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EXPOSITION OF DAVID’S PSALM 110 – PART 6

March 22, 2010

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PSALM 110:6 – He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.

This verse refers to the Second Advent of Jesus when he comes, as the Lion of Judah, to wreck havoc on all the unbelievers as a Just Judgment for their absolute act of rejection of him to follow the Devil’s antichrist. It will close the final battle of Armageddon.

For a complete exposition of this event please consult Archive Prophecy Update Number 206A, which covers the events John and Ezekiel wrote about in the following two Scriptures.

Revelation 19:11-21 – And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

[12] His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. [13] And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. [14] And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

[15] And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. [16] 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 were 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.

The following prophecy of Ezekiel is a description of the same event just given above by John in Revelation. For a line by line exposition of it please consult our Archive Prophecy Updates 35 to 39.

Ezekiel 39:1-29 – Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: [2] And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:

[3] And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand. [4] Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.

[5] Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken

it, saith the Lord God. [6] And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the Lord. [7] So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. [8] Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord God; this is the day whereof I have spoken. [9] And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years: [10] So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord God. [11] And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamon-gog. [12] And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land. [13] Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord God. [14] And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search. [15] And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog. [16] And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.

[17] And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.

[18] Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

[19] And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. [20] Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord God. [21] And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.

[22] So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day and forward. [23] And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.

[24] According to their uncleanness and according

to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them. [25] Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name; [26] After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid. [27] When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations; [28] Then shall they know that I am the Lord their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there. [29] Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God.

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.

2 Keys determine when War Begins,

Iran Getting Deterrent Nuke Arsenal,

And US troopS pullout are the 2 Keys,

As to When inevitable Middle East War

Begins between kings of South & North!

It Will Initiate Between Israel & 10 TOES

In Daniel 2 at a point in time before 2015!

War odds increase each year as U.S. Goes!

March 21, 2010

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Daniel 11:40 – And at the time of the end shall the king of the south (Israel) push at him: and the king of the north (Syria) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

Daniel 2:42-44 – And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. [43] And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. [44] And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these

kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

Begin Excerpt from LOS ANGELS TIMES via World News

Petraeus: U.S. troop withdrawal on schedule

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 2:56 AM

By Michael Muskal

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Gen. David Petraeus told senators yesterday that fighting in Afghanistan will remain difficult.

U.S. WAR DEAD

Includes combat and non-combat military deaths:

In Afghanistan, 936 since military operations began Oct.

7, 2001

In Iraq, 4,388 since military operations began March 19, 2003

LOS ANGELES – Iraq remains fragile but is on course to allow the United States to decrease its presence as planned to 50,000 troops by September, the top U.S. soldier who oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan told senators yesterday.

Gen. David Petraeus, head of the U.S. Central Command, told the Sena

te Armed Services Committee that success in Iraq was “fragile and reversible, but increasingly less so.”

The general was optimistic but cautious about recent political gains.

“Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister,” he said.

While there could be some reconfiguration of the U.S. troops in Iraq, Petraeus said he expected that the military would be able to meet its goal of decreasing its presence, now at about 97,000.

“We still believe we will be able to stay on track to reach 50,000,” Petraeus said in response to a question from Sen.

Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.

Petraeus predicted a hard year ahead in Afghanistan, where he expects U.S. forces will continue their battle against Taliban militants amid “tough fighting and periodic setbacks.”

Begin Excerpt from U.K. Guardian via World News

Petraeus says Iran nuke won’t happen this year

AP foreign

Wednesday March 17 2010

ANNE FLAHERTY

Associated Press Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. commander in the Middle East says Iran’s efforts to obtain a nuclear weapon have been delayed “a bit” and that Iran won’t get a nuclear weapon this year.

Gen. David Petraeus (peh-TRAY’-us) told a Senate panel on Tuesday that international pressure on Tehran to abandon its nuclear program should continue.

Petraeus says that a precise assessment of Iran’s nuclear capabilities is classified.

But the general says Iran’s ability to obtain a bomb has, as he puts it, “thankfully slid to the right a bit.”

Iran has long claimed that its nuclear program is aimed at peaceful uses of

nuclear power.

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EXPOSITION OF DAVID’S PSALM 110 – PART 5

March 21, 2010

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PSALM 110:5 – The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.

The Lord at the right hand of God is, of course, the anointed one, the Christ, the Messiah Jesus. Since most men are born right-handed, the Bible uses the right hand as the strongest symbol of strength, and Christ is often shown in that heavenly position, as in Steven’s vision.

Acts 7:54,55 – When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.

[55] But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

Christ’s position would be consistent with the statement of Matthew just before the “Great Commission.”

Matthew 28:18 – And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

Christ is pictured, in the verses which follow, as using that power “in the day of his wrath” associated with the latter portion of the tribulation period.

Revelation 16:1,16-21 – And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.

[16] 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. [20] And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. [21] And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

PSALM 110:5 – The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.

Revelation 16:1 – And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.

Revelation 11:18E – And shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

Jude 1:14,15 – And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, [15] To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

Revelation 19:11-16 – And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. [12] His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. [13] And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

[14] And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. [15] And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. [16] And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

PSALM 110:5 – The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.

Revelation 19:19-21 – 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 were 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.

Ezekiel 39:17-26 – And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel,

that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.

[18] Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan. [19] And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.

[20] Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord God. [21] And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them. [22] So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day and forward. [23] And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them,

and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword. [24] According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them. [25] Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name; [26] After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.

II Thessalonians 1:7-9 – And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, [8] In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: [9] Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;

I am indeed thankful that God will never pour out his wrath on his children.

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

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

A FORECAST OF HOW THE ISRAEL & OBAMA CRISIS WILL END!

EXTRACT FROM ROSNER’S DOMAIN IN THE JERUSALEM POST

THREE PREDICTIONS FOR THE SOON-TO-BE-OVER CRISIS!

BUT THIS CRISIS WILL CONTINUE TO SIMMER

TO A WAR

THAT I BELIEVE WILL BEGIN PRIOR TO THE YEAR 2015!

II TIMOTHY DESCRIBES WHY ONLY WAR WILL COME!

PEACE CAN ONLY COME WITH JESUS’ 2ND ADVENT

TO WIN THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON FOR MAN!

March 20, 2010

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II Timothy 3:1-3 – This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

[2] For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, [3] Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

II Peter 3:3,4,8,9 – Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, [4] And saying, Where is the promise of his coming

? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. [8] But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that

one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

[9] The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come

to repentance.

Begin Excerpt from Rosner’s Domain in the Jerusalem Post

Rosner’s Domain: 3 predictions for the soon-to-be-over crisis

Posted by SHMUEL ROSNER

Thursday March 18, 2010

I have a long weekend column in tomorrow’s Maariv (Hebrew), after spending this past week talking (and talking and talking) to numerous people both in Jerusalem and in Washington about the crisis.

Anyway, I’m not going to translate the whole thing, but at the end of the column I’ll be making these three predictions – based on information:

1. Netanyahu will compromise (or “cave”) and is getting ready to agree to some American demands.

2. Mitchell will be coming to the region, maybe even next week – or right after Pesach.

He will come even if the crisis will be quite over yet.

3. Proximity talks will start soon after Israel’s Independence Day.

And if one wants to worry about the possible consequences of recent events one needs to take a look at this new Rasmussen survey:

Fifty-eight percent (58%) of voters now say Israel is an ally of the United States, while two percent (2%) view the Jewish state as an enemy. For 32%, the country is somewhere in between the two. In a separate survey in August of last year, 70% of Americans rated Israel as a U.S. ally.

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Spiritual Wickedness in High DC Places!

There’s lots of spiritual wickedness in DC,

We are not fighting against Flesh and Blood,

We’re fighting against the evil forces inside It,

Among the flesh and blood of Obama & Friends!

Obama administration is one of evil in high Places,

Soon all Israel will have left to defend her is her God,

He is all Israel ever needed and He alone will save Her,

After Three and One-half years in the Negev Wilderness!

Don’t expect a smooth ride from now until the catching Out,

Believers are in for a very rough ride before they all fly Away!

March 19, 2010

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Ephesians 6:12 – For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Romans 11:25-27 – For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. [26] And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: [27] For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

There is coming a day when these wicked ones in high places, along with many of the rulers of this earth, will be placed in the bottomless pit with the Devil until the Great White Throne Judgment at the end of Christ’s Millennial Reign.

They will be imprisoned there with the Dragon for “many days,” which I believe will be 1000 years. But Israel still has great tribulation to suffer during some 3 & ½ Years prior to Armageddon, the last great battle of the Age of the Gentiles.

Daniel 7:25 – And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

Daniel 11:45 to 12:1 – And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

[1] And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

Isaiah 24:21,22 – And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones that are on

high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. [22] And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.

Isaiah 26:20 to 27:1 – Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. [21] For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain. [1] In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

Revelation 20:1-3 – And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

[2] And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, [3] And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

Begin Excerpt from THE JERUSALEM POST

Gestures – yes, but not in J’lem’

By JPOST.COM STAFF AND JTA

19/03/2010 21:31

PMO sources: Israel won’t change policy in capital; Clinton: US pressure paid off.

Israel is willing to be flexible towards the United States following a crisis that erupted between the two countries during Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel earlier this month, but will not give up on some core issues.

A source at the Prime Minister’s Office said Friday Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu agrees to carry out goodwill gestures towards the Palestinians, but not in Jerusalem.

Netanyahu reportedly may agree, among other things to release Fatah prisoners as a gesture

to the Palestinian Authority.

Earlier this week, Netanyahu reiterated that his government’s policy in Jerusalem is no different than the policy of previous Israeli governments.

Israel’s 10-month moratorium on settlement construction, which, when announced by Netanyahu, was hailed by Clinton as “unprecedented,” explicitly did not include Jerusalem. It was wholeheartedly embraced by the Americans at the time.

Also Friday, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who at President Barack Obama’s behest gave Netanyahu a 43 minute dressing-down over the phone last week, told BBC that pressure against Israel paid off, and thatJerusalem will now be willing to compromise.

She presented the so-called ‘proximity talks’ with the Palestinian Authority as an achievement of US Middle East envoy George Mitchell. The talks are yet to begin, and the paradigm the US foresees would have Mitchell shuttling between Jerusalem and Ramallah as courier for both sides.

Clinton along with her colleagues in the Middle East Quartet – the US, UN, EU and Russia – issued a statement in Moscow on Friday that demanded Israel fully halt all construction for Jews in Jerusalem, including building necessitated by natural population expansion, while simultaneously not demolishing Arab homes in the capital. A large number of Arab houses are built without municipal permits.

Clinton told BBC that she believed some members in the Israeli government were operating against the government’s interests. She nevertheless claimed that Washington was not trying to meddle in Israeli politics.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman arrived in Brussels on Friday for talks with officials of several European Union nations after an official meeting between the EU and Israel was called off.

Lieberman struck a tough position against the Quartet’s statement, also dashing Clinton’s hopes that all ministers in the Israeli government would easily surrender to Washington’s steamroller.

Upon arriving in Brussels, Lieberman said that the Quartet’s statement ignores the fact that

the foundations of peace must be set before peace can be achieved. Peace, he was quoted by Israel Radio as saying, is not something that can be forced upon two parties or saddled to an unrealistic timeline.

Lieberman reportedly said that such statements only made real peace between Israel and the Palestinian a more remote possibility.

In the US on Thursday, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, the largest synagogue movement in the county, called on Israel to enact aconstruction freeze in eastern Jerusalem.

He expressed his views during remarks to rabbis and members of URJ’s board of trustees. “There is also a substantive question of great importance that needs to be addressed: Should Israel continue to build now in EastJerusalem

? I believe that it should not,” Yoffie said.

Also on Friday Alon Pinkas, formerly Israel’s consul in New York, said the crisis between Israel and the US is deep and would not be resolved during Netanyahu’s visit to Washington next week.

Speaking to Channel 2, Pinkas said the crisis is comprised both of a personal antipathy the Obama administration harbors toward Netanyahu, dating back to his first term when Clinton’s husband was US president, but also a widening gap in policy.

Pinkas said a briefing to the CIA by US Army General David Petraeus, where the Centcom commander said Israel’s actions endanger US troops throughout the Middle East, was tantamount to Petraeus saying that Israel was “no longer an asset, and regards wider US interests in the Middle East may even be a burden.”

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