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ISRAEL
- URGENT PRAYER FOR ISRAEL NEEDED
Date: Jul 19, 2007 3:00 PM
- This e-mail is a composite of several e-mail pertaining to
the 9th of Av(Tish b'Av ) and the potential danger that Israel
is in at this time. This is a time to pray! Seek the lord
for how you should pray - but pray! The 3rd and 4th e-mails are
commenting on the 2nd e-mail.E-Mail
- 1 Dated July 13th Shalom,We are in the middle
of July's heat, and in the middle of the Hebrew season known
as the 'Dire Straits' (with apologies to Mark Knopfler). Today
is the twelfth day of the "bein hameitzarim" or "dire
straits" period (see http://www.davidstent.org/
under the "words" section, Feb 21 2005 newsletter,
also http://www.whitedoveministries.org/content/ArchivesItem_11_131_v),
a period of extreme spiritual danger for Israel. This
period lasts up to the evening which closes out the 9th of Av
(Tuesday evening July 24). It is a time of urgent heightened
prayer for Israel and her survival.This season is
usually marked by an increase of spiritual pressure, and by active
satanic measures directed against the Jewish people and the State
of Israel. It is a time for the saints to be prayerful, to remember
God's sovereign power and promises, and to press in with joy
and determinationas we ask God to preserve His people, save His
remnant and explode Hismighty and strategic purposes across the
face of the globe.
- Pray for Israel:1. that God will expose and frustrate all
the strategems of the enemy (especially with Lebanon's Hezbollah,
Gaza's Hamas, Syria's Alawiterulers, Iran's Shi'ite masters and
Al-Qa'eda's shadowy forces).
- 2. that God will reveal Himself to Israel's leadership
as pure, upright, loving, sovereign and mighty to save.
- 3. that the incarnated presence of Yeshua will so
fill believers inIsrael that the hearts of the nation will be
touched and transformed.4. that the refugees from Sudan who have
recently sought shelter within Israel from jihadi genocide and
Egyptian state-sponsored persecution,will find protection, comfort
and a land willing to embrace them in their grievous suffering.We
bless you from the land of Abraham's inheritance,In Messiah Yeshua's
love, AE-Mail
- 2 Dated July 16th - Today we had business to
do in Jerusalem, so we left our home at 7 amand traveled down
the east side of the Galilee, through Bet Shean and pastthe check
point at Sede Trimot in the Jordan Valley.Once we entered the
Jordan Valley as we passed through the Arab agricultural areas
we noticed the following which is most unusual;
- 1. There were no people visible working the in the
fields.
- 2. There were no children along the side of the road.
- 3. There were no tractors or other farm vehicles anywhere
to be seen.
- 4. All of the vegetables had been completely harvested
and the fieldswere 100% empty.
- 5. No preparation of the fields was evident for the
nextplanting...Plastic was everywhere from the prior crop.
- 6. The greenhouses had no plants in them.....
- 7. The vegetable stands that are normally filled to
the brim from the harvest were completely vacant.
- 8. This is the peak season for growing vegetables
in the Jordan Valley,yet everything had been harvested and nothing
was growing waiting to be harvested or picked.We concluded our
business in Jerusalem and got back on the road againabout 2:45
pm heading north up the Jordan Valley.
- Again, no people, no fruit stands, no crops, nothing!
Do these Arabs know something is about to happen that we
do not know is coming? The 9th of Av is on July 23rd, which is
the exact day bothTemples in Jerusalem were destroyed hundreds
of years apart...We need your prayers for revelation and understanding
of what the Lordwas revealing to us today. Is war on the horizon?
Please pray the Lord will give us discernment and understanding
of what we are to do; where we areto position ourselves; and
how to pray...B.
- 3 Dated July 17th - I underlined significant
parts of this message. (see E-mail 2 above) I also confirm that
it is normal to have MUCH agricultural activity in these fields
at this time of year. Produce stands often line these roads.
It is very strange that the fields are empty and that
the people are absent. It indicated that there will be no investment
in any of the summer crops.It reminds me of the water on the
shoreline that recedes exposing bare ocean floor just before
a tsunami.Is this significant? Is it a sign that my friends were
shown to raiseup intercession? I believe it is.It matters little
if the war comes on the historically significant dayof Tish b'Av
(Roman calendar this year = Thursday July 23rd) or if it comeslater
or sooner.NOW is the time for us to seek the face of the Lord.
- We need to pray that all the believers living in Israel will
receive a word from the Lordabout the preparation needed in the
days ahead. They need to be positioned in the exact spot that
the Lord assigns them. Salvation needs to bepreached urgently
to those in the line of fire.Often I am asked if intercession
can hold back events or even cancelthem. God will choose to do
what He deems best. His timing and His ways are perfect.However,
we do have a role to play. The enemy will try to move ahead the
timeline. He will try to move people out of place through fear
and dread. He will try to make some one jump "off side"
or to move prematurely to take things off God's perfect timing.We
can pray for God's mercy. That prayer may release a fresh provision...
it may move back a timeline to provide more time for preparation
... it may release vital revelation to change the course of attacks,
etc.
- One thing I have learned over many years: God does nothing
without telling His prophetic people what is coming about.Was
the strange lack of Arab activity in the fields today a message
from the Lord to be seen and reported by my friends? I believe
it is. Now it is our turn to pick up our role and to pray for
the hand of God to do what He desires to do for His people and
nation. Let's cut off the maneuvers the enemy is making and let's
pray that his evil, sneaky, plans are revealed; not only to the
Body in the Land, but also to the key governmental and military
leaders who must have it. Can you imagine the impact it would
have on the people of Israel, if a prophet arose from the
community of believers in Israel, to speak a message from
God ... one that would give the critical advantage to Israel;
enabling her to defeat her enemies? I believe God has delivered
a wake up notice through my friends today. Let's arise and respond
as the Spirit leads. Blessings, KE-
- Mail 4 Dated July 17th - Shalom All, Normally
I do not forward e-mails but having received this yesterday morning
(Tuesday) and then this morning I received a call from Israel
stating the same as described below is happening in many places
around the Land. Also another friend related to me warnings to
"get out of Jericho" were given. Remember this
weekend is one of two possible timings for events to escalate
against Israel. Blessings, G
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- [Ednote: I added the kjv for the quoted Scriptures: ]
- "For I will take you from among the heathen, and
gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your
own land. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall
be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols,
will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new
spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony
heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in
my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. And
ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye
shall be my people, and I will be your God." (Ezekiel 36:24-28
kjv)
- This was in the email:
- For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather
you from allthe countries and bring you back into your own land.
You will live in the land Igave yourforefathers; you will be
my people, and I will be your God." Ezekiel 36:24-28.
(NIV)
- [Ednote: I came across this message today: "WE ARE ENTERING
THE SATANIC/PAGAN CELEBRATIONS FROM NOW (20TH) TILL THE 27TH
OF JULY WITH THE GRAND CLIMAX THEN THE 31ST WITH LAMMAS. KEEP
YOUR EYES PEELED"
http://z13.invisionfree.com/THE_UNHIVED_MIND/index.php?showtopic=29054
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- WORD FROM YERUSHALAIM
Simantov Allalouf - simantov@wordfromyerushalaim.com
Date; July 20/07 - Seems the last mail I sent out (A WAKE UP
NOTICE) concerning the Jordan Valley has created a big stir on
the internet. As far as this being evidence of the Arab people
leaving the area because they know of an immanent attack, is
something that is speculation at this point.
God knows all of what may or may not be in the works, and that
is the only reason I forwarded this e-mail. The objective was
to alert intercessors of a possible need for prayer. There is
no question we here in Israel are in a serious time of potential
war, and many are very sensitive to all that is happening. But
we must rely and trust in the Lord to direct our reaction and
prayer. It was not intended that fear be stirred, but rather
prayer. There is no question the enemy (satan) of Israel is stirring
our unregenerate neighbours to devise an evil plan. Please take
these bits and pieces of information to the Lord, and allow Him
to direct your prayers.
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- MESSIAH MYSTERY FOLLOWS DEATH OF MYSTICAL RABBI
- Revered Israeli apocalyptic kabbalah leader shocks Jews,
Christians with name 'Yeshua' - May 18, 2007 - WorldNetDaily.com
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- Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri
A controversy is raging in Israel, in evangelical circles in
the U.S. and on kabbalah web forums worldwide following the posthumous
release of what a revered Sephardic rabbi claimed to be the name
of the Messiah.
- When Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri died in February 2006, somewhere
between the age of 106 to possibly 117, 300,000 attended his
funeral in Jerusalem.
- The Baghdad-born kabbalist had gained notoriety around the
world for issuing apocalyptic warnings and for saying he personally
met the long-awaited Jewish Messiah in November 2003. Before
Kaduri died, he reportedly wrote the name of the Messiah on a
small note, requesting it remained sealed for one year after
his death. The note revealed the name of the Messiah as "Yehoshua"
or "Yeshua" – or the Hebrew name Jesus. Continued:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55765
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- MIDDLE EAST NEWS: EU's SOLANO CALLS FOR MIDEAST PEACE AGREEMENT
BY END OF 2007
- January 18, 2007, Cairo - European Union chief diplomat Javier
Solana and Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul-Gheit in Cairo
on Thursday called on Israel and the Palestinians to reach a
peace agreement by the end of 2007. During the short visit by
Solana to Egypt, both ministers also called on the United States
to aim for progress in the conflict by the end of the year, as
the time before the 2008 elections acted as a 'window' of opportunity
in which the parties to the conflict could find agreement on
fundamental issues.
- Solana said that the region needed to reach an 'end of
the game.' Solana, who earlier Thursday also met Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak, is to continue his tour in Israel, the
Palestinian territories and Jordan. Source: dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur
[Comment on why Solana could be the Anti-Christ - Author Constance
Cumbey is under this impression as well as others. Look what
resulted? Action!!]
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- PERES, VOWING PEACE, TAKES ISRAELI PRESIDENCY
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Shimon Peres, left, lays one hand on the bible and raises
the other as he listens to Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik read his
oath of allegiance on taking office as the Jewish State's 9th
president in Jerusalem on Sunday. |
- 'I don't have any force but the force of my conviction,'
ninth president says
MSNBC.com NBC News - July 15, 2007 - JERUSALEM - Elder statesman
Shimon Peres took office as Israel's ninth president Sunday,
pledging to devote his seven-year term in the ceremonial
post to his lifelong dream of Middle East peace. ..... "We
must encourage peace here at home, with our neighbors, in the
region," he said. The swearing-in capped a six-decade political
career that has included international acclaim and a Nobel Peace
Prize for efforts to create peace in the region. But Peres also
suffered a string of embarrassing electoral defeats at home,
where he was perceived by many as an unrealistic dreamer. Peres
has long been among the most dovish members of the Israeli leadership.
He said in a half-hour interview with The Associated Press before
his swearing-in that despite the constraints of his new job,
he would not halt his efforts for peace with the Palestinians.
He said that would require Israel to withdraw from significant
pieces of territory captured in the 1967 Mideast War — a
position still opposed by large parts of the Israeli public.
"We have to get rid of the territories," he said, referring
to the West Bank, insisting that his long-held position is the
majority view in Israel today. Peres even expressed hope of making
peace with archenemy Iran. "After such a long career, let
me just say something: My appetite to manage is over. My inclination
to dream and to envisage is greater," he said.
- Regaining public trust
Peres inherits an office tarnished by a sex scandal that forced
his predecessor to resign, an ascension widely welcomed by a
public sick of scandal. Looking vigorous in a dark suit and crisp
light-blue shirt, he said he would use the presidency to "encourage"
the government to take steps for peace, offer advice to the nation's
leaders and "speak to the people." "In public
life, you don't use swords. You use words. You talk to people.
You have dialogue. That's what I'm going to do. I don't have
any force but the force of my conviction," he said. Many
Israelis have scorned Peres as a romantic for his belief in a
"new Middle East," a phrase he coined in the 1990s
when peace with the Palestinians seemed close. Full story:
- http://www.cephas-library.com/israel_peres_becomes_ninth_president_of_srael.html
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- BUSH ANNOUNCES MIDEAST PEACE CONFERENCE
U.S. pledges $190 million in direct aid to Fatah government
MSNBC video  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19786528/
July 16: President Bush announces an international conference
this fall to include Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Arab
countries to help restart Mideast peace talks.
MSNBC - He noted that the United States has pledged more than
$190 million in direct assistance to the Palestinians, most of
it already approved, and that the Overseas Private Investment
Corporation, a quasi-governmental unit, was making another $228
million available in loan guarantees. Administration officials
said that Bush would await recommendations from former British
Prime Minister Tony Blair before deciding whether asking Congress
for more.
- Blair was recently named as special envoy to the region by
the "Quartet" of Mideast peace-makers — the U.S.,
European Union, United Nations and Russia. That group meets in
Portugal on Thursday, at which time Rice and other international
negotiators will meet with Blair as he begins his new assignment.
Snow said that Bush had discussed his new proposals with Blair.
- Bush also announced that his administration will "make
a direct contribution of $80 million to help Palestinians reform
their security services." "We will work with Congress
and partners around the world to provide additional resources
once a plan to build Palestinian institutions is in place,"
he said. "With all this assistance, we are showing the Palestinian
people that a commitment to peace leads to the generous support
of the United States." Full story: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19786528/
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- BARRY CHAMISH ADDRESSES THE END OF
ISRAEL
- barrychamish_endofisrael_tbs.mp3
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- ISRAEL'S OLMERT DECLARES 'NO ONE IS IMMUNE'
PM says push against Hamas will go on after rocket from Gaza
kills Israeli
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday promised to
step up attacks on the Hamas militant group after a Palestinian
rocket attack killed an Israeli man in southern Israel. “No
one is immune,” Olmert declared.
- Sunday’s bloodshed signaled there was no end in sight
for the latest round of fighting between Israel and Palestinian
militants in the Gaza Strip. A 10-day campaign of Israeli airstrikes
aimed at halting rocket attacks has killed nearly 50 Palestinians,
most of them militants. But the rocket fire has continued.
- Another rocket slammed into the southern Israeli town of
Sderot early Sunday, critically wounding a 36-year-old man with
shrapnel, medical officials said. The man later died of his wounds
at a hospital, Israeli media said. It was the second fatal rocket
attack in less than a week.‘There will be no limit’
Olmert told the weekly meeting of his Cabinet Sunday that he
had instructed the army to do whatever it takes to halt the rocket
fire.
- “There will be no limit in acting against the terror
groups and against those who are responsible for the terror.
No one is immune,” Olmert said. Continued: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18888153/
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- ISRAEL POUNDS GAZA, KILLING AT LEAST 5
Says all Hamas leaders may be targeted; militant group threatens
revenge -
- AP - GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - May 21, 2007 - Israel stepped
up air attacks in the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing at least
five people, and a senior Israeli cabinet minister said all Hamas
leaders involved in cross-border rocket fire could be targeted.
- Thousands of Hamas supporters took to the streets of Gaza
City and gunmen fired into the air, vowing revenge one day after
an Israeli air strike on the home of Hamas politician Khalil
al-Hayya.
- Hamas said only two of the eight killed in Sunday’s
attack were gunmen. Hayya was not injured, though he lost seven
family members in the strike.File removed:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18778852/
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- GAZA LOST TO HAMAS
 Analysts Now Warn
James D. Besser/Washington - Washington Correspondent, The Jewish
Week
- Hamas may be on the verge of defeating the Fatah forces of
Mahmoud Abbas for control of Gaza, leaving tough choices for
Israel, says David Makovsky of the Washington Institute. As rockets
rained down on Sderot and Israeli forces ratcheted up their limited
campaign against resurgent, re-armed terror groups, Israeli leaders
are facing the possibility Gaza may be lost to Hamas terrorists,
a number of analysts warned this week.
- Even some supporters of more active peace efforts are now
saying the only solution may be to crush Hamas. "It may
be the time to let the hawks out of the cage," said Edward
Walker, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel and longtime peace
process supporter. "This is not the time for doves."
- "Senior Israel officials told me that they are getting
concerned that they are getting to the point where Gaza is lost
to Hamas," said David Makovsky, a senior fellow with the
Washington Institute for Near East Policy. "This will have
far-reaching implications, and is bound to color Israel's judgment
about how to act in the current crisis," Makovsky warned.
But Makovsky said the government in Jerusalem, wary of a full-scale
Gaza offensive that Hamas seems eager to provoke, is moving slowly
and deliberately.
- "Right now Israel is engaged in sporadic strikes because
it has not made an analytic judgment on the big picture - whether
Gaza is, in fact, lost," he said. "Once it makes that
judgment, it will have a range of options." 'No Immediate
Solution'
- http://support.tjci.org/site/PageServer?pagename=WeeklyarticleinEnews4&JServSessionIdr009=3dt7frm3j1.app6b
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- CLASHES RESUME AROUND LEBANON REFUGEE CAMP
 MSNBC May 21 2007 - At least 50
dead as Lebanese troops bombard shadowy militant group Lebanese
soldiers patrol the main entrance of the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian
refugee camp in northern Lebanon on Monday. Internal bloodshed
- Lebanese soldiers battle Fatah Islam, a shadowy group believed
linked to al-Qaida.
Lebanese troops tighten siege; death toll at 47
Israeli missile hits home of Hamas commander
TRIPOLI, Lebanon - Lebanese army artillery shelled a Palestinian
refugee camp where a shadowy group suspected of ties to al-Qaida
was holed up Monday, pounding militant hideouts for a second
day in the worst eruption of violence since the end of the 1975-90
civil war.
- The official death toll from Sunday’s violence climbed
to near 50, but it was not known how many civilians have been
killed inside the Nahr el-Bared camp on the outskirts of the
northern port city of Tripoli, the scene of the heaviest fighting.
- No new deaths were reported Monday outside the camp, but
it was not known whether civilians or militants were killed inside
the camp during heavy shelling because emergency workers and
security officials have not been able to get in. Continued: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18777683/
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- INSTABILITY STALKS LEBANON A YEAR AFTER ISRAEL WAR
By Alistair Lyon, Special Correspondent - Analysis - BEIRUT (Reuters)
- Fear that political deadlock may spill into violence is gripping
Lebanon, a year after Israel and Shi'ite Hezbollah guerrillas
jumped into a war that shattered trust between rival Lebanese
camps. Assassins have slain two anti-Syrian politicians in the
past eight months. More than 200 people have died in battles
between Lebanese troops and al Qaeda-inspired militants in a
Palestinian refugee camp. And a car bomber killed six U.N. peacekeepers
in the south last month. Many Lebanese expect worse to come.
With the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict far from over, they also
fear their country could be sucked into any U.S.-Israeli confrontation
with Iran or Syria, Hezbollah's main allies. Already many bright
Lebanese youngsters have gone abroad to escape instability, despairing
of politicians they see as less interested in forging a national
consensus than in lining their pockets and relying on outside
powers to gain advantage.
- "The Lebanese public is giving in to signs of fatalism
about the risk of another civil war," Guiseppe Cassini,
political adviser to Italian troops serving with the U.N. force
in south Lebanon, told a conference at the European parliament
last week. "The various factions are all re-arming,"
the veteran Italian diplomat said, referring to Christian, Druze
and Sunni communities, as well as to Hezbollah, the only group
formally permitted to keep its weapons after the 1975-90 civil
war.
- NO APPETITE FOR CIVIL WAR
- No one in Lebanon relishes a return to full-scale conflict
-- although Syria's opponents accuse Damascus of destabilising
its neighbor to prevent it falling into Washington's orbit and
to prove to the West its ability to play spoiler in the region.
Hezbollah has sworn not to use its formidable arsenal against
its internal foes -- fighting as a sectarian Lebanese militia
would ruin its image in the Muslim world of heroic resistance
to Israel and reflect badly on its Iranian sponsors. Other Lebanese
leaders deny they are reviving militias, but say they fear security
repercussions if the rift widens between factions aligned with
or against the Western-backed government. Anti-Syrian Druze politician
Walid Jumblatt says Lebanon is effectively split into two states,
that led by Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, and a Hezbollah entity
acting independently.
- "Our state is supported by the international community
and international resolutions, the other one by the Iranian-Syrian
axis," he told Reuters. "Lebanon is squeezed in the
middle."
- Shi'ite and Christian opposition factions contend that the
government lost its legitimacy when ministers representing them
resigned from Siniora's cabinet in November. Backed by pro-Syrian
President Emile Lahoud and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, they
say all government decisions since then are invalid.
- The political paralysis is rooted in the mutual acrimony
generated by last year's 34-day war that erupted after Hezbollah
captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid on July
12. The Sunni-led pro-government alliance accused Hezbollah of
plunging Lebanon into war to serve Syrian and Iranian interests.
Hezbollah suspected Siniora and his allies of colluding with
Israel and the United States in prolonging the conflict in hopes
the Shi'ite guerrillas would be crushed and disarmed.
- "After that the hatred was just unbelievable,"
said a Beirut-based diplomat in frequent contact with all sides.
"Both parties felt an existential threat from the other."
- SECTARIAN TENSIONS
- Rhetorical barbs that flew between Hezbollah chief Sayyed
Hassan Nasrallah and pro-government politicians such as Jumblatt
and Sunni leader Saad al-Hariri inflamed communal feelings. "The
leaders are unintentionally exacerbating sectarian tensions,"
said Sami Baroudi, a Lebanese political scientist. "I don't
think anybody wants to destroy the country. But they want the
other side to make the concessions."
- If the two camps cannot agree on a national unity government
or on choosing a new president later this year, the stage would
be set for chronic instability and fragmentation of authority.
In those circumstances, Hezbollah might turn away from domestic
politics to focus on preparing for what it believes is an inevitable
renewal of conflict with the Israelis. "They are going to
war with Israel at some point anyway," said Amal Saad Ghorayeb,
an analyst with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
predicting a regional conflagration.
- Lebanon's border with Israel has been relatively quiet since
hostilities ended in August and an expanded UNIFIL force took
over the area alongside 15,000 newly deployed Lebanese troops.
Hezbollah has kept its arms out of sight in the UNIFIL zone,
but security sources say it has fortified its positions just
to the north and in the Bekaa Valley to the east, while replenishing
its supply of rockets from Iran and Syria.
- Ghorayeb said Hezbollah had only held back from military
operations, for example in the disputed Shebaa Farms border area,
out of political concern for national unity. Hezbollah's Shi'ite
supporters, frustrated by the government's survival and the U.S.
support lavished on Siniora, had turned more radical than the
leadership. "The popular base is much more hardline than
Hezbollah," she added.
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- NETANYAHU: AS LONG AS WE STAY IN WEST BANK WE'RE UNBEATABLE
 'Automatic assumption
of withdrawal to 1967 borders is unjustified, immoral and very
dangerous for the State of Israel,' opposition leader tells conference
marking Six Day War's 40th anniversary
- Lilach Shoval Published: 06.04.07, 14:51 / Israel News
- "Since the Six Day War the Arab world has been trying
to get us off the mountains of Judea and Samaria, but as long
as we are on this mountain, we are unbeatable," opposition
leader Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday. Speaking at a conference
held in the capital by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
(JCPA) to mark the 40th anniversary of the Six Day War, Netanyahu
said that "the Six Day War was a turning point in which
we turned from a fetal and fragile country whose existence was
questionable, into a state which cannot be defeated." The
conference was dedicated to United Nations Resolution 242, which
was adopted five months after the war and outlined guidelines
for a peaceful solution in the Middle East.
- "This possibility was on the agenda. The fact that we
were unbeatable made us move from war to peace. It was a necessary
condition in causing parts of the Arab world to recognize the
State of Israel and its right to exist. Today the peace process
is in retreat following the unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon,
the pullout from Gaza and the Second Lebanon War," Netanyahu
said. "Today not only our enemies, but also our friends,
question the fact that we are unbeatable. This moves us away
from peace and brings us closer to war. The Six Day War was aimed
at removing the question mark over our existence and paving the
road to peace... "We must change the Oslo Accords. The main
flaw of the Oslo Accords is that Israel is required to make more
and more concessions, while the Palestinians continue to demand
their right of return. We must find a partner for peace and take
the right of return off the agenda. Cancelling the right of return
is a precondition for concessions. At the moment we have no partner,
because those standing in front of us declare that they want
to destroy us. Continued: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3408504,00.html
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- RUSSIANS BIDDING FOR CONTROL IN DOWNTOWN JERUSALEM
IsraelNN.com - May 31, 2007 - by Hillel Fendel - If current negotiations
with the Russians succeed, a large complex in central Jerusalem
will be handed over to control of the Russian government. The
area in question is part or all of what is known as the Russian
Compound, so named because it was built and once owned by the
Russian government. It was originally constructed as one of the
first complexes outside the Old City of Jerusalem, for the purpose
of housing the thousands of Christian Russian pilgrims who wished
to visit the holy city. Continued: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/122600
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- RUSSIA WANTS CONTROL OF DOWNTOWN JERUSALEM
Israel Today - May 31, 2007 by Staff Writer Negotiations over
the land has been ongoing since the premiership of Ehud Barak
some seven years ago. The Russians are reportedly prepared to
pay $100 million for the prime real estate. Speaking to Israel
National News, an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman stressed
that Israel is not "selling" the land to Russia, but
rather "returning" the area to its former owners -
a very dangerous way of putting things considering the Arab claim
to all of what is today the Jewish state. Whole story: http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=12910
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- ARABS PLAN 'DISENGAGEMENT' FROM JERUSALEM
IsraelNN.com by Hana Levi Julian - June 6, 2007 - A group of
Arab-Israeli citizens in eastern Jerusalem announced plans on
Sunday to establish their own city council in what they say will
be a formal “disengagement” from the western half of
the capital. ... "Tens of thousands of Arabs infiltrate
Jerusalem every year," Lupolianski explained in a press
statement. "These people suffer from distress due to lack
of action by the Palestinian Authority. They wish to become residents
of Jerusalem, under Israeli sovereignty, because of the high-quality
conditions and services they receive here. Just like the UN has
no authority to divide London, Paris or Washington DC, it has
no authority to re-divide Jerusalem."
- The Jerusalem Municipality statement further noted that "most
of the residents of eastern Jerusalem work in cooperation with
the municipality and community centers and have no desire for
this incitement, nor do they wish the city to be divided."
Whole story: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/122652
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- LIEBERMAN: U.S. SHOULD WEIGH IRAN ATTACK
AP - June 10, 2007 - WASHINGTON - Sen. Joseph Lieberman said
Sunday the United States should consider a military strike against
Iran because of Tehran's involvement in Iraq. "I think we've
got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against
the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq,"
Lieberman said. "And to me, that would include a strike
over the border into Iran, where we have good evidence that they
have a base at which they are training these people coming back
into Iraq to kill our soldiers."
- The U.S. accuses Iran of fostering terrorism and Tehran's
nuclear ambitions have brought about international reproach.
Lieberman, the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2000
who now represents Connecticut as an independent, spoke of Iranians'
role in the continued violence in Iraq.
- "We've said so publicly that the Iranians have a base
in Iran at which they are training Iraqis who are coming in and
killing Americans. By some estimates, they have killed as many
as 200 American soldiers," Lieberman said. "Well, we
can tell them we want them to stop that. But if there's any hope
of the Iranians living according to the international rule of
law and stopping, for instance, their nuclear weapons development,
we can't just talk to them." Continued: File
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- THE GAZA EFFECT
- By Michael Hirsh - Newsweek - June 25, 2007 issue - The Israelis
didn't want Palestinian elections back in January 2006. Even
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, had been worried about
them and kept asking for delays. As early as the spring of 2005,
Abbas had warned American officials that he did not have the
popular support to disarm Hamas, the Islamist party that turned
suicide terror bombings into a standard tactic in Israel and
which both Abbas and the Israelis saw was growing in power. But
Bush administration officials insisted, confident of the curative
powers of democracy. Later, after Hamas stunned the world by
winning control of the Palestinian Parliament, Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice claimed: "Nobody saw it coming." The
line could describe much of what has resulted from George W.
Bush's efforts to transform the world—or at least one part
of it, the Middle East. As long as the Islamists of Hamas refused
to recognize Israel, the United States refused to deal with the
Hamas-dominated Palestinian government.
- The hope was not that ordinary Palestinians would suffer,
but that they would realize such a government was not in their
best interests. At the same time Washington tried to bolster
Abbas and his Fatah movement—the secular Palestinian party
founded by Yasir Arafat. The strategy backfired. America was
seen to be taking sides. Hamas, under pressure, built up its
own paramilitary forces to counter those controlled by Abbas
(and trained by the United States). Then, last week, as tit-for-tat
killings in Gaza spiraled out of control, those Hamas fighters
in Gaza turned out to be far more fierce than their better-funded
opponents. The result: the radicals are now in charge of Gaza,
a 140-square-mile strip of land on the Mediterranean Sea along
Israel's western border that is packed with 1.4 million Palestinians,
most of them desperately poor. Until late 2005 Gaza was occupied
by Israeli troops, and until last week Bush still saw it as part
of the new Palestinian state he wanted to create along with the
larger West Bank. Now Gaza may become Hamas's private enclave
and perhaps even an ungovernable font of terror.
- Continued: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19263096/site/newsweek/
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- IRASEL APPROVES THE RELEASE OF 250 PALESTINIAN PRISONERS
NEW YORK TIMES: - By ISABEL KERSHNER - Published: July 9, 2007
JERUSALEM, July 8 — The Israeli government on Sunday gave
its approval for the release of 250 Palestinian prisoners to
bolster the administration of Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian
president, an Israeli government spokesman said. Israeli and
Palestinian officials also said that discussions were under way
for a meeting between Mr. Abbas and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
of Israel, possibly early next week, though the date and location
have yet to be determined. Mr. Olmert pledged at a summit meeting
in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el Sheik on June 25 to release
prisoners belonging to Mr. Abbas’s Fatah faction. David
Baker, the government spokesman, said the gesture was meant to
“shore up” the Palestinian leader and his new emergency
government, which governs from the West Bank, after the violent
takeover of Gaza by Fatah’s rival, the Islamic group Hamas.
- But a political adviser to Mr. Abbas, Nimr Hamad, said that
the release of 250 prisoners was “a very, very limited step,”
and he said that Israel had rejected a Palestinian request to
confer with Israel about which prisoners should be released.
According to Palestinian officials, about 10,500 Palestinians
are currently being held in Israeli jails, about half of whom
have been charged. Israel’s Prisons Authority says that
about 10,000 Palestinian prisoners suspected of or charged with
security offenses are currently in Israeli jails. About 60 percent
belong to Fatah, 30 percent to Hamas and 10 percent to other
factions, a Prisons Authority spokesman said. Other good-will
gestures offered to Mr. Abbas at Sharm el Sheik included a resumption
of the transfer of Palestinian tax revenues, which Israel collects
on the Palestinians’ behalf and which Israel has been withholding
since Hamas came to power in early 2006; and a pledge to hold
regular meetings between Mr. Olmert and Mr. Abbas.
- Jordan’s and Israel’s Foreign Ministries said
Sunday that the Jordanian and Egyptian foreign ministers would
travel to Jerusalem on Thursday to represent the Arab League
in talks about the Arab peace plan, The Associated Press
reported. The plan would trade full Arab recognition of Israel
for an Israeli withdrawal from all lands captured in the 1967
Middle East war and the creation of a Palestinian state. With
regard to the release of Palestinian prisoners, Israeli government
officials said that the list of those to be released was “still
being worked on,” but that it had nearly been finalized.
- The first list presented by the Israeli security services
was sent back for revision, according to Israeli news media reports
over the weekend, because some of the candidates were very close
to ending their prison terms anyway.
- In line with a longstanding Israeli policy, Mr. Olmert said
he would not release prisoners “with blood on their hands,”
meaning those who had been directly involved in terrorist attacks
that killed Israelis. Mr. Hamad, the adviser to Mr. Abbas, said
that he would like sick prisoners and women to be released, but
that the Israelis were deciding unilaterally. The early release
of Palestinian prisoners always arouses opposition in Israel.
The cabinet approved the release by a vote of 18 to 6. One member,
Avigdor Lieberman of the rightist Yisrael Beiteinu Party, objected
to the release in absentia.
- In the meantime, Palestinian lawyers who were involved in
drafting the Palestinian Basic Law, or interim constitution,
were disputing the legality of Mr. Abbas’s emergency government,
Reuters reported.
- Anis al-Qasem, who oversaw the writing of the Basic Law,
and a fellow independent Palestinian constitutional lawyer, Eugene
Cotran, told Reuters that Mr. Abbas had the power to dismiss
Ismail Haniya of Hamas, the prime minister of the previous Hamas-led
unity government. But they said the law did not grant Mr. Abbas
the power to appoint a new government without legislative approval
or the right to suspend articles of the Basic Law pertaining
to the need for parliamentary approval, as he did last month.
- The work of the 132-seat parliament is in any case largely
paralyzed, with 45 members, mostly from Hamas, currently in detention
in Israel, and Fatah members contend their summer session has
ended.
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- THE SANHEDRIN'S PEACE INITIATIVE
- Jewish group devoted to rebuilding Temple in Jerusalem to
send letters to all world leaders, including Arab ones, inviting
them to take part in project, attend conference on Temple Mount
in Israel
- Kobi Nahshoni Published: 05.01.07, 20:48 / Israel Jewish
Scene Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has been gearing
up for an Israeli offensive in recent months, is bound to be
surprised by the peace feelers he is set to receive from Jerusalem
soon. Without Saudi mediation or diplomatic procedures, the president
will get a “Letter of Love and Peace”, accompanied
by a historic invitation to visit Jerusalem, from The Supreme
Judicial Court of the Jewish People, better known as the Sanhedrin.
- After having tried their luck with the High Court of Justice
and the government, the members of the Jewish group have set
out on a new track in their struggle for the Temple Mount, aimed
at rebuilding the Temple in the Jewish capital. In recent days,
the group members have drafted a letter that will be translated
into 70 languages and sent to all government institutions in
the world, including “the sons of Esau and Ishmael”
who do not hold diplomatic ties with Israel.
- Jews responsible for world peace
- In the letter, the rabbis of the self-proclaimed Sanhedrin
warn that the world is nearing a catastrophe, and write that
the only way to bring peace among nations, states, and religions
is by building a house for God, where Jews will worship, pray
and offer up sacrifice, according to the vision of the prophets.
The rabbis also call on the non-Jews to help the people of Israel
fulfill their destiny and build the Temple, in order to prevent
bloodshed across the globe. The letter will initially be translated
into English, Spanish, Arabic, French and Farsi, and later also
into Russian, Chinese and Japanese, and will include an invitation
to world leaders to attend a conference dedicated to the Temple
Mount in Jerusalem five months from now, during Succot. Prof
Hillel Weiss of the Sanhedrin explained that the Torah and the
prophets have tasked the Jewish people with the responsibility
for world peace. He stressed that the group’s project was
to rebuild the Temple, not a “church for all nations,”
but added, “We have all descended from the same father,
this is not another primitive and racist approach.” http://www.ynetnews.com/home/0,7340,L-3443,00.html
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- 'RENEW ANIMAL SACRIFICES ON MOUNT'' SAYS RADICAL RABBI
Member of Sanhedrin says sacrifices 'were not possible when the
people of Israel were in the Diaspora, but now they are.' Adds:
Jerusalem Temple should be rebuilt, Israeli government standing
in our way
- Yaakov Lappin Published: 03.01.07, 19:49 / Israel News Animal
sacrifices should be renewed on the Temple Mount, a member of
the radical Sanhedrin organization told Ynetnews. In ancient
Israel and Judea, the Sanhedrin served as the highest court in
the land, and was made up of 71 top judges. Now, a group of
fringe rabbis say they have reformed the group, although the
organization has received no recognition from Israel's official
religious authorities. "In the Torah there are around 200
commandments dealing with animal sacrifices," said Rabbi
Dov Stein, of the Sanhedrin organization. "The Torah of
Israel demands animal sacrifices. When the people of Israel were
in the Diaspora, it couldn’t be done. But now, there is
the supreme institution, the Sanhedrin, made up of experts, and
it can be done. The new Sanhedrin, like the old, will educate
the people of Israel on how to keep and safeguard the Torah."
'Renew animal sacrifices on Mount' says radical rabbi / Yaakov
Lappin Member of Sanhedrin says sacrifices 'were not possible
when the people of Israel were in the Diaspora, but now they
are.' Adds: Jerusalem Temple should be rebuilt, Israeli government
standing in our way. Full Story http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3371508,00.html
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- CONGRESS SET TO VOTE ON JERUSALEM AND SITE OF U.S. EMBASSY
BY ELI LAKE - The New York Sun - WASHINGTON — The House
of Representatives is scheduled to vote next week on a resolution
calling for President Bush to move the American Embassy in Tel
Aviv to Jerusalem, strengthening Israel's position against recurring
diplomatic efforts to take away its capital.
- The resolution, which passed the House Committee on Foreign
Affairs on May 23, commemorates the 40th anniversary of Israel's
victory in the Six Day War that unified Jerusalem. It also calls
on Mr. Bush to adhere to the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995, which
authorized the funds to begin moving the embassy and declared
that it was American policy to recognize the city as the capital
of the Jewish state.
- The House resolution, scheduled for a floor vote on Tuesday,
"reiterates its commitment to the provisions of the Jerusalem
Embassy Act of 1995 and calls upon the President and all United
States officials to abide by its provisions." While Mr.
Bush promised as a first-time presidential candidate to begin
the process of moving the embassy, he has exercised a waiver
in the 1995 law to avoid penalties the law imposes for failing
to move the embassy. The fact that a Democratic-controlled Congress
would press him on the issue could signal that he and Secretary
of State Rice, who has been aiming to revive peace talks between
Israel and the Palestinian Arabs, have little domestic political
leeway to pressure Israel for concessions on its capital. Continued:
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- ARAB LEAGUE TO SEND ENVOYS TO ISRAEL
Israeli cabinet approves release of 250 Palestinian prisoners
- JERUSALEM - July 8, 2007 - The 22-country Arab League will
send envoys on a historic first mission to Israel this week to
discuss a sweeping Arab peace initiative and how it might prop
up embattled Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli and
Arab diplomats said Sunday. The announcement came the same day
Israel’s Cabinet approved the release of 250 Palestinian
prisoners, hoping to bolster Abbas in his power struggle with
the Islamic militant Hamas. An official League visit would be
a diplomatic coup for Israel. The League historically has been
hostile toward the Jewish state, but has grown increasingly conciliatory
in response to the expanding influence of Islamic extremists
in the region — a concern underscored by Hamas’ violent
takeover of the Gaza Strip last month. Jordan’s foreign
ministry said the Jordanian and Egyptian foreign ministers would
arrive in Jerusalem on Thursday for talks with Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert and other Israeli officials.
- Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said the foreign
ministers would lead an Arab League mission to Israel to discuss
the Arab peace plan, which would trade full Arab recognition
of Israel for an Israeli withdrawal from all lands captured in
the 1967 Mideast war and the creation of a Palestinian state.
- “This is the first time the Arab League is coming to
Israel,” Regev said. “From its inception the Arab League
has been hostile to Israel. It will be the first time we’ll
be flying the Arab League flag.”
- The two foreign ministers, Abdul-Ilah al-Khatib of Jordan
and Ahmed Aboul Gheit of Egypt, whose countries have peace agreements
with Israel, have been designated as the League’s official
point men for the Arab peace initiative. Israeli Foreign Minister
Tzipi Livni met them in Cairo in May for the first official,
public talks between the two sides, and the Arab peace initiative
was the focus. Continued: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19658913/
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- UPDATE - Will the soon coming "covenant with many"
bring peace and security to Israel and the Mideast? No, no, no!
But to the contrary: "For when they shall say, Peace and
safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail
upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape"
OFFICIALS: ARAB LEAGUE TO MAKE FIRST OFFICIAL VISIT TO ISRAEL
By The Associated Press - July 8, 2007 - The foreign ministers
of Egypt and Jordan are expected to lead an Arab League mission
to Israel this week for talks on a pan-Arab peace initiative,
the first visit to Israel by an official delegation from the
22-member organization, Israeli officials said.
- The visit would mark an important diplomatic accomplishment
for Israel, since the Arab League historically has been hostile
toward it. But the league has grown increasingly conciliatory
amid the rise of Islamic extremism throughout the region - a
concern underscored by Hamas' recent takeover of the Gaza Strip.
- An Israeli official said Sunday that Jordanian Foreign Minister
Abdul-Ilah al-Khatib and Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul
Gheit were expected in Jerusalem within a few days for talks
on the Arab peace proposal and how to support Palestinian Authority
Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in his power struggle with Hamas.
Israel's Maariv daily said the Arab ministers would arrive on
Thursday for talks with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Israeli Foreign
Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Aboul Gheit
said last week he would visit Israel after he meets U.S. officials
in Washington this week.
- The Arab peace plan proposes full Arab recognition of Israel
in return for Israeli withdrawal from lands it captured in the
1967 Six Day War. It was originally launched in Saudi Arabia
in 2002 and revived at an Arab League summit in Riyadh in March
this year.
- Israel has welcomed the plan in principle, but says some
aspects, such as an apparent call for resettling Palestinian
refugees in Israel, are unacceptable.
- The foreign ministers of Jordan and Egypt, whose countries
have peace agreements with Israel, have been designated as the
league's official point men on the initiative.
- This is the first time the Arab League is coming to Israel,
said Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev. From its inception
the Arab League has been hostile to Israel, it will the first
time we'll be flying the Arab League flag.
- The planned visit is part of a renewed push by several Arab
countries and the West for Israeli-Palestinian peace discussions
following last month's violent takeover of the Gaza Strip by
Hamas, listed as a terrorist group by Israel, the U.S. and the
European Union.
- The Gaza rout prompted Abbas to evict Hamas from the Hamas-Fatah
coalition government and to set up a new Fatah-led Cabinet in
the West Bank headed by Salam Fayad.
- Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, along with much of the West,
have welcomed the new government and have moved to isolate Hamas,
which refuses to renounce violence and recognize Israel.
- Regev said renewed relations with the Palestinian government
following the shakeup and the linkage to a broader Middle East
settlement would be at the heart of discussions with the Arab
League envoys.
- "They will be talking about how the Arab peace proposal
can help energize the rapprochement between Israel and the Palestinians,"
he said.
- Last month, Egypt hosted a summit of the Israeli, Palestinian
and Jordanian leaders to show support for Abbas and to discuss
the resumption of peace talks.
- Israel has since handed over more than $100 million in withheld
funds and on Sunday the Cabinet formally approved the prisoner
release. Olmert and Abbas are expected to meet again soon.
- "Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing
of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: (Titus 2:13).
Retired Baptist pastor/teacher: James McCutchan
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