Abbas calls for immediate world conference on Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Source: ynetnews.com

 

April 27, 2006 -- During Oslo visit, PA chairman says international group should serve as broker for direct negotiations between Palestinians, Israel

Ronny Sofer

 

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday that an international conference should be called immediately for direct negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel.

 

Abbas said in a speech in Oslo that an international group should serve as a broker, possibly the so-called "Quartet" Of the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations.

 

Israeli officials, in the meantime, rejected the call and demanded that before talks are resumed Hamas fulfills the three conditions it is required to meet.

 

"An international conference should be summoned immediately, in which direct negotiations take place, on the basis of international U.N. Resolutions and signed agreements," Abbas said through a translator.

 

Comments:  Past talks between Israel and the Palestinian leadership have not produced the peace treaty many had hoped for.  There’s just too much distrust and animosity between the two warring parties.  Even an outside mediator such as former U.S. President Bill Clinton couldn’t get the job done albeit he was agonizingly close to wringing a deal between the mercurial Yasser Arafat and the normally cautious Ehud Barak.

 

Now, Arafat’s successor, Mahmoud Abbas believes that an international peace conference will do the trick.  On the surface, it does seem that with more players involved and with international pressure bearing down on both Israel and the Palestinians, especially on Israel, the two groups will be forced to accept whatever the international committee came up with through concensus.  Abbas knows that this kind of conference will favor his people over the Israelis for why else would he even call for one?  He’s a seasoned diplomat; he’s no green behind-the-ear rookie.  He knows the EU, Russia and the U.N. want desperately for a Palestinian State to be created. Even the Americans favor such a nation, but haven’t been pushing Israel too hard for fear of alientating the Israelis.

 

An international peace conference will be convened perhaps not in the near future, but most likely after the Rapture had occurred when the Antichrist steps in to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict once and for all.  It’s not a matter of “if”, but “when” the conflict will be resolved.

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Hamas threatens to end truce with Israel

Source: Yahoo News

 

April 27, 2006 -- Hamas angrily rejected a warning by the moderate Palestinian president Monday that he could dismiss its month-old government, threatening to scrap a truce with Israel if he does.

 

The public warning heightened tensions between the Islamic militant group and President Mahmoud Abbas, who heads the Fatah Party. Hamas defeated Fatah in January parliamentary elections. Abbas, elected separately, has been trying to trim the powers of the new Cabinet.

 

In an interview broadcast Monday on CNN-Turk, Abbas said Hamas must recognize Israel and talk peace to avert an economic catastrophe because of Western sanctions.

 

Comments:  Wasn’t the “truce” violently broken last week when a suicidal bomber took his own life and the lives of eight others in Tel Aviv?  Hamas’s truce isn’t worth the blood document it’s based on.  It’s all rhetoric and nothing of substance and Israel will not rely on any promises bandied about by this avowed terrorist organization that’s bent on Israel’s ultimate destruction.  The so called moderate Palestinian President Abbas is cut from the same terrorist cloth as his predecessor Yasser Arafat.  For the media’s consumption, he appears to be calming factor in an otherwise militant Palestinian camp, but if Israel were to let her guard down for an instant, you can bet Abbas would be gnawing at Israel’s pant legs like a hungry Doberman Pinscher.   You can’t trust the Palestinians at their word no matter if they’re Hamas, Islamic Jihad or the moderate Fatah Party.  If you did, you’re taking a huge risk and it could end up costing your life or worse, the destruction of your country.

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Supreme Leader: Iran 'will harm U.S. interests if attacked'

Source: Reuters/CNN.com

 

April 27, 2006 -- Iran will harm U.S. interests anywhere in the world if the United States launches an attack on the Islamic Republic, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday.

 

"The Americans should know that if they assault Iran their interests will be harmed anywhere in the world that is possible," he was quoted as saying by a state television announcer.

 

"The Iranian nation will respond to any blow with double the intensity," the leader added.

 

Comments:  For months now, it has been the Iranian president who has thrown down the gantlet and challenged the U.S., Israel and the rest of the free world to a nuclear fight.  It seems like he was daily in the news threatening to do this or do that.  He was Iran’s spokesperson.  Now we are getting the Big Boss in Tehran, the de‑facto real power in Iran, speaking out. He might be the spiritual leader, but he also controls the most important group, i.e. the military.  What he says, goes.  Iran’s president reports directly to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.  He gets his daily morning briefing and then it’s off to meet the press.  If the Big Boss says do this or say that, the president will jump through hoops to obey.  All along, he has been dangling on puppet strings doing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s bidding.

 

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, like his predecessor, has called the U.S. the Great Satan.  That’s hasn’t endeared the Americans and this public threat won’t win brownie points with the White House corps either.  The U.S. doesn’t take highly to ultimatums.  If it does launch air strikes to take out Iran’s suspected underground nuclear facilities, it will assume all consequences due to the aftermath.  You don’t let your adversary dictate to you the terms of your nation’s security and defense.  You just go ahead and do what is needed and let the chips fall where they may.

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Baptists: Plan exit from government schools

Source: World Net Daily

 

April 27, 2006 -- A group of Baptists activists who two years ago tried to get the Southern Baptist Convention to approve a resolution urging the faithful to pull their children out of government schools announced they are proposing a similar measure this year.

 

The new resolution, sponsored by Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee member Roger Moran and Dr. Bruce Shortt, urges churches to develop an "exit strategy" for removing their kids from public school.

 

In a statement announcing the new resolution, Moran said today's public schools have had "a major role in infiltrating and destroying the faith of those we have been commanded to train up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Dr. Al Mohler's call for responsible Southern Baptists to develop an exit strategy from the public schools was not only wise, but courageous, for multitudes of our own people still don't see the inherent dangers. The time has come for the debate to begin."

 

Comments:  The public school system has been taken over by secular humanists.  This anti‑God system teaches our children man‑centered philosophies which glorify self and place God on the outside.  The Devil’s trademark is stamped on this system that is teaching our kids evolution and the acceptance of homosexuality.  Public prayer and Bible reading and the promotion of the hedonistic lifestyle are humanism’s fruits.

 

These Baptist Christians are fighting back by attempting to take their children out of the Devil’s lair.  Home schooling would be the alternative where God based principles would be taught to their young folks.  No longer would they be brainwashed by Satan’s poison.  The governments must allow Christian parents to home school without any interference as to the school program, but we all know Satan will galvanize his minions to launch counterattacks against anything that has a Christian label to it.

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Romania legalizes witchcraft 

Source: novinite.com

 

April 27, 2006 -- Romania's first official witch was registered Monday after months of negotiations with the government that finally introduced witchcraft as a legal occupation.

 

31-year-old Gabriela Chukur will stay in history as the country's first legal witch, after she registered a company dealing with "astrology and contacts with the spiritual world", media reported.

 

 

Chukur spent quite a lot of time arguing with various officials until she convinced them that witchcraft was a sound area of work. At first everyone laughed at her, but they finally caved in.

 

Comments:  Past articles relating to this news story are: Germany's spiritual crisis: Many turn to witchcraft; Tax breaks for witch classes; Australia: Witchcraft finally legalized.

 

The domino effect is taking place as one by one, nations are embracing witchcraft which the Bible clearly condemns (1 Samuel 15:3).  This is not that surprising when you consider that this world is under the strong influence (1 John 5:19) of the Evil One, Satan himself.

 

Witches used to be hunted down and burned at the stake.  Now a day, they advertise on TV (e.g. Elvira) and unabashedly sell their wares to the public.  Instead of being portrayed as ugly, they resemble movie starlets.  They mingle with the common folks and pose little threat to society.  They soft sell their lifestyle and if you bite, you would be indoctrinated into the hellish practices that not many people have ever witnessed.  Once you’re caught in their net, you are in the Devil’s domain where you would experience the Dark Side, the force that binds you like a steel ball shackled to your ankle.  It’s not harmless by any stretch of the imagination.  People who have rejected Jesus and His offer of salvation have turned to witchcraft and continue their path of rebellion that leads to perdition and the damming of their never ending souls.  Witches and warlocks don’t tell you the whole story.

 

Galatians 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies.