INTERNATIONAL PULSE Period: October 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 ----- OBAMA 'TO TURN ON ISRAEL AFTER MIDTERM ELECTIONS' Netanyahu purportedly 'shaking from fear' of president's policies - October 31, 2010 By Aaron Klein - WorldNetDaily - JERUSALEM – Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is "shaking from fear" about the policies that President Obama will enact toward Israel after this week's midterm elections, a senior Palestinian Authority official told WND. The PA official, as well as security sources in Egypt and Jordan, said they heard from the Obama administration an outline of a series of moves to pressure Israel after the Nov. 2 vote. Among the moves would be holding back support for Israel when it comes to future resolutions condemning the Jewish state at the United Nations. Also, the U.S. is likely to tacitly back a Palestinian threat to unilaterally declare a state at the U.N. Security Council if Netanyahu fails to reach an agreement with the PA. The sources said the Obama administration has already quietly dropped U.S. opposition to PA President Mahmoud Abbas forging a unity deal with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Is Israel already done for? Find out in Aaron Klein's "The Late Great State of Israel" -- autographed! Until now, the U.S. has publicly taken a policy of isolating Hamas, a terrorist organization, although there have been recent signs of U.S. rapprochement toward the Islamic group. Netanyahu had argued Hamas stood in the way of a pan-Palestinian future settlement. The PA and Middle East sources said that Obama is joining a chorus of European Union officials in demanding that Israel evacuate almost the entire West Bank and eastern sections of Jerusalem in a future deal with the Palestinians. Netanyahu wants to keep what are known as the main settlement blocks: Ariel, Gush Etzion and Maale Adumin, a position mostly supported by the U.S. government. Now there are signs the Obama administration will call for Israel to evacuate the large town of Ariel in any settlement with the Palestinians, the sources told WND. Last week, WND quoted a PA official stating that White House officials told the Palestinians that President Obama is waiting until after the Nov. 2 midterm elections to press Israel harder for a deal to create a Palestinian state. An extensive poll released earlier this month showed a growing number of Americans support Israel over the Palestinians and will vote for political candidates based on their stance regarding the Jewish state. Continued: http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=222241 ----- FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU: THE EYES OF OBAMA ARE EVERYWHERE, EVEN ON TEMPLE MOUNT Event organizers grilled by U.S. government over connection to holy site - March 14, 2010 By Aaron Klein - WorldNetDaily - Temple Mount JERUSALEM - A member of the U.S. government met with organizers of Tuesday's "International Temple Mount Awareness Day" to pepper the activists about their intentions regarding Jewish ascent to the holy site. "It was obvious," one of the planners told WND, "the individual who met with us from the Obama government was concerned about the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount and what is being done to deepen it." The organizer talked on condition of anonymity and also on condition that WND kept confidential the name of the U.S. official who met with the Temple event planners. The International Temple Mount Awareness Day is being planned by a coalition of Jewish groups, including the Temple Institute, the Organization for the Renewal of the Temple, Women in Green, the Temple Mount Heritage Foundation and Israel National Radio. "We call on Jews and Gentiles around the world to mark March 16th as a day of solidarity with the Temple Mount and the prophetic vision of 'a house of prayer for all nations,'" reads a statement from the organizers of the event. Is Israel already done for? Aaron Klein's "The Late Great State of Israel" brings you unvarnished truth straight from the front lines In coordination with the Waqf, the Mount's Islamic custodians, police here ban all non-Muslims from praying on the Mount despite an Israeli Supreme Court decision requiring police to offer an arrangement that will enable public Jewish prayer on the site. The Israeli police cite security concerns for their Jewish-prayer restrictions, explaining they fear the outbreak of Muslim violence if non-Muslim prayer is allowed. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=127940 ----- ISRAEL BUILDS WORLD'S LARGEST UNDERGROUND HOSPITAL A massive underground hospital is being built at the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa. All available equipment and workers were hired to pour the roughly 7,000 cubic meters of concrete needed to make the hospital's base. At most times, the facility will provide space for 1,500 employees and visitors to park their cars. However, in case of emergency, the facility will quickly become a 2,000-bed hospital protected from both conventional rocket attacks and chemical or biological warfare. Continued: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/140125 ----- THE JEWISH REPUBLIC OF ISRAEL Swearing an oath to a Jewish state will decide its fate. It is liable to turn the country into a theocracy like Saudi Arabia. By Gideon Levy - October 10, 2010 "Haaretz" -- Remember this day. It's the day Israel changes its character. As a result, it can also change its name to the Jewish Republic of Israel, like the Islamic Republic of Iran. Granted, the loyalty oath bill that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to have passed purportedly only deals with new citizens who are not Jewish, but it affects the fate of all of us. From now on, we will be living in a new, officially approved, ethnocratic, theocratic, nationalistic and racist country. Anyone who thinks it doesn't affect him is mistaken. There is a silent majority that is accepting this with worrying apathy, as if to say: "I don't care what country I live in." Also anyone who thinks the world will continue to relate to Israel as a democracy after this law doesn't understand what it is about. It's another step that seriously harms Israel's image. Prime Minister Netanyahu will prove today that he is actually Yisrael Beinteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman, and Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman will prove he is really a loyal member of Yisrael Beiteinu. The Labor party will prove it is nothing more than a doormat. And Israel today will prove that it doesn't care about anything. Today the loyalty oath bill, soon the loyalty oath law. The dam will overflow today, threatening to drown the remnants of democracy until we are left perhaps with a Jewish state of a character that no one really understands, but it certainly won't be a democracy. Those demanding this loyalty oath are the ones misappropriating loyalty to the state. At its next session, the Knesset is to debate close to 20 other anti-democratic bills. Over the weekend, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel issued a blacklist of legislation: a loyalty law for Knesset members; a loyalty law for film production; a loyalty law for non-profits; putting the Palestinian catastrophe, the Nakba, beyond the scope of the law; a ban on calls for a boycott; and a bill for the revocation of citizenship. It's a dangerous McCarthyist dance on the part of ignorant legislators who haven't begun to understand what democracy is all about. It's dangerous even if only a portion of the bills become law, because our fate and our essence will change. Continued: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26551.htm ----- ISRAELI FM: DON'T LET OBAMA IMPOSE 'PEACE' Monday, October 04, 2010 - Ryan Jones - Israel Today Magazine - Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Sunday said he recently learned from reliable sources in the US that the Obama Administration is planning to impose a “peace” settlement on Israel and the Palestinians in the coming months. In a meeting with other members of his Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel Our Home) Knesset party, Lieberman warned that US President Barack Obama’s proposal that Israel extend its Jewish building freeze for another two months in exchange for certain diplomatic promises must be rejected by the cabinet. According to Lieberman, those two months would “give the US and the international community two months to come up with a solution that will be forced on Israel. The foreign minister was in the US late last month to address the United Nations General Assembly. During the visit, Lieberman said he “learned that Washington is planning to force a permanent agreement on Israel "two states for two peoples along the 1967 borders, plus-minus 3 or 4% of the territory exchanged." Lieberman said the officials he spoke to informed him that if Israel did not accept the imposed peace deal, it would lead to “a confrontation with the international community. In light of the danger, Lieberman said his party has no intention of leaving the ruling coalition, as some media outlets have suggested, and will instead strengthen the right-wing elements of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to ensure Obama’s plans do not come to fruition. http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=21977 ----- IRAN ADMITS IT COULD PULL NUKE TRIGGER ON US, ISRAEL 05 Oct 2010 12:11 PM By: Ken Timmerman - NewsMax - For the first time since the expansion of Iran’s nuclear program was exposed in 2002, the Iranian government is dropping the pretense that it is developing nuclear technology purely for peaceful purposes. Iran has developed nuclear war plans to deter U.S. and Israeli aggression and retaliate against it, a top adviser to Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi announced in a strategic analysis. Defense Ministry analyst Alireza Saeidabadi’s detailed analysis, published last week on a website that Iran’s intelligence ministry runs, examines several scenarios in which Iran could become embroiled in a shooting war with the United States or Israel. One of the scenarios Iranian military planners must consider is a strategic nuclear U.S. strike on Iran, he writes. If that occurred, Iranian planning documents call for attacks against U.S. interests "on the world stage," his analysis says. The Iranian military should "prioritize its air force and ballistic missile fleet" in dealing with a conventional attack from Israel, Saeidabadi writes. But in the event Israel uses unconventional weapons against Iran, "then Iran should employ a nuclear strategy." Similarly, if Iran and the United States get engaged in naval clashes in the Persian Gulf, Iran should "use its sea power for hit-and-run attacks, commando attacks, and use anti-shipping missiles" against U.S. naval vessels. Continued: http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/iran-nuclear-weapons-israel/2010/10/05/id/372644 ----- US BACKS PALESTINIAN AIRPORT NEAR JERUSALEM Construction could affect outcome of future agreement with Israel Posted: October 01, 2010 - 12:45 am Eastern - By Aaron Klein - WorldNetDaily - JERUSALEM – The Obama administration supports the concept of the Palestinian Authority opening an airport near Jerusalem, according to PA sources speaking to WND. The PA is planning to start the infrastructure of the airport in the town of al Buqya, between Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley. WND has learned that PA official Saadi el-Krunz is heading the PA campaign to raise money for the airport. In line with the demand that Israel freeze all Jewish construction in the West Bank and eastern section of Jerusalem, WND has learned that the U.S. is aiding the Palestinians in building infrastructure in largely Arab eastern Jerusalem neighborhoods controlled by Israel. In so doing, the U.S. is working with the PA to change the facts on the ground, which could affect the outcome of a future Israel Palestinian agreement. A WND investigation previously determined the U.S. has been aiding the Palestinians in developing infrastructure in eastern Jerusalem, including on property owned by Jews. (Story continues below) Continued: http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=210137 ----- HUGE PAY-OFF FOR RETAINING THE M.E. CONFLICT By Steven Shamrak - The U.S. State Department announced the largest weapons sale in the history of the United States: $60 billion worth of combat planes and helicopters to Saudi Arabia. The Obama Administration has notified Congress of the plans for the 20-year deal. It is to include 84 F-15 fighter aircraft and over 170 helicopters, the upgrading of 70 older-model F-15 planes, and the sale of smaller air force items. The helicopter deal includes 70 Apaches, 72 Blackhawks, and 32 MH-6 Little Birds. (Obviously keeping the Arab-Israel conflict artificially inflamed and not allowing Israel to end it, and instigating a fake "war on terror" in Iraq encompasses some hidden agendas. One of them is this financial bonanza for the US and other peace loving weapon pushers!) http://www.shamrak.com/index.php ----- BROKEN ACCORDS MUST BE BURRIED By Steven Shamrak - A senior PA official warned that it may break previous accords for the 'peace process' if Israel does not agree to its demands. However, the PA already has broken the agreements, that - among others - declare Israel will be a Jewish state, and the PA will halt all incitement and dismantle its terrorist infrastructure. The PLO also has not changed its charter denying the existence of Israel. (Israel must put a stop to endless and useless strings of agreements with terrorists and start building the Jewish state, without residential enemies!) http://www.shamrak.com/index.php ----- UNREPORTED BY MEDIA 'WORK ACCIDENT' by Steven Shamrak - More than a dozen people, including five children and three women, were wounded a week ago by a Hamas "work accident" at one of the terrorist organisation's military bases, located in a crowded neighbourhood in the southern Gaza border city of Rafiah. Explosives often are detonated prematurely or accidentally while terrorists are setting up roadside bombs, suicide bomber belts and similar weapons. (In violation of the Geneva Convention, Arab terrorists are using women and children as "human shields". Nobody demands that they be trailed by an international court! 'Humanists' and 'objective' media are silent!) http://www.shamrak.com/index.php ----- DECLARING RACHEL'S TOMB TO BE A MOSQUE? by Steven Shamrak - Another Example of International anti-Israel Bastardry . The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO - the Arab League affiliate) voted recently to officially declare Rachel's Tomb to be a mosque. The vote called for Rachel's Tomb and the Tomb of the Patriarchs - the burial site of the other Biblical Patriarchs and Matriarchs - to be removed from Israel's National Heritage list. http://www.shamrak.com/index.php ----- WHY MUST ISRAEL COOPERATE WITH INTERNATIONAL HYPOCRITES? By Steven Shamrak - Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah called on Lebanese citizens not to cooperate with the UN's inquiry committee into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. His statement comes just two days after two members of the committee were forcefully removed from a clinic in a neighbourhood in southern Beirut. (Once again there is no international condemnation and the world the press is silent!) http://www.shamrak.com/index.php ----- "DELUSION" IS A MEDICAL CONDITION! By Steven Shamrak - Israel wants a real peace agreement with the Palestinians which will ensure Israeli security, and will not be satisfied with "papers and promises", Premier Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday night, ahead of the start of (recent) direct negotiations between the sides. (Which has never really eventuated) "We will not allow the firing of thousands of rockets and missiles from Palestinian territories into Israel as was the case when we pulled out of Lebanon and Gaza," he told members of his Likud Party at a traditional toast to mark the Jewish New year. "That is not peace. We want real agreements on the ground that ensure the security of Israel and its citizens," Netanyahu said. (Thirteen years after the Oslo Accords, both sides of Israeli politics are still playing dangerous delusional games that peace with Islamic terror is possible). The Prime Minister left for Washington, to attend a summit kicking off the long-delayed direct talks, the first face-to-face negotiations between the sides in more than a year. (What a misuse of time and money it was!) According to the Ha'aretz daily, he told the Likud members that "real peace lasts for generations," citing as an example the peace agreement Israel and Egypt signed in 1979. (And we all know what kind of a back-stabbing neighbour Egypt is!) He said peace was an attainable goal, but noted that it was not entirely up to Israel alone. (It is entirely up to Israel! It is time to face the truth - the enemies of Israel will never give up on the idea of destroying the Jewish state. Negotiations have time and again proven to be a waste of time. Only a strong Israel, pursuing and achieving Zionist goals without regard to fake political correctness, will be able to make our enemies to accept a newly created reality!) http://www.shamrak.com/index.php ----- ISRAEL MILITARY SAYS AIRSTRIKES KILLS GAZA MILITANT AP - Wednesday, November 03, 2010 6:06:09 AM By IBRAHIM BARZAK The military said the target was Mohammed Namnam, 25, of the Army of Islam group. A military statement asserted that the Army of Islam is tied to al-Qaida and world jihad, but Palestinians said it does not have a direct, operational connection with Osama bin Laden's group. The military said Namnam was involved in attacks against Israelis, and recently "Namnam was involved with directing a terror attack against American and Israeli targets in the (Egyptian) Sinai Peninsula, in cooperation with Hamas elements in the Gaza Strip." It gave no further details. The airstrike took place just outside the headquarters of the ruling Hamas' police force in Gaza City. Another person was injured, Hamas said. In past years Israeli aircraft have often targeted Gaza militants, but the frequency of the strikes has diminished considerably in recent months. An unwritten truce has been in effect since Israel's devastating three-week offensive in Gaza last year, aimed at halting rocket attacks. Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich, a military spokeswoman, claimed that Namnam was a "ticking bomb" planning more attacks, indicating that the Wednesday airstrike did not signal a return to frequent Israeli air attacks on Gaza. "From time to time we have the relevant intelligence information for such an event, and there can be similar events in the future," she said. The Army of Islam draws inspiration from al-Qaida, according to Palestinian experts. It is one of several small, shadowy militant groups operating in Gaza, sometimes clashing with the territory's Hamas rulers. http://www.bostonherald.com/news/international/middle_east/view/20101103israel_military_says_airstrike_ kills_gaza_militant/srvc=news&position=also ----- ISRAEL TAKES AIM AT PALESTINIAN INCITEMENT AP - Wednesday, November 03, 2010 7:25:15 AM By IAN DEITCH AwlakiIsrael announced Wednesday it will officially monitor "incitement" by the Palestinians, taking aim at what it says are widespread provocations against the Jewish state that undermine efforts to reach Mideast peace. The announcement further strained an atmosphere that has grown increasingly tense in recent weeks following the breakdown of U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace talks. Palestinians accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of trying to divert attention away from the impasse in the negotiations and its own failures to live up to obligations, such as a settlement freeze. Israel has long claimed that Palestinian leaders promote -- or tolerate -- hatred in school textbooks, public speeches and their official media. Israel have especially bristled at maps in schoolbooks and documents that do not designate Israel, and Palestinian TV broadcasts of mosque leaders denigrating Jews. All this feeds off -- and perhaps amplifies -- what Israelis consider a hostile atmosphere, reflected in the fact that militants who carried out deadly attacks against Israeli civilians are widely regarded as heroes in the Palestinian territories, and streets and other public domains are often named after them. Continued: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/03/AR2010110305824.html ----- ISRAEL CUTS OFF SPECIAL DIALOGUE WITH BRITAIN AP - Wednesday, November 03, 2010 4:56:24 AM By DANIEL ESTRIN Israel has suspended a special strategic dialogue with London as long as Israeli officials visiting Britain face possible arrest for suspected war crimes against Palestinians, officials said Wednesday. The announcement came as British Foreign Secretary William Hague met with senior Israeli officials in Jerusalem. Officials from both countries said the matter would be high on the meeting's agenda, and the British Foreign Office said it was working to resolve the matter. British officials also said Hague would repeat Britain's criticism of West Bank settlements. They said he would tell Israeli leaders that the "window for a two-state solution is closing" and that the U.S.-led peace process is the best opportunity for the two sides to hold talks. The British officials spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government policy. The latest round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, launched at the White House in September, stalled quickly over Israel's rejection of Palestinian demands for a continued freeze on West Bank settlement construction. Israel says the issue should be discussed in the negotiations. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told parliament Wednesday he will meet next week with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to discuss efforts to revive the talks. Netanyahu will be in the U.S. for a meeting of Jewish leaders. Earlier it was announced he would meet Vice President Joe Biden. Netanyahu expressed appreciation for Washington's role in the peace process. "I know that we have the desire to move it forward, and we have taken steps to do that. I am sure that the U.S. has such a desire," he said. "I hope that the Palestinian Authority also has such a desire." The Israel-Palestinian conflict continues to cloud Israel's relations with other countries, including Britain. Continued: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/11/03/1906394/israel-cuts-off-special-dialogue.html ----- IRAN SAYS WEST'S 'ARROGANCE' COULD DOOM NUKIE TALKS AP - Wednesday, November 03, 2010 1:35:39 AM By ALI AKBAR DAREINI Iran's president said Wednesday that upcoming talks with six world powers about its disputed nuclear program will fail if those nations continue along what he called a "path of arrogance." Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's comments, made in an address to a crowd of thousands in northeastern Iran, cast doubt on any possible progress in talks that Tehran has said it is ready to hold with the six powers -- the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany -- sometime after Nov. 10. The U.S. and some of its allies suspect Iran's civil nuclear energy program is a cover for a secret effort to develop weapons and are pushing the Tehran to fully open all facilities to international inspection and to give up uranium enrichment, a key element of its nuclear work that could give it a pathway to the bomb. Iran denies having nuclear weapons ambitions and says it only wants to enrich uranium to the lower levels used in producing fuel for power plants and nuclear medical radioisotopes used to treat patients. The standoff is the central issue of dispute between Iran and the West, and Ahmadinejad often accuses the U.S. in particular of using the confrontation to thwart Iran's technological progress and of wanting to dominate the nations of the Middle East. "You have only one option: That's recognizing the right and greatness of the Iranian nation," Ahmadinejad said in a speech broadcast live on state television. "Should you choose this path, nations may forgive you ... but if you want to continue the previous path of arrogance ... these people (the Iranian nation) will pursue you until you end up in hell." http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2010/11/03/iran_says_wests_arrogance_could_doom_ nuke_talks/?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+Boston+Globe+--+World+News ----- ISRAELI AIRPORT GIVES RARE GLIMPSE INTO SECURITY AP - Tuesday, November 02, 2010 8:35:43 AM By DANIEL ESTRIN - Airport security around the world isn't good enough, an Israeli airport official said Tuesday while showing international experts Israel's near-legendary methods as a possible solution. Israel, which prides itself on airport and airplane security, showed off robots and procedures to keep passengers safe. One method has been condemned in other countries -- profiling. Nahum Liss of the Israeli Airports Authority said Israel's heavily fortified international airport is the most protected in the world, speaking as authorities on three continents were investigating cargo bombs intercepted at airports last week in Britain and Dubai. A confident Liss told about 50 visiting security experts that security procedures at Ben-Gurion International Airport "are built in order to confront this kind of threat." Israel is known for its stringent airport security, the result of a string of Palestinian attacks on Israeli planes in the 1970s. Before approaching the ticket counter, passengers are thoroughly questioned by "selectors" who look for travelers who match a suspicious profile. "In the U.S., profiling is a bad word," Liss said, but he defended the practice, saying it is done by "intelligent, motivated" university students who served in Israel's military and can identify passengers who could pose a potential risk. Continued: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/02/AR2010110204797.html