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Middle East Current Actions with Future Objectives! Part A

March 17, 2006

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There is little question that Iran and Hamas have a common objective in the Middle East – To get the foreign devil governments out of Iraq and the Middle East as soon as possible, and to destroy the little devil Israel. It has been their plainly stated policy for a very long time and it will not change.

The only thing that is flexible is the “best way” for them to accomplish those two major objectives.

The “best way” changes from month to month, but the objectives will remain constant until the “time of Jacob’s trouble” begins in Zechariah 13:8, lasts for 1260 days in Revelation 12:6, and ends at Armageddon in Revelation 16:16, at which time the woman Israel is restored to her God by Messiah in Zechariah 13:9, followed by Messiah’s reign over all the earth in Zechariah 14:9.

Jeremiah 30:7 – Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

President Bush made it clear this week, by reaffirming his Doctrine of Preemptive War, that he was prepared to go to more violent ends than Iran had anticipated.

The following article by Pete Baker (Washington Post) beings this out quite well.

The article was taken from the Alert Center Jerusalem Report.

Begin Article One

Bush to Reaffirm Doctrine of Preemptive War

Peter Baker (Washington Post)

March 16, 2006

President Bush plans to issue a new national security strategy Thursday reaffirming his doctrine of preemptive war against terrorists and hostile states with chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons. The strategy expands on the security framework developed by the Bush administration in September 2002 that shifted U.S. foreign policy away from decades of deterrence and containment toward a more aggressive stance of attacking enemies before they attack the U.S. (Washington Post)

End Article One

The next article was taken from the DEBKAfile Report, and is a good account of President Bush’s resolve to practice internally in Iraq what he has proposed to do, if necessary, in Iran, unless they back off.

Begin Article 2

US military launches largest air-ground assault in Iraq since 2003 invasion, involving 50 aircraft, 1,

500 US and Iraq troops, 200 tactical vehicles.

DEBKAfile Report

March 16, 2006, 9:47 PM (GMT+02:00)

They are targeting insurgent strongholds in the hotbed Salaheddin province around Samarra 100 kilometers north of Baghdad.

Al Qaeda sanctuaries are believed to abound in that area. On the first day of Operation Swarmer, large weapons caches were discovered, containing artillery shells, explosives, uniforms and supplies of IED-making materials, which the Americans accuse Iran of smuggling into Iraq. The air force is dropping ground troops, making air strikes and providing support.

The assault will continue for several days. It comes in the wake of the sectarian violence triggered by last month’ s bombing of the Shiite

shrine in Samarra, attributed to al Qaeda, which has cost at least 1,000 lives.

End Article 2

The following article, by the Associated Press in the Jerusalem Post, may well indicate that President Bush got his point across by the actions described in Articles 1 and 2.

Begin Article 3

Iran Ready to Talk with US about Iraq

Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST

March 15, 2006

Iran’s top nuclear negotiator said Thursday that Teheran was ready to open talks with the United States over Iraq, marking a major Iranian foreign policy shift.

This is the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that Iran is officially calling for dialogue with the United States, which it has repeatedly condemned as “the Great Satan.”

“To resolve Iraqi issues and help establishment of an independent and free government in Iraq, we agree to (talks with the United States),” Ali Larijani told a closed meeting of the parliament Thursday.

But on Thursday, President George W.

Bush, undaunted by the difficult war in Iraq, reaffirmed his strike-first policy against terrorists and enemy nations on Thursday and said Iran may pose the biggest challenge for America.

In a 49-page national security report, the president said diplomacy is the US preference in halting the spread of nuclear and other heinous weapons.

“If necessary, however, under long-standing principles of self defense, we do not rule out the use of force before attacks occur – even if uncertainty remains as to the time and place of the enemy’s attack,” Bush wrote.

Titled “National Security Strategy,” the report summarizes Bush’s plan for protecting America and directing US relations with other nations. It is an updated version of a report Bush issued in 2002.

Iran has expressed grave concerns about the prospect of more violence in Iraq, where bloody sectarian fighting and reprisal killings have broken out in recent weeks.

Larijani did not address the nuclear issue, which the United States and Iran are currently in dispute over.

End Article 3

As I was preparing Article 3 for transmission, a new article arrived from a press conference saying that President Bush had agreed to talk

to the Iranians about security in Iraq. This has been a fast moving week geologically and politically.

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The Great Splitting of the Great Rift Valley!

Supplement to Archive Birth Pang Numbers 15, 19, and 20

Supplement to Archive Birth Pang Figures 24, 25, and 31 to 37

March 16, 2006

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Thirty years ago, when I wrote the first of my three books, Tectonic Chaos, I discussed in detail the great rift valley that extends northeast from southern Africa through Zambia, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Djibouti to the Afar Triangle, then north-northwest through the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba, then north through the Dead Sea, the Jordan River Valley, and between Lebanon

and Syria. I have surveyed large segments of it. I warned that the day would come when the rift spreading from the Gulf of Aqaba southward would reach a critical expansion pressure sufficient to cause a sudden ripping apart of the Jordan River Valley. I have long believed that to be the first great earthquake in Revelation 6:12. And I believed there would be an acceleration of the movement in the Rift Valleys southern portion around the Afar Triangle and southward into Africa several years before the Jordan Valley ripped open. I believe that accelerated movement is now occurring.

In recent blogs I discussed the number of earthquakes that had been occurring last month in the Rift Valley from the Afar Triangle or Depression southward as far south as Burundi, and indicated this was setting the stage for an eventual splitting of the Jordan River Valley section of the very long Rift Valley.

The article which follows describes the movement that started to occur in this area last year.

The article, which follows, by Axel Bojanowski, came from SPIEGAL ONLINE, March 15, 2006.

URL:http//www.spiegel.de/international/spiegal/0,1518,405947,00.html

Begin Spiegal Article

Africa’s New Ocean

A Continent Splits Apart

By Axel Bojanowski

Normally new rivers, seas and mountains are born in slow motion.

The Afar Triangle near the Horn of Africa is another story. A new ocean is forming there with staggering speed — at least by geological standards. Africa will eventually lose its horn.

Geologist Dereje Ayalew and his colleagues from Addis Ababa University were amazed — and frightened. They had only just stepped out of their helicopter onto the desert plains of central Ethiopia when the ground began to shake under their feet. The pilot shouted for the scientists to get back to

the helicopter. And then it happened: the Earth split open. Crevices began racing toward the researchers like a zipper opening up. After a few seconds, the ground stopped moving, and after they had recovered from their shock, Ayalew and his colleagues realized they had just witnessed history.

For the first time ever, human beings were able to witness the first stages in the birth of an ocean.

Normally changes to our geological environment take place almost imperceptibly. A life time is too short to see rivers changing course, mountains rising skywards or valleys opening up.

In north-eastern Africa’s Afar Triangle, though, recent months have seen hundreds of crevices splitting the desert floor and the ground has slumped by as much as 100 meters (328 feet). At the same time, scientists have observed magma rising from deep below as it begins to form what will eventually become a basalt ocean floor. Geologically speaking, it won’t be long until the Red Sea floods the region. The ocean that will then be born will split Africa apart.

The Afar Triangle, which cuts across Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti, is the largest construction site on the planet. Three tectonic plates meet there with the African and Arabic plates drifting apart along two separate fault lines by one centimeter a year. A team of scientists working with Christophe Vigny of the Paris Laboratory of Geology reported on the phenomenon in a 2006 issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research. While the two plates move apart, the ground sinks to make room for the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

Bubbling magma and the smell of sulphur.

A third crevice cuts south, splitting not far from Lake Victoria. One branch of the rift runs to the east, the other to the west of the lake. The two branches of this third crevice are moving apart by about one millimeter a year.

The dramatic event that Ayalew and his colleagues witnessed in the Afar Desert on Sept. 26, 2005 was the first visual proof of this process — and it was followed by a week-long series of earthquakes.

During the months that followed, hundreds of further crevices opened up in the ground, spreading across an area of 345 square miles. “The earth has not stopped moving since,” geophysicist Tim Wright of the University of Oxford says. The ground is still splitting open and sinking, he says; small earthquakes are constantly shaking the region.

Scientists have made repeated trips to the area since the drama of last September. Locals have reported a number of new cracks opening in the ground, says geologist Cynthia Ebinger from the University of London, and during each visit, new crevices are discovered. Fumes as hot as 400 degrees Celsius (752 degrees Fahrenheit) shoot up from some of them; the sound of bubbling magma and the smell of sulphur rise from others.

The larger crevices are dozens of meters deep and several hundred meters long.

Traces of recent volcanic eruptions are also visible.

In a number of places, cracks have opened up beneath the thin layer of volcanic ash that covers the region. As there is no ash in the fissures, it’s clear that they opened up after the volcanic eruptions, most of which took place at the end of September or in October, 2005. A number of locals who fled the eruptions have reported that a black cloud of ash — spewed out of the Dabbahu volcano — darkened the sky for three days.

A new ocean floor on the Earth’s surface

Basalt magma has risen into some of the crevices. For the moment, Ayalew explains, the lava seems not to be rising further.

A number of recent eruptions, though, have left layers of new basalt lava on the Earth’s surface. And it’s the exact same kind of lava that spews out of volcanic ridges deep under the ocean — a process which slowly pushes older lava sediments away on either side. The process has only just begun in the Afar Triangle — and scientists for the first time can witness the birth of a new ocean floor. The source of the African magma looks to be a gigantic stream of molten rock rising from beneath the Earth’s crust and slicing through the African continental plate like a blow torch. It’s a process that began thirty million years ago when lava broke through the continent for the first time, separating the Arabian Peninsula from Africa and creating the Red Sea.

Now, it’s the Afar Triangle’s turn and it’s sinking rapidly. Large areas are already more than 100 meters (328 feet) below sea level. For now, the highlands surrounding the Denakil Depression prevent the Red Sea from flooding these areas, but erosion and tectonic plate movement are continually reducing the height of this natural barrier. The Denakil Depression, which lies to the east of Afar, is already prey to regular floods — each flood leaving behind a crust of salt.

Africa to lose its horn

The chain of volcanoes that runs along the roughly 6,000 kilometer (3,730 mile) long East African Rift System offers further testimony to the breaking apart of the continent. In some areas around the outer edges of the Rift System, the Earth’s crust has already cracked open, making room for the magma below. From the Red Sea to Mozambique in the south, dozens of volcanoes have formed, the best known being Mt.

Kilimanjaro and Mt. Nyiragongo.

End Spiegal Article

Begin Archive Update 179A

SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 179A

July 4, 2004

The Book “Tectonic Chaos” – Chapter 1 – The Great Split

I began work on this book immediately after graduating from the MBS in Little Rock, Arkansas, and completed it in 1977 while doing post graduate work at ATU in Russellville, having graduated from ATU in 1976. I have received numerous requests to reprint it as I have been lecturing across the globe. Because there was considerable duplication between it and my second book, “Tribulation Triad,” I deliberately let it go out of print, feeling some might feel cheated because

of the volume of duplication. However, since many of my brethren kept bugging me for a copy, and since I only have two, one soft back, and one hard back, I decided to reprint and update it on our web site and, Lord willing, I will eventually put up all 36 chapters as time permits.

Chapter 1 – The Great Split

Zechariah 14:4 – And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

For hundreds of years preachers have proclaimed from God’s word this event would occur during the tribulation period, and

the proclamation, as is normally the case, has been met will rolls of laughter from most of the scientific world. Oddly enough, these scientists have, and still are, fulfilling a prophecy made by God through the prophet Daniel.

Daniel 12:4 – But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

Daniel’s prophecies concerning pre-tribulation events have, and are, being fulfilled, and indeed men and women have run “to and fro across”
the earth’s surface, “to and fro” into the universe, and “to and fro” in places beneath the earth’s land and water surface. This has produced a fantastic knowledge explosion in our understanding of the form and contents of God’s creation. The continuing fulfillment of Daniel 12:4 has convinced me that we are living in the days of “the time of the end.” And I am equally convinced these “to and fro” geological discoveries have so increased man’s knowledge that we now understand the basic form in which God designed the outer and enter crust of earth. These discoveries are in perfect agreement with what God revealed to the prophet Zechariah more than 2400 years ago.

Man has, in recent times, discovered a long, deep fault or “crack” in the earth’s crust that extends northward from the Red Sea through the Gulf of Eilat (Aqabah) into Israel and Lebanon. The Arabs identify it as the Gulf of Aqabah, and the Israelis call it the Gulf of Eilat. The fault itself is known to both as the “great rift valley fault”. It is a double fault in the sense that the two parts of it are separated by the valley floor between the two fault block mountains on it two sides.

The vast majority of earthquakes occur along both sides of the valley from Eilat to the Lebanese border. (See Figures 24 and 25 found under our Birth Pangs Menu as Birth Pang Figures). It is the ripping open of this rift valley that will produce the earthquake responsible for the splitting of the Mount of Olives, which will itself be divided into a mini-rift valley as
it spreads apart. (See Figures 30 to 33 in Birth Pangs).

The faults or “two cracks” in the earth’s surface are the northern part of a deep rift, or graben valley, which extends the length of the Red Sea, then southwestward through southeastern Africa. (See Figures 29 and 30 in Birth Pangs). The double cracks extend downward into molten magma beneath the earth’s surface. (See Birth Pang Figures 26 to 28). Widespread scientific exploration during the seventies fully exposed the spreading of the earth’s surface occurring in the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, and in southeastern Africa. Soon this splitting will extend northward unto the Jordan Valley, and, according to Zechariah 14:4, its effect will be sudden and dramatic.

The fantastic earthquake produced in this Jordan Valley Rift, some 30 miles east of Jerusalem, will be sudden and abrupt, as will be its effect on the Mount of Olives, which will be torn into two parts during that terrible time in the tribulation period. This “suddenness” is certainly in accord with the geologic structure of today. At the present the rift valley fault is spreading apart in the Red Sea at a rate of several centimeters each year, but the northern extension of the fault through Israel and Lebanon has been locked or “frozen” in place by tremendous tectonic forces. When the spreading of the Red Sea fault reaches a certain critical (known only by God) both sides of the Jordan Valley will rip apart with a tremendous earthquake. This earthquake will cause the two faults, which now exist through the northern and southern flanks of the Mount of Olives, to move slightly, one north, and one south, and a new mini-graben valley will be formed between them as the middle of the mountain falls down between them. (See Birth Pang Figures 30 to 33).

When the northern and southern parts spread apart one part will be carried north with the Arabian tectonic plate, and the other will be carried south with the African tectonic plate. (See Birth Pang Figures 33 and 34).

Zechariah 14:5 – And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.

For a full exposition of Zechariah 14:5, please look in our Prophecy Update Archives at Updates 130 and 131.

End Archive Update Number 179A

Please take a look at Archive Birth Pangs Numbers 15,19,20 and Birth Pang Archive Figures Numbers 24,25, and 31 to 37.

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The Palestinians had Their Chance, and Blew it!

March 15, 2006

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We started our Web Site in 1999, but Y2K knocked out my computer and the data I had on my hard drive, so we

started over in 2000, only to have a virus cremate my hard drive on my second computer. I now have the best stuff available to ward off viruses, and we have backed up our archives from 2001. Prophecy Update 24A was issued in March of 2001, as a follow up to Prophecy Update Number 3 of January 2001. It was the first time I realized the likely settlement of the so-called peace negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians would end in a forced

peace put on the Palestinians

, that is, if they would not negotiate and continued the intifada. The following was extracted from Prophecy Update 24A in our Archives.

Begin Usurp from Update 24A, 2001

“If the Palestinians and terrorist groups continue to perform acts of killing against his people, will Ariel Sharon eventually be forced to put a “forced peace” on the Palestinians? My answer is YES!

In Prophecy Update Number 3, when Ariel Sharon first took office, I stated: “Ariel Shar on may try to put a forced peace

on the Palestinians before the terrorist groups shut down. This was one of the options considered by his party in the past.” So what is a “forced peace?” Barriers would be built, which would completely surround the autonomous zones given to the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, and the IDF would deploy guards day and night outside those barriers in order to separate the two nations. It would be similar, but not exactly the same, as the Berlin wall Russia built to separate West and East Germany during the cold war.

All but the major roads leading into the Palestinian Autonomous Zones would be sealed off. At the major road openings in the wall the IDF would thoroughly scrutinize all who passed through, and all types of transportation would be examined from top to bottom. Many of these barriers are already in place, and some of the material to add onto them is already in place. It would amount to a nation within a nation, with the surrounding nation controlling the movements of the inner nation. If the inner nation was deemed responsible for terrorist activities in the outer nation, the outer nation could launch air strikes against the inner nation without fear of killing their own people.”

End Usurp from Update 24A, 2001

This is basically where we are today in March of 2006, five years later, and the finally security barrier will be similar to the one I presented in Prophecy Update 65D. The following two articles from the Jerusalem Post and Haaretz give interesting details of the “forced” peace as it is being carried out today.

Begin Article One from Jerusalem Post

US Briefed on Israel’s Borders Plan

Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST

March 12, 2006

Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert briefed the US last week on his plan to impose Israel’s final borders with the Palestinians if efforts to resume peace talks fail, an Olmert spokesman said Sunday.

Backing from Washington, Israel’ s clo

sest and most powerful ally, would be critical for any major initiative.

“They neither approved nor objected to it,” said spokesman Asaf Shariv, adding that an Olmert aide presented the plan to a US official before Olmert disclosed it in published interviews last week.

US Embassy spokesman Stewart Tuttle was unable to confirm the report.

In the interviews, Olmert said he planned to withdraw from much of the West Bank and parts

of Jerusalem by 2010. The plan, which also calls for beefing up major settlement blocs Israel would retain, falls well short of Palestinian claims to all of the West Bank.

He said he expected to win US and broader international support for the effort, which he expects to launch after Israel’s March 28 elections. Polls show Olmert’s Kadima Party easily winning the vote.

Washington, the main architect of the “road map” peace plan, supports a negotiated settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and not another unilateral move like last summer’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and four small West Bank settlements.

President Bush has backed Israel’s claims to keep some settlement blocs, but US officials have reacted coolly to Israeli claims on the Ariel settlement bloc, deep inside the West Bank, and the Jordan River Valley.

End Article One from Jerusalem Post

The Palestinians could have gotten back much more of the West Bank and Jordan Valley if they had come to the negotiation table and stopped an Intifada they began in 2000, but they would not stop the Intifada and would not negotiate anything – They wanted all the West Bank. Now it is too late, and the borders are going to be forced on

the Palestinians. The second article with follows from Haaretz indicates Israel is going to gobble up the Jordan Valley from the eastern foothills of the West Bank Mountains to the Jordan River.

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Some 2,000 Palestinians Banned from Entering Jordan Valley

By Akiva Eldar , Haaretz

March 14, 2006

Israel is preventing some 2,000 Palestinians who have left the Jordan Valley from returning to the area, in an effort to keep them from demanding their land back.

Thousands of dunams of land have been illegally transferred to settlements and army bases in the area.

The Civil Administration has confirmed the existence of a list that had been known as the “List of 100,” which now bears the names of the 2,000 banned Palestinians. All the requests of the people on the list to return to the territories under the principle of family unification, or even for short visits, have been rejected for about 30 years, when the ban was first instituted. The Civil Administration cites security concerns as the reason for its rejections.

End Usurp from Haaretz Article

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The Great Seven Year Intifada Security Barrier!

( Intifada, Intefada, Intafada, or Intifadah)

People have asked me several times how to spell Intifada. You will be happy to know all four of the spellings above are correct.

The article from Ha’aretz by Aluf Ben, which follows the preamble and

Scriptures, is encouraging on the determination of Israel to complete the new fence this year.

A lot of Israelis have been waiting for a long time for completion of this fence.

At the end of September 2000, the Palestinians started a campaign of violence against Israel that resulted in the murder of 1,148 people, most of them civilians, in acts of terror committed inside Israel.

It was very easy for terrorists to pass from the West Bank to Israel because there were no natural or man-made obstacles to stop them. The terror acts mounted until Israel saw 139 people murdered in one month, in March 2002. The public pressed the government to build a barrier between Israelis and Palestinians, and although the government didn’t want to do it, out of concern that any line on the ground would have a political meaning in future negotiations, it was forced by public opinion to build the fence.

That security barrier/wall/fence is scheduled to finally be finished by the end of 2006, according to the article from Ha’aretz, which follows. However, I think it is more likely to be finished in 2007. I have waited for the delayed security barrier to be finished since 2000, and have been extremely anxious for its completion, because I believe it will mark the time when Israel finally begins to have a mindset of “peace and safety.” How long that mindset will be in place before the Arab Jihad attack occurs, I cannot say. That is the reason I have been guesstimating it to happen between 2008 and 2012.

I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. [4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

Zechariah 13:8 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God,

that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

Jeremiah 30:7 – Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

Zechariah 13:9 – And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

I do not believe the attack against Israel by 10 Arab nations will occur until American troops are withdrawn from Iraq, which would insure that attack would surely fail, and is the main reason I have chosen the time frame 2008 to 2012 as the most likely time for the attack against Israel to occur. In the last two operations the United States conducted against Iraq, the logistical problem of getting our troops over there and in place was the most difficult part of the two conflicts.

There simply won’t be time to get them back over there when the lightning Jihad is launched. Once our troops have been withdrawn, it will eventually be followed by a Jihad of 10 nations against Israel.

Begin Ha’aretz Article

Olmert: Separation Fence to be Completed by End of Year

By Aluf Benn

Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday told settlers the State of Israel intends to complete the construction of the separation fence around the West Bank within several months.

“By the end of the year we plan to finish the security fence,” Olmert said

during a visit to the West Bank settlement town of Ariel.

During his visit to Ariel Olmert made a pledge to designate the settler town and its environs a part of Israel proper: “Ladies and gentlemen, I want to be clear on this, the Ariel block will be an inseparable part of the state of Israel under any situation.”

Official sources said he wished to bring a “message of conciliation” to the settlers, and a commitment to the settlement blocs. Olmert was also expected to call on West Bank settlers to join his “internal dialogue” on fixing a border between Israel and the Palestinians.

Olmert was scheduled to inaugurate a new water pipe to the town, which will pass near the new Highway 5 route, replacing the existing pipe in the Palestinian village of Bidia.

The pipe’s inauguration will illustrate Olmert’s intention to continue investing state funds in the infrastructure of the settlement blocs slated to be annexed to Israel.

The event comes two weeks after Olmert promised that “in the next few years Israel will not invest in construction and development of infrastructure beyond the Green Line.”

In weekend interviews with the media, Olmert presented his plan to withdraw from most West Bank territories to a new border that would surround the large settlement blocs – Ariel, Ma’aleh Adumim and Gush Etzion, and Jerusalem’s Old City and adjacent neighborhoods in East Jerusalem. He also spoke of evacuating the settlements that remain outside the separation fence.

Sources in Kadima’s campaign staff have already said that Olmert intends to make a course correction to the right after his statements regarding the pullout. The visit in Ariel is supposed to illustrate his commitment to the settlement blocs, and to show that keeping

them in Israel is at the center of his political plan.

Channel 2 television reported Monday that construction work had begun on the new police headquarters in the E-1 zone between Jerusalem and Ma’aleh Adumim. The plan is to build a large neighborhood in this area. The U.S. objects to its construction for fear of obstructing the territorial contiguity of the future Palestinian state.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon approved building the police headquarters in E-1 last August, and the U.S. did not voice an objection.

“Beginning the construction had nothing to do with Olmert, it was on the basis of an old plan,” a Jerusalem source said.

Olmert said in the weekend interviews that the neighborhood in E-1 will be built to create an Israeli territorial contiguity from Jerusalem to Ma’aleh Adumim. If there is no continuity, he said, Ma’aleh Adumim would be an island or an enclave.

End Ha’aretz Article

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Islam Anxious to Fill a Void Left by a Dying European Christian Faith!

March 14, 2006

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I read an interesting article last month by Dale Hurd, CBN News Sr.

Reporter. The article was titled “Europe Forsakes Christianity for Islam?” Hav ing been stationed

in Europe and the Middle East in the fifties and sixties, and observing the deterioration of Christianity that occurred just during that period, plus the changes I noted on numerous visits in the seventies, eighties, and nineties, I was not surprised at his findings.

Islam is anxious to fill the void left behind by a dying Christian Faith in Europe. Jesus started the spread of the Christian faith across Europe by what he taught in Israel for more than three years after he was baptized and became head of the first church made up of his disciples.

His local churches multiplied across all of southeastern, central, and western Europe through many centuries, and then they began to die. Today their spiritual decline has led to a European continent filled with gigantic church buildings of great antiquity, but these huge edifices do not contain great numbers of the masses, and are ever declining in the

numbers of spiritual worshippers inside them. They do not exhibit the spiritual zeal and intensity of the first local churches in Europe, and are filled with a cold sense

of rigid formality and beautiful costumes that do not reflect what lives inside them.

Jesus called out and organized the first New Testament Church during his earthly ministry of more than three years. Its initial composition consisted of 11 men who had repented of their sins and one who had not, but all 12 had been baptized by John the Baptist. The simplistic teachings of Christ had been presented to them as they traveled with him.

After the Lord’s resurrection from the dead, local churches began to be formed, northward into Syria, then Turkey, then Greece, then Rome, then France and, during many centuries, around the earth.

II Corinthians 11:3 – But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

For all practical purposes, his simplistic teachings, and spreading local churches, have now been replaced by a European continent blanketed with huge edifices of worship that most Europeans fail to enter except maybe once or twice a year at Christmas and Easter, and a majority never darken the door of any church building at any time.

The few that do attend are elderly, and many of them come as a habit, rather than as a time of joy and opportunity.

The younger generation, in general, does not only attend church, but is antireligious for the most part.

France is perhaps the worst in Europe regarding church attendance, where only five percent go to church on a weekly basis and only ten percent think religion is very important. Across the rest of Europe only about 21 percent think religion is very important.

The weakness of the Christian faith in Europe has not been able to deal with the tremendous influx of Muslims from Africa and the Middle East. But they have viewed the intensity of fanatical religious Islamic fever displayed by the burnings of countless vehicles during the riots of Europe that began in France. And they have felt the sting of Islamic tenacity in the violent protests against cartoons of Muhammad, which appeared first in the Danish press. Europe is afraid of its own shadow, and turning to the God of their forefathers to deliver them from their fears does not even cross their carnal minds. Europe is not converting Islam to Christianity – Islam is converting Europeans to Islam.

There is a question that Jesus asked openly, not because he did not know the answer, but because he wanted mankind to know how it would be on this earth when he returned.

Luke 18:7,8 – And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them

? [8] I tell you that he will avenge them speedily.

Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, SHALL HE FIND (THE) FAITH ON THE EARTH?

He indicated there would be pitifully few men and women following the same teachings he delivered to his first church. I believe Europe is now in that faithless state he implied.

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