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ISRAEL    Visit 'Peace In Jerusalem' for more comprehensive ongoing reports by Retired Pastor/Teacher James McCutchan - Jmccutchan@aol.com ----- NETANYAHU AT HIS BEST Even those who aren't particularly sympathetic to Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu, could get a good measure of satisfaction from this interview with British Television during the retaliation against Hamas' shelling of Israel. The interviewer asked him: "How come so many more Palestinians have been killed in this conflict than Israelis?" (A nasty question if there ever was one!) Netanyahu: "Are you sure that you want to start asking in that direction?" Interviewer: (Falling into the trap) Why not? Netanyahu: "Because in World War II more Germans were killed than British and Americans combined, but there is no doubt in anyone's mind that the war was caused by Germany's aggression. And in response to the German blitz on London, the British wiped out the entire city of Dresden, burning to death more German civilians than the number of people killed in Hiroshima. Moreover, I could remind you that in 1944, when the R.A.F. tried to bomb the Gestapo Headquarters in Copenhagen, some of the bombs missed their target and fell on a Danish children's hospital, killing 83 little children. Perhaps you have another question?" Apparently, Benjamin Netanyahu gave another interview and was asked about Israel's occupation of Arab lands. His response was, "It's our land". The reporter (CNN or the like) was stunned - read below "It's our land..." It's important information since we don't get fair and accurate reporting from the media and facts tend to get lost in the jumble of daily events. "Crash Course on the Arab-Israeli Conflict." Here are overlooked facts in the current & past Middle East situation. These were compiled by a Christian university professor: BRIEF FACTS ON THE ISRAELI CONFLICT TODAY... (It takes just 1.5 minutes to read!) It makes sense and it's not slanted. Jew and non-Jew -- it doesn't matter. 1. Nationhood and Jerusalem: Israel became a nation in 1312 BC, two thousand (2000) years before the rise of Islam. 2. Arab refugees in Israel began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967, two decades after the establishment of the modern State of Israel. 3. Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 BC, the Jews have had dominion over the land for one thousand (1000) years with a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,300 years. 4. The only Arab dominion since the conquest in 635 lasted no more than 22 years. 5. For over 3,300 years, Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital. Jerusalem has never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Even when the Jordanians occupied Jerusalem, they never sought to make it their capital, and Arab leaders did not come to visit. 6. Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in Tanach, the Jewish Holy Scriptures. Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Koran. 7. King David founded the city of Jerusalem. Mohammed never came to Jerusalem. 8. Jews pray facing Jerusalem. Muslims pray with their backs toward Jerusalem. 9. Arab and Jewish Refugees: in 1948 the Arab refugees were encouraged to leave Israel by Arab leaders promising to purge the land of Jews. Sixty-eight percent left (many in fear of retaliation by their own brethren, the Arabs), without ever seeing an Israeli soldier. The ones who stayed were afforded the same peace, civility, and citizenship rights as everyone else. 10. The Jewish refugees were forced to flee from Arab lands due to Arab brutality, persecution and pogroms. 11. The number of Arab refugees who left Israel in 1948 is estimated to be around 630,000. The number of Jewish refugees from Arab lands is estimated to be about 800,000. 12. Arab refugees were INTENTIONALLY not absorbed or integrated into the Arab lands to which they fled, despite the vast Arab territory.. Out of the 100,000,000 refugees since World War II, theirs is the only refugee group in the world that has never been absorbed or integrated into their own people's lands. Jewish refugees were completely absorbed into Israel, a country no larger than the state of New Jersey. 13. The Arab-Israeli Conflict: the Arabs are represented by twenty two separate nations, not including the Palestinians (which is not a nation but a conglomeration of people from separate nations). There is only one Jewish nation. The Arab nations initiated all five wars and lost. Israel defended itself each time and won. 14. The PLO's Charter still calls for the destruction of the State of Israel. Israel has given the Palestinians most of the West Bank land, autonomy under the Palestinian Authority, and has supplied them. 15. Under Jordanian rule, Jewish holy sites were desecrated and the Jews were denied access to places of worship. Under Israeli rule, all Muslim and Christian sites have been preserved and made accessible to people of all faiths. 16. The UN Record on Israel and the Arabs: of the 175 Security Council resolutions passed before 1990, 97 were directed against Israel. 17. Of the 690 General Assembly resolutions voted on before 1990, 429 were directed against Israel. 18. The UN was silent while 58 Jerusalem synagogues were destroyed by the Jordanians. 19. The UN was silent while the Jordanians systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives. 20. The UN was silent while the Jordanians enforced an apartheid-like a policy of preventing Jews from visiting the Temple Mount and the Western Wall. These are incredible times. We have to ask what our role should be. What will we tell our grandchildren about what we did when there was a turning point in Jewish destiny, an opportunity to make a difference? START NOW - Send this to 18 other people you know and ask them to send it to eighteen others, Jew and non-Jew - it doesn't really matter. The Golden Report - http://www.thegoldenreport.com/ ----- DID OBAMA CALL ON ISRAEL TO VACATE TEMPLE MOUNT? Israeli politicians accuse president of 'misrepresenting history' in U.N. speech Posted: September 24, 2009 - By Aaron Klein - WorldNetDaily - President Obama addressing the U.N. General Assembly yesterday - JERUSALEM – Did President Obama yesterday adopt U.N. and Palestinian phraseology while calling on Israel to give up the biblical West Bank and eastern sections of Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount? Some members of the Israeli government here reacted angrily to Obama's strongly worded demand – expressed during his speech to the U.N. General Assembly – for the creation of a "viable, independent Palestinian state with contiguous territory that ends the occupation that began in 1967." The term "occupation" routinely is used by the Palestinians as well as some countries hostile to the Jewish state in reference to Israel's presence in the West Bank and Jerusalem. It is unusual for U.S. presidents to use the term, although Jimmy Carter once famously called Israel's presence in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem "illegal." "Occupation that began in 1967" is a specific reference to the lands Israel retained after the Six Day War of that year, particularly the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount. The Palestinians never maintained any official capacity in either territory, lands in which Jews have been present for thousands of years. The territories came under Jordanian rule from 1948 until Israel captured them in 1967 after Jordan's King Hussein ignored Israeli pleas for his country to stay out of the Six Day War. Most countries rejected Jordan's initial claim on the area, which it formally renounced in 1988. Story continued: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=110896 ----- UN'S HUMAN RIGHTS AGENDA IS HIJACKED by Vic Alhadeff, NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, Australia - ISRAELI foreign minister Abba Eban once jested that if a resolution was tabled at the UN that the world is flat - and that Israel flattened it - it would pass by a majority of 170-5 with 17 abstentions. ...The UN is mandated with the moral authority to adjudicate on matters of international concern, yet an alarming number of its agencies are headed by countries whose human rights records range from questionable to appalling, including Libya, Zimbabwe, Algeria, Sudan, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Burma. The Human Rights Council has studiously avoided condemning the brutalities in Darfur, war in Congo , Chechnya and Sri Lanka, but has directed 26 out of 32 resolutions condemning human rights violations against Israel. ...The Goldstone report in its 575 pages blithely ignored Hamas's ideology - which declares that Israel will exist only until Islam obliterates it. Nor did its executive summary breathe a word about the 10,000 rockets Hamas fired into Israel in eight years. And even though Hamas MP Fathi Hamad admitted Hamas "created a human shield of women, children, the elderly", Goldstone did "not consider it to constitute evidence". There have been more than 400 anti-Israel resolutions in the General Assembly - more than against all other UN nations combined - and six emergency sessions on Israel... Rocket Factory in the West Bank. A weapons lab containing explosives and pipes that were apparently meant to be used to assemble rockets was discovered in Abu Dis, near Jerusalem. The Shin Bet revealed in a report last year that Hamas terror operatives in the West Bank had increased efforts to obtain a rocket capability and to develop Kassam rockets that could be fired into central Israeli cities. Food for Thought. by Steven Shamrak Similar Conflict Different International Response: Tamils waged a terror war against Sri Lanka illegitimately demanding, because they are non-indigenous migrants from India, independence from Sri Lanka. At the moment, some 300,000 Tamils are detained in concentration camps after the crude and bloody defeat of the Tamil Tigers by the Sri Lankan government. There are neither 'Goldstone reports' nor Human Rights outcries. Where are the International condemnations and UN hearings of real atrocities committed by the Sri Lankan government? The difference is: Sri Lanka is a Buddhist country, Israel is the Jewish one! Goldstone Backing Away from Report. In an interview with the Jewish Daily Forward, Goldstone denied that his group had conducted "an investigation." Instead, it was what he called a "fact-finding mission" based largely on the limited "material we had." Since this "material" was cherry-picked by Hamas guides and spokesmen, Goldstone acknowledged that "if this was a court of law, there would have been nothing proven." (D o you remember another infamous anti-Israel campaign - the Jenin 'massacre', instigated by the UN? There was heavy 'smoke', but the UN stopped short of initiating an investigation, to avoid embarrassment, because there was no 'fire' !) What Palestinians, What Unity? Not long ago Abbas's Fatah party finally signed Egypt 's plan for separate signings of a reconciliation deal with Hamas after the Islamist group balked at attending a unity ceremony. Hamas said it still had not decided whether to agree to the proposal put forward by Egyptian mediators, which was rejected and postponed many times by both sides. A powerful Palestinian Dughmoush clan has become split between pro-Al Qaida and pro-Hamas elements. Factions are being formed, and the clan no longer works as a unit. (How many Israel-hating terrorist splinter groups must Jews negotiate with?) Rabbis Boycott Pope's Visit. Italian rabbis have decided to boycott the upcoming visit by Pope Benedict XVI to Romes main synagogue on January 17th. The decision was made in protest of the revival of a prayer which calls for the conversion of Jews by the Church. (Finally, some rabbis have shown guts and self-respect! Reconciliation requires mutual respect and genuine confession of the sins of the past! Isn't this the main ritual of the Catholic Church?) Abbas Declaration of NO Peace. "There will be no Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty until the occupation of Jerusalem ends. We are determined to safeguard the Aksa Mosque and Jerusalem," Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said in a speech in Ramallah last week. (There will be no peace until Arabs occupation of Jewish land ends!) IDF is Fighting Jewish Patriots. IDF Central District Commander Maj.-Gen. Gadi Shamni issued orders banning two prominent Land of Israel activists from returning to their homes, or anywhere in the Shomron (Samaria), for the next six months. MK Dr. Michael Ben-Ari (National Union) has condemned the issuing of administrative orders against Land of Israel activists without trial. "I find it strange that we only hear about such orders coming out against nationalist activists. Who has ever heard of administrative orders being issued against leftists..." At the same time, according to a senior IDF source, weapons are flowing freely into PA-controlled towns in Samaria thanks to the recent removal of IDF checkpoints. Quote of the Week: "The real opponents of Zionism can never be placated by any diplomatic formula: their objection to the Jews is that the Jews exist, and in this particular case, they exist in Palestine." - Chaim Weizmann, Israel's first president. Is Sensitivity Always Needed? After Turkey recently cancelled a joint air manoeuvre exercise with Israel due to the situation in Gaza, Industry and Trade Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said: "Israel has important strategic interests with Turkey and we must act with extra sensitivity to prevent dire predictions concerning our relations from materializing." (Strangely, Turkey, Jordan and Egypt have shown no "extra sensitivity" toward Israel. Must Israel be always nice to her enemies, especially to disguised as a friend ones?) Is Turkey a NATO Member or Islamic Stooge? The U.S. and Italy pulled out of the multinational Anatolian Eagle drill after Ankara banned Israel, so forcing NATO to cancel the exercise. Hamas Cowards Ran Away to Sinai. After weeks of absorbing criticism from Hamas, Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas struck back, accusing the Gaza terror group's leadership of running away to Sinai during Operation Cast Lead this past January. "Hamas leaders escaped, leaving its people to die". Jews Still Living in Mental Slavery. While support for Israel is important to U.S. Jews, a new survey by the National Jewish Democratic Council shows that they would vote Democrat even if the candidate was apathetic about supporting Israel. (Democracy means that people do have a freedom of choice and are not guided by redundant dogma!) Normalization - Islamic Style. Following the historic accord normalizing relations between Turkey and Armenia, Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that opening the border between the two countries is linked to the question of the enclave of Nagorno-Karbagh. This Christian Armenian enclave is located in Muslim Azerbaijan. (This accord worth nothing, as Turkey has still not accepted responsibility for the slaughter of up to 1.5 million Armenians in 1916.) Palestine Problem Hopeless? by Spengler "The situation for the Palestinian people is intolerable," declared United Sates President Barack Obama in his June 4 Cairo address. Really? Compared to what? Things are tough all over. The Palestinians are one of many groups displaced by the population exchanges that followed World War II, and the only ones whose great-grandchildren still have the legal status of refugees. Why are they still there? The simplest explanation is that they like it there, because they are much better off than people of similar capacities in other Arab countries. The standard tables of gross domestic product (GDP) per capital show the West Bank and Gaza at US$1,700, just below Egyp's $1,900. &GDP per capita, moreover, does not reflect the spending power of ordinary people. Forty-four percent of Egyptians, for example, live on less than $2 a day. ...Literacy in the Palestinian Authority domain is 92.4%, equal to that of Singapore. That is far better than the 71.4% in Egypt , or 80.8% in Syria. Without disputing Obama's claim that life for the Palestinians is intolerable, it is fair to ask: where is life not intolerable in the Arab world? When the first UN Arab Development Report appeared in 2002, it elicited comments such as this one: "With barely an exception, its autocratic rulers, whether presidents or kings, give up their authority only when they die; its elections are a sick joke; half its people are treated as lesser legal and economic beings, and more than half its young, burdened by joblessness and stifled by conservative religious tradition, are said to want to get out of the place as soon as they can." &Palestinian Arabs are highly literate, richer and healthier than people in most other Arab countries, thanks to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency and the blackmail payments of Western as well as Arab governments. As refugees, they live longer and better than their counterparts in adjacent Arab countries. It is not surprising that they do not want to be absorbed into other Arab countries and cease to be refugees. Source: Steven Shamrak http://www.shamrak.com/index.php ----- YOU WERE SILENT FOR EIGHT YEARS! David Buskila, the mayor of Sderot, sent a personal letter to the head of the United Nations committee of inquiry on the war in Gaza , Judge Richard Goldstone. In the missive, Buskila protested against the UN's silence - and Goldstone's - in the years leading up to the Gaza operation. The world, the UN, and Goldstone had eight years in which to protest the rocket attacks on Sderot and other towns in southern Israel, Buskila said. Instead, they said nothing while Hamas repeatedly attacked: "The world was silent, and so were you. You were silent at the sight of our children's bodies, you were silent in the face of their fear, you were silent when each of the 8,000 Kassam rockets hit our city." "Let us not ignore the facts - the suffering of Sderot and its children, and likewise the suffering of Gaza' residents, are on the shoulders and the conscience of Hamas's leaders and the leaders of fundamentalist Islam," (And the leaders of the so-called Free World, but not for Jews, who have remained silent while Jews were terrorized and suffered from Arab aggression!) PA Teen Terrorists Preferred Israel Jail to Home http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133663 "Road Map" is Violation of International Law. ...the US Government continues violation of the Treaties that recognize Israel's rights to its internationally recognized legal borders, the prohibition against ceding any land belonging to the Jewish National Home, and supporting the right of Jewish settlement within those internationally recognized borders. The legal borders in question comprise all Israel, including all of Judea, Samaria , the Gaza Strip, the entire city of Jerusalem and more... (as it was defined in July 1922 by the League of Nations) These borders were recognized by the United States in a 1924 treaty with Great Britain . The Jewish National rights recognized by the British and the Americans under the 1924 Anglo-American treaty are still guaranteed by the treaty. Furthermore, the US Constitution calls a treaty the "Supreme Law of the Land" and the Courts have the power to force the Federal Executive Branch (President, Secretary of State, etc.) to honour Treaties. Food for Thought. by Steven Shamrak Popes, kings, dictators and presidents have been legitimising and justifying their ugly deeds against Jews using 'disturbed' Jew-puppets: the Soviet Union did it to destroy enemies of the Communist doctrine and the heritage of its own Jewish people, the United Kingdom and others it during the Palestinian mandate to destroy the Jewish dream of a national homeland, and the Catholic Church did it during the Inquisition to kill Jews physically and spiritually Extraordinary Mockery of Nobel Peace Prize! US President Barack Obama had received the award this year Nobel Peace Prize for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," particularly for his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation. (All Obama's "extraordinary efforts" just rhetoric of a skilful demagogue and are leading nowhere but failure. Many of them have failed already. A Nobel Prize is given for achievement, not for wishful-thinking!) Removing Terror-linked Population. The United Arab Emirates has reportedly expelled dozens of Lebanese Shiites from its territory. They were suspected of having linked to the Hezbollah. (Shouldn't Israel do the same with the terror-linked so-called Palestinian families?) Jews are Still Gluttons for Punishment. A Gallup poll released not long ago shows that out of all religious groups in the United States, Jews account for the biggest group supporting Barack Obama as president. Sixty four percent of American Jews, in spite of the clearly not pro-Israel policy of the current administration, approve of the job he is doing and support his presidency. Among Catholics, 54% approve and support the Obama presidency, while 47% of Protestants and only 32% of Mormons do. Seventy eight percent of American Jews voted for Obama in the 2008 elections. Another Muslim 'Democracy'. The United Nations official recently removed from his post in Kabul , Peter Galbraith, estimates that up to one third of the votes for President Hamid Karzai in the August election were phoney. He accused his former boss, Kai Eide, of being soft on the level of fraud in the elections, saying that in one region, ''there were ten times as many votes as there are voters.'' (In the West we pay for this farce with the blood of our soldiers and taxpayers' money!) Quote of the Week: "We know from history that a war against the Jews becomes a war against free people and free nations everywhere.'' - Israel PM Binyamin Netanyahu. Reconciliation Game. Senior Hamas member Salah Al-Bardawil called on Egypt on Monday night to delay the signing of a Hamas-Fatah reconciliation agreement, only hours after Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman had announced an October 26th date for the signing to take place. Al-Bardawil said that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas was not true to PA interests. (Why should he be? By his own admission, his family came to Tzvat, Israel, from Damascus, Syria!) Another Case of International Hypocrisy. The Israel Antiquities Authority condemned the World Archaeological Congress for holding an international conference in Ramallah dedicated to "overcoming structural violence" and the negative impact of politics on archaeology. UN excluded Israelis by not informing the IAA of the event in advance and deliberately allowed an academic forum to be used for political propaganda against Israel. What Peace process? Fatah has declared to PA President Mahmoud Abbas, who heads the movement, that he must not resume peace talks unless Israel freezes its settlement construction. Fatah's position could help Abbas stand up to U.S. pressure to return to the negotiating table. (Strangely, the refusal by the PA and Arab states to recognize Israel as the Jewish state and end terror are not considered as obstacles to peace!) Turning Skin Cells into Stem Cells. Scientists in Haifa have adapted an innovative Japanese gene-implantation technique to reprogram and reverse human skin cells back to artificial embryonic stem cells. After become stem cells, researchers switched them into heart cells. Have You Heard About These Wars? 1. The latest paroxysm of Yemen 's five-year war with the rebel Houthis has left more than 2,000 dead in less than a month and up to 150,000 homeless. Yemeni government troops are battling around 15,000 Iranian-armed and trained Houthi rebels dug into the northern Sadaa mountains on the Saudi Arabian border. Saudi air force bombers are pounding the rebels and the Egyptian air force and navy are ferrying ammunition to the Yemen army with US encouragement and funding... This strategically-located, poor Red Sea country - Yemen , for years a critical stage for the war against Islamic extremists, has now become a key arena where the United States and Iran jockey for regional primacy. In that respect, the Yemen conflict compares in importance with the 2006 Lebanon War and the Gaza conflict... 2. An estimated 5.4 million people have been killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 1998, with 38,000 more dying every month. Yet not only are most people unaware of this, the worst toll since World War II, but there has been no hint of the UN General Assembly emergency session to discuss it, let alone condemn it. (No visits from the 'special' US envoy, no press coverage, no international interest, no condemnations, no investigations etc& The terrorists in Yemen have the same ideological base as the ones in Gaza and Lebanon , but Yemen is not Israel ! The lives of the people of the Congo have the same value, don't they?) Steven Shamrak http://www.shamrak.com/index.php ----- JUSTICE NOW! Calls for Temple Mount to be Open for Jewish Worshipers in Accordance with the 1967 Protection of Holy Places Law. - Steven Shamrak <stevenshamrak.e@gmail.com> September 29, 2009 - The Office for Israeli Constitutional Law /Justice Now! is calling upon Jerusalem authorities to allow Jewish access to the Temple Mount without limitation and to provide adequate protection for in accordance with Israeli law. The Temple Mount is the holiest site in the world for the Jewish People, and only a small number of Jews are allowed each day to ascend to the holy site. Furthermore, Jews are barred from expressing their right of free worship under threat of arrest because authorities fear Arabs will violently protest. Justice Now! director, Mark Kaplan says, "The current Muslim incitement on the site of our Holy Temple has led to the Jewish victims being punished instead of punishing those who are instigating the terror. The situation is tantamount to putting a woman in prison to prevent her from being beaten by a violent spouse." Justice Now! is calling on the police/government to enforce the 1967 Protection of Holy Places Law. "The law, according to Justice Now! chairman, Michael Snidecor, "says, ‘the Holy Places shall be protected from desecration and other violation and from anything likely to violate the freedom of access of the members of the different religions to the places sacred to them. "This law, which was passed by the Eshkol government, is so serious that those who violate the freedom of access to the holy places can be sentenced for up to five years in prison. Obviously, the law requires the police to protect Jewish worshippers from the threat of violent attacks, while allowing Jews the rights of free and peaceful worship on this holiest of sites." The Office for Israeli Constitutional Law/Justice Now! is an Israeli legal action organization. The organization is currently preparing a letter to be sent later this moth to the U.S. Government demanding the Americans honor resolution signed into law during a joint session of Congress and a treaty recognizing Israel’s rights granted through the Mandate for Palestine, including the Mandated borders (comprising all the territory of Palestine) the right of Jewish settlement, and the prohibition against ceding any Jewish National land to any other authority. http://www.justicenow4israel.com ----- THE US PRESSURE ON ISRAEL! Israel can and must act in her own best interests by Yoram Ettinger - Food for Thought. by Steven Shamrak Fact: In 1950, the US Administration pressured Israel to refrain from Jewish construction in Jerusalem and from declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel - Prime Minister Ben Gurion built, relocated government agencies and thousands of immigrants to Jerusalem and declared Jerusalem the capital of the Jewish State. In 1967, the US Administration pressured against annexation of East Jerusalem - Prime Minister Eshkol annexed, reunited Jerusalem, and built the formidable Ramat Eshkol neighbourhood. In 1970, the US Administration pressured Israel to relinquish control over parts of Jerusalem - Prime Minister Golda Meir constructed the neighbourhoods of Gilo, Ramot and Neveh Yaakov (current population over 100,000). The US Administration pressured, Israel constructed, Fact: In 1948, the US Department of State, Pentagon and CIA pressured Ben Gurion to avoid a declaration of independence. In 1961, President Kennedy pressured to stop the construction of Israel 's nuclear reactor. In 1967, President Johnson pressured against pre-empting the Egypt-Syria-Jordan military offensive. In 1977, President Carter pressured Prime Minister Begin to abstain from direct negotiation with President Sadat and participate - instead - in an international conference, focusing on the Palestinian issue and Jerusalem . In 1981, President Reagan pressured Prime Minister Begin against bombing Iraq's nuclear reactor. (There are many more examples of subservient 'friendship' between the US and Israel.) New Fact: In pursue of 'useless 'historic' photo opportunity, President Obama dropped his demand for an Israeli settlement freeze. The demand for the PA to recognize Israel as the Jewish state was never vigorously pursued by the US administration! NOTE: Defiance of pursuit entails short-term cost but enhances long-term national security. Submission to pressure exacerbates pressure. Fending off pressure is required, in order to attain Israel's strategic goal ! Quote of the Week: "They have to fly over our airspace in Iraq. Are we just going to sit there and watch?" - former national security advisor to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who enthusiastically campaigned for U.S. President Barack Obama - It is hard to purge traditional Polish anti-Semitism even from the American security advisor. Even harder to except that it was said by a 'respectable' American! UNRWA Impedes Peace Process. More than 1,500 Arab refugees from Iraq , descendants of Arabs who fled pre-state Israel in the 1940s, have recently been welcomed into the United States and Chile. Refugees who relocated to Chile have settled in to their new home, and have received a warm welcome from Chile' s leaders. The successful absorption of thousands of 'Palestinian refugees' from Iraq proves that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency impedes Arab refugees from building a better future. (Nobody protested against how new 'democratic' Iraq treats its 'poor Palestinians'! And none of the Muslim states, such great 'lovers' of Palestinians, have offered them home!) Pakistan is Another Unremorseful Islamic State. A Pakistani court ordered the government to lift any remaining restrictions on a scientist, Abdul Qadeer Khan, who has spread nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya Madness of Political Correctness and Appeasement. Yale University Press, owned by the university, removed 12 caricatures from an upcoming book about how they caused outrage across the Muslim world. (Great academic way of studying Islamic violence! Where are the freedoms of speech and the freedoms of academic pursuit?) Hamas Plans to Raise More Terrorists. 1. Hamas has sponsored the weddings of 382 so-called Palestinian couples in Syria . The point is to make babies, and more terrorists. 2. 900 Hamas sponsored marriages were performed not long ago in the north of the Gaza Strip. Each groom received a present of $500 from Hamas. (They hate the US , but love the US dollars!) Food for Thought. by Steven Shamrak After so many 'objective' enquiries and reports about Israel it would only be logical to expect that the United Nations, as a part of its impartiality, will start its investigations of terrorist organization Hamas for committing war crimes and human rights abuse in Gaza! All non-Muslims are the Target! A poll released by the Pew Global Attitudes Project found that support for terrorism remains unusually high among Palestinian Authority Arabs - 68 percent of them expressed support for suicide bombings against civilians "to defend Islam from enemies." Among Israeli Muslims, only seven percent support attacks on civilians as a justification to protect Islam. (Not only Jews!) Life with 'Friendly' Neighbours Takes its Toll. Stress and anxiety caused by living under the ongoing threat of rocket attacks has tremendously impacted the kids of Sderot. 45 percent of the town's children under the age of six suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which is expressed through developmental regression, sleeping disorders or aggression. Amongst adults, the data indicated that 41 percent of mothers and 33 percent of fathers suffer from PTSD, often experience flashbacks, and avoid places that remind them of rocket attacks. (International Jew-haters are usually 'poor Palestinian' lovers. They do not care about the wellbeing of Jewish children!) Vatican in Holocaust Blame Game. Britain and the United States possessed detailed knowledge of Hitler's plans to exterminate Jews and did nothing to stop it, accused the Vatican 's official newspaper. Authorities in both countries ignored, downplayed and even suppressed intelligence reports about Nazi extermination plans and chose not to bomb concentration camps and the railway stations that supplied them. The report quoted from the diary of Henry Morgenthau Jr., the wartime U.S. secretary of the treasury, who described the UK's alleged indifference as "a Satanic combination of British chill and diplomatic double talk, cold and correct and adding up to a sentence of death". As early as August 1942, the U.S. government "knew that the Nazis were planning to exterminate all the Jews of Europe" (The Vatican continuously downplays its own silence during WW2 and its facilitation of and moral responsibility for the Holocaust!) Quote of the Week: ''IDF officers who committed war crimes should be punished, and those who did not punish them should also be sanctioned,'' - judge Richard Goldstone - This 'impartial' UN judge said nothing about punishing Hamas terrorists for committing war crimes, but he has already judged and sentenced Jews! Israel Defending US and Europe. Advances in Iran's rocket technology, coupled with its nuclear program, are chief concerns of the United States and Europe, as well as of Israel and other Middle Eastern countries. Alongside diplomatic efforts to persuade Iran to curb its nuclear research, missile defence programs have been designed with that country in mind. The Obama administration decided to scrap a Bush-era plan to deploy a longer-range-missile defence system in the Czech Republic and Poland, and said it would move toward a more intermediate system that better matches its assessment of Iran's capabilities. (Deployment of a missile defence system nowadays is just an attempt to avoid dealing with the problems directly - Nuclear Iran and North Korea !) As it pushes for international action against Iran's nuclear program, Israel is steadily assembling one of the world's most advanced missile defence systems, a multi-layered collection of weapons meant to guard against a variety of threats, including the shorter-range Grads used to strike Israeli towns like this one and intercontinental rockets. (It is a well known secret that Israel has been acting as a front line of defence for the Western world from Islamic terror for a long time. Instead of destroying the roots of the problem, fake wars are being conducted in Iraq and Afghanistan . They are useless activities to create the appearance that something is done for world security. Only by removing the nuclear treat from Iran and by ending sponsorship of Islamic terrorism by Muslim countries, starting with Saudi Arabia, will the world end the perpetuation of the 'cycle of violence'!) Food for Thought. by Steven Shamrak http://www.shamrak.com/index.php ----- ISRAEL IN DANGER OF BEING BLINDSIDED BY TWO NEW GRAVE THREATS http://flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com/ - On October 6, 1973, Israel was hit by a massive and devastating surprise attack on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism. The warning signs that Israel’s enemies were gearing up to deal the Jewish State a death blow were there. Her leaders simply didn’t properly assess, interpret and respond to them. By God’s grace, Israel was saved from the brink of utter ruination. But it was close, and painful. Thirty-six years later, Israel is once again in grave danger. By Iran’s nuclear threat, to be sure. But Israel is actually in danger of being blindsided by two new threats. The first threat is the real and growing possibility that the United Nations will shift the nuclear spotlight away from Iran and on to Israel in an effort to force Jerusalem to disclose and dismantle its alleged nuclear weapons and join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Israel does not openly acknowledge having atomic weapons. But the U.N. Security Council could pass a resolution forcing Israel to allow international inspectors in. If Israel refused to comply, she could be subject to diplomatic isolation, crippling economic sanctions, and even international enforcement (that is, a coalition of nations ready to go to war over the issue, just as the U.S. led a coalition in 2003 to force Iraq to comply with U.N. resolutions regarding weapons of mass destruction.) This is a scenario I’ve been warning about for years, including in my 2005 political thriller, The Ezekiel Option. But this is no longer fiction. IAEA chief Mohammed ElBaradei publicly raised this as a serious possibility yesterday, saying, “Israel is the number one threat to the Middle East given the nuclear arms it possesses.” The Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens also has a must-read column in today’s paper explaining how this scenario could come to pass in the not-too-distant future. Keep in mind: President Obama is making global nuclear disarmament his top foreign policy priority. He chaired a U.N. Security Council meeting last week to push this agenda. It is increasingly conceivable that he will try to force Israel to “play by the same rules” as everyone else and disarm unilaterally, even though Israel has never threatened to “annihilate” a neighbor. As I imagine in The Ezekiel Option, such a resolution against Israel could be introduced into the U.N. by Russia. The coalition against Israel could be led by Russia and Iran. Should this happen, we could begin to see the prophecies of Ezekiel 38-39 come to pass in fairly short order. While it is too early to conclude that is what is happening now, it is not too early to intensify our prayers for the peace of Jerusalem, according to Psalm 122:6. The second threat is the real and growing possibility that the world will unilaterally create and recognize a Palestinian State, not through negotiations with Israel but by fiat. World leaders have been trying to engineer a “comprehensive” final peace agreement for decades. The Palestinians rejected a generous final peace offer by then-Israeli PM Ehud Barak in 2000 at Camp David. Then, Yasser Arafat unleashed the “Second Intifada” and a horrific wave of suicide bombings throughout Israel. The Palestinians then rejected repeated peace offers by then-Israeli PM Ehud Olmert. Then, Hamas fired thousands of rockets and mortars at southern Israel until Operation Cast Lead crushed most of the Hamas activities in January of 2009. Rather than be impatient with the Palestinian leadership, however, for consistently rejecting sweeping Israeli peace proposals, the world increasingly wants to force Israel to make deeper and deeper concessions. With his Cairo and U.N. General Assembly speeches, President Obama has taken the lead on this effort. He is demanding Israel return to its pre-1967 borders, divide Jerusalem and allow the Palestinians to have a state with contiguous borders (thus cutting Israel proper in two). Now come a growing number of signs that world leaders are preparing to impose a final solution to the Israeli-Palestinian impasse, perhaps based on Palestinian Prime Minister Fayyad’s new two-year plan to create a viable Palestinian state. “During July, the EU’s Javier Solana lectured in London and said that if the peace process was going nowhere, the international community should consider recognizing a Palestinian state under a UN resolution even without Israel’s consent,” reports Dr. Dore Gold, the former Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. “[Solana] called for a fixed deadline for future negotiations. The Fayyad Plan could prepare the groundwork for such international action by providing the Palestinians with the main legal preconditions for recognition: the exercise of effective governmental control, the capacity to engage in foreign relations, and a defined territory. The last criteria for statehood is the most problematic. According to Solana, after the UN Security Council proclaims the adoption of a two-state solution, it will also adopt further follow-up resolutions regarding the highly contentious issues of refugees, Jerusalem and borders. In short, the Solana plan is an imposed solution, using the UN Security Council as its main instrument, which will decide the issue of Israel’s future borders and those of the Palestinian state.” These are dangerous developments. And let’s be clear: trying to force Israel to comply with such unfair and misguided initiatives won’t lead to peace. Rather, they will put millions of innocent Israeli and Palestinian lives in grave danger. May God have mercy on us all. http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/October08/0821.html ----- HOLLYWOOD'S SCATHING PORTRAYAL OF JUDAISM October 24, 2009 - by Henry Makow Ph.D. - Hollywood has been accused of portraying Christianity with a jaundiced eye while sugarcoating Jews and Judaism. Or it presents Jews as non-Jews. Finally, "A Serious Man," a new movie by Oscar winning directors Joel and Ethan Coen, is frankly about Jews. It satirizes many Jewish types and suggests Judaism is a fraud. If this begins a trend toward honest self-examination, there is hope yet for the chosen people. Set in Minneapolis in 1967, "A Serious Man" is an homage to the Coen's Jewish upbringing. The protagonist is physics teacher Larry Gopnik, played by stage actor Michael Stuhlbarg who, like the Biblical Job, is beset by a multitude of difficulties. "I didn't do anything wrong," he protests when Judith, his pouting wife, announces she is leaving him for Sy Ableman (pictured together, left.) Larry is a "serious man" -- hard working, ethical and responsible. Why is God testing him? Larry turns to a friend, Mimi for sympathy. "It's not always easy, deciphering what God is trying to tell you," she says. "We're Jews, we have that well of tradition to draw on, to help understand. When we're puzzled, we have all the stories that have been handed down from people to people." In fact, that well is dry. Gopnik visits rabbis who tells stories unrelated to his dilemma. One tells him to find "Ha Shem" (God, the "name") everywhere, even in the parking lot. Another relates a story about a dentist who found Hebrew letters on a Gentile's teeth. "What does this story mean?" Gopnik says. "I don't know," the rabbi replies. Finally, Gopnik pleads for an audience with the revered Senior Rabbi Marshak. "He's busy," his battleship of a secretary tells Larry. "He doesn't look busy," says Larry. "He's thinking," the secretary assures him. After his Bar Mitzvah, Gopnik's son Danny does get an audience with the fabled Marshak. Danny waits in eager anticipation for the wisdom that marks his induction into the Jewish fraternity. Finally, the great rabbi opens his mouth and quotes The Jefferson Airplane's song "Somebody to Love." (1967) Continued: http://www.henrymakow.com/coen_brothers_scathing_portray.html ----- BARAK: TRIP TO USA FOR DRAFTING AGREEMENT WITH THE PA By Nissan Ratzlav-Katz - (IsraelNN.com) Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu are traveling to the United States this week to meet with senior White House officials in an effort to draft an agreement to be offered to the Fatah-led half of the Palestinian Authority, under Mahmoud Abbas. Such an agreement, Barak said Tuesday, will include a "viable Palestinian State" and the end of Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria. According to Barak, the Obama administration will be expected to promote the agreed-upon draft to Abbas, in an effort to kick-start Israel-PA talks. In a Voice of Israel government radio report, Barak was quoted as saying that the negotiations with the PA are intended to reach an agreement that includes "the end of the conflict and all mutual claims, the establishment of an economically and territorially viable Palestinian State alongside Israel, and the end of the occupation that began in 1967." This would entail, according to the PA's current demands, a full withdrawal of the Israeli military and all 250,000 to 300,000 Jewish civilians in Judea and Samaria. The demand for a statement that the two sides have no further claims has never been accepted by the PA, due to its ongoing demand for unfettered Arab migration into Israel and the belief that Israel was founded entirely on Arab-Muslim lands. However, Barak told the media that an agreement such as he described with the Palestinian Authority is a vital Israeli interest, because all other options would be far worse. Minister Barak also praised U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as well as President Barack Obama's special envoy George Mitchell. They have made significant efforts, according to Barak, to promote negotiations and contacts between Israel and the PA. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134198 ----- DEATH OF A MYTH: ISRAEL'S SUPPORT OF A TWO-STATE SOLUTION By Rachelle Marshall - ISRAEL’S actions from the beginning have directly contradicted the image it projects to the West. The founding of a country that was to be “a light among nations” required the forcible expulsion of most of its original inhabitants. The “Middle East’s only democracy” became the brutal oppressor of three million Palestinians. The nationhood that was to endow the Jewish people with “normality” gave them instead a garrison state in which military strength is the dominant value. On the day of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s White House meeting with President Barack Obama, a Palestinian woman in the occupied city of Hebron stares at an Israeli soldier standing guard near a wall spraypainted by settlers with obscenities and the Star of David. Ultranationalist Israeli Knesset members were visiting the city to protest Netanyahu’s promotion of the easing of restrictions on Palestinians. http://www.wrmea.org/component/content/article/220-2009-july/3002-death-of-a-myth-israels-support-of- a-two-state-solution.html ----- WHY ISRAEL'S LEFT HAS DISAPPEARED Defense Minister Ehud Barak promised Labor faction chairman Daniel Ben-Simon to begin removing 23 unauthorized outposts in the West Bank within "upcoming weeks." These undermining statements were made just one day before Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was set to meet with US envoy George Mitchell in London on the settlements issue Likud is not Kadima! There is Growing rebellion in the Likud party against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's reported concessions to US President Barak Obama, opposing Netanyahu's freeze on Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria.One of the leaders of the rebellion, Likud MK Danny Danon, says there is no way that the Likud should be implementing opposition party Kadima's platform (which has failed so many times) . "We must keep our promise to our voters to build in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria ," said Danon. "The Prime Minister knows very well that there is no real partner for peace with the Palestinians." http://www.shamrak.com/index.php ----- JEWISH WORLD POPULATION - STATISTICS FROM THE JEWISH VIRTUAL WEBSITE: TOTAL JEWISH WORLD POPULATION: 13,191,500 UNITED STATES: 5,800,000 ISRAEL : 4,847,000 EUROPE : 895,512 RUSSIA : 550,000 SOUTH AMERICA : 430,000 CANADA : 360,000 SOUTH AFRICA : 106,000 JEWISH POPULATION BY U.S. CITY NYC: 1,653,000 MIAMI : 535,000 LOS ANGELES: 490,000 PHILADELPHIA : 254,000 CHICAGO : 248,000 SAN FRANCISCO : 210,000 BOSTON : 208,000 WASH. D. C.: 165,000 ORLANDO , FLA. : 30,000 On Thursday, 7/23/09, Richard Allinger <mr_allinger@yahoo.com> : ----- OBAMA PLAN TEMPLE MOUNT UNDER ARAB MUSLIM SOVEREIGNTY? IsraelNationalNews.com - The Middle East peace plan that United States President Barack Obama will unveil soon involves the creation of a Palestinian Authority state by 2011 and the transfer of Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem [presumably including the Temple Mount] to Arab-Muslim sovereignty, Saudi newspaper Al-Ukaz has learned. According to the report published Sunday in Al-Ukaz, the Obama plan also includes the following elements: •Some parts of eastern Jerusalem [presumably Neveh Yaakov, Pisgat Ze'ev and the like - ed.] would be transferred to Israeli control. •There would be an international presence in the Jordan Valley and other parts of Judea and Samaria. •The Palestinian Authority terror organizations would be disbanded and turn into political parties. •The large settlement blocs in Judea and Samaria would not be dismantled. •The fate of smaller Jewish settlement areas would be decided in a three-month-long negotiation period. A reporter for the Saudi newspaper received the information from Hassan Harisha, the Second Deputy Speaker of the Palestinian Authority Parliament. Harisha told him that the U.S. has handed over a draft of the peace proposal to the PA and other Arabs for their perusal. The plan also calls for Judea and Samaria to be demilitarized and for its airspace to remain under Israel control. Israeli-Palestinian Authority security coordination would be strengthened, and the Palestinian Authority state would not be allowed to strike military treaties with other countries in the region. An “agreed number” of Arab refugees would be absorbed in the Jordan Valley area and in other parts of Judea and Samaria – especially in the area between Ramallah and Shechem. An international fund would support the refugees and Israel would release Palestinian Authority prisoners three years after a diplomatic accord is signed. Continued: http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/September03/0322.html ----- PALESTINIAN CLERIC DENIES ISRAEL'S TEMPLE Friday Church News Notes, September 4, 2009, www.wayoflife.org - Sheik Taysir Tamimi, one of the most influential Muslim leaders in Israel, denies that a Jewish temple existed in Jerusalem, claiming that Jerusalem has always been an Islamic city ("Chief Palestinian Justice Says Temples Never Existed," WorldNetDaily, Aug. 27, 2009). The "Temple Denial" doctrine was invented about a decade ago by Israel's enemies in Palestine and has spread throughout much of the Muslim world, but it is nonsense. The doctrine flies in the face of the Bible, and archaeological research has provided evidence of the first and second temples. Further, the oldest arch in Rome, the Arch of Titus, which was dedicated in 85 A.D., features actual depictions of the articles removed from the temple by Rome's army in 70 A.D. The candlestick and silver trumpets are plainly visible to this d ay. Tamimi claims that descriptions of the Jewish temple in Roman writings are forged, but the Arch of Titus certainly was not forged. Its history is well known. (For more on this see "Temple Denial vs. Archaeology" at the Way of Life web site.) http://www.wayoflife.org ----- U.S. TAKES ITS SEAT AT U.N. RIGHTS COUNCIL, WITH FRESH CONTROVERSY BREWING OVER ISRAEL By Patrick Goodenough, International Editor - Monday, September 14, 2009 (CNSNews.com) – The United States on Monday took its seat on the U.N.’s three year-old Human Rights Council for the first time, for a session that once again promises controversy over the council’s single most focused-upon topic – Israel. The three-week long, 12th regular session of the 47-nation council will include consideration of and debate over a report compiled by investigators into allegations of war crimes during Israel’s military offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip last winter. The inquiry was mandated by a “special session” of the HRC last January, which passed a resolution condemning Israel for “massive violations of the human rights of the Palestinian people.” The resolution did not directly mention Hamas or its attacks against Israeli civilians – the stated reason given by Jerusalem for mounting what it called Operation Cast Lead last December. (Of 17 operative paragraphs, one paragraph urged “all parties … to refrain from violence against the civilian population.”) The investigation’s mandate is simply to probe violations by Israel against the Palestinians. The resolution passed by a 33-1 vote, with Canada alone in rejecting it. Thirteen members – Japan, South Korea, Cameroon and ten European countries – abstained. In April, the council announced that the investigation would be chaired by Richard Goldstone, a respected South African judge and former U.N. war crimes prosecutor, and include three other experts. Making the announcement, HRC president Martin Uhomoibhi of Nigeria said he was confident it would operate “in an independent and impartial manner.” Groups supportive of Israel quickly raised doubts, however, pointing to what they viewed as an unbalanced mandate that prejudged the inquiry. Goldstone has stressed his intention to investigate allegations of war crimes and violations on all sides, but the Israeli government rejected the inquiry and its mandate and refused to cooperate. ‘Total integrity’ Another concern raised was the fact that one of the inquiry’s members, Prof. Christine Chinkin of the London School of Economics, had signed a letter last January rejecting Israel’s assertion that its operation constituted self-defense against Hamas rocket attacks. Continued: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/53944 ----- BARACK TO IDF: ISSUE THE ORDER TO FREEZE SETTLEMENT CONSTRUCTION By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent - November 26, 2009 - Defense Minister Ehud Barak instructed the Israel Defense Forces on Thursday to issue an injunction to temporarily freeze the construction of housing projects in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, in accordance with the cabinet's decision to that effect on Wednesday. The injunction will be signed by Major General Avi Mizrahi, commander of IDF army headquarters. In a closed session held at the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv on Thursday, Barak remarked on the cabinet's decision to freeze construction, saying "this is a unilateral step, initiated by the government in coordination with the United States, taken in efforts to advance the peace process with the Palestinians. This decision places the extremely important task of enforcement on the IDF, the police force, the Shin Bet security service and the Civil Administration." Attorney General Menachem Mazuz told the security cabinet Wednesday ahead of a vote on the decision that there is no real way to enforce the freeze due to a lack of manpower. The implementation of Israel's decision to freeze settlement construction in the West Bank for 10 months is seen as an especially major challenge for Israel. The security cabinet voted to impose the partial 10-month freeze on construction in West Bank settlements, which will not apply to East Jerusalem. Netanyahu called the partial freeze a bid to restart stalled peace talks with the Palestinians. "I hope that this decision will help launch meaningful negotiations to reach a historic peace agreement that will finally end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians," Netanyahu said at a press conference he held shortly after the security cabinet approved the moratorium. "In the whole of Judea and Samaria [West Bank], there are just 14 building inspectors," Mazuz told the cabinet. "If this doesn't change it will be difficult for the inspectors to implement the decision." In light of Mazuz' warning, the cabinet authorized Barak, Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich, the Justice Ministry and the Finance Ministry to provide a supplementary budget and extra manpower for the enforcement of the settlement freeze. Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz, who backed the decision, was asked to present a budget proposal within three days. Continued: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1130865.html ----- TEMPLE INSTITUTE LOOKING FOR THE MESSIAH Friday Church News Notes, November 27, 2009, www.wayoflife.org - The Temple Institute in Jerusalem has spent $27 million preparing for the coming of the Messiah. They have manufactured utensils including silver trumpets, golden candlesticks, harps, and garments for the High Priest woven from golden thread. When asked when the Messiah will come, Temple Institute director Yehuda Glick replies, "All that we know is that we are now living in the age of miracles and all of those miracles are predicted in the Book as happening on the eve of the end of days. It could well be tomorrow, but it might be another 100 years, or even 400 years" ("Jews Raise Millions to Be Ready for Coming of the Messiah," Sydney Morning Herald, Nov. 14, 2009). The Institute has engaged two architects to design the Third Temple, "a modern building, with car parks and elevators, but which will look like the Second Temple." Many "evangelicals" have contributed to the Temple Institute, but it is a donation to the cause of the Antichrist more than to the cause of Christ. It is the Antichrist that will use the temple built by Christ-rejecting Jews. The modern state of Israel is a fulfillment of the first half of the prophecy of the dry bones in Ezekiel 37. They have returned to the land, but there is "no breath in them" (Ezek. 37:8). They are still in rebellion to God's Law. During the Great Tribulation, the Jews will be deceived by the Antichrist's promise of peace and will make a covenant with him. The temple will be rebuilt, but it will become the Antichrist's sanctuary when he presents himself as God (Dan. 9:27; Mat. 24:15; 2 Thess. 2:3-4). http://www.wayoflife.org ----- DEBT IS SLAVERY From: CrusherCurley - July 16, 2009 - The Federal Reserve isn't federal and there aren't any reserves! http://www.youtube.com/CrusherCurley#p/u/4/6PyLAOw_uTg ----- DUAL CITIZENSHIP AMERICA RULED BY FOREIGNERS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoWcdRKPpxs ----- THE FUTURE OF FOOD November 2009 - The Future of Food, a groundbreaking documentary released in 2004, distills the complex technology and key regulatory, legal, ethical, environmental and consumer issues surrounding the troubling changes happening in the food system today—genetically engineered foods, patenting, and the corporatization of food—into terms the average person can easily understand. It empowers consumers to understand the consequences of their food choices on our future. In 2009 as we take note of where we stand and look toward the future, the issues raised in The Future of Food are more pressing than ever. The corporate control of agriculture and the seed supply is meeting more and more resistance from the sustainable food movement that has risen up around the world. Food and agriculture have become central in discussions about climate change, sequestering carbon, health and the preservation of biological diversity. - Deborah Koons Garcia & the crew at Lily Films - They offer a downloadable copy for $15 (84 m film) http://www.thefutureoffood.com/