Excommunicated Archbishop Warns Pope & Globalists Conspiring to Destroy the Church.

 Excommunicated Archbishop Warns Pope & Globalists Conspiring to Destroy the Church.

A FALSE PROPHET COMES FROM THE VATICAN ALSO AT THIS TIME.

ISAIAH 23:15-17
15  And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
16  Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
17  And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.(COULD THIS BE 70 YEARS AFTER ISRAEL BECAME A NATION IN 1948)(IF SO THIS SATANIC ONE WORLD WHORE CHURCH WILL MINGLE TOGETHER BY 2018)(AND NOW ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY AND ALL RELIGIONS ARE MINGLING AS ONE PEACE-LOVE-JOY-GET ALONG RELIGION LEAD BY THE VATICAN RIGHT NOW 4 YEARS FROM THE 70 YEAR TIME WHEN ISRAEL BECAME A NATION).AND IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM.

REVELATION 13:11-18
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;(FALSE VATICAN POPE) and he had two horns like a lamb,(JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD) and he spake as a dragon.(HES SATANICALLY INSPIRED,HES A CHRISTIAN DEFECTOR FROM THE FAITH)
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,(WORLD DICTATOR) and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.(THE WORLD DICTATOR CREATES A FALSE RESURRECTION AND IS CROWNED LEADER OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER).
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
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 17:1-18
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,(VATICAN IN POLITICS) and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman (FALSE CHURCH) was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,(VATICAN COLOURS)(ANOTHER REASON WE KNOW THE FALSE POPE COMES FROM THE VATICAN) and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:(THE VATICAN GOES AGAINST A PRIEST MARRING A WOMAN-LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS-AND WHATS AN ABOMINATION AGAINST GOD-HOMOSEXUALITY AND PEDOPHILIA JUST LIKE THIS SCRIPTURE SAYS-FORNICATION IS THE SINGLE HOMOSEXUAL PRIESTS IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HAVING UNMARRIED FORNICATION OR SEX WITH SINGLES-IN THIS CASE ITS SEX WITH CHILDREN OR PEDOPHILIA)
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.(THE VATICAN IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS OR MOUNTAINS)
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen,(1-ASSYRIA,2-EGYPT,3-BABYLON,4-MEDO-PERSIA,5-GREECE) and one is,(IN POWER IN JOHNS AND JESUS DAY-6-ROME) and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.(7TH-REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE OR THE EUROPEAN UNION TODAY AND THE SHORT SPACE IS-THE EUROPEAN UNION WILL HAVE WORLD CONTROL FOR THE LAST 3 1/2 YEARS.BUT WILL HAVE ITS MIGHTY WORLD POWER FOR THE FULL 7 YEARS OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD.AND THE WORLD DICTATOR WILL BE THE BEAST FROM THE EU.AND THE VATICAN POPE WILL BE THE WHORE THAT RIDES THE EUROPEAN UNION TO POWER.AND THE 2 EUROPEAN UNION POWER FREAKS WILL CONTROL AND DECIEVE THE WHOLE EARTH INTO THEIR DESTRUCTION.IF YOU ARE NOT SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS.YOU WILL BE DECIEVED BY THESE TWO.THE WORLD POLITICIAN-THE EUROPEAN UNION DICTATOR.AND THE FALSE PROPHET THAT DEFECTS CHRISTIANITY-THE FALSE VATICAN POPE.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.(VATICAN-CATHOLICS ALL AROUND THE WORLD OVER 1 BILLION)
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.(GOD HIMSELF GIVES THE OK TO NUKE THE VATICAN)
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.(VATICAN)

Excommunicated Archbishop Warns Pope & Globalists Conspiring to Destroy the Church-Infowars.com-July 7th 2024, 12:31 pm

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who was recently excommunicated by the Vatican for exposing its globalist ties, issued a dire warning last week that the Church is under attack by globalist forces.“The Fourth Revolution theorized by Klaus Schwab and the family of international finance find in [Pope Francis] Bergoglio not a neutral spectator, which would itself already be an unheard of thing, but actually a zealous cooperator who abuses his own moral authority in order to support ab extra, outside the Church the project of the dissolution of traditional society,” Viganò said in a video statement.Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, excommunicated from the Church by order of Pope Francis, issued a grave warning, alleging that the pope is an enthusiastic collaborator in the Great Reset.He claims that the pope's goal is to dismantle the Church and replace it with an… pic.twitter.com/u5wM9hIC8D— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) July 6, 2024-“While ab intra, within the Church, he pursues the project of the demolition of the Church in order to replace her with a philanthropic organization of Masonic inspiration.”“And it is scandalous. This applies to both, to civil and ecclesiastical world, confirming the criminal conspiracy between the Deep State and the Deep Church,” he said.Power up with Nitric Boost that’s now 40% OFF! This potent formula gives you the massive edge in strength and superior circulation for that unparalleled performance you've been looking for! “It seems to me that in this conspiracy the role of the Jesuit has been decisive, it is no coincidence that for the first time in history, a religious of the Society of Jesus is seated on the throne of Peter,” he added.Viganò has been openly critical of Pope Francis, including his handling of sexual abuse allegations, support for COVID-19 vaccines, the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset, and the promotion of an “inclusive, immigrationist, eco-sustainable, and gay-friendly” church.The former papal ambassador to the U.S. also called into questions Francis’ legitimacy as the pontiff.For his criticisms, Viganò has been excommunciated for schism, which is defined as the withdrawal of submission to the supreme pontiff or from communion with the members of the Church subject to him.“His public statements manifesting his refusal to recognize and submit to the Supreme Pontiff, his rejection of communion with the members of the Church subject to him, and of the legitimacy and magisterial authority of the Second Vatican Council are well known,” the Vatican said in a statement issued after the ruling of the Dicastry for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Vatican excommunicates Archbishop Viganò for refusing to recognize Pope Francis-In a rare trial, the Vatican acted against Carlo Maria Viganò, a former ambassador to the U.S. and one of Pope Francis’s most vociferous internal critics.By Anthony Faiola-Stefano Pitrelliand Michelle Boorstein-Published July 5, 2024 at 8:55 a.m. EDT

ROME — The Vatican on Friday excommunicated Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, exacting a severe punishment on the most vociferous internal critic of Pope Francis for refusing to recognize the authority of the pope and liberal reforms made by the Roman Catholic Church since the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s.Such drastic steps are exceedingly rare in the church and illustrated the extent to which Viganò — the Vatican’s former ambassador to the United States — is perceived to have crossed a line. He has called on the pope to resign and excoriated him in harsh terms, including calling him “a servant of Satan.”Viganò’s punishment suggests that Francis, who has faced conservative criticism since early in his papacy, may be losing patience with his sharpest critics in the church hierarchy who have challenged his papal authority in sometimes shocking and irreverent terms. It is also an indication of how Viganò has morphed over the years from being a critic of the pope and the church’s shortcomings on dealing with clerical abuse into a fringe conservative firebrand who has embraced conspiracy theories and recently retweeted a post from Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), claiming that “the covid vaccines are killing people.”The Vatican’s decision came after its disciplinary body, the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith, had issued a formal decree June 20, assigning the senior cleric to a penal canon trial for the “crime of schism” and “denial of the legitimacy of Pope Francis.”“His public statements manifesting his refusal to recognize and submit to the Supreme Pontiff, his rejection of communion with the members of the Church subject to him, and of the legitimacy and magisterial authority of the Second Vatican Council are well known,” the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith said in statement. “At the conclusion of the penal process, the Most Reverend Carlo Maria Viganò was found guilty of the reserved delict of schism.”The summary judgment by the Vatican can only be undone by a ruling of the pope or the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith acting in his name. The excommunication means that Viganò cannot officially accept Catholic sacraments including Communion, ordain priests or officiate Mass.He does not immediately lose his clerical title, though such a step — known as defrocking — could follow if he is deemed to be unrepentant, experts say. In 2006, for instance, the Vatican under Pope Benedict XVI excommunicated Emmanuel Milingo, a Zambian archbishop, who married a South Korean woman in a ceremony inside the Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon, conducted unauthorized exorcisms and established a movement for married priests. Three years later, he was defrocked.That step was probably not taken now “in the hopes that [Viganò] may repent,” said Davide Cito, a canon lawyer and deputy rector at Rome’s Pontifical University of the Holy Cross.For Viganò, repentance, at least for now, seems unlikely. The 83-year old Italian prelate did not even appear at his own trial, arguing that he did not recognize the authority of Francis or the Vatican officials under him to hold him accountable. On Friday, he posted on X that, as he does every month, he would say Mass for supporters in defiance of the Vatican’s ruling. He also called for “donations” to his Exsurge Domine foundation, which is offering “traditional training” to six seminarians, he said.The crime of schism is defined as a rupture with the church’s “unity” under the pope. The Vatican cited Viganò’s public statements that have “resulted in a denial of the elements necessary to maintain communion with the Catholic Church,” as well as his rejection of Francis’s “legitimacy” and the reforms laid out by the Second Vatican Council of the 1960s.Though church codes require clerical fealty, Francis has largely tolerated dissent for years. That, however, has begun to change, especially since the pope’s appointment last year of Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández — a fellow Argentine and a longtime ally of Francis — as the new head of the Vatican’s disciplinary arm.Since Fernandez’s appointment last summer, the Holy See has acted more swiftly to defend the pope. A major Francis critic, Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Tex., was stripped of his diocese, while another longtime critic, American Cardinal Raymond Burke, lost his pension and Rome apartment.Among the pope’s critics, though, Viganò was in a league of his own.Viganò for years was considered a darling of conservative U.S. Catholics wary of Francis and the more open church he represents.In 2015, Viganò, then the Vatican’s ambassador to the U.S., arranged for Francis to have a meeting with Kim Davis, a Kentucky clerk making headlines for refusing to give gay couples marriage licenses. The meeting, initiated by conservative evangelicals eager to highlight Davis’ plight, angered some Catholics and forced the pope’s aides to do damage control.Viganò was recalled as U.S. ambassador, or apostolic nuncio, in 2016. Two years later, he made headlines with a bombshell letter that latched on to a vulnerability of the church — its record of dealing with sexual abuse cases — to accuse Francis of misconduct. Francis, he asserted, had ignored early warnings about Cardinal Theodore McCar­rick, the former archbishop of Washington, D.C., who had just resigned from the College of Cardinals amid allegations that he sexually abused adults and minors for decades.Three weeks before the Vatican announced Viganò’s trial, the Italian prelate published fresh allegations on X claiming that Francis had committed the “same abuses” as McCar­rick when serving in a senior church position in Argentina. He offered no evidence.Viganò appeared to escalate his missives after a December ruling, authorized by Francis, allowing Catholic priests to conduct short blessings of people in same-sex relationships. He referenced the ruling in his lengthy response to the trial, writing, “Bergoglio authorizes the blessing of same-sex couples and imposes on the faithful the acceptance of homosexualism, while covering up the scandals of his protégés and promoting them to the highest positions of responsibility.”Alejandro Bermudez, founder of the Catholic News Agency and a longtime conservative Catholic journalist, said that many conservative Catholics who are extremely critical of Francis’s papacy appreciated some of Viganò’s “good points.” But they drew the line when Viganò directly claimed the pope wasn’t legitimate and began issuing hyperbolic attacks.“The key thing is the timeline," Bermudez said. “It goes from a very credible Viganò to a train wreck.”

Archbishop Gallagher: Promoting peace is true instrument of defense-Concluding his five-day visit to the Philippines, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Vatican Secretary for Relations with States, speaks to Filipino diplomats about the Holy See’s approach to diplomacy and advocacy for peace and human dignity over military might.By Isabella Piro-JUL 7,24

Faced with the conflicts that currently tear apart various parts of the world in a "third world war fought piecemeal", faced with the arms race, nuclear threats, and terrorism, we must “understand that defense is not solely about military might but also about fostering institutions and promoting agreements between peoples."Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Vatican Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations, offered this assessment on Friday as he concluded his five-day visit to the Philippines.Speaking at the headquarters of the Foreign Service Institute in Pasay City, the Archbishop provided a broad reflection on the Holy See's diplomacy in the contemporary international context, reiterating that talking about victory or defeat in our current context "is unrealistic."Instead, he noted, it is necessary to establish “a new, just order" that transcends divisions and looks toward the recognition of human dignity.This, added Archbishop Gallagher, is indeed the Holy See’s diplomatic approach, which seeks to "be a sign of hope" characterized by a "positive neutrality".He said such an approach, rather than pursuing power or dominance, is rooted in principles that " prioritize the welfare of all humanity, uphold human dignity, and advocate for lasting peace," while simultaneously defending "the common good, solidarity among nations, and subsidiarity."As a "relevant transnational player" and "sovereign and independent moral authority," the Holy See exercises its diplomatic action as soft power, confident "in moral persuasion" and "ethical leadership," with the aim of promoting “justice, peace, and solidarity on an international scale."Archbishop Gallagher said the Holy See is a "trustworthy" mediator, independent “from political alliances and blocs," and is therefore able to "build bridges where others see only insurmountable divides."In a central point of his speech, the Secretary for Relations with States focused on the efforts of Pope Francis to defend defending human rights, integral human development, care for our common home, and advocate for peace and nonviolence.These qualities, said the Archbishop, make the Pope a "primary actor" in Vatican diplomacy, which is itself "rooted in sincere openness" and founded on charity.In the face of the "crumbling trust among nations" and the increasing number and severity of "conflicts and wars," Archbishop Gallagher highlighted the global involvement of the Holy See.The Church, he said, " shares in the joys, sorrows, and concerns of people in this era," as stated by the Second Vatican Council, and contributes to steering nations and peoples away from "patterns of war, resentment, and hatred."Rather, he added, the Church encourages nations to "progress along the path of dialogue," guided by " guided by the rule of law as well as natural law, rather than the law of force."Archbishop Gallagher also emphasized the "moral responsibility" of pontifical diplomacy.He said this commitment is evident in various areas, including the defense of the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death; the safeguarding of Creation; the fight against the "throwaway culture" and the "globalization of indifference," accompanied by the promotion of the "culture of encounter" and the "globalization of fraternity."All this, reiterated Archbishop Gallagher, fits within the horizon of "Christian realism," where "the art of managing international relations is firmly grounded in the real world, addressing practical challenges and seeking tangible solutions."This entails prioritizing “the welfare, security, and stability of nations” over power or personal interests.In this regard, the Archbishop cited specific areas of exercise of Vatican diplomacy: access to the fundamental right to health; support for just economic policies; the fight against the "toxic scourge" of human trafficking; the promotion of multilateralism and the defense of religious freedom.On this latter point, Archbishop Gallagher recalled that "the Holy See upholds that religious freedom is not only a human right but also a vital path toward healing divisions and promoting global peace."He said the Holy See plays "a pivotal role in advocating for peace, reconciliation, and non-violent conflict resolution."Finally, Archbishop Gallagher recalled his time as Counselor of the Apostolic Nunciature in Manila from 1991 to 1995, as well as the visits of four Popes to the Philippines (St. Paul VI in 1970, St. John Paul II in 1981 and 1995, Pope Francis in 2015).He concluded by encouraging the Southeast Asian nation to continue its "crucial role" as a promoter of "regional cooperation" in Asia and as a builder of "a more humane and inclusive society."

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.

JESUS SHED HIS BLOOD FOR US THAT WE CAN BE SAVED FOREVER.AND DURING WW3 PEOPLES BLOOD WILL BE SHED AS A JUDGEMENT FOR HATING HIM AND ISRAEL.GOD IS NOT MOCKED.

ZEPHANIAH 1:2-3
2  I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.
3  I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.

PSALMS 97:3
3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.

EZEKIEL 5:15-17
15  So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the (ARAB/MUSLIM) nations that are round about thee,(ISRAEL) when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
16  When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
17  So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts,(WHEN RUSSIA/MUSLIMS GET DEFEATED THIER BODIES GET EATEN BY BIRDS,ANIMALS IN ISRAEL MIGRATION SEASON) and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee;(NUKES) and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.

REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)

ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire,(NUKES) and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity:(GOD/ISRAEL HATE AND BRAKING OF HIS COMMANDMENTS) the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die - 3 BILLION).

ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.

JOEL 2:3,30

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

REVELATION 9:18
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.(ATOMIC BOMBS)(RUSSIA CHINA DESTROYED BY ISRAELS ATOMIC BOMBS)

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.
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.
17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.

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)(50% OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE)
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.

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)

EZEKIEL 32:18-29 (NOTICE ALL THE COUNTRIES LAND PROMISED ISRAEL BY GOD ARE IN THE JORDAN VALLEY BURIED)
18 “Son of man, wail for the multitudes of Egypt, and consign her and the daughters of the mighty nations to the depths of the earth with those who descend to the Pit:
19 Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be placed with the uncircumcised! (IN HELL FIRES)
20 They will fall among those slain by the sword. The sword is appointed! Let them drag her away along with all her multitudes.
21 Mighty chiefs will speak from the midst of Sheol about Egypt and her allies: ‘They have come down and lie with the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword.’
22 Assyria (SYRIA) is there with her whole company; her graves are all around her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword.
23 Her graves are set in the depths of the Pit, and her company is all around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword—those who once spread terror in the land of the living.
24 Elam (IRAN) is there with all her multitudes around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword—those who went down uncircumcised to the earth below, who once spread their terror in the land of the living. They bear their disgrace with those who descend to the Pit.
25 Among the slain they prepare a resting place for Elam with all her hordes, with her graves all around her. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword, although their terror was once spread in the land of the living. They bear their disgrace with those who descend to the Pit. They are placed among the slain.
26 Meshech and Tubal (RUSSIA) are there with all their multitudes, with their graves all around them. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword, because they spread their terror in the land of the living.
27 They do not lie down with the fallen warriors of old, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were placed under their heads, whose shields rested on their bones, although the terror of the mighty was once in the land of the living.
28 But you too will be shattered and lie down among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword.
29 Edom (JORDAN) is there, and all her kings and princes, who despite their might are laid among those slain by the sword. They lie down with the uncircumcised, with those who descend to the Pit.THIS IS RIGHT FROM 93:

SECOND ANGEL: MIDDLE EAST
Then I saw that the second angel had a sickle in his hand, such as is used in harvesting.The second angel said: "Harvest time has come in Israel and the countries all the way to Iran."I saw those countries in a few split seconds."All of Turkey and those [inaudible] 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. I saw blood all over these countries. And I saw fire; Nuclear weapons 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. Water shall be scarce all over the Middle East. Rivers shall dry up, and men will fight for water in those countries."The angel showed me that the United Nations shall be broken in pieces because of the crisis in the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.

PSALMS 83:1-8 (GODS LAND PROMISED TO ISRAEL)
1 O God, do not remain silent;do not turn a deaf ear,do not stand aloof, O God.
2 See how your enemies growl,  how your foes rear their heads.
3 With cunning they (ARAB,MUSLIMS) conspire against your people;they plot against those you cherish.(ISRAELIS)
4 “Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.”
5 With one mind they plot together;(TREATIES) they form an alliance against you—
6 the tents of Edom (JORDAN)  and the Ishmaelites, (EGYPTIAN ARABS SO CALLED PALESTIANS) of Moab (JORDAN) and the Hagrites,(EGYPT)
7 Byblos,(HEZBOLLOH) Ammon (JORDAN) and Amalek,(SYRIAN ARABS IN THE SINAI) Philistia,(ARABS) with the people of Tyre (LEBANON).
8 Even Assyria (SYRIA) has joined them to reinforce Lot’s descendants.

IDF major killed in Rafah; military orders fresh evacuations as fighting continues-Slain officer named as Maj. Jalaa Ibrahem; brigade commander moderately hurt in separate Rafah battle; Hamas civil defense agency says deputy labor minister killed in strike-By Emanuel Fabian-Today, 9:33 pm-JUL 7,24

The military announced Sunday that an Israel Defense Force officer was killed during fighting in southern Gaza’s Rafah as the country marked nine months since the October 7 massacre.The loss of Maj. Jalaa Ibrahem, 25, a company commander in the Combat Engineering Corps’ 601st Battalion, from the Druze town of Sajur, came during intense fighting  even as Israeli officials signaled that the military operation in the Strip’s southernmost city was drawing to a close, with Hamas’s formal military structure was close to being dismantled.Ibrahem’s death brought Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip to 326.Also on Sunday, the commander of the 401st Armored Brigade’s 52nd Battalion, Lt. Col. Daniel Ella, was moderately wounded during fighting in the Tel Sultan neighborhood of Rafah, amid a clash with gunmen, the military said.He was taken to a hospital in Israel and his family was notified, the army added.Meanwhile, during an ongoing operation in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood, the Israeli military called on Palestinians in several other neighboring areas to evacuate and head toward shelters in the western part of the city, near the coast.The zones included the Tuffah, Daraj, and Old City neighborhoods of Gaza City, according to a list published by Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman.Gaza civil defense says deputy head of Hamas ministry killedThe IDF said Sunday fighter jets struck a compound within a school in Gaza City where terror group operatives were gathered. A separate site in the school used by Hamas to manufacture weapons was also hit, it added.Before carrying out the strike, the IDF said it carried out “many steps” to mitigate harm to civilians, including using aerial surveillance and other intelligence.“The Hamas terror organization systematically violates international law, systematically exploiting civilian buildings and the civilian population as human shields for terror activity against the State of Israel,” the military added.Hamas’s civil defense agency said that the deputy head of the Hamas-run labor ministry, Ihab al-Ghussein, was killed in the strike. The military did not confirm Ghussein’s death in its statement.In Shejaiya, the IDF said troops with the 98th Division killed several gunmen, destroyed sites used by terror groups, and located weapons over the past day.The IDF also said it killed a terrorist who launched a rocket from the neighborhood at the Israeli border town of Nahal Oz on Saturday. The strike was carried out a short while after the rocket attack.Additionally, the IDF released footage of soldiers of the Paratroopers Brigade’s reconnaissance unit battling Hamas gunmen in the area.Bodycam footage showed paratroopers engaged in a close-quarters battle with several gunmen.Another clip from a drone showed the paratroopers identifying several more gunmen.The IDF said that, in all, seven gunmen were killed by the paratroopers and by tank shelling in the incident.In the southern Gaza Strip, the Khan Younis municipality building was hit by a drone strike overnight, with the military saying the site was used by Hamas operatives.According to the IDF, within the municipality building, there was a tunnel shaft that connected to Hamas’s underground network in Khan Younis. It also said the building was used by Hamas operatives as a staging ground.Before carrying out the strike, the IDF said it took “several steps” to mitigate harm to civilians, including evacuating Palestinians from the area.In southern Gaza’s Rafah, the IDF said troops with the 162nd Division killed more than 30 gunmen in close-quarters combat and by calling in airstrikes in the past day.Another airstrike in Rafah targeted a primed rocket launcher, the military added.Health officials in the Hamas-run enclave there said they had recovered three bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in the eastern part of the city.An Israeli airstrike on a house in the town of Zawayda, in central Gaza, killed at least six people and wounded several others, while six others were killed in an air strike on a house in western Gaza, the health officials said. The figures could not be verified.The war in Gaza was sparked on October 7, when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israel to kill nearly 1,200 people and take 251 hostages.Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry says more than 38,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far. The toll, which cannot be verified, does not distinguish between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 15,000 combatants in battle and some 1,000 terrorists inside Israel during the October 7 attack.As of Sunday, there was cautious optimism that Israel and Hamas were approaching a truce. The terror group said on Saturday that it had dropped a demand — long rejected by Jerusalem — that Israel commit to a permanent ceasefire before the two parties commence a deal, mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the United States, that would see a pause in the fighting and the release of hostages held in Gaza.At the same time, Hamas indicated it was seeking guarantees from mediators that the war would not be renewed.Negotiations have failed to secure a truce and release of captives since a weeklong ceasefire in November that saw 105 hostages freed in return for 240 Palestinian prisoners.Agencies contributed to this report.

Reporter's notebook-Rafah a dusty, rubble-strewn ghost town, as IDF pushes to dismantle Hamas holdouts-Most of those who were sheltering in Gaza’s southernmost city fled two months ago when troops entered; wrecked trucks along road into Rafah show perils of delivering crucial aid-By AP and ToI Staff Today, 7:53 pm-JUL 7,24

RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Two months ago, before Israeli troops invaded Rafah, the city sheltered most of Gaza’s more than 2 million people. Today it is a dust-covered ghost town.Abandoned, bullet-ridden apartment buildings have blasted out walls and shattered windows. Bedrooms and kitchens are visible from roads dotted with rubble piles that tower over the Israeli military vehicles passing by. Very few civilians remain.Israel says it has nearly defeated Hamas forces in Rafah — an area identified earlier this year as the terror group’s last stronghold in Gaza.The military invited foreign reporters into Rafah on Wednesday, the first time international media visited Gaza’s southernmost city since it was invaded on May 6. Israel has barred international journalists from entering Gaza independently since Hamas’s massacre on October 7 that sparked the war.Before pushing into Rafah, Israel said four of Hamas’s remaining battalions were holed up there, an area of about 25 square miles (65 square kilometers) that borders Egypt. Israel says hundreds of terrorists have been killed in its Rafah offensive. Scores of women and children have also died from Israeli airstrikes and ground operations, Palestinians say.The military says it has been necessary to operate with such intensity because Hamas turned civilian areas into treacherous traps. Eight soldiers were killed last month by a single blast.“Some of these tunnels are booby-trapped,” the military’s chief spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, said during Wednesday’s tour as he stood over a shaft that led underground. “Hamas built everything in a civilian neighborhood — among houses, among mosques, among the population — in order to create its terror ecosystem.”An estimated 1.4 million Palestinians crammed into Rafah after fleeing fighting elsewhere in Gaza. The UN estimates that around 50,000 remain in Rafah, which had a pre-war population of about 275,000.Most have moved to a nearby Israel-declared “humanitarian area” where conditions are grave. Many are clustering in squalid tent camps along the beach with scant access to clean water, food, bathrooms, and medical care.Efforts to bring aid into southern Gaza have stalled. After Israel captured Gaza’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt, Cairo refused to allow to reopen it until it was back under Palestinian control, in order to avoid being seen as complicit with Israel’s military operation in the southernmost Gaza city. The sides have been said to be discussing reopening the crossing since May.The UN says little aid can enter from the other main crossing — Kerem Shalom — because the route is too dangerous and convoys are vulnerable to attacks by armed groups searching for smuggled-in cigarettes.Israeli officials say enough aid is entering the Strip and lay the blame for the worsening humanitarian situation on aid agencies for failing to collect and distribute the aid.On Wednesday, a line of trucks on the Gaza side of Kerem Shalom was visible, but the trucks were hardly moving — a sign of how Israel’s pledge to keep the route safe in order to facilitate the delivery of aid inside Gaza has faced challenges.UN officials say some commercial trucks have braved the route into Rafah, but not without hired armed guards riding atop their convoys.Israel says it is close to dismantling Hamas as an organized military force in Rafah. In a reflection of that confidence, soldiers brought journalists in open-air military vehicles down the road that leads into the heart of the city.Along the way, debris lying by the side of the road made clear the perils of aid delivery: carcasses of trucks lying baking in the hot sun; dashboards covered in fencing meant to protect drivers; aid pallets lying empty.The longer the aid delivery is frozen, humanitarian groups say, the closer Gaza comes to running out of fuel, which is needed for hospitals, water desalination plants, and vehicles. But fuel deliveries are tightly controlled due to fears they could be appropriated by Hamas.“The hospitals are once again short on fuel, risking disruption of critical services,” said Dr. Hanan Balkhy, the World Health Organization’s regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean. “Injured people are dying because the ambulance services are facing delays due to fuel shortages.”As the humanitarian situation worsens, Israel is pushing ahead with its offensive. Combat in Rafah is ongoing.After journalists heard nearby gunshots on Wednesday, the soldiers told the group they would not be visiting the beach, as had been planned.The group departed the city soon after, with clouds of dust kicked up by vehicles temporarily obscuring the mass of destruction behind them.The war in Gaza was sparked on October 7, when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israel to kill nearly 1,200 people and take 251 hostages.Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry says more than 38,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far. The toll, which cannot be verified, does not distinguish between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 15,000 combatants in battle and some 1,000 terrorists inside Israel during the October 7 attack.Israel’s death toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 326.

Erdogan says Turkey may invite Syria’s Assad ‘at any moment’ as ties appear to thaw-Relations between countries froze when Ankara tried to topple Assad at start of Syrian civil war; Erdogan says Putin urged meeting amid a rise in violence against Syrian migrants-By Fulya Ozerkan Today, 5:00 pm-JUL 7,24

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday said he might invite his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad to Turkey “at any moment,” in a sign of reconciliation after the 2011 war broke ties between Ankara and Damascus.Erdogan’s comments come after tensions have mounted over the past week after a mob went on the rampage, vandalizing businesses and properties owned by Syrians in a central Anatolian city.“We may send an invitation (to Assad) at any moment,” Erdogan told journalists aboard a plane from Berlin where he watched Euro 2024, the official Anadolu news agency and other media reported.Turkey originally aimed to topple Assad’s regime when the Syrian conflict erupted with the violent suppression of peaceful protesters in 2011 and backed rebels calling for his ouster.But more recently, Ankara has shifted focus to preventing what Erdogan in 2019 dubbed a “terror corridor” from opening up in northern Syria.He has long said he could reconsider ties with Assad as his government is working to ensure safe and voluntary return of Syrian refugees.Speaking to journalists, Erdogan said some leaders including Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested to mediate a meeting with Assad in Turkey.“Now we have come to such a point that as soon as Bashar Assad takes a step towards improving relations with Turkey, we will show him the same approach,” Erdogan said.Turkish authorities this week detained over 470 people after anti-Syrian riots in several cities sparked by accusations that a Syrian man had allegedly harassed a Syrian minor in Kayseri.Erdogan on Monday blamed the opposition for stoking tensions and condemned the anti-Syrian violence as “unacceptable.”The fate of Syrian refugees is a burning issue in Turkish politics, with Erdogan’s opponents in last year’s presidential election promising to send them back to Syria.Turkey, which hosts some 3.2 million Syrian refugees according to UN data, has been shaken several times by bouts of xenophobic violence in recent years, often triggered by rumors spreading on social media and instant messaging applications.The riots in Kayseri spread to several other cities including Istanbul this week while clashes between armed protesters and guards of Turkish positions in Syria’s north killed seven people.Turkey has launched a string of offensives in Syria since 2016 targeting Kurdish militias, Islamic State group jihadists and forces loyal to Assad.Pro-Turkish forces in Syria now control two vast strips of territory along the border.On Monday, hundreds of Syrians demonstrated throughout the Ankara-controlled area, with some armed protesters attacking Turkish trucks and military posts, and taking down Turkish flags.Erdogan has vowed to reveal “which dirty hands” triggered the clashes in northern Syria.According to the Syrian Observatory, four border crossings with Turkey have been shut in the wake of the violence. There was no immediate confirmation by the Turkish government.

Iran arrests lawyer who criticized regime’s crackdown on women’s rights protests-Day after reformist wins presidency, Mohsen Borhani is held following his support for 2022 demonstrations sparked by death of Mahsa Amini-By AP Today, 4:28 pm-JUL 7,24

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates —An outspoken Iranian lawyer who has publicly criticized how the government handled the 2022 protests has been arrested, state media reported Sunday.The unrest at the time followed the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini who was detained by the police for allegedly not properly wearing her mandatory hijab.United Nations investigators said Iran is responsible for the physical violence that led to her death, which triggered massive protests that quickly escalated into calls to overthrow Iran’s four-decade-old Islamic theocracy.The Iranian judiciary’s Mizan news agency said Sunday that Mohsen Borhani had been previously sentenced but did not give further details on his case or jail time issued.Borhani, also a university professor, became popular on social media for his critical views of the Iranian government during the 2022 demonstrations that shook the Islamic Republic and sparked a security crackdown that killed more than 500 people and saw over 22,000 detained.The arrest came a day after reformist president Masoud Pezeshkian was elected to lead the country.Mohsen Borhani, Iranian lawyer and supporter of President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian has been arrested according to Vokalapress website, a specialized news platform focusing on the legal profession of judicial lawyers in Iran.During a speech during Pezeshkian’s campaign, Borhani… pic.twitter.com/HmZGQ4gKlO — Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) July 7, 2024-Pezeshkian promised to ease enforcement of the country’s mandatory headscarf law and reach out to the West after years of sanctions and protests squeezing the Islamic Republic.

American civilian among those seriously hurt-4 wounded, including 2 seriously in Hezbollah rocket, missile attacks on north-Terror group fires rare barrage of 20 rockets at Lower Galilee as a response to IDF strike killing key member of air defense unit in northeastern Lebanon a day earlier-By Emanuel Fabian-Today, 1:15 pm-JUL 7,24

Four people were wounded, including two seriously, in a series of Hezbollah rocket and missile attacks on northern Israel on Sunday, the military and medical officials said. An American civilian was among those seriously hurt.In the first attack, on Sunday morning, an Israeli man was seriously wounded after Hezbollah launched a rare barrage of some 20 rockets from Lebanon to target the Lower Galilee, some of the deepest strikes yet into northern Israel.The terror group claimed to have targeted an Israeli military base just west of Tiberias, some 30 kilometers (18 miles) from the Lebanon border, with dozens of rockets.Rocket sirens sounded as far as Sde Ilan, a community located some 35 kilometers (21 miles) from the Lebanon border.It marked Hezbollah’s deepest rocket attack in Israel amid the war. The terror group has launched explosive-laden drones at further ranges previously.According to the Israel Defense Forces, some of the 20 rockets launched in the barrage were intercepted by air defenses.One rocket impact, in an open area near the community of Kfar Zeitim, wounded a man, medics said.Surveillance camera footage shows the Hezbollah rocket impact near the northern community of Kfar Zeitim which seriously wounded an Israeli man. pic.twitter.com/wi3qZSnZrp— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) July 7, 2024-The Magen David Adom ambulance service said the 28-year-old was taken to Baruch Padeh Medical Center in Tiberias with serious shrapnel wounds.The rocket attack also sparked fires in several areas in northern Israel.The Fire and Rescue Service said it was battling blazes near Kidmat Galil Industrial Park, Kfar Zeitim, Lavi, and Hazorim.Hours later, a barrage of some 20 rockets was launched at the Mount Meron area, the IDF said. Hezbollah took responsibility, claiming to have launched dozens of rockets at a sensitive Israeli air traffic control base atop the mountain.Footage showed the Iron Dome air defense system shooting down some of the rockets, while others struck the mountain.Several rocket interceptions and impacts reported in the Mount Meron area, following a barrage launched from Lebanon by Hezbollah. https://t.co/9Yfq9iFLoO pic.twitter.com/BnxNqcCyCm-— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) July 7, 2024-Sirens sounded in several towns surrounding the mountain amid the attack, including Beit Jann.Hezbollah has attacked Mount Meron, located some eight kilometers (5 miles) from the Lebanon border, several times amid the ongoing war, launching large barrages of rockets at the mountain, as well as guided missiles at the air traffic control base.The terror group said the barrages were a response to the assassination of one of its members in an IDF drone strike in northeastern Lebanon a day prior.The strike on Saturday, around 100 kilometers from the Israeli border, killed a key member of Hezbollah’s air defense unit, the military said.Following the barrages, the IDF said it struck a building used by Hezbollah in Maaroub, in the Tyre district — around 20 kilometers from the Israeli border — and infrastructure in Naqoura.In a separate attack on Sunday, three people, including an IDF soldier, were wounded by anti-tank guided missiles fired against an army post near the northern community of Zar’it.According to the IDF, two missiles were fired from Lebanon in the attack.The three victims were taken to Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, where one, an American civilian aged 31, was listed in serious condition.The other two, an Israeli civilian and a soldier, were lightly hurt, according to the IDF and the hospital.The IDF said it was investigating why the two civilians were at the army post.Hezbollah took responsibility for the attack.In another barrage on Sunday, at least 10 rockets were fired toward the northern city of Safed. According to the IDF, all of the rockets struck open areas, causing no injuries.Earlier, another two anti-tank missiles were launched from southern Lebanon’s Ayta ash-Shab at the Shtula area in northern Israel.The IDF said no injuries were caused in the attack, and a short while later, fighter jets struck a building used by Hezbollah to carry out the missile fire.Earlier on Sunday, a suspected drone was shot down by air defenses over the border community of Ramot Naftali, the IDF said.Sirens had sounded in the community at around 5:30 a.m., due to fears of falling shrapnel.There were no injuries in the incident.The IDF published footage showing the interception.Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there.So far, the skirmishes on the border have resulted in 10 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 16 IDF soldiers and reservists.Hezbollah has named 361 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 65 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have been killed.Israel has warned that it can no longer tolerate Hezbollah’s presence along its border, with tens of thousands of Israelis displaced from their homes in the north due to the rocket and drone attacks, and has warned that, should a diplomatic solution not be reached, it will turn to military action to push Hezbollah northward.While the political leadership has not yet made a decision on launching an offensive in Lebanon and turning the Gaza Strip into the secondary front, the IDF has said it continues to target Hezbollah commanders who were behind attacks on Israel.

Far-right minister extols ‘miracle period’ of settlement expansion-Orit Strock tells residents of recently legalized outpost that land appropriation still in the cards for as long as the government stands, a time period that’s ‘completely unclear’-By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol-Today, 11:40 am-JUL 7,24

Settlement and National Projects Minister Orit Strock told residents of a newly recognized West Bank settlement on Saturday night that she was delighted by the “miracle period” of settlement expansion ushered in by the government, but that she was unsure how long it would last.Army Radio on Sunday tweeted a video of Strock, of the far-right Religious Zionism party, making the comments in a chat with settlers from the Hebron Hills-area outpost Givat Hanan, which Israel legalized in the past week along with two other settlements. The move, which came together with Israel’s largest land appropriation in the West Bank since the 1993 Oslo Accords, followed the legalization of five other outposts in the disputed territory.While the international community considers all settlements illegal, Israel differentiates between settlement homes built and permitted by the Defense Ministry on land owned by the state, and illegal outposts built without the necessary permits, often on private Palestinian land. In recent years, though, the government has increasingly sought to regulate the wildcat outposts, rather than demolish them.Speaking to Givat Hanan residents, Strock waxed lyrical about “what we’ve accomplished just in the past several months,” adding that “the hand is still outstretched” for land appropriation as long as the government, “with God’s help,” still stood.“And it’s unclear that it will stay standing, completely unclear,” Strock added.Nonetheless, she said, “from my point of view, this is like a miracle period.“I feel like someone standing at a traffic light, and then it turns green,” she told the settlers.“We want to accomplish as much as possible, in the Land of Israel at large, and as much as we can in the Hebron Hills specifically,” added Strock, referring to the southern West Bank region that serves as the patriarchs’ backdrop in the Hebrew Bible.“In my eyes, it’s really a sacred task,” she concluded.Strock’s assessment of the “miracle period” raised some eyebrows given the war in Gaza and tens of thousands of Israelis who have been displaced from their homes in the north and in the south.Strock’s office responded in a statement that she was focused on “strengthening settlement in areas where our enemies are making a greater effort to harm it.”“After decades in which the Palestinian Authority has invested more in the Hebron Hills than Israeli governments have, we are blessed that the government is developing this strategic area,” the statement said, adding that Strock was also tending to the displaced Israelis.Strock, herself a settler from Hebron, had previously come under fire for reportedly saying, “First of all, happy holiday” as the government convened on October 7, which coincided with Simchat Torah, as thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israel to kill nearly 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza.Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, the leader of Strock’s party, is virulently opposed to the PA, and has advocated annexing the West Bank as a punitive measure against what he describes as Ramallah’s actions against Israel, most recently at the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court.Speaking to reporters in the Knesset last Monday, Smotrich — who believes that a Palestinian state poses “an immediate, existential danger to the State of Israel” — said that he was working to “remove [such a state] from the agenda by establishing facts on the ground.”Israel has controlled the West Bank since conquering it in the Six Day War in 1967. The country has not annexed the territory.Jeremy Sharon contributed to this report.

FM: Iran election results a ‘clear message’ to ayatollahs, world must blacklist IRGC-Katz casts win of reformist Pezeshkian as defeat for Islamist leadership; urges international community ramp up pressure on Tehran over nuclear program, support for terror groups-By ToI Staff and Agencies Today, 6:12 am-JUL 7,24

Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Saturday commented on the win of reformist Masoud Pezeshkian in Iran’s presidential elections, casting it as a defeat for the country’s Islamist leadership and urging the international community to ramp up the pressure.“The people of Iran have sent a clear message of demand for change and opposition to the Ayatollah regime through the elections,” Katz wrote on X after Pezeshkian received more than 16 million votes, around 54 percent, while his rival, ultraconservative Saeed Jalili, took more than 13 million, roughly 44%, out of about 30 million votes cast in the second round of the presidential elections.“Now the world must designate the IRGC as a terrorist organization and demand the cancellation of the nuclear program and the cessation of support for terrorist organizations. This is the only chance to realize the change,” Katz added.The polls came against a backdrop of heightened regional tensions due to the war in Gaza, a dispute with the West over Iran’s nuclear program, and domestic discontent over the state of Iran’s sanctions-hit economy.A presidential election was not due until 2025, but was called early after the death of ultraconservative Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash in May.Under Raisi, Iran had sought improved relations with China and Russia while mending ties with Arab neighbors, chiefly Saudi Arabia, to avert deeper isolation.Saudi Arabia led Gulf states in congratulating Pezeshkian. Both Russia and China expressed hopes for further reinforcement of ties.European Union spokeswoman Nabila Massrali congratulated Pezeshkian on his election, adding that the 27-member bloc was “ready to engage with the new government in line with EU policy of critical engagement.”In the mausoleum of Imam Khomeini in southern Tehran, Pezeshkian gave a speech thanking his supporters, saying their votes have “given hope to a society plunged into an atmosphere of dissatisfaction.”“I did not give false promises in this election,” said Pezeshkian, flanked by former foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.“I didn’t say anything that I wouldn’t be able to do tomorrow.”In an earlier post on X, Pezeshkian said the vote was the start of a “partnership” with Iran’s people.Pezeshkian is a 69-year-old heart surgeon whose only previous government experience was as health minister about two decades ago.He has called for “constructive relations” with Western countries — “except for Israel” — to “get Iran out of its isolation.” He favors reviving the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and global powers, from which the US unilaterally withdrew in 2018. The deal aimed to curb nuclear activity which Tehran maintains is for peaceful purposes.In Tehran, there were no obvious celebrations on Saturday after the final results were announced, but state TV showed large crowds waving the Iranian flag in the northwestern city of Tabriz, which Pezeshkian had represented in parliament since 2008.

Nasrallah congratulates Iran’s Pezeshkian on presidential victory-Hezbollah leader praises Tehran’s support for its ‘resistance groups’ in congratulatory letter to reformist who said he wants warm relations with all countries ‘except for Israel’-By AFP and ToI Staff Today, 2:14 am-JUL 7,24

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah congratulated Iranian president-elect Masoud Pezeshkian on Saturday on his victory, emphasizing Tehran’s role as a “strong” supporter of regional “resistance” groups.In a letter circulated on the Iran-backed terror group’s social media channels, Nasrallah congratulated Pezeshkian on his “blessed election” by the Iranian people.“We in Hezbollah and in all the resistance groups in the region… always look to the Islamic Republic of Iran as a strong, stable and permanent support,” the letter read.Tehran provides financial and military support to the Lebanon-based Hezbollah, which was created at the initiative of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps after Beirut was besieged by Israel in 1982 during Lebanon’s civil war.The Shiite Muslim movement is a key part of the so-called Axis of Resistance — an alliance of pro-Iran terror groups and militias that oppose the existence of Israel as well as the United States and the West in General.In addition to Hezbollah, Iran’s proxies include the Palestinian terror group Hamas, which Israel has been battling in Gaza since the October 7 terror onslaught in southern Israel, as well as the Houthi rebels in Yemen and armed militias in Iraq.Iranian reformist candidate Pezeshkian, who advocates improved ties with the West “except for Israel,” won a runoff presidential election against ultraconservative Saeed Jalili, the Iranian interior ministry said on Saturday.The election came against a backdrop of heightened regional tensions due to the war in Gaza, a dispute with the West over Iran’s nuclear program, and domestic discontent over the state of Iran’s sanctions-hit economy.The death of ultraconservative president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash back in May necessitated the election, which had not been due until 2025.Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there.So far, the skirmishes on the border have resulted in 10 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 16 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.Hezbollah has named 361 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 65 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have been killed.Hezbollah is the only Lebanese faction to have retained its weapons after the country’s 1975-1990 civil conflict.Its members have long fought in Syria’s civil war in support of President Bashar al-Assad, who earlier Saturday also sent his congratulations to Iran’s president-elect.

IDF says it struck UNRWA school in Gaza used by Hamas as command center-Army says ‘great efforts’ taken to protect civilians at the scene; Hamas says strike killed 16; sirens in south as rockets fired-By Emanuel Fabian,ToI Staff and Agencies 6 July 2024, 8:54 pm

The Israel Defense Force on Saturday confirmed carrying out an airstrike at a United Nations-run school in the central Gaza Strip, saying the facility was used by Hamas operatives as a command center.The school was sheltering many people displaced by the war. Before carrying out the strike against UNRWA’s al-Jaouni school in the Nuseirat refugee camp, the IDF said it took “many steps” to mitigate harm to civilians, including using aerial surveillance and other intelligence. Hamas health authorities said 16 people were killed in the strike and some 50 were wounded.At the scene, Ayman al-Atouneh said he saw children among the dead. “We came here running to see the targeted area, we saw bodies of children, in pieces, this is a playground, there was a trampoline here, there were swing-sets, and vendors,” he told Reuters.Hamas’s press office claimed most of the casualties were “children, women, and elderly.”The strike came amid rocket fire from Gaza into southern Israel, as the military took out rocket launchers and other terrorist infrastructure across the Strip, killing several Hamas operatives in airstrikes and ground fighting.Sirens sounded in Sderot, Ibim, Nir Am and Nahal Oz, southern communities near the Gaza Strip. According to the IDF, a rocket fired at Nahal Oz and two fired at Sderot all struck open areas and there were no reports of injuries.The rocket attacks came after the IDF announced troops had killed a number of gunmen and destroyed several Hamas tunnels over the weekend. Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, which does not distinguish between civilian and combatant deaths, said at least 87 people had been killed by Israel in the past 48 hours, alleging these included aid workers and journalists.Israel was also said to hit a house housing displaced Palestinians in Nuseirat.The IDF on Saturday confirmed striking a Hamas rocket launcher in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah the day before, adjacent to a shelter for displaced Palestinian civilians, while taking precautions to avoid hitting civilians.The armed wings of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad said their operatives had fired anti-tank rockets and mortar bombs at Israeli forces in several locations.The conflict raged amid cautious optimism that Israel and Hamas were approaching a truce. The terror group said on Saturday that it had dropped a demand — long rejected by Jerusalem — that Israel commit to a permanent ceasefire before the two parties commence a deal, mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the United States, that would see a pause in the fighting and the release of hostages held in Gaza.At the same time, Hamas indicated it was seeking guarantees from mediators that the war would not be renewed.Negotiations have failed to secure a truce and release of captives since a weeklong ceasefire in November that saw 105 hostages freed in return for 240 Palestinian prisoners.Fighting continues across the Strip-In the Strip’s north, troops with the 98th Division battled several cells of gunmen over the past day in Gaza City’s Shejaiya camp. The army said soldiers also located and demolished tunnel shafts and booby traps.Troops with the 7th Armored Brigade located long-range rockets during operations in Shejaiya, the army said. According to the IDF, the finding “indicates renewed attempts by the enemy to establish itself in the area.”In one incident in Shejaiya, the military said soldiers from the Paratroopers Brigade spotted a Hamas cell attempting to ambush them. An exchange of fire saw all of the operatives killed and no troops wounded, according to the IDF.In another incident in Gaza City, the army said it carried out an airstrike against a three-man cell armed with rocket-propelled grenade (RPGs).Shejaiya is among the areas the military had previously declared to be cleared of Hamas, but where fighting is again taking place. Ground fighting has raged in the neighborhood for the past two weeks, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes. Many have sheltered in the Yarmouk Sports Stadium, one of the Strip’s largest soccer arenas,In central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah, the IDF said it carried out an airstrike on a Hamas rocket launcher positioned within the Israeli-designated humanitarian zone.According to the IDF, the rocket launcher was adjacent to a shelter for displaced Palestinian civilians. Before the drone strike, the military said it carried out “significant efforts” to mitigate harm to civilians, including warning civilians in the area ahead of time.The Associated Press reported that prayers were held in Deir al-Balah for 12 Palestinians, including five children and two women, killed in three separate strikes in central Gaza on Friday and Saturday, according to hospital officials. The bodies were taken to al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, where AP journalists counted them.Elsewhere in central Gaza, in the Nuseirat refugee camp, an Israeli airstrike on a house killed 10 Palestinians, medics said.Two of those killed on Friday in a strike that hit the Deir al-Balah-area were employees of UNRWA, the agency’s director of communications told the AP.  Juliette Touma of the UNRWA said a total of 194 workers with the agency had been killed since October.Earlier this week, an Israeli evacuation order in the southern city of Khan Younis and the surrounding areas affected about 250,000 Palestinians. Many headed to Deir al-Balah and to the Israeli-declared safe zone centered on the Mawasi coastal area.In southern Gaza’s Rafah, troops with the 162nd Division continued to battle gunmen, destroy Hamas targets — including tunnels — and locate weapons over the past day, the IDF said.The Hamas-run Interior Ministry said four police officers were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Rafah. The ministry, which oversees civilian police, said the officers were killed during a foot patrol securing properties. It said eight other police officers were wounded. The IDF did not immediately respond to questions.A statement issued by the Hamas-run interior ministry said the slain policemen included Fares Abdel-Al, the head of the police force in the western Rafah neighborhood of Tel Al-Sultan.Israel has said its operations in Rafah are necessary to eradicate the last battalions of Hamas’s armed wing. Israel’s allies, including the US, long warned against maneuvering in the densely populated area, where over a million Palestinians flocked in the war’s early days after being displaced from Gaza’s north and center. On Israel’s orders, the majority of Rafah’s residents have since evacuated to the Mawasi “safe zone.”Among those killed in separate airstrikes over the weekend were five local journalists, raising the death toll of journalists since October 7 to 158, according to the Hamas-led Gaza government media office.The war in Gaza was sparked on October 7, when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israel to kill nearly 1,200 people and take 251 hostages.Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry says more than 38,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far. The toll, which cannot be verified, does not distinguish between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 15,000 combatants in battle and some 1,000 terrorists inside Israel during the October 7 attack.Israel’s death toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 325.

IDF kills key member of Hezbollah air defense in strike deep inside Lebanon-Maytham al-Attar targeted by drone while driving some 100km from Israeli border; terror group launches four explosive drones at north-By Emanuel Fabian-6 July 2024, 10:44 pm

A prominent member of the Hezbollah terror group’s air defense unit was killed in an Israeli drone strike in northeastern Lebanon on Saturday.According to the Israel Defense Forces, Maytham Mustafa al-Attar was considered to be “a significant source of knowledge” in Hezbollah’s air defense unit and was involved in planning and carrying out attacks against Israel.The IDF said al-Attar obtained his knowledge during visits to Iran, and was involved in helping the Lebanese terror group procure Iranian weapons.Al-Attar was hit by a missile while driving near the entrance to the town of Shaat in the northeastern Baalbek district — a Hezbollah stronghold — around 100 kilometers from the Israeli border.The IDF said his death was “a blow to the capabilities of Hezbollah’s air defense unit.”Hezbollah announced al-Attar’s death, but not did not provide details on his role in the terror group.Hezbollah’s air defense unit has launched dozens of anti-aircraft missiles at Israeli Air Force drones and fighter jets amid ongoing fighting. So far, it has managed to shoot down five IAF drones over southern Lebanon.Following the strike in Baalbek, the IDF announced that fighter jets had also struck Hezbollah infrastructure and an observation post in southern Lebanon’s Houla, and another observation post in Odaisseh.Earlier Saturday, four explosive-laden drones were launched by Hezbollah from Lebanon at northern Israel, the military said.Two were shot down by air defenses over the Galilee Panhandle area, while the other two struck open areas near the northern community of Beit Hillel, according to the IDF.There were no injuries in the attack, which was claimed by Hezbollah. Sirens had sounded in several communities amid the incident.The IDF also released footage showing one of the drones being intercepted.Meanwhile, overnight, Israeli fighter jets and drones struck several Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, the IDF said Saturday morning.The targets included a building used by the terror group in Kafr Kila, several operatives in Bint Jbeil, and other infrastructure in Bint Jbeil and Yarine, according to the military.Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there.So far, the skirmishes on the border have resulted in 10 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 16 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.Hezbollah has named 361 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 65 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have been killed.Israel has warned that it can no longer tolerate Hezbollah’s presence along its border, with tens of thousands of Israelis displaced from their homes in the north due to the rocket and drone attacks, and has warned that, should a diplomatic solution not be reached, it will turn to military action to push Hezbollah northward.While the political leadership has not yet made a decision on launching an offensive in Lebanon and turning the Gaza Strip into the secondary front, the IDF has said it continues to target Hezbollah commanders who were behind attacks on Israel.

Hamas says it dropped demand Israel vow upfront to end war, but wants mediators’ guarantees-Terror group seeking commitments that fighting won’t restart, negotiations will continue; Israel reportedly displaying ‘tough stance’; CIA chief said set to join talks in Doha-By Agencies and ToI Staff 6 July 2024, 5:22 pm

Hamas has given initial approval for a US-backed proposal for a phased truce and hostage exchange deal in Gaza, dropping a key demand that Israel give an upfront commitment for a complete end to the war, a Hamas and an Egyptian official said Saturday.At the same time, a key stumbling block appeared to be Hamas’s desire for “written guarantees” from mediators that Israel will continue to negotiate a permanent ceasefire deal once the first phase of a ceasefire goes into effect.The Hamas representative told The Associated Press the group’s approval came after it received “verbal commitments and guarantees” from mediators that the war won’t be resumed and that negotiations will continue until a permanent ceasefire is reached.“Now we want these guarantees on paper,” he said.According to a Walla news report Friday, Mossad chief David Barnea informed Qatari mediators that Israel rejects Hamas’s demand for a written commitment from mediators that the negotiations regarding the second phase of the ceasefire can extend indefinitely if needed.Axios reported that Washington is working to reach a compromise on the matter that will be acceptable to both sides, and that CIA director Bill Burns will be traveling to Doha next week to join the negotiations.Cairo will also be hosting Israeli and US delegations to discuss “outstanding issues” in the potential agreement, according to Egypt’s state-affiliated Al Qahera News TV.Citing a senior official, Al Qahera News reported that Egypt was conducting also talks with Hamas to conclude the ceasefire and hostages-for-prisoners swap deal.Israel has voiced cautious optimism in recent days that Hamas’s position makes a deal more likely. A source in Israel’s negotiating team, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Friday there was now a real chance of achieving an agreement. That was in sharp contrast to past instances in the nine-month-old war in Gaza, when Israel said conditions attached by Hamas were unacceptable.Also Saturday, Haaretz cited an unnamed foreign source as saying that Israel had made new demands that may prolong the negotiations. It also quoted an unnamed Israeli source familiar with the negotiations as saying Israel had displayed a “tough stance” in the talks.“Hamas had already given its approval to the latest stance presented by Israel. But in the meeting on Friday, Israel presented new issues,” the foreign source was quoted as saying.Several outlets also reported that Israeli sources estimate that the talks are expected to go on for some three weeks.If an agreement is reached it could deliver the first pause in fighting since last November and set the stage for further talks on ending the devastating nine-month war.But all sides cautioned that a deal is still not guaranteed.The Hamas and Egyptian officials, who spoke on conditions of anonymity to discuss the ongoing negotiations, said Washington’s phased deal will first include a “full and complete” six-week ceasefire that would see the release of a number of hostages, including women, the elderly, and the wounded, in exchange for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. During these 42 days, Israeli forces would also withdraw from densely populated areas of Gaza and allow the return of displaced people to their homes in northern Gaza, the pair said.Over that period, Hamas, Israel, and mediators would also negotiate the terms of the second phase that could see the release of the remaining male hostages, both civilians and soldiers, the officials said. In return, Israel would free additional Palestinian prisoners and detainees. The third phase would see the return of any remaining hostages, including bodies of dead captives, and the start of a years-long reconstruction project.A Hamas source told Reuters the proposal ensures that mediators would guarantee a temporary ceasefire, aid delivery, and withdrawal of Israeli troops as long as indirect talks continue to implement the second phase of the agreement.Israel has sought to keep the wording on the transition between phase one and two of a deal vague enough to allow it to resume fighting against Hamas in Gaza if it chooses, while Hamas has sought to ensure that Israel will not be able to resume fighting once the sides agree to the initial six-week phase of the deal.Efforts to secure a ceasefire and hostage release in Gaza have gathered momentum as Barnea traveled to and from Qatar for negotiations and Hamas briefed Hezbollah on its latest proposal.Hamas on Friday announced that it rejects the presence of foreign forces in Gaza, potentially derailing international plans for the Strip’s postwar governance.Barnea had arrived in Doha at the head of a slimmed-down delegation to discuss the future of the talks and arrived back in Israel later in the day. Following Friday’s talks in Doha, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to dispatch an Israeli negotiating team for follow-up discussions next week in Qatar, the premier’s office said. The statement stressed that “gaps between the parties” remain.The Wall Street Journal on Friday cited an official familiar with the hostage talks who said Mossad officials had told mediators that they were optimistic the Israeli cabinet would accept the proposal currently under discussion.Netanyahu’s decision to resume talks reportedly outraged the coalition’s far-right flank, which threatened to topple the government if the war ends. Also on Friday, opposition figure Benny Gantz was said to offer Netanyahu a safety net for any “responsible proposal.”Negotiations mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the US have so far failed to secure a truce in Gaza and release of captives there, since a weeklong ceasefire in November saw Hamas free 105 hostages in return for 240 Palestinian prisoners. Israel believes 116 people remain in Hamas’s hands, though dozens of those are no longer alive.Israel’s spy chief had traveled Qatar for the latest effort to free hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, almost nine months after the Gaza war was sparked when the terror group led thousands in an assault on southern Israel that left nearly 1,200 people dead and saw 251 kidnapped.Barnea met with Qatar’s Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani.The White House said it welcomed Netanyahu’s decision to send a delegation on Friday.The decision came after a Thursday phone call in which US President Joe Biden urged Netanyahu to revive the talks. Walla quoted the US president as telling Netanyahu: “We believe there is a chance now” to bring the hostages home.The latest round of talks is based on an Israeli proposal outlined by Biden in a May 31 speech.Talks subsequently stalled, but a senior US official on Thursday said Hamas’s latest response “moves the process forward and may provide the basis for closing the deal,” though “significant work” remained.The US believed Israel and Hamas had a “pretty significant opening” to reach an agreement, the official said.Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman contributed to this report.

NATO, the US-led defence alliance.

Brussels, Belgium, July 7 (AFP) Jul 07, 2024-Born at the start of the Cold War, NATO -- the North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- is the world's biggest collective defence grouping with 32 members in Europe and North America.- How many divisions? -NATO's military forces come from its member countries, put under a unified Allied command each time it launches a mission.US forces are by far the biggest contingent. In Europe, there are some 79,000 US servicemen and women deployed, more than 48,000 of them in Germany, according to the Pentagon.The only military equipment NATO itself owns is a fleet of sensor-loaded AWACS planes and drones.Sweden became its newest member in March, swelling its potential ranks by 50,000 more troops -- around half of them reservists -- to more than three million, according to several specialised institutes.- Brussels HQ -NATO was created from a Washington Treaty signed on April 4, 1949. Its mission at the time was to counter the threat posed by the Soviet Union and to affirm the principle of mutual defence of its members.In a Madrid summit following Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the alliance adopted a new strategic concept designating Russia as "the gravest threat to Euro-Atlantic security".Its 12 founding nations (Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States) have been joined by others over succeeding years, up to Sweden's adhesion.NATO's first headquarters was in London, then it was moved to Paris before being transferred to Brussels in 1966 where it remains today. Its SHAPE military command is in Mons, also in Belgium.The alliance's head since 2014 has been Jens Stoltenberg, a 65-year-old former Norwegian prime minister. His term runs to the end of October this year -- when he will be succeeded by former Dutch premier Mark Rutte, 57.NATO's main decision-making body is the North Atlantic Council.- Article 5 -The core of NATO is Article 5 of its founding treaty which stipulates that an attack on one member is considered an attack on all.It has been invoked just once to date: in 2001, in a show of allies' support for the United States the day after it was hit by the September 11 attacks.NATO has carried out several missions over its history, including one in Afghanistan following the September 11, 2001 attacks. That came to an end with a hasty pull-out in September 2021 of the 10,000 personnel deployed at the time.

NATO is present in Iraq and notably in Kosovo, where it has 4,500 troops in its KFOR stabilisation force sent from 27 countries.

DISEASES-ANIMAL TO HUMAN (500 million Dead )

REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 billion) of (8 billion) to kill with sword,(WEAPONS)(500 million) and with hunger,(FAMINE)(500 million) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES)(500 million) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE)(500 million).

DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS

1 PET 5:8
8 Be sober,(NOT DRUGED UP OR ALCOHOLICED) be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.

REVELATION 9:21 (RAGE OF THE LAST DAYS AGE SATAN WORSHIP AND DRUG SELLING AND JUNKIES)(THEY REFUSE TO REPENT OF THESE SINS)
21 Neither repented they of their murders,(KILLING) nor of their sorceries (DRUG ADDICTS AND DRUG PUSHERS), nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE OR PROSTITUTION FOR MONEY) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)

Man dies after contracting ‘brain-eating’ amoeba, in Israel’s 2nd-ever recorded case-26-year-old patient presented with symptoms caused by rare brain infection last week after swimming at a Tiberias beach-By Diana Bletter-Today, 7:14 pm-JUL 7,24

An Israeli man who contracted encephalitis caused by a rare amoeba last week in the second-ever case recorded in Israel has died of the infection, announced Beilinson Hospital, where he had been receiving treatment, on Sunday.The amoeba, known as Naegleria Fowleri, lives in soil and warm freshwater, such as lakes, rivers, and hot springs. It is commonly called the “brain-eating amoeba” due to the brain infection it can cause if water containing the amoeba goes up the nose, according to the US Centers for Disease Control.The deceased, an otherwise healthy 26-year-old man, is thought to have potentially come into contact with the amoeba while swimming at Gai Beach on the shores of the Kinneret in northern Israel. He was initially admitted to Sharon Hospital last Tuesday after presenting with symptoms including fever, headaches, and vomiting. After his condition worsened, he was transferred to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikvah.Following his death, the Kan public broadcaster quoted the hospital as saying, “From the moment he was hospitalized, medical teams used everything at their disposal, including drug treatments and surgical interventions in order to save the patient’s life, but his condition continued to deteriorate.”While Naegleria Fowleri thrives in warm water, most people who swim in water sources containing the amoeba do not come into contact with it.The Health Ministry said last week that it had sent environmental health inspectors to examine the beach where the man had been swimming, but no initial evidence of amoeba contamination was found.According to Channel 12, the Health Ministry “will inform the public if necessary,” regarding updates to the investigation.The mortality rate from encephalitis — an infection of the brain — caused by the amoeba is extremely high, and while infection is extremely rare, it is often fatal.Only some 400 cases have ever been diagnosed worldwide.Symptoms of infection often include headaches, fever, nausea, vomiting, and a stiff neck, as well as neurological symptoms such as confusion, seizures, and hallucinations. It requires immediate medical attention.In August 2022, a 36-year-old Israeli man died of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, a brain infection caused by the same amoeba.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3-7
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

2 THESSALONIANS 2:3-4
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed,(EU WORLD DICTATOR)the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

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 13:1-10
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)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
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)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950-Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.No one will enter the New World Order... unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation.- David Spangler Director of Planetary Initiative United Nations.

THE WORLD DICTATOR

REVELATION 6:1-2,13:1-3,7-9,16
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:(EU WORLD DICTATOR) and he that sat on him had a bow;(PEACE) and a crown was given unto him:(WORLD LEADER) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(THIS IS THE EU DICTATOR)
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.(7 HEADS ARE THE 7TH WORLD EMPIRE IN HISTORY (THE EU) AS WELL AS THE VATICAN WHICH IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS. 10 HORNS ARE 10 KINGS THAT ARISE FROM THE EU, THEN #11 COMES ON THE SCENE BECOMES THE HEAD OF 3 OUNTRIES AND THEN THE EU DICTATOR, COMES FROM 1 OF THE 3 COUNTRIES THAT RULE FOR THIS TERM. I BELIEVE THE 3 COUNTRIES RULING AT THE TIME ARE SPAIN AND 2 OF THE ORIGINAL 6 THAT STARTED THE EU. FROM 1 OF THESE 3 COUNTRIES COME THE FUTURE EU DICTATOR PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION WHO GUARENTEES ISRAELS SECURITY FOR A LAND FOR PEACE 7 YEAR TREATY.
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.(THE JEWISH EU DICTATOR GETS HIS POWER FROM SATAN,HE COMES FROM THE OCCULT).
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE DICTATOR HAS A FALSE RESURRECTION. JUST LIKE JESUS HAD A LITERAL RESURRECTION THIS DICTATOR GETS MURDERED AT THE 3 1/2 YR MARK OF THR 7 YEAR TREATY AND COMES BACK TO LIFE. THIS IS HOW HE CAN CLAIM TO BE GOD AND GET AWAY WITH IT AND CONTROL THE WHOLE EARTH.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
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.
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
16 And he (FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he (THE EU DICTATOR) do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI5_pMvLZd8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0&feature=player_embedded

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 DIVSION REGION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT-NEW AGE MOVEMENT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.

DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.

REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies,(UNITED NATIONS TROOPS) gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)

As Biden falters, NATO allies look to ‘Trump-proof’ alliance before US election-Worried return of GOP candidate and rise of far right in Europe will threaten support for Ukraine, nations seek to boost own armies and reduce dependence on US-By Ellen Knickmeyer Today, 3:01 pm-JUL 7,24

WASHINGTON (AP) — Growing skepticism about US President Joe Biden’s reelection chances has European leaders heading to the NATO summit in Washington confronting the prospect that the military alliance’s most prominent critic, Donald Trump, may return to power over its mightiest military.NATO — made up of 32 European and North American allies committed to defending each other from armed attack — will stress strength through solidarity as it celebrates its 75th anniversary during the summit starting Tuesday.Event host Biden, who pulled allies into a global network to help Ukraine fight off Russia’s invasion, has called the alliance the most unified it has ever been.But behind the scenes, a dominant topic will be preparing for possible division, as the power of far-right forces unfriendly to NATO grows in the US and other countries including France, raising concerns about how strong support will stay for the alliance and the military aid that its members send to Ukraine.At the recent US presidential debate, Biden asked Trump: “You’re going to stay in NATO or you’re going to pull out of NATO?” Trump tilted his head in a shrug.Biden’s poor debate performance set off a frenzy about whether the 81-year-old president is fit for office or should step aside as the Democratic presidential candidate.Even before the debate, European governments were deep in consultations on what they could do to ensure that NATO, Western support for Ukraine and the security of individual NATO countries will endure should Trump win back the presidency in November and temper US contributions.Some Americans and Europeans call it “Trump-proofing” NATO — or “future-proofing” it when the political advances of other far-right political blocs in Europe are factored in.This week’s summit, held in the city where the mutual-defense alliance was founded in 1949, was once expected to be a celebration of NATO’s endurance. Now, a European official said, it looks “gloomy.”There are two reasons for the gloom: Russian advances on the battlefield in the months that Trump-allied congressional Republicans delayed US arms and funding to Ukraine. And the possibility of far-right governments unfriendly to NATO coming to power.The official spoke to reporters last week on condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations among governments.Rachel Rizzo, a senior fellow on NATO with nonpartisan think tank the Atlantic Council, says she has a blunt message for Europeans: “Freaking out about a second Trump term helps no one.”For allies at the summit, she said, the key will be resisting the temptation to dwell on the details of unprecedented events in US politics and put their heads down on readying Western military aid for Ukraine and preparing for any lessening of US support.Trump, who before and after his presidency has spoken admiringly of Russian President Vladimir Putin and harshly of NATO, often focuses his complaints on the US share of the alliance’s costs. Biden himself warned nearly 30 years ago about already-steady criticism of Europeans not carrying their weight in NATO.The 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union lulled the West into thinking the Russian threat had been neutralized, leading to military spending cuts. Now, NATO allies are bolstering their forces against any wider aggression by Putin, and a record 23 nations in NATO are meeting defense-spending goals.Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton says Trump in a second term would work to get the US out of NATO. Congress passed legislation last year making that harder, but a president could simply stop collaborating in some or all of NATO’s missions.Trump’s campaign did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.Elections in France, likewise, appear set to bring a NATO-adverse far-right party under Marine Le Pen into greater power. Far-right forces also are gaining in Germany.Some European officials and analysts say that’s simply the rise and fall of voter allegiance in democracies, which NATO has dealt with before.They point to Poland, where a right-wing party lost power last year and whose people have been among NATO’s most ardent supporters. They also note Italy, where right-wing populist Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has won praise as an ally.In part in response to the United States’ political upheaval, Europeans say they want to “institutionalize” support for Ukraine within NATO, lessening the dependence on the US.European allies also failed to get enough weapons to Ukraine during the delay in a US foreign aid package, outgoing NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg acknowledged in a visit to Washington last month.That’s “one of the reasons why I believe that we should have a stronger NATO role — is that role in providing the support,” Stoltenberg told reporters.An initiative likely to be endorsed at the summit is NATO taking more responsibility for coordinating training and military and financial assistance for Ukraine’s forces, instead of the US.Europeans also are talking of giving Ukrainians a greater presence within NATO bodies, though there’s no consensus yet on Ukraine joining the alliance.Europeans say NATO countries are coordinating statements on Ukraine for the summit to make clear, for example, that additional Russian escalation would face substantial new sanctions and other penalties from the West. That’s even if the US, under Trump, doesn’t act.As for NATO security overall, besides European allies upping defense spending, they’re huddling on defense strategies that don’t rely as much on the US. There’s also growing emphasis on ensuring each country is capable of fielding armies and fighting wars, the European official said.The possibility of a less dependable US partner under Trump is generating discussions about Europeans playing a bigger role in NATO’s nuclear deterrence, according to the Poland-based Centre for Eastern Studies security think tank. The US now plays the determinative role in the nuclear weapons stationed in Europe.But European countries and Canada, with their smaller military budgets and economies, are years from being able to fill any US-sized hole in NATO.“If an American president comes into office and says, ‘We’re done with that,’ there is definitely will in Europe to backfill the American role,” said John Deni, a senior fellow on security at the Atlantic Council. “The Brits would jump on it.”But “even they will acknowledge they do not have the capacity or the capability, and they can’t do it at the speed and the scale that we can,” Deni said.“This notion that we are somehow Trump-proofing or future-proofing the American commitment — either to Ukraine or to NATO — I think that mostly is fantasy.”

WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

The King of Jerusalem[1] was the supreme ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Crusader state founded by Christian princes in 1099 when the First Crusade took the city.Godfrey of Bouillon, the first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, himself refused the title of king, and instead chose the title "Defender of the Holy Sepulchre". Thus, the title of king was only introduced for his successor, King Baldwin I in 1100. The city of Jerusalem was lost in 1187, but the Kingdom of Jerusalem survived (also known as the "Second Kingdom of Jerusalem"), moving its capital to Acre in 1191. The city of Jerusalem was re-captured in the Sixth Crusade, during 1229–39 and 1241–44. The Kingdom of Jerusalem was finally dissolved with the fall of Acre and the end of the Crusades in the Holy Land in 1291.After the Crusader States ceased to exist, the title of King of Jerusalem was claimed by a number of European noble houses descended from the kings of Cyprus or the kings of Naples. The (purely ceremonial) title of King of Jerusalem is currently used by Felipe VI of Spain. It was claimed by Otto von Habsburg as Habsburg pretender, and by the kings of Italy until 1946.

Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week:(7 YEARS) and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

 1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
 
ISAIAH 33:8
8  The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)

JERUSALEM DIVIDED
GENESIS 25:20-26
20  And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21  And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22  And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went
to enquire of the LORD.
23  And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24  And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25  And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26  And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)

MATTHEW 24:37-42 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)(50% OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE)
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.

DR SAMUEL DOCTORIANS VISION - SECOND ANGEL: MIDDLE EAST
Then I saw that the second angel had a sickle in his hand, such as is used in harvesting.The second angel said: "Harvest time has come in Israel and the countries all the way to Iran."I saw those countries in a few split seconds."All of Turkey and those [inaudible] 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. I saw blood all over these countries. And I saw fire; Nuclear weapons 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. Water shall be scarce all over the Middle East. Rivers shall dry up, and men will fight for water in those countries."The angel showed me that the United Nations shall be broken in pieces because of the crisis in the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.

DANIEL CHAPTER 9:24-27 EXPLAINED.
24 Seventy weeks (70X7=490 YEARS) are determined upon thy people (ISRAEL) and upon thy holy city,(JERUSALEM) to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.(JESUS ANNOINTED WITH HOLY OIL AS KING OF JERUSALEM FOREVER).
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, (7X7=49 YEARS) and threescore and two weeks:(62X7=434 YEARS) the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.(490-49-434=7 YR PERIOD WERE GOD DEALS WITH ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM (NOT THE CHURCH-THE TRUE CHURCH IS IS IN HEAVEN WITH JESUS FOR THAT LAST 7 YEAR PERIOD.)(DANIEL 9:26-27 IS IN THE FUTURE WHEN GOD DEALS ON EARTH WITH ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM FOR THAT FINAL 7 TEAR PERIOD. WHEN ALL OF ISRAEL WILL BE SAVED BY MESSIAH JESUS.)(AT THE END OF IT)
26 And after threescore and two weeks (69X7=483 YEARS)(ONE 7 YEAR PERIOD UNTIL PROPHECY IS FULFILLED) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince (ROMANS) that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(2ND TEMPLE AND JERUSALEM) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(NOW THE FINAL ISRAEL-JERUSALEM COUNTDOWN FOR MESSIAH JESUS RETURN THE LAST 7 YEARS)
27 And he (HE WHO? HE HERE IS THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE LEADER THAT MAKES THE FINAL 7 YR CONTRACT WITH ISRAEL AND MANY MUSLIM COUNTRIES FOR A 7 YR PERIOD, AND THE EU WILL GUARENTEE ISRAELS SECURITY FOR THIS LAST PERIOD) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: (7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week (3 1/2 YEARS IN) he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, (THIS FALSE MESSIAH OR ROMAN LEADER STOPS THE ANIMAL SACRIFICES IN THE 3RD TEMPLE AT THE MIDPOINT OF THE 7 YR DEAL. A JEW MURDERS HIM WITH A SWORD WOUND AND HE HAS A FALSE RESSURECTION-SATAN INCARNATES IN HIS BODY. AND BRINGS HIM BACK TO LIFE.AND HE THEN SITS IN THE 3RD TEMPLE CALLING HIMSELF GOD AS THE WORLD SAYS HES JESUS REINCARNATED. AND BY THIS FALSE RESURRECTION GOD SENDS THIS STRONG DELUTION ON THE EARTH THAT ALL THE LOST WILL WORSHIP THIS ROMAN LEADER AS GOD AND ACCEPT HIS NAME, NUMBER OR NUMBER OF HIS NAME IN THEIR MICROCHIP IMPLANT. THAT THEY MIGHT BE DOOMED, DAMNED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE FOREVER. WHO WORSHIPS THIS ROMAN LEADER AS GOD.) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.(WARS NON STOP DURING THE LAST 3 1/2 YEARS OF THE 7 YEAR PERIOD.

Digizen’s Bank ID card set to boost financial inclusion in rural Papua New Guinea-Jul 1, 2024, 1:30 pm EDT| Abigail Opiah

Digizen PNG has launched its new Digizen Digital Bank ID card in an initiative part of a broader strategy to improve access to financial services in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The redesigned process enables the establishment of verified biometric identities and the immediate issuance of ID cards in rural villages.The chip-based, biometrics-secured Digizen Digital Bank ID enables individuals to open a bank account directly with a bank representative in their village, and create digital signatures to sign contracts electronically. Face and fingerprint biometrics are used to verify identity, preventing people from enrolling twice in the system.The digital bank identification card is the first digital ID card approved by the Bank of Papua New Guinea (BPNG) for customer due diligence (KYC). In BPNG regulatory sandbox testing, the Finnish IT firm worked with the Asian Development Bank, MiBank and Women’s Microbank to successfully verify the biometric identities of 2,500 people in remote and rural areas and immediately issue them Bank ID cards to access banking services.“We are proud of the Sandbox process fostering innovation like the Digital Bank ID, which is interoperable between banks and specifically designed to meet our nation’s unique needs,” said Ms Elizabeth Genia, Acting Governor of the Bank of Papua New Guinea. “Easy access to secure identification is key to driving financial inclusion among our people.”The digital bank ID card can be read with an NFC-capable Android device with user consent, and also offers the ability to update personal information on the card after issuance, including photos and addresses. This opens future use cases such as creating a digital wallet for additional identity documents. The card also comes with a PIN code for two-factor authentication online and offline.A recent report by Asian Development Bank (ADB) found that 80 percent of PNG’s population do not have access to formal banking services. According to the report, in Papua New Guinea, the absence of official identification (ID) documents poses a barrier to opening a bank account.

Contactless biometrics for Curaçao, Berlin and Marseille airports-Jul 5, 2024, 5:47 pm EDT| Masha Borak

More airports across the world are going biometric, implementing contactless border crossings and new digital services.Caribbean tourist destination Curaçao claims that it has introduced the world’s first fully operational biometric border crossing program called Curaçao Express Pass and it’s hoping to reduce traveler processing times by more than 50 percent.The Curaçao International Airport will allow travelers to share their passport data with border authorities before their trip through the Airside Digital Identity App from Entrust. Entrust acquired Airside in April when it completed the purchase of selfie biometrics provider Onfido. Passengers can then pass through designated eGates powered by Seamless Journey Platform made by biometrics company Vision-Box.The Berlin Brandenburg Airport company launched a new facial recognition service at the beginning of July called BER Biometrics. The contactless service allows travelers to move through the terminal without showing their boarding pass.Passengers can register with selfie biometrics through the SmartDepart app created by AirSphere and use self-service kiosks to print baggage labels, the BER Runway security fast lane with an extended time slot and access to the BER Tegel Lounge. The German company has its PaxControl solution installed at five airports in Europe, mainly for automated boarding pass validation.Marseille Provence Airport is also adding contactless services. Passenger self-service technology company Embross Airport Services announced a deal with the French airport to allow multiple airlines to use the same infrastructure, including self-service kiosks, self-service bag drops and boarding gates. Embross will be working with IN Groupe to deploy biometric technology.Meanwhile, some contactless airport travel solutions are coming under scrutiny over data privacy. A white paper published in June by the think-tank Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy highlights concerns related to India’s biometric-based air passenger processing program Digi Yatra, surreptitious enrolments and alleged data breaches.

Australia makes headway in digital ID interoperability-Jul 5, 2024, 5:02 pm EDT| Masha Borak

Australia is making progress in bringing together the country’s digital identity schemes and making them interoperable, including the federal myGov platform and the Service NSW app, created by the New South Wales government.The government has made several small announcements that prove its commitment to this direction, according to an opinion piece published by The Mandarin.Signs that point to this direction are the latest Data and Digital Ministers’ Meeting (DDMM) communique which mentioned a “framework for all governments.” Australian Minister for Government Services Bill Shorten also revealed that credentials such as New South Wales licenses will be admissible to the state’s equivalent of a digital wallet.In June, New South Wales took an important step towards its national digital identity wallet scheme by launching its first digital credential, a digital first-aid certificate. Service NSW also added a  digitized Working with Children Check (WWCC) late last year.New South Wales government digital ID received AU$21.4 million in new funding for digital ID in its latest budget.Meanwhile, interstate digital driver licenses (DDLs) became a recognized age document in the state thanks to the 24-Hour Economy Legislation Amendment (Vibrancy Reforms) Act 2023. Several other states in Australia have also created mobile driver licenses.Banks raise concern about govt spending-An Australian government scheme designed to allow bank customers to switch accounts, known as the consumer data right, has only drawn 174,000 active users, or 0.3 percent of bank customers, at the end of last year according to a new analysis published by the Australian Banking Association.The report concludes that the AU$ 1.5 billion (US$1 billion) program is at risk of turning into a white elephant and warns that other government projects – including the upcoming digital ID system – may be heading towards a similar failure, the Australian Financial Review reports.Another example in favor of this argument is the health records data-sharing scheme My Health Record. Despite the government investing AU$2 million (US$1.3 million) in the program, less than 2 percent of documents in the My Health Record system are being looked at by doctors.Fintech companies, however, are pushing back against the claim and say that it’s too premature to declare the consumer data right a failure. The companies have urged the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to release the actual numbers.Banks have also shown little enthusiasm towards Australia’s upcoming digital ID system, the Australian Financial Review writes. Instead, banks and big retailers have launched their own identity app, Connect ID.

Cherry-picking old stats undermines US border biometrics criticism-l 5, 2024, 12:33 pm EDT| Chris Burt

Influential studies from 2018 and 2019 still hold a prominent place in many reports on demographic differentials or bias in face biometrics applications, despite their greatly diminished relevance and some obviously better sources of current information.A report from Just Futures Law and Mijente alleges that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and its agencies are utilizing artificial intelligence for a wide variety of immigration system applications that have tremendous impact on vulnerable people. They are doing so with little oversight, and in some cases in ways that do not comply with federal policies, including DHS’ own rules.The 54-page “Automating Deportation: The Artificial Intelligence Behind the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration Enforcement Regime” report argues that DHS’s AI processes increase the risk of bias in decision-making. The system was already discriminating against Black and Muslim immigrants, the groups say, and AI systems trained on biased data exacerbate a bad situation.Facial recognition receives a significant amount of attention in the report, between tools Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP’s) CBPOne app, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE’s) contract with Clearview AI, and ICE’s SmartLINK mobile application.An inconvenient detail-Many of the arguments are backed by extensive authoritative references, and the overall point may be valid.So why does the first paragraph on DHS’s use of biometrics refer to the 2019 version of an ongoing NIST study updated in 2022? Perhaps the reference is used for the same reason as the 2019 report is used to generalize about facial recognition technology, despite warnings from the report’s lead author against doing so.The 2022 version of NIST’s evaluation of demographic differentials in face biometrics shows that most algorithms still return higher error rates for darker-skinned people.  It also shows significant improvement among many algorithms, and little or no difference in error rates between people with lighter and darker skin for some algorithms.A separate report from Just Security makes similar arguments about the use of AI by U.S. immigration agencies at the border. “AI at the Border: Racialized Impacts and Implications” suggests that police reform is needed to avoid AI exacerbating human rights abuses.Similarly to the above report, Just Security states that “these algorithms have been found to inaccurately identify Black faces at a rate 10 to 100 times more than white faces.” The linked report refers to the same 2019 NIST evaluation, but tellingly, leaves out “many of” from in front of “these algorithms.” Including that qualifier would amount to an acknowledgement that if DHS doesn’t use the algorithms the stated error rate applies to, then the statistic does not apply.Again, the overall point may be correct, but the argument is weakened by the spurious reference to evidence chosen according to ideological convenience.The same pattern has been seen repeatedly, with rights advocacy groups too often selecting evidence that is misrepresented or even irrelevant.The arguments about the use of AI for border control are important, and deserve to be considered in light of the best evidence available.

Spain launches digital wallet and credential for access to online porn-Jul 4, 2024, 3:39 pm EDT    | Chris Burt

People in Spain will soon have to use their digital ID with a government-issued digital wallet to visit pornographic websites.The app will perform age verification, and then issue a credential valid for 30 days, which allows users 18 and older to access porn online, The Local (subscription required) reports. The government is expected to make the app available by the end of the summer.Spaniards will be able to use their national digital ID, the DNI, an FNMT Digital Certificate, or the Cl@ve administrative digital ID to register for the new credential which Spanish press are calling “pajaporte,” a portmanteau of slang for masturbation and “passport.” The credential will be held in a Beta Digital Wallet (“Cartera Digital Beta”), which can also hold the digital ID and other credentials.The age assurance rules apply to Spain-based adult content providers, but the National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE) will keep a list of foreign porn providers with the intent of enforcing age verification through web browsers, according to the report. The Ministry of Digital Transformation is also seeking collaboration with social media platforms and messaging apps.The technical specifications for the digital wallet specify that it uses OpenID for Verifiable Presentations (OpenID4VP). The website presents a QR code that the user would scan with their mobile device.The credential works on a limited-disclosure principle, and the number of visits per site that each porn credential can be used for is limited to minimize the risk of users being tracked, a government official says, according to El Pais.The Spanish government intends for the system to align with eIDAS2 and comply with EU rules for age assurance to access pornography, which are expected to take effect in October, 2027.Spain is in the midst of upgrading its digital identity system, and the Nexus digital wallet from Veridas was launched to the country earlier this year.

Netanyahu insists Israel be allowed to resume combat-Netanyahu issues list of ‘non-negotiable’ demands as hostage talks slated to restart-Security officials, mediators accuse PM of intentionally sabotaging deal by highlighting gaps in negotiations ahead of delegation’s departure to Cairo and Doha this week-By ToI Staff, Jacob Magid-and Agencies Today, 10:44 pm-JULY 7,2

Ahead of the Israeli negotiating team’s departure for further hostage deal talks in Cairo and Doha later this week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented a list on Sunday evening of what he said were Israel’s non-negotiable demands, including a guarantee that Israel could resume fighting, which would need to be met in the event of a hostage release and ceasefire deal with Hamas.Netanyahu’s statement, at a crucial phase ahead of the resumption of talks, sparked anger, both in Israel and among mediators, with some accusing him of attempting to sabotage hard-won progress.The renewed negotiations in both Egypt and Qatar come after the Hamas terror group said on Saturday that it was ready to discuss a hostage deal and an end to the war in Gaza without a “complete and permanent ceasefire,” breaking from the position it has held in all previous negotiations since November.Hamas’s altered stance regarding the US-backed proposal for a phased truce and hostage exchange deal in Gaza could potentially pave the way for the first pause in fighting since last November, although all sides have cautioned that a deal is still not guaranteed.The list of demands presented by the Prime Minister’s Office declared that any potential deal must “allow Israel to return and fight until all the goals of the war are achieved.”In addition, the statement read, it must be ensured that the deal will not allow for the smuggling of weapons from Egypt into Gaza, and nor can it allow for “the return of thousands of armed terrorists to the north of the Gaza Strip.”Finally, the statement added, “Israel will maximize the number of live abductees that are released from Hamas captivity.”“The plan that has been agreed to by Israel and which has been welcomed by President Biden will allow Israel to return hostages without infringing on the other objectives of the war,” Netanyahu’s office said.Acknowledging Hamas’s U-turn on its demand for an end to the war and its return to the negotiating table, the statement attributed the change to “the prime minister’s firm position against attempts to stop the IDF’s ground operation in Rafah.”Speaking to AFP on Sunday, an unnamed senior Hamas official confirmed the terror group was no longer seeking an up-front commitment to a complete ceasefire, and explained that “this step was by-passed, as the mediators pledged that as long as the [hostage’ negotiations continued, the ceasefire would continue.]”On Friday, Walla news reported that Barnea had rejected the demand for a written commitment from mediators regarding the subject, although Axios subsequently reported that Washington was working on a solution to the disagreement.Israel has said that there were still “gaps” in Hamas’s response to the proposed deal — the details of which Netanyahu’s office appeared to publicize in its statement — but all sides are expected to step up negotiating efforts in the coming days.Four-way summit-An official with knowledge of the mediation said on Sunday that US Central Intelligence Agency director William Burns was expected to visit Qatar this week, and an Egyptian source said he would be making a stop in Cairo.During his visit to Doha, Burns will reportedly hold a four-way meeting with Mossad chief David Barnea, Egyptian intelligence head Abbas Kamel, and Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani.Turkey is also expected to step up its efforts to push for a deal, the Hamas official told AFP, but did not elaborate on what that would entail.Speaking to Reuters on the condition of anonymity, two Hamas officials with knowledge of the talk said that the terror group was waiting for Israel’s response to its submitted amendments, while another said Israel was in talks with Qatar, and a response would be forthcoming within days.Undermining truce efforts-The statement from Netanyahu’s office was met with anger by Israeli security officials and mediators, who, not for the first time, accused the prime minister of trying to sabotage the deal.“Netanyahu pretends that he wants a deal, but is working to torpedo it,” an anonymous security official told Channel 12. “He’s dragging out the process, trying to stretch time until his speech in Congress and then the [Knesset] recess.”According to the security official, there was “no enthusiasm or drive” to finalize a deal for the hostages’ release, and instead of discussions being driven by urgency, they were instead built on “smears and radicalized positions.”A second source questioned Netanyahu’s desire to “emphasize the gaps” in the negotiations “just before the departure of the delegation,” Channel 12 reported.Opposition Leader Yair Lapid similarly slammed Netanyahu, asking rhetorically what the point of his statement had been.“I have one response to the announcement from the Prime Minister’s Office: What is it good for? We are at a critical moment in the negotiations, the lives of the hostages depend on it; why issue such provocative messages?” he asked. “How does it contribute to the process?”A senior official from one of the countries mediating between Israel and Hamas also accused Netanyahu of trying to sabotage the deal.The senior official speaking to The Times of Israel on condition of anonymity said that this non-negotiable demand to resume fighting after the first stage of the ceasefire and hostage release deal publicized by Netanyahu’s office hits at the most sensitive aspect of the ongoing negotiations, as Hamas is seeking assurances from the mediators that Israel will not resume fighting after the initial phase.The official said the mediators have succeeded in bringing Hamas down from an earlier demand for an up-front commitment from Israel to end the war upon the start of the first stage of the agreement.They have instead kept in place relatively open-ended language regarding the transition from phase one to phase two that allows both Israel to feel comfortable enough that it has the ability to resume fighting if Hamas ceases to negotiate in good faith and Hamas to feel comfortable enough that the mediators will prevent Israel from resuming the war instead of implementing the permanent ceasefire that is stage two of the deal.“Statements like the one made by the prime minister severely harm efforts to maintain that ambiguity,” the senior official from the mediating country said.“One cannot help but conclude that they are being made for purely political purposes,” the official adds, referencing Netanyahu’s desire to appease far-right coalition partners who oppose the hostage deal under discussion.The outline for a hostage deal and truce in Gaza that Biden presented at the end of May proposed a phased deal that would include a “full and complete” six-week ceasefire that would see the release of a number of hostages, including women, the elderly, and the wounded, in exchange for the release of hundreds of Palestinian security prisoners.During these 42 days, Israeli forces would also withdraw from densely populated areas of Gaza and allow the return of displaced people to their homes in northern Gaza.Over that period, Hamas, Israel, and mediators would also negotiate the terms of the second phase that could see the release of the remaining male hostages, both civilians and soldiers, in return, Israel would free additional Palestinian security prisoners and detainees. The third phase would see the return of any remaining hostages, including bodies of dead captives, and the start of a years-long reconstruction project.A Hamas source told Reuters over the weekend that the proposal ensures that mediators would guarantee a temporary ceasefire, aid delivery, and withdrawal of Israeli troops, as long as indirect talks continue to implement the second phase of the agreement.Hamas also expects up to 400 trucks of humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip each day of the pause in fighting, an official from the terror group told AFP.Negotiations mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the US have so far failed to secure a truce in Gaza and release of captives there, since a weeklong ceasefire in November saw Hamas free 105 hostages in return for 240 Palestinian prisoners.Israel believes 116 people remain in Hamas captivity following the October 7 terror onslaught, though dozens of those are no longer alive. Hamas is also believed to hold the bodies of two soldiers killed in 2014, as well as two civilians, presumed alive, who entered the Strip of their own accord not long after.