JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
Iranian commander: We can destroy Israel ‘in under 8 minutes’-If supreme leader gives order, Revolutionary Guards ‘will raze the Zionist regime’ quickly, says senior adviser of elite al-Quds unit-By Times of Israel staff May 22, 2016, 4:14 pm
A senior Iranian military commander boasted that the Islamic Republic could “raze the Zionist regime in less than eight minutes.”Ahmad Karimpour, a senior adviser to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ elite unit al-Quds Force, said if Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei gave the order to destroy Israel, the Iranian military had the capacity to do so quickly.“If the Supreme Leader’s orders [are] to be executed, with the abilities and the equipment at our disposal, we will raze the Zionist regime in less than eight minutes,” Karimpour said Thursday, according to the semi-official Fars News Agency.A senior Iranian general on May 9 announced that the country’s armed forces successfully tested a precision-guided, medium-range ballistic missile two weeks earlier that could reach Israel, the state-run Tasnim agency reported.“We test-fired a missile with a range of 2,000 kilometers and a margin of error of eight meters,” Brigadier General Ali Abdollahi was quoted as saying at a Tehran science conference. The eight-meter margin means the “missile enjoys zero error,” he told conference participants.Iran in March tested ballistic missiles, including two with the words “Israel must be wiped off the earth” emblazoned on them, according to the US and other Western powers.Under a nuclear deal signed last year between world powers and Iran, ballistic missile tests are not forbidden outright but are “not consistent” with a United Nations Security Council resolution from July 2015, US officials say.According to the UN decision, “Iran is called upon not to undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons, including launches using such ballistic missile technology,” until October 2023.Khamenei has repeatedly threatened to annihilate the Jewish state, and in September 2015 suggested Israel would not be around in 25 years. In a quote posted to Twitter by Khamenei’s official account on September 9, 2015, Khamenei addressed Israel, saying, “You will not see next 25 years,” and added that the Jewish state will be hounded until it is destroyed.“After negotiations, in Zionist regime they said they had no more concern about Iran for next 25 years; I’d say: Firstly, you will not see next 25 years; God willing, there will be nothing as Zionist regime by next 25 years. Secondly, until then, struggling, heroic and jihadi morale will leave no moment of serenity for Zionists,” the quote from Iran’s top leader reads in broken English.In November 2014, Khamenei stated that the “barbaric” Jewish state “has no cure but to be annihilated.” A plan titled “9 key questions about the elimination of Israel” was posted on his Twitter account, using the hashtag #handsoffalaqsa, in reference to the tensions on the Temple Mount. The sometimes grammatically awkward list explained the how and why of Khomeini’s vision for replacing Israel with a Palestinian state.The first point stated that “the fake Zionist regime has tried to realize its goals by means of infanticide, homicide, violence & iron fist while boasts about it blatantly.” Due to the above, Khomeini argued, “the only means of bringing Israeli crimes to an end is the elimination of this regime.”
Netanyahu tells French PM he rejects Paris peace bid, but offers to meet Abbas-Manuel Valls, in Israel to advance his country’s plan for Mideast summit, says he has ‘a genuine desire to help the situation’-By Raoul Wootliff May 23, 2016, 2:12 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected Monday the French initiative for an multinational conference to relaunch Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, telling French Prime Minister Manuel Valls that direct negotiations were the only path forward toward a lasting agreement.Speaking at a joint press conference in Jerusalem before a closed-door meeting with Valls, Netanyahu said a multilateral effort would replace bilateral talks and not bring about any agreement.“Peace is not achieved in international UN-style conferences, nor through international diktats that come of meetings of countries around the world sitting to decide our fate,” Netanyahu said. “Peace is achieved through direct negotiations where the Palestinian Authority would face a historic choice: recognize a Jewish state side by side with a demilitarized Palestinian sate, or try to eliminate it.”The meeting with Valls came as part a two-day trip to the region by the French premier that began Sunday, aimed at advancing his country’s plan for the summit in the face of opposition from Netanyahu.The Israeli prime minister claimed Monday that the international conference was being used by the Palestinian leadership as a way to prevent direct talks with Israel.“The Palestinian Authority does not see the French initiative as an inducer for negotiations, but as a way to avoid them,” he said.Instead, Netanayhu said, he would be willing to meet Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas “in Paris or wherever,” and hold face-to-face negotiations without international mediation. “Every difficult issue will be on the table,” he said.Valls said he would welcome direct negotiations and would speak to French President Francois Hollande about the proposal.Abbas has welcomed the French initiative to hold a meeting of foreign ministers from a range of countries on June 3, without the Israelis and Palestinians present.According to the plan, another conference would then be held in the autumn, this time with the Israelis and Palestinians in attendance. The goal would be to eventually restart negotiations that would lead to a Palestinian state.Negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians have been at a standstill since a US-led initiative collapsed in April 2014.Earlier Monday Valls met with President Reuven Rivlin, who, in his first public statements on the French initiative, also criticized the plan, saying “there are no shortcuts in the Middle East.”Preempting Netanyahu’s comments, he said that Israel was weary of such international efforts as they absolved the Palestinians of responsibility to negotiate.Valls told both Rivlin and Netanyahu that France had Israel’s best interests in mind.“France has a genuine and real desire to help the situation between Israel and the Palestinians,” he said in his statements to both Rivlin and Netanyahu.Before his meetings with senior Israeli officials, Valls visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial where he laid a wreath in memory of the six millions Jews killed during the Holocaust. He also went to the Givat Shaul ceremony in Jerusalem cemetery to visit the graves of four French citizens killed in the January 2015 attack on the Hypermarche Kosher supermarket in Paris, and whose bodies were bought for burial in Israel.After meeting with Netanyhau Valls will travel to Ramallah for a series of talks with Palestinian Authority officals, including meeting with Abbas.Valls’s visit comes at a time of political turbulence in Israel, with Netanyahu expected to soon finalize coalition negotiations with the Yisrael Beytenu party, led by hardliner Avigdor Liberman, who is detested by the Palestinians.Liberman, who lives in a West Bank settlement, is expected to take on the key role of defense minister.On Sunday, Netanyahu told his cabinet that adding Liberman to the coalition would not negatively impact peace efforts.“A broad government will continue to strive for a diplomatic process with the Palestinians and we will do so with the assistance of elements in the region. I personally deal with this a lot, in many places, and I intend to continue to do so,” he told ministers at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem.AFP contributed to this report.
Netanyahu seeks to ease fears over changes in his govt-[AFP]-May 22, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Jerusalem (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought on Sunday to ease concerns over the expected entrance of a hardline nationalist party into his coalition, saying his government would still seek peace with the Palestinians.Netanyahu was expected to soon conclude negotiations with the Yisrael Beitenu party led by Avigdor Lieberman, a far-right politician detested by the Palestinians.Lieberman would take on the key role of defence minister under the deal being negotiated and expand Netanyahu's current majority of 61 seats in the 120 seat parliament to 66.The move would tilt further to the right Netanyahu's government, which is already among the most right-wing in Israel's history."I want it to be clear that an expanded government will continue to aspire to a political process with the Palestinians and will do it with help from parts of the region," Netanyahu said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting.Adding Lieberman's party to his coalition would bring weeks of political manoeuvring to a stunning conclusion.Netanyahu had earlier engaged in negotiations with Labour party leader Isaac Herzog to join the government before turning to Lieberman instead.Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon, from Netanyahu's Likud party and a former armed forces chief, announced his resignation from the government on Friday, harshly criticising the premier in the process.He warned of a rising tide of extremism in the Likud and the country as a whole.Yaalon had been at odds with Netanyahu after deputy armed forces chief Major General Yair Golan enraged the premier by comparing contemporary Israeli society to Nazi Germany.Yaalon insisted on senior officers' right to "speak their mind."The defence minister also found himself under fire from far-right cabinet members and their supporters over the arrest and prosecution of a soldier who shot a wounded Palestinian assailant in the head as he lay on the ground without posing any apparent threat.Yaalon strongly criticised the soldier's actions, while the far right, including Lieberman, defended him.
UN Palestinian agency says half its schools hit by conflict-Over 70% of UNRWA schools in Syria are inoperable, officials say, with 450,000 Palestinians left in war-torn country-By Times of Israel staff and AFP May 23, 2016, 6:11 pm
Nearly half of the schools run by the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees have been hit by conflict in the last five years, the body said on Monday on the sidelines of the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul.UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon earlier reminded participants on the opening day of the two-day summit that attacks on schools and hospitals in conflict cannot go unpunished any longer.But the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said 302 out of 692 schools it runs for Palestinian refugees in Syria, Lebanon, the Gaza Strip and West Bank have suffered damage due to conflict in the last half decade.“Nearly half of the 692 schools run across the region have been impacted, attacked or otherwise rendered inoperable by conflict or violence in the last five years,” it said in a report unveiled at the summit.UNRWA’s Commissioner-General, Pierre Kraehenbuehl, called the figure “staggering.”Kraehenbuehl called on states and non-state parties to “refrain from such attacks, to respect the civilian character of UN installations and to spare the lives of children, civilians and humanitarian workers.”He said that protecting schools against the effects of conflict was a “key test” of the world’s ability to deliver on its humanitarian commitments.The UNRWA report said that in Syria five years of war have rendered over 70 percent of its schools inoperative, due to damage, access restrictions or the need for schools to be used as shelters.Before the outbreak of the conflict, UNRWA operated 118 schools throughout Syria but 34 have been fully or partially damaged and currently only 44 are open, it said.Even after half a decade of war, an estimated 450,000 Palestinian refugees remain in Syria, it said.UNRWA complained the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip had a “devastating effect” on refugee children, while clashes in Lebanon had also damaged schools.An independent UN inquiry found in 2015 that Palestinian armed groups hid weapons in three empty UN-run schools in Gaza and that in at least two cases terrorists “probably” fired rockets at Israel from the facilities. The probe found that Israeli strikes on UN facilities, including schools, killed at least 44 Palestinians and injured 227 others.It said it was seeking to counter the problems by providing self-learning materials and facilities, rebuilding damaged schools and seeking accountability for attacks against UNRWA schools.UNRWA, established in 1949, provides protection to some five million registered Palestinian refugees, a number which includes second-, third- and subsequent generations of those displaced in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence.
Police a ‘punching bag’ for media, top cop says amid brutality claims-In wake of a violent arrest of an Israeli Arab in Tel Aviv, Roni Alscheich says the public perceives law enforcement as in ‘deep crisis’-By Tamar Pileggi May 23, 2016, 7:09 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
A day after footage of plainclothes police officers beating an Arab man in Tel Aviv drew a stream of criticism, Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich on Monday said law enforcement in Israel had devolved into a “punching bag” for the media.“The police are perceived by the public as an organization in deep crisis, one that is related to its norms and values, which has turned it into a punching bag for the media,” Alsheich said at a criminology conference at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University.“We cannot allow this perspective to influence… an officer who is just waiting to be vilified,” he told participants attending the university’s “Future of Police” symposium.“The aim is to distinguish between a civilian and a criminal,” Alsheich added.The speech came as the police continued to investigate an incident in which plainclothes police officers appeared to beat an unarmed Arab man in central Tel Aviv.The incident is the latest disgrace to have engulfed the police, which has been beset in recent years by a series of sex scandals and brutality claims, as well as claims of incompetence and excessive use of force.Photos and a video of the violent arrest of 19-year-old supermarket employee Maysam Abu Alqian emerged online Sunday and immediately sparked outrage and claims of police brutality.According to the Israel Police, Alqian, a resident of the Bedouin Negev town of Hura, resisted arrest and attacked officers when they asked him for identification.However, eyewitnesses charged that police beat the man after he declined to show his ID and asked the plainclothes officers who they were while taking out garbage for the Yuda supermarket on Ibn Gabirol street in Tel Aviv.In his first interview since the incident, Alqian challenged police’s version of events.“I returned from a delivery — I help with deliveries for the supermarket — and a man asked me for my ID,” he told Army Radio Monday morning.“I said I won’t give him my ID unless he shows me his police ID. He said, ‘I’m a cop and I have an ID.’ He didn’t tell me why he stopped me, why he wants to see [the ID]. I said, ‘You have to bring me someone in uniform.’”The officer — police later said he was an off-duty border guard — “brought someone else from his team. It wasn’t long before they started hitting me,” Alqian said.More police came to the scene. “There were a lot of them, I didn’t count. No one showed their ID. They just started beating me. I asked them to stop, tried to defend myself, to block their blows so they wouldn’t land on my face,” he said.Under Israeli law, plainclothes officers are required to present their full name and rank and present an ID when they carry out police activities.Alqian was eventually taken away in a police cruiser, but had to be taken to Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv to be treated for wounds to his face, neck and back. He was released to house arrest by the Tel Aviv District Court late Sunday.In the wake of the incident, dozens of eyewitnesses took to social media to describe what they said was a vicious, unprovoked attack on Alqian by police.The manager of Yuda Supermarket, Kobi Cohen, said he attempted to intervene with the officers, telling the Ynet news site that officers had hit Alqian “mercilessly until he was incapacitated.”“Everyone is shocked by what happened. And there’s only one reason for it — the guy was an Arab,” Cohen said.“There’s a problem in Israel of security personnel who take liberties and act this way. Someone needs to do some soul-searching,” Cohen told Army Radio Monday morning, recalling a number of incidents of police brutality against Ethiopian Israelis last year.A spokeswoman for the Israel Police told The Times of Israel that Alqian had resisted arrest and attacked officers, and that the investigation into the incident was underway.“There is nothing at all to add,” she said, without explaining what the man is suspected of. “The circumstances are still under investigation. Refusal to be detained and to submit to a search is illegal.”In December, police announced its officers would be equipped with body-worn cameras in a bid to increase transparency and improve the public’s trust in law enforcement.Earlier in 2015, a video clip showing Ethiopian-Israeli soldier Damas Pakada being beaten by two police officers in the city of Holon was met with public outrage and several days of protests.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
Iranian commander: We can destroy Israel ‘in under 8 minutes’-If supreme leader gives order, Revolutionary Guards ‘will raze the Zionist regime’ quickly, says senior adviser of elite al-Quds unit-By Times of Israel staff May 22, 2016, 4:14 pm
A senior Iranian military commander boasted that the Islamic Republic could “raze the Zionist regime in less than eight minutes.”Ahmad Karimpour, a senior adviser to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ elite unit al-Quds Force, said if Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei gave the order to destroy Israel, the Iranian military had the capacity to do so quickly.“If the Supreme Leader’s orders [are] to be executed, with the abilities and the equipment at our disposal, we will raze the Zionist regime in less than eight minutes,” Karimpour said Thursday, according to the semi-official Fars News Agency.A senior Iranian general on May 9 announced that the country’s armed forces successfully tested a precision-guided, medium-range ballistic missile two weeks earlier that could reach Israel, the state-run Tasnim agency reported.“We test-fired a missile with a range of 2,000 kilometers and a margin of error of eight meters,” Brigadier General Ali Abdollahi was quoted as saying at a Tehran science conference. The eight-meter margin means the “missile enjoys zero error,” he told conference participants.Iran in March tested ballistic missiles, including two with the words “Israel must be wiped off the earth” emblazoned on them, according to the US and other Western powers.Under a nuclear deal signed last year between world powers and Iran, ballistic missile tests are not forbidden outright but are “not consistent” with a United Nations Security Council resolution from July 2015, US officials say.According to the UN decision, “Iran is called upon not to undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons, including launches using such ballistic missile technology,” until October 2023.Khamenei has repeatedly threatened to annihilate the Jewish state, and in September 2015 suggested Israel would not be around in 25 years. In a quote posted to Twitter by Khamenei’s official account on September 9, 2015, Khamenei addressed Israel, saying, “You will not see next 25 years,” and added that the Jewish state will be hounded until it is destroyed.“After negotiations, in Zionist regime they said they had no more concern about Iran for next 25 years; I’d say: Firstly, you will not see next 25 years; God willing, there will be nothing as Zionist regime by next 25 years. Secondly, until then, struggling, heroic and jihadi morale will leave no moment of serenity for Zionists,” the quote from Iran’s top leader reads in broken English.In November 2014, Khamenei stated that the “barbaric” Jewish state “has no cure but to be annihilated.” A plan titled “9 key questions about the elimination of Israel” was posted on his Twitter account, using the hashtag #handsoffalaqsa, in reference to the tensions on the Temple Mount. The sometimes grammatically awkward list explained the how and why of Khomeini’s vision for replacing Israel with a Palestinian state.The first point stated that “the fake Zionist regime has tried to realize its goals by means of infanticide, homicide, violence & iron fist while boasts about it blatantly.” Due to the above, Khomeini argued, “the only means of bringing Israeli crimes to an end is the elimination of this regime.”
Netanyahu tells French PM he rejects Paris peace bid, but offers to meet Abbas-Manuel Valls, in Israel to advance his country’s plan for Mideast summit, says he has ‘a genuine desire to help the situation’-By Raoul Wootliff May 23, 2016, 2:12 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected Monday the French initiative for an multinational conference to relaunch Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, telling French Prime Minister Manuel Valls that direct negotiations were the only path forward toward a lasting agreement.Speaking at a joint press conference in Jerusalem before a closed-door meeting with Valls, Netanyahu said a multilateral effort would replace bilateral talks and not bring about any agreement.“Peace is not achieved in international UN-style conferences, nor through international diktats that come of meetings of countries around the world sitting to decide our fate,” Netanyahu said. “Peace is achieved through direct negotiations where the Palestinian Authority would face a historic choice: recognize a Jewish state side by side with a demilitarized Palestinian sate, or try to eliminate it.”The meeting with Valls came as part a two-day trip to the region by the French premier that began Sunday, aimed at advancing his country’s plan for the summit in the face of opposition from Netanyahu.The Israeli prime minister claimed Monday that the international conference was being used by the Palestinian leadership as a way to prevent direct talks with Israel.“The Palestinian Authority does not see the French initiative as an inducer for negotiations, but as a way to avoid them,” he said.Instead, Netanayhu said, he would be willing to meet Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas “in Paris or wherever,” and hold face-to-face negotiations without international mediation. “Every difficult issue will be on the table,” he said.Valls said he would welcome direct negotiations and would speak to French President Francois Hollande about the proposal.Abbas has welcomed the French initiative to hold a meeting of foreign ministers from a range of countries on June 3, without the Israelis and Palestinians present.According to the plan, another conference would then be held in the autumn, this time with the Israelis and Palestinians in attendance. The goal would be to eventually restart negotiations that would lead to a Palestinian state.Negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians have been at a standstill since a US-led initiative collapsed in April 2014.Earlier Monday Valls met with President Reuven Rivlin, who, in his first public statements on the French initiative, also criticized the plan, saying “there are no shortcuts in the Middle East.”Preempting Netanyahu’s comments, he said that Israel was weary of such international efforts as they absolved the Palestinians of responsibility to negotiate.Valls told both Rivlin and Netanyahu that France had Israel’s best interests in mind.“France has a genuine and real desire to help the situation between Israel and the Palestinians,” he said in his statements to both Rivlin and Netanyahu.Before his meetings with senior Israeli officials, Valls visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial where he laid a wreath in memory of the six millions Jews killed during the Holocaust. He also went to the Givat Shaul ceremony in Jerusalem cemetery to visit the graves of four French citizens killed in the January 2015 attack on the Hypermarche Kosher supermarket in Paris, and whose bodies were bought for burial in Israel.After meeting with Netanyhau Valls will travel to Ramallah for a series of talks with Palestinian Authority officals, including meeting with Abbas.Valls’s visit comes at a time of political turbulence in Israel, with Netanyahu expected to soon finalize coalition negotiations with the Yisrael Beytenu party, led by hardliner Avigdor Liberman, who is detested by the Palestinians.Liberman, who lives in a West Bank settlement, is expected to take on the key role of defense minister.On Sunday, Netanyahu told his cabinet that adding Liberman to the coalition would not negatively impact peace efforts.“A broad government will continue to strive for a diplomatic process with the Palestinians and we will do so with the assistance of elements in the region. I personally deal with this a lot, in many places, and I intend to continue to do so,” he told ministers at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem.AFP contributed to this report.
Netanyahu seeks to ease fears over changes in his govt-[AFP]-May 22, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Jerusalem (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought on Sunday to ease concerns over the expected entrance of a hardline nationalist party into his coalition, saying his government would still seek peace with the Palestinians.Netanyahu was expected to soon conclude negotiations with the Yisrael Beitenu party led by Avigdor Lieberman, a far-right politician detested by the Palestinians.Lieberman would take on the key role of defence minister under the deal being negotiated and expand Netanyahu's current majority of 61 seats in the 120 seat parliament to 66.The move would tilt further to the right Netanyahu's government, which is already among the most right-wing in Israel's history."I want it to be clear that an expanded government will continue to aspire to a political process with the Palestinians and will do it with help from parts of the region," Netanyahu said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting.Adding Lieberman's party to his coalition would bring weeks of political manoeuvring to a stunning conclusion.Netanyahu had earlier engaged in negotiations with Labour party leader Isaac Herzog to join the government before turning to Lieberman instead.Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon, from Netanyahu's Likud party and a former armed forces chief, announced his resignation from the government on Friday, harshly criticising the premier in the process.He warned of a rising tide of extremism in the Likud and the country as a whole.Yaalon had been at odds with Netanyahu after deputy armed forces chief Major General Yair Golan enraged the premier by comparing contemporary Israeli society to Nazi Germany.Yaalon insisted on senior officers' right to "speak their mind."The defence minister also found himself under fire from far-right cabinet members and their supporters over the arrest and prosecution of a soldier who shot a wounded Palestinian assailant in the head as he lay on the ground without posing any apparent threat.Yaalon strongly criticised the soldier's actions, while the far right, including Lieberman, defended him.
UN Palestinian agency says half its schools hit by conflict-Over 70% of UNRWA schools in Syria are inoperable, officials say, with 450,000 Palestinians left in war-torn country-By Times of Israel staff and AFP May 23, 2016, 6:11 pm
Nearly half of the schools run by the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees have been hit by conflict in the last five years, the body said on Monday on the sidelines of the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul.UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon earlier reminded participants on the opening day of the two-day summit that attacks on schools and hospitals in conflict cannot go unpunished any longer.But the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said 302 out of 692 schools it runs for Palestinian refugees in Syria, Lebanon, the Gaza Strip and West Bank have suffered damage due to conflict in the last half decade.“Nearly half of the 692 schools run across the region have been impacted, attacked or otherwise rendered inoperable by conflict or violence in the last five years,” it said in a report unveiled at the summit.UNRWA’s Commissioner-General, Pierre Kraehenbuehl, called the figure “staggering.”Kraehenbuehl called on states and non-state parties to “refrain from such attacks, to respect the civilian character of UN installations and to spare the lives of children, civilians and humanitarian workers.”He said that protecting schools against the effects of conflict was a “key test” of the world’s ability to deliver on its humanitarian commitments.The UNRWA report said that in Syria five years of war have rendered over 70 percent of its schools inoperative, due to damage, access restrictions or the need for schools to be used as shelters.Before the outbreak of the conflict, UNRWA operated 118 schools throughout Syria but 34 have been fully or partially damaged and currently only 44 are open, it said.Even after half a decade of war, an estimated 450,000 Palestinian refugees remain in Syria, it said.UNRWA complained the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip had a “devastating effect” on refugee children, while clashes in Lebanon had also damaged schools.An independent UN inquiry found in 2015 that Palestinian armed groups hid weapons in three empty UN-run schools in Gaza and that in at least two cases terrorists “probably” fired rockets at Israel from the facilities. The probe found that Israeli strikes on UN facilities, including schools, killed at least 44 Palestinians and injured 227 others.It said it was seeking to counter the problems by providing self-learning materials and facilities, rebuilding damaged schools and seeking accountability for attacks against UNRWA schools.UNRWA, established in 1949, provides protection to some five million registered Palestinian refugees, a number which includes second-, third- and subsequent generations of those displaced in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence.
Police a ‘punching bag’ for media, top cop says amid brutality claims-In wake of a violent arrest of an Israeli Arab in Tel Aviv, Roni Alscheich says the public perceives law enforcement as in ‘deep crisis’-By Tamar Pileggi May 23, 2016, 7:09 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
A day after footage of plainclothes police officers beating an Arab man in Tel Aviv drew a stream of criticism, Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich on Monday said law enforcement in Israel had devolved into a “punching bag” for the media.“The police are perceived by the public as an organization in deep crisis, one that is related to its norms and values, which has turned it into a punching bag for the media,” Alsheich said at a criminology conference at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University.“We cannot allow this perspective to influence… an officer who is just waiting to be vilified,” he told participants attending the university’s “Future of Police” symposium.“The aim is to distinguish between a civilian and a criminal,” Alsheich added.The speech came as the police continued to investigate an incident in which plainclothes police officers appeared to beat an unarmed Arab man in central Tel Aviv.The incident is the latest disgrace to have engulfed the police, which has been beset in recent years by a series of sex scandals and brutality claims, as well as claims of incompetence and excessive use of force.Photos and a video of the violent arrest of 19-year-old supermarket employee Maysam Abu Alqian emerged online Sunday and immediately sparked outrage and claims of police brutality.According to the Israel Police, Alqian, a resident of the Bedouin Negev town of Hura, resisted arrest and attacked officers when they asked him for identification.However, eyewitnesses charged that police beat the man after he declined to show his ID and asked the plainclothes officers who they were while taking out garbage for the Yuda supermarket on Ibn Gabirol street in Tel Aviv.In his first interview since the incident, Alqian challenged police’s version of events.“I returned from a delivery — I help with deliveries for the supermarket — and a man asked me for my ID,” he told Army Radio Monday morning.“I said I won’t give him my ID unless he shows me his police ID. He said, ‘I’m a cop and I have an ID.’ He didn’t tell me why he stopped me, why he wants to see [the ID]. I said, ‘You have to bring me someone in uniform.’”The officer — police later said he was an off-duty border guard — “brought someone else from his team. It wasn’t long before they started hitting me,” Alqian said.More police came to the scene. “There were a lot of them, I didn’t count. No one showed their ID. They just started beating me. I asked them to stop, tried to defend myself, to block their blows so they wouldn’t land on my face,” he said.Under Israeli law, plainclothes officers are required to present their full name and rank and present an ID when they carry out police activities.Alqian was eventually taken away in a police cruiser, but had to be taken to Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv to be treated for wounds to his face, neck and back. He was released to house arrest by the Tel Aviv District Court late Sunday.In the wake of the incident, dozens of eyewitnesses took to social media to describe what they said was a vicious, unprovoked attack on Alqian by police.The manager of Yuda Supermarket, Kobi Cohen, said he attempted to intervene with the officers, telling the Ynet news site that officers had hit Alqian “mercilessly until he was incapacitated.”“Everyone is shocked by what happened. And there’s only one reason for it — the guy was an Arab,” Cohen said.“There’s a problem in Israel of security personnel who take liberties and act this way. Someone needs to do some soul-searching,” Cohen told Army Radio Monday morning, recalling a number of incidents of police brutality against Ethiopian Israelis last year.A spokeswoman for the Israel Police told The Times of Israel that Alqian had resisted arrest and attacked officers, and that the investigation into the incident was underway.“There is nothing at all to add,” she said, without explaining what the man is suspected of. “The circumstances are still under investigation. Refusal to be detained and to submit to a search is illegal.”In December, police announced its officers would be equipped with body-worn cameras in a bid to increase transparency and improve the public’s trust in law enforcement.Earlier in 2015, a video clip showing Ethiopian-Israeli soldier Damas Pakada being beaten by two police officers in the city of Holon was met with public outrage and several days of protests.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
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