INTERNATIONAL PULSE Period: December 2010 End-Time Church / Pluralism Global Politics Israel

ISRAEL    Visit 'Peace In Jerusalem' for more comprehensive ongoing reports by Retired Pastor/Teacher James McCutchan - Jmccutchan@aol.com ----- SARKOZY SAID EUROPE PLANNED TO FURTHER PROMOTE THE PUSH FOR PEACE AT A EURO-MEDITERRANEAN SUMMIT PLANNED FOR NOVEMBER 20, 2010 IN BARCELONA, SPAIN, WHERE KEY LEADERS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WOULD BE PRESENT. "We have proposed, with President Mubarak, that a Mediterranean Union summit could take place in mid-November, at which all the parties necessary for obtaining peace in the Mideast would participate," Sarkozy said following a meeting with Mubarak. Continued: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/egypt-urges-eu-to-bolster-u-s-led-mideast-peace-bid-1.311103 ----- ABBAS: JEWISH NATO SOLDIERS COULD DEFEND FUTURE PALESTINIANS Jewish NATO soldiers could defend future Palestinian state Mahmoud to be deployed along the borders of a future Palestinian state under a potential permanent peace agreement, the Palestinian president's political adviser said Saturday. Nimar Hamad told the Palestinian news agency Wafa that "Abbas is open to an international force along Palestinian borders of any religion or origin." This, in response to earlier reports that Abbas opposed the deployment of Jewish soldiers along the future borders.Israel is concerned about an American proposal to establish a multi-national force in the West Bank as one of the ways to expedite an Israeli withdrawal following any peace deal with the Palestinian Authority. The idea is being promoted by US National Security Advisor James Jones, who served as security coordinator to the West Bank under former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice.He also served as the top NATO commander in Europe. Continued: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/abbas-jewish-nato- soldiers-could-defend-future-palestinian-state-1.306616 ----- TEMPLE MOUNT YES, MOUNT SINAI NO By Adi Schwartz - One of the central obstacles in deliberations toward a permanent Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement is the status of holy sites in Jerusalem. Yet, the introduction of religious elements in negotiations between secular parties is like placing a bomb in the room where deliberations take place: The use of the term "holy" usually lifts debate from the realm of "rational" conduct and transfers it to a religious arena, which is occasionally mystical, and "irrational" by definition. Continued: http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/temple-mount-yes-mount-sinai-no-1.62638 ----- VATICAN'S SPECIAL MIDDLE EAST ASSEMBLY' SET TO BEGIN By LISA PALMIERI-BILLIG - 10/07/2010 06:10 - Analysis: Questionnaire reveals ‘ghetto mentality’ among Mideast Christians due to rise of ‘political Islam.’ Talkbacks (6) VATICAN CITY " An unprecedented Vatican Synod of Bishops " a "Special Assembly for the Middle East" " will be held in Vatican City from October 10 to 24. One hundred and seventy-two Catholic bishops from Islamic countries, 14 Roman Curia officials, 14 non-Catholic Christians and 30 academic experts will spend two weeks discussing the future of Catholic communities in the Middle East. "The urgent reasons for this meeting are that Christians are fleeing from the Middle East, and extremist Islamism is invading the area. We need to find a dialogue with Muslims, and unity among Christians," Monsignor Shlemon Warduni, the auxiliary bishop of the Patriarchate of Babylon, Iraq, of the Chaldean Catholic Church, told The Jerusalem Post. Continued: http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=190485 ----- THE POPE'S OPENING MASS AT THE SYNOD Salvation is universal, but it passes through a specific historical mediation: the mediation of the people of Israel, which goes on to become that of Jesus Christ and the Church." ­Pope Benedict XVI, Homily, Opening Mass of the Synod on the Middle East, St. Peter's Basilica, Sunday, October 10, 2010 - And, the Pope continued, the way is not simply to be understood as the possession of an earthly territory, an earthly homeland, an earthly "Promised Land." This 'land' is not of this world; the whole of the divine plan goes beyond history, but the Lord wants to build it with men, for men and in men, beginning with the coordinates of space and time in which they live and which He Himself gave them." This, in a sense, is the central message of this Synod, already stated beforehand by the Pope in this opening homily. The message is that the "Promised Land" of freedom and peace to which God wishes to lead "His" people is, yes, "not of this world," for, as the Pope says, "the whole of the divine plan goes beyond history." And yet, at the same time, "the Lord wishes to build it [the Promised Land] with men, for men and in men, beginning with the coordinates of space and time in which they live and which He Himself gave them." [CHAMISH NOTES: In short, and this did not take great analytic powers, the Pope has announced that Israel doesn't exist. It's just a question of time and "mediation" until Israel realizes this. Then those pesky Jews will covert to "Jesus Christ and the Church." Unless I misread his Mass, the pope actually said that, though claiming he was referring not to Jews but to salvation. A major planner of this synod has been at the head of the destroy-Israel movement for two decades, David Jaeger. While Oslo was being negotiated in 1994, another part of the "peace" agreement was also being negotiated; The Vatican-Israel Treaty. In fact, Oslo and Vatican were being negotiated together and for the same destructive purposes. The Israeli negotiators of the Vatican deal were Shimon Peres and Yossi Beilin. The Vatican's chief negotiator was Father David Jaeger: http://www.energypublisher.com/article.asp?idarticle=41366 ----- PERES SUPPORTS ‘100 PERCENT’ SARKOZY'S PLAN FOR MEDITERRANEAN UNION by: EJP Updated: 12/Mar/2008 11:03 - Israeli President Shimon Peres (L) delivers a speech after he received a Honour Diploma of Friendship to mark the scientific cooperation between France and Israel, on March 11, 2008, at the Institut de France in Paris. PARIS (EJP)---Israeli President Shimon Peres on Wednesday expressed his support for French President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans for the creation of a Mediterranean Union to promote trade and cooperation. "I support 100 percent the plan," Peres, who is on a five-day state visit to France, said in an interview with French radio Europe 1. "The entire (Israeli) government is in favour of Sarkozy’s initiative of course," he added. "North Europe countries, the Maghreb countries in the south and the Arab countries in the middle, why not cooperate on what is possible?," he asked, recalling that Europe started with a union on coal and steel. A summit meeting between the EU countries and Mediterranean countries, including Israel, is scheduled to take place on 13 July in Paris when France takes over the six-month EU presidency. Ahead of a EU summit meeting at the end of this week, France and Germany settled their differences over President Sarkozy's plan to create the EU-Mediterranean new forum. Sarkozy is expected to outline the compromise at the meeting of European Union leaders in Brussels on Thursday. Continued: http://www.ejpress.org/article/25201 ----- FRENCH, SPANISH FOREIGN MINISTERS HEADING TO ISRAEL TO PUSH SARKOZY'S PEACE SUMMIT French and Spanish officials to arrive on Sunday; plan to pitch idea of Paris peace summit between Netanyahu and Abbas later this month. By Barak Ravid - French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos are to arrive in Israel Sunday to move ahead President Nicolas Sarkozy's idea of a summit in Paris later this month between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. According to French diplomats and officials in Netanyahu's bureau, the two leaders have expressed willingness to take part in a summit, planned for October 21. However, implementation would depend on the decision of the Arab League summit on Friday and on a solution to the crisis over the end of the construction freeze in the settlements. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, whom Sarkozy has also invited, has signaled readiness to attend. he French president has also extended an invitation to Paris for the summit to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Continued: http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/ french-spanish-foreign-ministers-heading-to-israel-to-push-sarkozy-s-peace-summit-1.317588 ----- FOUNDER:MIDEAST RECONCILIATION IS A SIGN OF A NEW ERA Israeli, Palestinian Politicians Continue Dialogue BARCELONA, Spain, OCT. 5, 2010 (Zenit.org).- The founder of the Community of Sant'Egidio is affirming that although reconciliation in the Middle East is difficult, once accomplished it will be a sign of a new era. Andrea Riccardi stated this at the 25th International Meeting of Prayer for Peace, an annual gathering held as a continuation of the first interreligious and intercultural meeting called in 1986 in Assisi by Pope John Paul II The three-day meeting, promoted by the Sant'Egidio Community, ended today in Barcelona. This year's event focused in a particular way on the situation in the Middle East, with the theme "Coexistence in a Time of Crisis: Family of Peoples, Family of God." In an address Sunday, Riccardi noted that "reconciliation in that region, in Israel's security, in the disarming of the violent and terrorists, in a homeland for the Palestinians, is difficult but will be the prophetic sign of a new era for the world." He added that "a solution must be achieved without concealing the difficulties." Continued: http://www.zenit.org/article-30549?l=english ----- SPAIN RECOGNIZES NON-EXISTENT PALESTINIAN STATE A friend in Spain filed this report with us: 09.07.2010 "Today, Foreign Minister Moratinos, has announced that Spain will behave diplomatically as if The PA was the government of The Palestinian State, its mission in Madrid being given diplomatic status of an Embassy as well as The consulate in East Jerusalem, that from today will be a Spanish Embassy. He will encourage others to follow in preparation for the coming declaration of independence." We have been keeping you informed of the growing movement to legitimize a Palestinian State outside the normal international framework of the creation of a State. Spain's action is a big step toward establishing such an entity. It completely sidelines Israel on this issue, so it is not dependent on Israel's approval. By ignoring Israel it sets the stage for the international community to recognize a Palestinian State along the 1967 boundaries. The Palestinians do not have to agree to anything to get this "prize." Therefore their demands for the so called right of return, their demands for Jerusalem to be their capital, and their refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish State will be granted to them and they will be asked for nothing in return. Spain, as a major state in the European Union, is providing political cover for several other states that are vehement opponents of Israel. This development is a very serious matter. Continued: http://www.onejerusalem.org/2010/09/spain-recognizes-non-existent.php ----- BE SURE TO LISTEN TO BARRY CHAMISH Live TUESDAYS at 3PM PT / 6PM ET ON: http://www.FirstAmendmentRadio.com ----- MOROCCAN KING CITES DEADLOCKED PEACEMAKING WON'T MEET ISRAEL'S PRESIDENT By AMY TEIBEL , Associated Press - October 18, 2010 JERUSALEM - An aide to Israel's president says the king of Morocco won't meet with the Israeli statesman because of the impasse in Mideast peace talks. The aide says King Mohammed VI cited the deadlocked talks in turning down President Shimon Peres' request to meet at an upcoming international conference in Marrakech. Peace talks have stalled over Israel's refusal to extend building curbs in the West Bank. The Palestinians say they won't negotiate if Israel doesn't relent, but have given the U.S. until early November to try to resolve the dispute. The aide, who wasn't authorized to discuss the issue with the media and spoke on condition of anonymity, said on Monday that if Peres can't meet with the king, he won't attend the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa. Continued: http://www.startribune.com/world/105129219.html ----- NETANYAHU'S TWO-STATE ILLUSION Joel Gilbert - September 30, 2010 - The Illusion at the White House Once upon a time at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thought he saw a two-state solution that would achieve peace in the Middle East. “President Abbas, you are my partner in peace,” declared Netanyahu in his opening remarks on September 1st. Netanyahu not only thought he saw peace with Palestinian Arabs, but recognition and acceptance of Israel by the entire Muslim world. Or was it only an illusion? Non-Representative Peace Partners While Netanyahu was the duly elected leader of his country, three strange characters who did not represent their people were standing next to him at the White House - Jordan’s King Abdullah, Egypt’s President Mubarak, and the former Palestinian Authority President, PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas. Continued: http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.7515/pub_detail.asp ----- THE ART OF JEWISH NATIONAL SUICIDE Writings of a rabbi. For decades, large numbers of (not just) American Jews and the vast majority of their leadership have been practicing the art of national suicide. Faced with the loss of an elementary understanding that ...vital issues should be judged on the basis of national self-interest - Jews have consistently vowed fealty to 'objectivity', regularly placed liberal or "humanitarian" concepts over Jewish ones and worked tirelessly to destroy themselves. Normal people realize that groups base decisions upon self-interest. Normal people realize that democracy is a conglomerate of pressures and self-interest groups with farmers, consumers, unions, Catholics, Blacks (African American) and all kinds of lobbyists constantly striving to ensure that their interests be served. Apparently, the Exile has so warped and terrified certain Jews that they strive to escape their Jewishness... thus gaining love and safety from anti-Semitism. It is insecurity, fear and drive to assimilate that lead certain Jews to back causes that are blatantly anti-Jewish. Thus, some Jews become Marxists in face of the fact that Marxism means the elimination of Jews both as a religion and nation. Certain Jews become "humanists" despite - or because of - the subsequent blurring of all division between Jew and non-Jew. Others retain their Jewishness, but insist upon being liberals before Jews and think a liberal world guarantees safety for the Jew. All these groups have been proven wrong a thousand times over and the fact remains that the Jew can never purchase his safety, security and peace at the expense of his own identity, or specifically separate existence. The one way to ensure their identity and the survival of the Jew as a separate entity is through Jewish self-interest. ...Liberal support for downtrodden people in no way necessarily ensures Jewish survival. Being a liberal is not always synonymous with Jewish interests (and the same holds true for being a conservative). It is vital for the Jew - if he wishes to survive - to understand a number of basic axioms: 1. Unless the Jew aids himself there is no one else who will come to his rescue in time of great and critical need. The fact is so historically true that it is inexplicable that it is not self-obvious. 2. Jews, in order to survive, must continually gird their resources and strength for Jewish causes and aims since no one else will. ...inward national pulls are far more powerful than international and supranational movements. It is little wonder that after 50 years of Soviet rule, Ukrainians and other groups retain and strengthen their own identity and the Great Russians retain their strangle hold on the Soviet Establishment. It is not surprising that 27 years of Tito can do nothing about the rise of Serbian-Croat rivalry, and the Communist Albania and Yugoslavia have an Albanian ethnic problem. ...The solution to survival and respect in this world is not to attempt to lose oneself... One who does not know from whence he came will never know where he is going. Some day we may build a better world but it will never come until each of us regains his own separate identity and self-respect. Only with that self-respect can we respect others and only when others respect us will they truly accept our hand in friendship. Source: http://www.shamrak.com/index.php ----- CBS: ‘NO EVIDENCE' OF KING DAVID IN JERUSALEM Stephen Flurry Columnist October 22, 2010 - From theTrumpet.com - 60 Minutes turns a blind eye to many recent discoveries - Whenever the Western media report on archaeology in Jerusalem, they generally refer to excavations as controversial and discoveries as inconclusive. Consider the 60 Minutes report that aired this past Sunday: 'Controversy in Jerusalem: The City of David.' It’s controversial for Jews to purchase homes, build parks or excavate in the ancient City of David, we learn from the report, because there is an Arab neighborhood there that might be included in a future Palestinian state. While visiting the City of David, cbs correspondent Lesley Stahl seemed bothered by the large number of Israeli soldiers who visit the park. "It’s part of their cultural day to try to learn about what they’re fighting for," explained Doron Spielman, the site’s international director of development. But Stahl doesn’t see it that way at all. She accused Israel of using the archaeology site as a political tool to indoctrinate its soldiers. There is an 'implicit message'in what tour guides tell the many thousands of visitors, Stahl explained: "that because David conquered the city for the Jews back then, Jerusalem belongs to the Jews today." Of course, there is nothing implied or sneaky about the way Jews explain their own history. David did conquer the city of Jerusalem 3,000 years ago. Jerusalem did serve as the capital of an internationally renowned kingdom during the reigns of David and his son Solomon. Even after the kingdom of Israel divided, Jerusalem remained as capital of the southern kingdom of Judah for more than three centuries. The Davidic dynasty in Jerusalem ended in 585 b.c., after the Babylonians, led by King Nebuchadnezzar, attacked the city and destroyed the temple Solomon had built. The people of Judah, the Bible relates, were carried away captive out of their own land (Jeremiah 52:27). http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=7567.6146.0.0 ----- SEPHARDI LEADER YOSEF: NON-JEWS EXIST TO SERVE JEWS Jerusalem, October 18, 2010 - Israeli Sephardic leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in his weekly Saturday night sermon said that non-Jews exist to serve Jews. "Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world; only to serve the People of Israel," he said during a public discussion of what kind of work non-Jews are allowed to perform on Shabbat. "Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat," he said to some laughter. Yosef, the spiritual leader of the Shas Party and the former chief Sephardi rabbi of Israel, also said that the lives of non-Jews are protected in order to prevent financial loss to Jews. "With gentiles, it will be like any person: They need to die, but God will give them longevity. Why? Imagine that one?s donkey would die, they'd lose their money. This is his servant. That?s why he gets a long life, to work well for this Jew," said the rabbi, who recently turned 90. Full story: jta.org http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/10/18/2741341/rabbi-yosef-non-jews-%20exist-to-serve-jewsOctober%2018,%202010 Comment: The people of Israel are certainly 'Jews,' but the Rabbi is a student of the Babylonian Talmud http://www.come-and-hear.com/tcontents.html which otherwise teaches precisely what he preached. Be sure to read about Brother Joe Cortina's http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/10/17/israel-my-experiences-there/ visit to Israel and Palestine in 1989. ----- THE ROAD TO WORLD WAR III. THE GLOBAL BANKING CARTEL HAS ONE CARD LEFT TO PLAY [Ednote: Mrs. Clinton is asking today, 10.22.2010, for $2b military support to Pakistan which is a sure road to WORL WAR III. Hitler was armed the same way to do WWII endofnote]. By David DeGraw - The Public Record - Sep 26th, 2010 - Editor’s Note: The following is Part I to David DeGraw’s new book, "The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War III." This is the second installment to a new seven-part series that we will be posting throughout the next few weeks. Read the introduction to the book here. When we analyze our current crisis, focusing on the past few years of economic activity blinds us to the history and context that are vital to understanding the root cause. What we have been experiencing is not the result of an unforeseen economic crash that appeared out of the blue with the collapse of the housing market. It was certainly not brought on by people who bought homes they couldn’t afford. To frame this crisis around a debate on economic theory misses the point entirely. To even blame it on greedy bankers, while essentially accurate, also misses the most vital point. This crisis is the direct result of a strategic economic attack on the existence of a middle class and democracy worldwide. The stock market and economy have become weapons of mass oppression manipulated by an imperial banking cartel to impose order and exploit the masses. This crisis boldly represents the manifest evolution of the fascist spirit reasserting itself as the dominant ideology. Any fairytale notions of the United States being a democratic republic built on the rule of law have been utterly dispelled. As a nation we have been bred and conditioned to be dangerously naïve to the darker forces which operate beyond the spotlight of the mainstream media. We have been blinded to what has been developing throughout the world. The economic imperialism that has now blown-back to the United States and Europe has been evolving for decades and can be directly traced back to the end of World War II, to the birth of the CIA, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Continued: http://pubrecord.org/special-to-the-public-record/8315/world-global-banking-cartel/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_ campaign=world-global-banking-cartel ----- THE PRESIDENT FINALLY SHOWS SOME BACKBONE - WILL ALL HELL BREAK LOOSE? [Ednote: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Pakistan's foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi speak during the US-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue Plenary Session at the State Department in Washington, on Oct. 22. Many analysts spoke at this Plenary Session about the Israel / PA peace process and all reports were negative as to coming to a final TWO STATE solution. Israel will not comply in giving up anything to PA. They agreed that Israel is part of the US which makes it so powerful. Former President Bush agreed to give Israel $3b annually for 10 years. I doubt that the transfer of funds can be changed. Texe may be right that all hell may break lose if it is true what President Obama's actions lately relate. Another interesting point came to me about the Israeli 50 year Jubilee. I came across a Youtube which pointed out that the Jubilee occurs in 2017. They believe that will be when Jesus returns at the end of the Tribulation. This adds more fuel to this issue. Another interesting point is the fact that Debka relates that an aircraft carrier holding 60 planes is on its way to the ME. endofnote] Larry Downing/Reuters - Barack Obama was from the start a creation and puppet of the Jews. Now, he is making war against his creators. He’s had enough and isn’t going to take it any longer. Sparks are flying in our nation’s capital. The Jews are angry and they intend to smash this runaway President and his 'smart-aleck' black wife, Michelle. The gloves are off and they're plotting some very, very sinister 'payback.' Might it all end with President Obama being assassinated by Israel’s ruthless Mossad? The Battle Lines Are Drawn - Benjamin Netanyahu, Barack Obama, and Mahmoud Abbas at the recent peace talks. Already, the battle lines are drawn. It started with Obama telling Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu that the Israelis must play fair with the oppressed Palestinians and come to peace terms in the Middle East. Obama next instructed General Petraeus to wrap things up in Afghanistan, that he, the President, intended to keep his campaign promise to the American people to be out of Afghanistan by the end of 2011. The Jews were furious. They want blood, war and territory, not peace. My sources tell me that Jew Rahm Emanuel, White House Chief of Staff, accompanied by Obama’s 2008 campaign chief and now top political advisor David Axelrod, stormed into the Oval Office. Rahm screamed and Axelrod threatened, but Obama held his ground and came back with a shocking proposal: "Rahm, David, I thank you for your past support; now it’s time for us to go our separate ways. I’ll give you til November 1st to pack your bags!" Taking on the Chicago "Dons" - The two one-time puppet handlers were flabbergasted. The next day, Obama got calls from Chicago's top Jewish 'Dons' 'the billionaire who had raised him up from obscurity and made Barack a star. The Crowns, Pritzkeny, Mikvahs, Solows began to put the screws on Obama. It didn’t work! Continued: http://www.texemarrs.com/102010/obama_tells_jews_no_more.htm ----- IS U.N. 'DECLARATION' A PALESTINIAN SOLUTION? Abbas may ask for unilateral creation of new state - October 23, 2010 - WorldNetDaily United Nations - BEIRUT, Lebanon – With Middle East "peace talks' stalled, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is considering asking the United Nations Security Council unilaterally to declare a state on Palestinian lands occupied by Israel since 1967, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. The approach has grown out of what Abbas regards as frustration with the immediate negotiations that began a month ago but already are bogged down over the issue of Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank. "Abbas has started to doubt that the path of negotiations will lead to a solution with Israel," according to Palestinian analyst Hani al-Masri. "I think he is almost convinced that the negotiations have failed." Continued: http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=218705 ----- MIDEAST CATHOLIC BISHOPS URGE UN TO END ISRAELI OCCUPATION October 24, 2010 - Catholic bishops in the Middle East urged the United Nations Saturday to end the Israeli occupation of Arab lands at the end of a meeting chaired by Pope Benedict XVI. In a final statement of their two-week synod, the bishops and patriarchs of the region’s Catholic churches said the citizens of the Middle East 'call upon the international community, particularly the United Nations, conscientiously to work to find a peaceful, just and definitive solution in the region, through the application of the Security Council’s resolutions and taking the necessary legal steps to put an end to the occupation of the different Arab territories. "The Palestinian people will thus have an independent and sovereign homeland where they can live with dignity and security. The State of Israel will be able to enjoy peace and security within their internationally recognized borders. "The Holy City of Jerusalem will be able to acquire its proper status, which respects its particular character, its holiness and the religious patrimony of the three religions: Jewish, Christian and Muslim. We hope that the two-State-solution might become a reality and not a dream only.' The statement referred to Security Council resolutions which called on Israel to quit territories seized during the 1967 Middle East War, including east Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The synod was marked by repeated affirmations that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is at the root of the tension affecting the whole Middle East. With its resolution, the bishops said, "Iraq will be able to put an end to the consequences of its deadly war and re-establish a secure way of life which will protect all its citizens with all their social structures, both religious and national. “Lebanon will be able to enjoy sovereignty over its entire territory, strengthen its national unity and carry on in its vocation to be the model of coexistence between Christians and Muslims, of dialogue between different cultures and religions, and of the promotion of basic public freedoms." The synod also said, "We condemn violence and terrorism from wherever it may proceed as well as all religious extremism. We condemn all forms of racism, anti-Semitism, anti-Christianism and Islamophobia and we call upon the religions to assume their responsibility to promote dialogue between cultures and civilizations in our region and in the entire world." Continued: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/10/24/mideast-catholic-bishops-urge-un-to-end-israeli-occupation/ ----- REPORT WARNS LEBANON TAKEOVER PLANNED Intel document suggests Iran seeks Hezbollah action to provoke Israel Posted: October 27, 2010 - WorldNetDaily - Editor's Note: BEIRUT, Lebanon – A new Middle East intelligence document warns that Hezbollah may be ready to take over Lebanon in a move that Iran supports because it could draw an attack by Israel, which then would be cited as an offensive provocation deserving a response by Tehran, according to a report in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. The report is from Global Information System, which provides unclassified global, intelligence and analysis for the U.S. government. In its report, "The Gathering Storm Around the Greater Eastern Mediterranean Region," GIS suggests that Iran actually wants its proxy, Hezbollah, to take over in Lebanon, thereby precipitating an Israeli strike that would be met with a response from Syria and Iran. Continued: http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=220577 ----- PEACE IS POSSIBLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, SAYS POPE by Aaron J Leichman, Christian Post Posted: Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 13:19 (BST) A special two-week assembly of Middle East bishops concluded on Sunday with a list of 44 propositions and a call by Pope Benedict XVI for individuals, groups and nations to work together for peace. "Conflicts, wars, violence and terrorism have gone on for too long in the Middle East," said the pontiff in his homily Sunday. "Peace, which is a gift of God, is also the result of the efforts of men of goodwill, of the national and international institutions, in particular of the states most involved in the search for a solution to conflicts. "We must never resign ourselves to the absence of peace," Benedict added. For two weeks, 172 bishops gathered in Vatican City for the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Churches of the Middle East.The bishops were joined by 14 Roman Curia officials, 30 academic experts, and 14 non-Catholic Christians, including Rabbi David Rosen of the American Jewish Committee and the Rt. Rev. Munib Younan, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land. Together, the delegates discussed the future of Christian communities in the Middle East and agreed upon 44 propositions, including the creation of an office or commission entrusted with the study of migration and of the factors behind it so as to find ways of stopping it; greater use of the Arabic language in major Catholic institutions and meetings so that Christians of Arab culture have access to information in their mother tongue; and the renewal of ecumenical commitment between churches through practical initiatives. Continued: http://www.christiantoday.com/article/peace.is.possible.in.the.middle.east.says.pope/26966.htm ----- HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS ASK EU COMMISSION TO PROBE VATICAN BANK OVER NAZI LOOT By Jeffrey Donovan and Lorenzo Totaro - Oct 26, 2010 - Holocaust survivors from the former Yugoslavia accused the Vatican of helping Nazi allies launder their stolen valuables and have asked the European Commission to investigate their claims. "We are requesting the commission open an inquiry into allegations of money laundering of Holocaust victim assets by financial organs associated with or which are agencies of the Vatican City State," Jonathan Levy, a Washington-based attorney for the survivors and their heirs, wrote in a letter dated Oct. 20 to Olli Rehn, the European Union’s economic and monetary affairs commissioner. Levy provided the letter to Bloomberg. The request follows a decade-long lawsuit in U.S. courts on behalf of Holocaust survivors and their heirs from the former Yugoslavia and Ukraine. That case, basing its claims on a U.S. State Department report on the fate of Nazi plunder, alleged that the Vatican Bank laundered assets stolen from thousands of Jews, gypsies and Serbs killed or captured by the Ustasha, the Nazi-backed regime of wartime Croatia. The Vatican repeatedly denied the charges and the findings of the 1998 U.S. report. Amadeu Altafaj, Rehn’s spokesman, said today in Brussels that he didn’t know if the commission had received Levy’s letter. Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi declined to comment on Levy’s request to the commission. Vatican Immunity Continued: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-26/holocaust-survivors- ask-eu-commission-to-probe-vatican-bank-over-nazi-loot.html ----- INTENDED MAP OF 'GREATER ISRAEL' On Back Of Shekel - From Karl Schwarz - 10-21-10 - I was recently shown something by a person who was on the West Bank and tried for 8 months to get assistance to Gaza and those on the West Bank, too. I have never seen any denomination of Israeli shekel until I was shown a coin they had left over from their stay in Racist Zionist Israel. Note the back of the coin where they proudly display their intended map of Greater Israel. That is the Herzl / Zionist map of everything from the Nile River to the Tigris Euphrates. Palestine / Israel is a small sliver on the left side of their Greater Israel. As most thinking people know and those who have a clear understanding of the Bible and theology, there is no historical basis whatsoever for the claim that they are entitled to everything between those two rivers. There is no Palestinian coinage or paper money; they have to use the shekel in Not-so-great Israel and get their nose shoved in a pile of crap daily. Continued: http://www.rense.com/general92/shek.htm ----- WATCH BILL SALUS REVELATION TV THREE PARTS RECORDED IN THE UK JULY 2010 1. Israel, God's Miracle or UN Moral Obligation 2. The Israeli War Prophecies 3. Is the Mideast Going Apocalyptic http://www.veoh.com/search/videos/ ----- ABBAS DISPLAYS MAP OF "PALESTINE" THAT ERASES ISRAEL By Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik - "President Abbas holds up a stone model of the map of Palestine." [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 26, 2010]During a visit to Bethlehem this week, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas held up a stone model of a map of "Palestine" that erases Israel. [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 26, 2010] US President Obama has condemned the existence of maps like the one Abbas displayed as a "security" threat to Israel: "I will never compromise when it comes to Israel's security... Not when there are terrorist groups and political leaders committed to Israel's destruction. Not when there are maps across the Middle East that don't even acknowledge Israel's existence." [Obama at AIPAC Conference, June 4, 2008] [PA TV (Fatah), April 27, 2009]As Palestinian Media Watch reported, last year Abbas held up a similar political map that presented a world without Israel. It included the PA flag above the entire land of Israel, and was titled "Palestine." It named all the neighboring states in English - "Lebanon, Syria, Jordan Egypt" - but failed to mention Israel. On Abbas's maps there is no Israel. Abbas openly ignores US President Obama's criticism of the use of such maps, letting the political and educational structures under his control continue to use maps that present a world without Israel. It is the only map used by the PA to represent "Palestine," and at times even the "State of Palestine." See PMW's website for more examples of how "Palestine" erases Israel in the PA. Continued: http://newsblaze.com/story/20101029074816zzzz.nb/topstory.html ----- SNUB TO THE US AND NON-EXISTENCE TO ISRAEL! By Steven Shamrak - Why must Israel negotiate with terrorists who want to destroy the Jewish state? The US didn't and any other self-respecting country wouldn't. During a visit to Bethlehem this week, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas held up a stone model of the map of "Palestine" (including a part of Gaza in Sinai) that erases Israel. US President Obama has condemned the existence of maps like the one Abbas displayed as a "security" threat to Israel: "I will never compromise when it comes to Israel's security... Not when there are terrorist groups and political leaders committed to Israel's destruction. Not when there are maps across the Middle East that don't even acknowledge Israel's existence." Last year Abbas held up a similar political map that presented a world without Israel. It included the PA flag above the entire land of Israel, and was titled "Palestine." It named all the neighbouring states in English - "Lebanon, Syria, Jordan Egypt" - but failed to mention Israel. Abbas openly ignores US President Obama's criticism of the use of such maps... (Arabs and so-called Palestinians regularly snub the US. They are not rebuked, criticised or pressured by the US administration, only Israel!) http://www.shamrak.com/index.php ----- WHY ARAB "ACTIVISTS", BUT "RIGHT-WING ISRAELIS? By Steven Shamrak - Scores of Jordanian "activists" demonstrated near the Israeli embassy in the capital Amman to mark the 16th anniversary of the peace treaty between Jordan and Israel. Participants - mainly trade unionists and Islamists - chanted slogans and raised placards urging the government to cancel the October 26, 1994, peace pact with Israel. http://www.shamrak.com/index.php