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AFTER and BEFORE – Will U.K. Fear Appeasement cause U.S. to lose Passage?

I FEAR MORE OF OUR OLD ALLIES WILL TURN AGAINST US AND ISRAEL

June 30, 2007

There were gobs of protest marches in northern Scotland about the activities of the U.S. while I was still in the NSA, so the bomb blast at the Glasgow Terminal should not really have surprised anyone, because many Scots and Terrorist Groups have long wanted to stop American activities in Scotland. My forefathers crossed out of Scotland into what is now known as Northern Ireland, during the time of the great William of Orange. I am an Orange Irishman – and we are not loved by the Green Irish of Ireland who are predominantly Catholic. I love both the Scots and the Irish, and what I am about to write is by no means meant to cast any criticism on the Scots, because it is their country and they are the ones who have the right to help us or hate us. I am hoping they will let us keep our bases there because we need them in a war that will come upon all the world, regardless of ethnic background or religion. I issued hundreds of forecasts (FBUK) for the outer and inner Hebrides, plus the valleys and highlands of Scotland from Glasgow to Aberdeen, from 1959 to 1961. I know the importance of this area. Rest assured this bombing is to get Scotland to tell us to get out, because it would give Islam what it wants once a final conflict begins.

Even before today’s bomb blast at the Scottish airport there have been countless demonstrations against allowing the United States to use the facilities in Scotland as a staging area for weapons (especially nuclear). The protests have been against our nuclear submarine facilities there, and against all types of weapons passing through Glasgow’s Airport on their way to be used against U.S. enemies. These protests have been going on for the last forty years.

Article One gives the details of today’s car bomb ramming into the Glasgow Terminal. Article Two recounts a protest issued before today’s bombing occurred.

First read Article 2, which came out before today’s actual bombing, and then read Article 1, which covers the actual bombing.

Considering protests have been going on this zone of Scotland, it will be easy to see why I asked, “Will UK fear cause us to lose passage?”

The title in Article Two might confuse the reader, so I should advise you that the “bomb” in Article Two refers to American planes carrying and transporting bombs through the Glasgow Airport.

The “bomb” found in Article One is the terrorist bomb that exploded today in front of the Glasgow Terminal.

Article One

“AFTER”

World Updates

June 30, 2007

Car rams into Scottish airport terminal – police

By Alistair Bell

GLASGOW, Scotland (Reuters) – A four-wheel-drive vehicle raced across a central reservation and rammed into the front doors of Glasgow airport’s main terminal on Saturday before exploding in flames, Glasgow police and witnesses said.

A Glasgow police spokeswoman said there were no immediate reports of any injuries and said the blaze was under control.

Witnesses told the BBC that the vehicle, a Land Rover or a Jeep Cherokee, had exploded shortly after crashing into the glass front doors of the terminal, and said there was a heavy stench of petrol.

“It raced across the central reservation and went straight into the building,” said taxi driver Ian Crosby outside the terminal.

Crosby said a stocky Asian man had got out of the car and was quickly tackled to the ground by bystanders.

“It would appear to me to have been a deliberate attack.

I think this was a terrorist attack,” Crosby said.

A separate witness told Sky News that a man had attempted to take a gas cylinder from the car before the vehicle went up in flames, but that could not be independently confirmed.

Sky quoted Glasgow police as saying four people had been arrested in the wake of the incident.

The attack came a day after police in London foiled a plot involving two car bombs packed with fuel, gas canisters and nails that were parked in central London on Friday night and set to detonate.

Anti-terror police said the car bombs could have killed or maimed scores of people. A large-scale counter-terrorism operation has been launched in the wake of the thwarted plot, which came less than two years after 52 commuters were killed in a series of suicide bomb blasts on London’s transport system.

In Glasgow, another witness told the BBC he was not sure that the car was intended to be a bomb as the explosion that occurred after it crashed was relatively small.

The witness, Stephen Clarkson, who said he had helped tackle one of the occupants of the vehicle to the ground, said another Asian man from the vehicle was badly burnt in the incident. He was also detained and taken away by police, he said.

“There was chaos at the airport,” James Edgar, another witness, told Sky News. “Suddenly everyone said to get out of the airport.”

BAA, which manages the airport, was not immediately available to comment.

Glasgow airport handles around 8.5 million passengers a year according to its Web site, and would have been packed with holidaymakers at the time of the incident, which took place at around 1520 (1420 GMT), according to Glasgow police.

”BEFORE”

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BBC NEWS

Fury at airport bomb flights role

Residents and politicians in Ayrshire have voiced anger after the US used Prestwick Airport as a stopover while transporting bombs to Israel.

Community councils in the town demanded answers and said they intend to write to the Foreign Office and US Government expressing their concerns.

Community chairperson Archie Monkhouse said: “We don’t want aircraft and armoury flying in built-up areas.”

MSPs and MPs called for a halt to further US arms shipments.

Brian Donohoe, MP for Central Ayrshire, called for an “urgent meeting” with Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett MP.

He said: “Having made representations in the past to have more military flights using Prestwick Airport, it would be duplicitous of me to call for any end to military flights.

“However, if the United States is not carrying out procedures correctly, then this must be looked into.”

He added: “I believe the government needs to take a tougher stance with Israel.”

‘Accessory to violence’

Alex Salmond MP, leader of the Scottish National Party, said: “The UK should be joining the rest of the world in bringing about such a ceasefire.

“We should not be an accessory to the escalation of violence in the Middle East.”

He described the silence from the executive as “deafening”.

Sandra Osbourne, Labour MP for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock, highlighted an earlier controversy over reports that the airport had been used for US rendition flights.

She said: “This is further unwelcome publicity for Prestwick Airport.

“I don’t think locally we’d welcome Prestwick Airport being used as America’s aircraft carrier.”

John Scott, Conservative MSP for Ayr, said he was “extremely concerned”.

He added: “I don’t believe we should be sustaining the conflict by allowing ordinance of this nature to go through Prestwick when it is apparently bringing such destruction to both sides of the conflict.”

Mr Scott’s colleague and fellow Conservative South of Scotland MSP, Phil Gallie, said Prestwick Airport existed to provide a service.

He added: “It is quite entitled to continue providing a service.”

‘Peaceful solutions’

Irene Oldfather, Labour MSP for Cunninghame South, said: “Prestwick is a civil airport used by thousands of civilians each day and I certainly do not think it is appropriate for such an airport to be used for this purpose.”

Rosie Kane, Scottish Socialist Party MSP for Glasgow, said Prestwick’s geographical position was being “used and abused”.

She said: “Blair and Bush have been complicit in their silence and are arming a disproportionate attack on, for the most part, innocent people.

“The executive better stick their neck out and have something to say.

“All that should fly through airports is medicine, food and diplomacy.”

Green MSPs called for the Scottish Executive, UK Government and Prestwick Airport authorities to prevent further use of the airport by US flights carrying arms to Israel.

Chris Ballance, Green MSP for South of Scotland and speaker on peace, said: “Scotland should be working for peaceful solutions in the Middle East, not facilitating this brutal conflict.

“First Minister Jack McConnell has a chance to send the strong and unequivocal message that Scotland deplores the violence in the Middle East and will play no part in fuelling it.”

In Prestwick, local people expressed their surprise and anger that military flights had passed so close to their homes.

Pat Robertson, chair of Prestwick North community council, said: “Personally, I think they have a confounded cheek.

‘Kept informed’

“I don’t think these things should be near houses, they should’ve gone to a military airport.

“It is a safety issue and I’ll be looking at why this happened.”

Mr Monkhouse, chair of Prestwick South community council, said: “The general view is we were not impressed and not pleased.

“We intend to write to the Foreign Office and the Americans expressing our concerns.

“It makes us a target.

They have to refuel someplace but why here?

“We don’t want these aircraft and armoury flying about in built up areas.”

A spokesman for First Minister Jack McConnell said: “Aviation and foreign affairs are both areas which are the reserved responsibility of the UK Government.

“It is entirely appropriate these matters are being handled by the foreign secretary.

“The first minister is pleased that Margaret Beckett is looking into this matter and he is being kept informed by his officials.”

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Welcome to So-Called PA made up of Terrorist Groups headed by Mob Bosses who answer to the Iranian Mafia Bosses!

June 30, 2007

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Since we started our web site seven years ago I have stated repeatedly what should by now be obvious to even the most casual observers of Middle East Affairs, namely, that not one single so called leader of the PLO or Palestinian Authority has ever been able to control the Hamas or any of the terrorist groups that splintered off mother Fatah. The Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades and Islamic Jihad have agendas and goals that are more aligned with Hamas, Hizbullah, and Iran than with Fatah. A peace agreement with the so-called PA or PLO Fatah Government of Abbas in the West Bank is meaningless and worthless. Once in a while, someone asks me, well, what would you do if you had to straighten out this problem? My answer is not a hedge. I would trust Jesus Christ to bring Middle East Peace when he comes, because he is the only one who is able to do it.

Simply stated, this mess is beyond man’ s ability to

solve. I can only tell you where we are heading and that there is no way to stop this train.

THE PROPHET JOEL DESCRIBES WHERE WE ARE HEADING!

Joel 3:9-12 – Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: [10] Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. [11] Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord. [12] Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.

THE PROPHET JOHN DESCRIBES THE END AT ARMAGEDDON!

Revelation 16:16-19 – And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

[17] And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. [18] And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. [19] And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

THE PROPHET MICAH DESCRIBES THE PEACE FOLLOWING!

Micah 4:1-3 – But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. [2] And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and

the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

[3] And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

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Terrorists Deny Abbas’s Disarm Claims

14 Tammuz 5767, 30 June 07 01:17

by Aaron Klein, WorldNetDaily.com

(IsraelNN.com) Members of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ declared military wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, today denied claims by Abbas he asked the terror group to turn in their weapons, stating officials instead have encouraged them to continue their “resistance” activities.

Abbas pledged during a summit with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Monday he would immediately dismantle all militias in the West Bank not connected to security forces of his Fatah party.

Abbas deputies have been telling the international media the Al-Aqsa Brigades agreed to turn in their weapons in exchange for guarantees that Israel not try to arrest or kill them.

“No one from Abbas’ office ever asked us to disarm,” Nasser Abu Aziz, the deputy commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the northern Samaria, told WorldNetDaily (WND). “We will never disarm until all issues are settled, including a complete Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Jerusalem and the right of return for all Palestinian refugees.”

Abu Yousuf, a leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Ramallah, told WND Abbas’ claims the Brigades will disarm “are more of a message meant for the Israelis, the Americans and the international community.”

“No one (from Abbas’ office) addressed a single member of the Brigades and asked us to turn in our weapons,” he said.

Zacharias Zubeidi, leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the northern Samaria city of Jenin, told WND the decree from Abbas’ office for armed groups to be dismantled “has nothing to do with the Brigades. It’s meant for Hamas. Abbas recognizes the Brigades as a legitimate source of resistance.”

In March 2002, after an Al-Aqsa Brigade suicide bombing in Jerusalem, the group was designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the United States Department of State. In a scenario similar to Abbas’s statements this week, late PLO Leader Yasser Arafat publicly condemned the Brigade while days later a Brigade leader, Naser Badawi, told the New York Times that Arafat had, at that point, never approached the group to ask it to stop its suicide bombings.

Together with the Islamic Jihad terror group, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades took responsibility for every suicide bombing in Israel the past two years. The Brigades regularly carries out shooting attacks and has taken credit for firing hundreds of rockets from the Gaza Strip aimed at nearby Jewish population centers.

Many members of the Brigades openly serve in Fatah militias, including Force 17, Abbas’ presidential guard units which serve as de facto police officers in the Judea and Samaria.

In line with pledges made at Monday’s summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Abbas’ office today issued a decree for all armed groups to turn in their weapons.

“On the basis of the declaration of a state of emergency in the Palestinian territories, and by virtue of my authority, all armed militias, groups and brigades that do not belong in practice to the security services shall be treated as illegal organizations,” read the first order.

“The government must halt the phenomenon of armed groups, prevent the bearing of arms and confiscate guns, explosives and any type of weaponry purchased illegally, since they endanger the public order,” the decree continued.

Fatah offers Al-Aqsa Brigades leaders shelter

Sources in the Al-Aqsa Brigades said officials from Abbas’ office encouraged them in recent days to tell members of the international news media they are ready to hand in their weapons.

“But on the ground, not a single weapon has been turned in and it will remain this way,” a Brigades source said.

Brigades sources said Fatah officials have invited some Brigades leaders to seek shelter in PA security buildings in Judea and Samaria.

Some Brigades members the past few years have lived regularly in PA compounds, including the Mukata, late PLO Leader Yasser Arafat’s headquarters in Ramallah.

The Brigades sources said they were asked to leave the compounds last month, after the Israel Defense Forces threatened operations to arrest

Brigades members.

But the Brigades sources said they were told this week they could return to the PA compounds.

“It seems the threat of arrest from Israel for the time being is no longer there,” said a Brigades leader.

This article originally appeared on WorldNetDaily.com

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Is there the Remotest Possibility th at

True Peace can be produced by Diplomacy and Dialogue?

June 29, 2007

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Matthew 10:34-36 – Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. [35] For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. [36] And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.

There can never be true peace on this present earth until the one who spoke these words returns at his Second Advent, and then it will only last for a thousand years, after which time a new earth will experience eternal peace.

What peace mankind has experienced, since Cain killed Abel, has been in the form of brief interludes following major wars, in which one side was decisively defeated to a state of helplessness.

Please read the Haaretz Article which follows the Scriptures. As you read it, consider the huge number of ifs, ands, buts, risks, twists, turns, and possibilities it says lie between Israel and peace – Then ask yourself realistically if there is the remotest possibility that true peace could ever be produced by diplomacy and dialog in Israel!

The only thing out of which peace will come is the greatest war of all time, which will culminate at the battle of Armageddon some three and one-half years after it begins. Jesus Christ will return at his Second Advent in conjunction with the greatest Jordan Valley earthquake the world has ever known since God made Adam.

Revelation 16:16-18 – And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. [17] And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. [18] And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.

Zechariah 14:5-7 – 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. [6] And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: [7] But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light. (Please Consult Archive Prophecy Update Numbers 183A and 183B)

Revelation 19:16-21 – And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. [17] And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; [18] That ye may eat the flesh

of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. [19] And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and

against his army. [20] And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

[21] And the remnant was slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

Zechariah 14:8,9 – And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. [9] And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one. (Please Consult Archive Prophecy Update Numbers 185A and 185B)

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Peace now, of all times

June 28, 2007

By Yossi Beilin

The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the non-fulfillment of the Oslo Accords, the failure of the Camp David summit, the outbreak of the second intifada, the turn to violence by some of the Palestinians who had supported Oslo, the death of Yasser Arafat, the selection of a less authoritative leader, the Hamas victory in the Palestinian parliamentary elections, the defeat of Fatah in the Gaza Strip – all of these throw into question the possibility of signing an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement now.

The Israeli right, which is not prepared to arrive at any territorial compromise – either because it is post-Zionist and is prepared to relinquish Israel’s Jewish and democratic identity, or because it “does not believe the Arabs” – will always find excuses for not working for peace. The weakness of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is currently the hottest excuse on

the market.

But the Israeli center, which would like to come to an agreement with its neighbors, even though it does not necessarily “trust” them, is not looking for excuses.

It is looking for answers.

The threats from Al-Qaida and Iran mean Israel is not the Arabs’ main enemy, and therefore the Arab countries – all of them – joined the Arab initiative offering Israel peace and normalization in exchange for making peace with the Palestinians and the Syrians. This is a historic opportunity

of security and strategic importance, and it will transform us from a foreign body into an integral part of the region where we have chosen to live.

Syria is ruled by a tyrant who is not perceived as pragmatic, whereas the Palestinians have a pragmatic leader who is perceived as weak. Both are prepared to negotiate without preconditions, and their goals are clear to us up front. Peace agreements with both will ensure us the support of the Arab world, and a democratic state with a Jewish majority. A change in the situation, or in the leaders, might well distance us from this rare opportunity.

There is no doubt that United States President George W.

Bush is not enthusiastic about Israeli-Syrian negotiations, but he has stated publicly that he will not demand Israel refrain from such an option.

In any case, we must not surrender to an American interest that runs counter to Israel’s diplomatic and security interests. We must embark on negotiations with Syrian President Bashar Assad, because peace with Syria will also affect its relations with Iran and will end the aid Syria is giving Hezbollah, Hamas and other terror organizations.

As for the Palestinians, anyone prepared to reach a peace agreement with them only if he is convinced that such an agreement will bring about total quiet – will never accept an agreement. A full peace agreement that includes a solution to the refugee problem and enables the Palestinians to establish their capital in East Jerusalem will strengthen Abbas, will be very beneficial to the inhabitants of the new state, and will decrease considerably the chances of their using force against Israel. However, we must also take into account the possibility of our reaching an agreement and the Palestinian side not being able to prevent security violations.

From the right’s perspective, the Palestinians have proven they are killing each other and are not “worthy” of a state of their own. However, anyone who does not see an agreement as a gift to the Palestinians but rather as advantageous to Israel, understands that the demographic clock is not ticking in our favor and that a two-state solution is losing altitude. Former prime minister Ariel Sharon realized this belatedly and initiated the problematic idea of unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, because he did not want to pay the price of a peace agreement. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said a year ago that he is prepared to withdraw from 90 percent of the territories of the West Bank, unilaterally. The significance of this statement is that he is prepared to relinquish any security arrangements with the Palestinians in the West Bank, just as Sharon did in the Gaza Strip.

What will we gain from an agreement with the Palestine Liberation Organization in the next few months? The division of East Jerusalem will give us, for the first time in history, a recognized capital. All the embassies will move to Jerusalem, including those of the 22 Arab countries and most of the Muslim world. The border that will be agreed upon will be Israel’s permanent border and, at long last, we will have an undisputed map recognized around the world. The solution of the refugee problem will once and for all lift the burden from our shoulders, the heaviest burden that generations of Israelis have been bearing for the past 60 years. The occupation – with or without quotation marks – that has been going on for the past 40 years and has transformed us into different people, will end, as will the fear that Israel will turn its back on the Zionist vision and lose the Jewish character the world agreed to grant it in the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan.

And what about the risks? There are always risks, but the real question is whether the current situation is not the greatest risk of all. One risk is entailed in entering negotiations that do not turn out well. If the Olmert government is not prepared to leave the Golan Heights in return for peace and is not prepared to reach an agreement with the Palestinians based on the pre-1967 borders, talks have no chance of succeeding, and we should not hide behind various and strange excuses about the other side’s unsuitability and should admit we are not prepared to pay the price for peace understood by the entire international community.

This position is both legitimate and irresponsible, and it must be revealed.

If Israel is prepared in principle to pay the price, then there is no real reason for negotiations to fail. If nevertheless they do fail, then we should note there already have been three failed talks with the Syrians, and that none of these led to violence. With the Palestinians one failure led to an outburst, and we must try to ensure that if talks on a comprehensive agreement fail, we reach another interim agreement and not repeat former prime minister (and current Labor Party chairman) Ehud Barak’s terrible mistake of an “all or nothing” situation.

If an agreement is signed with Damascus, then Syria presumably will implement it, just as it has implemented other interim agreements over the past 30 years. The Palestinian side is much more problematic. Israel has to be interested in changing Hamas or weakening it militarily, publicly and politically.

This goal cannot be achieved via an economic siege and targeted killings, which will yield the opposite result. The most effective means is giving tools – above all, a Palestinian state – to Hamas’ adversaries, so can present an alternative that justifies popular support.

Presumably, Hamas knows an agreement signed by the PLO

does not obligate it. If Hamas still controls Gaza when we sign an agreement with the PLO, we will have to arrive at a long truce with it, but any such agreement is preferable to the current situation in Gaza. If we do not succeed in doing this, or if we do this and Hamas behaves violently, we will be free to act against those who harm us, just as we are free to do so today. If the regime in Gaza accepts the peace agreement with the PLO, Gaza will be connected to the West Bank and will be part of the Palestinian state.

This also applies to violations of the agreement in the West Bank. If the weakness of the Palestinian leadership means it cannot stop an attack in Israel, we will have to act ourselves and use force. However, in this case, we would be doing so with full legitimacy.

In the best case, we will reach a historic agreement with the PLO. In the worst case,

the Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement will be a kind of unilateral Israeli withdrawal like the one that led to the election of Kadima, but with Palestinian agreement that enables our full acceptance of the Arab initiative. We will withdraw from almost all of the West Bank, and the Palestinians will be attacking us both from the state established in the West Bank and the undefined entity in Gaza. This is a risk Israel can take upon itself, because it is a far smaller risk than that of a unilateral withdrawal.

Presumably, reality will be less clear than the two possibilities described above.

It is reasonable to assume Abbas can sign a final status agreement; it is reasonable to assume that most Palestinians will support such an agreement, even though it will be greatly criticized; it is reasonable to assume that the Arab world will support such an agreement and that the world will make an effort to aid both sides financially; it is reasonable to assume that there will be Palestinian elements who try to harm us; it is reasonable to assume that the Palestinian government will make an effort to neutralize these elements; and it is reasonable to assume that Israel will from time to time have to strike at them, out of self-defense. But this will happen in an entirely different chapter of our life. A chapter in which we will be living in peace with the whole Arab world and in which the Jewish-democratic state will be a firm, agreed-upon fact and not an object of questions that are posed at home and abroad if we do not reach the desired agreement.

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When the Dutch Dikes begin to crumble can dead Darwin help Them?

June 29, 2007

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Revelation 6:12-14 – And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; [13] And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

[14] And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

Europe Continues to ridicule some Feeble Minded Christians who dare to actually say Armageddon might be just around the Corner!

Ezekiel 38:16-23 – And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. [17] Thus saith the Lord God; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them? [18] And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord God, that my fury shall come up in my face.

[19] For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; [20] So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. [21] And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord God: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.

[22] And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. [23] Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

I received this from David Thompson in England via e-mail.

It is an excerpt translated from a Dutch News Net. I don’t mind them looking at me as a poor feeble minded Christian for not believing all the things taught in the theory of evolution, even though my accredited University degrees are in the Physical Sciences.

Nor do I mind them making fun of me for believing that God created all the universe and mankind. But I do resent very much their inference that I am a danger to democracy. I do not challenge their right to teach evolution, but I am concerned about a so-called democracy that will not allow me to teach that God is the creator of the universe and man.

I am not a danger to democracy.

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http://frontpage.fok.nl/nieuws/77975

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The concept which an invisibly entity with supernatural strengths has created the earth in a period of six days, creationism, are beside an unscientific theory also a danger for democracy.

That is proposition about which the Council of Europe on 26 June will debate and vote. The proposition follows from a report which has been established by the Council commission for culture, science and education. According to that report, creationism is not based on facts and absolutely unscientific.

“the creationism are absolutely unsuitable for scientific education”, sounds the conclusion. Furthermore the partisans of this theory would form a danger for democracy, because they would live rather in a theocratic. “if we do not watch out, the creationism threaten human rights, which form a cornerstone for the Council of Europe”. To this “serious threat” by “religious fundamentalism” the Council must react before it is too late”. ‘intelligent design’ as an alternative on the creationism is “not less dangerous”. The recommendation is not recognize creationism as scientific discipline. In the report it has been also indicated to what extent creationistic thinking in several European countries enjoys acceptance. From that would appear that the creation story is generally rejected, but now ‘ threatens to blow over ‘ from the United States.

Those few words… “danger for democratic” are just the words officials use to start a witch hunt.

As a High School teacher in science, I am terrified. If this goes on, I will not be able to teach scientific truth BY LAW. And now… here in Europe, I can be identified as a danger to democracy, so the next step is “terrorist”.

Please come quickly, Jesus!

Freddy

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Well, today is June 29, and I don’t know whether the European Council passed the Proposal or not. I wonder what the King of Zechariah 14:9 and Psalm 2 will do with those who voted in favor of passing it when He shows up at his Second Advent at Armageddon, if they are still alive.

Zechariah 14:9 – And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.

Psalm 2:1-12 – Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing

? [2] The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, [3] Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from

us. [4] He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. [5] Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

[6] Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

[7] I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. [8] Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. [9] Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel. [10] Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. [11] Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. [12] Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

Sounds like great advice to me – I did it 63 years ago before I got all my degrees from Colleges, Universities, Seminaries, and Institutions of Higher Learning.

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Israel has Pains in its Feet, its Stomach, and its Head!

Trouble in its Feet (Egypt), in its Stomach (West Bank), and in its Head (Hizbullah) – I do not see how this can continue into 2013 without War Beginning!

June 28, 2007

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A question unbelievers offer – “If you really believe there is only one way this can end, in a final great battle of Armageddon, and supposing you might be right, then why put out your Blogs, if there is nothing we can do to stop it from happening, or to prepare for such a holocaust? Of course, my answer is a simple one – You can prepare for it!

Romans 10:9-13,17 – That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. [10] For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. [11] For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. [12] For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. [13] For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. [17] So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

I Thessalonians 5:9 – For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

Galatians 3:26 – For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

A question believer’s ask – I have been saved, so am I not prepared for the Second Advent of Christ? And if I am prepared, why tell me about this battle of Armageddon, because I will not be there? I will be coming back to earth with him in a glorified body in garments of white, with a robe and a crown. Well, Revelation is written to local churches! The expression, “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches,” appears seven times in chapters two and three of the book.

And the first and last chapters of Revelation clearly state it was written to churches.

Indeed, I will not question you will be coming back to the earth with the Lord at his Second Advent, but are you sure you will be wearing a robe and a crown

? I know I cannot lose my salvation, but I can lose my robe and my crown.

I ask myself daily, are you still watching, and are you daily putting on the new man, washing your outer garment in the same blood that washed and eternally saved your inner soul 63 years ago.

Revelation 12:15,16 – Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk NAKED, and they see his shame. [16] And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. The Hebrews considered a man to be “NAKED” if he was clothed only in an undergarment that looked liked a long, loose pullover that came down to his knees. This is not what we call “jay-bird naked.”

II Timothy 2:3-5 – Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

[4] No man that warr

eth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. [5] And if a man also strive for masteries, YET HE IS NOT CROWNED, EXCEPT HE STRIVE LAWFULLY.

And do you, as a believer, think that all bodies received in heaven will shine with the same glory whether they lived faithful or unfaithful lives?

I Corinthians 15:38,41,42 – But God giveth it a body AS IT HATH PLEASED HIM, and to every seed his own body. [41] There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.

[42] SO ALSO is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:

Daniel 12:3 – And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

And do you, as a believer, think that all will receive the same reward and live in the same place in heaven, no matter what we sowed after we were saved? Is not our new birth in Christ a workmanship of the Spirit of God to enable us to sow good works?

Galatians 6:7 – Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Ephesians 2:10 – For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus UNTO GOOD WORKS unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Revelation 22:16 – I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.

I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.

Revelation 22:12-14 – And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man ACCORDING AS HIS WORK SHALL BE. [13] I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. [14] Blessed are THEY THAT DO his commandments, that they MAY HAVE RIGHT to the tree of life, AND MAY ENTER IN through the gates into the city.

If there has ever been a time in history where all the prophesied things had come together to present a Middle East picture that Armageddon was not a far distant event, I am not aware of it. There have been many times in the past when great wars and conquerors have been on the verge of starting across the surface of this planet, but never have all the different parties which were involved been in the right places. The rise of Islam and the great caliphate that swept into Europe from Spain in the southwest and the Balkans in the southeast after Muhammad’s death in 632 AD, was the closest historical event that showed any chance of being the real thing, but it could not be because the Jews had not come back into the land after having been driven out in 135 AD by the Roman Hadrian. Basically, that is why I write these Blogs, and put this web site together in 2000.

I want to give an incentive to unbelievers to believe while there is still time, and for believers to get their act together before our Master arrives.

The three excerpts were taken from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Daily Alert on June 28, 2007, and give a partial testimony of the troubles of Israel from the top of her head in Lebanon to the tip of her toes in the Egyptian Sinai. The source of each excerpt appears at the end of it.

In Egypt, Fears that Muslim Brotherhood May Seize Power Like Hamas

Tariq Hasan, a columnist for the Egyptian government daily Al-Ahram, wrote on June 23: “In Egypt there are those who are trying to reproduce what Hamas did in Gaza….In light of this severe threat…we must learn the lessons without delay.”

The editor of Al-Gomhouriya, Muhammad ‘Ali Ibrahim, wrote on the same day: “It is possible that Hamas will receive orders from Iran and will carry them out, and then it will drag the region into a destructive total war. It is also possible that Tehran will convince the Hamas leaders to repeat Hizbullah’s experience….All that Hamas is capable of doing is to be crack troops of suicide. Unfortunately, however, they are not committing suicide alone. They are forcing the entire people to commit suicide, and I fear that this is the same tactic and path that the Brotherhood in Egypt is taking.” (MEMRI)

News Resources – Israel and the Mideast:

Five IDF Troops Wounded in Nablus in West Bank

Yuval Azoulay

At least five Israel Defense Forces troops were wounded Thursday in clashes with Palestinian militants during an arrest operation in the West Bank city of Nablus. Soldiers entered Nablus’ Old City and a local refugee camp a little after midnight to search for wanted militants, weapons and ammunition.

At least 12 Palestinians were killed and two IDF soldiers wounded Wednesday in two separate IDF operations in Gaza. At least 10 of the Palestinians killed were militants. Roughly 40 Palestinians were wounded in the fighting, the heaviest between the IDF and Palestinians inside Gaza in months. (Ha’aretz)

Pushing Hamas Back

Ron Ben-Yishai

In recent days, the IDF Southern Command has noticed that Hamas fighters in Gaza are operating closer to the security fence and border crossings. The primary objective of IDF raids in Gaza on Wednesday was to push back Hamas fighters and the armed groups that joined them away from the border fence. After the bitter experience with Hizbullah’s deployment along the border fence in southern Lebanon, Israel decided to thwart a similar process in Gaza.

Therefore, the IDF is creating a “buffer zone” that is roughly 1,500 meters deep to prevent Hamas from digging tunnels in close proximity to Israeli communities, border crossings, and IDF troops. (Ynet News)

Hizbullah Preparing for Next War with Israel

Michel Moutot

“Immediately after last summer’s war Hizbullah began refortifying its positions and working on new ones,” said Judith Palmer Harik, author of the book Hizbullah: The Changing Face of Terrorism. “They are rearming….In fact, there has been no interruption in their receiving of more arms,” she said. A Western military observer in Beirut said, “Hizbullah has far stronger positions in the rear, north of the Litani river, that no one knows about and that they are fortifying all the time.” Even in the border zone, patrolled by blue-helmeted international peacekeepers and the Lebanese Army, Hizbullah is busy preparing for the next round of hostilities. The militants are so accepted by villagers in the area that no outsider gets to know what is really going on there. (AFP/Daily Star-Lebanon)

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