INTERNATIONAL PULSE Period: June 2011 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 ----- A SHIP FLYING US COLORS AND INSPIRED BY PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S BOOK "AUDACITY OF HOPE" WILL BE JOINING THIS YEAR'S FREEDOM FLOTILLA 2 by Gavriel Queenann June 2, 2011 - Israel news A ship flying US colors and carrying 34 passengers is set to joint this year's Gaza-bound, IHH-sponsored “Freedom Flotilla 2” in June, the New York Times reported. So-called “peace activists” on the first IHH flotilla in May 2010 ambushed Israeli naval commandos who boarded the ship in accordance with international law, attempted to take them captive, and seriously injuring several. The commandos were forced to kill nine aggressors in order to rescue their imperiled comrades. This year's American vessel, named The Audacity of Hope after US President Barack Obama’s best-selling book, is being organized by an American group called “US Boat to Gaza.” Obama links to the Audacity do not end there, however. Prof. Rashid Khalidi, director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and a friend from Obama’s time in Chicago, is among the supporters of an appeal launched by the group last week. Continued: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144733 ----- APARTHEID IN ISRAEL Nowhere else in the world is there anything of this kind. When the White South African government drew up "Apartheid" plans in the 1970s, a pattern existed already in the Israeli occupied territories -- and those "Bantustans" are now gone. Beyond the maps, the Israelis enforce a regime of colored and computerized passes that restrict where Palestinians can go, different color license plates for Jews and Arabs have a similar result, "by-pass" roads for "Jews only", land confiscations, home destructions, settlements, all on top of a deceptive and complicated systems of apartheid-type laws that create systematic separation while promoting Jewish interests and severely repressing and dispossessing Palestinians. The changes agreed to recently in the "Wye Memorandum" do not alter these overall conditions and are hedged with so many Israeli restrictions that the situation for Palestinians is likely to worsen. The majority of Palestinians are essentially imprisoned in a large Gaza Ghetto from which they are unable to leave and which is now surrounded by a barbed wire, electrified fence. Most others are now bottled up in one of the "autonomous" population centers, all of which are surrounded by Israeli check-points and roadblocks. Millions more Palestinians continue to live in dozens of refugee camps in neighboring countries or in diaspora. And even if the territorial aspects of "Wye" were fully implimented, Palestinians would still have "autonomous" control of less than 20% of the 1967 occupied territories (less than 7% of 1947 Palestine), and all the "autonomous" areas would remain totally surrounded by the Israeli army giving them the actual status of Bantustans or Reservations, and certainly not sovereignty. Since 1967, the Israelis have continually expanded Jerusalem, claiming it is not part of the West Bank, and thus not including it in the inflated percentages that are used to make it seem the Palestinians are "getting back" more than than is actually true. Even this map doesn't reveal the full extent of how Israelis have recently expanded Jerusalem nearby settlements, and still further to encompass the city of Ma'ale Adunim, the green some area on the extreme right. All of the above says nothing of the apartheid that exists in Israel between the self-styled Jews and Semitic Israelites descended from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. These activities plus the stealing of Palestine from its traditional Israelite and Palestinian owners by non-Semitic, anti-Semitic, Gentile self-styled "Jews", like the Zionist Irgun and Stern gangs who terrorised and massacred them in the campaign to establish the Israeli state, would be regarded as "hate crimes" by the Anti-Defamamation League of the B'nai B'rith and other arms of the "Jew's" mishpucka (allegedly linked to drugs, laundering of money, political bribery, murder, assassinations of political figures such the late John F. Kennedy, Olaf Palme and Herrhausen), at any other time - or in any other place. The most compelling evidence that can be drawn from all the evidence of history is that the City of London, - which created "Israel" - , never meant "Israel" to be a "homeland for the Jews". Like Yugoslavia, and Chechynya, Israel is a barricade across the potential development land corridor linking Asia, Europe and Africa. Like Amsterdam, Venice, Rome, Athens, and Babylon before it, London still holds the strings of the "geopolitical power game". The question arises whether the "coming crash" will replicate the destruction wreaked by the Mongols in the Thirteenth Century directed from Venice, or that caused by the French Revolution which was directed from Venice on the Thames? God accomplishes His purposes not by the might or power of man, and "all things work together for good to those who love God; who are 'the called', according to His purpose". And 144,000 genuine blood Israelites will be called from among the tiny number who are true descendants of the Patriarchs living with the mixed multitude in Israel today through the Message of two Hebrew prophets during Daniel's Seventieth Week. maps1.htm Send email to: INFORMER@MiddleEast.Org. Source: http://www.MiddleEast.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqM2EXFdOnM&feature=player_embedded ----- FIRST TIME: TEMPLE MOUNT PRIESTLY BLESSING ON JERUSALEM DAY by Hillel Fendel - Published: 06/02/11, 3:02 PM Israel National News - Hundreds of religious Jews from all streams were able to happily commemorate the 44th anniversary of the first-ever entry of Israeli soldiers onto the TempleMount. For the first time in the history of Israeli restrictions on Jewish entry to the Temple Mount, the recitation of the Priestly Blessing was permitted there. It happened on Wednesday, Jerusalem Reunification Day, when hundreds of visitors – all of whom immersed in a mikveh (ritual bath) prior to coming and took other precautions required by Jewish Law – were allowed to enter the Temple Mount in groups of 30-40. Among them were several Cohanim (descendants of Aharon the Priest). They spread their hands in the customary manner and recited, “May G-d bless and watch over your… May G-d shine His countenance upon and show you grace… May G-d raise His countenance towards you and grant you peace” (Numbers 6, from the portion to be read aloud this week in synagogues throughout the Jewish world). Continued: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144701 ----- GOING BACK TO THE BIBLE Op-ed: With many of our PR tactics failing, let’s use Bible to reinforce our right for this land Avi Rath Published: 06.02.11, 11:20 / Israel Opinion - While facing the nations of the world, the State of Israel’s public relations officials tried everything, ranging from the security argument, through the narrow borders and all the way to the strategic threat. Yet it’s not working and remains unconvincing. When we adopt this kind of PR, the world tries to come up with solutions to the security problem: Utilizing satellites, cameras, electronic fences, multinational forces, demilitarized zones and all sorts of other creative notions. We tried PR strategies premised on various arguments. We made use of the Holocaust, the expulsion from Spain, the Crusades and anti-Semitism. We enlisted all the blood libels to the cause in an effort to prove our righteousness, yet it hasn’t worked either. In fact, we have seen the opposite effect. Suddenly we discover that not only Turkey boycotts us, but also Scotland, not to mention the British academic boycott and all sorts of other such moves. Continued: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4077344,00.html ----- ISRAEL ON HIGH ALERT FOR BORDER UNREST DANIELLA CHESLOW, Associated Press Updated 10:58 p.m., Saturday, June 4, 2011 Seattle Pi News Israeli left-wing activists carry banners as they march during a protest in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, June 4, 2011. Thousands took part in a march in central Tel Aviv on Saturday evening supporting the establishment of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders. (AP Photo - Dan Balilty) DANIELLA CHESLOW - From Associated Press - June 05, 2011 1:44 AM EDT - MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights (AP) Thousands of Israeli security forces mobilized for possible border unrest Sunday as Palestinians marked the anniversary of the Arab defeat in the 1967 Mideast war and Israel's occupation of Arab land. Borders with Syria, Lebanon, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank were quiet in the early morning, and over the weekend, Palestinians in Syria and Lebanon canceled plans to march to their frontiers with Israel. But Israel wasn't taking any chances after thousands of Arab protesters surged to Israel's borders with Syria, Lebanon, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank last month on another key anniversary, Israel's 1948 creation. Hundreds breached a porous border fence at the time and entered a border village in the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in 1967. Fifteen people died in border clashes with Israeli and possibly Lebanese security forces. Since that May 15 confrontation, Israel has fortified its northern frontier with trenches and landmines. The military wouldn't release troop deployment details Sunday. Soldiers stationed along the border fence said the northern Golan had been declared a closed military zone. Continued: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Israel-on-high-alert-for-possible-border-unrest-1409490.php ----- CONGRESS CONSIDERS LIMITING UN AID IF STATEHOOD GRANTED By HILARY LEILA KRIEGER - Jun 17, 2011 15 Sivan, 5771 - JPOST CORRESPONDENT - 06/07/2011 If int'l body recognizes a Palestinian state in September, the US should cancel funding of the UNGA, resolution by top congressman proposes. WASHINGTON – A top congressman has drafted a resolution that calls on the US to withhold contributions to the UN if the international body recognizes a Palestinian state. The measure declares that the US secretary of state should cancel American funding for the UN General Assembly if the GA “adopts a resolution in favor of recognizing a state of Palestine outside of or prior to a final status agreement negotiated between, and acceptable to, the State of Israel and the Palestinians. Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Middle East subcommittee, introduced the nonbinding measure on Friday and so far has no co-sponsors. But other members are discussing whether Congress should use its control of the government’s purse strings to take a more concrete stand against any UN recognition of Palestinian statehood. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Florida), chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has publicly voiced support for leveraging UN funds to further US policy interests, including preventing a unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood. Continued: http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=223986 ----- THE SHOFAR-BLOWER IS ARRIVING David Wilder - June 14, 2011 - See photos and video at:http://www.hebron.com/english/gallery.php?id=415 [Ednote: Many expect the Rapture to happen at Rosh HaShana because God held true to the Old Testament with events that involved Jesus on certain Feasts. I was told that believers would hear a Shofar in their spirit, a sound that was used at weddings to identify that the Rapture is at hand. Joshua 6:5 "And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him." Psalms 47:5 "God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet." 1 Thessalonians 4:16,17 "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord."] "... Eyal's wife of about 20 years, Einat, told of Eyal's passing. "Eliyahu (Elijah) the prophet, was Eyal's favorite prophet. He read about him over and over. On Thursday, after I read to him the verses describing how Elihayu left this world, he said to me, "I'm not on the level of Eliyahu, but that's the way I feel." On Shabbat afternoon he told me, "we are not separated. We will always be together, I'm just moving up one floor." Later, after Shabbat, he tried to tell me something, but couldn't talk. He motioned with his arm, and I realized he wanted someone to study Torah with him, to pray with him. I called one of his friends, and when he came over and started recited Torah and prayers, Eyal's eyes opened and he radiated with joy. Later, we were all there in the room. I called a righteous doctor, who could discern the exact moment of the soul's departure from the body. He sat opposite Eyal, staring at his eyes. Eyal's face and eyes emanated rapture, seeing the angels awaiting him, above him. He had said that he did not fear death, that he was totally at peace with his situation, and so it was. Suddenly the doctor yelled, "Shema Yisrael" and then all those present did so, and you could actually see his neshama, his soul, leave his body. We weren't crying, it was a moment of Divine exaltation." Last Rosh HaShana eve, following services, I went over to Eyal's house to wish him a happy New Year. His kids told me that he wasn't home, that he'd gone to Ma'arat HaMachpela to pray. I told them that if he wanted, there would be prayer services at Beit Hadassah the next morning. But they said that he'd worship again at Machpela. The next morning, despite his illness and weakness, he was there. But he didn't only pray. He also trumpeted the Shofar, the ram's horn, blown every Rosh HaShana. The shofar isn't blown once. Rather, one hundred times. The laws concerning this special mitzvah are detailed and intricate. Many times, if the sound produced is not exactly right, it must be repeated. Eyal stood and blew the shofar, on the first day, one hundred times. And he blew the Shofar again, on the second day of Rosh HaShana, one hundred times. And he did not make one mistake, on either day. Not one time did he have to repeat himself. And the sound that he produced from that ram's horn, I've never heard anything like it in my life. So it was, Eyal, sick with cancer, less than a year ago. Not yet forty-one, nine children, and one grandchild, born less than a month ago. I have no doubt whatsoever, that as Eyal's neshama, as his soul left his body, in the heaven's above, hundreds and thousands of ram's horns began trumpeting, with a voice heard, above them all, "the Shofar-blower from Hebron, the Shofar-blower from Ma'arat HaMachpela is arriving. The Shofar-blower is arriving. Let us all go greet the shofar-blower from Hebron." Next Rosh HaShana will not be the same. Eyal will be sorely missed, for many many years to come. ----- ISRAEL BEGINS REMOVING PART OF WEST BANK BARRIIER ARON HELLER, Associated Press THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STATEMENT OF NEWS VALUES AND PRINCIPLES Jun. 26, 2011 1:10 PM ET A Palestinian worker cuts barbed wire as he removes an old part of a section of Israel's separation barrier between the outskirts of the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah, and the Jewish settlement of Modiin Illit, Sunday, June 26, 2011. Israel on Sunday began tearing down a section of its contentious West Bank separation barrier near a village that has come to symbolize Palestinian opposition to the enclosure, the military said. The rerouting marks a major victory for the residents of Bilin and the international groups that have backed its struggle. NAALIN CROSSING, West Bank (AP) — Israel on Sunday began tearing down a section of its contentious West Bank separation barrier near a village that has come to symbolize Palestinian opposition to the enclosure, the military said. The rerouting marked a major victory for the residents of Bilin and the international groups that have backed their struggle. But they said it fell short of their demands to remove the structure from the village altogether and vowed to continue with their weekly protests. The dismantling of the section near the village of Bilin comes four years after Israel's Supreme Court ordered it torn down, rejecting the military's argument that the route was necessary to secure the nearby Modiin Illit settlement. Planning and legal wrangling held up its removal until now. Col. Saar Tzur, the regional brigade commander, said the military has begun taking apart a 2-mile (3.2- kilometer) stretch of the barrier and has replaced it with a 1.6 mile-long (2.7 kilometer) wall adjacent to the settlement. He said the new route would give the military less response time in case of a potential infiltration. Continued: http://hosted2.ap.org/txdam/633c954da7d9434f9de7ed15f38075aa/Article_2011-06-26-ML-Israel-Palestinians/id-53d48 a3644c9461080b4588f9cf7d6a7 ----- CHAOS FEARED AS SYRIA CRISIS NEARS BLOODY IMPASSE Jun. 25, 2011 12:47 PM ET http://hosted2.ap.org/txdam/633c954da7d9434f9de7ed15f38075aa/Article_2011-06-25-ML-Syria%27s-Bloody-Spring/id- a4d079619f4342f1b5b59962f54cf587 ----- SYRIANS FLEE TO LEBANON, DEATH TOLL RISES TO 20 Jun. 25, 2011 4:38 AM ET http://hosted2.ap.org/txdam/633c954da7d9434f9de7ed15f38075aa/Article_2011-06-25-ML-Syria/id-22d69fe49b9 a45c88400053bbd98f5db ----- IRAN CAN PRODUCE NUKE WITHIN 2 MONTHS Airstrikes can no longer stop nuclear program, US can do nothing short of military occupation, says report Yitzhak Benhorin Published: 06.06.11, 09:04 / Israel News The Iranian regime is closer than ever before to creating a nuclear bomb, according to RAND Corporation researcher Gregory S. Jones. At its current rate of uranium enrichment, Tehran could have enough for its first bomb within eight weeks, Jones said in a report published this week. He added that despite reports of setbacks in its nuclear program, the Iranian regime is steadily progressing towards a bomb. Unfortunately, Jones says, there is nothing the US can do to stop Tehran, short of military occupation. Continue: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4078778,00.html. ----- GREECE ARRESTS CAPTAIN OF US GAZA-BOUND BOAT AT AL JAZEERA 02 Jul 2011 16:16 - Officers detain captain of US ship bound for Gaza over ship's "seaworthiness" and for jeopardising passengers' safety. The captain of a US ship bound for Gaza has been arrested by Greek authorities for a felony after being brought before a prosecutor, activists have told Al Jazeera. The boat, which is part of a Freedom Flotilla aiming to break Israel's blockage of the Palestinian territory, set sail on Friday from the Greek port of Perama was towed back to shore by the Greek coast guard. Jane Hirschmann, a member of "Jews Say No!" and national organiser for the boat, dubbed The Audacity of Hope, said the captain was being held in police custody and is due to appear in court on Tuesday. Click here for more of Al Jazeera's special coverage Greece's coast guard said on Saturday that the captain of the "Audacity of Hope" faces charges of trying to leave port without permission and of endangering the lives of the boat's passengers. Adam Shapiro, an International Flotilla committee organiser, speaking from Athens, told Al Jazeera: "The captain has been charged with a felony. Initially it [the charge] was a misdemeanour, but it has been upgraded to a felony." The US boat is one of nine vessels carrying several hundred activists attempting to deliver aid to Gaza. activists attempting to deliver aid to Gaza. "The ship itself is currently in a naval compound, where it is being detained," Shapiro said. "This is totally a political manoeuvre, nothing illegal about his mission. This has been orchestrated by the Israeli government and probably the US government," Hirschmann said. "We are being tied up in all types of administrative deals." Some of the passengers on the US ship have remained on board in solidarity with the jailed captain, Shapiro said. On June 24, an anonymous complaint was filed against the ship's "seaworthiness". The Israel Law Centre (Shurat HaDin), took responsibility for the complaint in the Israeli media. 'Conspiracy theories' Continued: http://www.newworldorderreport.com/News/tabid/266/ID/8167/Greece-arrests-captain- of-US-Gaza-bound-boat.aspx ----- FRENCH FLOTILLA SHIP IS GRANTED PERMISSION TO SAIL FROM CRETE TO RHODES BUT ACTIVISTS SAY 'FINAL DESTINATION' IS POALESTINIAN TERRIROTY Uploaded by AlJazeeraEnglish on Jul 9, 2011 - An aid ship headed for Gaza has left the Greek island of Crete. The Dignité has 10 activists on board and is part of the 10-boat Freedom Flotilla that has tried to leave Greek waters for Gaza over the past week. Coast Guards say the Dignite's papers are all in order and the destination is the island of Rhodes. But the activists on board have different ideas. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhszKxgAFME&feature=player_embedded ----- FREEDOM FLOTILLA LIVE BLOG We bring you the latest news from various sources on the Freedom Flotilla's mission to deliver aid to the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip. Al Jazeera is not responsible for content derived from external sites. 1 day 15 hours ago - Freedom FlotillaIsrael deported two pro-Palestinian activists overnight, but another 118 were still in custody after flying into Israel as part of a pro-Palestinian protest, an Israeli official said on Sunday. Sabine Hadad, immigration service spokesperson, told AFP: A couple of Belgians were returned overnight, and 118 pro-Palestinian activists are still being held in our prisons. We hope it will be possible to return t hem to their home countries in the next 48 hours. It will depend on what spaces are available on departing flights. http://blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/Freedom-Flotilla ----- -------OurNetwork------- Cephas Ministries Subscribe to Free Newsletters Bible Online KJV mp3s downloadable News Index Cephas Library DVDs/Audios Cephas Live Media Cephas Central My Blogs Subscribe Adelink (all subjects) A2Z Book Depot Upcoming Events LDS Apologetics JW Apologetics Catholic Apologetics Freemasonry Leaven Scripture Studies Save Our Children Cephas Newsletter Link Community Israel Adelink [Add-a-link all subjects] Rock To Salt Ministry Rapture Watch Ezekiel 38 Apostasy Nicholas Scrolls The Book Peace in Jerusalem To Dare The Future Dare The Future Savvy Info Net [about jobs] Our GoodWill Store Come to the Mall