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1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
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DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 DIVSION REGION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT-NEW AGE MOVEMENT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies,(UNITED NATIONS TROOPS) gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
Israel rejects any international intervention at Temple Mount-At Security Council meeting, UN chief’s rep says both sides to blame for violence, criticizes Israel’s ‘heavy-handed’ actions-By Times of Israel staff October 16, 2015, 8:08 pm 30
Israel on Friday rejected Palestinian calls for an international force to be deployed in East Jerusalem to promote calm around the Temple Mount and the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque.“Let me be crystal clear — Israel will not agree to any international presence on the Temple Mount. Such a presence would be a change in the status quo,” Israeli Deputy Ambassador David Roet told the UN Security Council.The 15-member council met in an emergency session to discuss weeks of escalating violence between Israel and the Palestinians in Jerusalem and the territories.The urgent talks were requested by council member Jordan following a meeting on Thursday of Arab ambassadors who expressed alarm at the escalating situation. Palestinian envoy to the UN Riyad Mansour had called on the Security Council to provide international protection to the holy site.But Roet said Israel was respectful of all religions in the city. Meanwhile, he said, the Palestinians were unwilling to acknowledge any Jewish rights to the capital’s holy sites.On Friday, Palestinians torched a Jewish holy site in the West Bank as they staged a “Friday of revolution” against Israel and a man posing as a news photographer stabbed an Israeli soldier before he was shot dead.UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon “strongly condemns this reprehensible act and calls on those responsible to be swiftly brought to justice,” Assistant Secretary General Taye-Brook Zerihoun told the council.But Zerihoun also criticized what he called Israel’s “apparent heavy-handed” use of force in dealing with Palestinian violence and said Israeli actions raised “serious questions” about the proportionality of the response.He said the current crisis could not be solved by military means alone and was a result of ongoing despair by the Palestinians coupled with a lack of hope in the face of ongoing settlement expansion, as well as economic hardship. He accused both sides of escalating the tensions through their fiery rhetoric and called on all parties to work to restore calm.While Ban’s representative welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin’s Netanyahu’s repeated statements that Israel does not intend to change the status quo at the Temple Mount, he said statements were insufficient, as growing movements within the Israeli right were seeking to expand Israeli control over the compound, and were promoting their agenda through words and actions.Jerusalem, he said, needed to do more on the ground to assure the world that it was committed to the status quo.Ahead of the meeting, Israel’s recently installed Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said the council did not need another general discussion about the situation but rather a meeting on the “wild incitement” by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, which, he said, was encouraging a wave of terror attacks against Israelis.“Israelis are being stabbed, bombed, run over and stoned, yet this council remains silent,” he added.The ambassador presented a Palestinian poster that describes the most efficient way to stab Jews and said the Palestinian leadership had “established an incubator to raise children as terrorists.“Instead of educating about peace and tolerance, the Palestinian leadership is brainwashing children with incitement and hate,” he said.
Palestinians urge international protection, Israel says no-Associated Press By EDITH M. LEDERER-OCT 16,15-YAHOONEWS
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Palestinians urged the U.N. Security Council on Friday to immediately provide international protection for the Palestinian people in an escalating conflict with Israel, which rejected any international presence at Jerusalem's holiest site.The exchange at an emergency council meeting — called by Arab states after a spate of Palestinian stabbing attacks and an Israeli security crackdown — highlighted the deepening anger and distrust between the two sides after decades of conflict.Palestinian U.N. Ambassador Riyad Mansour told the council the issue of protection "has become more urgent than any time before" because of what he called Israeli aggression "against our defenseless Palestinian people," including at the Jerusalem site that includes the al-Aqsa mosque, the third most sacred place in Islam, and the ancient Hebrew Temple Mount, the holiest place in Judaism.Mansour called on the council to implement a 1994 resolution adopted after a Jewish settler killed 29 Muslim worshippers at a holy site in Hebron. It called on Israel "to guarantee the safety and protection of the Palestinian civilians throughout the occupied territory" including by "a temporary international or foreign presence," and to disarm settlers.But Israel's new U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon repeated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's commitment not to change the status quo at the site and told reporters before the emergency meeting that "Israel will not agree to any international presence on the Temple Mount." His deputy, David Roet, repeated the same words minutes later in the Security Council chamber.Danon said "any such intervention would violate the decades-long status quo."Jordan's U.N. Ambassador Dina Kawar, whose country is custodian of the al-Aqsa compound, said Jordan is not pushing for a new international force. But she said Israeli security forces should stay away from al-Aqsa.Danon urged the council to break its silence and make a statement against "the incitement that fuels terror" and in support of direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. He accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of leading "the dangerous incitement" with his "hate-filled speech" and claims that Israel is trying to change the status quo at the Jerusalem site.Taye-Brook Zerihoun, the U.N. assistant secretary-general for political affairs, told the council that Israel's long occupation of Palestinian territory and diminishing prospects for achieving a Palestinian state "have transformed long-simmering Palestinian anger into outright rage."He said "this stark reality" has been compounded by increasingly dire economic conditions, including bleak employment prospects for Palestinian youths and expanding Israeli settlement activities.Zerihoun warned Israel that the current crisis cannot be resolve security measures alone.He said tensions at the holy sites in Jerusalem, exacerbated by "reckless statements" from Palestinian and Israeli extremist elements, were the main instigator of the violence. But he also blamed "the apparent heavy-handed approach by Israeli security services" and "the impact of social media and irresponsible rhetoric" for the escalation.France's U.N. Ambassador Francois Delattre said it's crucial it's crucial the two-state solution does not fall apart, given the risk that Islamic State extremists "might one day take up the Palestinian cause, with the consequences we can imagine."France is drafting a council statement that will appeal for calm, restraint by all parties and maintaining the status quo at the Jerusalem religious site, he said.Delattre also called for a meeting of the Quartet of Mideast mediators — the U.S., U.N., EU and Russia — along with key Arab nations to work on confidence-building measures to ease tensions, support Palestinian reconciliation, and draw up "guarantees and compensation that each party will need" in order to sign a peace agreement.
LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
Kerry, Netanyahu discuss plans to meet in Europe: State Department-Reuters-OCT 16,15-YAHOONEWS
MILAN (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry talked on Friday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about plans for a meeting in Europe and how best to end the violence between Israelis and Palestinians, his spokesman said.During the phone call, which took place as Kerry headed over the Atlantic Ocean to Italy, the secretary made clear the United States would remain engaged in efforts to restore calm, spokesman John Kirby said."The Secretary reiterated his public comments from yesterday, including our strong condemnation of terrorist attacks against innocent civilians and support for Israel's right to defend its citizens," he said. "They also discussed plans for a meeting in Europe in the near future."Kirby did not confirm reports that a meeting with Netanyahu could take place in Germany next week.(Reporting by Lesley Wroughton; Editing by Sandra Maler)
US ambassador says Israeli actions not excessive-Envoy appears to walk back State Department statements; German FM also backs Israel’s right to defend citizens-By JTA and Times of Israel staff October 16, 2015, 5:37 pm 20
Washington does not view Israel’s recent actions to curb Palestinian violence as excessive and supports Israel right to defend its citizens, US Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro said Friday.Shapiro made the statement during an interview on Israel Radio, after Israeli officials expressed indignation at what they viewed as a suggestion by a State Department spokesperson that Israel was using too much force against Palestinians.“The United States does not view Israeli actions as excessive,” Shapiro said. “We recognize the Israeli government’s right and responsibility to defend its citizens.”Asked whether the US considered the shooting of knife-wielding persons intent on stabbing passersby to be excessive, Shapiro said: “We have always supported and continue to support Israel’s right to defend itself. There is no justification, there is no excuse whatsoever for these outrageous attacks. They present a difficult situation to deal with.”Shapiro added that the United States “never suggested Israel changed the status quo” at the Temple Mount — a claim that is fueling some Palestinian violence toward Israelis in the recent spate of attacks.On Wednesday, US State Department spokesman John Kirby said that although Israel “has a right and responsibility to protect” its citizens, “we’ve certainly seen some reports of what many would consider excessive use of force.”In answer to a reporter’s question, Kirby said that the status quo on the Temple Mount, a site holy to both Jews and Muslims, “has not been observed, which has led to a lot of the violence.”Shortly thereafter, Kirby walked back that statement, tweeting: “I did not intend to suggest that status quo at Temple Mount/Haram Al-Sharif has been broken.”Kirby’s statement on excessive force prompted Gilad Erdan, Israel’s interior security minister, to accuse the State Department of “hypocrisy” and demand the US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry to distance themselves from Kirby’s words and “clarify the US position.”Also Friday German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Israel had “every right to protect its population against attacks,” according to Deutsche Textservice Nachrichtenagentur, or DTS, a German news agency.“I am deeply concerned about the ongoing violence in Jerusalem, which expanded in the past few days to several cities in the West Bank, Israel and Gaza and has led to numerous deaths and injuries on the Israeli and Palestinian side,” Steinmeier was quoted by DTS as saying.“It is terrible that people have to live in constant fear of becoming victims of indiscriminate violence on the streets. All violent criminals must be prosecuted.“Israel has every right to protect its population against attacks. Both sides now need to avoid anything that further fuels tensions…We need to re-enter into a political process, which provides a perspective on a sustainable solution to the conflict,” DTS quoted Steinmeier as saying.
Obama backs Israel’s right to ‘protect its citizens from knife attacks’-President urges PM and Abbas to get their peoples to recognize that ‘random violence’ only brings ‘more hardship’-By Times of Israel staff October 16, 2015, 10:08 pm 36
US President Barack Obama on Friday condemned “violence directed against innocent people” in the latest surge of Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and stressed Israel’s “right to maintain basic law and order and protect its citizens from knife attacks and violence on the streets.”He also dismissed the notion of settlements as “a direct causation” of the spate of Palestinian terror attacks.However, the president also reiterated his long-held belief that the only way Israel would be secure, and the Palestinians would meet their aspirations, was via a two-state solution. Indicating that the US was not about to start a new initiative in that direction, he said “it’s going to be up to the parties” to do that, “and we stand ready to assist.”Speaking at a press conference with the visiting South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Obama expressed concern “about the outbreak of violence, that initially is centered on Jerusalem; but we always are concerned about the spread of violence elsewhere.”He said the US condemns “in the strongest possible terms violence directed against innocent people” and believes “that Israel has a right to maintain basic law and order and protect its citizens from knife attacks and violence on the streets.”He urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, and other officials on both sides “to try to tamp down rhetoric that may feed violence or anger or misunderstanding.” They needed to “get all people in Israel and the West Bank to recognize that this kind of random violence is not going to result in anything other than more hardship or insecurity.”He added: “I don’t think we can wait for all the issues that exist between Israelis and Palestinians to be settled in order for us to try and tamp down on violence right now.”He said Secretary of State John Kerry and others had made “enormous” efforts to broker a two-state solution, but that effort had “stalled.” And it would be up to the parties themselves to try to restart it. “But in the meantime, everybody needs to focus on making sure innocent people aren’t being killed.”Asked twice about Kerry’s initial linkage of the new terror wave and settlements, subsequently walked back, Obama said Kerry had not make that linkage. After calling to end the violence, stressing Israel’s right to protect its citizens from random violence, urging all parties to lower the rhetoric, and stressing the need to maintain the status quo at Jerusalem religious sites, Kerry, said the president, had noted that the atmosphere of “tension and suspicion” between the two sides “obviously creates the potential for more misunderstanding and triggers.”But, Obama stressed, where settlements were concerned, “there’s not a direct causation there.” The focus for now, he said, had to be “on innocent people not being killed.”
Hamas said ‘planning large scale terror attack’-Terror group may be seeking to further escalate violence, according to TV report. Fatah’s military wing also said to be planning attacks-By Times of Israel staff October 16, 2015, 8:58 am Updated: October 16, 2015, 1:51 pm 24
08:59-Israeli, Palestinian officials speak on Joseph’s Tomb torching-Palestinian officials reportedly tell their Israeli counterparts — in a phone conversation this morning — about the fire started at Joseph’s Tomb last night by Palestinian rioters.In the call, both sides condemn the attack on the holy site, according to Channel 10.Palestinian officials say they are committed to repairing the damage caused by the fire.Palestinian Authority security forces dispersed the hundred-strong crowd last night and managed to douse the fire at the tomb, believed to contain the remains of the biblical patriarch Joseph. IDF troops arrived at the scene once the confrontation was over and the fire was out, Channel 2 reported.Photos of the blaze circulated on social media.
09:00-2 terror suspects charged over Sydney police shooting-Two men accused of supplying the revolver used to kill a police accountant outside a Sydney police building two weeks ago are formally charged today with terrorism-related offenses.High school student Farhad Jabar, 15, was shot dead by police soon after he opened fire on Curtis Cheng as the 58-year-old civilian employee walked from the state police headquarters in Parramatta in western Sydney on Oct. 2.Talal Alameddine, 22, does not appear in the Parramatta Local Court on Friday as he is charged with providing the .38 Smith & Wesson used to slay Cheng.Police allege Alameddine passed the gun less than three hours before the shooting to accomplice Raban Alou, 18, who then gave it to Jabar during a meeting at the Parramatta mosque, in the women’s section where there is no CCTV camera.Alou also does not appear in Sydney’s downtown Downing Center Local Court as he is charged with aiding, abetting, counselling and procuring the commission of a terrorist act. The charge carries a potential life prison sentence.— AP
09:01-UAE to US lawmaker: We have a right to enrich uranium, too-Amid fears of an atomic arms race in the Middle East, a senior United Arab Emirates official tells a top US lawmaker that it too might seek the right to enrich uranium that Iran has asserted under the recently signed nuclear deal.The Iran accord to curb its nuclear weapons in exchange for economic sanctions relief allows Tehran to enrich uranium. In barely noticed testimony last month, Rep. Ed Royce (R-California), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, says the UAE’s ambassador in Washington, Yousef al-Otaiba, informed him in a telephone call that the country no longer feels bound by its previous nuclear agreement with the United States.“He told me, ‘Your worst enemy has achieved this right to enrich. It’s a right to enrich now that your friends are going to want, too, and we won’t be the only country,'” Royce says in a phone interview with The Associated Press this week, elaborating on his testimony.In a 2009 pact with the UAE, the United States agreed to share materials, technology and equipment for producing nuclear energy. In the accord — known as a 123 Agreement — the UAE made a bold pledge not to enrich uranium or reprocess spent fuel to extract plutonium, two pathways to an atomic weapon.Asked to respond, the UAE Embassy in Washington sent a one-sentence email that said the “government has not formally changed its views or perspective on the 123 Agreement or commitments.” The UAE has said in the past that it welcomes the nuclear deal reached with Iran.— AP
09:06-IDF vows to repair Joseph’s Tomb, catch arsonists who burned it-Palestinian officials reportedly tell their Israeli counterparts — in a phone conversation this morning — that they will repair the damage caused to the Joseph’s Tomb shrine outside Nablus after Palestinian rioters set the site ablaze last night.The IDF now also says it will make the necessary repairs in order to allow worshipers to continue visiting the holy site.Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, IDF spokesman: “The burning and desecration of Joseph’s Tomb last night is a blatant violation and contradiction of the basic value of freedom of worship. The IDF will take all measures to bring the perpetrators of this despicable act to justice, restore the site to its previous condition and ensure that freedom of worship returns to Joseph’s Tomb.”— Judah Ari Gross
09:36-Egypt tycoon’s party eyes economy with election bid-Ahmed Mortada Mansour, the 34-year-old son of the head of Cairo’s Zamalek football club, is going all out to win votes ahead of parliamentary elections that start in Egypt on Sunday.Fireworks erupt at his rallies, his face is plastered across the streets of his Cairo constituency and children wear T-shirts printed with his image.Flush with money, Mansour and his pro- market, liberal Free Egyptians Party are mounting an ambitious bid to win support when the country votes for a new 596-member parliament, the first since the previous assembly was dissolved in June 2012.Newly elected lawmakers are expected to stand firmly behind President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who has crushed all opposition since ousting his Islamist predecessor in 2013. And with Sisi in full control of the country’s politics, experts say, economic policy is likely to be the only arena in which the new lawmakers will be able to play.The Free Egyptians Party, founded by telecoms tycoon Naguib Sawiris — who has offered to buy an island off Greece or Italy to shelter people fleeing war-ravaged Syria — has 231 candidates across Egypt’s 27 provinces.Many are former members of the National Democratic Party of longtime ex-leader Hosni Mubarak, which was dissolved after the 2011 uprising that toppled him.Following a ban on NDP members being lifted, many are returning to politics even as scores of Islamists and other regime opponents face a brutal government crackdown.— AFP
UNRWA workers hail terror attacks on social media, NGO says-UN Watch takes Palestinian refugee agency to task for alleged employees celebrating stabbings, calling for ‘Third Intifada’ against Israel-By Times of Israel staff October 17, 2015, 1:41 am 4
Palestinian employees of a UN refugee agency are inciting Palestinians to commit terror attacks against Israelis from social media accounts on which they explicitly identify as United Nations workers, a report from a UN watchdog published Friday charged.UN Watch chief Hillel Neuer said his organization’s report was submitted to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, to UNRWA chief Pierre Krähenbühl and to US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power. The US, according to the United Nations monitoring group, is the largest funder of UNRWA with $400 million annually.In the report, Neuer cites nine UNRWA employees and presents screenshots of what the group says are inciteful posts from their Facebook pages that call for the murder of Jews, or promote conspiracy theories claiming terrorists killed by Israeli security forces were innocent.Among the purported employees cited in the report is Hani al Ramahi, who identifies as a project support assistant at UNRWA. He posted a violent image on his Facebook on October 8 in which a keffiyeh-clad man stares down the camera, holding a knife with a blade bearing the colors of the Palestinian flag and dripping with blood. “Stab Zionist dogs,“ reads the caption.Ibrahim Ali, whose page says he works at UNRWA, posted a video on his timeline on October 6 which glorifies a gruesome series of terrorist attacks, including shootings and stabbings of Israeli Jews.Hiba Miari, a woman who says she a teacher at UNRWA on her Facebook page celebrated recent Palestinian terror attacks with a cartoon that she posted online on October 11. She deleted the cartoon from her page after a pro-Israel blogger, Elder of Ziyon, pointed it out.UNRWA never condemned the posting of the cartoon, the UN Watch report says.Another woman identifying as a teacher at UNRWA, Um Karam, posted a video of a mosque sermon in which Sheikh Abu Rajab pulled out a knife and, with violent stabbing motions, exhorted Palestinians to murder Jews in the name of Allah.Souhaib Fayyad, who identifies on Facebook as part of UNRWA, changed his Facebook profile picture to a riff on the iconic Facebook blue “like” icon, but in his version the hand is holding a downward-pointing knife.Mahmoud Abu Zakari’s Facebook page says he is a social worker with the UN agency. He changed his profile picture recently to a generic image of youth brandishing a knife. Another teacher, Maen Dajani, shared a post on October 14 alleging that Israel photoshopped a knife into the hand of a youth who tried to stab Border Police officers outside the Old City this week but was shot and killed before he succeeded.Saleh Mohsen, whose pages says he “works at UNRWA,” shared a post on his timeline calling for a “Third Intifada” and then, on the same day, turned his profile picture into the violent image of a masked stone-thrower. His actions were also published on the Elder of Zion blog.Finally, Mohammed Assaf, UNRWA’s “Youth Ambassador” and most famous personality according to UN Watch — an “Arab Idol” winner and key fundraiser for the organization, has been “using his UN imprimatur to glorify violence throughout his Facebook timeline,” says the UN Watch report. In one image he posted, three Palestinian youths who attacked Israeli Jews as are glorified as shahids, or martyrs.The NGO recommends in its report that the agency discipline or dismiss from employment the nine aforementioned workers.Like us on Facebook
Stabbing by fake Palestinian journalist raises media fears-Foreign Ministry warns Israel ‘will have to be more cautious’ but promises good relations with media will continue-By AP October 17, 2015, 12:09 am 3-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
The stabbing of an Israeli soldier by a Palestinian attacker posing as a journalist has heightened safety concerns among those covering the daily Israeli-Palestinian violence.The Palestinian, identified as a 26-year-old laborer, mingled Friday with journalists covering a clash between Palestinian stone-throwers and Israeli troops in the city of Hebron. Wearing a T-shirt with “press” written on it, he approached a soldier and stabbed him before being shot dead. The soldier was stabbed in the back and chest, an Israeli hospital official said.Groups representing journalists, including the Foreign Press Association, said the impostor’s actions could further endanger reporters, photographers and camera operators in the field.“Everybody is worried that it will be open season on reporters,” said Glenys Sugarman, executive director of the FPA, which represents journalists who work for international news outlets and cover Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.The FPA has complained in the past of harassment of some of its members by both Israeli and Palestinian forces, including cases in which reporters were beaten and equipment smashed.Friday’s stabbing “marks a worrying development that demands that all media operate with heightened caution in the West Bank and East Jerusalem,” the FPA said.“We utterly deplore this violation of press privilege and call on local Palestinian media organizations to immediately verify all media credentials to ensure there are no violations,” the statement said.The FPA said it tries to work closely with the Israeli military and paramilitary border police to “ensure that coordination is clear and that all dangers are minimized.”Still, it is difficult for Palestinians to get official Israeli press credentials, called GPO cards. Even if a Palestinian journalist possesses one, it does not necessarily help when clashes spontaneously erupt and troops use various means to suppress unrest.Journalists regularly inhale tear gas and are occasionally hit by rubber bullets. Some have been roughed up by Israeli forces while covering clashes.Journalists who witnessed Friday’s incident said the assailant, later identified as Eyad Awawdeh, had read the Quran, the Muslim holy book, before the confrontations began.They said he wore a black T-shirt with the word “press” written on the front and back. He wore a yellow reflective vest over the T-shirt, with a rectangle cut out of the back so the “press” lettering would be visible.The Palestinian journalists’ association said anyone posing as a journalist increases the risks faced by those covering the current violence.The association said 70 journalists have suffered injuries this month, including by rubber-coated steel pellets and by tear gas. In Gaza, a cameraman for Palestine TV was shot in the leg Friday while covering clashes between stone-throwers and Israeli troops, a reporter at the station said.Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said the impostor created a new security challenge.“Until now, journalists were taken at face value and now we see that Palestinian terrorists do not hesitate to disguise themselves as journalists and now we will have to be more cautious,” he said. “This does not change the good relations and trust we have with foreign media here,” he added.2015 The Associated Press.
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DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 DIVSION REGION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT-NEW AGE MOVEMENT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.
DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies,(UNITED NATIONS TROOPS) gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
Israel rejects any international intervention at Temple Mount-At Security Council meeting, UN chief’s rep says both sides to blame for violence, criticizes Israel’s ‘heavy-handed’ actions-By Times of Israel staff October 16, 2015, 8:08 pm 30
Israel on Friday rejected Palestinian calls for an international force to be deployed in East Jerusalem to promote calm around the Temple Mount and the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque.“Let me be crystal clear — Israel will not agree to any international presence on the Temple Mount. Such a presence would be a change in the status quo,” Israeli Deputy Ambassador David Roet told the UN Security Council.The 15-member council met in an emergency session to discuss weeks of escalating violence between Israel and the Palestinians in Jerusalem and the territories.The urgent talks were requested by council member Jordan following a meeting on Thursday of Arab ambassadors who expressed alarm at the escalating situation. Palestinian envoy to the UN Riyad Mansour had called on the Security Council to provide international protection to the holy site.But Roet said Israel was respectful of all religions in the city. Meanwhile, he said, the Palestinians were unwilling to acknowledge any Jewish rights to the capital’s holy sites.On Friday, Palestinians torched a Jewish holy site in the West Bank as they staged a “Friday of revolution” against Israel and a man posing as a news photographer stabbed an Israeli soldier before he was shot dead.UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon “strongly condemns this reprehensible act and calls on those responsible to be swiftly brought to justice,” Assistant Secretary General Taye-Brook Zerihoun told the council.But Zerihoun also criticized what he called Israel’s “apparent heavy-handed” use of force in dealing with Palestinian violence and said Israeli actions raised “serious questions” about the proportionality of the response.He said the current crisis could not be solved by military means alone and was a result of ongoing despair by the Palestinians coupled with a lack of hope in the face of ongoing settlement expansion, as well as economic hardship. He accused both sides of escalating the tensions through their fiery rhetoric and called on all parties to work to restore calm.While Ban’s representative welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin’s Netanyahu’s repeated statements that Israel does not intend to change the status quo at the Temple Mount, he said statements were insufficient, as growing movements within the Israeli right were seeking to expand Israeli control over the compound, and were promoting their agenda through words and actions.Jerusalem, he said, needed to do more on the ground to assure the world that it was committed to the status quo.Ahead of the meeting, Israel’s recently installed Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said the council did not need another general discussion about the situation but rather a meeting on the “wild incitement” by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, which, he said, was encouraging a wave of terror attacks against Israelis.“Israelis are being stabbed, bombed, run over and stoned, yet this council remains silent,” he added.The ambassador presented a Palestinian poster that describes the most efficient way to stab Jews and said the Palestinian leadership had “established an incubator to raise children as terrorists.“Instead of educating about peace and tolerance, the Palestinian leadership is brainwashing children with incitement and hate,” he said.
Palestinians urge international protection, Israel says no-Associated Press By EDITH M. LEDERER-OCT 16,15-YAHOONEWS
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Palestinians urged the U.N. Security Council on Friday to immediately provide international protection for the Palestinian people in an escalating conflict with Israel, which rejected any international presence at Jerusalem's holiest site.The exchange at an emergency council meeting — called by Arab states after a spate of Palestinian stabbing attacks and an Israeli security crackdown — highlighted the deepening anger and distrust between the two sides after decades of conflict.Palestinian U.N. Ambassador Riyad Mansour told the council the issue of protection "has become more urgent than any time before" because of what he called Israeli aggression "against our defenseless Palestinian people," including at the Jerusalem site that includes the al-Aqsa mosque, the third most sacred place in Islam, and the ancient Hebrew Temple Mount, the holiest place in Judaism.Mansour called on the council to implement a 1994 resolution adopted after a Jewish settler killed 29 Muslim worshippers at a holy site in Hebron. It called on Israel "to guarantee the safety and protection of the Palestinian civilians throughout the occupied territory" including by "a temporary international or foreign presence," and to disarm settlers.But Israel's new U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon repeated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's commitment not to change the status quo at the site and told reporters before the emergency meeting that "Israel will not agree to any international presence on the Temple Mount." His deputy, David Roet, repeated the same words minutes later in the Security Council chamber.Danon said "any such intervention would violate the decades-long status quo."Jordan's U.N. Ambassador Dina Kawar, whose country is custodian of the al-Aqsa compound, said Jordan is not pushing for a new international force. But she said Israeli security forces should stay away from al-Aqsa.Danon urged the council to break its silence and make a statement against "the incitement that fuels terror" and in support of direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. He accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of leading "the dangerous incitement" with his "hate-filled speech" and claims that Israel is trying to change the status quo at the Jerusalem site.Taye-Brook Zerihoun, the U.N. assistant secretary-general for political affairs, told the council that Israel's long occupation of Palestinian territory and diminishing prospects for achieving a Palestinian state "have transformed long-simmering Palestinian anger into outright rage."He said "this stark reality" has been compounded by increasingly dire economic conditions, including bleak employment prospects for Palestinian youths and expanding Israeli settlement activities.Zerihoun warned Israel that the current crisis cannot be resolve security measures alone.He said tensions at the holy sites in Jerusalem, exacerbated by "reckless statements" from Palestinian and Israeli extremist elements, were the main instigator of the violence. But he also blamed "the apparent heavy-handed approach by Israeli security services" and "the impact of social media and irresponsible rhetoric" for the escalation.France's U.N. Ambassador Francois Delattre said it's crucial it's crucial the two-state solution does not fall apart, given the risk that Islamic State extremists "might one day take up the Palestinian cause, with the consequences we can imagine."France is drafting a council statement that will appeal for calm, restraint by all parties and maintaining the status quo at the Jerusalem religious site, he said.Delattre also called for a meeting of the Quartet of Mideast mediators — the U.S., U.N., EU and Russia — along with key Arab nations to work on confidence-building measures to ease tensions, support Palestinian reconciliation, and draw up "guarantees and compensation that each party will need" in order to sign a peace agreement.
LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
Kerry, Netanyahu discuss plans to meet in Europe: State Department-Reuters-OCT 16,15-YAHOONEWS
MILAN (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry talked on Friday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about plans for a meeting in Europe and how best to end the violence between Israelis and Palestinians, his spokesman said.During the phone call, which took place as Kerry headed over the Atlantic Ocean to Italy, the secretary made clear the United States would remain engaged in efforts to restore calm, spokesman John Kirby said."The Secretary reiterated his public comments from yesterday, including our strong condemnation of terrorist attacks against innocent civilians and support for Israel's right to defend its citizens," he said. "They also discussed plans for a meeting in Europe in the near future."Kirby did not confirm reports that a meeting with Netanyahu could take place in Germany next week.(Reporting by Lesley Wroughton; Editing by Sandra Maler)
US ambassador says Israeli actions not excessive-Envoy appears to walk back State Department statements; German FM also backs Israel’s right to defend citizens-By JTA and Times of Israel staff October 16, 2015, 5:37 pm 20
Washington does not view Israel’s recent actions to curb Palestinian violence as excessive and supports Israel right to defend its citizens, US Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro said Friday.Shapiro made the statement during an interview on Israel Radio, after Israeli officials expressed indignation at what they viewed as a suggestion by a State Department spokesperson that Israel was using too much force against Palestinians.“The United States does not view Israeli actions as excessive,” Shapiro said. “We recognize the Israeli government’s right and responsibility to defend its citizens.”Asked whether the US considered the shooting of knife-wielding persons intent on stabbing passersby to be excessive, Shapiro said: “We have always supported and continue to support Israel’s right to defend itself. There is no justification, there is no excuse whatsoever for these outrageous attacks. They present a difficult situation to deal with.”Shapiro added that the United States “never suggested Israel changed the status quo” at the Temple Mount — a claim that is fueling some Palestinian violence toward Israelis in the recent spate of attacks.On Wednesday, US State Department spokesman John Kirby said that although Israel “has a right and responsibility to protect” its citizens, “we’ve certainly seen some reports of what many would consider excessive use of force.”In answer to a reporter’s question, Kirby said that the status quo on the Temple Mount, a site holy to both Jews and Muslims, “has not been observed, which has led to a lot of the violence.”Shortly thereafter, Kirby walked back that statement, tweeting: “I did not intend to suggest that status quo at Temple Mount/Haram Al-Sharif has been broken.”Kirby’s statement on excessive force prompted Gilad Erdan, Israel’s interior security minister, to accuse the State Department of “hypocrisy” and demand the US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry to distance themselves from Kirby’s words and “clarify the US position.”Also Friday German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Israel had “every right to protect its population against attacks,” according to Deutsche Textservice Nachrichtenagentur, or DTS, a German news agency.“I am deeply concerned about the ongoing violence in Jerusalem, which expanded in the past few days to several cities in the West Bank, Israel and Gaza and has led to numerous deaths and injuries on the Israeli and Palestinian side,” Steinmeier was quoted by DTS as saying.“It is terrible that people have to live in constant fear of becoming victims of indiscriminate violence on the streets. All violent criminals must be prosecuted.“Israel has every right to protect its population against attacks. Both sides now need to avoid anything that further fuels tensions…We need to re-enter into a political process, which provides a perspective on a sustainable solution to the conflict,” DTS quoted Steinmeier as saying.
Obama backs Israel’s right to ‘protect its citizens from knife attacks’-President urges PM and Abbas to get their peoples to recognize that ‘random violence’ only brings ‘more hardship’-By Times of Israel staff October 16, 2015, 10:08 pm 36
US President Barack Obama on Friday condemned “violence directed against innocent people” in the latest surge of Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and stressed Israel’s “right to maintain basic law and order and protect its citizens from knife attacks and violence on the streets.”He also dismissed the notion of settlements as “a direct causation” of the spate of Palestinian terror attacks.However, the president also reiterated his long-held belief that the only way Israel would be secure, and the Palestinians would meet their aspirations, was via a two-state solution. Indicating that the US was not about to start a new initiative in that direction, he said “it’s going to be up to the parties” to do that, “and we stand ready to assist.”Speaking at a press conference with the visiting South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Obama expressed concern “about the outbreak of violence, that initially is centered on Jerusalem; but we always are concerned about the spread of violence elsewhere.”He said the US condemns “in the strongest possible terms violence directed against innocent people” and believes “that Israel has a right to maintain basic law and order and protect its citizens from knife attacks and violence on the streets.”He urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, and other officials on both sides “to try to tamp down rhetoric that may feed violence or anger or misunderstanding.” They needed to “get all people in Israel and the West Bank to recognize that this kind of random violence is not going to result in anything other than more hardship or insecurity.”He added: “I don’t think we can wait for all the issues that exist between Israelis and Palestinians to be settled in order for us to try and tamp down on violence right now.”He said Secretary of State John Kerry and others had made “enormous” efforts to broker a two-state solution, but that effort had “stalled.” And it would be up to the parties themselves to try to restart it. “But in the meantime, everybody needs to focus on making sure innocent people aren’t being killed.”Asked twice about Kerry’s initial linkage of the new terror wave and settlements, subsequently walked back, Obama said Kerry had not make that linkage. After calling to end the violence, stressing Israel’s right to protect its citizens from random violence, urging all parties to lower the rhetoric, and stressing the need to maintain the status quo at Jerusalem religious sites, Kerry, said the president, had noted that the atmosphere of “tension and suspicion” between the two sides “obviously creates the potential for more misunderstanding and triggers.”But, Obama stressed, where settlements were concerned, “there’s not a direct causation there.” The focus for now, he said, had to be “on innocent people not being killed.”
Hamas said ‘planning large scale terror attack’-Terror group may be seeking to further escalate violence, according to TV report. Fatah’s military wing also said to be planning attacks-By Times of Israel staff October 16, 2015, 8:58 am Updated: October 16, 2015, 1:51 pm 24
08:59-Israeli, Palestinian officials speak on Joseph’s Tomb torching-Palestinian officials reportedly tell their Israeli counterparts — in a phone conversation this morning — about the fire started at Joseph’s Tomb last night by Palestinian rioters.In the call, both sides condemn the attack on the holy site, according to Channel 10.Palestinian officials say they are committed to repairing the damage caused by the fire.Palestinian Authority security forces dispersed the hundred-strong crowd last night and managed to douse the fire at the tomb, believed to contain the remains of the biblical patriarch Joseph. IDF troops arrived at the scene once the confrontation was over and the fire was out, Channel 2 reported.Photos of the blaze circulated on social media.
09:00-2 terror suspects charged over Sydney police shooting-Two men accused of supplying the revolver used to kill a police accountant outside a Sydney police building two weeks ago are formally charged today with terrorism-related offenses.High school student Farhad Jabar, 15, was shot dead by police soon after he opened fire on Curtis Cheng as the 58-year-old civilian employee walked from the state police headquarters in Parramatta in western Sydney on Oct. 2.Talal Alameddine, 22, does not appear in the Parramatta Local Court on Friday as he is charged with providing the .38 Smith & Wesson used to slay Cheng.Police allege Alameddine passed the gun less than three hours before the shooting to accomplice Raban Alou, 18, who then gave it to Jabar during a meeting at the Parramatta mosque, in the women’s section where there is no CCTV camera.Alou also does not appear in Sydney’s downtown Downing Center Local Court as he is charged with aiding, abetting, counselling and procuring the commission of a terrorist act. The charge carries a potential life prison sentence.— AP
09:01-UAE to US lawmaker: We have a right to enrich uranium, too-Amid fears of an atomic arms race in the Middle East, a senior United Arab Emirates official tells a top US lawmaker that it too might seek the right to enrich uranium that Iran has asserted under the recently signed nuclear deal.The Iran accord to curb its nuclear weapons in exchange for economic sanctions relief allows Tehran to enrich uranium. In barely noticed testimony last month, Rep. Ed Royce (R-California), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, says the UAE’s ambassador in Washington, Yousef al-Otaiba, informed him in a telephone call that the country no longer feels bound by its previous nuclear agreement with the United States.“He told me, ‘Your worst enemy has achieved this right to enrich. It’s a right to enrich now that your friends are going to want, too, and we won’t be the only country,'” Royce says in a phone interview with The Associated Press this week, elaborating on his testimony.In a 2009 pact with the UAE, the United States agreed to share materials, technology and equipment for producing nuclear energy. In the accord — known as a 123 Agreement — the UAE made a bold pledge not to enrich uranium or reprocess spent fuel to extract plutonium, two pathways to an atomic weapon.Asked to respond, the UAE Embassy in Washington sent a one-sentence email that said the “government has not formally changed its views or perspective on the 123 Agreement or commitments.” The UAE has said in the past that it welcomes the nuclear deal reached with Iran.— AP
09:06-IDF vows to repair Joseph’s Tomb, catch arsonists who burned it-Palestinian officials reportedly tell their Israeli counterparts — in a phone conversation this morning — that they will repair the damage caused to the Joseph’s Tomb shrine outside Nablus after Palestinian rioters set the site ablaze last night.The IDF now also says it will make the necessary repairs in order to allow worshipers to continue visiting the holy site.Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, IDF spokesman: “The burning and desecration of Joseph’s Tomb last night is a blatant violation and contradiction of the basic value of freedom of worship. The IDF will take all measures to bring the perpetrators of this despicable act to justice, restore the site to its previous condition and ensure that freedom of worship returns to Joseph’s Tomb.”— Judah Ari Gross
09:36-Egypt tycoon’s party eyes economy with election bid-Ahmed Mortada Mansour, the 34-year-old son of the head of Cairo’s Zamalek football club, is going all out to win votes ahead of parliamentary elections that start in Egypt on Sunday.Fireworks erupt at his rallies, his face is plastered across the streets of his Cairo constituency and children wear T-shirts printed with his image.Flush with money, Mansour and his pro- market, liberal Free Egyptians Party are mounting an ambitious bid to win support when the country votes for a new 596-member parliament, the first since the previous assembly was dissolved in June 2012.Newly elected lawmakers are expected to stand firmly behind President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who has crushed all opposition since ousting his Islamist predecessor in 2013. And with Sisi in full control of the country’s politics, experts say, economic policy is likely to be the only arena in which the new lawmakers will be able to play.The Free Egyptians Party, founded by telecoms tycoon Naguib Sawiris — who has offered to buy an island off Greece or Italy to shelter people fleeing war-ravaged Syria — has 231 candidates across Egypt’s 27 provinces.Many are former members of the National Democratic Party of longtime ex-leader Hosni Mubarak, which was dissolved after the 2011 uprising that toppled him.Following a ban on NDP members being lifted, many are returning to politics even as scores of Islamists and other regime opponents face a brutal government crackdown.— AFP
UNRWA workers hail terror attacks on social media, NGO says-UN Watch takes Palestinian refugee agency to task for alleged employees celebrating stabbings, calling for ‘Third Intifada’ against Israel-By Times of Israel staff October 17, 2015, 1:41 am 4
Palestinian employees of a UN refugee agency are inciting Palestinians to commit terror attacks against Israelis from social media accounts on which they explicitly identify as United Nations workers, a report from a UN watchdog published Friday charged.UN Watch chief Hillel Neuer said his organization’s report was submitted to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, to UNRWA chief Pierre Krähenbühl and to US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power. The US, according to the United Nations monitoring group, is the largest funder of UNRWA with $400 million annually.In the report, Neuer cites nine UNRWA employees and presents screenshots of what the group says are inciteful posts from their Facebook pages that call for the murder of Jews, or promote conspiracy theories claiming terrorists killed by Israeli security forces were innocent.Among the purported employees cited in the report is Hani al Ramahi, who identifies as a project support assistant at UNRWA. He posted a violent image on his Facebook on October 8 in which a keffiyeh-clad man stares down the camera, holding a knife with a blade bearing the colors of the Palestinian flag and dripping with blood. “Stab Zionist dogs,“ reads the caption.Ibrahim Ali, whose page says he works at UNRWA, posted a video on his timeline on October 6 which glorifies a gruesome series of terrorist attacks, including shootings and stabbings of Israeli Jews.Hiba Miari, a woman who says she a teacher at UNRWA on her Facebook page celebrated recent Palestinian terror attacks with a cartoon that she posted online on October 11. She deleted the cartoon from her page after a pro-Israel blogger, Elder of Ziyon, pointed it out.UNRWA never condemned the posting of the cartoon, the UN Watch report says.Another woman identifying as a teacher at UNRWA, Um Karam, posted a video of a mosque sermon in which Sheikh Abu Rajab pulled out a knife and, with violent stabbing motions, exhorted Palestinians to murder Jews in the name of Allah.Souhaib Fayyad, who identifies on Facebook as part of UNRWA, changed his Facebook profile picture to a riff on the iconic Facebook blue “like” icon, but in his version the hand is holding a downward-pointing knife.Mahmoud Abu Zakari’s Facebook page says he is a social worker with the UN agency. He changed his profile picture recently to a generic image of youth brandishing a knife. Another teacher, Maen Dajani, shared a post on October 14 alleging that Israel photoshopped a knife into the hand of a youth who tried to stab Border Police officers outside the Old City this week but was shot and killed before he succeeded.Saleh Mohsen, whose pages says he “works at UNRWA,” shared a post on his timeline calling for a “Third Intifada” and then, on the same day, turned his profile picture into the violent image of a masked stone-thrower. His actions were also published on the Elder of Zion blog.Finally, Mohammed Assaf, UNRWA’s “Youth Ambassador” and most famous personality according to UN Watch — an “Arab Idol” winner and key fundraiser for the organization, has been “using his UN imprimatur to glorify violence throughout his Facebook timeline,” says the UN Watch report. In one image he posted, three Palestinian youths who attacked Israeli Jews as are glorified as shahids, or martyrs.The NGO recommends in its report that the agency discipline or dismiss from employment the nine aforementioned workers.Like us on Facebook
Stabbing by fake Palestinian journalist raises media fears-Foreign Ministry warns Israel ‘will have to be more cautious’ but promises good relations with media will continue-By AP October 17, 2015, 12:09 am 3-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
The stabbing of an Israeli soldier by a Palestinian attacker posing as a journalist has heightened safety concerns among those covering the daily Israeli-Palestinian violence.The Palestinian, identified as a 26-year-old laborer, mingled Friday with journalists covering a clash between Palestinian stone-throwers and Israeli troops in the city of Hebron. Wearing a T-shirt with “press” written on it, he approached a soldier and stabbed him before being shot dead. The soldier was stabbed in the back and chest, an Israeli hospital official said.Groups representing journalists, including the Foreign Press Association, said the impostor’s actions could further endanger reporters, photographers and camera operators in the field.“Everybody is worried that it will be open season on reporters,” said Glenys Sugarman, executive director of the FPA, which represents journalists who work for international news outlets and cover Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.The FPA has complained in the past of harassment of some of its members by both Israeli and Palestinian forces, including cases in which reporters were beaten and equipment smashed.Friday’s stabbing “marks a worrying development that demands that all media operate with heightened caution in the West Bank and East Jerusalem,” the FPA said.“We utterly deplore this violation of press privilege and call on local Palestinian media organizations to immediately verify all media credentials to ensure there are no violations,” the statement said.The FPA said it tries to work closely with the Israeli military and paramilitary border police to “ensure that coordination is clear and that all dangers are minimized.”Still, it is difficult for Palestinians to get official Israeli press credentials, called GPO cards. Even if a Palestinian journalist possesses one, it does not necessarily help when clashes spontaneously erupt and troops use various means to suppress unrest.Journalists regularly inhale tear gas and are occasionally hit by rubber bullets. Some have been roughed up by Israeli forces while covering clashes.Journalists who witnessed Friday’s incident said the assailant, later identified as Eyad Awawdeh, had read the Quran, the Muslim holy book, before the confrontations began.They said he wore a black T-shirt with the word “press” written on the front and back. He wore a yellow reflective vest over the T-shirt, with a rectangle cut out of the back so the “press” lettering would be visible.The Palestinian journalists’ association said anyone posing as a journalist increases the risks faced by those covering the current violence.The association said 70 journalists have suffered injuries this month, including by rubber-coated steel pellets and by tear gas. In Gaza, a cameraman for Palestine TV was shot in the leg Friday while covering clashes between stone-throwers and Israeli troops, a reporter at the station said.Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said the impostor created a new security challenge.“Until now, journalists were taken at face value and now we see that Palestinian terrorists do not hesitate to disguise themselves as journalists and now we will have to be more cautious,” he said. “This does not change the good relations and trust we have with foreign media here,” he added.2015 The Associated Press.
