite all the discrepancies or counter evidence presented by Syria, Russia and independent experts and exploit these allegations in their political crusade against Assad government,” he said.Nebenzia posed eight detailed questions to Arias, alleging the OPCW used double standards, didn’t maintain the “chain of custody” of evidence, and attempted “to turn a blind eye” to 200 tons of chemical weapons precursors missing in Libya “while in parallel pressuring Syria to explain the ‘disappearance’ of even tiny amounts of chemical substances.” He also questioned why concerns by inspectors allegedly weren’t considered by the OPCW.Arias responded in a closed session after the open meeting, so his answers were not made public.Before the meeting, council members Britain, France, Germany, Belgium and Estonia along with Ireland and Norway, which are joining the council on January 1, issued a joint statement expressing “full support to the OPCW” and to Arias.The seven European nations backed action against Syria for the attacks on Latamneh and stressed their support for efforts to collect evidence of violations of human rights, international humanitarian law and abuses “with a view to future legal action.”Germany’s UN Ambassador Christoph Heusgen accused Russia of “undermining the OPCW” but he told the council it has failed because the organization remains strong and respected.US deputy ambassador Richard Mills supported the OPCW’s “impartial and independent work” and urged “the Assad regime’s enablers, particularly Russia, to encourage Syria to come clear about its chemical weapons use and current chemical weapons stocks.”
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).
EEK 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)
NETANYAHU HAILS NEW PARTNER, SAYS MORE TO FOLLOW-Israel inks deal establishing diplomatic relations with Bhutan-Israeli envoy to India hosts signing ceremony with Bhutanese ambassador; Himalayan kingdom maintains full ties with just over 50 countries-By TOI STAFF-DEC 12,20-Today, 6:38 pm
Israel has established full diplomatic ties with Bhutan, a small, majority-Buddhist landlocked kingdom in the Himalayas neighboring India and China.The agreement was signed on Saturday at a ceremony held at the residence of Israel’s Ambassador to India Ron Malka, with the ambassador of Bhutan to India Major General Vetsop Namgyel.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the development, calling it an “additional fruit of the peace agreements.”“We are in contact with additional countries that want to join and establish relations with us,” Netanyahu added.Israel’s Foreign Ministry said Saturday that Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi spoke with his Bhutanese counterpart, Foreign Minister Tandy Dorji, last week, where the two agreed on the signing date as well as a joint work plan to collaborate in the areas of water management, agriculture, and health.“The circle of recognition of Israel is growing and expanding,” Ashkenazi said in a Foreign Ministry statement. “The establishment of relations between us and the Kingdom of Bhutan will serve as another milestone in deepening Israeli ties to Asia.”Israel’s previous lack of relations with Bhutan was not linked to the conflict with the Palestinians nor to the US-brokered agreements seeking normalization with Israel from Muslim states, but rather a result of Bhutan’s isolationist policies. The remote kingdom has a population of just over 770,000 people and only began allowing foreign tourists into the country in 1970. TV and internet were legalized in 1999.Ashkenazi thanked Bhutan for the move and said he hoped to host the King of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, in Jerusalem for “a first state visit of its kind.”Ashkenazi also thanked Malka and his staff “for strengthening our relationship with Bhutan and for building the outline that led to the signing of the agreement on the establishment of diplomatic relations between us.”The foreign ministry said Israel has maintained secret contacts with Bhutan in recent years that have included visits by delegations from Israel to the Bhutanese capital of Thimphu, and by Bhutan officials to Israel.Bhutan has diplomatic relations with just over 50 countries, a list that includes Canada, Germany, Denmark, Japan, Brazil, Argentina, and Cuba. The US and the UK, countries that don’t have full diplomatic relations with the kingdom, maintain informal contacts with Bhutan via India.Bhutan famously measures quality of life by Gross National Happiness (GNH) rather than Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Moroccan PM slams Trump plan, pledges backing for Palestinians after Israel deal-Saad-Eddine El Othmani, who previously expressed opposition to normalization with Jewish state, lashes out at Trump peace framework and alleged efforts to ‘Judaize’ Jerusalem-By AARON BOXERMAN and TOI STAFF-DEC 12,20-Today, 6:29 pm
Morocco’s prime minister on Friday said the decision to normalize ties with Israel as part of a US-brokered agreement would not affect Rabat’s support for the Palestinians.Saad-Eddine El Othmani, noted Moroccan King Mohammed VI’s phone call Thursday to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, after US President Donald Trump announced Israel and Morocco would normalize relations.As part of the announcement, Trump said that the US would recognize Morocco’s claim over the disputed Western Sahara region — a long-time ambition of the kingdom, which views control of the region as a key interest.Yesterday, King Mohammed VI called President Abbas, to tell him that His Majesty’s position in support of the Palestinian cause remains unshakeable, and that Morocco places it at the same level of Sahara issue,” Othmani said in a statement.Othmani, who heads the conservative Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD), lashed out at Trump’s peace plan and alleged Israeli efforts to “Judaize” Jerusalem.“We also adopt this principle [in the government], with our constant emphasis on rejecting the Deal of the Century, and all violations of the Israeli occupation authorities, especially the recent attempts to Judaize Jerusalem,” he said.“The Moroccan position, in general, remains constantly supportive of the Palestinian cause,” he added.In August, Othmani denied Morocco would normalize ties with Israel, after the United Arab Emirates did so. The UAE decision was later followed by Bahrain and Sudan.We refuse any normalization with the Zionist entity because this emboldens it to go further in breaching the rights of the Palestinian people,” Othmani said at the time.He later appeared to walk back the remarks, saying his opposition to warming ties with Jerusalem was made in his capacity as leader of his party, not as prime minister.The Palestinian Authority has remained silent on the Israel-Morocco agreement, while Palestinian terror groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad denounced it as a “betrayal.”Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Oman have all praised the deal, as have the foreign ministers of the European Union, Spain, and Czech Republic. An Iranian official on Friday called it a “betrayal and a stab in the back” of the Palestinians.Israel and Morocco established low-level diplomatic relations during the 1990s following a thawing of ties between Israel and the Palestinians. Those contacts, however, were suspended in 2002 in response to the Second Intifada. Since then, however, the relationship has continued informally, with tens of thousands of Israelis traveling to Morocco every year.Explaining the decision to normalize, King Mohammad cited among other reasons the long-standing presence of Jews in Morocco. An estimated 50,000 Israelis — many of whom are descendants of Moroccan Jews who left in the 1950s — travel to Morocco each year on trips, learning about the Jewish community and retracing family histories.“Morocco has played a historic role in bringing the peoples of the region together and supporting security and stability in the Middle East… [there are] special ties that bind the Jewish community of Moroccan origin, including those in Israel, to the person of His Majesty the King,” the statement said.The move is likely to raise hackles in Morocco. According to one recent poll, only 16 percent of Moroccans have a favorable view of Israel, while 70% view Israel unfavorably.Unlike the other countries which have normalized ties with Israel over the past few months, Morocco has a genuine opposition and civil society. While true power largely lies with the monarchy, the parliament has been controlled by the PJD since 2011.Agencies contributed to this report
Algeria PM on Israel-Morocco deal: ‘Zionist entity’ wants to be near our borders-Abdelaziz Djerad decries ‘foreign maneuvers which aim to destabilize Algeria,’ after US recognizes Moroccan rule in Western Sahara, where an Algiers-backed group seeks independence-By AFP-DEC 12,20-Today, 5:50 pm
ALGIERS, Algeria — Algeria’s prime minister on Saturday criticized “foreign maneuvers” he said were aimed at destabilizing it, after Washington recognized Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara in exchange for Rabat normalizing ties with Israel.Algeria, Morocco’s neighbor and regional rival, is the key foreign backer of the Polisario Front, which has campaigned for independence for Western Sahara since the 1970s.“There are foreign maneuvers which aim to destabilize Algeria,” Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad said, in Algeria’s first reaction to the US decision.“There is now a desire by the Zionist entity to come closer to our borders,” he added, in reference to Israel.“We are seeing today at our borders… wars and instability around Algeria,” Djerad said, in a speech to mark the anniversary of demonstrations against French colonial rule.The surprise announcement by outgoing President Donald Trump on Thursday of US recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara was swiftly dismissed by the Polisario, who have vowed to fight on until Moroccan forces withdraw.The Polisario had already announced last month that it regarded a 1991 ceasefire as over, after Morocco sent troops into a UN-patrolled buffer zone to reopen the road to neighboring Mauritania, Morocco’s sole land link to sub-Saharan Africa.The Polisario has since claimed that repeated exchanges of fire have taken place along the 2,700-kilometer (1,700-mile) sand barrier that separates the two sides.A woman supporting pro-independence Polisario Front rebel soldiers walks near a makeshift Western Sahara flag of painted stones reading: ‘Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, or SADR, free’ in the desert near Tifariti, May 20, 2008. (Daniel Ochoa de Olza/AP)-The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), which Polisario leaders proclaimed in 1976, is a member of the African Union, but controls just 20 percent of the territory, mostly empty desert.The territory’s main sources of revenue — its phosphate deposits and rich Atlantic fisheries — are all in Moroccan hands.As a result, the Polisario is heavily dependent on support from Algeria, where it operates rear-bases and runs camps for tens of thousands of Sahrawi refugees.For the Polisario, Algeria’s support would be essential for any return to major fighting.‘Stand ready’The US move sparked fears in Algeria that Morocco’s deal will allow Israeli forces to operate along its frontier.“The Israeli army is at our borders,” Algerian journalist and analyst Abed Charef wrote.“The rapprochement between Morocco and Israel opens the way, if it has not already happened, for Israeli aid to support Morocco’s army.”Algeria’s military magazine, El-Djeich, called in its December editorial for Algerians to “stand ready to face” imminent threats.It warned of a “deterioration of the regional situation along our border and the threat that certain enemy parties pose.”Last month, Algeria approved constitutional changes including to the mandate of the military, one of the most powerful in the region.The changes allow the army to potentially carry out “peacekeeping” operations in neighboring countries, which include war-ravaged Libya and Mali.Algerian political scientist Mansour Kedidir warned that if Israel does establish a presence along the frontier it would be a “provocation.”But he added that US recognition did not necessarily change the situation on the ground in Western Sahara, which was in the hands of the United Nations.The UN — which has its MINURSO mission in Western Sahara — said its position on the territory was “unchanged.”A soldier holds a Sahrawi flag as a United Nations helicopter files over the Smara refugees camp near Tindouf, south-western Algeria, March 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Toufik Doudou)
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres believed “the solution to the question can still be found based on Security Council resolutions,” his spokesman said.And US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday that the United States still favored a diplomatic solution to the Western Sahara dispute, despite Trump’s recognition of Moroccan sovereignty.“The United States continues to believe only political negotiations are capable of resolving the issues between Morocco and the Polisario,” Pompeo said in a statement.
‘Our whole community is in joy’: Morocco’s Jews toast normalization with Israel-Moroccan Jews, and Muslims, celebrate agreement that provides for full ties, including liaison offices and direct flights-By KAOUTHAR OUDRHIRI-DEC 12,20-Today, 4:57 pm
Morocco (AFP) — Casablanca’s “Madame Fhal” bakery is famed for its delicious kosher bread, but in its busy line there was only one thing on people’s lips — the new normalization deal between Morocco and Israel.“Everyone is talking about it, whether it’s our Jewish clients, who make up half of our customers, or Muslims,” said Kevin Fhal, the 36-year-old grandson of the founder of this baking institution.Morocco on Thursday became the fourth Arab nation this year to agree to normalize relations with Israel — following the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan — with the two countries promising full relations “as soon as possible.”Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said liaison offices would be reopened in Tel Aviv and Rabat, which Morocco closed in 2000 at the start of the second Palestinian uprising, and that the two countries will establish full diplomatic relations “as rapidly as possible”.Morocco confirmed the deal, saying King Mohammed VI had told outgoing US President Donald Trump his country had agreed to establish diplomatic relations with Israel “with minimal delay”.Fhal, speaking in the middle of the rush for Madame Fhal’s special bread baked according to religious requirements ahead of Shabbat, Judaism’s holy day of rest, said it was a moment to celebrate.“Since the normalization announced by the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, we had to be on the list. Finally, it came,” said Fhal, who is especially eager for direct flights to Israel to begin.‘Greatest respect’As customers waited for their fresh bread, one lady in her 40s described how people had reacted to the news of the deal.“The entire Jewish community in Morocco was in joy,” said the woman, who asked not to be named.“This is a very strong and very courageous gesture on the part of King Mohammed VI,” she said, adding that the deal “will have a positive impact on Moroccans in general, not only for Jews.”But she said it also worried her.In Muslim-majority Morocco, the Jewish community — once the largest in North Africa — has dwindled from more than a quarter of a million in the 1950s down to less than 3,000 today.“I’m afraid that protests will break out, that a rift will be created between the communities, that misunderstandings will prevail,” she said.But a worker in the store smoothed over concerns.“We have had very cordial relations for a very long time,” said the man in his 60s.“We have never had any problems. We work together with the greatest respect.”At the Amsellem butchery, another culinary institution in central Casablanca’s district with the last Jewish stores, owner Jacques Bitton said he did “not stop receiving calls from Moroccans — Jews and Muslims — all satisfied with this decision”.Bitton said he was “very happy” at the development of relations between his country and the Jewish state.“I have family in Israel, a first cousin who is in the government,” said Bitton. “I spoke with him; he was ecstatic.”In Israel, there are some 700,000 Jews of Moroccan origin — many of whom have kept strong links with the kingdom, including celebrating its culinary and musical traditions.Most Moroccan Jews left with their families in the early 1950s, after Israel declared its independence.‘Forbidden love’While some Jews in Morocco look forward to visiting Israel, others are eager to make the trip in return.Morocco has allowed in Israeli travelers for several years, but the deal will now aid travel with direct flights.For Avraham Avizemer, a Jewish man born in Casablanca but now living in the Israeli coastal town of Caesarea, it was a historic announcement.“It is a great day,” he said, saying Jews born in Morocco — and their children and grandchildren — can “return to the land where our ancestors lived for over 2,000 years.”Avizemer, who left Casablanca as a toddler and is now in his 70s, has visited Morocco over 400 times in recent years, importing Moroccan products to Israel, as well as organizing tourist trips and writing books on Moroccan Jews.As many as 70,000 Jews of Moroccan origin, many living in Israel, visit Morocco each year, either for tourism, or pilgrimage for religious festivals.“Relations between Morocco and Israel took place behind the scenes,” said Fanny Mergui, a Moroccan Jew who was a Zionist youth leader in the 1960s.“It was a kind of forbidden love, formalized today,” said Mergui, who describes herself as a Palestinian activist.
SIGNS OF THE END OF THE AGE (NOT THE WORLD) THE WORLD GOES ON FOREVER.
GENESIS 1:5,145 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:(ISRAELS HOLY DAYS AND SABBATH STARTS AT 6PM) And for SIGNS (PROPHECY SIGNS TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, OUR DAY)
SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS-CHEMICAL WEAPONS
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(BIOLOGICAL/CHEMICAL/NUCLEAR) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON THE MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS-PROPHECY SIGNS) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
REVELATION 16:21 80-120LB HAIL ON HUMANS
21And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent:(80-120 LBS) and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
OZONE DEPLETION JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH DUE TO SIN
ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold,(7X OR 7-DEGREES HOTTER) as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people,(ISRAEL) and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
MATTHEW 24:21-22,221 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened,(DAY LIGHT HOURS SHORTENED) there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake (ISRAELS SAKE) those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)(THE ASTEROID HITS EARTH HERE)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
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