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
EU scolds Israel for destroying Palestinian homes-By EUOBSERVER-JULY 28,16
Today, 09:08-The EU's ambassador to Israel on Wednesday criticised Israel for destroying Palestinian homes in the West Bank. Israel razed 168 homes in the so-called area C, under full Israeli control, as well as EU humanitarian structures."In the first six months of 2016 alone, 91 EU structures in Area C have been demolished. This is more than all of 2015," said Lars Faaborg-Andersen. Israel has demolished 170 EU structures since 2009.
Netanyahu: Any Hamas attack will bring ‘devastation’ on Gaza-PM, embattled over 2014 war in the Strip, claims conflict ‘changed the rules of the game,’ dealt terrorists an unprecedented blow-By Times of Israel staff July 28, 2016, 7:51 pm
Touring communities in the vicinity of the Gaza Strip Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proclaimed that Israel’s 2014 war against Hamas had produced “the two quietest years in a long time.”He said “the rules of the game have changed” since the war, which Israel dubbed Operation Protective Edge.Sixty-six Israeli soldiers and six civilians were killed in the 50-day conflict, along with over 2,000 Palestinians, of whom Israel says at least half were combatants.Netanyahu said Hamas was dealt a hard and “unprecedented” blow during the war, touting a policy of “responding decisively to any violation of the calm” as crucial to maintaining deterrence two summers later.“Quiet here equals quiet in Gaza,” while “an attack on us will lead to destruction and devastation on the other side of the fence,” added the prime minister, who in recent days has faced withering criticism from political rivals and bereaved parents over the degree of Israel’s preparedness for the war.Netanyahu was visiting the border town of Sderot to mark the completion of a project, begun in 2008, to heavily fortify Gaza borer towns, providing new shelters and new safe rooms to families and communities that have often been targeted in rocket attacks.While the two years since the end of the 2014 conflict have seen relative calm, Hamas has been working hard to replenish its arms and rebuild its cross-border tunnel infrastructure, much of which was destroyed by Israel.On Wednesday Israeli defense and diplomatic officials said they believed Hamas was digging more than six miles of tunnels into Israel each month.Israel located and destroyed two Hamas attack tunnels in April and May. Both were discovered in the southern Gaza Strip and ran into Israeli territory.A number of tunnels were used by Hamas fighters to infiltrate Israel and carry out deadly attacks on troops during the 2014 conflict.Since then, Israel invested an estimated NIS 1 billion (approximately $250 million) in developing detection technology to locate such tunnels.Netanyahu has taken flak from rival politicians for the handling of the conflict ahead of its second anniversary.Education Minister Naftali Bennett accused him Tuesday morning of refusing to learn from mistakes in the lead-up to the war.“Every platoon leader draws conclusions at the end of an exercise in order to prevent future mistakes and to improve,” Bennett, who heads the right-wing Jewish Home party, wrote on Twitter. “What is true for an infantry division is doubly true for the diplomatic-security leadership of the State of Israel.”An unnamed Likud official later said Bennett’s accusations were a “total lie.”“Bennett’s comments sound nice. It’s a shame it’s a total lie,” the Likud official said.
Israel: Hamas digs 6 miles of tunnels each month-Unnamed officials say there is ‘no perfect solution’ to threat posed by subterranean cross-border network-By Times of Israel staff July 27, 2016, 9:20 pm
Hamas is digging more than six miles of tunnels each month toward Israel, which has no guaranteed techniques for detecting them, Israeli officials said Wednesday.Amid an ongoing argument among politicians and bereaved Israeli families over whether the Netanyahu government dealt with the Hamas tunnel threat appropriately and effectively before and during the 2014 war in Gaza, the unnamed Israeli defense and diplomatic officials were quoted by Channel 2 news as saying that Israel knows that Hamas is constantly extending its underground network.“We have no perfect solution” to the threat, the officials were quoted as saying, “and neither does any other country.”Israel located and destroyed two Hamas attack tunnels in April and May. Both were discovered in the southern Gaza Strip and ran into Israeli territory.The tunnels were the first discovered inside Israeli territory since the end of the war in the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2014. During that operation, dubbed in Israel Operation Protective Edge, at least 34 tunnels were discovered and destroyed by Israeli forces, many of them leading into Israeli territory.A number of tunnels were used by Hamas fighters to infiltrate Israel and carry out deadly attacks on troops during the 2014 conflict.Following the 50-day conflict with Hamas in the Strip, Israel invested an estimated NIS 1 billion (approximately $250 million) in developing a detection system to locate such tunnels.The anonymous statements given to Channel 2 emerged as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took flak from rival politicians for the handling of the conflict ahead of its second anniversary.Netanyahu has claimed he was well-apprised of the threat posed by Hamas tunnels ahead of the war, dismissing claims that he was caught off guard.Education Minister Naftali Bennett had accused Netanyahu Tuesday morning of refusing to learn from mistakes in the lead-up to the war.“Every platoon leader draws conclusions at the end of an exercise in order to prevent future mistakes and to improve,” Bennett, who heads the right-wing Jewish Home party, wrote on Twitter. “What is true for an infantry division is doubly true for the diplomatic-security leadership of the State of Israel.”An unnamed Likud official later said Bennett’s accusations were a “total lie.”“Bennett’s comments sound nice. It’s a shame it’s a total lie,” the Likud official said.
UN: Israel ‘systematically’ emptying Area C of Palestinians-Opposition lawmakers accuse government of deliberately embittering West Bank residents to facilitate a future annexation-By Dov Lieber July 28, 2016, 9:31 pm-the times of israel
In a bid to force Palestinians to leave their homes, Israel is creating miserable humanitarian conditions in the parts of the West Bank that are under its full control, a UN official warned in Jerusalem on Wednesday.Natalie Grove, a representative of the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said Israeli policy in Area C, where Palestinians live under full IDF martial law, creates a “highly coercive environment that forces [Palestinians] to leave.”This policy, she charged, is “systematic and comprehensive.”Grove was speaking at a conference in the Knesset organized by lawmakers on the Israeli left meant to draw attention to tough conditions for Palestinians in Area C.The Israeli government “forcefully” denied any mistreatment of Palestinians.Grove outlined a bleak environment in which Palestinians lack access to food, shelter and clean water — 180 communities are not connected to the water system, she said — and have only partial access to healthcare and education. Many children in the area, she said, must walk long distances to schools, sometimes through military checkpoints.The most serious claim made by Grove, as well as by lawmakers at the conference, was that Israel was making it “virtually impossible” for Palestinians to build homes legally in Area C, forcing them to build illegally and risk having their homes demolished.Under such conditions, Grove argued, any agreement by a Palestinian to leave Area C is not really consent, but “coercion,” and “amounts to forcible transfer, which is a great breach of the Geneva conventions.”The Israeli lawmakers who organized the event — Joint (Arab) List head Ayman Odeh and fellow party member MK Dov Hanin, Zionist Union MK Ksenia Svetlova, and Meretz MK Michal Rozin — all agreed Israeli policy in Area C was a deliberate attempt to expel Palestinians ahead of a future annexation.“Israel is paying lip service to the international community without any intention of actually doing a thing,” said Odeh.A few powerful ministers in the current right-wing government are pushing to annex Area C.During the conference, EU Ambassador to Israel Lars Faaborg-Andersen accused Jerusalem of skirting its obligations toward Palestinians under its administration, but stopped short of claiming there was a systematic policy to forcibly remove them.A total of 70 percent of Area C has been designated as Israeli state land, with 30% being left to the Palestinians, the EU ambassador said, adding, however, that the Palestinians were not allowed to do much with their land.According to Faaborg-Andersen, in 2014 only one building permit was granted to Palestinians. In 2015, none were granted. And of 2,000 applications between 2009 to 2013, only 34 building permits were granted.In contrast, Fauborg-Andersen said, Israeli construction in Area C has continued at a rate of approximately 1,500 new homes per year in recent years.The EU Ambassador also said Israel has demolished nearly a million euros worth of modular homes donated by the EU to the Palestinians in Area C.During the first six months of 2016, Israel demolished 91 houses built with “support of the European Union.” In all of 2015, that number was 70 buildings.Faaborg-Andersen made it clear that the EU would continue to provide aid to the Palestinians in Area C, despite the tension it generates with Israel. Area C, he said, will constitute an important part of any future Palestinian state, which is why the EU has invested €21 million in the last two years for development and humanitarian assistance there.-‘Palestinians treated fairly, instrumentalized by PA’-Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon told The Times of Israel on Thursday that his government “forcefully and categorically rejects the allegations of discrimination or mistreatment against the Palestinian population in Area C.”Regarding the issue of housing, Nahshon said, “Israel is a country of law and it is only reasonable to request that housing and building projects be conducted according to general regulations and building permits. Just as an American or British citizens would not be allowed to build without a permit, so do we expect of Palestinians living in Area C, and of foreign countries and donors assisting those Palestinians.”When asked how it could be that only one housing permit was granted to Palestinians in Area C in 2014 and 2015, Nahshon answered: “One has to take into account the particular condition. We see a lot of activity which is not really meant for the welfare of the population but rather as a political statement, and we have the clear impression that the Palestinians are being instrumentalized by the Palestinian Authority in order to create situations of conflict and friction.”Speaking after Wednesday’s conference, Bezalel Smotrich, a member of the right-ring Jewish Home party that wants to annex Area C, argued Palestinians choose to build illegally in the area because they believe asking permission from Israel to build would be a de facto recognition of the Jewish state’s legitimacy.Smotrich, who before launching a political career co-founded a watchdog group for illegal Arab building in Israel and the West Bank, said there are plans for Palestinians to build legally in Area C in proportion to their population growth rate through the year 2030.The military-controlled Civil Administration, which is responsible for housing and water for Palestinians in Area C, blamed the Palestinians for the 180 communities without water. It said in an email that the Palestinian Authority has been preventing the convening of the Joint Water Committee formed in 1995 as part of the Oslo peace accords. It also accused the PA of “refusing to promote water infrastructures designed to increase the water supply for the Palestinians.“In addition,” the Civil Administration wrote, “the water theft culture of the Palestinians themselves harms the rest of the residents in the region.“Furthermore, the Palestinian Authority is responsible for directing water to its residents; that is in addition to the quantity that Israel provides and increases every year,” it said.
IDF commandos, US Marines train together against terror threats-‘Noble Shirley’ drill in Israel’s Negev desert aimed at preparing American forces for combating Islamic State-By Times of Israel staff July 28, 2016, 8:20 pm
Elite Israel Defense Forces naval commandos and the US Marine Corps last week conducted a joint military exercise in the Negev Desert aimed at preparing American forces for combating regional terror groups, including the Islamic State.The “Noble Shirley” exercise involved units from Israel’s ground, air and naval forces, and focused on urban warfare and counterterrorism tactics.The soldiers took part in simulated helicopter landings in enemy territory, tunnel warfare scenarios and extractions under fire, a Channel 2 TV report said Thursday.Israeli commanders reportedly demonstrated IDF counterterrorism tactics to US forces to be used in the US campaign against the Islamic State and other jihadist groups in the Middle East.Israeli commandos from the elite naval unit Shayetet 13 trained alongside the US Marines Corps Battalion Landing Team, the 6th Marine Regiment, and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit.The exercise also tested the real-time response time of the joint US-Israeli missile defense systems, and the yet-to-be-completed David’s Sling missile interceptor system was deployed.An IDF official participating in the drill said the system “performed very well.”The US has either jointly developed or financed all three tiers in Israel’s missile defense program — Iron Dome (short-range missile interceptor), David’s Sling (medium range) and Arrow (long range).Earlier in 2016, Israel hosted the Juniper Cobra drill, in which over 1,700 US servicemembers, civilians and contractors took part.
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
EU scolds Israel for destroying Palestinian homes-By EUOBSERVER-JULY 28,16
Today, 09:08-The EU's ambassador to Israel on Wednesday criticised Israel for destroying Palestinian homes in the West Bank. Israel razed 168 homes in the so-called area C, under full Israeli control, as well as EU humanitarian structures."In the first six months of 2016 alone, 91 EU structures in Area C have been demolished. This is more than all of 2015," said Lars Faaborg-Andersen. Israel has demolished 170 EU structures since 2009.
Netanyahu: Any Hamas attack will bring ‘devastation’ on Gaza-PM, embattled over 2014 war in the Strip, claims conflict ‘changed the rules of the game,’ dealt terrorists an unprecedented blow-By Times of Israel staff July 28, 2016, 7:51 pm
Touring communities in the vicinity of the Gaza Strip Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proclaimed that Israel’s 2014 war against Hamas had produced “the two quietest years in a long time.”He said “the rules of the game have changed” since the war, which Israel dubbed Operation Protective Edge.Sixty-six Israeli soldiers and six civilians were killed in the 50-day conflict, along with over 2,000 Palestinians, of whom Israel says at least half were combatants.Netanyahu said Hamas was dealt a hard and “unprecedented” blow during the war, touting a policy of “responding decisively to any violation of the calm” as crucial to maintaining deterrence two summers later.“Quiet here equals quiet in Gaza,” while “an attack on us will lead to destruction and devastation on the other side of the fence,” added the prime minister, who in recent days has faced withering criticism from political rivals and bereaved parents over the degree of Israel’s preparedness for the war.Netanyahu was visiting the border town of Sderot to mark the completion of a project, begun in 2008, to heavily fortify Gaza borer towns, providing new shelters and new safe rooms to families and communities that have often been targeted in rocket attacks.While the two years since the end of the 2014 conflict have seen relative calm, Hamas has been working hard to replenish its arms and rebuild its cross-border tunnel infrastructure, much of which was destroyed by Israel.On Wednesday Israeli defense and diplomatic officials said they believed Hamas was digging more than six miles of tunnels into Israel each month.Israel located and destroyed two Hamas attack tunnels in April and May. Both were discovered in the southern Gaza Strip and ran into Israeli territory.A number of tunnels were used by Hamas fighters to infiltrate Israel and carry out deadly attacks on troops during the 2014 conflict.Since then, Israel invested an estimated NIS 1 billion (approximately $250 million) in developing detection technology to locate such tunnels.Netanyahu has taken flak from rival politicians for the handling of the conflict ahead of its second anniversary.Education Minister Naftali Bennett accused him Tuesday morning of refusing to learn from mistakes in the lead-up to the war.“Every platoon leader draws conclusions at the end of an exercise in order to prevent future mistakes and to improve,” Bennett, who heads the right-wing Jewish Home party, wrote on Twitter. “What is true for an infantry division is doubly true for the diplomatic-security leadership of the State of Israel.”An unnamed Likud official later said Bennett’s accusations were a “total lie.”“Bennett’s comments sound nice. It’s a shame it’s a total lie,” the Likud official said.
Israel: Hamas digs 6 miles of tunnels each month-Unnamed officials say there is ‘no perfect solution’ to threat posed by subterranean cross-border network-By Times of Israel staff July 27, 2016, 9:20 pm
Hamas is digging more than six miles of tunnels each month toward Israel, which has no guaranteed techniques for detecting them, Israeli officials said Wednesday.Amid an ongoing argument among politicians and bereaved Israeli families over whether the Netanyahu government dealt with the Hamas tunnel threat appropriately and effectively before and during the 2014 war in Gaza, the unnamed Israeli defense and diplomatic officials were quoted by Channel 2 news as saying that Israel knows that Hamas is constantly extending its underground network.“We have no perfect solution” to the threat, the officials were quoted as saying, “and neither does any other country.”Israel located and destroyed two Hamas attack tunnels in April and May. Both were discovered in the southern Gaza Strip and ran into Israeli territory.The tunnels were the first discovered inside Israeli territory since the end of the war in the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2014. During that operation, dubbed in Israel Operation Protective Edge, at least 34 tunnels were discovered and destroyed by Israeli forces, many of them leading into Israeli territory.A number of tunnels were used by Hamas fighters to infiltrate Israel and carry out deadly attacks on troops during the 2014 conflict.Following the 50-day conflict with Hamas in the Strip, Israel invested an estimated NIS 1 billion (approximately $250 million) in developing a detection system to locate such tunnels.The anonymous statements given to Channel 2 emerged as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took flak from rival politicians for the handling of the conflict ahead of its second anniversary.Netanyahu has claimed he was well-apprised of the threat posed by Hamas tunnels ahead of the war, dismissing claims that he was caught off guard.Education Minister Naftali Bennett had accused Netanyahu Tuesday morning of refusing to learn from mistakes in the lead-up to the war.“Every platoon leader draws conclusions at the end of an exercise in order to prevent future mistakes and to improve,” Bennett, who heads the right-wing Jewish Home party, wrote on Twitter. “What is true for an infantry division is doubly true for the diplomatic-security leadership of the State of Israel.”An unnamed Likud official later said Bennett’s accusations were a “total lie.”“Bennett’s comments sound nice. It’s a shame it’s a total lie,” the Likud official said.
UN: Israel ‘systematically’ emptying Area C of Palestinians-Opposition lawmakers accuse government of deliberately embittering West Bank residents to facilitate a future annexation-By Dov Lieber July 28, 2016, 9:31 pm-the times of israel
In a bid to force Palestinians to leave their homes, Israel is creating miserable humanitarian conditions in the parts of the West Bank that are under its full control, a UN official warned in Jerusalem on Wednesday.Natalie Grove, a representative of the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said Israeli policy in Area C, where Palestinians live under full IDF martial law, creates a “highly coercive environment that forces [Palestinians] to leave.”This policy, she charged, is “systematic and comprehensive.”Grove was speaking at a conference in the Knesset organized by lawmakers on the Israeli left meant to draw attention to tough conditions for Palestinians in Area C.The Israeli government “forcefully” denied any mistreatment of Palestinians.Grove outlined a bleak environment in which Palestinians lack access to food, shelter and clean water — 180 communities are not connected to the water system, she said — and have only partial access to healthcare and education. Many children in the area, she said, must walk long distances to schools, sometimes through military checkpoints.The most serious claim made by Grove, as well as by lawmakers at the conference, was that Israel was making it “virtually impossible” for Palestinians to build homes legally in Area C, forcing them to build illegally and risk having their homes demolished.Under such conditions, Grove argued, any agreement by a Palestinian to leave Area C is not really consent, but “coercion,” and “amounts to forcible transfer, which is a great breach of the Geneva conventions.”The Israeli lawmakers who organized the event — Joint (Arab) List head Ayman Odeh and fellow party member MK Dov Hanin, Zionist Union MK Ksenia Svetlova, and Meretz MK Michal Rozin — all agreed Israeli policy in Area C was a deliberate attempt to expel Palestinians ahead of a future annexation.“Israel is paying lip service to the international community without any intention of actually doing a thing,” said Odeh.A few powerful ministers in the current right-wing government are pushing to annex Area C.During the conference, EU Ambassador to Israel Lars Faaborg-Andersen accused Jerusalem of skirting its obligations toward Palestinians under its administration, but stopped short of claiming there was a systematic policy to forcibly remove them.A total of 70 percent of Area C has been designated as Israeli state land, with 30% being left to the Palestinians, the EU ambassador said, adding, however, that the Palestinians were not allowed to do much with their land.According to Faaborg-Andersen, in 2014 only one building permit was granted to Palestinians. In 2015, none were granted. And of 2,000 applications between 2009 to 2013, only 34 building permits were granted.In contrast, Fauborg-Andersen said, Israeli construction in Area C has continued at a rate of approximately 1,500 new homes per year in recent years.The EU Ambassador also said Israel has demolished nearly a million euros worth of modular homes donated by the EU to the Palestinians in Area C.During the first six months of 2016, Israel demolished 91 houses built with “support of the European Union.” In all of 2015, that number was 70 buildings.Faaborg-Andersen made it clear that the EU would continue to provide aid to the Palestinians in Area C, despite the tension it generates with Israel. Area C, he said, will constitute an important part of any future Palestinian state, which is why the EU has invested €21 million in the last two years for development and humanitarian assistance there.-‘Palestinians treated fairly, instrumentalized by PA’-Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon told The Times of Israel on Thursday that his government “forcefully and categorically rejects the allegations of discrimination or mistreatment against the Palestinian population in Area C.”Regarding the issue of housing, Nahshon said, “Israel is a country of law and it is only reasonable to request that housing and building projects be conducted according to general regulations and building permits. Just as an American or British citizens would not be allowed to build without a permit, so do we expect of Palestinians living in Area C, and of foreign countries and donors assisting those Palestinians.”When asked how it could be that only one housing permit was granted to Palestinians in Area C in 2014 and 2015, Nahshon answered: “One has to take into account the particular condition. We see a lot of activity which is not really meant for the welfare of the population but rather as a political statement, and we have the clear impression that the Palestinians are being instrumentalized by the Palestinian Authority in order to create situations of conflict and friction.”Speaking after Wednesday’s conference, Bezalel Smotrich, a member of the right-ring Jewish Home party that wants to annex Area C, argued Palestinians choose to build illegally in the area because they believe asking permission from Israel to build would be a de facto recognition of the Jewish state’s legitimacy.Smotrich, who before launching a political career co-founded a watchdog group for illegal Arab building in Israel and the West Bank, said there are plans for Palestinians to build legally in Area C in proportion to their population growth rate through the year 2030.The military-controlled Civil Administration, which is responsible for housing and water for Palestinians in Area C, blamed the Palestinians for the 180 communities without water. It said in an email that the Palestinian Authority has been preventing the convening of the Joint Water Committee formed in 1995 as part of the Oslo peace accords. It also accused the PA of “refusing to promote water infrastructures designed to increase the water supply for the Palestinians.“In addition,” the Civil Administration wrote, “the water theft culture of the Palestinians themselves harms the rest of the residents in the region.“Furthermore, the Palestinian Authority is responsible for directing water to its residents; that is in addition to the quantity that Israel provides and increases every year,” it said.
IDF commandos, US Marines train together against terror threats-‘Noble Shirley’ drill in Israel’s Negev desert aimed at preparing American forces for combating Islamic State-By Times of Israel staff July 28, 2016, 8:20 pm
Elite Israel Defense Forces naval commandos and the US Marine Corps last week conducted a joint military exercise in the Negev Desert aimed at preparing American forces for combating regional terror groups, including the Islamic State.The “Noble Shirley” exercise involved units from Israel’s ground, air and naval forces, and focused on urban warfare and counterterrorism tactics.The soldiers took part in simulated helicopter landings in enemy territory, tunnel warfare scenarios and extractions under fire, a Channel 2 TV report said Thursday.Israeli commanders reportedly demonstrated IDF counterterrorism tactics to US forces to be used in the US campaign against the Islamic State and other jihadist groups in the Middle East.Israeli commandos from the elite naval unit Shayetet 13 trained alongside the US Marines Corps Battalion Landing Team, the 6th Marine Regiment, and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit.The exercise also tested the real-time response time of the joint US-Israeli missile defense systems, and the yet-to-be-completed David’s Sling missile interceptor system was deployed.An IDF official participating in the drill said the system “performed very well.”The US has either jointly developed or financed all three tiers in Israel’s missile defense program — Iron Dome (short-range missile interceptor), David’s Sling (medium range) and Arrow (long range).Earlier in 2016, Israel hosted the Juniper Cobra drill, in which over 1,700 US servicemembers, civilians and contractors took part.
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