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Reporting on Monday, March 26, 2007
Jeremiah 6:17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet….
Isaiah 62:6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O
Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make
mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
V:7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise
in the earth.
Psalms
122:6 Pray for the peace of
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Rick Allinson
UN chief slams 'sad and tragic' results of Israeli wall
Source: Scotsmen
26 March 2007 – BAN Ki-Moon, the secretary-general of the United Nations yesterday toured a Palestinian refugee camp and spoke of the "very sad and tragic" results of the controversial security wall erected by Israel.
He also praised the "resilience" of the Palestinian people and the "unwavering commitment" to independence of the president, Mahmoud Abbas.
In his first trip to the Palestinian territories, Mr Ban visited the Aida refugee camp on the outskirts of the biblical town of Bethlehem in the West Bank, just south of the Israeli wall.
He went on to the roof of a UN-run girls' school in the camp to take a look at the barrier, which in some sections, including the one near Aida, is made up of towering cement blocks. "No wall will stop us," read a piece of graffiti in English.
Mr Ban said: "I have deep admiration for these people, for the resilience of Palestinian people, to make their lives better.
"This has strengthened my resolve and commitment to work for peace in the Middle East."
Senior UN officials and Salah Tameri, the Palestinian governor of Bethlehem, explained to Mr Ban the difficulties caused by Israeli travel restrictions and the barrier.
Israel says it built the wall to keep out Palestinian militants who have killed hundreds of Israelis in bombing and shooting attacks in recent years. The Palestinians oppose the route of the barrier, which carves off some 10 per cent of the West Bank.
Mr
Ban said it was "a very sad and tragic thing to see many suffering from the
construction of this wall, depriving opportunities for basic living".
Comments: The good thing about this wall is that it is keeping suicide bombers out of Israel proper and preventing the suffering of the Jews. The wall wouldn’t have been built if the Palestinians didn’t go on a suicide rampage and kill and wound thousands of Jews. Travel restrictions on the Palestinians and the building of the wall have probably prevented hundreds of attacks in Israel and given the Jews some peace of mind. There is no point in going into the suffering that the Palestinians have created for themselves but the plain fact of the matter is the wall has done the job that it was designed to do and that is keep the Palestinian bombers out. The bible tells us that in the future this wall will most likely be taken down and Israel will be living in a temporary period of peace and safety. For the time being, there is no reason to take down this wall that has protected the Jews from the scourge of suicide bombings.
Eze 38:11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
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The bear is back: Russia's return to the Middle East
Source: Daily Star
26 March 2007 – The recent visit to Moscow of Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal came shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin's trip to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan. There he aligned Russia with the Arab consensus supporting the Saudi-mediated Mecca Agreement between the Palestinian factions, called for the lifting of sanctions against the new Palestinian unity government, discussed energy cooperation and sought both to increase Russian arms exports to the Arab world and to attract Arab investment for the non-energy sector of the Russian economy. These moves have underscored the resurgence of Russian interest in the Middle East.
Under Putin, Russia has sought to achieve three major goals in the region. The first is to demonstrate its renewed power and influence in an area where American influence is on the decline. The second is to increase trade with the nations of the region so as to buttress the Russian economy, especially its non-energy sectors. The third goal is to minimize Arab, Turkish and Iranian support for the Chechen rebellion against Russian control, which the rebels are carrying out in the name of Islam.
Putin has always wanted to restore Russia to the ranks of the great powers, and this became clear soon after he took office in 2000. However, the then-weak Russian economy and the increasingly severe Chechen rebellion against the 1999 Russian invasion limited his options. After the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, Putin moved to form a tactical alliance with the United States because the Taliban in Afghanistan, who hosted terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, were as much a threat to Russia and Russia's allies in Central Asia as they were to the US. Russia moved away from Washington, however, during and after the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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Second,
Russian-Israeli relations have also suffered a major blow in recent years
because of Putin's policies. Relations were soured by arms sales to Syria - some
of which were transferred to Hizbullah and used in its summer 2006 war against
Israel - as well as by the decision to supply a nuclear reactor and
sophisticated surface-to-air missiles to Iran, whose president, Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, has called for Israel to be wiped off the map. Moscow's embrace of
Hamas, an organization that remains dedicated to Israel's destruction, has
further damaged relations, and few Israelis believe Putin's protestations of
friendship to Israel.
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by:
Leo Wong
Condi Rice and U.N. Chief address Mideast impasse
Source: Associated Press
March 26, 2007 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday it was important for Israel and the Palestinians to establish a "common agenda" to move forward on creating a Palestinian state - an apparent break with Israel, which has ruled out peace talks for now.
Rice also said all the parties need to have a "destination in mind" to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But she conceded the sides were far apart, and had no specific proposal to get long-stalled peace talks moving.
She spoke at a news conference with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, after their first meeting since the Islamic militant Hamas and Abbas' more moderate Fatah Party formed a new coalition government last week.
Israel has said it will not hold peace talks with Abbas now that he has joined forces with Hamas.
Rice said she would meet twice with both Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert during her fourth trip to the region in as many months.
"It's extremely important to establish a common agenda to move forward toward the establishment" of a Palestinian state, she said.
Abbas met earlier with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. But the U.N. chief shunned Hamas officials, dealing a setback to the new Palestinian government's efforts to win international recognition. Rice snubbed even U.S.-backed moderates in the Cabinet.
While welcoming the new government's formation, Ban said "the atmosphere is not fully ripe" for talks with Hamas, which has killed more than 250 Israelis in suicide bombings and refuses to recognize the Jewish state.
He expressed hope the new government's actions would "show a genuine commitment to the basic principles ... of peace."
Hamas and Fatah formed their alliance in the hope of halting deadly Palestinian infighting and persuading the West and Israel to resume crucial funding cut off after Hamas swept parliamentary elections a year ago.
But the new government's platform falls short of demands by the "Quartet" of Middle East peacemakers - the U.S., EU, U.N. and Russia - that Hamas renounce violence, recognize Israel, and accept past peace agreements.
Comments: The more things change, the more things remain the same. Middle East peace is as difficult as catching a butterfly with a spatula. Almost 59 years since the rebirth of Israel, there’s still no peace accord that would allow the warring parties to “beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks” (see Isaiah 2:[4]) as the United Nations had hoped. New U.N. Chief Ban Ki-moon is a career bureaucrat. How is he ever expected to do what his predecessors weren’t able to accomplish? And for Ms. Rice who is supposedly a Christian, why is she meddling in Israel’s affairs? Does she not know that God is angry at her and at America for pushing Israel into forging a (false) peace treaty with the Arabs?
Ms. Rice and Mr. Ki-moon will fail miserably. The closest Israel and the Palestinians came making peace was at the Camp David II talks in the Summer of 2000 when then Israeli PM Ehud Barak momentarily loss his senses and caved into then U.S. President Clinton’s demand that Israel give away 96% of the West Bank. All Yassir Arafat had to do was say, “Yes” and Middle East peace was a done deal. Arafat’s response was, “No, thank you” and the Clinton Plan came crashing down to earth like the alien spaceships in the 1996 movie “Independence Day”. Ms. Rice and Mr. Ki-moon might lay the foundation, but there will be no peace until the Antichrist happens upon the scene after the Rapture event.
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Jesus a vegetarian in PETA campaign
Source: WorldNetDaily.com
March 26, 2007 -- A controversial new public relations campaign by animal-rights group PETA proclaims Jesus Christ to have been a vegetarian, and portrays the Last Supper – complete with 12 "disciples" including Beatle Paul McCartney and lesbian country-music singer K.D. Lang – as a spectacle meant to inspire mankind to forsake eating meat.
The outreach has been built into a 28-foot 1955 Silver Streak Airstream trailer wherein the "Last Supper" is re-created, surrounding Jesus with famous vegetarians, officials of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals told WND.
The vegetarian "disciples" represented in the "Last Supper" include the famed Louisa May Alcott, Kafka, George Bernard Shaw, Cesar Chavez, Susan B. Anthony, Jesus, Alec Walker, Paul McCartney, K.D. Lang, Gandhi, Einstein and Leonardo Da Vinci, officials said.
Comments: The stench of vile mankind ascends into Heaven where God is. How utterly revolting that unregenerate people like Paul McCartney (a psychedelic drug user and an Eastern religion disciple and whose Beatles once boasted that they were more popular than Jesus Christ) and a lesbian K.D. Lang would be portraying two of the 12 disciples of Jesus! Perhaps they should be seated next to Judas for their eternal destiny is Hell, the same as for Judas whom Jesus said it would have better if he had not been born.
These days, everybody is using Jesus as their poster boy to advance their cause. We don’t know if Jesus ever ate meat (he did partake of fish [but that’s not meat according to most people] after His resurrection), but that’s beside the point. The mere fact that unbelievers would exploit the personage of Jesus will garner them a greater punishment in the Lake of Fire. It’s bad enough to reject the Son of Christ as one’s Savior, but it’s heaping upon oneself God’s additional wrath to continue in gross sin and mocking Jesus in the process.
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EU’s Angela Merkel vows to work for captured Israeli solders' release
Source: Jerusalem Post
March 26, 2007 -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel promised to do everything in her power to secure the release of all three Israeli soldiers being held by Hizbullah and Hamas, during a meeting Sunday in Berlin with Israeli Chief Rabbis Yona Metzger and Shlomo Amar.
Merkel, who is also the president of the European Union, presented the rabbis with a survey that showed that Germany had the lowest level of anti-Semitism of all European countries.
Merkel said that as president of the European Union, she has set as a goal the combating of anti-Semitism among members of EU member states, said a chief rabbinate spokesman.
Merkel said that as a daughter of a priest, she was very receptive to religious-based solutions to conflict resolution.
Comments: How short a memory these Jewish rabbis have. Was it not Nazi Germany led by a crazed Adolph Hitler that killed and cremated some 6 million Jews in concentration camps? How is it that Germany is the least anti-Semitic among Europeans when skinheads run amok in the eastern part of the country? Throughout the Western world, Holocaust memorials have been erected so that we will never forget the genocidal acts of the Nazis. Yet these rabbis are cozying up to Fraulein Merkel and believing her promise to help free the captured soldiers. The Israeli Defence Force and the Mossad know where they’re being held. They would have acted a long time ago if not for the bumbling acts of omission by the inept Israeli PM Ehud Olmert.
If Merkel does come through with her promise, Israel’s religious leaders will shower her with accolades. The EU wants so much to warm up to Israel and is urging Israel to go all out to make peace with the Arabs. Freeing these three soldiers will mean Israel owes the EU one and the future Antichrist will cash in on the I.O.U. voucher.
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