WAR WITH IRAN - DAY 231 FRI OCTOBER 16,26 - US MILITARY HAS PLANTO DEPLOY LARGEST BOMB AGAINST IRAN IF FIGHTING RESUMES.

 WAR WITH IRAN - DAY 231 FRI OCTOBER 16,26 - US MILITARY HAS PLANTO DEPLOY LARGEST BOMB AGAINST IRAN IF FIGHTING RESUMES.

THE NEXT US-ISRAEL HIT ON IRAN SHOULD BE VERSE 37. ALL OFFENSIVE NUKE SITES MISSLES,DRONES,AND OF COURSE KHEMENI AND THE IRGC GUARDS.THEN AFTER IRANS REGIME CHANGE. MUSLIMS COME TO JESUS BY THE MILLIONS.

JEREMEIAH 49:32-39 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITES AND ALL OFENSIVE WEAPONS DESTROYED IN IRAN)
Jeremiah 49:32-39    
32 Their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners [of their hair] cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of them, says Yahweh.
33 Hazor shall be a dwelling-place of jackals, a desolation forever: no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.(Location & Size: It was strategically located along the Via Maris (Way of the Sea), a major trade route connecting Egypt with Syria and Mesopotamia.)
34 The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam,(IRAN) in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
35 Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRANS OFFENSIVE WEAPONS) the chief of their might.(MISSLES AND NUKE SITES)
36 On Elam (IRAN) will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of the sky, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation where the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(SINCE 1979 IRANIANS HAVE GOTTIN OUT OF IRAN BECAUSE OF KHEMENI AND HIS APOCOPOLIPTIC DEATH CULT BELIEF-BLACK HATER 12ERS)
37 I will cause Elam (IRAN) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before those who seek their life;(ISRAEL THE LITTLE SATAN AND THE U.S THE BIG SATAN) and I will bring evil on them, (MISSLES) even my fierce anger,(FIRE) says Yahweh; and I will send the sword after them,(IRANS OFFENSIVE WEAPONS) until I have consumed them; (DESTROYED THEM ALL NUKE SITES,MISSLES ETC)
38 and I will set my throne in Elam,(IRAN WILL BECOME A CHRISTIAN NATION) and will destroy from there king (KHEMENI CLAN) and princes, says Yahweh.(IRANIAN ARMY GUARDS)
39 But it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring back the captivity of Elam,(IRAN) says Yahweh.(WERE IN THE LATTER DAYS NOW)

WHEN ARE THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL IN THE SPRING TIME.(GET READY ISLAM TO BE BIRD SEED FOR THESE BIRDS)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m0bXU5Xqc5M
The 500 million migratory birds in Israel during the spring arrive from Africa and head toward Europe and Asia, with the peak migration occurring in March and April. While migration starts in late February, the most intense movements, particularly of birds of prey, storks, and pelicans, occur during the third week of March and continue into April. 
Key Details on the Spring Migration
Peak Period: Mid-March through April.
Main Migration Route: The birds use the Great Rift Valley, which includes the Hula Valley and Eilat, acting as a "bottleneck" where millions of birds fly through the narrow land bridge.
Best Spots: The Hula Lake Park (Northern Israel) and the Eilat Birding Center (Southern Israel) are primary locations for observing the migration.
Key Species: Hundreds of thousands of white storks, along with black kites, raptors, and pelicans, pass through over these months.
uration: The spring migration runs from late February and continues into June, though the heaviest traffic is in March/April. 

The 500 million migratory birds fly over Israel in the fall between late August and mid-December. The peak migration period for the autumn, when the highest volume of bird traffic occurs, is typically October and November. 
Key Fall Migration Details
Location: The Hula Valley (Agamon Hula Park) in northern Israel is the premier spot to witness this phenomenon.
Timing: Migration starts as early as late June with some waders, but intensifies from mid-August through November.
Peak Festival: The "Annual Hula Valley Bird Festival" is usually held in November to align with the peak migration traffic.
Key Species: Many birds of prey (raptors), including honey buzzards and steppe eagles, cross during this time, along with massive flocks of storks and cranes.
While roughly 500 million birds pass through in the autumn on their way to Africa, the same number crosses again in the spring (mid-February to May) on their way back to Europe and Asia. 

JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23  Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24  Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25  How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26  Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27  And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)

Report: US military has plan to deploy largest bomb against Iran if fighting resumes-GBU-43/B, dubbed ‘mother of all bombs,’ could be used, CNN reports; Trump jokes he may have killed ‘too many’ Iranian leaders as Tehran accuses US of fomenting unrest-By Agencies and ToI Staff 15 October 2026, 4:55 pm

The United States is considering using its biggest non-nuclear bomb against Iran if US President Donald Trump should decide to renew combat in the war that has hit a deadlock, CNN reported Thursday.The military is planning for the potential use of the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb — better known by its nickname, the “Mother Of All Bombs” — to target Iranian energy infrastructure and nuclear sites, according to the news outlet, which quoted officials familiar with the matter.Weighing 9,500 kilograms (10 tons), the bomb is deployed by rolling it out of the back of a cargo plane.The potential use of the largest non-nuclear bomb in the US arsenal would mark a significant escalation in the conflict, although officials familiar with military planning discussions told CNN questions remain over its effectiveness in achieving Washington’s strategic objectives.Trump is trying to boost his low approval ratings ahead of November’s midterm elections, with polls showing the unpopular war in Iran and the rising fuel costs and other price hikes it has caused are hurting his Republican Party.Diplomatic efforts to end the conflict, which erupted with US-Israeli strikes on Iran in February, have been at an impasse since the summer.The GBU-43/B MOAB, known as the “Mother of All Bombs,” is seen detonating in Afghanistan on April 13, 2017, during its only known combat use. The 21,600-pound conventional bomb was dropped on an ISIS-K cave complex in Nangarhar Province, targeting tunnels and hideouts used by… https://t.co/UrY1D0PNGT pic.twitter.com/AkAzmscled Advertisement — War Monitor (@WarMonitors0) October 15, 2026-But officials have raised doubts over the efficacy of the bomb if it were deployed, particularly its ability to destroy suspected underground nuclear sites in the Islamic Republic.“The MOAB is a massive information operation type weapon that is great for huge area clearance but not much else,” a source familiar with the plans told CNN. “It is definitely not designed as a deep penetration warhead.”In 2017, the US military in Afghanistan dropped the “MOAB” to target Islamic State group hideouts in a complex of tunnels and bunkers, killing more than 90 militants. It also destroyed some deep underground tunnels, according to Afghan army officials at the time.There are also concerns over the possibility of civilian casualties from such a huge weapon.Washington has in recent weeks dialed back military operations against Iran in favor of economic pressure.The US and Israel have said the war was necessary to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Tehran has long denied pursuing such a goal, but has enriched uranium to levels a short step from weapons-grade and which have no civilian use.A ceasefire in April and an interim deal in June have fallen apart, but a return to full-scale fighting has yet to occur.Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Thursday that the country was facing its most intense blockade since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, accusing the US of seeking to provoke public protests.“Over the 48 years since the Revolution, we have never faced such an intense blockade, war and difficulties as we are facing now,” Pezeshkian said in a speech broadcast by state television.He accused Washington of seeking to make life difficult for Iranians in order to fuel public anger and trigger unrest.Pezeshkian said the US was focusing its efforts on making “the people become upset and face difficulties, and then for social protests to emerge so that they can achieve their sinister objectives.”The US imposed a blockade on Iranian ports in response to Tehran’s closure of the strategic Strait of Hormuz after the fighting started, diverting or stopping vessels traveling to and from Iranian ports.Iran has repeatedly accused the US and Israel of fomenting unrest inside the country, and in recent months has executed several Iranians accused of collaborating with its foes.In late December last year, protests over the cost of living erupted in Iran, spreading nationwide and evolving into a wider anti-government movement. Iran’s rulers blamed the US and Israel for the unrest and cracked down hard on the demonstrations, killing thousands and potentially tens of thousands in the streets.Trump joked Wednesday that he had taken out too many of Iran’s leaders during the war with the Islamic Republic during an appearance at a campaign rally in Arizona ahead of the midterm elections next month.President Trump said he "probably went a little too far" by taking out Iranian leaders during the war and Iran made him promise "not to take out any more." "I might've gone too far," he told rallygoers in Arizona on Wednesday. "I don't know who the hell to deal with." pic.twitter.com/4Cn3Dw0yia — CBS News (@CBSNews) October 14, 2026-While talking about the Iran war, the president started polling the crowd, asking facetiously if any of them would like to be the new leader of Iran.Joint US-Israeli strikes early in the war took out Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and much of its top echelons of leadership.“So I probably went a little too far. I’m sorry, because I don’t know who the hell we’re dealing with anymore, but that’s going to end very soon,” Trump said.He also suggested during the rally that people who leak information about the government, including about the timing of strikes in Iran, “should be shot.”“In my opinion, leakers should be shot,” he said. “In the old days, we used to shoot leakers, you know?”He went on to call people who leak “the scum of the earth” and said they should be “dealt with very, very strongly.”Iran’s parliament speaker said Wednesday that the country must be prepared for war even as it negotiates with the US.Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said in a televised speech that his country’s main concern is preventing the United States from attacking again. But he added that a signed agreement with Washington is no guarantee.“They break their promises,” said Ghalibaf. As a result, he said Iran must be prepared to fight “against a bullying enemy,” and “we must truly fight courageously on the battlefield.”“That is when we will have achieved sustainable deterrence,” he said. “America must be punished. America must change its behavior. It must understand that it has to come to terms with the Iranian people.”

Knesset speaker rejects genocide charges in speech to European parliamentary leaders-Ohana draws applause in Rome as he accuses world leaders of lying about Gaza for political gain, says killing of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust ‘is what real genocide looks like’By Ariela Karmel 15 October 2026, 11:10 pm

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, addressing European parliamentary leaders in Rome on Thursday, rejected allegations of genocide in Gaza and accused world leaders of spreading falsehoods for political gain, drawing some applause.“Everyone in this room knows the truth — Israel is not committing genocide. Enough with this despicable lie,” Ohana, a senior member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, said in a speech at the European Conference of Presidents of Parliament.The two-day summit brings together parliamentary leaders from the Council of Europe’s 46 member states and beyond to discuss threats to democracy and the future of the rules-based international order.The council is a human rights and democracy organization that is separate from the 27-member European Union. Israel is not a member of the Council of Europe, but holds observer status in the council’s Parliamentary Assembly.Speaking at the conference, Ohana held up a copy of “And Every Single One Was Someone,” a 1,250-page book that contains the word “Jew” six million times to commemorate the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust.“This is what real genocide looks like,” Ohana said.“Many world leaders proclaim the importance of their values, yet when the moment of truth arrives, only a few are willing to defend them,” he said, accusing some leaders of knowingly endorsing “false propaganda” to secure “fleeting electoral applause in their simmering streets.”The war in Gaza, sparked by the Hamas-led onslaught of October 7, 2023, was “a global clash of civilizations, a battle between the forces of darkness, radicalism and extremism, and those of freedom, liberty and democracy,” Ohana said.“Some of the member-states represented here have a deeply dark place in the history books. I urge you this time to stand on the right side of history, fighting for freedom with us,” he said.Ohana’s remarks were met with applause, and Austrian lawmaker Petra Bayr, president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, thanked him in Hebrew.Israel has angrily rejected allegations that it is committing genocide in Gaza and says it takes steps to mitigate harm to civilians. Israel also accuses Hamas of deliberately embedding itself in civilian infrastructure, including schools, mosques and hospitals.South Africa brought genocide charges against Israel to the International Court of Justice in The Hague in late 2023. The case is still being adjudicated and is expected to take years.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

Analysis-How the Houthis are helping Iran turn Saudi Arabia into a pressure point-Iran-backed group relies on Tehran’s financial and military support and seeks to press Riyadh into concessions on Yemen; analyst warns the conflict could widen into a Gulf war-By Samia Nakhoul 15 October 2026, 9:26 pm

DUBAI (Reuters) — The Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia are about more than Yemen.By targeting infrastructure and disrupting investment events central to Saudi Arabia’s economic ambitions, they aim to pressure Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to both meet Houthi demands in Yemen and persuade US President Donald Trump to ease the US blockade choking Iran’s economy, according to Saudi, Iranian and regional sources.The campaign reflects a calculation by Iran and the Houthis that Saudi Arabia’s prosperity, investment ambitions and exposure to disruption make it a vulnerable pressure point in a confrontation stretching from the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Gulf to Bab el-Mandeb in the Red Sea.Iran, under mounting economic and military pressure following the war launched by the US and Israel on February 28, is seeking to raise the cost of Washington’s strategy by targeting its regional partners, said Michael Knights of strategic advisory Horizon Engage.“The Iranians are in a chokehold,” he said. Unable to force Washington to change course directly, Tehran and the Houthis are “hammering Saudi Arabia, they’re hammering the weak point,” he added, exploiting the kingdom’s economic vulnerability and desire for stability.The Houthis have a direct interest in easing the US blockade on Iran, their principal regional backer. A relaxation of pressure on Tehran would likely strengthen its ability to sustain the political, financial and military support and flow of weapons and cash on which the US says the movement depends.But the Houthis also have their own demands, said two Saudi sources and three regional sources familiar with Saudi thinking: an end to Saudi military operations and restrictions on Yemeni ports and airports, regular flights to Iran, restored salary payments, war compensation and an end to Riyadh’s support for Yemen’s recognized government. Their terms would consolidate Houthi rule over much of Yemen.A senior Iranian official said the Houthi attacks were part of a broader strategy by Iran and its allies to reshape the regional balance of power by targeting energy infrastructure and key shipping routes. He said Riyadh could not rely on US protection and must instead pursue negotiations, adding that Houthi attacks would continue unless Saudi restrictions were lifted.The strategy, however, leaves bin Salman facing a dilemma, the sources familiar with Saudi thinking say. Escalation risks a wider war that could undermine his transformation agenda, but concessions risk strengthening a movement that has challenged Saudi power for years. And the longer the conflict drags on, the greater the threat to Saudi security, investor confidence and Vision 2030.The Saudi government media office, Iran’s foreign ministry and a Houthi spokesperson did not immediately respond to requests for comment.Houthi spokesperson Mohammed Abdulsalam denied that the group was acting at Iran’s behest, saying its demands were centered on longstanding humanitarian issues relating to Saudi Arabia, and included lifting restrictions on Yemeni ports, airports, easing economic restrictions, and paying civil servants’ salaries from Yemen’s own resources.“Our humanitarian demands have nothing to do with Iran or anyone else,” he said.Flagship conferences disrupted-Saudi Arabia has faced a widening wave of Houthi attacks over the past week, including deadly strikes on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport and a strike on Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil exporter and a backbone of the economy, which sparked a fire that spread across several floors.The attacks have disrupted Riyadh’s flagship oil conference, prompting top oil executives to withdraw, and forced organizers to offer remote participation at the Future Investment Initiative or FII, an annual global investment forum.The Houthis have a record of striking deep inside the kingdom, including in 2019, when attacks on Aramco facilities temporarily disrupted about 5% of global oil supply. That was after Riyadh intervened in Yemen in 2015 following the Houthi takeover of the capital, Sanaa. The war became a bloody stalemate before a 2022 ceasefire.However, Saudi leaders now see military pressure as their only viable option, said Abdulaziz Sager, chairman of the Saudi-based Gulf Research Center. “They reached a point of no negotiations,” he said. “They have no other choice except military action.”The Houthis increasingly see themselves as negotiating from strength, seeking recognition of their authority in Sanaa and an easing of restrictions on Yemen, said Fawaz Gerges, a Middle East analyst at the London School of Economics. “What the Houthis are asking now is a victor’s peace,” he said.The United States has shown little appetite for another sustained campaign against the Houthis since bombing them last year over attacks on shipping in the Red Sea, then agreeing a ceasefire, the sources familiar with Saudi thinking said. Washington’s reluctance leaves Riyadh facing a conflict in which military pressure alone may not deliver a decisive outcome.Saudis have more to lose-At the start of the Houthi campaign, bin Salman asked Trump for help to fight the Houthis, but Trump did not agree to US strikes, sources told Reuters last month. Washington instead offered targeting assistance and intelligence-sharing. Trump later said he was considering possible action against the Houthis, while appearing to defer any response until after the US midterm elections.The US State Department referred to previous remarks by Trump and by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who condemned the Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.With drones and missiles exposing vulnerabilities in Saudi defenses, analysts warn the conflict risks becoming a war of attrition in which the Houthis believe time and geography favor them. Former US negotiator Aaron David Miller said the group’s advantage lies not only in its position near the Bab el-Mandeb chokepoint but also in the asymmetry of what is at stake.“Saudi infrastructure is much more valuable than Houthi infrastructure,” he said. “They have so much less to lose than the Saudis.”Yemen analyst Farea al-Muslimi said the Houthis’ campaign against Riyadh is a bid to assert regional primacy, risking a far broader conflict across the Arabian Peninsula.At the heart of the crisis, he says, is the unravelling of a 2023 Saudi-backed peace roadmap that offered the Houthis a path to political legitimacy and reconstruction funding. Under the roadmap, Riyadh was set to help fund public sector salaries and rebuilding. The Red Sea conflict has derailed that process as the Houthis deepen their alignment with Iran.“We’re heading toward the worst outcome imaginable,” al-Muslimi said. “A war worse than 2015. This time it will be bloodier, and Saudi Arabia will enter it with fewer allies.”He said no successful campaign against the Houthis was possible without Gulf unity, mainly between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.“The Houthis are not a threat to Saudi Arabia alone,” he said. “They threaten the entire Gulf and the wider region. This is not simply a Saudi war. It is a Gulf war.”

7 YEARS OF DEATH AND HELL.

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

REVELATION 9:15,18 (6 BILLION - 2 BILLION = 4 BILLION)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,
18 By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS)

HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)

LUKE 17:34-37 (8 TOTAL BILLION - 4 BILLION DEAD IN TRIB = 4 BILLION TO JESUS KINGDOM) (HALF DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS)(GOD DOES NOT LIE)(AND NOTICE MOST DIE IN WAR AND DISEASES-NOT COMETS-ASTEROIDS-QUAKES OR TSUNAMIS)
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.(half earths population 4 billion die in the 7 yr trib)
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES.BECAUSE NOT HALF OF PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.AND THE CONTEXT IN LUKE 17 IS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION OR 7 YR TREATY PERIOD.WHICH IS JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH.NOT 50% RAPTURED TO HEAVEN.

MATTHEW 24:37-42 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

WORLD TERRORISM

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.(CAN YOU SAY TORNADOES,HURRICANES,VOLCANOES,EARTH QUAKES,LANDSLIDES,FLASH FLOODING,EXPLOSIONS,SNOW STORMS,THEN FINALLY NUKESAND ANY OTHER JUDGEMENTS THE EARTH CAN VOMIT THE SINNERS OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH WITH.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

2 Peter 3:6-7 Amplified Bible (AMP) (HOT SUN, NUKES ETC)
6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. 
7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON THE MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS-PROPHECY SIGNS) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)

ISAIAH 14:12-14
12  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13  For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14  I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)

JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE.

Joel 3:2-King James Version (YOU DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN HALF - YOUR POKING GOD IN THE EYE - GOD SAYS AN EYE FOR AN EYE AND A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH- YOU WANNA DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN HALF -  HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION 4 BILLION DIE ON EARTH.
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE.

LUKE 19:40
40 And He answered and said unto them, “I tell you that if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.”

I BELIEVE IN 2027 - THE ISLAMIC DEATH CULTS WILL DO TERRORIST ATTACKS AROUND THE WORLD.AS WELL AS BAD WINTER FLOODING IN 26/27 WINTER.FATHER GOD (NOT NO MOTHER NATURE REDICULUSNESS) IS IN CONTROL OF EVERYTHING.GOD WILL ALLOW SATAN TO DO THESE DISASTERS AROUND THE WORLD TO WAKE THE LUKEWARM CHRISTIANS UP AS WELL AS GETTING THE LOST SAVED.

Inside story 'From the startup nation to the scale-up nation'Rethinking defense ties with US, Israel eyes shift from patronage to partnership
With Washington turning against military aid, a new bilateral framework could take shape based on industrial output and tech integration, but politics will still shape Jerusalem’s access to arms-By Nava Freiberg 15 October 2026, 12:48 pm

Once thought irreversible, Israel’s rock-solid bond with the United States has become a matter of debate, with the future shape of ties between the allies hanging in the balance. At the center of those deliberations is Jerusalem’s defense partnership with its most powerful and beneficent friend, which faces the possibility of being pared back significantly.In June, US Vice President JD Vance — seen as a leader of Israel-skeptic Republicans — warned Israelis expressing criticism over the now-defunct US-Iran memorandum of understanding not to bite the hand that feeds it.“If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world,” Vance said. “The other thing that I would say is that over the last three months, two-thirds of the defensive weapons that protected your homeland have been built by American hands and paid for by American tax dollars.”Elements of both US political parties want to see decades of US military aid to Israel end, with progressive Democrats seeking to stop funding or arms sales that support Israeli actions in Gaza and the West Bank, while parts of the Republican base question why American pockets should subsidize allies and Washington involve itself in overseas conflicts.US President Donald Trump himself has been a strident critic of foreign handouts, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed to be getting ahead of the curve when he told the Economist in January that he seeks to “taper off [US] military aid within the next 10 years,” confirming when asked that he meant reducing it to zero.Far from seeking to weaken security ties with Washington, Jerusalem hopes to replace financial dependence on the US with a more reciprocal relationship in which Israel pays more of its own way while boosting technological, industrial, and strategic value for both sides.The problem for Israel, though, is that slashing military aid may be just the start, with the whole relationship, from intelligence sharing to weapons development, potentially under the gun.Even if it does move to a more partnership-based model, that will not shield Israel from painful military fallout should a future White House be determined to downgrade ties.‘From aid to partnership’US military aid to Israel grew substantially after the 1973 Yom Kippur War and over the decades became a central pillar of the relationship. Under the current memorandum of understanding negotiated with the Obama administration, covering 2019-2028, Washington committed $3.3 billion a year in foreign military financing, much of it to purchase US-made arms, and another $500 million annually for missile defense.That aid has become a smaller share of its military spending as Israel’s economy and defense budget have grown in recent years. Jerusalem has also survived and achieved great military feats without US aid before, such as in 1967, and has found ways to cope with restrictions even since aid was ramped up, including by boosting domestic production.Even if aid were reduced or cut altogether, Israel would likely still seek to purchase American weapons with its own funds. Should the defense relationship shift beyond military aid, though, US approvals for weapons sales and deliveries could be up in the air.Israel’s air force relies on US-built F-15s, F-16s and F-35s and large stocks of American precision munitions, while Israeli missile defense systems depend heavily on US funding, technology or co-production.Israeli concerns over how much it can rely on supplies continuing to come from the US were sharpened during the war in Gaza, when the Biden administration delayed some weapons transfers and balked altogether on sending 2,000-pound bombs.The concerns go beyond just arms sales to Israel. Since 2008, Washington has legally committed to preserve Israel’s “qualitative military edge” by refusing to sell other countries in the region weapons or technology that could challenge Israeli defenses.There are worries, though, that Washington may no longer be willing to nix lucrative arms deals in deference to Israel. Trump’s efforts to sell F-35s to Saudi Arabia absent an agreement to normalize ties with Israel have raised hackles in Jerusalem, though the State Department insisted last month that the deal “will not alter the military balance in the region.”CNN: “Israel’s favorability all negative — not just with Dems, the general electorate has turned against Israel… not just a left issue, an American issue… a SIXTY-SEVEN POINT SHIFT AGAINST ISRAEL…” pic.twitter.com/HATzVVetSO — The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) September 18, 2026-Public opinion in the US will likely play a role in shaping what a future military relationship looks like, and there are signs that Americans’ feelings about Israel have never been worse.CNN’s chief data analyst reported last month that since spring, national polls all showed Israel with negative net favorability ratings, with unfavorable views exceeding favorable ones by between 10 and 23 percentage points across surveys by Ipsos, Fox News, Marquette University Law School, and Pew Research Center. The network also stated that 55% of Americans believe US military aid to Israel should be either reduced or ended.A survey published in late June by Quinnipiac University found that 48% of American voters think the US is “too supportive” of Israel, the highest number the pollster had recorded since it started asking the question in 2017.There is “a real divide” between the value that the US military and defense industry place on greater cooperation with Israel and how “it will resonate in the political discourse in the United States in the years ahead,” said former US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro, who helped negotiate the expiring MOU under Obama.In June, representatives from Israel’s Defense Ministry and the Trump administration formally launched talks on the next defense framework, which the ministry said would seek “to strengthen the IDF’s qualitative military edge through expanded joint investment in research, development and co-production, deepen the US-Israel partnership demonstrated during [the 2026 US-Israeli campaign against Iran] Operation Roaring Lion, and gradually transition from aid to a completely reciprocal partnership.”Discussions on the framework are ongoing, Aviram Hasson, director of the Defense Ministry’s mission to the US and Canada, told The Times of Israel in a recent interview.Rather than financial assistance, the new relationship would focus on joint mass production, specialized components, technological development, access to intellectual property, and work on shared defense challenges, he explained, saying, “Each side contributes its best capabilities, its strengths, and this creates a synergy. One plus one equals three.”Without foreign military financing, procurement in the US would increasingly be financed by Israeli government funds, Hasson elaborated, noting that this trend has already grown since the war in Gaza was launched in the wake of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack, during which Israel has spent approximately $3.3-$3.4 billion of its own funds in the US on wartime needs.The mission head could not predict where within the state budget future funding would come from, saying that would depend on government priorities.What’s in it for Washington? Israel — a leading military innovator in a strategically sensitive region — has much to offer in a more reciprocal model with the US, proponents say.Continual threats from regional actors and terror groups allow Israel to serve as a testing ground for US defense technologies.It is clear on both sides of the ocean that this cooperation is a strategic need of both powers, not only of Israel.Hasson pointed to engineering breakthroughs and intellectual property emerging through development of Israel’s active-defense systems, saying every US government request for technology arising from the long-range anti-ballistic missile Arrow 3 program has been fulfilled.“It is clear on both sides of the ocean that this cooperation is a strategic need of both powers, not only of Israel,” he said.While Israel can innovate and test quickly, the far larger US defense-industrial base can provide manufacturing and scaling for Israeli defense firms to meet American and global demand.“You can move from the startup nation to the scale-up nation very quickly if you have the regulatory framework for that,” said Richard Goldberg, senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and chairman of the Defense Technology Alliance.He pointed to AUKUS, the 2021 trilateral security and military technology partnership between the US, Australia, and the United Kingdom, as an example of such regulatory integration.Under a similar model, Israeli intellectual property could be incorporated into American systems, Israeli firms could expand production in the US, and large American defense contractors could acquire or integrate Israeli technologies.That could make a deeper relationship not merely an investment in Israeli security, Goldberg added, but also one in American manufacturing, jobs and military capability. For Israel, such a transition allows it to expand domestic capacity for its own security needs while at the same time using US industry to scale its technologies for larger markets.Drone warfare and defense — which has rapidly dominated recent conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East — is one such potentially symbiotic field. While Ukraine produces some 8 million drones a month fighting Russia, the US Department of War is rushing to match that capacity without using Chinese parts.The solution may be Israel, which has been increasingly focused on drone production and innovations in enemy UAV detection as it confronts the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group on its northern border; Israeli firms have already begun supplying counter-drone technologies to the Pentagon.Moreover, Israel is an advantageous partner for the US military to expand its regional footprint, with Israel providing room for bases and refueling hubs, ensuring regional access for American forces and augmenting interoperability.Multiple US bases near Iran have been hit and cleared out, some even rendered unusable, during this year’s conflict, as Trump repeatedly panned European nations for limiting access to US forces and arms deliveries. Israel, on the other hand, has highly advanced defense systems in place and is far less likely to limit American actions.“Instead of thinking about America as the redundancy for Israeli munitions, Israel… can also become a reserve for when the United States is stressed in other areas of the world,” Goldberg said.Israel’s small size and crowded infrastructure, however, limit its ability to provide bases for US troops and assets. That challenge was underscored by the strain caused by US refueling aircraft operating from Ben Gurion Airport during the Iran war, which muscled out commercial activity until Israel pushed the Americans to clear out.Other tradeoffs may come with a military relationship more centrally focused on cooperation on defense tech and innovation. While deeper integration can help both sides advance in these fields, closer cooperation with the US may also limit Israel’s control over who can access its sensitive tech, and it may be hamstrung by American demands that it deal only with certain partners.This is especially true in the fields of AI, energy, and critical technologies, all of which are increasingly important competitive battlegrounds between Washington and Beijing, and thus areas where Israel may have to choose between working with the US or maintaining economic and technological ties with China.The political limit-While the political atmosphere has grown tense, Israel has some room to breathe, at least for the remainder of Trump’s term.In July, the House of Representatives passed an annual defense policy bill that included proposals for deeper defense and intelligence ties with Israel, while last month US officials said the Trump administration is preparing a $2.8 billion munitions sale to Israel that includes tens of thousands of 2,000-pound bombs — the same type of weapon that the Biden administration held back in 2024 over humanitarian concerns in Gaza.Regardless of Israel purchasing more weapons itself, however, Washington would still control whether future weapons, spare parts, munitions and support are supplied. Even after delivery, US-origin equipment remains subject to end-use monitoring, and reported violations can trigger tighter restrictions and, in serious cases, suspension of future sales or exports.The challenge in negotiating the next military cooperation framework is less about how much financing Israel receives and more about managing arms export approvals, congressional review, and administration policy at large, said Shapiro.An MOU cannot lock in future US support since, unlike a treaty, it is not legally binding, and a future administration that objects to portions of the agreement could also seek to renegotiate them.Furthermore, while reducing aid may help answer Republicans opposed to subsidizing Israeli security, it does less to answer the mainly Democratic concerns over Israeli policy and the use of American weapons, where opposition can simply shift from aid to arms sales or broader defense integration.Assuming the next Israeli government is unwilling to adjust policies to suit American expectations, more meaningful military independence would require producing more weapons at home or diversifying suppliers, rather than simply self-funding American purchases.Even as it seeks to rebalance ties around greater mutual benefit, Jerusalem is keen to preserve the depth of the existing defense relationship.“There is a spirit in the current administration that Israel is a partner, and that permeates the Defense Department. It permeates the defense industries,” Hasson said.He described extraordinary cooperation with “dozens” of American defense companies and military officials during Israel’s recent wars, saying companies sometimes accelerated deliveries or redirected shipments intended for other customers, while US Army and Air Force officials cleared their schedules to hear Israeli requirements and find solutions.At the same time, however, Hasson acknowledged that some US companies working with Israel had received “the cold shoulder” from nations hostile to Jerusalem — a sign that even industry relationships are facing political pressure.While the next agreement may make US-Israel defense ties more reciprocal and mutually beneficial, it cannot guarantee the political support needed to sustain them.

Two Weeks from Israeli Election, Polls and People Divided Between Netanyahu, Eisenkot Blocs-Julie Stahl-10-13-2026

JERUSALEM, Israel – Israelis go to the polls in two weeks to choose who will lead the country in the months and years to come. In a time of war, heightened security concerns are topping the list of priorities.With the Jewish holidays and the memorial week for the third anniversary of the October 7th massacre behind them, Israelis are shifting into pre-election campaign mode.Thirty-eight parties are running for 120 Knesset seats. According to polls, about ten or eleven parties will actually pass the voting threshold to enter the Knesset.Candidates from ten parties across the political spectrum recently shared their voter pitch at an event hosted by Israel365 specifically for Anglo-Israelis. The elephant in the room is three years of war.Amichai Chikli, representing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party, told CBN News that despite the tough war and extremely high price, Israel did eliminate the leadership of Hezbollah and Hamas and is controlling southern Lebanon and 60 percent of Gaza."I'm not saying that there weren't mistakes, that everything was perfect," Chikli admitted. "But for me, the responsibility of Netanyahu is to understand that we need to change dramatically the way that we approach the situation and to totally change the reality in the Middle East. And I think that his leadership was beyond imagination and his ability to stand."On the opposition side, Moran Zer Katzenstein of the Democrats Party, blasted the current government."Just imagine, this is the same government that is responsible for the biggest, the horrifying massacre that happened to the Jewish people since the Holocaust. They didn’t take responsibility then, and they’re not doing it now," she remarked.Ohad Tal from the Religious Zionist Party, part of the Netanyahu coalition, believes that the essence of the elections is who Israel is. He told us, "We are in the biggest struggle for the most important issue, and that is the identity of this country. This is what divides today, left and right in Israel."After three years of war, the issue of who serves in the Israel Defense Forces is a top priority.All Jewish men and women are drafted into the IDF after high school, except the ultra-Orthodox Haredim. They represent about ten percent of the Jewish population and are exempt from service according to a law enacted in 1948.***Please sign up for CBN Newsletters and download the CBN News app to ensure you receive the latest news from a Christian perspective.***According to polls, Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar – "Straight"– Party is the biggest contender against Likud. Lianne Pollak-David from Yashar says the first thing they plan to do is establish a State Commission of Inquiry into the October 7th attack."But beyond that, we have some very important core principles," she explained. "One is reinforcing Israel as a Jewish democratic state, based on the values of the Declaration of Independence. Second is drafting for all; every Israeli citizen, including the ultra-Orthodox and the Arab citizens of Israel, have to take part."She continued, "And thirdly, we are, in order to ensure that nobody is confused, we have to ensure that Hamas is acknowledged as a terrorist organization that needs to be dismantled."Yishai Fleischer, who is joining Itamar Ben-Gvir's Otzma Yehudit Party, "Jewish Strength," claims they are not running on promises, but on their record of defending Israelis and "pushing back on jihadism." Ben-Gvir is considered by many as a radical for his outspoken stand on issues.Fleischer contended, "This party has tripled the amount of civilian arms that Jews have to defend themselves. It has actually made prison life no longer full of amenities and luxuries for terrorists. It has created a thousand new rapid response teams so that we can never again have an October 7th."He added, "And then it's also moved Jewish pride forward. By creating equal rights for Jews on the Temple Mount, praying on the Temple Mount, developing heritage sites, developing the biblical highway."For conservatives, one of the new choices is Amcha Yisrael, "The People of Israel" party, led by retired IDF General Ofer Winter.Israeli-Arab influencer Yosef Haddad and former Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum are both members of the party."We're a right-wing party," Hassan-Nahoum indicated. "We don't have any apologies for it. We believe in short, decisive wars. We believe in finishing the war, which is still ongoing. We believe in believing our enemies when they think they want to kill us and not try and compromise with the devil. We believe in service for all Jews and Arabs."About a week after the elections, the official results are announced, and Israeli President Isaac Herzog will commission the one party most likely to succeed in forming a coalition to establish the next Israeli government.

October 7 and collective memory: Three years, 156 weeks, and five million Israeli flags - opinion-Since October 7, 4,375 churches have placed 1,200 Israeli flags on their front lawns to memorialize the victims, demonstrating that Hamas’s massacre also revealed who Israel’s friends are.ByTULY WEISZ
OCTOBER 6, 2026 19:00

Before Shabbat on Friday, my wife sent me up the street to our local bakery to pick up challah. Outside, a man was calling out “156!”I asked him what 156 meant. For 156 weeks in a row, he told me, he has delivered challot and other Shabbat food to IDF soldiers every Friday afternoon.I gave him a donation for his project, and then I stopped for a moment: 156 weeks. Three years since October 7, 2023.In the Bible, three years is a significant span of time.In one of the most frightening moments in biblical history, the Book of Kings describes the mighty Assyrian Empire sweeping through the Land of Israel. The 10 northern tribes have already been exiled, Sennacherib has captured the fortified cities of Judah, and now his army stands menacingly at the gates of Jerusalem.His officer shouts up at the men on the wall in Hebrew, so that every one of them will understand: No god has saved any city from our army, and your God will not save you either! The righteous King Hezekiah tears his clothes, goes into the Temple, and sends for the prophet Isaiah. Isaiah answers with more than a reassuring message; he offers a specific timeline: “This shall be the sign for you: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from that. But in the third year, sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit” (II Kings 19:29).In ancient and modern Jewish history, three years is the distance between the depths of despair and miraculous deliverance. Just three years after the horrors of the Holocaust, the Jewish people were dancing in the streets of a reborn State of Israel.With each passing year, we gain perspective on October 7 and on the world we woke up to on October 8.October 7 shocked us. Jihadists entered Israel with hatred in their hearts to kill Jews and to tear down the society and civilization built on biblical values.On October 8, something new emerged. With God’s help, the IDF began to take the upper hand. From Hamas to Hezbollah, from Syria to Iran, enemies who threaten not only Israel but the entire free world have been degraded in ways almost nobody thought possible three years ago.October 8 also gave birth to a new kind of Jew. “October 8 Jews” are those who, after the massacre, found faith and recommitted themselves to their people and their God. And October 8 became the day so many Christians around the world raised their voices and said: Not on my watch.None of this was clear three years ago. In the fog of war, none of it was obvious, but three years later, clarity is emerging.This week, thousands of October 7 commemorations are taking place in cities and neighborhoods across Israel because every town has lost sons defending our homeland. Jewish communities around the world are likewise mourning with Israel in synagogues and Jewish day schools.The 'plant 1,200 Israeli flags' initiative-But there is another commemoration taking place, the largest global initiative to memorialize October 7, which the Jewish people need to know about.The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has organized more than 4,375 churches placing 1,200 Israeli flags on their front lawns to memorialize the 1,200 victims of October 7.In 2024, 220 churches took part in “Flags of Fellowship.” Under IFCJ president Yael Eckstein’s leadership, participation has grown exponentially this year, with well over five million flags planted in memory of our loved ones.In just three years, Flags of Fellowship has become one of the largest gatherings of Jews and Christians anywhere: believers in the God of Israel praying to our Father in Heaven, recalling His faithfulness, and standing shoulder to shoulder as brothers and sisters in faith.The fellowship’s work goes far beyond the hundreds of millions of dollars it raises for Israel each year, extraordinary as that is. Each flag demonstrates that we are living in unprecedented times. The people of Israel have come home from an exile that began in the days of the Assyrians. Despite every tragedy our people have endured, we are not being uprooted again.And we are not alone.I took part in a Flags of Fellowship ceremony at the Banyas Church, an ancient building restored and rebuilt through the shared efforts of Israeli Jews, Christians, and Druze.I watched 1,200 Israeli flags fluttering in the wind against the mountains of the Golan Heights, surrounded by a community of Christian Arab Zionists who proudly serve in the IDF and have lost loved ones defending the Jewish state.It was a scene that I will never forget, a picture of pain and sadness, but also renewal, growth, and fellowship.Too much attention goes to the loud voices online and on social media denying Israel’s legitimacy and trying to isolate the Jewish people.But more than five million flags planted around the world this week give us reason to trust Isaiah’s timeless promise: after three difficult years, the Jewish people will plant, we will harvest, and we will rejoice.The writer is the founder of Israel365, a Jewish organization dedicated to educating Christians about the biblical significance of the Land of Israel, and the host of The Universal Zionist podcast.

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Democratic Texas Senate candidate says he blames Netanyahu, not Israelis, for Gaza devastation-James Talarico acknowledges Israel ‘has a right to defend its people’ but says PM doesn’t have ‘right to wage war against civilians or use collective punishment or restrict aid to civilians’By Sharon Udasin Today, 6:49 am-OCT 16,26

JTA — James Talarico, Texas’ Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, said he holds Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, rather than the Israeli people, responsible for civilian devastation in Gaza.Talarico, a Texas state representative, is running neck and neck against Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, in a race whose results could affect which party controls the Senate this November. Israel has been one of many sources of disagreement among the candidates, who have sparred on issues ranging from affordability to immigration to reproductive rights.“I believe that Israel, like any nation, has a right to defend its people,” the candidate said while fielding questions on Wednesday at a CNN town hall. “But I don’t believe that Benjamin Netanyahu has a right to wage war against civilians or use collective punishment or restrict aid to civilians.”A Texas Politics Project poll, issued by the University of Texas this week, showed Paxton trailing Talarico by 3 percentage points, with 47% to the Democrat’s 50% and a margin of error of 3.34 percentage points.Talarico said in August that he supported stopping arms sales to the Netanyahu government and conditioning military aid “on ending the death and the destruction in Gaza and the West Bank.” He declined to call the crisis “genocide,” noting that the term is being litigated in the International Court of Justice. But he said he’d “use every bit of our nation’s diplomatic and financial leverage to protect the lives of Palestinians.”When he was pressed further by Rabbi Holly Levin Cohn of Congregation Beth El Binah in Dallas during the town hall, Talarico stressed the importance of directing his criticisms “toward Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and not the Israeli people.”Addressing Israelis’ trauma, Talarico acknowledged that the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel “was the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust.”Cohn pushed back on his comments regarding aid restrictions, noting Israeli support of humanitarian efforts and arguing that there’s much more going on in the country than the media may be projecting.Talarico told the rabbi he recognized that his “words carry weight” and gave her his word that he’s “going to continue to listen to all sides of this conflict.” He also expressed hope that “we can all come together to fight for a two-state solution where we have security for Israel and we have freedom and self-determination for Palestinians.”Talarico also gave a “shoutout” to a local rabbi, Neil Blumofe at Congregation Agudas Achim in Austin. “I spent my first year of my seminary studies learning the Hebrew scriptures from a local rabbi,” he said. “Shout out Rabbi Neil Blumofe!” Cohn grinned.

Dozens of Jews meet in New York to further their vision of Jewish life without Zionism-Brooklyn meeting billed as bootcamp for anti- and non-Zionist Jews seeking to share their progress and ideas around creating Jewish institutions without any attachment to Israel-By Joseph Strauss 14 October 2026, 7:45 pm

New York Jewish Week via JTA —  One year after Jewish Currents editor-at-large Arielle Angel called for “new Jewish institutions” that have no attachment to Israel or Zionism, more than 100 Jews crammed into a Victorian house-turned-event space in central Brooklyn in the hopes of creating them.The event was billed as a bootcamp for people hoping to get fledgling Jewish groups off the ground. Sessions focused on topics like staffing and funding, as well as discussions about who, exactly, is welcome in a space that is “anti-Zionist,” “non-Zionist,” “diasporist” and the like.Many of the groups represented on Monday were minyans, which host prayer services in locations like people’s apartments or community spaces. They sought practical guidance for building their institutions, but also for defining who to welcome as their ranks expand.“If we’re doing things right,” Angel said, “many of these small minyans will be synagogues in a few years.”Esti, 27, who declined to share her last name to maintain privacy, is involved in leading an anti-Zionist minyan in Brooklyn. She said she has heard from “so many” attendees that they were relieved to attend services in a space without an Israeli flag.“People are like, ‘I never thought I could be in a Jewish space like this, I never thought I’d see queer people leading, I never thought I could be in a Jewish space where they’re saying Free Palestine,’” she said. The minyan averages about 50 attendees at Shabbat services, she said.Some of the speakers at the workshop detailed how they have refused to compromise their organizations’ politics. One panel led by Rabbi Brant Rosen, who helped found the anti-Zionist synagogue Tzedek Chicago, and Rebecca Vilkomerson, the former director of the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace, focused on the process of setting an organization’s “political boundaries.”Rosen spoke from his own experience, saying that Tzedek Chicago was presented as “consciously not an inclusive community.”“In other words, this is what we stand for, it might not be for you, it might not be for everyone, and that’s OK. There are many places out there that you can choose,” he said. Rosen added that potential members were not forced to agree in order to join, but rather that they were faced with the question: “Given that these are our values, is this a community you want to belong to?”Esti spoke to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on the sideline of the Urbane Arts Club event, which JTA attended on the condition that attendees’ in-session remarks throughout the day were kept off the record, though panelists’ remarks were all on the record.Americans’ support for Israel has dropped writ large amid its military campaign in Gaza and the US-Israeli war with Iran. A survey by the Jewish Federations of North America found that 37% of Jewish respondents said they identified as Zionist, while 7% labeled themselves anti-Zionist and another 8% said they were non-Zionist. Another 18% said they weren’t sure, while 30% said none of the labels described them.According to an AP-NORC poll from earlier this year, support for Israel is a less significant component of younger Jews’ religious identity versus Jews older than 45.“These groups are starting up because of demand,” Rabbi Alissa Wise told JTA.Wise is a co-founder of the Jewish Diaspora Movement, the group behind Monday’s bootcamp, which is itself in its beginning stages. She has previously worked for JVP and in October 2023 founded Rabbis for Ceasefire, which has protested for a Gaza ceasefire and an end to US military aid to Israel.While JVP “played a pivotal role in building Jewish life outside of Zionism,” Wise said there was still a major gap in religious and cultural Jewish institutions that reject Zionism.In addition to the represented minyans, which facilitate prayer services, and the havurahs, which offer events such as Shabbat dinners and other holiday celebrations, Angel said some attendees were looking to start projects including summer camps, educational offerings and cultural projects such as theater collectives. Meanwhile, organizers are planning to launch a “diasporist” Jewish day school in the Boston area in fall 2029.Jen Kaminsky, an attendee who is part of the Buffalo Jewish Collective’s leadership team, told JTA that her organization welcomes “a range of Jews, many of whom have not felt comfortable in legacy Jewish institutions.”“We say that we welcome anti-Zionists and non-Zionists, and people who are questioning Zionism and people who have a range of relationships to Zionism,” Kaminsky said. “If you are comfortable with the values that we put out, or you’re comfortable being in a room where those values are the dominant values, we welcome you.”Vilkomerson told the group that there should be an attempt to grow membership by engaging people closer to the center in “left-liberal coalitions,” but without making concessions on left-wing values. She put the concept into New York City political terms, pointing to the political alliance between the anti-Zionist Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the liberal Zionist Brad Lander.“Brad, as a liberal Zionist, was able to partner with Zohran Mamdani — but Zohran set the terms of the campaign, not Brad,” she said.Also on Monday, Lissy Romanow — a co-founder of the group IfNotNow, which describes itself as “anti-occupation” — gave a nuts-and-bolts session on the first steps of creating an organization, including how to concisely conceive of a group’s DNA and how to avoid burnout among volunteers.As groups look to grow and achieve loftier goals like setting up permanent locations and hiring paid staff, one clear obstacle stands in the way: funding.“There’s only so much money on the Jewish left,” Angel told JTA.Any anti-Zionist group is highly unlikely to receive funds from one of the country’s many Jewish federations, which often maintain deep ties to Israel.Three left-wing Jewish donors — Liana Krupp, Deborah Sagner and Kathleen Peratis — spoke on Monday about the limited landscape of funding for Jewish anti-Zionist organizations.“If we don’t flip liberal Zionists we’re not going to grow, because that’s where the money is,” Peratis said.Participants on Monday, whose groups are mostly volunteer-run, did not have any illusions about that landscape.“For now, the goal is to keep doing Shabbat in a sustainable way on a regular basis,” Esti said. But she also shared her long-term vision.“I think it would be amazing to have a brick-and-mortar shul, a place we could call our definitive home,” she said. “But that’s way, way far down the line.”

Three children, teacher killed in Oregon elementary school shooting-Police identify shooter as 16-year-old resident of Bend, who was killed by an armed bystander; another schoolkid and teacher rushed to the hospital with critical wounds-By Maggy DONALDSON Today, 5:41 am

AFP — Three children and one teacher were shot dead at an elementary school Thursday in the northwestern US state of Oregon, police said, adding that the assailant was a 16-year-old who was killed by an armed bystander.Another child and a teacher were being treated for critical injuries after the shooting at Silver Rail Elementary school in Bend, a city of about 100,000 people.Mike Krantz, police chief of Bend, told journalists that the department first learned of an active shooter after a call from a person who reported being shot at multiple times by a person carrying a long gun.Dozens of emergency calls then reported that a shooter had entered the school and all law enforcement in the area were called to the scene, Krantz said.Officers arrived at 1:02 p.m. local time within minutes of the calls, said the police chief.“Moments later, an officer reported that the suspect had been shot by a community member who had seen the suspect enter the school and pursued him into the school and engaged him,” Krantz continued.“Our officers entered the building and confirmed the suspect was dead.”Officers performed emergency aid on the victims. The three children who died on the scene were aged five, eight and 11, the police chief said.One teacher was also pronounced dead.Krantz said one seven-year-old and one 54-year-old teacher with critical injuries were transported by medics to a local hospital.He added that the shooter was a resident of Bend.Krantz stressed that the investigation was in its early stages, but told the press conference it appeared “the shooter had forced their way into the school by shooting at locked doors.”‘Unthinkable tragedy’Between 400 and 450 children attend Silver Rail Elementary, where more than 40 staff work, a police spokesperson had said earlier.After a lockdown, Bend-La Pine School District said law enforcement was escorting students in buses to a separate location, where families could reunite with their children.The district’s superintendent, Steve Cook, tearfully called the day’s events “an unthinkable tragedy.”“We are heartbroken. We are horrified. This is the kind of thing you hear about in other places, and pray that it never happens here,” he told reporters.Parents were anxiously waiting at the site near a church, where parent Drew Sharp told CBS News: “I have faith that he’s okay and that he’ll be alright.”Sharp said his son was a fifth grader, the highest grade in the school, and that children were disembarking from the bus youngest to oldest.“Which makes sense,” Sharp said, but “it’s just more time waiting.”Friday classes at schools across the district along with activities and athletic events were canceled, Bend-La Pine said in a statement.The elementary school is approximately 170 miles (270 kilometers) southeast of the city Portland. It serves primary-age students in kindergarten through fifth grade.‘Cannot keep accepting this’The United States, where firearms are readily available, is a frequent scene of gun violence, with thousands of people killed every year. It has the highest rate of gun-related deaths among all developed nations.The deadliest school shooting in US history took place at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007, when South Korean student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people and wounded 17 others before taking his own life.There have been more than 360 mass shootings in the US so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as four or more people shot.“Our hearts are with the terrified children and the families anxiously waiting to hear that their loved ones are safe,” GIFFORDS, a gun safety organization, said on X.“We cannot keep accepting this as a fact of life.”Thursday’s shooting was followed by a painfully familiar chorus of calls for action on gun control, pleas that have resulted in little meaningful change.In the face of decades of massacres akin to Thursday’s, the powerful US pro-gun lobby has given millions of dollars to primarily conservative politicians in a successful bid to keep gun laws loose.“They’re killing our babies. Shredding our kids with lead. Forcing us to live in fear,” said Janelle Bynum, an Oregon congresswoman, in a statement.“This continues to happen,” she said later, speaking on CNN.“And it seems as if the adults don’t care.”

Taking stock-Tel Aviv market slide points to investors betting on election deadlock-Tel Aviv Stock Exchange research shows stocks typically sag before votes that end in stalemate, unlike those that result in stable governments, but it all evens out within months anyway By Sharon Wrobel Today, 5:04 am

As Israelis prepare to head to the polls on October 27 in a race too close to call, investors are bracing for a deadlock that could trigger yet another round of elections.After gains for most of this year, Israeli markets have fallen sharply since early October, with the latest polls suggesting neither the current coalition nor the main opposition bloc can win an outright majority on its own.Polls capture voter intent at a single moment, but they are often unreliable. Markets are forward-looking barometers of investor sentiment and price in future expectations and probabilities of different outcomes, but they can also get it wrong. To add to the complex picture, stock prices also factor in interest rates, inflation, growth, corporate earnings, geopolitics, and global market trends — making it unclear how much the recent declines can be attributed to the election alone.Using historical data of the past 10 Israeli elections since 2003, researchers at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange examined whether market losses in the first week of October were an indicator that investors were pricing in a deadlock, indicating belief that a second election round is inevitable.“With the election just around the corner, uncertainty over whether it will produce a decisive result or another round of voting remains high,” Nissan Avraham, macroeconomist at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange’s research unit, told The Times of Israel. “The Israeli market is showing weakness, which is consistent with declines ahead of previous elections, especially those that didn’t yield a clear outcome needed to form a stable government.”For the week ending October 9, which formed the basis for the research, the Tel Aviv stock market closed in negative territory, while underperforming main global financial markets. The TA-125 Index fell by 3.6 percent last week, the TA-35 Index declined by 3.7%, and the TA-90 Index lost 3.3%. During the same period in the US, the S&P 500 Index rose by 1.2%, the Nasdaq-100 Index added 0.25%, and the Dow Jones Index gained 0.9%, as Wall Street hit a record high.From the start of the month, the TA-125 Index retreated 1.3%, and the TA-35 Index declined 1.1%.“With elections two weeks away, it is far from certain that a stable coalition will be formed,” said Leader Capital Markets macroeconomist Jonathan Katz. “It appears that the probability of an opposition-led coalition with the outside support from only one Arab party has decreased.”Recent polls show neither the current coalition led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, nor the main opposition bloc, receiving enough seats in the Knesset to form a government on its own. Parties differ on their willingness to accept support from Arab parties, ultra-Orthodox parties, or Netanyahu in order to reach a majority.“A stalemate scenario with opposition bloc unwilling to rely on both Arab parties could result in another round of elections,” said Katz.When this has occurred in the past, Israel has been thrown into cycles of repeat votes, including a period from 2019-2021 in which the state held four rounds of elections before forming a government, which itself only lasted until late 2022, when the current coalition was elected.TASE’s research found that historically, in the three months before inconclusive elections, the TA-125 fell an average of 5.3%, compared with an average decline of 0.2% before elections that led to the formation of a stable government.Avraham cautioned that the pattern doesn’t necessarily mean markets predicted the outcomes, but it suggests that uncertainty tends to weigh on stocks before votes that end in stalemate .“Experience shows that the market tends to price in the concern of an indecisive outcome even before election day, and that may help explain the market declines in early October,” said Avraham. “Therefore, election day itself may not necessarily come as a major surprise for investors, even when a government is not formed.”The TASE research also found that the gap in market returns between decisive and deadlocked elections narrows quickly after the vote. On average, by three months after a vote, almost no difference remained, and after five months, returns were nearly identical. In the year following an election, the TA-125 Index yielded an average total return of 16.4% over the researched period.Prof. Yossi Yagil, vice president of Western Galilee Academic College, has reached similar findings in studies he has conducted looking at the relationship between elections and stock markets in Israel over more than 60 years.“Historically, stock market returns in Israel were higher on average after elections than pre-elections,” said Yagil. “It implies that the election and, more particularly, the formation of the government after the election puts an end, or a reduction to, long uncertainty that was there before.”Similarly, Avraham pointed out that the exchange’s analysis suggests that the key factor for investors is not who wins but how much certainty the election provides.“On the day after the election, the question will be not just who won, but whether the result is decisive enough to reduce uncertainty, with a government that advances a clear economic policy and strengthens investor confidence,” said Avraham. “Over the long run, as past experience shows, the fundamentals of the Israeli economy, and not only the election results, will continue to drive the market.”Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

Israel cites merchants angered by Hamas taxes as commercial goods stop entering Gaza-Head of private truckers union disputes Israeli account but admits Hamas seeking NIS 10,000 per truck entering Strip, which terror group insists is a ‘voluntary community initiative’ and not taxation
By Agencies and ToI Staff Today, 3:15 am-OCT 16,,26

No commercial goods have entered the Gaza Strip for two days, Israeli authorities said Thursday, blaming the suspension on merchants angered by taxes imposed by Hamas — a claim that Palestinian importers and the terrorist group denied.The halt to commercial shipments, including fruit and winter clothing, cuts off a key source of food and other critical supplies as fears grow about procuring supplies needed to get through winter in the territory.The move stands to immediately reduce Gaza’s supplies, because the closed-off territory is completely reliant on whatever goods Israel allows in through border crossings.Aid groups generally bring in staples such as flour, while merchants import more perishable foods like fruits and meat, according to data released earlier this year by COGAT, the Israeli military body that oversees humanitarian affairs in Gaza.The suspension is raising fears about affordability, with humanitarian workers saying a combination of aid and a robust commercial market is needed to keep prices under control.“The humanitarian sector on its own cannot meet the needs of all the people,” said Shaina Low, a spokesperson for the Norwegian Refugee Council, an aid group. “The markets need to be functioning.”COGAT announced the suspension of commercial shipments Wednesday. Its deputy spokesperson, Lt. Daniel Kantorovich, said the agency was acting on a decision made by Palestinian merchants a day earlier and could reverse it at their behest.“We were prepared to coordinate the entry of their trucks as usual, but the vendors informed us that they were cancelling the coordination due to Hamas’s taxation mechanism and threats against them,” Kantorovich said. “The merchants don’t want to bring goods into Gaza.”The world’s leading authority on food insecurity reported earlier this year that conditions in Gaza had improved since famine was declared in the territory in August 2025 — a determination rejected by Israel, but were still at crisis levels. Most families in the war-battered enclave weren’t getting nearly enough to eat, said the report, adding that “even small disruptions to humanitarian access could rapidly reverse recent gains.”Merchants in Gaza coordinate directly with vendors outside the territory, whose shipments are examined by Israel’s military before entering Gaza.In announcing the measure, COGAT claimed to be communicating a decision made by local merchants in Gaza who had grown tired of Hamas taxing their trucks and threatening them. Israel has long accused the terrorist group of levying fees on imports to fund its operations.The agency cited reports that Hamas security personnel had arrested the son of a merchant who refused to comply with the demands, prompting traders to suspend operations out of fear for their safety.COGAT said the private sector accounted for roughly half of all trucks entering Gaza each week and that no private-sector vendors had attempted to import goods since the merchants alerted Israel on Tuesday.It also warned the suspension could undermine the ceasefire agreement.In a letter to international representatives involved in implementing the ceasefire, COGAT said merchants reported that Hamas demanded about 10,000 shekels ($3,200) for every truck into Gaza and that traders sell around 30 percent of goods in cash instead of bank transfers.But the head of Gaza’s private truckers union, Nahed Sheheiber, disputed Israel’s account, saying they were the ones who had made the decision.“The merchants are not the ones who stopped the shipments,” he said. “The Israeli coordinator is claiming that Gaza’s merchants are responsible, but the truth is that the Israelis are the ones who imposed the restrictions.”Following COGAT’s announcement, Sheheiber’s union met with Gaza’s Hamas-run Ministry of Economy to express concern and say Israel was citing fees levied by the ministry as a pretext to cut off commercial goods.The ministry had been asking merchants to pay 10,000 shekels (about $3,226) per truck entering Gaza, Sheheiber confirmed. At the meeting, ministry undersecretary Khaled Al-Raqab told the union that the amount was not a tax, but rather a donation sought by the ministry to help pay civil servants in the Strip.It was not clear from the COGAT announcement if aid agencies would be allowed to increase shipments into Gaza to compensate for the loss in commercial goods.The agency claimed that Gaza’s population — of roughly 2 million people — required approximately 250 truckloads of goods each day. That’s far below the minimum of 600 trucks a day stipulated by a ceasefire brokered by the US a year ago.Hamas rejected COGAT’s allegations in a letter addressed to mediators including Egypt, Qatar and Turkey, saying it “categorically” denied imposing taxes or government fees on commercial trucks.It said it had not collected taxes or fees on commercial activity in the past three years of war because of the humanitarian and economic conditions in Gaza.Hamas said the 10,000-shekel figure referred to a “voluntary community initiative” by Gaza’s businesspeople to put money into a “national fund” for relief projects, while the transaction requirement was to inject “cash liquidity” into the territory.The war started when Hamas-led terrorists killed some 1,200 people on October 7, 2023, and took 251 hostages while invading Israel, which responded with a massive bombardment and ground invasion that has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians, according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, whose figures don’t differentiate between civilians and combatants.

IDF commandos nab alleged Palestinian arms dealer in raid on West Bank’s Jenin-Civilian lightly hurt in hit-and-run near settlement, IDF says it isn’t terror and came after settlers blocked Palestinian cars; separately, settlers said to burn a Palestinian car-By Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan 15 October 2026, 11:51 pm

An alleged Palestinian arms dealer was captured by Israeli commandos during a raid in the West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday morning, the military said.Troops of the Duvdevan Commando Unit raided Jenin, following intelligence provided by the Shin Bet, and captured an unnamed Palestinian who the military said was a member of a former terror network in the area.“The terrorist served as a key weapons dealer and acted to procure and transfer weapons to the terror network,” the IDF said.Meanwhile, a car-ramming incident near the West Bank settlement of Ateret Thursday night, assessed by Israeli security officials to be a hit-and-run and not a terror attack, left an Israeli civilian lightly injured.A preliminary investigation by the IDF found that settlers from an illegal outpost in the area disrupted traffic by attempting to block Palestinian motorists.One Palestinian driver, while trying to flee the settler roadblock, struck one of the settlers, injuring him. He was taken to a hospital in light-to-moderate condition.“The forces launched a pursuit after the suspect and are establishing roadblocks in the area,” the military said.Additionally, extremist settlers set fire to a Palestinian car parked near a house in the area of as-Samu in the West Bank’s South Hebron Hills on Thursday, according to Palestinian media outlets.There were no reports of injuries, Palestinian media outlets reported.Violence in the West Bank has soared since the Hamas attack on Israel triggered the Gaza war in October 2023.More than 1,100 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces or settlers since the war started, according to the PA health ministry. The IDF says the vast majority of them were gunmen killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or terrorists carrying out attacks.During the same period, 67 civilians and Israeli security personnel have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another eight members of the security forces were killed in clashes during raids in Palestinian cities in the West Bank.The same period has also seen a major surge in attacks by settler extremists on Palestinians and their property across the West Bank. The IDF recorded 867 incidents of nationalistic crime and settler violence in 2025. The total for 2024 was 682 incidents.Critics accuse the government of condoning and even encouraging the violence, which has led to the displacement of dozens of Palestinian families.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other ministers have regularly downplayed the burgeoning violence as a marginal concern, claiming that nearly all incidents are the work of a few hundred wayward youths.

At least 4 killed as Houthis launch missiles at presidential palace in Yemen’s Aden-Saudis say they shot down missile over Medina; Houthis also fire ballistic missiles at Yemeni city of Marib-By Agencies 15 October 2026, 7:56 pm

Yemen’s Houthis on Thursday attacked a military headquarters at the presidential palace in Aden, which also serves as the seat of the internationally recognized government, killing at least four as fighting within the country and rebel attacks on Saudi Arabia continued to escalate.The pro-Iranian fighters targeted “the headquarters of military operations, led by Saudi officers, at the Al-Maashiq Palace in Aden, as well as weapons depots belonging to them,” according to the rebel group’s news agency.At least four people were killed and 10 more wounded in the Houthi missile attack, three government military sources told AFP.At least six explosions struck near the palace, witnesses said.The explosions caused panic among residents who fled the area. A security official said at least two of the explosions were on top of the hill near the Maashiq palace, and two others were heard near the security gate.Many of the government leadership are living in exile, and those in Aden were safe, a government official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.Separately, the forces of Yemen’s internationally recognized government said that the Houthis had fired ballistic missiles at the central city of Marib, which sits in a strategic oil-rich region.“Houthi terrorist militias fired several ballistic missiles at the densely populated city of Marib,” the government forces said on X.Separately, the Saudi -led coalition fighting the Iranian-backed rebels said Thursday it thwarted a missile attack on Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Medina as well as another attack in the eastern part of the kingdom.The Saudi-led coalition said in a statement that it intercepted and destroyed a cruise missile over the province of Medina, but notably did not assign blame for the attack.Shortly after the coalition’s statement, the Houthi military spokesperson said Saudi airspace and airports were unsafe, renewing a warning to airlines while excluding airspace over the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.The international airport in the capital, Riyadh, has suspended service because of Houthi attacks.Earlier Thursday, Saudi Arabia also said it destroyed a drone over the country’s Eastern province, a major oil-producing region.The latest conflict between the Saudis and the Houthis began last month after the rebels seized key areas along the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a critical waterway for Gulf oil shipments. The Saudi-led coalition, backing forces aligned with Yemen’s internationally recognized government, has been trying to retake those areas.The Houthis have been firing ballistic missiles and drones at key Saudi sites for a week, in response to the kingdom’s backing of government forces in Yemen’s renewed civil war.Saudi coalition spokesperson Turki al-Maliki said at a press conference on Thursday that the Houthis had launched 20 attacks on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh this month, killing 17 people and wounding 333 others. The airport, one of Saudi Arabia’s main international aviation hubs, was among the civilian infrastructure targeted in what the coalition described as a series of attacks.The coalition also said Houthi attacks on Abha airport, in southwestern Saudi Arabia near the Yemeni border, had killed three people and wounded 28.Maliki said the Houthis had acquired advanced military technology with the help of “regional actors,” including ballistic missiles, drones and explosive-laden fast boats.The spokesperson also said the coalition had destroyed 127 weapons storage facilities and launch platforms in Yemen’s mountainous areas.He called on the Houthis to immediately halt operations targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, and said the group should read the coalition’s statement carefully and “between the lines.”Yemen has been mired in conflict since the Houthis seized the capital Sanaa in 2014, prompting a Saudi-led military intervention the following year. The UN-brokered truce in 2022 largely halted major fighting, and a de facto truce held even after it expired six months later. But efforts to turn it into a lasting political settlement have stalled as regional tensions have intensified.

Germany jails 2 for Iran-backed plots to attack Jewish and pro-Israel leaders, spying on Jews-Prosecutors say one defendant took orders from Iran’s Quds Force; one of the targeted men, Volker Beck, calls for Iranian ambassador’s expulsion from Germany-By AFP 15 October 2026, 7:16 pm

HAMBURG — A German court on Thursday jailed two men for planning attacks on prominent pro-Israel public figures and spying on Jews on behalf of Iranian secret services.The Hamburg court sentenced a Danish national, partially identified as Ali Hassan S., to eight-and-a-half years in prison for plotting deadly attacks.His targets included the head of the German-Israeli society, Volker Beck, and the head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Josef Schuster.An Afghan accomplice, Tawab M., was sentenced to four-and-a-half years. Prosecutors said he had agreed to recruit a third man and provide him with a weapon for the attack on Beck.The crimes were “terrorist activities orchestrated by Iran,” judge Petra Wende-Spors said, adding the Danish national was preparing a contract killing “for purely political reasons.”He took orders from the Quds Force, the foreign operations branch of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, in early 2025, prosecutors said.He also spied on a Jewish grocer’s shop in Berlin, they said.The two men were convicted in Germany after being arrested in Denmark last year and extradited.“The trial has convincingly shown how Iran exports its terror to Germany,” Volker Beck said after the sentencing, as he repeated a call for the Iranian ambassador to be expelled.“The verdict is a wake-up call for German security policy. The Islamic Republic of Iran is a state-sponsored terrorist regime that threatens and persecutes political opponents and Jewish or Israeli targets in Germany,” he added.Germany’s foreign ministry summoned Iran’s ambassador in July last year to protest following the Danish man’s arrest.When the two men were charged, the Iranian embassy in Berlin released a statement rejecting what it called “unfounded allegations made at the behest of Iran’s enemies.”

Support for Hamas among Palesinians declines, poll finds-Israel said blocking US firm from breaking ground on Gaza base for international force
COGAT claims Palestinian merchants halted coordination on shipment of goods due to Hamas intimidation, but Gaza truckers union says Israel made the decision By Nurit Yohanan, Emanuel Fabian, AP and ToI Staff 15 October 2026, 6:11 pm

Israel is holding up the construction of a military base in Gaza intended for international forces as part of the US-led Board of Peace’s plan for the coastal enclave, according to a report on Thursday.Citing a person with knowledge of the matter, The Guardian newspaper said Jerusalem hasn’t authorized construction to begin on the project, two months after a US company won a tender to build an outpost for 150 foreign troops, with contractors and trucks blocked from entering Gaza.“Israel won’t open the border,” the source was quoted as saying, lamenting that without the deployment of the International Stabilization Force in Gaza, “You can’t rebuild.”“There’s no security. There’s no deliveries of construction equipment. You can’t even start putting utilities. You can’t start putting in basic life-support facilities… because without the ISF you can’t go in,” the source continued, adding that the Board of Peace believes Israel will give the go-ahead for the project after the Knesset election on October 27.The Board of Peace, the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli government declined to comment on the British newspaper’s report.Meanwhile, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said Wednesday that private-sector merchants in Gaza announced they were suspending coordination for the entry of goods into the Strip until further notice, following what it described as a forced taxation mechanism imposed by Hamas and escalating threats against merchants.A Gaza trucking official challenged the Israeli claim.According to COGAT, Hamas security personnel arrested and imprisoned the son of one of the merchants on Tuesday after the merchant refused to pay taxes to the terror group on goods brought into Gaza. As a result, the merchants announced that they would suspend coordination activities.COGAT said that according to the merchants, Hamas demands approximately NIS 10,000 ($3,200) for every truck entering Gaza and requires merchants to sell around 30 percent of their goods in cash, apparently to enable the terror group to gain control of the proceeds.These demands directly contradict the commitments made by merchants approved to operate, who are required to make and receive payments exclusively through bank transfers.The head of Gaza’s private truckers union, Nahed Sheheiber, disputed COGAT’s claim, saying Israel had made the decision.“The merchants are not the ones who stopped the shipments,” he said. “The Israeli coordinator is claiming that Gaza’s merchants are responsible, but the truth is that the Israelis are the ones who imposed the restrictions.”Following COGAT’s announcement, Shehaiber’s union met with Gaza’s Hamas-run Economy Ministry to express concern and say Israel was citing fees levied by the ministry as a pretext to cut off commercial goods.The ministry had been asking merchants to pay NIS 10,000 per truck entering Gaza, Shehaiber said. At the meeting, Economy Ministry Undersecretary Khaled Al-Raqab told the union that the amount was not a tax, but rather a donation sought by the ministry to help pay civil servants in the Strip.For most of the war following October 7, Israel refused to allow goods into Gaza through private merchants. In August 2025, it began allowing private merchants who had undergone security screening to bring in goods, alongside humanitarian organizations.According to COGAT, the private sector currently accounts for 50 percent of all trucks entering the Strip. Under the ceasefire agreement reached last October, Israel committed to allowing approximately 600 trucks a day into Gaza.Wednesday’s move stands to immediately reduce Gaza’s supplies, because the closed-off territory is completely reliant on whatever goods Israel allows in through border crossings. The suspension also raised fears about affordability, with humanitarian workers saying a combination of aid and a robust commercial market is needed to keep prices under control.“The humanitarian sector on its own cannot meet the needs of all the people,” said Shaina Low, a spokesperson for the Norwegian Refugee Council, an aid group. “The markets need to be functioning.”COGAT chief Maj. Gen. Yoram Halevi sent a letter to Nickolay Mladenov, the Board of Peace’s high representative, and to the commander of the ISF and the UN humanitarian coordinator for the region, informing them of the development and warning that Hamas would seek to exploit the suspension of private-sector operations to spread false claims that Israel was failing to comply with the agreement.COGAT also said that according to assessments supported by professional evaluations conducted by the UN and other international experts, approximately 250 trucks a day entering through humanitarian organizations are sufficient to meet the humanitarian needs of Gaza’s population.It was not clear from the COGAT announcement if aid agencies would be allowed to increase shipments into Gaza to compensate for the loss in commercial goods.The world’s leading authority on food insecurity reported earlier this year that conditions in Gaza had improved since it declared famine in the territory in August 2025, but were still at crisis levels. Israel strongly rejected the famine claim made at the time by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification system (IPC).But most families in the war-battered enclave weren’t getting nearly enough to eat, said the report, adding that “even small disruptions to humanitarian access could rapidly reverse recent gains.”“As I have warned repeatedly, such practices are unacceptable and must end immediately,” Mladenov said in response to the cessation of coordination for the entry of goods into the Strip reported by COGAT. “The intimidation of merchants and interference in the supply chain only deepen the suffering of Gaza’s civilians.”Mladenov called for a Board of Peace-backed Palestinian technocratic committee, the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, to take charge in the Strip, secured by a multinational peacekeeping force.“These developments demonstrate why the rapid deployment of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), supported by the International Stabilization Force, is urgently needed,” Mladenov continued on X. “Civilian supplies, humanitarian assistance and commercial activity must be protected from coercion, exploitation and interference.”Mladenov called for the implementation of the Gaza peace plan, “including the arrangements required for NCAG and ISF operations in Gaza. This includes the decommissioning of weapons, the transition to legitimate transitional governance and the protection of humanitarian and commercial supply chains.”I have a received a letter from @cogatonline on the suspension of private-sector goods coordination into Gaza as a result of reports of threats and coercion by Hamas. As I have warned repeatedly, such practices are unacceptable and must end immediately. The intimidation of… — Nickolay E. MLADENOV (@nmladenov) October 15, 2026-Only 19% of Palestinians support Hamas — poll-Support for Hamas among Palestinians continues to decline, according to a poll published on Wednesday by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, headed by Khalil Shikaki in Ramallah.Overall, 19% of respondents said they support Hamas, compared to 24% in a poll conducted this August, and 35% in August 2025.Among Gaza residents, 27% said they support Hamas, down from 33% in August and 41% in October last year. Support was lowest in the West Bank, where just 13% of respondents said they support Hamas, compared to 32% in October last year.Similarly, the proportion of Palestinians who believe Hamas emerged victorious from the war with Israel, which erupted with the terror group’s October 7, 2023, massacre, continued to decline. Just 16% of respondents said Hamas won, compared to 39% in October 2025 and 70% in December 2023, early on in the war. Meanwhile, 17% now believe Israel emerged victorious, while 62% believe neither side won.Some 53% of respondents said they support a two-state solution involving a Palestinian state along the 1967 lines, with East Jerusalem as its capital — 56% in the West Bank and 48% in Gaza — while 44% opposed it.The poll was conducted between October 7 and 11, 2026, with 1,400 respondents interviewed face-to-face — 909 in the West Bank and 488 in Gaza.Hamas tunnel demolished-A Hamas tunnel that crossed into the Israeli-held portion of the Gaza Strip was recently demolished by combat engineers, the military said on Thursday.The IDF said the tunnel, which featured several rooms where Hamas operatives would reside, spanned a kilometer and a half and crossed the Yellow Line.Combat engineers of the Gaza Division and the elite Yahalom unit in a recent operation blew up and sealed the underground passage, the military said.An October 2025 US-backed ceasefire halted major fighting in the shattered territory, but it failed to end strikes by the Israeli military, which the army says aim to thwart attacks by Hamas and other Gaza terrorists. Gaza remains bisected into Israeli- and Hamas-controlled areas.US-led efforts to reach a comprehensive deal that would see Hamas disarm and Israel withdraw have stalled amid disagreements over the process.The Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza says nearly 1,500 people have been killed by IDF strikes and gunfire in the Strip since the ceasefire took effect on October 11, 2025. The toll does not differentiate between combatants and civilians.The IDF has not released figures on the number of strikes carried out or the number of terror operatives killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the truce.Former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot pledged on Thursday to end Hamas rule in the Gaza Strip within 18 months of taking office as prime minister, accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of failing to achieve his own war objectives three years after the October 7 massacre.“Within 18 months of taking office as prime minister, Hamas will no longer rule the Gaza Strip. We will bring about the destruction of Hamas’s military wing,” Eisenkot pledged in a statement delivered at the Gaza border.The Yashar chair said this will be achieved either through US President Donald Trump’s Gaza framework to demilitarize and rebuild Gaza, which was accepted by the Netanyahu government, or through military action.Hamas remains in control of roughly a third of the Gaza Strip and retains military capabilities, even as Israel holds more than 60% of the territory, according to IDF figures from June.Ariela Karmel contributed to this report.

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON THE MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS-PROPHECY SIGNS) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION-HEAVENLY OBJECTS) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)

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Hurricane Hazel was one of Ontario’s worst modern-day disasters-Dennis MersereauDigital Journalist, Weather Specialist-Published on Oct. 15, 2026, 6:00 AM

The storm’s remnants brought high winds and intense flooding to the Greater Toronto Area-How a storm can bring so much rain in so little time-Hurricane Hazel grew into one of Ontario’s most destructive storms in modern history--and the storm made landfall more than 1,000 kilometres away.
Dozens of people died when the storm’s drenching rains unleashed flash floods throughout portions of the Greater Toronto Area. Gusty winds caused additional damage and power outages.DON’T MISS: Hurricane remnants can bring dangerous weather deep into Canada-Hurricane Hazel Track October 1954-Hazel began as a tropical storm near Barbados on the morning of Oct. 5, gaining major hurricane status five days later as it turned toward Haiti. The hurricane's destructive winds and flooding rains killed hundreds of people in the country.The storm strengthened further as it accelerated toward the U.S. East Coast, making landfall near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, as a Category 4 hurricane. Hazel produced wind gusts as high as 225 km/h and a storm surge of 5.5 metres above ground level where it came ashore.A few hours after landfall, Hazel underwent an extratropical transition in a process very similar to what we saw during Sandy in 2012 and Fiona in 2022. The system, now akin to an exceptionally strong nor’easter, raced toward Ontario.High winds spilled across the border as the storm arrived on Oct. 15, causing widespread power outages and major damage along the lakeshores.Southern Ontario had already endured several weeks of unusually wet weather before Hazel’s remnants entered the region. Widespread rainfall totals of 100-200 mm fell throughout the Greater Toronto Area between Oct. 15-16, with as much as 210 mm reported in Brampton.Saturated soils couldn’t handle the excess rainfall. Flash flooding unfolded as creeks and rivers surged out of their banks. The Humber River saw the worst flooding, with water as deep as 9 metres covering some areas.“It was like dumping a lake the size of Lake Simcoe on the Humber River drainage area and having it all trying to get out by way of the river at once,” Environment Canada quoted the Toronto Star as saying shortly after the disaster.All told, more than 80 people died across southern Ontario as the remnants of Hurricane Hazel flooded the region. Damages amounted to more than $100 million, which is the equivalent of nearly $1.2 billion today.