JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
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 (ATOMIC BOMB) 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.
PSALMS 91:7
A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
IT
DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THE MIGRATING BIRDS LOOK LIKE. IF THIS IS THE TIME
FOR THE RUSSIA-MUSLIM BIRD FOOD TIME. THESE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS
WILL HAVE A FILL OF FLESH AND BLOOD.SO WE SEE A COMPARISON HOW THE
ISRAELIS WERE MURDERED BY GERMANY IN THE 1940S. THEY WERE BURNED TO DRY
BONES. THEN THROWN IN GRAVES - MASS GRAVES TO BE EXACT. AND WHEN THE
RUSSIA-MUSLIN-GERMAN PLUS HOARD COMES AGAINST ISRAEL GOD WILL THROW 100
POUND HAILSTONES ON THEM. STORMS. AND SINK HOLES TO SWALLOW THEM WHOLE.
AND FINALLY GOD ALLOWS MOST OF THE 300 MILLION THAT DIE IN THIS WAR TO
BE NUKED OR BURNED UP. DOES THAT RING A BELL FROM THE 40,S. AFTER THE
FIRE, THEN THE MIGRATING BIRDS EAT THEIR FLESH AND BLOOD AND LEAVES JUST
RADIATED BONES OF THE ISRAELI ENEMIES. AND FINALLY THE ENEMIES BONES
WILL BE BURRIED IN MASS GRAVES IN THE JORDAN VALLEY. EAST OF THE DEAD
SEA. EXACTLY THIS DEAD HORDE DIES LIKE THE ISRAELIS BY HITLER. BURNED TO
BONES AND THROWN IN MASS GRAVES.JUST MY GUESS. GOD WILL PROBABLY KILL
70 MILLION WITH HIS REVENGE (JUDGEMENTS). LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS 1000
ENEMIES WILL FALL, PLUS 10,000 WILL FALL AT THY RIGHT HAND. FOR EVERY
ISRAELI MURDERED. 7 MILLION DIED AT HITLERS HAND. 70 MILLION ENEMIES OF
GODS REVENGE. AND ISRAEL WILL NUKE 230 MILLION WITH FIRE NUKES. THIS IS
JUST MY TAKE.
EZEKIEL 39:15
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.
Study:
Birds in Israel may be changing shape in response to global warming-TAU
researchers suggest morphological changes enable birds to shed more
heat; but they worry that as planet continues to warm, birds may run out
of coping mechanisms-By Sue Surkes-APR 5,22-Today, 8:26 pm
Researchers
at Tel Aviv University have found that many birds in Israel have either
become smaller or longer over the past 70 years, and posit that this is
an adaptation to global warming.The decrease in body mass of some
species and the increase in the body length of others boosts the ratio
between surface area and volume. The researchers said these could be
strategies to lose heat as the climate warms.The study was led by Prof.
Shai Meiri and Ph.D. student Shahar Dubiner of Tel Aviv University’s
School of Zoology and Steinhardt Museum of Natural History. Their paper
was published in the scientific journal Global Ecology and
Biogeography.Prof. Meiri explained that according to Bergmann’s rule,
formulated in the 19th century, birds and animals living in cold
climates tend to be bigger than similar species living in warmer
places.This is because the ratio of surface area to volume is higher in
smaller animals, permitting more heat loss (an advantage in warm
regions), and lower in larger bodies, to minimize heat loss (a benefit
in colder climates).Based on this rule, scientists have recently
predicted that global warming will lead to a reduction in animal size,
with the possible exception of birds living close to humans such as
pigeons and hooded crows, which have access to food and may gain size
rather than lose it (this is what has happened with many jackals and
wolves that feed on things humans have discarded).The researchers used
the Steinhardt Museum’s vast bird collection to look for changes in bird
morphology over the past 70 years in Israel.They examined almost 8,000
adult specimens from 106 different species, including migratory birds
that pass through Israel every year (such as the common chiffchaff,
white stork, and black buzzard), resident wild birds (among them the
Eurasian jay, Eurasian eagle-owl, and rock partridge), and birds that
live near humans.They built a complex statistical model to assess
morphological changes in the birds’ body mass, body length and wing
length.“Our findings revealed a complicated picture,” said Dubiner.“We
identified two different types of morphological changes. Some species
had become lighter — their mass had decreased while their body length
remained unchanged — while others had become longer. Their body length
had increased, while their mass remained unchanged.”These changes were
found in more than half of the species examined, but there was
practically no overlap between the two adaptations.“Almost none of the
birds had become both lighter and longer.”Dubiner went on: “We think
that these are two different strategies for coping with the same
problem, namely the rising temperatures. In both cases, the surface area
to volume ratio is increased… which helps the body lose heat to its
environment. The opposite, namely a decrease in this ratio, was not
observed in any of the species.“These findings were observed across the
country, regardless of nutrition, and in all types of species.”Changes
in body length tended to occur more in migrants, while those in body
mass were more typical of non-migratory birds, Dubiner said.“The very
fact that such changes were found in migratory birds coming from Asia,
Europe, and Africa suggests that we are witnessing a global phenomenon,”
he added.“Our findings indicate that global warming causes fast and
significant changes in bird morphology. But what are the implications of
these changes? Should we be concerned? Is this a problem, or rather an
encouraging ability to adapt to a changing environment? “Such
morphological changes over a few decades probably do not represent an
evolutionary adaptation, but rather a certain phenotypic flexibility
exhibited by the birds,” he said.“We are concerned that over such a
short period, there is a limit to the flexibility or evolutionary
potential of these traits, and the birds might run out of effective
solutions as temperatures continue to rise.”
US completes test of
hypersonic missile that travels 5 times the speed of sound-Latest test
reportedly took place several weeks ago, but was kept quiet to avoid
appearing to escalate geopolitical tensions surrounding Russian invasion
of Ukraine-By AFP-APR 5,22-Today, 10:17 pm
WASHINGTON — The US
military announced Tuesday a new test of a hypersonic missile, as
Pentagon officials seek to match or get ahead of China’s and Russia’s
advances in the cutting-edge strategic weapons technology.The Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said it had recently completed
a free-flight test of an aircraft-launched hypersonic missile that
maintained a speed of more than Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound
(at least 3,800 miles per hour, or 6,100 kilometers per hour).The
missile flew to an altitude greater than 65,000 feet (19,800 meters) and
soared over 300 nautical miles, said DARPA, the Pentagon’s high-tech
research body.It was the second test under the agency’s HAWC Program —
named for hypersonic air-breathing weapon concept — and the missile had a
different configuration from the first, which was tested last
September.According to CNN, the newest test took place in mid-March, but
was kept quiet to avoid appearing to escalate the geopolitical tensions
surrounding the Russian invasion of Ukraine.In March 2020, the US army
and navy undertook a joint test of a different hypersonic
prototype.DARPA said air-breathing hypersonic missiles use air captured
from the atmosphere to help sustain propulsion.“This Lockheed Martin
HAWC flight test successfully demonstrated a second design that will
allow our warfighters to competitively select the right capabilities to
dominate the battlefield,” said Andrew Knoedler, HAWC program manager,
in a statement.Hypersonic missiles pose a potential threat to the global
military balance, capable of being steered to deliver nuclear weapons
precisely on target, at speeds too fast to intercept.The Pentagon is
under pressure to match China’s apparent successful test of a hypersonic
missile last year that flew around the globe and hit a target in China.
In
first, Israeli warships practice refueling from US tanker in the Red
Sea-Military says largest joint naval exercise in recent years increases
navy’s operational range and abilities; combat at sea, vessel
protection, disarming mines also drilled-By Emanuel Fabian-APR
5,22-Today, 9:39 pm
In a joint naval drill this week, Israeli
missile boats practiced refueling from an American tanker in the Red
Sea, increasing the Israeli navy’s “operational range and abilities,”
the Israel Defense Forces announced Tuesday.With some 300 soldiers and
commanders from each country, the exercise — dubbed “Intrinsic Defender”
— which began last Sunday was the largest between the Israeli Navy and
the US Fifth Fleet in recent years, the IDF said.It simulated naval
combat, naval firing exercises, vessel protection, sabotage and
neutralization of naval mines, search and rescue scenarios and providing
medical aid at sea, the military said in a statement.“For the first
time, Israeli Navy missile ships practiced refueling from an American
replenishment tanker in the Red Sea, which increases the Israeli Navy’s
operational range and abilities,” the statement read.“The ‘Intrinsic
Defender’ exercise expands the range and operational capacities of the
Israeli Navy. Cooperation with the US Fifth Fleet helps us to improve
and refine ourselves,” said the chief of the Israeli Navy, Maj. Gen.
David Sa’ar Salama.“This exercise is an important and significant step
for our strategic stability in the maritime arena,” he added.The drill
also included teams from the navy’s Underwater Mission Unit practicing
with their US counterparts neutralizing naval mines at the Eilat bay in
southern Israel, as well as neutralizing explosives using unmanned
vessels at the Haifa Naval Base in the north.The navy’s Snapir Unit — a
force protection and harbor security unit — practiced with the US Coast
Guard taking over vessels and “preventing hostile terrorist activity,”
the military said.The military hailed the drill as “another example of
the close cooperation between the Israeli Navy and the US Fifth
Fleet.”“This exercise provided an opportunity for mutual learning,
sharing operational capabilities and strengthening the strategic
partnership between the two militaries,” it said, adding that the
exercise “brought forth new capabilities to the Israeli Navy which
increase its operational capacities in both routine and emergency
situations.”In November, the Israeli Navy participated in a 5th
Fleet-led exercise in the Red Sea alongside the UAE and Bahrain in what
Israeli officials said was meant to serve as a response to recent
attacks by Iran against Israeli naval assets.Tensions have been
particularly high with Iran in recent months amid indirect talks with
the US in Vienna regarding a mutual return to the 2015 nuclear deal.
Lapid
explicitly accuses Russia of war crimes, in first for top Israeli
official-Earlier, PM Bennett expressed shock over atrocities but did not
name Moscow; US says Bucha was a ‘deliberate campaign to kill, to
torture, to rape’-By TOI staff and Agencies-APR 5,22-Today, 8:09 pm
Israel’s
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid explicitly accused Russia of war crimes on
Tuesday, in the strongest comments against Moscow yet by a top Israeli
official.“A large and powerful country has invaded a smaller neighbor
without any justification. Once again, the ground is soaked with the
blood of innocent civilians,” Lapid charged while in Cyprus, speaking
alongside his Cypriot and Greek counterparts, according to a statement
from his spokesman.“The images and testimony from Ukraine are horrific.
Russian forces committed war crimes against a defenseless civilian
population. I strongly condemn these war crimes,” Lapid said in
reference to the alleged atrocities committed in the Kyiv suburb
Bucha.Lapid noted that the war in Ukraine offered opportunities for new
energy partnerships, saying that it will “change the structure of the
European and Middle Eastern energy market.”Earlier on Tuesday, Prime
Minister Naftali Bennett condemned the killing of civilians in Bucha,
but did not blame Russia or anyone else for the atrocities.“We are
shocked by the difficult pictures coming from Bucha, terrible scenes,”
he said while visiting an army post in the West Bank.Asked about the
alleged mass killings of civilians by Russian forces, Bennett said, “We
condemn them with all force.”He noted that “the suffering of Ukrainian
citizens is huge” and noted that Israel has set up a field hospital in
western Ukraine, which “all Israelis should be proud of.”Israel has
avoided aligning too closely with either side since Russian troops
invaded Ukraine on February 24. It is one of the few countries that
maintains relatively warm relations with both Ukraine, a fellow Western
democracy, as well as Russia.Moscow controls the airspace over Syria, in
which Israel operates to target Iranian proxies, and this is seen as a
key reason for Israel’s careful comments on the war.While Lapid has
taken a clearer stance against Russia, condemning its actions in Ukraine
on several occasions and vowing that Israel will not be used as a
“route to bypass” sanctions on Russian oligarchs, Bennett has avoided
blaming Russia, instead attempting to position himself as a mediator in
the conflict.His attempt at neutrality may prove increasingly difficult
to maintain as world anger at Russia’s alleged actions against civilians
grows.Earlier Tuesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused
Russia of a “deliberate campaign to kill, to torture, to rape” in
Bucha.His comments were among the strongest yet from the West after
pictures of mass graves and streets strewn with dead civilians emerged
from suburbs around Kyiv after Russian forces retreated.The atrocities
there were “not the random acts of a rogue unit,” he argued, adding that
the US and its allies were determined to make sure those responsible
are brought to justice and to increase pressure on Russia while backing
Ukraine.Blinken made the comments in Maryland before boarding a plane to
Brussels for a NATO meeting.The United Nations said Tuesday that all
the signs from Bucha pointed toward civilians having been directly
targeted and killed in the town outside Kyiv.The UN Human Rights Office
said the images emerging from Bucha were extremely disturbing and
underlined that international law prohibited deliberate attacks on
civilians.“What we’re talking about here appears to be the direct
killing and targeting of civilians in Bucha,” rights office spokeswoman
Liz Throssell told reporters in Geneva.Moscow has rejected Western
accusations that its forces were responsible, suggesting the images are
fake or that the deaths occurred after they pulled out.But newly
released satellite photographs taken by Maxar Technologies in mid-March,
before the Russian withdrawal, showed what appeared to be bodies in
some of the same places they were later found by Ukrainian troops and
seen by journalists.Breaking News: Satellite images refute Russia’s
claim that the killing of civilians in Bucha, a suburb of Ukraine's
capital, occurred after its soldiers had left town, a New York Times
analysis found. https://t.co/2pDlly6EHs— The New York Times (@nytimes)
April 4, 2022-Italy, Spain, and Denmark joined EU allies Tuesday in
expelling Russian diplomats amid increasing outrage over the Ukraine
conflict, with around 150 sent home in the last 48 hours. Kremlin
spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday that the mass
expulsion of its diplomats was “a short-sighted move.”
Israel
will let West Bank women, kids and some men into Al-Aqsa, despite high
alert-Some restrictions for Palestinians eased for Ramadan after series
of deadly attacks; Gantz tells Abbas that Israel is ready for more
‘civilian measures’ should calm persist-By Aaron Boxerman-APR
5,22-Today, 10:30 pm
The Defense Ministry announced on Tuesday
that some restrictions on West Bank Palestinian movement will be eased
for the Ramadan holy month, after a recent wave of terror attacks
briefly raised the prospect of the gesture being canceled.Women,
children and some men from the West Bank will be able to freely enter
Israel for Friday prayers at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque for the
holiday.Defense Minister Benny Gantz told Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas in a phone call on Tuesday night that the
measures could be expanded further if the terror wave did not
continue.“I emphasized to [Abbas] that Israel is ready to expand its
civilian measures during and after the month of Ramadan, in accordance
with the security situation,” Gantz said in a statement.A string of
deadly terrorist attacks in recent weeks has shaken Israelis. Officials
fear tensions could rise further during both Ramadan and Passover, which
are set to overlap this year. Eleven people inside Israel were killed
in three terror attacks in a single week in late March.Abbas issued a
rare condemnation after a West Bank Palestinian gunned down three
Israelis and two Ukrainians in the central city of Bnei Brak last
Tuesday in the wave’s deadliest attack.Gantz said he told Abbas that he
appreciated the PA leader’s denunciation of the attack.“I told him that
the holidays must be a month of peace and quiet and not one marked by
terror,” Gantz said.Under the newly issued Ramadan rules, Palestinian
women from the West Bank will be allowed to enter Israel without a
permit for Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, said the Defense
Ministry’s liaison to the Palestinians, widely known by its acronym
COGAT.Palestinian men over 50 and boys under 12 will be allowed to enter
Israel freely for Friday prayers as well, while those between the ages
of 40-49 will be able to head to Al-Aqsa if they have a permit. Men
under 40 will not be allowed in, according to usual policy, except if
they have a permit that allows them in Israel on Fridays.Hundreds of
thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank regularly patronize Al-Aqsa
during Ramadan. The mosque is the third-holiest site in Islam and
prayer there is a central facet of the holy month for many Palestinian
Muslims.The flashpoint site is revered by Jews as the holiest point in
their tradition: both Biblical temples are believed to have been built
on the hilltop.Around 5,000 Palestinians with first-degree relatives in
Israel will also be given permits to visit them between Sunday and
Thursday during the coming week, according to COGAT.There was no
immediate change in policy toward the Gaza Strip. Israeli authorities
impose far more stringent restrictions on movement from the coastal
enclave, which is ruled by the Hamas terror group.Israeli cabinet
ministers signed off on the looser policy last Wednesday. The recent
terror wave that left 11 dead had briefly left the policy change in
doubt.All of the loosened restrictions will only apply for the next
week, after which security officials will meet again to review the
policy and discuss potentially expanding the permit quotas, COGAT
said.For security reasons, Israel tightly regulates the movement of
Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza into its territory. But Israeli
authorities regularly ease some of those restrictions or issue special
permits during Muslim and Christian holidays.In a phone call with The
Times of Israel last week, a Fatah official, speaking on condition of
anonymity, warned that imposing a lockdown on the Palestinians or
canceling the looser holiday restrictions would raise tensions between
the two sides.Russia also claimed two weeks ago to have fired two
hypersonic missiles in strikes on Ukraine.
IDF chief tells
commanders to ready for month or more of heightened alert –
report-Kohavi said to also warn that Islamic Jihad could fire rockets
from Gaza after three of its operatives were killed in West Bank
shootout-By TOI staff-APR 4,22-Today, 8:49 am
IDF Chief of Staff
Aviv Kohavi reportedly told commanders on Sunday that the military is
gearing up to be on heightened alert for a month or more, following
several recent attacks and the start of Ramadan.Kohavi made the remarks
in Tel Aviv, where he was visiting soldiers sent to reinforce police,
Channel 13 news reported.According to the report, Kohavi told the
commanders they should be ready for a second “Operation Guardian of the
Walls,” referring to the 11 days of fighting last year between Israel
and the Hamas terror group, and accompanying violence in ethnically
mixed Israeli cities.He also reportedly said that Palestinian Islamic
Jihad could fire rockets from the Gaza Strip, after three of the terror
group’s operatives were killed in a shootout with security forces in the
West Bank, while allegedly headed to carry out an attack in Israel, in
the predawn hours of SaturdayA series of recent terror attacks killed 11
people in Israel, putting security forces on heightened alert.Israel
has ramped up security measures in response to the attacks and deployed
additional forces to the West Bank, Gaza border and major cities such as
Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.Earlier on Sunday, Prime Minister Naftali
Bennett said Israel was entering a period of “vigilant routine” as
security forces work to prevent further terror attacks.“Terrorists have
all kinds of ideas, so we are on high alert, both the Shin Bet and the
Israel Police, to identify any hint of an idea or plan for an attack,
and thwart it in advance,” he said during a visit to the Shin Bet
security service’s regional command in the northern West Bank.
Israel
ranked world’s 10th-largest weapons exporter in past five years-Israeli
exports accounted for 2.4% of global total, with India, Azerbaijan and
Vietnam the leading recipients; arms shipments to Europe surged, and
Russia’s stock dropped-By Luke Tress-APR O4,22-Today, 11:33 am
Israel
was ranked the 10th-largest international weapons exporter in the past
five years by an independent global security think tank.The Stockholm
International Peace Research Institute’s latest report, measuring
weapons trade from 2017 to 2021, said arms trade to Europe surged, the
Gulf states were leading importers and Israel remains a major player.The
report released last month said Israel accounted for 2.4% of
international arms exports in the years 2017 to 2021, with the main
recipients being India, Azerbaijan and Vietnam.Israel’s volume of
exports dropped by 5.6% during the time frame, compared to the previous
five years.The only other Middle East countries in the top 25 weapons
exporters were Turkey, at 12th, the United Arab Emirates, ranked 18th,
and Jordan, 25th.The five leading countries dominated the global trade,
accounting for 77% of all exports. Those countries were the US, with
39%, followed by Russia, 19%, then France, China and Germany.The other
countries in the top 10 exporters were Italy, the UK, South Korea and
Spain.Europe and North America accounted for 87% of all arms exports,
according to the research institute, which identified 60 countries that
exported weapons during the time period.The study said that during that
period global trade fell 4.6%. But there was a 19% increase in weapons
transfers to Europe, driven by tensions with Russia, even before its
invasion of Ukraine. Europe’s largest importers were the UK, Norway and
the Netherlands.There was a slight increase to the Middle East, and
large drops in trade to the Americas and Africa. The pandemic had very
little impact on the arms trade, the report said.The US grew its market
share by 7% and pulled far ahead of Russia, the second-largest exporter.
The US delivered arms to 103 nations between 2017 and 2021, with
aircraft making up the majority of those shipments, followed by missiles
and armored vehicles. The largest share went to the Middle East.Russia
mostly sent weapons to India, China, Egypt and Algeria, and its exports
dropped by 26%.The US and France increased their exporters, while trade
from China, Russia and Germany fell.Israel was the 14th largest importer
of weapons, accounting for 1.9% of the global share. Ninety-two percent
of Israel’s imports came from the US, mostly F-35 jets and guided
bombs, followed by shipments from Germany and Italy. Germany supplies
Israel’s submarines.Israel’s overall imports jumped 19% over the
previous five years.India and Saudi Arabia were the world’s leading
importers, accounting for 11% of global imports each. Four of the top
ten importers were in the Middle East — Saudi Arabia, Egypt in third
place, Qatar, in sixth, and the UAE, in ninth. Egypt’s imports surged by
73%.Saudi Arabia stepped up its imports by 27% as it waged war in Yemen
and eyed its foe Iran, with most of its shipments coming from the
US.The US was the 13th largest importer, with the leading suppliers
being the UK, Netherlands and France. Russia was not among the top 25
importers.During the time period studied, Ukraine was fighting
pro-Russia separatists in its east, but not directly combating Russia,
and imported very few weapons — only 0.1% of global imports.The study
said that, although the UN lifted an arms embargo on Iran in 2020, there
is “no public evidence that Iran has since received or ordered notable
volumes of major arms from abroad.”The think tank’s data is partly based
on estimates and includes transfers including gifts, sales and
production under license.
Macron calls for further sanctions
against Moscow over ‘war crimes’French leader says there are ‘very clear
indications’ Russian army was responsible for killings in Bucha; adds
that fresh measures could target Russia’s oil and coal industries-By
AFP-APR 4,22-Today, 11:11 am
PARIS, France — French President
Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he was in favor of new sanctions against
Moscow following claims that Russian forces committed atrocities against
Ukrainian civilians in Bucha, a town outside Kyiv.“There are very clear
indications of war crimes. It was the Russian army that was in Bucha,”
Macron told the France Inter broadcaster after the discovery of mass
graves and hundreds of dead people northwest of Kyiv.“The scenes are
unbearable. International justice must work. Those who were behind these
crimes must respond,” he said.Local authorities said they had been
forced to dig communal graves to bury the dead accumulating in the
streets, including some found with their hands bound behind their backs,
in scenes that sent shockwaves through international capitals more than
a month into Russia’s invasion.Macron called for progress on further
moves towards sanctions at the European Union level which he said could
target the Russian oil and coal industries.“What happened in Bucha makes
a new round of sanctions, and very clear measures, necessary,” Macron
said.France would coordinate such steps with its EU partners,
“especially Germany,” in the coming days, he said.Macron said that
targeting the oil and coal industries would be “particularly” painful
for Russia.The EU could also impose further sanctions against Russian
individuals, Macron added.
Liberman refuses to condemn Russia
over Bucha, citing ‘mutual accusations’Ukrainian ambassador rebukes
finance minister, says he’s welcome to ‘see for himself the bodies,’
Gantz calls killing of civilians in city near Kyiv a war crime-By Amy
Spiro-APR 4,22-Today, 10:25 am
Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman
refused to outright condemn alleged Russian atrocities in Bucha and
other cities surrounding Kyiv, stating on Monday that Israel must uphold
both its values and its own interests amid the ongoing war.Ukrainian
officials said Sunday that the bodies of more than 400 civilians were
found in towns around the capital, Kyiv, that were recaptured from
Russian forces, calling the killings evidence of genocide.In Bucha,
northwest of the capital, Associated Press journalists saw 21 bodies.
One group of nine, all in civilian clothes, were scattered around a site
that residents said Russian troops used as a base. They appeared to
have been shot at close range. At least two had their hands tied behind
their backs.“There are difficult images, and we all condemn all war
crimes,” Liberman told Army Radio on Monday morning, adding, however,
that “this is about mutual accusations.”Liberman, a native of Moldova,
noted that Russia has called for a UN Security Council meeting over the
situation in Bucha and has accused “Ukrainian radicals” of a “blatant
provocation” in the city outside Kyiv.“Russia is blaming Ukraine and
Ukraine is blaming Russia,” he said. “We condemn, but really what we
need to understand is that there is a bloody war and we must, on the one
hand, maintain Israel’s moral position and on the other hand preserve
the interests of the State of Israel.”Amid the war between Russia and
Ukraine, Liberman said, “I support first of all Israeli interests,”
alluding to Israel’s good relations with both countries, as well as the
Russian army’s presence in Syria, and noting his greater concern with
the ongoing Iran nuclear talks in Vienna.In response to Liberman’s
comments, Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Yevgen Korniychuk said the
finance minister could visit Bucha and see firsthand the atrocities in
the city.“I invite Mr. Liberman to come to Ukraine. We will take him
with a convoy to Bucha and to other places where he can see for himself
the bodies of civilians and meet the women who were tied up and raped,”
Korniychuk said in a statement. “Maybe then he will know what
happened.”Also Monday morning, Defense Minister Benny Gantz labeled the
situation a war crime, going further than Foreign Minister Yair Lapid’s
comments a day earlier.“I condemn carnage of this kind. It is certainly a
war crime,” Gantz told the Kan public radio of the situation in Bucha,
without naming Russia as the antagonist. The defense minister noted that
even during times of war, certain standards of conduct must be
maintained.“Unfortunately, citizens may be harmed during fighting, but
they cannot be murdered during fighting,” Gantz added, saying that the
situation in Bucha “appears to be something very, very severe.”Despite
Israeli criticism of Russian activity, Gantz maintained that the IDF
will remain active in Syria, where Russia partially controls the
airspace: “We will continue to operate anywhere in the Middle East that
we need to operate.”On Sunday, Lapid tweeted that it “it is impossible
to remain indifferent in the face of the horrific images from the city
of Bucha near Kyiv, after the departure of the Russian army.”He added:
“Intentionally harming a civilian population is a war crime and I
strongly condemn it.”Lapid’s tweet did not explicitly accuse Russia of
war crimes. Israel has used careful diplomatic language in relation to
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, seeking to maintain good ties with Moscow
as well as Kyiv.Lapid’s post came hours after his office refused to
comment on potential Russian war crimes, in response to comments by
Israel’s ambassador to Ukraine.“Deeply shocked by the photos from Bucha.
Killing of civilians is a war crime and cannot be justified,” Israeli
envoy Michael Brodsky wrote. But a spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry
told Haaretz that Brodsky had been speaking for himself and highlighted
that the envoy “did not blame Russia.”AP contributed to this report.
6
arrested during 4th night of clashes between police and Palestinians in
Jerusalem-Police say suspects hurled stones and other items at officers
at Damascus Gate, as tensions remain high in capital during Ramadan and
after a series of terror attacks-By Emanuel Fabian and TOI staff-6
April 2022, 1:14 am
Police said six Palestinians were detained
during clashes at the Damascus Gate entrance to Jerusalem’s Old City on
Tuesday, as Palestinians gathered to celebrate Ramadan.The suspects
hurled stones and other items and launched fireworks at officers, police
said.It was the fourth night in a row of scuffles at Damascus Gate, an
entrance to the Old City’s Muslim Quarter, a frequent point of friction
and the site of many past terror attacks.“Whoever chooses to disturb the
order, riot, and engage in violence of any kind, harms first and
foremost the large public of worshipers, merchants, and visitors, the
vast majority of whom wished to celebrate Ramadan in peace and security,
while maintaining freedom of worship,” police said in a statement.“We
will not allow those inciting and violent margins [of society] to
disrupt order. We call on the public to mark the month of Ramadan
legally, obey police instructions, and avoid violence and disturbances
of any kind,” the statement said.Separately, police said officers
dispersed a mass brawl that broke out in the area. No injuries were
reported.Israeli security forces have been on edge following a spate of
deadly terror attacks that killed 11 people in Israel late last month.
Authorities had also feared violence during Ramadan, often a period of
unrest and high tension in the capital.On Monday, eight Palestinians
were detained during clashes at Damascus Gate for throwing objects at
officers. Saturday and Sunday also saw some clashes and at least 14
arrests.Foreign Minister Yair Lapid toured the Damascus Gate area with
Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai on Sunday in a visit seen by both
Palestinians and some of his coalition partners as provocative.Prime
Minister Naftali Bennett said Tuesday that the recent attacks should
serve as a wake-up call, and that more than 15 attacks have been
thwarted recently.A report on Monday said security forces arrested 14
East Jerusalem residents in the past three days for planning attacks or
inciting others to carry out attacks.The Channel 12 report also said
police believe they can contain clashes at Damascus Gate if they remain
at the scale of the previous two nights.The Defense Ministry said
Tuesday that some restrictions on West Bank Palestinian movement will be
loosened for prayers for Ramadan, after the recent attacks raised the
prospect of the gesture being canceled.Defense Minister Benny Gantz told
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in a phone call on
Tuesday night that the measures could be expanded further if the terror
wave did not continue.
Report: Jewish CEO of ‘Russia’s Google’
leaves country for Israel over war-‘I cannot work in a country that is
at war with its neighbors,’ Yandex’s Bunina is said to have written
before moving-By TOI staff-APR 5,22-Today, 11:52 pm
Elena Bunina,
a Russian-Jew who in recent years headed top Russian tech company
Yandex, has stepped down as the firm’s CEO and has moved to Israel due
to the ongoing war in Ukraine, according to media reports.Last week,
Reuters reported that Bunina has decided to step down as chief executive
of Yandex LLC, Russia’s largest tech company that has been dubbed
“Russia’s Google,” two weeks before her tenure was set to expire.The
report did not specify the reasons behind Bunina’s sudden departure from
the company, where she had served as CEO since 2017.Following her
departure from Russia, Russian media shared an unconfirmed screenshot of
a statement she allegedly made, writing in an internal company forum
that she “will not return” to Russia, adding, “I cannot work in a
country that is at war with its neighbors.”On Tuesday, the Haaretz
newspaper confirmed previous speculations about Bunina’s whereabouts,
citing unnamed sources with knowledge of her whereabouts who said she
was indeed in Israel.Bunina had also voiced her opposition to the
Russian invasion of Ukraine in the early days of the offensive, writing
in a Facebook post that she was against “blood and war,” according to
Haaretz.Elena Bunina, CEO/HR-director within the Russia division of
Yandex, resigns and leaves for Israel."I will not return. I cannot work
in a country that wages war against its neighbors."
pic.twitter.com/qh8Gg3J8lp — Anatoly Karlin (????,????) (@akarlin0)
April 3, 2022-According to one source cited by Haaretz, Bunina has been
in Israel for several weeks now and does not plan on returning to
Russia.According to sources cited by The Marker, Bunina is not working
at the Israeli branch of Yandex, as some reports in Russian media had
previously indicated.It was unclear whether Bunina holds Israeli
citizenship or is in the process of becoming a citizen under Israel’s
Law of Return.She wouldn’t be the first Russian figure to move to Israel
amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On Monday, the Ynet news site
reported that Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov had recently arrived
in Israel and had filed all the necessary paperwork to become an
Israeli citizen.There has been an increase in immigration from Ukraine,
Russian, and Belarus since Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine on
February 24.
US plans fresh sanctions on Russia, including ban on
all new investments-New measures expected to be rolled out in
coordination with other allies, as global outrage grows over killings,
devastation in Kyiv suburb Bucha-By AAMER MADHANI and Josh Boak-APR
5,22-Today, 11:52 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and
western allies plan to pile additional sanctions on Russia on Wednesday
after the emergence of troubling new evidence of war crimes in Ukraine, a
US official said Tuesday. The new penalties will include a ban on all
new investment in Russia.Among the other measures being taken against
Russia are greater sanctions on its financial institutions and
state-owned enterprises, and sanctions on government officials and their
family members. The official insisted on anonymity to discuss the
forthcoming announcement.Separately, the Treasury Department moved
Tuesday to block any Russian government debt payments with US dollars
from accounts at US financial institutions, making it harder for Russia
to meet its financial obligations.US President Joe Biden and allies have
worked together to levy crippling economic penalties against Russia for
invading Ukraine more than a month ago, including the freezing of
central bank assets, export controls, and the seizing of property,
including yachts, that belong to Russia’s wealthy elite. But calls for
increased sanctions intensified this week in response to the attacks,
killings, and destruction in the Ukrainian city of Bucha.The official
said the sanctions would further Russia’s economic, financial and
technological “isolation” from the rest of the world as a penalty for
its attacks on civilians in Ukraine. That isolation is a key aspect of
the US strategy, which is premised on the idea that Russia will
ultimately lack the resources and equipment to keep fighting a prolonged
war in Ukraine.An increasingly desperate Russia has engaged in military
tactics that have outraged much of the wider global community, leading
to charges that it is committing war crimes and causing other
sanctions.Still, almost all of the EU has refrained from an outright ban
on Russian oil and natural gas that would likely crush the Russian
economy. The US has banned fossil fuels from Russia, while Lithuania
blocked natural gas from that country on Saturday, becoming the first of
the 27-member EU to do so. The EU executive branch on Tuesday proposed a
ban on Russian coal, while Germany’s government intends to end its use
of Russian natural gas over the next two years.On Monday, Biden called
for his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to be tried for war crimes
and face new sanctions because of the atrocities and abuses seen around
Kyiv after Russian forces pulled back from the Ukrainian capital. The
corpses of what appeared to be civilians were seen strewn in yards, many
of them likely killed at close range.Biden said the US and its allies
would gather details for a war crimes trial, stressing that Putin has
been “brutal” and his actions “outrageous.”Associated Press journalists
saw dozens of bodies in Bucha on the outskirts of Kyiv. There were at
least 13 bodies in and around a building that local people said Russian
troops used as a base. Three other bodies were found in a stairwell, and
a group of six were burned together.Many victims seen by AP appeared to
have been shot at close range. Some were shot in the head. At least two
had their hands tied. A bag of spilled groceries lay near one victim.
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