THE RUSSIA/UKRAINE WAR CARRIES ON. THE PROPAGANDA LIBERAL MEDIA DOES ALSO.
DISEASES-ANIMAL TO HUMAN
REVELATION 6:7-8 (500 MILLION DEAD EACH FROM THE 4 JUDGEMENTS)(2 BILLION TOT DEAD HERE)
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).
THE COVID-19 TOTALS.
WORLD OVER ALL CASES 475,153,135 - DEAD 6,124,356 - AS OF WED MAR 23,2022-THESES ARE THE BLOOD TOTALS ON THE HEADS OF FAUCI-DRUG DEALERS MODERNA AND PFIZER. AND ALL THE LEADERS OF THE WORLD THAT SCAMMED THEIR CITIZENS TO TAKE THE POISON KILLER VACCINE SHOTS FOR THE CHILDREN SAKE AND THE EARTH OF COURSE.AS THE LIBBYDEMS PLAY ANY SIN GOES.
COVID reproduction rate continues to rise, fueling fear of renewed outbreak-Experts say Israel could be moving in same direction as UK, where cases are skyrocketing; BA.2 variant seen as main reason for surge in new cases-By TOI staff-MAR 23,22-Today, 12:06 pm
The reproduction rate (R) of COVID-19 continued to rise Tuesday and hit 1.39, according to Health Ministry statistics released Wednesday morning, up from 0.9 a week earlier and the highest figure since January.Any R statistic above 1 means that each coronavirus carrier is infecting on average more than one person. The rising figure indicates that the virus is once again spreading in Israel.Some 13,384 new cases were diagnosed throughout the country on Tuesday, bringing the total number of active cases to 64,271, of whom 849 are hospitalized.The number of patients in serious condition dropped to 300 from 320 the previous day — rises in serious cases generally lag behind trends in case numbers by at least a week — and the number of patients on ventilators dropped from 138 to 119.Thirty COVID patients died in Israel in the past week, bringing the total number to 10,449 since the pandemic started.While Tuesday’s figures mark a slight drop in the number of daily new cases confirmed compared to Monday, the numbers have steadily been rising since January, when Israel was coming out of the Omicron wave that started in December.Prof. Gili Rahav, the director of infectious diseases at Sheba Medical Center, said she believes the rise in new cases is driven in part by the BA.2 variant, a subvariant of Omicron.“There are enough people who still haven’t been sick and therefore could still be infected” by the variant, Rahav told Kan public radio on Tuesday.The rising figures have raised fears among health experts who have warned that Israel could be moving in the same direction as the United Kingdom, where cases are rocketing.The United Kingdom — England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — saw some 3.3 million people infected, out of a population of 67 million, in the week ending March 12. There, the Omicron wave had started to ebb at the beginning of January, and cases continued to fall throughout February, before starting to increase again at the end of the month.But recent events like Purim, which saw many gatherings, and the funeral of the Haredi leader Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, could have also contributed to the rise in new cases, noted Hebrew University epidemiologist Prof. Ora Paltiel.Most of Israel’s remaining coronavirus restrictions were scrapped in late February and as cases have dropped, the population has become less cautious.BA.2 is thought to be more infectious than the original Omicron, but not necessarily more serious.Since the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020, close to 3.8 million Israelis, about 40% of the population, have tested positive for COVID.Rahav said she believes the figure is closer to 50%, but noted that while those who have had Omicron are likely to be protected from the current variants, “we know that those who had Delta or Alpha are certainly not protected.”Nathan Jeffay and Amy Spiro contributed to this report.
Morocco fears severe water shortages amid worst drought in 40 years-Minister says decline in supply is result of environmental factors, high demand and over-exploitation of groundwater for farming, with reservoirs at just 11% of annual average-By Ismail Bellaouali-MAR 23,22-Today, 1:51 pm
RABAT, Morocco (AFP) — As Morocco withers under its worst drought in 40 years, experts warn that a combination of climate change and bad resource management could trigger severe drinking water shortages.
“The country hasn’t seen a situation like this since the start of the 1980s,” said water policy expert Abderrahim Hendouf.While it was usually farmers who bore the brunt of repeated droughts in the North African kingdom, today water supplies to cities are under threat, water minister Nizar Baraka told parliament in mid-March.Morocco has had little rain since September, and authorities say its reservoirs have received just 11 percent of what they would in an average year.“That’s a worrying sign,” Abdelaziz Zerouali, the water ministry’s head of research and planning, told state television station M2, adding that some preemptive measures had been taken to mitigate the risks.Two major cities, tourist hub Marrakesh and Oujda in the east, already started tapping into groundwater reserves in December to ensure adequate supplies.The government in February also released a package of around one billion euros in aid to the beleaguered agricultural sector, which makes up some 14 percent of GDP and is the top employer in the Moroccan countryside.“We need to change our vision of water,” Zerouali told a conference on the right to water in Rabat.“Climate change is real and we will have to face it.”‘Absolute scarcity’Moroccans have access to just 600 cubic meters of water per person per year, far below the 2,600 cubic meters they enjoyed in the 1960s.According to the United Nations’ definition, water scarcity occurs when supplies drop below 1,000 cubic meters per person annually, while supplies of under 500 cubic meters are considered “absolute scarcity.”The decline in supplies in Morocco is a result of a mix of environmental factors, high demand and over-exploitation of groundwater for farming, according to Baraka.In a recent report for the Moroccan Institute for Policy Analysis, Amal Ennabih wrote that “Morocco’s water scarcity is deeply linked to the way water is used in irrigation, consuming around 80 percent of Morocco’s water annually.”The kingdom, with its Atlantic and Mediterranean coastlines, hopes desalination plants can help make up the deficit, although they are energy-intensive and pump brine back into the sea which causes its own environmental problems.Moreover, efforts to build 15 more dams and more desalination facilities have been bogged down by delays.One such plant has been under construction since 2020 near Casablanca, the country’s commercial capital, which could face severe water shortages by 2025.Baraka notes that a desalination plant meant to serve the northeastern resort town of Saidia has also yet to come online, causing water shortages.Another desalination plant came online recently, supplying 70 percent of the needs of the Atlantic coastal city of Agadir, a tourist hub and center of a major farming area.That should provide some relief to a city that in autumn 2020 was so short of water that at night the taps ran dry.
OIL IN ISRAEL
JOB 29:6
6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
GENESIS 12:3
3 And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAEL) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
GENESIS 14:10
10 And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits;(CRUDE OIL) and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain
DEUTERONOMY 33:19,24
19 They (ISRAEL) shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
24 And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.
DEUTERONOMY 12:3
13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields;(OIL) and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE.
Fearing Russian response, Israel reportedly refused Ukraine requests for NSO spyware-The Guardian says Kyiv has been asking for Pegasus since 2019, reveals that Israeli firm also pulled out of deal to supply phone-hacking technology to Estonia for same reason-By TOI staff-24 March 2022, 12:56 am
For the past several years, Ukraine has unsuccessfully lobbied Israel to license the controversial Pegasus spyware for use against Russia, The Guardian reported Wednesday.Israel has rejected the requests, which have been made since at least 2019, due to fears of angering Russia, the British newspaper reported, citing people with direct knowledge of the matter.The Pegasus technology in question belongs to the NSO Group, which was recently blacklisted by the Biden administration after successive media reports exposed that its technology was being used by authoritarian regimes to target dissidents, journalists, human rights activists and even several US state department officials.Pegasus is a powerful tool that allows its operator to infiltrate a target’s phone and sweep up its contents, including messages, contacts and location history.A senior Ukrainian intelligence official told The Guardian that Israel’s decision left Kyiv “confused,” adding that the US government supported the Ukrainian request.The New York Times, which also reported on the issue, cited another senior Ukrainian official who said his government was disappointed in Israel, arguing that the technology could have been used to monitor Russia’s military progress in the months leading up to the invasion and provide Kyiv with a better understanding of what was coming.Sources familiar with the matter told The Guardian Israel feared licensing NSO Group to sell Pegasus to Ukraine would be viewed as an act of aggression against Russian intelligence services.These same concerns are what led NSO to walk back on an agreement to sell Pegasus to Estonia, another Russian neighbor wary of the Kremlin. NSO had struck a deal with Tallinn granting access to the spyware in 2019 only to rescind several months later, The Guardian reported.The New York Times said the Estonian government had even made a $30 million down payment in order to gain access to the spyware.The most recently reported request for the spyware came in August, according to The Times, which said Israel rejected it as Russian troops were massing on Ukraine’s border.Responding to the report, NSO Group told The Guardian it “continues to be subjected to inaccurate media reports regarding alleged clients, which are based on hearsay, political innuendo and untruths.”“The state of Israel regulates marketing and export of cyber products in accordance with the 2007 Defense Export Control Act,” the firm added.Israel’s Defense Ministry told The Times, “policy decisions regarding export controls take into account security and strategic considerations, which include adherence to international arrangements. As a matter of policy, the state of Israel approves the export of cyber products exclusively to governmental entities, for lawful use, and only for the purpose of preventing and investigating crime and counter-terrorism, under end-use/end-user declarations provided by the acquiring government.”Israel has been walking a tight line since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, offering some support to Kyiv without angering Russia, which maintains a substantial military presence in Syria, across Israel’s northern border. Israel has also been trying to mediate between the two sides.Ukraine’s vice prime minister Mykhailo Fedorov told The Guardian: “The government of Israel is at this time not participating in any discussion or facilitation regarding offensive tech, but we have ongoing conversations with a lot of the Israeli companies in the market and they’re at various stages. But again, let me say this: we have enough capability to continue winning and we’re adding new tools, including emerging tools, every day.”
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
JOEL 3:2 (WW3 OCCURS WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED)
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.(JERUSALEM)(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND BRINGS 3 DEAD BILLION IN WW3)
US senators dismiss 'World War III' worries, say US forces would dominate Russian troops-Sun, March 13, 2022, 11:43 AM
The U.S. shouldn't fear World War III with Russia after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces displayed an impressive level of "ineptness" in Ukraine, according to some U.S. senators."I wouldn't call it World War III," Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, said during "Fox News Sunday." "I think … it would end pretty quickly because with the conventional forces that he's had there, you know, we haven't seen this kind of ineptness in a long, long time. So I'm not as concerned about that."RUSSIA INVADES UKRAINE: LIVE UPDATES-Putin’s repeated references to nuclear power have stirred up fears of an escalation in Ukraine and the prospect of dragging the U.S. into the Eastern European conflict – a situation that President Biden has insisted will not happen.Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., echoed Risch’s sentiment that the conflict will not escalate to the most dire situation."Well it’s not going to be World War III – this is all a bluff," Graham said during an appearance on "Sunday Morning Futures." "Putin knows that no one win a nuclear exchange. If he ordered a strike on the United States, a general would shoot him in the head."WHITE HOUSE AXED PLAN TO TRAIN UKRAINIANS IN GUERRILLA WARFARE FEARING IT MAY PROVOKE RUSSIA: REPORT-But Risch worried that the Biden administration projects "weakness" and would continue to do so as the conflict continues."The administration has projected weakness throughout this," Risch argued. "Remember everything we’ve tried to do? They said no, and then eventually they say yes, and that started with sanctions."85 CHILDREN KILLED IN UKRAINE, MORE THAN 100 WOUNDED SINCE START OF RUSSIAN INVASION, UKRAINIAN OFFICIAL SAYS "It started with giving them stinger missiles: They said no, then when our allies stepped up and gave stingers then they said ok, the same thing with the javelin, anti-tank weapons … They’re just dragging their feet."The logistical and tactical issues Russia has faced have boosted confidence among lawmakers that the U.S. would make swift work of Russia in a conflict.Evidence indicates that Putin expected the campaign to remain brief: An article accidentally published by state-aligned media outlet RIA was meant to publish 4 days after the invasion began and declare victory, and plans supposedly found on a captured Russian official outlined a 15-day war campaign to take the whole country.Russia still has yet to take several major cities, including Kyiv, after 18 days.
US CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY
https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/money-and-payments-20220120.pdf
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.(IN 1 HR THE STOCK MARKETS WORLDWIDE WILL CRASH)
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed:(CONFISCATED) their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
Putin wants ‘unfriendly countries’ to pay for Russian natural gas in rubles-Hitting back at Western sanctions, president says he won’t supply goods and receive payments in other currencies while Russia’s assets are frozen; experts doubt move will work-By AP-MAR 23,22-Today, 9:17 pm
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin announced Wednesday that Russia will demand that “unfriendly” countries pay for Russian natural gas exports only in rubles from now on.Putin told a meeting with government officials that “a number of Western countries made illegitimate decisions on the so-called freezing of the Russian assets, effectively drawing a line over reliability of their currencies, undermining the trust for those currencies.”“It makes no sense whatsoever,” Putin added, “to supply our goods to the European Union, the United States and receive payment in dollars, euros and a number of other currencies. As a result, he said he was announcing “measures” to switch to payments for “our natural gas, supplied to so-called unfriendly countries” in Russian rubles.The Russian president didn’t say when exactly the new policy will take effect. He instructed the country’s central bank to work out a procedure for natural gas buyers to acquire rubles in Russia.Economists said the move appeared designed to try to support the ruble, which has collapsed against other currencies since Putin invaded Ukraine on February 24 and Western countries responded with far-reaching sanctions against Moscow. But some analysts expressed doubt that it would work.“Demanding payment in rubles is a curious and probably ultimately ineffective approach to attempting an end run around Western financial sanctions,” said Eswar Prasad, a professor of trade policy at Cornell University. “Rubles are certainly easier to come by now that the currency is collapsing. But exchanging other currencies for rubles will be quite difficult given the widespread financial sanctions imposed on Russia.“The hope that demanding payment in rubles will increase demand for the currency and thereby prop up its value,” Prasad added, “is also a false hope given all the downward pressures on the currency.”Neil Shearing, group chief economist at Capital Economics, said: “It’s not an obvious move to me, since the (Russian) economy needs a supply of foreign currency in order to pay for imports — and energy is one of the few sources left.”Despite severe Western sanctions, natural gas flows are still heading from Russia to Europe. The European Union is reliant on Russia for 40% of the natural gas it needs to generate electricity, heat homes and supply industry — a key reason why the EU has not applied its sanctions to Russia’s energy industry.At the same time, across Europe, governments are slashing fuel taxes and doling out tens of billions to help consumers, truckers, farmers and others cope with spiking energy prices made worse by Russia’s war on Ukraine.Vinicius Romano, a senior analyst at Rystad Energy, suggested that Moscow’s insistence on payments in rubles “may give buyers cause to reopen other aspects of their contracts — such as the duration — and simply speed up their exit from Russian gas altogether.”
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-FALSE RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
REVELATION 13:16-18 (WORLD ECONOMY RUN BY THE EUROPEAN UNION)
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.(SOCIALISM)
13 These have one mind,(SOCIALISM) and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)
2 THESSALONIANS 2:9-12
9 Even him,(EU WORLD DICTATOR) whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion,(THE FALSE RESURRECTION BY THE WORLD DICTATOR) that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
GENESIS 49:16-17-POSSIBLY A JEW FROM DAN KILLS THE DICTATOR AT MIDPOINT OF TRIB
16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
REVELATION 13:3,7,8 (WORLD GOVERNMENT, WORLD ECONOMY, WORLD RELIGION)
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR).
The author is known for his disturbing anti-Israel views' UN Human Rights Council report accuses Israel of apartheid-Foreign Ministry says Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk is biased, recycles ‘baseless and outrageous libels’; study comes weeks after Amnesty makes similar claims-By Lazar Berman-MAR 23,22-Today, 7:24 pm
United Nations Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk accused Israel of apartheid in a report submitted Tuesday to the Human Rights Council in Geneva.“With the eyes of the international community wide open, Israel has imposed upon Palestine an apartheid reality in a post-apartheid world,” wrote Lynk, whose full title is “Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.”Lynk is slated to formally release his report on Thursday ahead of a debate on Agenda Item 7, the permanent HRC item reserved for Israeli human rights abuses against Palestinians and other Arabs.This is Lynk’s final report in his six-year term.“The political system of entrenched rule in the occupied Palestinian territory which endows one racial-national-ethnic group with substantial rights, benefits and privileges while intentionally subjecting another group to live behind walls, checkpoints and under a permanent military rule… satisfies the prevailing evidentiary standard for the existence of apartheid,” wrote Lynk.The Canadian academic argued Israel is pursuing a strategy of “strategic fragmentation of the Palestinian territory into separate areas of population control, with Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem physically divided from one another.”Israel uses Gaza, Lynk claimed, for the “indefinite warehousing of an unwanted population of two million Palestinians.”The issuing of thousands of work permits for Palestinian laborers in the West Bank and Gaza to work in Israel amounts to the “exploitation of labor of a racial group,” according to the reportLynk also posited that “torture continues to be used in practice by Israel against Palestinians in detention.”The report, the main body of which does not mention terrorist groups Hamas or Islamic Jihad, says Israel “must cooperate in good faith with the Palestinian leadership to completely end the occupation and realize a genuine two-state solution.”Israel and Jewish organizations blasted Lynk as hostile to Israel and the report as baseless.“The author of this report is well known for his blatant and disturbing anti-Israel views,” wrote Israel’s mission to the UN in Geneva in a statement. “This report is no different.”The statement added that no report on Israel can be taken seriously “if the security challenges and threats faced daily by all Israelis — including the 20% non-Jewish minority — is not considered.”“This report recycles baseless and outrageous libels previously published by NGOs that share the same goal as the author of this report: to delegitimize and criminalize the State of Israel for what it is: the nation-state of the Jewish People, with equal rights for all its citizens, irrespective of religion, race or sex,” said Meirav Eilon Shahar, Israel’s envoy to the United Nations in Geneva.Arsen Ostrovsky, Chair and CEO of the International Legal Forum, called Lynk’s report “the latest in a litany of one-sided, baseless reports, vilifying Israel and engaging in a full-scale lawfare assault on Israel’s very existence as a Jewish state.”“The UNHRC Rapporteur position for the Palestinians has a one-sided mandate where active demonization of Israel and promoting BDS is essentially a requirement for the job,” said Anne Herzberg of NGO Monitor, which tracks anti-Israel nonprofits. “Like his other reports, he has promoted the anti-Israel buzzword du jour — this time, apartheid. And like all his other reports, he provides a highly tendentious interpretation of international law, grossly misrepresents the facts and employs antisemitic tropes.”Meanwhile, human rights organizations that have harshly criticized Israel in similar terms to Lynk’s report praised his findings.“The Special Rapporteur’s findings are an important and timely addition to the growing international consensus that Israeli authorities are committing apartheid against the Palestinian people,” said Saleh Higazi, Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International. “The report details how Israel has established a system of racially motivated oppression against Palestinians, explicitly designed to maintain Jewish Israeli domination, and maintained through the commission of grave human rights violations.”In February, Amnesty International released its own report accusing Israel of apartheid.Israel called that report “false, biased and antisemitic,” and accused the organization of endangering the safety of Jews around the world.“Come on, this is absurd,” US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides tweeted in response to the report.In January, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid warned that Israel will face intense campaigns to label it an apartheid state in 2022.“We think that in the coming year, there will be debate that is unprecedented in its venom and in its radioactivity around the words ‘Israel as an apartheid state,’” Lapid said during a Zoom briefing with Israeli journalists.“In 2022, it will be a tangible threat.”
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
JOEL 3:2 (WW3 OCCURS WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED)
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.(JERUSALEM)(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND BRINGS 3 DEAD BILLION IN WW3)
EZEKIEL 38:1-23
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?(OIL IS IN SPOIL-I BELIEVE THATS WHY RUSSIA,ARAB/MUSLIMS MARCH TO ISRAEL)
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
19 For in my jealousy and in the fire (atomic bomb) of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.
22 And I will plead against him with pestilence (biological,chemical,nuclear) and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.(NUKED,THEN MIGRATING BIRDS EAT RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS FLESH)
23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.
EZEKIEL 39:1-29
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee,(300 MILIION RUSSIA-ARAB-MUSLIMS GET NUKED BY ISRAEL) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou,(RUSSIA) and all thy bands,(RUSSIA SUPPORTED WITH WEAPONS-ARAB/MUSLIM COUNTRIES) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:
10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
23 And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
24 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
25 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;
26 After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.
27 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
28 Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
29 Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37 For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)
ISAIAH 17:1,11-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD KILLED IN OVERNIGHT RAID) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
AMOS 1:5
5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden:(IRAQ) and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir,(JORDAN) saith the LORD.(I belive ISIS-DAMASCUS GET NUKED BY ISRAEL)
CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3 (200 MILLION MAN ARMY)(THIS WILL BE WW3 DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD I BELIEVE.2 BILLION DIE ON EARTH IN THIS NUKE WAR)
REVELATION 16:12-16
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates;(WERE WW3 STARTS IN IRAQ OR SYRIA OR TURKEY) and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THE TURKEY ATATURK DAM ON THE EUPHRATES CAN BE SHUT AND DRIED UP ALREADY BY TURKEY)
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon,(SATAN) and out of the mouth of the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) and out of the mouth of the false prophet.(FALSE POPE)
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.(WERE 2 BILLION DIE FROM NUKE WAR)
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.(ITS AT THIS TIME I BELIEVE WHEN AMERICA GETS NUKED BY RUSSIA ON THE WAY TO THE MIDEAST)
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(WORLDWIDE WAR)(TURKEY-IRAQ-SYRIA)(EUPHRATES RIVER CONSISTS OF 760 MILES IN TURKEY,440 MILES IN SYRIA AND 660 MILES IN IRAQ)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,(WORLDWIDE WAR) which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE-2 billion)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
EZEKIEL 39:6
6 And I will send a fire on RUSSIA (Magog,) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
SECOND ANGEL: The Middle East DR DOCTORIAN
Then Isawthat the second angel had a sickle in his hand,such asis used in harvesting. The second angelsaid, “Harvest time has come in Israel and the countries all the wayto Iran.” Isawthose countriesin a fewsplitseconds. “All of Turkey and those other countries that have refused me and refused my message of love shall hate each other and kill one another.” I saw the angel raise the sickle and come down on all the Middle East countries.I saw Iran, Persia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, all of Georgia – Iraq, Syria,Lebanon,Jordan, Israel, all of Asia Minor – full of blood. Isaw blood all over these countries. And I saw fire; nuclear weapons were used in many of those countries. Smoke rising from everywhere. Sudden destruction – men destroying one another. I heard these words, “Israel, Oh Israel, the great judgment has come.”The angel said, “The chosen, the church, the remnant, shall be purified. The Spirit of God shall prepare the children of God.” I saw fires rising to heaven.The angel said, “This is the final judgment My church shall be purified, protected and ready for the final day. Men will die from thirst. Watershall be scarce all over the Middle East. Rivers shall dry up, and men will fight for water in those countries.” The angelshowed me that the United Nationsshall be broken in pieces because of the crisisin the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.
WELL IF THE RUSSIA-ARAB-MUSLIMS GET FORCED BY GOD TO GO AGAINST ISRAEL. THESE DEAD NUMBERS ARE BABIES MILK TO THE BABY FOOD THIS WAR WOULD KILL. 300 MILLION. THEN 1/4 OF ISLAM WILL DISAPPEAR FROM THE EARTH. AND 5/6TH OF THE TOTAL HOARD WILL BE REDUCED TO BIRD FOOD BY THE MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL. IF THIS IS THE TIME IN WORLD HISTORY FOR THIS SLAUGHTER TO OCCUR IN THE SPRING OR FALL OF THE YEAR.
NATO estimates 7,000 to 15,000 Russian troops have died in Ukraine-Official says figure based on data from Ukrainian authorities, information Russia has released, and intelligence from open sources; 30,000-40,000 thought killed or wounded-By Nebi Qena and Cara Anna-mar 23,22-Today, 11:20 pm
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — NATO estimated on Wednesday that 7,000 to 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in four weeks of war in Ukraine, where fierce fighting by the country’s fast-moving defenders has denied Moscow the lightning victory it sought.By way of comparison, Russia lost about 15,000 troops over 10 years in Afghanistan.A senior NATO military official said the alliance’s estimate was based on information from Ukrainian authorities, what Russia has released — intentionally or not — and intelligence gathered from open sources. The official spoke on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by NATO.When Russia unleashed its invasion February 24 in Europe’s biggest offensive since World War II, a swift toppling of Ukraine’s government seemed likely. But with Wednesday marking four full weeks of fighting, Moscow is bogged down in a grinding military campaign.With its ground forces slowed or stopped by hit-and-run Ukrainian units armed with Western-supplied weapons, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s troops are bombarding targets from afar, falling back on the tactics they used in reducing cities to rubble in Syria and Chechnya.As US President Joe Biden left for Europe to meet with key allies about new sanctions against Moscow and more military aid to Ukraine, he warned there is a “real threat” Russia could use chemical weapons.The US has also determined that Russian troops have committed war crimes in Ukraine, and it will work to prosecute the offenders, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. He cited evidence of indiscriminate or deliberate attacks against civilians and the destruction of apartment buildings, schools, hospitals, shopping centers and other sites.Addressing Japan’s parliament, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said thousands of his people have been killed, including at least 121 children.“Our people cannot even adequately bury their murdered relatives, friends and neighbors. They have to be buried right in the yards of destroyed buildings, next to the roads,” he said.Still, major Russian objectives remain unfulfilled. The capital, Kyiv, has been bombarded repeatedly but is not even encircled.Near-constant shelling and gunfire shook the city Wednesday, with air raid sirens wailing and plumes of black smoke rising from the western outskirts, where the two sides battled for control of multiple suburbs. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said at least 264 civilians have been killed in the capital since the war broke out.In the south, the encircled port city of Mariupol has seen the worst devastation of the war, enduring weeks of bombardment and, now, street-by-street fighting. But Ukrainian forces have prevented its fall, thwarting an apparent bid by Moscow to fully secure a land bridge from Russia to Crimea, seized from Ukraine in 2014.Zelensky said 100,000 civilians remain in a city that had 430,000 people before the war. Efforts to get desperately needed food and other supplies to those trapped have often failed.Zelensky accused Russian forces of seizing a humanitarian convoy. Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said the Russians were holding captive 11 bus drivers and four rescue workers along with their vehicles.In their last update, over a week ago, Mariupol officials said at least 2,300 people had died, but the true toll is probably much higher. Airstrikes in the past week destroyed a theater and an art school where civilians were sheltering.In the besieged northern city of Chernihiv, Russian forces bombed and destroyed a bridge that was used for aid deliveries and civilian evacuations, regional governor Viacheslav Chaus said.Kateryna Mytkevich, who arrived in Poland after fleeing Chernihiv, wiped away tears as she spoke about what she had seen. The city is without gas, electricity or running water, said Mytkevich, 39, and entire neighborhoods have been destroyed.“I don’t understand why we have such a curse,” she said.Despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov insisted the military operation is going “strictly in accordance” with plans.The most recent figure for Ukraine’s military losses came from Zelensky on March 12, when he said that about 1,300 Ukrainian servicemen had been killed in action.The NATO official said 30,000 to 40,000 Russian soldiers are estimated to have been killed or wounded.Russia has released very little information on its casualties, saying March 2 that nearly 500 soldiers had been killed and almost 1,600 wounded.Ukraine also claims to have killed six Russian generals. Russia acknowledges just one dead general.The figures from NATO represent the alliance’s first public estimate of Russian casualties since the war began. The US government has largely declined to provide estimates of Russian or Ukrainian casualties, saying available information is of questionable reliability.With casualties mounting and quick victory no longer in sight, Russia is having to work to suppress dissent and shore up morale.It has arrested thousands of antiwar protesters and cracked down on the media. Also, under a law passed Wednesday, troops in Ukraine will get the same benefits as veterans of previous wars, including tax breaks, discounts on utilities and preferential access to medical treatment.In an apparent reflection of growing divisions in Russia’s top echelons, Anatoly Chubais has resigned, Peskov told the Interfax news agency. Chubais, the architect of Russia’s post-Soviet privatization campaign, had served in a variety of top posts over three decades. His latest role was as Putin’s envoy to international organizations.Peskov would not say if Chubais had left the country.Western officials say Putin’s forces are facing serious shortages of food, fuel and cold weather gear, with soldiers suffering frostbite, while Ukraine’s defenders have been going more on the offensive.Still, Russia’s far stronger, bigger military has many Western experts warning against overconfidence in Ukraine’s long-term odds. The Kremlin’s practice in past wars has been to grind down resistance by flattening cities, killing countless civilians and sending millions fleeing.Talks to end the fighting have continued by video. Zelenskyy said negotiations with Russia are going “step by step, but they are going forward.”In the coastal city of Odesa, the scene of sporadic Russian shelling, merchant sea captain Sivak Vitaliy carried sandbags over each shoulder, loading them onto trucks for barricades being erected in case of a Russian assault.Building after building have been destroyed in cities like Mariupol and Kharkiv, but Ukrainian soldiers defending their own soil will not be defeated, he said.“No matter how bad the situation is in Mariupol, Kharkiv, it doesn’t matter,” he said. “We will win.”
Visiting Damascus, Iran’s FM hails Arab-Syrian normalization efforts-Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says Tehran is happy with recent moves by some countries to patch ties with Assad regime-By AFP-MAR 23,22-Today, 9:17 pm
DAMASCUS, Syria — Iran’s top diplomat on Wednesday welcomed efforts to “normalize relations” between some Arab countries and Syria, days after President Bashar Assad made a surprise visit to the UAE.Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks on a visit to Damascus during which he met Assad, his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad and National Security Bureau chief Ali Mamlouk.Iran has given financial and military support to the Assad regime in Syria’s 11-year war. It says it has deployed forces in Syria at the invitation of Damascus and only as advisers.“We welcome the fact that some Arab countries are trying to normalize relations with the Syrian Arab Republic by adopting a new approach. We are happy with it,” said Amir-Abdollahian.Mekdad said the visit was “a good opportunity to review developments in the region and bilateral relations.”Amir-Abdollahian has traveled to Damascus twice since August last year.His latest visit follows Assad’s trip to the United Arab Emirates last week, his first to an Arab country since the start of the war. The United States condemned the visit, which indicated warming ties between Syria and the UAE after years of boycott.Assad and the UAE’s de facto ruler, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, discussed the “fraternal relations” between the two countries, the official Emirati news agency WAM reported.Talks also centered on efforts to “contribute to the consolidation of security, stability and peace in the Arab region and the Middle East”, it added.The Arab League suspended Syria after conflict broke out in the country in 2011, but member states are no longer aligned on this position.
Ukraine envoy: Anyone seeking peace should condemn brutal murders in Beersheba-Ambassador to Israel Yevgen Korniychuk calls stabbing that killed four a ‘despicable act of pure terrorism,’ extends condolences to bereaved families-By TOI staff-MAR 23,22-Today, 6:00 pm
Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Yevgen Korniychuk condemned Wednesday the previous day’s terrorist attack in Beersheba that killed four civilians, saying denunciation should come from anyone who seeks freedom and peace.“The murder in Beersheba is a vicious and despicable act of pure terrorism,” Korniychuk wrote on Facebook. “I extend my sincere condolences to the families of the victims and wish a full recovery to those who were injured.“Any human being striving for freedom and peace in the world should condemn any brutal murder of innocent civilians,” he added.Korniychuk has been critical of Israel for refusing to send military aid — including helmets and flak jackets — to Ukrainians fighting against the Russian invasion.Jerusalem has sought to walk a tightrope to maintain good relations with both Ukraine and Russia, the latter of which controls the airspace over Syria and has given Israel a green-light to operate against Iranian proxies there.As such, Israel has refused repeated Ukrainian requests for military aid of any kind.It has, however, provided humanitarian aid to Ukraine. It has also established a field hospital in western Ukraine.Israel has pointed to its neutral position as an asset that has enabled Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to assist as a mediator between Kyiv and Moscow.Last week the embassy went after Jerusalem over its somewhat stringent policy toward refugees fleeing the Russian invasion.The treatment of Ukrainians who flee to Israeli soil “is not covering the main challenges for non-Jewish refugees from Ukraine,” the embassy said in a statement. “Russia is committing genocide of Ukrainians, killing thousands of civilians, while the Israeli government inspects each and every refugee from Ukraine with a fine-toothed comb.”The government has come under heavy fire for its response to the influx of refugees — particularly those who are not eligible for Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return due to Jewish ancestry — and its handling of the issue has been marred by unclear policies, backtracking and occasional infighting.From the start of fighting when Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 until this week, over 12,000 Ukrainians have arrived in Israel. Of those, some 8,000 are not eligible for immigration, while 4,000 do have the right to become citizens.Current policy has set a cap, already reached, of 25,000 Ukrainians who are not eligible for citizenship (5,000 of whom arrived after the start of the war), in addition to any Ukrainians with close family ties in Israel, without a cap.
Iran general warns Israel of immediate revenge for any soldiers killed-Comments follow missile strike by IRGC against ‘Mossad base’ in northern Iraq and alleged Israeli UAV attack that reportedly decimated Tehran’s drone fleet-By TOI staff-mar 23,22-Today, 3:24 pm
A high-ranking Iranian general warned on Wednesday that Tehran would take immediate revenge if Israel kills any of its soldiers, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.“Be aware that we will not only take part in the funeral of our martyrs, but also immediately take their revenge. This is a real and serious message. If your mischief is repeated, you will once again experience our attacks and suffer the bitter taste of our missile blows,” Tasnim quoted Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander-in-Chief Hossein Salami, addressing Israel, as saying.“In recent weeks you have seen how Zionists are always wrong in their calculations and have been targeted by Revolutionary Guard missiles. We are warning them that they should cease their mischief or we will bury them alive,” Salami added.Salami’s comments came amid rising tension between Iran and Israel.Last week, the IRGC claimed responsibility for an attack that saw a number of missiles fired at several locations in Iraq’s northern city of Erbil, including what it claimed was an Israeli “strategic center.”A “strategic center for conspiracy and mischiefs of the Zionists was targeted by powerful precision missiles fired by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps,” said a statement on Sepah News, the Guard’s official website, at the time.According to the Guard’s statement, the attack appeared to be in retaliation for the deaths of two IRGC commanders in an alleged Israeli airstrike near the Syrian capital Damascus a week earlier.The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the alleged Israeli airstrike targeted “a weapons and ammunition depot operated by Iran-backed militias near Damascus international airport.”The IRGC had vowed revenge for the deaths of officers Ehsan Karbalaipour and Morteza Saidnejad – “a crime committed by the Zionist regime” — the IRGC said at the time.The Israeli military has defended airstrikes targeting Iranian targets in Syria as necessary to prevent its archfoe from gaining a foothold on its doorstep.Later reports, however, stated that the attack on Erbil was prompted by an alleged Israeli strike on February 16 on a drone warehouse in western Iran. According to reports, the UAV attack on an airbase near Kermanshah decimated Iran’s drone fleet.The alleged attack was launched after on February 12, the US-led international coalition in Iraq downed two drones that were reportedly launched from Iran.Israeli officials last week confirmed a February 16 report by the Kan public broadcaster that said Israel believed the drones were heading for the country.
Giant missile-detecting balloon begins operational use over northern Israel-Defense Ministry hands Sky Dew system over to air force after years of testing; sensors onboard aerostat are meant to identify incoming long-range munitions, drones-By Emanuel Fabian-MAR 23,22-Today, 3:22 pm
The military on Tuesday officially received a massive new balloon equipped with an advanced missile and aircraft detection system from the Defense Ministry.The radar-based system, deployed in the north at an unspecified date, is part of a general effort by the Israeli Air Force to improve the country’s air defenses, particularly in the north, due to the proliferation of Iranian drones and cruise missiles in the region.The detection system, dubbed “Elevated Sensor,” or “Sky Dew” in Israel, is deployed at high altitudes in order to detect incoming long-range missiles, cruise missiles, and drones, officials said.Israel already maintains an array of radar systems to detect incoming threats, but the new aerostat is meant to complement and improve existing capabilities by placing the sensors at high altitudes.During a Tuesday ceremony, the system was formally handed over to the military and began its operational use under a new air force unit, with the same name as the system.Israeli Air Force chief Amikam Norkin hailed the new system, saying the unit would “enable [air traffic control] to build a more accurate and broader air surveillance picture.”He added that the system would “make the air force more prepared, and assist it in continuing its mission — maintaining security in the skies of Israel.”“The ‘Sky Dew’ system was a challenging task that we set for ourselves about a decade ago,” said the director of Israel’s Missile Defense Organization, Moshe Patel. As it becomes operational, it is “reality-changing,” he said.“This aerostat system will cruise at high altitudes and provide an exceptional multi-directional detection capability against advanced threats,” Patel added.The Sky Dew aerostat, one of the largest of its kind, was developed in a joint venture by Israel’s Missile Defense Organization and the United States’ Missile Defense Agency over the course of several years.The Israeli military fears that in the coming years that superiority may be tested as Iranian-made and -designed drones and cruise missiles flood the Middle East, representing a greater threat to Israel than the simple rockets that terror groups in the region have possessed until now.Military officials said earlier this month that Iran’s “UAV terror” is a new and global issue, accusing Tehran of directly attacking both military and civilian targets in the Middle East.The Israel Defense Forces has confirmed it intercepted at least four Iranian drones heading for Israel or the West Bank and Gaza Strip in recent years.Judah Ari Gross contributed to this report.
Amid Ukraine war, Poland expels 45 Russian diplomats suspected of spying-Security agency also arrests Polish national suspected of collaborating with the group; Moscow dismisses claims, says it reserves the right to take retaliatory measures-By AFP-MAR 23,22-Today, 2:24 pm
WARSAW, Poland — Poland on Wednesday said it had expelled 45 Russian diplomats for espionage, an allegation immediately dismissed as baseless by Russia’s ambassador to Poland.Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski made the announcement on Twitter.“Poland has expelled 45 Russian spies pretending to be diplomats,” he wrote. “We are dismantling the Russian special services network in our country.”Russian ambassador to Poland Sergey Andreyev confirmed the expulsions, telling reporters that the individuals concerned had been given five days to leave Poland.“There are no grounds for these kinds of accusations,” he said, adding that Russia reserved the right to take retaliatory measures.Bilateral diplomatic relations remained in place, he said: “The embassies remain, the ambassadors remain.”Earlier Wednesday, Poland’s counterespionage service ABW had announced that it had detained a Polish national suspected of espionage for Russia’s secret services.“The detainee worked in the archives of Warsaw’s registry office,” ABW spokesman Stanislaw Zaryn said on Twitter.“The activity of the suspect posed a threat to both (the) internal and external security of Poland,” he added.
Interview-‘Our children are dying’: Ukraine envoy pleads for 24/7 urgency in Israeli mediation-‘I wish this were done in a more active way,’ says Yevgen Korniychuk of Bennett’s efforts. And if not, he indicates, Israel should drop its neutrality and firmly back Ukraine-By David Horovitz-MAR 23,22-Today, 5:21 pm
Ukraine’s Ambassador to Israel has pleaded for urgency in Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s efforts to mediate a resolution to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, stressing that there should be a permanent team working 24/7 to help bring about a ceasefire.While confirming Ukraine’s appreciation for Bennett’s efforts, Ambassador Yevgen Korniychuk noted, in an interview with The Times of Israel: “I wish this exercise were done in a more active way; we are talking about people’s lives.”“I’m nobody to teach your leadership how to deal with this issue, but I would be very much willing to see… a full-time team” at work, he said. “Not necessarily, of course, the prime minister, but somebody designated who is credible for both parties, and who is dealing with this matter on a daily basis.”Speaking carefully in English in sometimes emotional and anguished tones, and striving to provide nuanced responses, Korniychuk also intimated his belief that, if the mediation cannot make rapid headway, Israel should forgo its “basically neutral” stance — useful in enabling Bennett to interact with Russian President Vladimir Putin — and take a clear stand alongside Ukraine, including by supplying arms and joining the international sanctions.“You do have people in the current government who are very familiar with the situation, and who participated in previous negotiations with Russia related to Syria or Iran,” he noted, citing Kharkiv-born Minister Ze’ev Elkin as an example. “This is why I very much wish that we will see a more proactive and fast [effort at mediation].He then added: “Basically, you summed it up correctly: Either do this [urgent, serious mediation] or join up with the rest of the democratic states and friends and help Ukraine, on the side of Ukraine.”Korniychuk, interviewed in his office at the embassy in Tel Aviv, said he believes Putin could have been deterred, and the invasion prevented, if the United States had acceded to Ukraine’s longstanding requests for potent weaponry to deter Moscow.“We were asking America for defensive weapons for a long time. If we’d had various types of defensive missiles that the Americans possess, different artillery, various naval capacities, we would definitely have been much stronger. And the Russians would probably have thought twice about making this move [to invade],” the ambassador said.“But they didn’t give these [weapons and capacities] to us, assuming that our leadership might turn out to be like Afghanistan, where they have a bad history: They provided [the Afghan army] with weapons. And those weapons appeared with the Taliban the next day.”Now, he said, some vital weapons systems were being supplied, and Ukraine was telling its partners, “We don’t just need light weaponry, for defending ourselves. We need to counterattack. So we need something stronger. And they are considering those possibilities.“Broadly speaking,” he added, “since you guys left us alone to fight the big bear, we have to be very well equipped. You see that the spirit is there, and the willingness to protect the country is there. The heroism is massive. We will not give up. This is why we do need much stronger, effective weapons, that we [have been starting to] get since the start of the war.”Korniychuk welcomed Israel’s substantial humanitarian aid to Ukraine, and warmly noted the opening of the Israeli field hospital. He also credited Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked with improving the process by which Ukrainian refugees are received in Israel and working closely with him regarding eligibility for Ukrainians to shelter from the war in Israel, though this issue is still being finalized.“We are in a process and she’s taking the right steps, just a bit too slowly,” he said. “I will not criticize her for that. She’s awaiting more information about the numbers,” he said, explaining that large numbers of potential arrivals were not anticipated. “We are only talking about certain categories [of potential arrivals]. We do understand that they will not get refugee status here, and they will not get the benefits… And I strongly disagree with bargaining for a specific number.”I do understand the reservations of the Israeli people that they’re making over the very personal issue of the Holocaust-Korniychuk also addressed the criticism in Israel of comparisons made by Volodymyr Zelensky, in the president’s speech to lawmakers on Sunday, between Ukraine’s plight and that of the Jewish people in the Holocaust.“I do understand the reservations of the Israeli people that they’re making over the very personal issue of the Holocaust,” he said. “But I do remember President Zelensky’s story that he told when he visited [former prime minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, I think in 2019, when he was talking about his own family; the three brothers of his grandfather were killed in the Holocaust.”Whatever I’ve been doing as the ambassador of Ukraine in Israel is not good enough for my president, because he will be always wanting to see more from Israel for UkraineFor Zelensky, said the ambassador, “it’s a very personal thing and very painful. What’s happening in this country is very emotional for the president because of his Jewish mother, and his family history.”Added Korniychuk, “Whatever I’ve been doing as the ambassador of Ukraine in Israel is not good enough for my president, because he will be always wanting to see more from Israel for Ukraine.”When it comes to Israel, he said, “it’s very emotional for the president. Don’t judge us over the emotional discrepancies. You are better historians than us of your own nation.”The transcript below has been edited for clarity and brevity.The Times of Israel: I want to ask you some very specific questions about what you think Israel’s role should be in this crisis. But first, do you think Israel and Israelis fully understand what is happening?Yevgen Korniychuk: The terrible history of the current crisis, the current war, is nothing new for us. It’s been happening for the last eight years, since 2014. There was a very active stage at the beginning. Then, a kind of a low profile stage. But our people were dying constantly — if not every day, then for sure, every week. When this stage started, we were seeking support from all of our partners and friends. And clearly, we are counting on Israel as a partner and friend to do what it can in order to stop the violence and stop this bloody massacre, to stop this war.Where do you see it ending? What is Putin trying to do?Listen, nobody except probably he himself knows what he is trying to do.Clearly, he started with one idea — to take control of the capital within three, four days, maximum a week, and to change the government. Now he’s realized that this is not possible.What is in his mind at the moment, I don’t know. But clearly they’re changing strategy now. They’re trying to get a hold of as much territory as they can, in order to trade it in for bigger benefits in the negotiation process. They have not taken control of a single big city except Kherson. And even in Kherson, the people are opposing them, opposing the temporary administration. The idea was to organize the Kherson People’s Republic. That’s not working. The people are demonstrating. I saw from the news today that they were using tear gas in order to disperse the demonstration this morning.What they’re doing to Mariupol is just unbelievable. It’s a similar story to what they did in Aleppo in Syria. We can’t even count the number of the dead and injured because nobody can bring them up from the basements.So, for example, the theater in Mariupol, where we heard maybe 1,000 or 1,300 people were sheltering inside and maybe 130 came out, do you know what the death toll is in that incident, do you know how many are still alive inside?No, we don’t.It is too dangerous to try to get to them? They’re bombing every ten minutes. Nobody can get there.The city was a huge city. Almost a half a million population. I stopped watching it on CNN because it’s too heartbreaking for me, knowing those cities and those people personally.Let me get back to our bilateral story. The dialogue with Prime Minister Bennett regarding the possible intermediary role of Israel started in October. And that was the kind offer of Prime Minister Bennett. We didn’t ask him, but his diplomatic adviser asked me during our very first meeting whether we were interested. And we said, of course we’re interested.We very much appreciated this initiative. So the night before he flew to Sochi [to meet Putin], there was a phone call between Bennett and Zelensky. They discussed the details. And he raised the issue with Mr. Putin when he was in Sochi, without success, of course.What exactly did he ask Putin? To stop the war. Obviously, this is the biggest issue that can be brought to the table if you wish to be a good intermediary.Israel is basically a neutral country at the moment to the conflict. We are getting no weapons from Israel, unlike from the rest of our partners. And there are no sanctions against Russia from Israel.That’s why my personal idea was that Israel could do more as an intermediary than other states like Turkey, for example. Mr. Erdogan was trying to [mediate], but at the same time, the Turks are selling and donating lots of weapons to Ukraine. I don’t think that helps with this [mediating] role.Israel is basically a neutral country at the moment to the conflict. We are getting no weapons from Israel, unlike from the rest of our partners. And there are no sanctions against Russia from Israel. That’s why my personal idea was that Israel could do more as an intermediary than other states like Turkey, for example-Prime Minister Bennett was in Moscow [to meet Putin on March 5] and Minister Elkin was also at the meeting. We discussed those matters before they left. Mr. Elkin is very familiar with the situation, and he spent a lot of time in Moscow together with previous prime minister Netanyahu. He has a good understanding of what’s going on, on the ground and psychologically. He came to Israel from Kharkiv 30 years ago and his brother is still living in Ukraine, which means that obviously his mentality is fairly close to what’s going on over there now.If [stopping the war is] something that we can achieve with Israeli help, successful mediation, that’s something priceless.We see this range of reactions to the Israeli mediation from Ukrainian leaders and officials. We saw President Zelensky in his speech on Sunday say “you can’t mediate between good and evil.” Was he intimating that Bennett was not doing a good job? Then he was much more positive [about Bennett’s mediation efforts] in his remarks later on Sunday night. Is Ukraine unhappy with the way Bennett is doing this?No, no, of course not. Ukraine is happy.It’s my personal feeling that Israel could do more. I do support the president’s position, of course, that we would be very pleased to see some practical results out of [Bennett’s efforts].The country is starving right now. This [mediation] is not something that you could basically do forever. [Zelensky’s reference to] ‘between good and evil’ was to make it clear for the world who is standing for peace and democracy and who is standing for the war. Clearly, Ukraine was not aggressive to any of its neighbors. The allegations about Ukraine holding chemical weapons are false Russian propaganda.I want to be sure I understand what you’re saying regarding Zelensky’s comment about mediating between good and evil: He was not saying, We don’t want you to do this, Mr. Bennett.Of course not.He was saying, generally, that you have to understand who is the good side and who is the evil side.Clearly.Part of the complication of this situation for Israel is a very serious concern about Putin, because he’s so dominant in our part of the world now. America is less engaged. And he runs Syria. Do you think Israel should be prepared to risk alienating Putin? Listen, it’s not for me to tell you what you should do. You are an independent state and you do whatever is in your own interest.Look at the Baltic States that have a direct border with Russia, all three of them. And all three of them are helping us with weapons, donating weapons. They are helping us with any kind of technical support, with sanctions of course, and they are not afraid.But what I want to point out is that you are the only country among our friends that is neutral and not providing any military support or sanctions. It probably means that I’m a bad diplomat here, in not persuading you to do so. But this is a fact and you take it any way you want.Somebody asked me at one of the numerous press conferences: You guys know that we have the Russian presence in Syria. I said, you can disagree with me, maybe, but look at the Baltic States that have a direct border with Russia, all three of them [Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania]. And all three of them are helping us with weapons, donating weapons. They are helping us with any kind of technical support, with sanctions of course, and they are not afraid.What about the big, strong Western countries? America, first of all. Do you think this could have been prevented if the West had done things differently, said things differently?For sure. We were asking America for defensive weapons for a long time. If we’d had various types of defensive missiles that the Americans possess, different artillery, various naval capacities, we would definitely have been much stronger. And the Russians would probably have thought twice about making this move [to invade].But they didn’t give these [weapons and capacities] to us, assuming that our leadership might turn out to be like Afghanistan, where they have a bad history: They provided [the Afghan army] with weapons. And those weapons appeared with the Taliban next day.The Americans were worried that weapons they’d give you would wind up with Putin? Since you guys left us alone to fight the big bear, we have to be very well equipped. You see that the spirit is there, and the willingness to protect the country is there. The heroism is massive. We will not give up. This is why we do need much stronger, effective weaponsYes, exactly. That was written between the lines. But fortunately, those systems are getting [to us now]. And we urge our partners: We don’t just need light weaponry, for defending ourselves. We need to counterattack. So we need something stronger. And they are considering those possibilities.Broadly speaking, since you guys left us alone to fight the big bear, we have to be very well equipped. You see that the spirit is there, and the willingness to protect the country is there. The heroism is massive. We will not give up. This is why we do need much stronger, effective weapons that we [have been starting to] get since the start of the war.How serious is the direct threat to the president? In the fog of war, is the claim that Russia is trying personally to get to Zelensky and kill Zelensky a serious and major concern?I haven’t been in Kyiv, unfortunately, since the war started, since February 24. But from what I have heard from my colleagues, there were a few attempts. Clearly, the idea of the Russian leadership was to threaten him and hope that he would flee the country. That would have made their life much easier. Then the idea was to bring in [former president Viktor] Yanukovych, who ran away to Russia in 2014, as a legitimate president, and move in this direction.Zelensky did not make such a gesture to the Russians and he is still in the office. Some of the Israeli ministers I’ve talked to were surprised that our cabinet ministers are still working, well-coordinated. The military is doing its job, the territorial defense is doing its job, the police is active. All the big cities are operating. Kharkiv, which was the second biggest city after Kyiv, suffered a lot, but the Russian military did not get into the city, despite massive bombing and thousands of buildings destroyed.Somehow logistics are operating. Humanitarian aid has been delivered. We’re in contact with the mayors regarding humanitarian aid from Israel almost every day.When it comes to our needs, what is putting Israel in a unique position regarding mediation is that you are neutral. But we definitely would love to see the results as fast as possible, because our children are dying every hour.The only result that you can live with is for Russia to withdraw? We don’t know exactly what’s going on in the negotiation right now, and the Russian participation is quite low-level. But it’s going on via Zoom every day. They are discussing neutrality. They are talking about demilitarization. The differences are huge of course, but you have to deal with that. How can you agree to limit your armed forces to 50,000 or 20,000 or whatever after what is happening right now? You can think about being a neutral country if you have a strong army. Obviously, especially after what has been happening over the last 27 days, you must have a strong army.First of all, though, there has to be a ceasefire. That’s step number one. And number two, the withdrawal of the troops. But Russia is insisting that [an agreement] has to happen while the troops are still staying. As a lawyer, I can tell you that any treaty signed under the threat of force is null and void. It’s in the Vienna Convention. It’s first-year law school.Is Israel playing any part in these current talks? Does Bennett have a team that’s part of this? I cannot comment. I don’t know all the details. But I wish for greater success and faster.You don’t have the sense that there’s urgency.Well, with all due respect to Prime Minister Bennett, and once again, I do understand he’s a very busy man, and that for Israel there’s a lot around you now that you have to deal with, so he might not have enough time…Personally, of course, but did he set up a team? That’s what I cannot comment on. There should be a permanent team. There should be a special person designated to deal with this issue on a daily basis.I’m nobody to teach your leadership how to deal with this issue, but I would be very much willing to see something similar where we have a full-time team on the ground. Not necessarily, of course, the prime minister, but somebody designated who is credible for both parties, and who is dealing with this matter on a daily basisI wish this exercise were done in a more active way; we are talking about people’s lives. As a lawyer, in commercial law, I participated in mediation. Multibillion-dollar mediation is very similar to the current circumstances in that you have a team of mediators, well-qualified lawyers, financial advisers, sometimes media advisers, etc. Those people are working on an approximation of the position of the parties, finding the gaps and balances and the compromises from both sides. That’s how it works in mediation.I’m nobody to teach your leadership how to deal with this issue, but I would be very much willing to see something similar where we have a full-time team on the ground. Not necessarily, of course, the prime minister, but somebody designated who is credible for both parties, and who is dealing with this matter on a daily basis.‘On the ground’ figuratively speaking, working on it 24/7? Yes.With that as their only job.Yes.That’s what should be happening? I wish. I’m a modest ambassador from a small country, but a very important country… You either choose this and take it seriously as a mediator…Either you side with Ukraine and you give up on the mediation, or you mediate very urgently and seriously. That’s what you’re saying.Exactly.I understand.Does that make sense to you? Yes. A week or so before the invasion, I interviewed [Foreign Minister Yair] Lapid. It was clear something terrible was about to happen. I asked him whether he could speak out and clearly say that an invasion would be unacceptable. And he said, of course I can say that. And he has said that. He also said that Ukraine’s vulnerability underlined the lesson for Israel that it has to be able to defend itself, by itself, because nobody else is going to lift a finger. That’s one of the problems that Israel’s leadership feels it has. Yes, it wants to mediate. But it is wary of alienating Putin because it sees the world doing nothing against a bully who’s invading the country next door. That’s in the mix.You do have people in the current government who are very familiar with the situation, and who participated in previous negotiations with Russia related to Syria or Iran. I know what I’m talking about. This is why I very much wish that we will see a more proactive and fast [effort at mediation].Basically, you summed it up correctly: Either do this [urgent, serious mediation] or join up with the rest of the democratic states and friends and help Ukraine, on the side of Ukraine.Getting back to the issues of what we need from Israel, of course you know the debates regarding the refugees are also very painful.Do you now see people being treated properly when they arrive? Is Israel proving more open to refugees coming? How many refugees do you think want to come? We do appreciate steps that have been taken — because it was terrible at the beginning and now it’s getting better. I have to credit [Interior] Minister Shaked. We meet regularly. We exchange our views.Israel is not the best place for the refugees at all. You are the most expensive country. Tel Aviv was called the most expensive city in the world last year. The refugees will get no benefits here whatsoever, unlike in the EU, US or Canada.The people who are coming here are not doing it for fun. They are escaping from the war. These are women and children, or elderly people. They fall into two categories. First, those who are [eligible for citizenship] under the Law of Return. Israel’s position is that you are treating them well. Of course you must treat them well. That’s your legislation. The more you accept or absorb, the better for Israel. As far as I know, that’s about 4,000 people from Ukraine. I don’t know what the numbers are from Russia or Belarus.The second category are people who have relatives but not on a level that would give them the right to a passport — like great-grandchildren, for example, or second cousins — who are allowed in on an electronic visa after being checked by the ministry, and people with close ties to friends or relatives here who would like to give them shelter… I’d estimate that might be 10-20,000 people, who have close ties with their friends and families, who would love to give them shelter, only for the duration of the war.We are discussing those categories with the minister now and I think she’s treating our suggestions positively to a large extent. We are still working on that and it’s a painful process for us, because it is striking that while [Ukrainian arrivals] are required to get electronic permits, citizens of Russia and Belarus are able to come in without such permits and with no limitations.As tourists? Yes… Once again we are in a process and she’s taking the right steps, just a bit too slowly. I will not criticize her for that. She’s awaiting more information about the numbers.People are waiting at the borders of Ukraine, in huge numbers? No, I don’t think it’s going to be huge numbers. Once again, we are only talking about certain categories. We do understand that they will not get refugee status here, and they will not get the benefits. So we are talking about the family members or friends of Israelis who are willing to provide shelter. Maybe a few tens of thousands. And I strongly disagree with bargaining for a specific number.You mean you don’t want a formal limit imposed? Yes… I also want to mention the interim court decision of the Supreme Court a few days ago, recognizing that there are some legal discrepancies that have to be addressed here.I want to ask you something very specific and geographic, regarding Babyn Yar. This stems from the controversy over whether Babyn Yar was hit in the Russian missile attack on the TV center in the area. Can you explain where exactly was struck and where wasn’t. Yes, I saw this reporting that no memorials were hit.Those were not hit; the menorah memorial was not hit. We understand.The territory of the mass grave for the Jews, non-Jews — Gypsies, Ukrainians, Russians — killed there was a few kilometers long.And that whole area is called Babyn Yar.Of course.The TV center is part of the Babyn Yar neighborhood area? Yes.Basically, the president said that they were killing those Jews a second time, and that was true. How cynical do you have to be as a journalist if you come in there to search whether the memorials are okay or were destroyed? Oh, the memorials were not destroyed, so that’s okay.Do you know what was hit apart from the TV area? Was the cemetery hit? Part of the cemetery, of course. And a whole family, five people, died during the bombing. It’s very cynical if someone says nothing happened because the memorial itself was not hit.This is like the unhappy comments about the presidential speech where he mentioned the Holocaust in comparison to the current genocide of the Ukrainian people. I mean, we are in a war, okay. Similarly, I said publicly, and I made a mistake, that there were 4,000 Ukrainian Righteous Gentiles; it was 3,000. Okay. I was wrong, but some journalists made a big thing out of it. Come on.It’s incredibly complex and emotive, and I’m not surprised by some of the Israeli response. The Holocaust was the systematic elimination of the Jewish people — not just to take the territory, but to kill millions of people. And then there’s the history of what Ukrainians did — there were Righteous Gentiles for sure, but many Ukrainians were deeply complicit, helped the Nazis carry out the killings, including at Babyn Yar of course. I could say much more, but I do want to say that.Listen, I do understand the reservations of the Israeli people that they’re making over the very personal issue of the Holocaust. But I do remember President Zelensky’s story that he told when he visited Netanyahu, I think in 2019, when he was talking about his own family; the three brothers of his grandfather were killed in the Holocaust.For him, it’s a very personal thing and very painful. What’s happening in this country is very emotional for the president because of his Jewish mother, and his family history.You mean, the way Israel responds is very personal to him.Yes, of course.I had the conversation with him and he said wonderful things about Israel. He was so admiring of Israel when we spoke two years ago: What an incredible country. You thrive under attack and you defend yourselves. He was such a Zionist. I imagine he looks at Israel today and he’s full of conflicted emotions: I think they should be doing more. Well, maybe they can help mediate…For me, it’s very serious. Whatever I’ve been doing as the ambassador of Ukraine in Israel is not good enough for my president because he will be always wanting to see more from Israel for Ukraine.So you feel this pressure to live up to his expectations for Israel? Don’t judge us over the emotional discrepancies. You are better historians than us of your own nationI am fine. I’m sure they know that we are doing our best here. But definitely, when it comes to Israel, it’s very emotional for the president.Don’t judge us over the emotional discrepancies. You are better historians than us of your own nation.Let me tell you, we do admire the major humanitarian aid that has been provided by Israel, and more is coming. One hundred tons of humanitarian aid was provided immediately by the Israeli government, through the embassy, and with the Israeli people, we gathered another 400 tons that are at Ben Gurion Airport waiting to be sent.The field hospital was just opened. Those are good things.Solidarity is something that we are getting from most civilized nations, including Israel.We do believe that the government could do more for us, and we are working hard in order to generate the ideas and the practical steps together in order to achieve our immediate goal which is the ceasefire, the withdrawal of the enemy troops from our territory, and to start rebuilding our nation, that would be hopefully becoming a part of the European Union, no matter whether we are neutral or not neutral in terms of NATO.We do hope that after this horrible story is ended, we will get peace and we will become among the European Union countries — a prosperous, successful and peaceful nation. And that we will share the same spirit as Israel — to prove that we do have a desire to defend ourselves, and we will defend ourselves successfully and achieve peace, and not surrender.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
THE RUSSIA/UKRAINE WAR CARRIES ON. THE PROPAGANDA LIBERAL MEDIA DOES ALSO.
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