JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER
OTHER ISRAEL-GAZA WAR STORIES I PUT ON
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/09/day-59-israel-condemned-for-wanting-to.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/09/day-58-israel-condemned-for-wanting-to.html
GAZA-ISRAEL WAR DAYS 48-57
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/09/day-58-israel-condemned-for-wanting-to.html
GAZA-ISRAEL WAR DAYS 38-47
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/day-47-israel-create-hamongog-in-jordan.html
GAZA-ISRAEL WAR DAYS 29-37
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/day-37-israel-create-hamongog-in-jordan.html
GAZA-ISRAEL WAR DAYS 1-28
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/day-28-israel-create-hamongog-in-jordan.html
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Palestinian victims describe being used as shields by Hamas
Members of a Gaza family whose farm was turned into a "fortress" by Hamas fighters have reported that they were helpless to stop Hamas from using them as human shields. They described how for years Hamas has used their property and homes as shields for military installations from which to launch rockets into Israel, dig tunnels and store arms. According to the victims, those who tried to object were shot in the legs by Hamas.
WHY IS OBAMA SUCH A ARAB-MUSLIM SUPPORTER.AND WORSHIPS EVERY COMMUNIST MUSLIM LEADER THAT COMES TO THE WHITE HOUSE.AND THIS IS THE REASON SO MANY AT THE WHITE HOUSE ARE ARAB-MUSLIMS.
OBAMAS MAKEUP
50% ARAB
42% WHITE
08% BLACK
The following is the full text of the comments by Hamas representative Fathi Hammad months before the war, articulating the Hamas ideology to use civilians as human shields for Hamas fighters:"For the Palestinian people death has become an industry, at which women excel and so do all people on this land: the elderly excel, the Jihad fighters excel, and the children excel. Accordingly [Palestinians] created a human shield of women, children, the elderly and the Jihad fighters against the Zionist bombing machine, as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: 'We desire death as you desire life.'"
ZEPHANIAH 2:1-7
1 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;
2 Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD’S anger come upon you.
3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’S anger.
4 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.(ITS NO ACCIDENT THAT IN THIS GAZA WAR ITS ASHKELON-ASHDOD AND THE MURDERER HAMAS IN GAZA WERE MOST OF THE BOMBING ARE)(THIS IS PROPHECY COMING TO PASS BIGTIME)
5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast,(GAZA) the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines,(PALESTINIANS) I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.
6 And the sea coast (GAZA) shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
7 And the coast (GAZA) shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah;(ISRAEL) they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.(BY THIS PROPHECY I PREDICT ISRAEL WILL RETAKE GAZA SO ISRAELIS AROUND THE WORLD CAN IMMIGRATE THERE AND BUILD HOMES AND LIVE)
ISAIAH 14:29-32
29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina,(ARABS-PALESTINIANS) because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.(BOMBS)(WARFARE)
30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina,(ARABS) art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.
32 What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion,(JERUSALEM) and the poor of his people shall trust in it.
IN DEPTH LOOK WERE RUSSIA-ARAB-MUSLIMS BURRIAL SPOT IN ISRAEL-JORDAN
http://philologos.org/bpr/files/h009.htm
2 PETER 3:8
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
PSALMS 90:4
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
EVEN CREATION IS ONE THOUSAND YEARS IN JESUS SITE IS ONE DAY.SO ONE DEAD ISRAELI TO ONE THOUSAND DEAD ENEMIES FITS RIGHT IN WITH CREATION.THE WORLD GOES ON FOR 6 THOUSAND YEARS-THEN THE 7 THOUSANDTH YEAR IS JESUS' RULE FROM JERUSALEM FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS-THEN FOREVER.AND IN WAR IS THE SAME BY CREATION.FOR EVERY ONE DEAD ISRAELI-ONE THOUSAND DEAD ENEMIES WILL OCCUR.
ISAIAH 30:17
17 A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee away, till you are left like a flagstaff on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill."
PSALMS 91:7
7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
LEVIDICUS 26:7-8
7 You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.
8 Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.
DEUTERONOMY 32:30
30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
EZEKIEL 39:11-21
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA-ARAB-MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(THE ARAB-MUSLIM-RUSSIA BURRIAL SPOT WILL BE EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
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) 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)
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH (BECAUSE OF SIN AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
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.
IS THIS TIME FOR ISRAEL TO GET SOME OF ITS PROMISED LAND BY GOD BY DESTROYING THE ARAB NATIONS AROUND ISRAEL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPXbRO9gfxY&list=UUkz3m787ygph7Uvjxzngl-g
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
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.(ALL MOSTLY PSALMS 83 ARABS)
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
SECOND ANGEL TO DR DOCTORIAN
The angel showed me that the United Nations shall be broken in pieces because of the crisis in the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.
Judaism: Ki Tetsei: We Forget Amalek at Our Peril-The world would do well to mirror the courage and decisiveness of the IDF in acting to “wipe out the memory of Amalek from under the heavens.”Published: Thursday, September 04, 2014 4:53 PM-Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Safran-ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
We are incredible beings for so many reasons, perhaps none so much as our ability to embody so many seeming contradictions with such ease. We are both soul and flesh, corporeal and spirit. We are defined by our sense of self, by our individuality, by the “I” yet we are lost unless that “I” also exists as a “we”, unless we exist not just in the singular but in the plural. We have the instincts of the brutes of the field but we are also possessive of the ability to rise to the highest levels of charity and grace.In the same way, each of us is granted at birth two most precious – and seemingly contradictory – gifts, memory and forgetfulness. Of these two, we often place the greater emphasis on memory, for without memory, we simply do not exist in any way that makes sense – personally or collectively. Who am I as an individual if not the sum total of my experiences, which have meaning to me only by virtue of my memory of them? As anyone who has ever visited or cared for an Alzheimer’s patient knows only too well, when memories are gone or inaccessible, the “self” too is gone. In a very significant way, we cease to be if not for our memories.Memory. That most gracious of gifts.Perhaps ISIS’s medieval cruelty has finally garnered the attention of the civilized world to the immediate and ever-present danger of Amalek.Or is it? As much as memory is the cornerstone upon which our “self” is built; as much as it frustrates us to “lose” a name, or forget where we left our car keys; as much as we covet the gift of true memory, we should recognize that if we truly remembered everything we would cease to be able to function. As much as we need to remember, we also need to forget.If we remembered everything, we would not be able to survive the memories of our early pains, our past humiliations, yesterday’s insults and the embarrassments of our “trial and error” path through life.It is a blessing to remember.It is an equal blessing to forget.As in every contradiction that we embody, the difficulty is in finding the meaningful balance between these two blessings, to find the perfect balance between all we want and need to remember and all we want and need to forget. There are times when we remember more than we care to. There are other times when we forget more than we should; times when we remember less than we desire, and forget less than we’d like.The poet was on point when he wrote, “This world would be for us a happier place and there would be less regretting if we would remember to practice with grace the very fine art of forgetting.”Would that it were! But that is the impetuous nature of these gifts; they are near impossible to control. Given the importance of memory and forgetfulness in our lives, it is small wonder that the Torah speaks to both.
Torah relates four events that are always to be remembered.The Revelation at Sinai must always be recalled and personally renewed. Sinai is both a personal and a communal memory. However, its communal significance evaporates into history without renewed personal relevance and meaning. The punishment inflicted upon Miriam for speaking ill of her brother must forever be remembered. In this instance, our recall helps us to guard our tongues against the most insidious of communal crimes, the crime of evil talk. This memory impels us to use our speech to uplift rather than destroy.We are to remember the Sabbath. The apotheosis of the week is the Sabbath. Our weekly activities are, in fact, activities that drive us toward the Sabbath. We work for the Sabbath. We live for the Sabbath. When we remember Shabbat on Monday and Wednesday, we remember God, creation, revelation, the exodus from Egypt… all that is holy. Thus, throughout the week, we declare that each day is the first, or second, or third day towards the Sabbath. We remember! Finally, we remember Amalek. Not just Amalek, the evil king, but Amalek, the evil impulse within each and every human being.With these four explicit commands to remember, the Torah emphasizes the importance of memory to our individual and communal character. However, the Torah is also cognizant that remembering is not always fully developed or refined. Sometimes we simply can’t remember. Sometimes the gift of forgetfulness dominates the gift of memory! Then what? Too often, remembering seems to exist in opposition to forgetting. But the Torah’s goal in remembering is not simply establishing an absence of forgetfulness. The Torah never seeks the absence of something, rather the fullness of something. The Torah asks for an active state of memory through an act or a personal effort of memory. Truly recalling Sinai demands a reliving of the event. Remembering Sinai can only be accomplished through personal participation in Torah learning. In order to remember Miriam’s transgression some have ordained that the verse detailing Miriam’s punishment be recited daily after praying. The Ari noted that in reciting the words L’hodot l’cha prior to the Sh’ma, one should actually recall that one’s mouth was created not only to praise, but also to refrain from lashon hara. In doing so, he actively recalls that which occurred to Miriam.Remembering the Sabbath calls for a daily declaration that today is the first or fourth day towards the Sabbath. Or, on the weekdays if one acquired food or other goods that would be appropriate or befitting for Shabbat, a declaration should be verbalized – lich’vod Shabbat, “in honor of the Sabbath.”When asking us to remember, the Torah does not rely on the whims and fragility of our not-always-reliable gift of memory. Rather, the Torah seeks active reinforcement, lest we forget. Active forgetfulness is harder to achieve than passive remembering.Of these four commands to remember, the first three bring with them grace and uplift. To remember the giving of Torah, the Sabbath, even the need to refrain from speaking ill of others all fill us with spiritual and social grace. However, the fourth command, to remember evil, is a challenge.At the end of parashat Ki Tetzei, before we are taught to recall the evil of Amalek, the Torah sets the uncompromising standards of just and perfect weights and measures. What is the connection? Rashi notes that “if you use false weights and measures, then you must anticipate the provocation of the enemy.” In other words, one can’t simply preach, teach, or recall that one’s evil impulse and desire must be overcome. Passivity is no match for our inner Amalek. Rather, he teaches, more than just remembering through the absence of forgetfulness, one must act and react, with honesty, integrity, with perfect and just weights and measures. It is sometimes a burden to remember, but we can be sure that if we do not remember the Amalek, the Amaek will remember us! It is an onerous burden to have our days darkened by the recollection of evil. But looking away, forgetting, is not an option. Evil is, as President Obama noted in referring to ISIS, a cancer. It grows. It metastasizes. It never sleeps. It never rests.We forget Amalek at our peril.The Torah teaches that, “Amalek happened upon you on the way, and he struck those of you who were hindmost, all the weaklings at your rear, when you were faint and exhausted, and he did not fear God.” Devarim 25:18-Amalek takes the hindmost first, but is never satisfied to stop there. As Pastor Martin Niemoller wrote in response to the atrocities of the Holocaust:
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Jew.Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.Eventually, Amalek comes for everyone.
Recently, we have been witness to the gruesome, barbaric beheading of an American journalist, James Foley, by the modern day Amalekits, ISIS. President Obama acknowledged that ISIS has no place in the civilized world but he emphasized that based on his understanding of history, “people like ISIS will ultimately fail.”Perhaps. But only if we remember.When confronted by Amalek, there is no place for hand-wringing or moralizing. There is the absolute imperative to remember, for to “not remember”, to forget is to look into the face of doom. We must remember so that we respond to Amalek without hesitation or diplomatic niceties and “wipe out the memory of Amalek from under the heaven - you shall not forget.”Those of us whose families perished at the hands of another Amalek should never be comforted by gentle words; no lesson about the curve of history bending toward good should ease our concern. Amalek – evil – does not simply disappear. United Nations blather will not diminish Amalek’s gathering strength. Yes, Amalek will “fail”. Ultimately, Amalek will always fail.But at what cost? If we wait until Amalek grows in strength, the anguish and grief we endure will grow as well. The only modern day approach to Amalek is the one demonstrated by the grandchildren of those who experienced only too well what happened when the world chose not to remember what Amalek does, the IDF.The world would do well to mirror the courage and decisiveness of the IDF in acting to “wipe out the memory of Amalek from under the heavens.” At the very least, the “civilized world” should be rising as one, applauding the IDF.Instead, we get handwringing. We hear urgent calls to stop the IDF and leave Amalek to continue to metastasize.On his weekly blog (RabbiWein.com), Rabbi Berel Wein, notes that, “In 1941, the Germans occupied the town of Kelm in Lithuania. The town was famous in Jewish life because of the presence there of a famed yeshiva that embodied mussar – Jewish holy ethics and moral behavior towards man and God. The Germans destroyed the entire town, executed its Jewish population and killed the students and teachers at the yeshiva, burying many of them alive.“It was there, and in other similar places as well, that good met evil head on. In the short run, it appeared that Amalek triumphed. It may always appear that evil wins out – witness our world of terror, genocide, fraud and malevolent hypocrisy. But in the long run, it is good that triumphs and survives.“Evil carries with it a very heavy price that consumes all those associated with it. Amalek’s victories, vicious and all-encompassing as they appear, are still only temporary. The Torah tells us that the Lord fights Amalek, so to speak, ‘from generation to generation.’” Evil never gives in.Perhaps ISIS’s medieval cruelty has finally garnered the attention of the civilized world to the immediate and ever-present danger of Amalek.Perhaps, the world will heed the words of Prime Minister Netanyahu when he recently told his Cabinet, “Many states in the region and in the West are beginning to understand that this is a single front, that Hamas is ISIS and ISIS is Hamas. They act in the same way. They are branches of the same poisonous tree. They are two extremist Islamic terrorist movements that abduct and murder innocents, that execute their own people, that shrink at nothing including the willful murder of children. In recent days we heard from Hamas spokesmen that they admit to what we have been saying all along, that they murdered [the three Israeli teens] Eyal, Gilad and Naftali.“Both movements are, in effect, making an effort to establish Islamic rule, caliphates, without human rights, across wide areas, by slaughtering minorities....With every passing day the world understands more and more that Hamas operates like ISIS and that ISIS operates like Hamas. The State of Israel will continue to stand alongside the civilized world in its war against extremist and violent Islam.”Amalek lives in our days. For students of history and Torah, this is no surprise.
Netanyahu: Steven was Murdered Because He Symbolized the West-PM Netanyahu sends condolences to the family of journalist Steve Sotloff, who was beheaded by IS terrorists.By Hezki Ezra-First Publish: 9/5/2014, 12:13 AM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday sent his condolences to the family of journalist Steve Sotloff, who was beheaded by terrorists from the Islamic State.“Steven was murdered because for the terrorists he was a symbol of the West – the same culture that extremist Islam wants to eradicate,” Netanyahu said, speaking at an event marking the 40th anniversary of the Yamam counter-terrorism police unit.“Extremist Islam sees Israel, the U.S. and the free world as partners in liberal democracy, which it would like to see gone from the world,” he continued.“I think that there is the beginning of a certain waking up and today many people around the world understand better than in the past that the threats to Israel are the same threats to them and that whoever does not nip these threats in the bud will, in the end, find them in their own house," said Netanyahu.“Hamas, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, Al-Nusra, Boko Haram and the like are all tentacles of the violent Islamist terrorism which is full of hatred,” he said. “We have seen it - one time the abduction and murder of young boys, one time it is firing rockets indiscriminately on peaceful citizens, one time it is the execution in the town square of people falsely accused of having helped us during Operation Protective Edge, and now we also see other cases, the entire world can see horrific acts of mass murders, beheadings, and slitting of throats.”It was revealed on Wednesday that Sotloff was also an Israeli citizen, who made aliyah to Israel in 2005 by himself, and studied at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya.Sotloff’s family later said via a spokesman that Steve had been “pulled by the Arab world” to “tell the stories of those who didn't have anyone else to tell them.”“He was no war junkie, he did not want to be a modern day Lawrence of Arabia. He merely wanted to give voice to those who had none. Their story was Steve's story, he ultimately sacrificed his life to tell their story,” family friend Barak Barfi said.
Israel says it gagged reports captive Sotloff was its citizen-Reuters-By Dan Williams-SEPT 4,14-YAHOONEWS
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said on Thursday it had prevented local media from reporting that slain U.S. journalist Steven Sotloff was also an Israeli citizen, in a bid to reduce the risk to him after he was seized by Islamist insurgents in Syria last year.Islamic State, a militant group which has overrun large areas of Syria and Iraq, released a video this week of Sotloff being beheaded, calling the execution retaliation for U.S. air strikes. His Israeli dual nationality was made public after the White House authenticated the footage.Sotloff immigrated in 2005 to Israel, whose government became aware of his second citizenship "at an early stage" of his captivity, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said."The censors issued a gag order against reporting that he was an Israeli citizen. We are also in close touch with the United States on this entire matter, both ISIS (Islamic State) and the journalist Sotloff," he told Israel's Channel 10 TV.Israel's military censors are empowered to preemptively block media stories deemed harmful to national security.Lieberman sidestepped a question on whether Israel had tried to rescue Sotloff, noting only that "there have been attempts, both American and European, to free hostages. To my regret these attempts did not succeed."Under Israeli law, citizens who travel to enemy states such as Syria with second passports are subject to prosecution on their return. If they fall captive, the Israeli government is not required to take action for their repatriation, experts say."I know of no protocol whereby Israel is compelled to get involved in such instances," said Boaz Ganor, head of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism at IDC Herzliya, a college near Tel Aviv where 31-year-old Sotloff had studied.Ganor noted, however, that there could be case-by-case exceptions such as Israel's 2004 release of Arab security prisoners in exchange for Elhanan Tenenbaum, a retired Israeli army colonel who was abducted by Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas while on an illegal trip to Dubai. The bodies of three Israeli soldiers killed by Hezbollah were also recovered in that deal.A senior Israeli official briefed on intelligence affairs told Reuters he had no knowledge of any effort by the government to rescue Sotloff, who was kidnapped in Syria in August 2013."But I do know that he shouldn't have gone to such places," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.Sotloff had contributed stories to several Israeli media outlets.Israel on Wednesday officially outlawed Islamic State in what local television station Channel 2 said was a response to Western intelligence reports that several Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip had joined the group.Lieberman said some among Israel's 20-percent Arab minority had also shown solidarity with Islamic State."ISIS in not an immediate military threat on Israel, but there is no doubt that the ISIS ideology is spreading, and this is no less a dangerous matter. To my regret we have already seen identification with ISIS and ISIS flags, both within the State of Israel, in Arab Nazareth and in other places," he said.(Writing by Dan Williams; editing by Andrew Roche)
Palestinians put Gaza reconstruction cost at $7.8 billion-Reuters-SEPT 4,14-YAHOONEWS-By Noah Browning
RAMALLAH West Bank (Reuters) - Rebuilding Gaza will cost $7.8 billion, the Palestinian Authority said on Thursday, in the most comprehensive assessment yet of damage from a seven-week war with Israel during which whole neighborhoods and vital infrastructure were flattened.The cost of rebuilding 17,000 Gazan homes razed by Israeli bombings would be $2.5 billion, the Authority said, and the energy sector needed $250 million after the Strip's only power plant was destroyed by two Israeli missiles."The attack on Gaza this time had no precedent, Gaza has been hit with a catastrophe and it needs immediate help because many things can't wait long," Mohammed Shtayyeh, a Palestinian economist and a senior member of the West Bank's dominant Fatah party, told reporters in Ramallah.Rebuilding Gaza would depend heavily on foreign aid and would require an end to Palestinian rivalry and Israel opening its border crossings, said Shtayyeh, who heads the Palestinian Economic Council for Research and Development (PECDAR) which ran the survey.But none of the factors mentioned by Shtayyeh appeared forthcoming. A donor conference in Cairo has yet to be formally scheduled, Palestinian institutions remain divided between Gaza and the West Bank and Israel has yet to fundamentally ease the movement of people and goods at its Gaza border.The PA's assessment also found that the Strip's education sector would need around $143 million to get back on its feet. About half a million children have been unable to return to their schools due to damage or because the buildings are being used to house refugees.Over 106,000 of Gaza's 1.8 million residents have been displaced to U.N. shelters and host families, the U.N. says.The remaining billions of dollars in the PECDAR assessment, which was compiled by 13 experts resident in Gaza and their research teams, were allocated to the financial, health, agriculture, and transportation sectors, all of which suffered widespread damage during the war.The assessment also earmarked $670 million for an airport and sea port, which Shtayyeh said was a Palestinian right, but Israel has so far rejected.Fighting between Israel and the Islamist militant group Hamas in Gaza killed over 2,100 Palestinians, most of them civilians, along with 64 Israeli soldiers and five civilians.A ground incursion and bombing from the land, air and sea caused huge destruction in Gaza, while Palestinian rocket fire drove many Israelis from border communities, hit Israel's summer tourism revenues and briefly shut down its main airport.In the week since an Egyptian-mediated ceasefire took hold on August 26, little progress has been made in getting the rebuilding underway or settling the bitter political rifts around Gaza.An international donor conference jointly chaired by Egypt and Norway has yet to be formally scheduled, and Israel has not fundamentally changed its curbs on the movement of people and goods, especially crucial building materials, on Gaza's border.The cash-strapped Palestinian Authority barely has enough money to pay its own employees in the West Bank and has no immediate plans to pay employees in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, despite a unity pact signed between Fatah and Hamas in April."The Authority needs to be able to work as an authority to become completely responsible for all aspects of life in Gaza," Shtayyeh told reporters.(Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)
OTHER ISRAEL-GAZA WAR STORIES I PUT ON
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/09/day-59-israel-condemned-for-wanting-to.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/09/day-58-israel-condemned-for-wanting-to.html
GAZA-ISRAEL WAR DAYS 48-57
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/09/day-58-israel-condemned-for-wanting-to.html
GAZA-ISRAEL WAR DAYS 38-47
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/day-47-israel-create-hamongog-in-jordan.html
GAZA-ISRAEL WAR DAYS 29-37
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/day-37-israel-create-hamongog-in-jordan.html
GAZA-ISRAEL WAR DAYS 1-28
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/day-28-israel-create-hamongog-in-jordan.html
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http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/09/peres-pope-jordan-want-united-nations.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/09/jonathan-cahn-7-year-cycles-shemitah.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/09/sotloff-and-foley-only-two-of-thousands.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/09/cameron-wants-anti-terror-laws-enforced.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/the-sex-salvation-lure-to-islam-convert.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/will-brussels-belgum-or-turkey-be.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/the-worry-about-martial-law-end-of.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/day-14-ferguson-missouri-demonstrations.html (DAN PAGE)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/the-true-peaceful-face-of-islamic.html
Palestinian victims describe being used as shields by Hamas
Members of a Gaza family whose farm was turned into a "fortress" by Hamas fighters have reported that they were helpless to stop Hamas from using them as human shields. They described how for years Hamas has used their property and homes as shields for military installations from which to launch rockets into Israel, dig tunnels and store arms. According to the victims, those who tried to object were shot in the legs by Hamas.
WHY IS OBAMA SUCH A ARAB-MUSLIM SUPPORTER.AND WORSHIPS EVERY COMMUNIST MUSLIM LEADER THAT COMES TO THE WHITE HOUSE.AND THIS IS THE REASON SO MANY AT THE WHITE HOUSE ARE ARAB-MUSLIMS.
OBAMAS MAKEUP
50% ARAB
42% WHITE
08% BLACK
The following is the full text of the comments by Hamas representative Fathi Hammad months before the war, articulating the Hamas ideology to use civilians as human shields for Hamas fighters:"For the Palestinian people death has become an industry, at which women excel and so do all people on this land: the elderly excel, the Jihad fighters excel, and the children excel. Accordingly [Palestinians] created a human shield of women, children, the elderly and the Jihad fighters against the Zionist bombing machine, as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: 'We desire death as you desire life.'"
ZEPHANIAH 2:1-7
1 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;
2 Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD’S anger come upon you.
3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’S anger.
4 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.(ITS NO ACCIDENT THAT IN THIS GAZA WAR ITS ASHKELON-ASHDOD AND THE MURDERER HAMAS IN GAZA WERE MOST OF THE BOMBING ARE)(THIS IS PROPHECY COMING TO PASS BIGTIME)
5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast,(GAZA) the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines,(PALESTINIANS) I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.
6 And the sea coast (GAZA) shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
7 And the coast (GAZA) shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah;(ISRAEL) they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.(BY THIS PROPHECY I PREDICT ISRAEL WILL RETAKE GAZA SO ISRAELIS AROUND THE WORLD CAN IMMIGRATE THERE AND BUILD HOMES AND LIVE)
ISAIAH 14:29-32
29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina,(ARABS-PALESTINIANS) because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.(BOMBS)(WARFARE)
30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina,(ARABS) art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.
32 What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion,(JERUSALEM) and the poor of his people shall trust in it.
IN DEPTH LOOK WERE RUSSIA-ARAB-MUSLIMS BURRIAL SPOT IN ISRAEL-JORDAN
http://philologos.org/bpr/files/h009.htm
2 PETER 3:8
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
PSALMS 90:4
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
EVEN CREATION IS ONE THOUSAND YEARS IN JESUS SITE IS ONE DAY.SO ONE DEAD ISRAELI TO ONE THOUSAND DEAD ENEMIES FITS RIGHT IN WITH CREATION.THE WORLD GOES ON FOR 6 THOUSAND YEARS-THEN THE 7 THOUSANDTH YEAR IS JESUS' RULE FROM JERUSALEM FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS-THEN FOREVER.AND IN WAR IS THE SAME BY CREATION.FOR EVERY ONE DEAD ISRAELI-ONE THOUSAND DEAD ENEMIES WILL OCCUR.
ISAIAH 30:17
17 A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee away, till you are left like a flagstaff on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill."
PSALMS 91:7
7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
LEVIDICUS 26:7-8
7 You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.
8 Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.
DEUTERONOMY 32:30
30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
EZEKIEL 39:11-21
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA-ARAB-MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(THE ARAB-MUSLIM-RUSSIA BURRIAL SPOT WILL BE EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
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) 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)
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH (BECAUSE OF SIN AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
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.
IS THIS TIME FOR ISRAEL TO GET SOME OF ITS PROMISED LAND BY GOD BY DESTROYING THE ARAB NATIONS AROUND ISRAEL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPXbRO9gfxY&list=UUkz3m787ygph7Uvjxzngl-g
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
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.(ALL MOSTLY PSALMS 83 ARABS)
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
SECOND ANGEL TO DR DOCTORIAN
The angel showed me that the United Nations shall be broken in pieces because of the crisis in the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.
Judaism: Ki Tetsei: We Forget Amalek at Our Peril-The world would do well to mirror the courage and decisiveness of the IDF in acting to “wipe out the memory of Amalek from under the heavens.”Published: Thursday, September 04, 2014 4:53 PM-Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Safran-ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
We are incredible beings for so many reasons, perhaps none so much as our ability to embody so many seeming contradictions with such ease. We are both soul and flesh, corporeal and spirit. We are defined by our sense of self, by our individuality, by the “I” yet we are lost unless that “I” also exists as a “we”, unless we exist not just in the singular but in the plural. We have the instincts of the brutes of the field but we are also possessive of the ability to rise to the highest levels of charity and grace.In the same way, each of us is granted at birth two most precious – and seemingly contradictory – gifts, memory and forgetfulness. Of these two, we often place the greater emphasis on memory, for without memory, we simply do not exist in any way that makes sense – personally or collectively. Who am I as an individual if not the sum total of my experiences, which have meaning to me only by virtue of my memory of them? As anyone who has ever visited or cared for an Alzheimer’s patient knows only too well, when memories are gone or inaccessible, the “self” too is gone. In a very significant way, we cease to be if not for our memories.Memory. That most gracious of gifts.Perhaps ISIS’s medieval cruelty has finally garnered the attention of the civilized world to the immediate and ever-present danger of Amalek.Or is it? As much as memory is the cornerstone upon which our “self” is built; as much as it frustrates us to “lose” a name, or forget where we left our car keys; as much as we covet the gift of true memory, we should recognize that if we truly remembered everything we would cease to be able to function. As much as we need to remember, we also need to forget.If we remembered everything, we would not be able to survive the memories of our early pains, our past humiliations, yesterday’s insults and the embarrassments of our “trial and error” path through life.It is a blessing to remember.It is an equal blessing to forget.As in every contradiction that we embody, the difficulty is in finding the meaningful balance between these two blessings, to find the perfect balance between all we want and need to remember and all we want and need to forget. There are times when we remember more than we care to. There are other times when we forget more than we should; times when we remember less than we desire, and forget less than we’d like.The poet was on point when he wrote, “This world would be for us a happier place and there would be less regretting if we would remember to practice with grace the very fine art of forgetting.”Would that it were! But that is the impetuous nature of these gifts; they are near impossible to control. Given the importance of memory and forgetfulness in our lives, it is small wonder that the Torah speaks to both.
Torah relates four events that are always to be remembered.The Revelation at Sinai must always be recalled and personally renewed. Sinai is both a personal and a communal memory. However, its communal significance evaporates into history without renewed personal relevance and meaning. The punishment inflicted upon Miriam for speaking ill of her brother must forever be remembered. In this instance, our recall helps us to guard our tongues against the most insidious of communal crimes, the crime of evil talk. This memory impels us to use our speech to uplift rather than destroy.We are to remember the Sabbath. The apotheosis of the week is the Sabbath. Our weekly activities are, in fact, activities that drive us toward the Sabbath. We work for the Sabbath. We live for the Sabbath. When we remember Shabbat on Monday and Wednesday, we remember God, creation, revelation, the exodus from Egypt… all that is holy. Thus, throughout the week, we declare that each day is the first, or second, or third day towards the Sabbath. We remember! Finally, we remember Amalek. Not just Amalek, the evil king, but Amalek, the evil impulse within each and every human being.With these four explicit commands to remember, the Torah emphasizes the importance of memory to our individual and communal character. However, the Torah is also cognizant that remembering is not always fully developed or refined. Sometimes we simply can’t remember. Sometimes the gift of forgetfulness dominates the gift of memory! Then what? Too often, remembering seems to exist in opposition to forgetting. But the Torah’s goal in remembering is not simply establishing an absence of forgetfulness. The Torah never seeks the absence of something, rather the fullness of something. The Torah asks for an active state of memory through an act or a personal effort of memory. Truly recalling Sinai demands a reliving of the event. Remembering Sinai can only be accomplished through personal participation in Torah learning. In order to remember Miriam’s transgression some have ordained that the verse detailing Miriam’s punishment be recited daily after praying. The Ari noted that in reciting the words L’hodot l’cha prior to the Sh’ma, one should actually recall that one’s mouth was created not only to praise, but also to refrain from lashon hara. In doing so, he actively recalls that which occurred to Miriam.Remembering the Sabbath calls for a daily declaration that today is the first or fourth day towards the Sabbath. Or, on the weekdays if one acquired food or other goods that would be appropriate or befitting for Shabbat, a declaration should be verbalized – lich’vod Shabbat, “in honor of the Sabbath.”When asking us to remember, the Torah does not rely on the whims and fragility of our not-always-reliable gift of memory. Rather, the Torah seeks active reinforcement, lest we forget. Active forgetfulness is harder to achieve than passive remembering.Of these four commands to remember, the first three bring with them grace and uplift. To remember the giving of Torah, the Sabbath, even the need to refrain from speaking ill of others all fill us with spiritual and social grace. However, the fourth command, to remember evil, is a challenge.At the end of parashat Ki Tetzei, before we are taught to recall the evil of Amalek, the Torah sets the uncompromising standards of just and perfect weights and measures. What is the connection? Rashi notes that “if you use false weights and measures, then you must anticipate the provocation of the enemy.” In other words, one can’t simply preach, teach, or recall that one’s evil impulse and desire must be overcome. Passivity is no match for our inner Amalek. Rather, he teaches, more than just remembering through the absence of forgetfulness, one must act and react, with honesty, integrity, with perfect and just weights and measures. It is sometimes a burden to remember, but we can be sure that if we do not remember the Amalek, the Amaek will remember us! It is an onerous burden to have our days darkened by the recollection of evil. But looking away, forgetting, is not an option. Evil is, as President Obama noted in referring to ISIS, a cancer. It grows. It metastasizes. It never sleeps. It never rests.We forget Amalek at our peril.The Torah teaches that, “Amalek happened upon you on the way, and he struck those of you who were hindmost, all the weaklings at your rear, when you were faint and exhausted, and he did not fear God.” Devarim 25:18-Amalek takes the hindmost first, but is never satisfied to stop there. As Pastor Martin Niemoller wrote in response to the atrocities of the Holocaust:
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Jew.Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.Eventually, Amalek comes for everyone.
Recently, we have been witness to the gruesome, barbaric beheading of an American journalist, James Foley, by the modern day Amalekits, ISIS. President Obama acknowledged that ISIS has no place in the civilized world but he emphasized that based on his understanding of history, “people like ISIS will ultimately fail.”Perhaps. But only if we remember.When confronted by Amalek, there is no place for hand-wringing or moralizing. There is the absolute imperative to remember, for to “not remember”, to forget is to look into the face of doom. We must remember so that we respond to Amalek without hesitation or diplomatic niceties and “wipe out the memory of Amalek from under the heaven - you shall not forget.”Those of us whose families perished at the hands of another Amalek should never be comforted by gentle words; no lesson about the curve of history bending toward good should ease our concern. Amalek – evil – does not simply disappear. United Nations blather will not diminish Amalek’s gathering strength. Yes, Amalek will “fail”. Ultimately, Amalek will always fail.But at what cost? If we wait until Amalek grows in strength, the anguish and grief we endure will grow as well. The only modern day approach to Amalek is the one demonstrated by the grandchildren of those who experienced only too well what happened when the world chose not to remember what Amalek does, the IDF.The world would do well to mirror the courage and decisiveness of the IDF in acting to “wipe out the memory of Amalek from under the heavens.” At the very least, the “civilized world” should be rising as one, applauding the IDF.Instead, we get handwringing. We hear urgent calls to stop the IDF and leave Amalek to continue to metastasize.On his weekly blog (RabbiWein.com), Rabbi Berel Wein, notes that, “In 1941, the Germans occupied the town of Kelm in Lithuania. The town was famous in Jewish life because of the presence there of a famed yeshiva that embodied mussar – Jewish holy ethics and moral behavior towards man and God. The Germans destroyed the entire town, executed its Jewish population and killed the students and teachers at the yeshiva, burying many of them alive.“It was there, and in other similar places as well, that good met evil head on. In the short run, it appeared that Amalek triumphed. It may always appear that evil wins out – witness our world of terror, genocide, fraud and malevolent hypocrisy. But in the long run, it is good that triumphs and survives.“Evil carries with it a very heavy price that consumes all those associated with it. Amalek’s victories, vicious and all-encompassing as they appear, are still only temporary. The Torah tells us that the Lord fights Amalek, so to speak, ‘from generation to generation.’” Evil never gives in.Perhaps ISIS’s medieval cruelty has finally garnered the attention of the civilized world to the immediate and ever-present danger of Amalek.Perhaps, the world will heed the words of Prime Minister Netanyahu when he recently told his Cabinet, “Many states in the region and in the West are beginning to understand that this is a single front, that Hamas is ISIS and ISIS is Hamas. They act in the same way. They are branches of the same poisonous tree. They are two extremist Islamic terrorist movements that abduct and murder innocents, that execute their own people, that shrink at nothing including the willful murder of children. In recent days we heard from Hamas spokesmen that they admit to what we have been saying all along, that they murdered [the three Israeli teens] Eyal, Gilad and Naftali.“Both movements are, in effect, making an effort to establish Islamic rule, caliphates, without human rights, across wide areas, by slaughtering minorities....With every passing day the world understands more and more that Hamas operates like ISIS and that ISIS operates like Hamas. The State of Israel will continue to stand alongside the civilized world in its war against extremist and violent Islam.”Amalek lives in our days. For students of history and Torah, this is no surprise.
Netanyahu: Steven was Murdered Because He Symbolized the West-PM Netanyahu sends condolences to the family of journalist Steve Sotloff, who was beheaded by IS terrorists.By Hezki Ezra-First Publish: 9/5/2014, 12:13 AM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday sent his condolences to the family of journalist Steve Sotloff, who was beheaded by terrorists from the Islamic State.“Steven was murdered because for the terrorists he was a symbol of the West – the same culture that extremist Islam wants to eradicate,” Netanyahu said, speaking at an event marking the 40th anniversary of the Yamam counter-terrorism police unit.“Extremist Islam sees Israel, the U.S. and the free world as partners in liberal democracy, which it would like to see gone from the world,” he continued.“I think that there is the beginning of a certain waking up and today many people around the world understand better than in the past that the threats to Israel are the same threats to them and that whoever does not nip these threats in the bud will, in the end, find them in their own house," said Netanyahu.“Hamas, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, Al-Nusra, Boko Haram and the like are all tentacles of the violent Islamist terrorism which is full of hatred,” he said. “We have seen it - one time the abduction and murder of young boys, one time it is firing rockets indiscriminately on peaceful citizens, one time it is the execution in the town square of people falsely accused of having helped us during Operation Protective Edge, and now we also see other cases, the entire world can see horrific acts of mass murders, beheadings, and slitting of throats.”It was revealed on Wednesday that Sotloff was also an Israeli citizen, who made aliyah to Israel in 2005 by himself, and studied at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya.Sotloff’s family later said via a spokesman that Steve had been “pulled by the Arab world” to “tell the stories of those who didn't have anyone else to tell them.”“He was no war junkie, he did not want to be a modern day Lawrence of Arabia. He merely wanted to give voice to those who had none. Their story was Steve's story, he ultimately sacrificed his life to tell their story,” family friend Barak Barfi said.
Israel says it gagged reports captive Sotloff was its citizen-Reuters-By Dan Williams-SEPT 4,14-YAHOONEWS
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said on Thursday it had prevented local media from reporting that slain U.S. journalist Steven Sotloff was also an Israeli citizen, in a bid to reduce the risk to him after he was seized by Islamist insurgents in Syria last year.Islamic State, a militant group which has overrun large areas of Syria and Iraq, released a video this week of Sotloff being beheaded, calling the execution retaliation for U.S. air strikes. His Israeli dual nationality was made public after the White House authenticated the footage.Sotloff immigrated in 2005 to Israel, whose government became aware of his second citizenship "at an early stage" of his captivity, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said."The censors issued a gag order against reporting that he was an Israeli citizen. We are also in close touch with the United States on this entire matter, both ISIS (Islamic State) and the journalist Sotloff," he told Israel's Channel 10 TV.Israel's military censors are empowered to preemptively block media stories deemed harmful to national security.Lieberman sidestepped a question on whether Israel had tried to rescue Sotloff, noting only that "there have been attempts, both American and European, to free hostages. To my regret these attempts did not succeed."Under Israeli law, citizens who travel to enemy states such as Syria with second passports are subject to prosecution on their return. If they fall captive, the Israeli government is not required to take action for their repatriation, experts say."I know of no protocol whereby Israel is compelled to get involved in such instances," said Boaz Ganor, head of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism at IDC Herzliya, a college near Tel Aviv where 31-year-old Sotloff had studied.Ganor noted, however, that there could be case-by-case exceptions such as Israel's 2004 release of Arab security prisoners in exchange for Elhanan Tenenbaum, a retired Israeli army colonel who was abducted by Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas while on an illegal trip to Dubai. The bodies of three Israeli soldiers killed by Hezbollah were also recovered in that deal.A senior Israeli official briefed on intelligence affairs told Reuters he had no knowledge of any effort by the government to rescue Sotloff, who was kidnapped in Syria in August 2013."But I do know that he shouldn't have gone to such places," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.Sotloff had contributed stories to several Israeli media outlets.Israel on Wednesday officially outlawed Islamic State in what local television station Channel 2 said was a response to Western intelligence reports that several Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip had joined the group.Lieberman said some among Israel's 20-percent Arab minority had also shown solidarity with Islamic State."ISIS in not an immediate military threat on Israel, but there is no doubt that the ISIS ideology is spreading, and this is no less a dangerous matter. To my regret we have already seen identification with ISIS and ISIS flags, both within the State of Israel, in Arab Nazareth and in other places," he said.(Writing by Dan Williams; editing by Andrew Roche)
Palestinians put Gaza reconstruction cost at $7.8 billion-Reuters-SEPT 4,14-YAHOONEWS-By Noah Browning
RAMALLAH West Bank (Reuters) - Rebuilding Gaza will cost $7.8 billion, the Palestinian Authority said on Thursday, in the most comprehensive assessment yet of damage from a seven-week war with Israel during which whole neighborhoods and vital infrastructure were flattened.The cost of rebuilding 17,000 Gazan homes razed by Israeli bombings would be $2.5 billion, the Authority said, and the energy sector needed $250 million after the Strip's only power plant was destroyed by two Israeli missiles."The attack on Gaza this time had no precedent, Gaza has been hit with a catastrophe and it needs immediate help because many things can't wait long," Mohammed Shtayyeh, a Palestinian economist and a senior member of the West Bank's dominant Fatah party, told reporters in Ramallah.Rebuilding Gaza would depend heavily on foreign aid and would require an end to Palestinian rivalry and Israel opening its border crossings, said Shtayyeh, who heads the Palestinian Economic Council for Research and Development (PECDAR) which ran the survey.But none of the factors mentioned by Shtayyeh appeared forthcoming. A donor conference in Cairo has yet to be formally scheduled, Palestinian institutions remain divided between Gaza and the West Bank and Israel has yet to fundamentally ease the movement of people and goods at its Gaza border.The PA's assessment also found that the Strip's education sector would need around $143 million to get back on its feet. About half a million children have been unable to return to their schools due to damage or because the buildings are being used to house refugees.Over 106,000 of Gaza's 1.8 million residents have been displaced to U.N. shelters and host families, the U.N. says.The remaining billions of dollars in the PECDAR assessment, which was compiled by 13 experts resident in Gaza and their research teams, were allocated to the financial, health, agriculture, and transportation sectors, all of which suffered widespread damage during the war.The assessment also earmarked $670 million for an airport and sea port, which Shtayyeh said was a Palestinian right, but Israel has so far rejected.Fighting between Israel and the Islamist militant group Hamas in Gaza killed over 2,100 Palestinians, most of them civilians, along with 64 Israeli soldiers and five civilians.A ground incursion and bombing from the land, air and sea caused huge destruction in Gaza, while Palestinian rocket fire drove many Israelis from border communities, hit Israel's summer tourism revenues and briefly shut down its main airport.In the week since an Egyptian-mediated ceasefire took hold on August 26, little progress has been made in getting the rebuilding underway or settling the bitter political rifts around Gaza.An international donor conference jointly chaired by Egypt and Norway has yet to be formally scheduled, and Israel has not fundamentally changed its curbs on the movement of people and goods, especially crucial building materials, on Gaza's border.The cash-strapped Palestinian Authority barely has enough money to pay its own employees in the West Bank and has no immediate plans to pay employees in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, despite a unity pact signed between Fatah and Hamas in April."The Authority needs to be able to work as an authority to become completely responsible for all aspects of life in Gaza," Shtayyeh told reporters.(Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)
