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Leo Wong

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Bibi becomes the comeback kid; most popular candidate to be Israel's PM again

Source: www.breitbart.com

 

August 14, 2007 -- Former premier Benjamin Netanyahu, who is set to be re-elected as head of Israel's right-wing Likud party on Tuesday, is a media-savvy arch-hawk determined to move back to the political centre stage.

 

Netanyahu was expected to sweep to victory during a Likud primary with at least 70 percent of the vote, according to internal opinion polls, in a contest against two other candidates.

 

Bibi, as Netanyahu is widely known in Israel, is hoping to ride a wave of disappointment with the ruling Kadima party over scandals and last year's Lebanon war back to the top of the Israeli political spectrum.

 

Today Netanyahu is the public's first choice to be Israel's next prime minister -- 36 percent favoured him in a recent opinion poll, compared with eight percent for Olmert and 22 percent for former premier Ehud Barak.

 

Sensing the changing political winds, Netanyahu has quietly been preparing for the early general elections that much of Israel's political establishment expects to take place, although no official moves have been made.

 

During his premiership he put the brakes on the peace process with the Palestinians, in part by authorising a major expansion of Jewish settlements.

 

But his premiership was marked by far more concessions to the Palestinians than his hardline rhetoric had led Israelis to expect -- under pressure from the United States, he concluded two agreements with the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

 

Comments:  Whether it’s the supposed hardline hawkish Bibi or his dovish (by comparison) rivals Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert, no matter who Israel’s voters choose as the next prime minister really doesn’t add up to a hill of beans.  The retread winner (if you can call him that) will have to march to the tune of his earthly masters, the behind the scene movers and shakers of the New World Order.  We’re not talking about the visible overlords such as President Bush, Russia, the U.N., the EU or the pope.  No, we’re talking about Lucifer’s god-like super wealthy and powerful elitist fiends who supply the money and military equipment to opposing nations to perpetuate chaos in order to further line their money coffers.

 

Bibi will give his signature speeches about Israel not surrendering another square inch of land and that the Palestinians must first curtail the violence before peace talks can be entertained.  He’ll play off Israeli Jews’ fears about peace without guaranteed security.  In short, he’ll try to keep his election promises, but he’ll throw up his hands in exasperation saying “The Americans made me do it”.  It’s all for public consumption of course.  The bottom line:  Unless Israel’s leaders and the country turn to God, Israel will be blowing in the direction of the world’s winds.

 

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Shimon Peres off to Rome

Source: Jerusalem Post

 

August 14, 2007 -- Despite a heavily crowded calendar, President Shimon Peres will travel to Rome on September 5, Beit Hanassi confirmed on Monday. Peres, who used to travel abroad as often as two or three times in a single week, has not left the country since assuming the presidency.

 

Peres will remain in Italy till September 9, during which time he will meet with the Pope, the Italian prime minister, and Italian Jewish leaders.

 

In the course of his visit Peres will address a mega-meeting of the Jewish community in the Great Synagogue of Rome. According to Beit Hanassi, the event will be a celebration of Italian Jewry's good wishes on the eve of Rosh Hashana for the State of Israel.

 

Comments:  Newly elected President of Israel Shimon Peres sure is a busy beaver these days.  For a man who’s 84, he got more energy than an American male in his 50s.  His passion is “peace at all cost”.  Before he dies, he wants so very much for Israel to live in “peace” with all her Arab/Muslim neighbours.  Having already won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize for his heavy involvement in the 1993 Oslo Accords which is currently in a moribund state, he hopes to win another prize, this time for forging comprehensive peace agreements.

 

He is impatiently counting the days (like a prisoner who’s about to be paroled) until the November 2007 International peace conference in Washington, DC.  Before then, this side trip to Rome to confer with Italian politicians and particularly Pope Benedict is significant for sure.  The pope has some advice and a message or two to convey to the sage Peres.  The two men need to discuss the future of Jerusalem.  Peres is not as opposed to dividing up this city as some of his colleagues.  He’ll ponder Pope John Paul II’s recommendation to make Jerusalem an international city to be shared and enjoyed by all Earth’s citizens.  This excites Peres who is brimming with proposals of his own.  It’s no wonder that, even at age 84, he can’t wait to wake up each morning to get cracking on his slate of agenda to tackle that day.

 

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Michigan city could become first in U.S. under Muslim control

Source: OneNewsNow.com

 

August 14, 2007 -- A Detroit-area newspaper says the results of Tuesday's primary could lead to Hamtramck, Michigan, becoming the first city council in the U.S. to be controlled by Muslims.

 

The Detroit News says there are four Muslims in the Tuesday primary. If they are among the candidates who win and go on to run in the November election, they would have a chance to join a fifth Muslim who already sits on the six-member council and is up for re-election in 2009.

 

Hamtramck -- historically a refuge for Catholic immigrants mostly from Poland and Ukraine -- was at the center of a controversy three years ago over an initiative allowing amplified calls to prayer from the city's mosques.

 

Comments:  The Islamisation of American has begun in earnest and won’t let up.  With its Catholic support, Islam will spread like wildfire like it’s doing in Europe.  Catholicism and Islam together (CIT) will rule all world religions and could very well be the One World Religion of the Antichrist and False Prophet during the Tribulation Period.  Over one billion Muslims cannot be militarily defeated so they must be integrated with the world’s No. 1 religion, Catholicism.  Being that they both revere the “Virgin” Mary, there’s a shared commonality.  For Catholics, salvation is through church membership, works plus faith in Christ.  There’s a strong belief that Mary is a co-redeemer with Jesus.  For Muslims, Jesus was merely a great prophet, but the minor emphasis both religions have in Jesus isn’t problematic.  Catholics hold to a post-millennial view of Christ’s Kingdom being established on Earth while Muslims are waiting for their 12th Imam, the Madhi to arrive on the scene.  When the Antichrist is revealed to be a Muslim, the One World Religion will think Jesus has returned but that will be a grand deception of Satan.

 

In America, mosques are springing up like dandelions in August.  Fervent Muslims (e.g. Barack Obama) running for political office will turn the tide.  White Anglo Saxon politicians will be as rare as hen’s teeth before long.

 

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Jesus portrait on Baptist church irks resident; Mural is 'glorified graffiti'

Source: The Winnipeg Free Press Online

 

August 15, 2007 -- A Transcona homeowner said Tuesday she's furious about a huge mural of Jesus being painted on a church facing her house by one of Winnipeg's most famous mural artists.

 

Josephine Lloyd said the 10-metre portrait of a benevolent-looking bearded man on Madeline Street's Tabor Baptist Church will pull down the property value of her home, and is a monstrosity infringing on public space.

 

Her complaint, she said, is not about the religious subject matter of the mural but about a large picture intruding on an otherwise non-descript and quiet residential street.

 

"I thought I was imagining something when I saw it, like there was some strange sort of phenomenon happening... it was like a drive-in movie," said Lloyd, who's lived in her home for 15 years.

 

"I don't think it does any kind of credit to the neighbourhood. It's like glorified graffiti."

 

Lloyd said she intends to sell her home in the coming year, and she fears the mural will spook prospective buyers.

 

"My neighbours think it's strange and definitely wouldn't want to be the person across the street from it," she said.

 

"I almost fell over... you're looking up his nose."

 

Church council member Bruno Deleau said the mural isn't intended to be offensive, and over a year of planning went into the rejuvenation of the exterior of the over 50-year-old Transcona church, after the building was moved there from Steinbach decades ago.

 

"The signage on the building was old and decrepit, and the signage was rotting, so we decided we needed to do something new, a new way of depicting it as a church," said Deleau. "As opposed to just taking off the wooden cross, we decided we wanted to have a mural.

 

"We wanted to make it so that as people drive by the building, there's something they can relate with right away."

 

The small congregation of about 25 people chose to have murals on both sides of the church, including a matching large mural of a female worshipper of Jesus painted on the back of the building. Over $10,000 was budgeted for the project, said Deleau, and artists started putting up the mural last week. "We felt a mural speaks to a wide variety of people. We want to portray what our church is about," he said.

 

"Jesus is looking down to Earth, looking down to the young lady on the back of the building, and she's looking up at him... it's depicting a love of Jesus for his people, the people of the church, the people of Transcona."

 

Comments:  As Christians, we’re not to offend our neighbours (saved or not).  We’re a living testimony of Jesus placed on this world to witness to the lost and perishing. A small congregation spending $10,000 (not small change by any means) to have a humongous mural of a man’s image depicting Jesus in which neighbours and passer-bys might get upset certainly doesn’t bring people to Jesus.  The Bible speaks about not making graven images and modern’s man imagery of what Jesus looks like from a physical sense fits that category.  Having not seen Him, we’re to worship Jesus by faith.  Every statute and painting of Jesus is an incorrect idolatrous portrayal of the Lord Jesus.  Catholics are notorious for producing religious idols and images.  To see this from a Baptist church is rather surprising, but then with today’s trend toward embracing the emergent church movement of imagery, candles, beads, graven images, i.e. Catholicism revisited, more and more Protestant denominations are returning to their church root.

 

For this Baptist congregation, is it really about displaying their faith to the local community with its portrait of Jesus painted by an unbeliever?  Or is it about following the examples of other church groups?  Why couldn’t they just have a scriptural verse painted on the building?  That would get people’s attention and get the Gospel message out.

 

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